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No Room for Racism in This Election, Proud of Candidates Like Dr Sharma July 2 - July 8, 2020 | Every Thursday Vol. 3 | Issue 12 | FREE www.indiannews.co.nz indiannews.nz indiannews_nz indiannewz theindiannews Ph: +64 9 846 8080 FOR YOUR BUSINESS & LIABILITY INSURANCE Call or make an appointment for FREE QUOTE to review your current insurance JUST ONE PLACE Contact Ram - P: 09-846 9934 | E: [email protected] FOR ALL FINANCIAL SERVICES YOU NEED Mortgage Brokers Insurance Brokers Accountants Asset Finance Brokers For Quality Insurance and HEAD OFFICE BRANCH OFFICE 35 Morningside Drive, St. Lukes Level 1/203 Great South Road PROFESSIONAL Quick Claims Mt. Albert, Auckland Manurewa, Auckland Settlement Ph: 09 846 9934, Fax: 09-846 9936 FINANCIAL Ram Vashist Ravi Mehta Rohit Takyar Ameesha Sachdev SOLUTIONS GROUP M: 021 401 535 M: 021 181 0076 M: 021 172 8962 M: 027 540 5748 www.professionalfinancial.co.nz | Email: [email protected] No room for PAPATOETOE AWARD WINNING TEAM racism in this election, proud Raj Pardeep Singh Principal LLB/BA (Hons.) of candidates like (Page 3) Partner Dr Sharma : PM LLB/MIT/B.Com on him being called a "curry candidate" in Hamilton Specialist in Sale and Purchase of Property & Business Leases, Criminal Law, Family Law, Employment Law Property Law, Wills & Trust Bhartiya Mandir Immigration Law - all types of visas and appeals (Initial Consultation FREE) completes 27 Register for FREE Legal Clinic ! years (Page 15) • Free lunches in school 2-hour legal consultation. Saturday - 10 am to 12 pm by Isckon (Pg 6) India's 1st covid • Gandhi Niwas reduces Raj and Ashima Singh • 31, East Tamaki Road, Level–1 Papatoetoe. vaccine-covaxin reoffending (Pg 7) Ph: +64 9 2799439 | 02102417161 Fax: +64 9 2799419 • Tributes to former PM • PO BOX 23445, Hunters Corner, Papatoetoe. begins human trials CONTACT US AT: Rao (Pg 6) RAJ: [email protected] ASHIMA: [email protected] this month (Page 14) www.legalassociates.co.nz The Indian News is now a member of New Zealand Media Council (NZMC) List & Sell your most Valuable asset with us to achieve the best results. V&B Realty Ltd Licensed Agent REAA 2008 Get combined experience of 20 years working for you. Call us today for free no obligation appraisal VK Verma of your most valuable asset. Nick Kochhar 027 577 3747 021 186 6969 [email protected] [email protected] REAL ESTATE SALES AUCTIONS COMMERCIAL/BUSINESS SALES PROPERTY MANAGEMENT "Austin" Chair Rococo Lantern "Elise" Chair Filligree mirrors $365 $89 $369 $250 Manukau 20B Norman Spencer Drive Papatoetoe Wairau Valley unit 16, 18 link drive wairau valley & Online www.interiorwarehouse.co.nz interiorwarehousenz interiorwarehouse IMPTS AND DISTIBTS IG AIT MD PANS SD ITN ABINTS, ADBS, VANITIS, SP ITTS AND T INTI NDS Marphona rescent, Takanini, Auckland 215 Sandeep Aarwal 21 , Mallika Bedi 2 1511 mail: salesvwoodn wwwvwoodn A Better New Zealand July 2 - July 8, 2020 I 3 There is no room for racism Assistance to foreign nationals either in this election or in start this week: NZ Red Cross New Zealand: PM Ardern ew Zealand Red Cross is scaling up Cross as ‘Visitor Care Manaaki Manuhiri’), Nat speed to address the urgent needs New Zealand Red Cross will deliver in- • Gaurav Sharma ast week, we they support and campaign for candidates of people on temporary visas in Aotearoa kind assistance to help foreign nationals Lpublished from multicultural communities? New Zealand who are experiencing meet basic needs, such as food and a story detailing how a Kiwi-Indian Q3) What's her message to other serious hardship due to COVID-19. accommodation. candidate from the ruling Labour Party political parties, as regards to keeping this From July 1, people who are in need Internal Affairs is administering in Hamilton West, Dr Gaurav Sharma, election free from any racist discourse? and on temporary visas can check the online system and processing has faced racism as soon as campaigning To the above, the PM says, “There is no their eligibility and apply through applications. New Zealand Red Cross is started. We asked the Prime Minister room for racism either in this election or foreignnationals.services.govt.nz. The delivering the assistance. New Zealand to respond to the specific questions as in New Zealand. New Zealand is a nation programme will run for three months. Red Cross support will include needs below: of over 200 ethnicities and 160 languages Working with Te Tari Taiwhenua, assessments, local distribution of in-kind While it is indeed appreciable that and it’s essential our next Parliament truly Department of Internal Affairs, who is aid, psychosocial support, and engaging Labour Party this time, has released a list represents the diversity of New Zealand as managing the New Zealand Government’s the community to ensure that our support of candidate "reflecting New Zealand's we are.” Foreign Nationals Impacted by COVID-19 is reaching the people who are eligible diversity", as noted by Kiwi-Indian Labour “I’m proud Labour has candidates like Programme (known by New Zealand Red and most in need. - TIN Bureau MP Priyanca Radhakrishnan earlier, such Dr Gaurav Sharma who is prepared to put candidates often are subject to racism his hand up to represent his constituency.” Points to note: while campaigning. The latest case is of “As I said at the beginning of the year Dr Gaurav Sharma who is the Labour Labour is focused on running a positive • Read the FAQs here https:// candidate from Hamilton West, and was and inclusive campaign. We have fantastic www.redcross.org.nz/ called a "curry candidate" last week. His Indian candidates such as Priyanca documents/499/300620_ Labour supporters were told to take down Radhakrishnan, ApplicantFAQs_VCMM.pdf his signs as well. Baljit Kaur and Q1) Here, what's the Prime Minister's Dr Sharma who • To find the eligibility, go to https:// message to her candidates who face such I am hopeful will uniteforrecovery.govt.nz/business/ racism while campaigning this election join our team in covid-19-financial-support-tool/ season? Parliament after Q2) What's her message to Labour the election,” she • To apply, go to https:// supporters who face such abuse when added. foreignnationals.services.govt.nz/ Stop paying someone else’s Manoj Singhal mortgage… Let’s sit together and plan your “Own Home Mortgage” * Bank lending eligibility criteria and rules apply. Disclosure statement available free of charge upon request. 0800 700 600 financematters.co.nz /financemattersnz /financemattersnz company/financemattersnz 4 I July 2 - July 8, 2020 NZ POLITICS No community transmission of COVID-19 here in New Zealand oing hard and early has put us in an border regimes in the world. swiftly to further strengthen our border in New Zealand, and we always assumed Genviable position. Everyone returning to New Zealand controls. new cases would arrive at the border. Globally, the pandemic is getting must go into a managed facility for two We suspended compassionate Our challenge continues to be worse, not better. In New Zealand, as an weeks upon arrival, and undergo two tests exemptions, and this will continue detecting any cases in isolation and increasing number of Kiwis return home, during their stay – one at day three, and until Ministers have confidence in the stopping the spread there. We remain we have cases that have cropped up at the another at day twelve. discipline and rigour of our border absolutely committed to keeping COVID border. It’s important to note that they No one is to leave manged isolation controls. out of our communities. are all in managed isolation. There is no without testing negative for COVID. For a We put the Assistant Chief of Defence, community transmission. There have been short time, however, this protocol was not Air Commodore Darryn Webb, in charge over 80,000 tests in the last fortnight and upheld. As the Prime Minister has said, of all managed isolation and quarantine there are no cases in the community. that wasn’t good enough. facilities, including processes for people In addition, our economy is now one Most returning New Zealanders who exiting. He reports regularly to Ministers of the most open in the world. According left managed isolation without being and can access military logistics, to the chief economist of a major global tested had seen out their two weeks operational expertise, and personnel to economic agency S&P Asia-Pacific, symptom-free. Therefore, we can be assist in running these facilities. “New Zealand definitely is one of those confident these people did not leave We also ramped up our testing at the economies that has exited the most incubating the virus, and continued border. That means regular health checks severe periods of the pandemic first, and surveillance testing in communities and asymptomatic testing of all border that clearly was just because what that supports this. workers at airports, staff in managed allows the economy to do is reopen those However, cases where returning New isolation and quarantine facilities, and face-to-face service activities that are so Zealanders were granted a compassionate international air and maritime crew. important for the labour market.” exemption to leave managed isolation All New Zealanders made sacrifices to However, as more New Zealanders early, also without being tested for COVID, become COVID-free. None of us wants to are returning home, the strength of our posed a greater risk. see a second wave of cases. Priyanca Radhakrishnan border controls matters more than ever. This represented an unacceptable This bump in the road does not List MP based in Maungakiekie, We’ve taken a cautious approach at the failure of the system and cannot be change our COVID status. There is still Parliamentary Private Secretary to the border.
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