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Newsletter No 9 / 10 August 2018
NEWSLETTER 9 10 August 2018 Coming Events: Week 3 Sat 11 Aug Auckland Jazz Competition Finals Sun 12 Tree Planting at Lynfield College by HERC Week 4 Tue 14 13HOS - NZ Hospitality Championship, ASB Showgrounds Lynfield College Wellbeing Hui 2.30 – 4pm, Hall 11GEO Inter-School Geography Quiz Lynfield College Music Department Jazz & Soul Concert 7pm Hall Wed 15 PISA Testing Thu 16 Y11 PILOT Progress Conferences (A – L) 4 – 7pm Fri 17 TEACHER ONLY DAY – there are no classes for students on this day 12&13PAD – Xero trip Sat 18 VEX Robotics Scrimmage, Onehunga High School Shinagawa Summer School Students depart Sun 19 13GEO/TOU Rotorua trip departs Week 5 Mon 20 13GEO/TOU Rotorua trip returns Japan trip parents information evening 6.30 – 7.30pm Staffroom Tue 21 Progress Conferences (M – Z) 4 – 7pm Wed 22 12ESS Stardome trip Senior Course Selection forms due today NZSS Winter Tournament meeting 7 – 9pm Staffroom Mathex Quiz Evening, ASB Stadium, Kohimarama Thu 23 – Fri 24 12OED – Pinnacles walk, Coromandel Fri 24 Senior Quizzex, lunchtime in the Hall Week 6 Mon 27 In-class priority time – students should not make outside appointments during school time Cancer Awareness Week 12&13CLA – Massey University, Albany Campus CoL Kahui Ako – Urban Growth Information Evening 4 – 5.30pm Hall Wed 29 Shave for a Cure GEO Scholarship Workshop 4 – 6.30pm, University of Auckland Thu 30 NIWA Science Fair Fri 31 Daffodil Day Sat 1 Sep VEX Robotics Scrimmage, Lynfield College Hall Week 7 Mon 3 In-class priority time – students should not make outside appointments -
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Table of Contents Executive summary ............................................................................................... 2 What Auckland consumers have to say about electricity retail issues ........................... 3 The EAP has not fully met the requirements of the terms of reference ......................... 4 The big-5 incumbent retailers are to blame for residential price increases .................... 5 Sweet-heart deals with Tiwai Smelter are keeping prices artificially high ...................... 6 Stronger wholesale and retail competition needed to make electricity more affordable ... 8 Saves & Winbacks is making the two-tier retail market problem worse ...................... 11 Late payment penalties disadvantage vulnerable Kiwis unable to pay on time ............. 14 Prepayment arrangements exploit vulnerable consumers ......................................... 18 There are questions about compliance with the Vulnerable Consumer Guidelines and the objectives of the Guidelines .................................................................................. 19 Concluding remarks and recommendations ............................................................. 20 Appendix 1: Price increases over the last 18-years largely driven by retail (energy) .... 22 Appendix 2: Manipulation of pricing data can make it look like lines are to blame ........ 27 Appendix 3: The electricity retail and generation markets are highly “concentrated” .... 30 Appendix 4: Retail competition improvements driven by the last inquiry reforms -
Dxpedition Report from Rose Spit, Haida Gwaii
Rose Spit mini-DXpedition 11 July, 2011. Rose Spit loggings for 11 July, 2011: Medium Wave and Long Wave Here is a compilation of what I heard on an overnight DC only DXpedition to Rose Spit, about 25 km from the closest power lines, on the north east corner of Haida Gwaii. This spit is sandy, and covered in short grasses and strawberry plants, so ideal for remote DXpeditions, as it is accessible by 4x4 wheel drive vehicles. Conditions were not very good with the A index around 13, and K indices between 2 and 4, and solar flux at 90.6. The loggings below on MW are almost all from using a 750’ BOG aimed at New Zealand, unterminated. Here’s an aerial photo of the Spit. I was located just a few hundred meters past the tree line, in about the center of the spit, which faces N/NE. The larger photo below shows Rose Spit looking back to the West/South West to the treeline. Lot’s of room for BOGs! The figure below shows a view in the opposite direction down the spit to the N/NW where the 750’ BOGs were located. The NZ wire could have easily been double the distance. A more likely scenario for next time might be a phased BOG array towards NZ or dual Wellbrook delta loops. My wonderful DXpedition vehicle: A Nissan Frontier, 4 door, 4x4. Very comfortable, with a folding down front passenger seat, making a perfect platform for the radios and computer. Also a comfortable rear seat to sleep. -
JMAD Media Ownership Report
JMAD New Zealand Media Ownership Report 2014 Published: 2014 December 5 Author: Merja Myllylahti This New Zealand Ownership Report 2014 is the fourth published by AUT’s Centre for Journalism, Media and Democracy (JMAD). The report finds that the New Zealand media market has failed to produce new, innovative media outlets, and that all the efforts to establish non-profit outlets have proved unsustainable. The report confirms the general findings of previous reports that New Zealand media space has remained highly commercial. It also confirms the financialisation of media ownership in the form of banks and fund managers. The report also observes that in 2014 convergence between New Zealand mass media and the communications sector generally was in full swing. Companies, such as Spark (former Telecom NZ), started to compete head-to-head with the traditional broadcasters on the online on-demand video and television markets. The American online video subscription service Netflix is entering the NZ market in March 2015. Additionally, the report notes evidence of uncomfortable alliances between citizen media, politicians, PR companies and legacy media. As Nicky Hager’s Dirty Politics book revealed, the National Party and PR practitioners used the Whale Oil blog to drive their own agendas. Also, events related to Maori TV, TVNZ and Scoop raise questions about political interference in media affairs. It is now evident that the boundaries between mainstream media, bloggers, public relations practitioners and politicians are blurring. Key events and trends concerning New Zealand media Financialisation of mass media ownership confirmed Substantial changes in Fairfax, APN and MediaWorks ownership Competition heats up in online television and video markets Turbulence at Maori TV Blurred lines among politicians, bloggers, journalists and PR practitioners The JMAD New Zealand media ownership reports are available here: http://www.aut.ac.nz/study- at-aut/study-areas/communications/media-networks/journalism,-media-and-democracy-research- centre/journalists-and-projects 1 1. -
Ethnic Migrant Media Forum 2014 | Curated Proceedings 1 FOREWORD
Ethnic Migrant Media Forum 2014 CURATED PROCEEDINGS “Are we reaching all New Zealanders?” Exploring the Role, Benefits, Challenges & Potential of Ethnic Media in New Zealand Edited by Evangelia Papoutsaki & Elena Kolesova with Laura Stephenson Ethnic Migrant Media Forum 2014. Curated Proceedings is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Ethnic Migrant Media Forum, Unitec Institute of Technology Thursday 13 November, 8.45am–5.45pm Unitec Marae, Carrington Road, Mt Albert Auckland, New Zealand The Introduction and Discussion sections were blind peer-reviewed by a minimum of two referees. The content of this publication comprises mostly the proceedings of a publicly held forum. They reflect the participants’ opinions, and their inclusion in this publication does not necessarily constitute endorsement by the editors, ePress or Unitec Institute of Technology. This publication may be cited as: Papoutsaki, E. & Kolesova, E. (Eds.) (2017). Ethnic migrant media forum 2014. Curated proceedings. Auckland, New Zealand. Retrieved from http://unitec. ac.nz/epress/ Cover design by Louise Saunders Curated proceedings design and editing by ePress Editors: Evangelia Papoutsaki and Elena Kolesova with Laura Stephenson Photographers: Munawwar Naqvi and Ching-Ting Fu Contact [email protected] www.unitec.ac.nz/epress Unitec Institute of Technology Private Bag 92025, Victoria Street West Auckland 1142 New Zealand ISBN 978-1-927214-20-6 Marcus Williams, Dean of Research and Enterprise (Unitec) opens the forum -
Event Planning Guide
Waimakariri Event Planning Guide Produced by Updated: July 2017 Contents 1.0 Introduction ..............................................................................................3 2.0 How to use this guide ................................................................................3 3.0 Developing the event .................................................................................4 3.1 What is the objective of the event? .......................................................4 3.2 Who is the event for? ..........................................................................4 3.3 What does your target group or audience want? .....................................4 3.4 Making sure your event is a great idea ..................................................4 4.0 Planning the event. ..................................................................................5 4.1 The Overview .....................................................................................5 4.2 Venue Requirements ...........................................................................6 4.3 Licenses, Permits and other Council Requirements ..................................6 4.4 Safety Requirements ...........................................................................8 4.5 Equipment and Supplies ......................................................................8 4.6 Insurance ..........................................................................................8 4.7 Budget ..............................................................................................9 -
Fighting Words in the Antipodes Cherie Lacey, Michael P
Fighting Words in the Antipodes Cherie Lacey, Michael P. Kelly, Annemarie Jutel Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Volume 63, Number 4, Autumn 2020, pp. 669-682 (Article) Published by Johns Hopkins University Press For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/775635 [ Access provided at 19 Dec 2020 02:55 GMT from Victoria University of Wellington ] Fighting Words in the Antipodes Cherie Lacey,* Michael P. Kelly,† and Annemarie Jutel‡ ABSTRACT In this commentary, written in two bursts—the first completed in April 2020, and the second at the end of July—we explore how media metaphors of COVID-19 constitute the pandemic in Australia and New Zealand. We argue that the media’s rhetorical strategies play an important role not only in describing the illness, but in influencing and shaping individual and collective responses to the pandemic, with significant consequences for mental health and well-being in the context of crisis. We align this commentary with the tenets of the sociology of diagnosis, which argue that even though there are material realities of disease, their social form and conse- quence cannot be separated from the tangible nature of illness and its management. We also lean on Derrida’s approach to metaphor, which underlines how even observable viral entities such as COVID-19 are simultaneously material, abstract, and in flux. We describe the metaphors used by local media to describe the pandemic—including combat, bush fires, earthquakes, and other natural disasters—and we explore how and why these metaphors construct the pandemic locally and farther afield. *School of English, Film, Theatre, Media Studies, and Art History, Te Herenga Waka/Victoria Uni- versity of Wellington, New Zealand. -
New Zealand Broadband: Free TV's and Fridges - the Consumer Wins but Is It Sustainable?
MARKET PERSPECTIVE New Zealand Broadband: Free TV's and Fridges - The Consumer Wins but is it Sustainable? Peter Wise Shane Minogue Monica Collier Jefferson King Sponsored by Spark New Zealand Limited IDC OPINION The New Zealand telecommunications market is shifting; from a focus around better and faster connectivity, to service innovations and value. Consumers are enjoying better internet connectivity and a raft of competitive offers from more than 90 retailers. Retailers, however, are feeling the pinch of decreasing margins. Questions are starting to arise about the sustainability of such a competitive retail marketplace. Total telecommunications market revenues increased by 1.1% from NZ$5.361 billion in the year to December 2016 to NZ$5.421 billion in the year to December 2017. IDC forecasts that this growth will continue in future years with a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 1.4% to 2021. However, this growth disguises the true story of a market that is displaying extreme price pressure and competition in both fixed and mobile. Overall, ARPUs are either flat or declining in both broadband and mobile and in the broadband space Retail Service Providers (RSPs) continue to compete away any chance of strong, sustainable ARPU growth. New Zealand telecommunication's structural separation and national broadband plan have created new constructs and market dynamics. The UFB initiative has commoditised fibre in New Zealand. Consumer fibre plan prices have plummeted from averaging over NZ$200 per month in 2013 to around NZ$85 per month as at February 2018. Fibre is available to more than a million homes and premises, and over a third have made the switch. -
ASB Disclosure Statement for the Year Ended 30 June 2017
ASB Disclosure Statement and Annual Report For the year ended 30 June 2017 asb.co.nz Contents Consolidated Performance in Brief 3 Performance Overview 4 Annual Report 5 Corporate Governance 6 General Disclosures 8 Historical Summary of Financial Statements 10 Income Statement 11 Statement of Comprehensive Income 12 Statement of Changes in Equity 13 Balance Sheet 14 Cash Flow Statement 15 Notes to the Financial Statements 1 Statement of Accounting Policies 16 2 Interest Income 25 3 Interest Expense 26 4 Other Income 26 5 Operating Expense Disclosures 26 6 Auditor's Remuneration 27 7 Taxation 27 8 Dividends 27 9 Cash and Liquid Assets 28 10 Due from Financial Institutions 28 11 Trading Securities 28 12 Derivative Financial Instruments 29 13 Available-for-Sale Securities 30 14 Advances to Customers 30 15 Credit Risk Management Policies 31 16 Credit Quality Information for Advances to Customers 33 17 Provisions for Impairment Losses 35 18 Concentrations of Credit Exposures 36 19 Concentration of Credit Exposures to Individual Counterparties 38 20 Credit Exposures to Connected Persons and Non-bank Connected Persons 38 21 Maximum Exposure and Effect of Collateral and Other Credit Enhancements 39 22 Transferred Financial Assets 41 23 Imputation Credit Account 41 24 Controlled Entities and Associates 42 25 Other Assets 43 26 Goodwill 43 27 Deferred Taxation Asset 44 28 Deposits and Other Public Borrowings 44 29 Other Liabilities 45 30 Due to Financial Institutions 45 31 Other Liabilities at Fair Value through Income Statement 45 32 Debt Issues -
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Submission On: Exploring Digital Convergence- Issues for Policy and Legislation and Content Regulation in a Converged World
Submission on: Exploring Digital Convergence- issues for policy and legislation and Content Regulation in a Converged World October 2015 1 Preamble The Coalition for Better Broadcasting1 welcomes the opportunity to comment on the Exploring Digital Convergence- issues for policy and legislation and Content Regulation in a Converged World discussion documents. The following submission encompasses responses to both papers. Given that the regulatory issues overlap on several practical and conceptual levels, the submission pertains to both and we would ask that the comments be taken into consideration in any deliberations stemming from both the convergence documents and, where relevant, the review of telecommunications legislation (see comments in sections 2 and 5). We are pleased that the government has decided to address the regulatory questions stemming from convergence, especially since the earlier (2008) government initiative Digital Broadcasting- Review of Regulation2, which was intended to address many of the issues the current consultation covers, was cut short in 2009 after a limited review of competition issues. Given the complexities of the convergence-related issues to be addressed, we have to observe that the time-frame for stakeholder response has significantly constrained the opportunities for a more fulsome response, and given the that selected industry stakeholders were reportedly consulted at earlier points in the process of formulating this framework, we are concerned that groups representing civil society appear not to have had an equal opportunity to engage. Given the experience and expertise of the CBB’s board and their independence from vested commercial interests, we would be keen to participate in any future consultations and would appreciate being kept informed about the time-frames for the planned review of issues emerging from these consultations. -
Register of Pecuniary and Other Specified Interests Summary 2017
J. 7 Register of Pecuniary and Other Specified Interests of Members of Parliament: Summary of annual returns as at 31 January 2017 Fifty-first Parliament Presented to the House of Representatives pursuant to Appendix B of the Standing Orders of the House of Representatives REGISTER OF PECUNIARY AND OTHER SPECIFIED INTERESTS OF MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT: SUMMARY OF ANNUAL RETURNS J. 7 2 REGISTER OF PECUNIARY AND OTHER SPECIFIED INTERESTS OF MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT: SUMMARY OF ANNUAL RETURNS J. 7 MISTER SPEAKER I have the honour to provide to you, pursuant to clause 18(3) of Appendix B of the Standing Orders of the House of Representatives, a copy of the summary booklet containing a fair and accurate description of the information contained in the Register of Pecuniary and Other Specified Interests of Members of Parliament, as at 31 January 2017. Sir Maarten Wevers KNZM Registrar of Pecuniary and Other Specified Interests of Members of Parliament 3 REGISTER OF PECUNIARY AND OTHER SPECIFIED INTERESTS OF MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT: SUMMARY OF ANNUAL RETURNS J. 7 Introduction Since 2005, members of Parliament have been required to make an annual return of their pecuniary and other specified personal interests, as set out in clauses 5 to 8 of Appendix B of the Standing Orders of the House of Representatives. The interests that are required to be registered are listed below. Items 1 to 9 provide a “snapshot” or stock of pecuniary and specified interests of members as at 31 January 2017. Items 10 to 13 identify a flow of members’ interests for the period from the member’s previous return.