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New Zealand Space Agency seeks stellar students for opportunities at NASA

08 September 2023

High-flying graduate students are encouraged to reach for the stars and apply for the New Zealand Space Scholarship programme to support an internship at NASA’s Ames Research Center or the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in 2024.

Science and innovation Space Agency Science and technology

Opportunity for New Zealand-NASA collaborative research

07 September 2023

An opportunity is now available for New Zealand researchers to partner with NASA on Earth observation research.

Space Agency Science and innovation Science funding Science and technology

Artificial intelligence to support astronaut selection

06 September 2023

An AI-assisted tool designed to support astronaut selection and clinical decision making will be developed under a partnership between the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) and US space company Axiom Space.

Science and innovation Science and technology

Spring’s Junction Café fined a second time for employment breaches

05 September 2023

Spring’s Junction Café and Motor Inn based in South Island, and its director, must pay $36,000 in penalties after breaching multiple minimum employment standards during the pandemic in 2020. The firm was penalised for similar offences in 2016.

Employment regulation

Community-level energy education funding round opens

04 September 2023

The latest funding round of the Support for Energy Education in Communities (SEEC) Programme is now open.

Energy

Extreme weather recovery efforts to benefit from Tourism Infrastructure Fund

01 September 2023

The Minister of Tourism has announced the seventh round of recipients of the Government’s Tourism Infrastructure Fund, which supports local government to address tourism infrastructure needs.

Tourism funding

Former Licensed Immigration Adviser convicted following MBIE investigation

31 August 2023

A former Licensed Immigration Adviser (LIA) has been sentenced to 6-months community detention and 100 hours community service after his application for a discharge without conviction was dismissed and he was found guilty of breaching the Immigration Advisers Licensing Act 2007 (the Act).

Immigration

Building Practitioners Board cancels builder’s licence

29 August 2023

The Building Practitioners Board (the Board) has cancelled Licenced Building Practitioner (LBP) Matthew Biddle’s licence after finding Mr Biddle to be in breach of the Building Act 2004.

Building

Mining law changes to get New Zealand to net-zero by 2050

29 August 2023

The Government has amended the Crown Minerals Act 1991 (CMA) to provide flexibility in how the Government manages Crown-owned petroleum and minerals.

Energy

Record breaking FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 comes to a close

24 August 2023

New Zealand co-hosted the most successful FIFA Women’s World Cup ever, with over 700,000 people attending matches in New Zealand and almost 2 million fans attending matches in New Zealand and Australia.

Economic Development Immigration and tourism

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