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- Health
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Meet Whakatāne Council's Health Equity Team
A new health advisory group set up by Whakatāne District Council plans to seek input from other districts in the Eastern Bay rather than be Whakatāne focused. Whakatāne Health Equity and Advocacy Group (WHEAG) was established in May and has had one meeting so far. In a report to Whakatāne District Council on Thursday, Mayor Victor Luca, who proposed the group, said he had been made its chairman. The intent of the group is to provide community input into the health system that Dr Luca feels has been missing since the disestablishment of the district health boards. 'Despite my expressing the view that I intended to fade into the background, the group insisted that I continue as chair,' Dr Luca's report said. 'The first meeting had been mainly introduction and orientation. One area of consensus was that the group should take a regional view and include other Eastern Bay councils, rather than being Whakatāne focused. "In fact, this was always the intention given that Whakatāne Hospital serves all three districts. The group will seek to get buy-in through iwi and other channels. There was a strong view in the meeting that collaboration is important and that there is a need to be strategic.' Whakatāne Health Equity and Advocacy Group members Whakatāne Mayor Victor Luca WHEAG chairman Bryce Sheedy Chief executive of Eastern Bay of Plenty Hospice Mr Sheedy has held health management roles at Health New Zealand -Te Whatu Ora, Alzheimer's EBOP, Pou Whakaaro and in private consulting. In all these roles he has come up against many of the same themes around inequity. Chris Moyes Paediatrician A paediatrician at Whakatāne Hospital from the early 1980s, Dr Moyes was formerly medical director of the Hepatitis Foundation of New Zealand for many years. He worked with kaumātua in Eastern Bay to improve access to testing, monitoring and treatment for Māori living with Hepatitis B. In 2022 he was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit. Rachel Morris Health practitioner With 20 years of experience across clinical care, digital health, strategic planning, and health infrastructure. Her career began in Radiation Therapy and has spanned roles in project management, health planning, and risk management - across New Zealand and Australia. Involved in both local and international health projects, she incorporates Te Ao Māori principles and mana whenua perspectives into her work and runs a kinesiology practice in Whakatāne. Pita Paul Māori Health Advisor Mr Paul brings over two decades of leadership in Māori health across governance, advisory, and cultural roles for Health NZ, Iwi Māori Partnership Boards, Te Puna/TaumataArowai, the National Coronial Perinatal Board, and InterRAI NZ. His expertise lies in bridging clinical, cultural, and regulatory health contexts to advance equitable Māori health outcomes. Enid Ratahi-Pryor Ngāti Awa Social & Health Services chairwoman The former chief executive of Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Awa and Disabilities Resource Centre. In 2004 she was chairperson of the Bay of Plenty District Health Board Disability Support Advisory Committee and member of the Bay of Plenty District Health Board. As chief executive of Ngāti Awa Social Services she has been able to expand the service delivery of Ngāti Awa to incorporate health services. Chris Tooley Te Puna Ora o Mataatua chief executive Dr Tooley holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and was recipient of the Gates Cambridge Scholarship. He was International Working Group of Indigenous Affairs vice-chairman (2015-19), senior ministerial advisor to Minister of Māori Affairs Pita Sharples (2009-14) Interim Māori Health Authority Board member (2021-22). He was the recipient of the Blake Leadership Award from the Sir Peter Blake Trust in 2020, Matariki Award, Waitī (Health & Science) in 2022 and the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Auckland. Frances Te Kani Te Puna Ora o Mataatua chief relations officer An experienced leader in health, social services, and Māori development, currently serving as manahautū herenga waka/chief relations officer at Te Puna Ora o Mataatua, Ms Te Kani has over 20 years of leadership across government and iwi-based organisations, and has held pivotal roles at Te Puna Ora o Mataatua, Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand, and Te Tohu o te Ora o Ngāti Awa. She has also been team lead manager at the Accident Compensation Corporation and operations manager at the Eastern Bay Primary Health Alliance. Vince Copeland Iwi Māori Partnership Board member Whakatāne-born and Tūhoe and Ngāti Awa descent, since leaving the Regular Force of the New Zealand Army in 2013, Mr Copeland worked primarily in social sector kaupapa Māori organisations. He now works in the health sector as kaihautū of te Moana a Toi Iwi-Māori Partnership Board. He continues to serve his community as chairman of TeTapatoru a Toi Joint Management Committee and as a major in the Army Reserve. Katerina Gordon Eastern Bay Primary Health Alliance Interim chief executive Ms Gordon is committed to improving outcomes in Māori health, wellbeing, and development, with particular focus on mokopuna, tāne ora, suicide prevention, mental health, and whānau violence. She holds academic qualifications in psychology and Māori development and brings extensive professional experience across kaupapa Māori health services, government, and mainstream health sectors. Belinda Whitworth Health management Belinda has held clinical, leadership and management roles in health in Western Australia, New Zealand and Britain spanning forty plus years. She has extensive experience and skills in strategic and operational planning, developing and delivery of evidence-based patient centred models of care, across the continuum of care from preventing to treatment and end of life care and contract management.
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26-06-2025
- Business
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Double Bonus For City Rail Link's 'Amazing Achievement'
Press Release – City Rail Link Shifting the bar higher for New Zealand's infrastructure industry has delivered a double bonus for Auckland's game-changing City Rail Link (CRL). The project has received two top-tier leading ratings from the Australian-based Infrastructure Sustainability Council (ISC): An As-Built leading rating specifically for the design and construction of its main C3 tunnels and stations contract delivered by Link Alliance covering the work to build the Te Waihorotiu, Karanga-a-Hape and Maungawhau Stations, including its use of a tunnel boring machine between Maungawhau and Te Waihorotiu. An As-Built leading rating for the overall CRL project covering the design and construction of C1, C2 and C3 contracts – CRL's entire 3.45 kilometres route of tunnels and stations. The CRL is now the first project to be awarded ISC's Leading IS (Mahi Rauora Aratohu version 1) As Built programme rating overall. The entire CRL project—from Waitematā to Maungawhau – is now officially recognised as meeting the highest sustainability standards ever awarded on either side of the Tasman. ISC Chief Executive, Toby Kent, praised the CRL team's 'amazing achievement' and its commitment to the practice of sustainability. 'The ISC is proud to see New Zealand's biggest transport infrastructure project adopt sustainability into the DNA of its operations. This has been an amazing achievement and demonstrates the overwhelmingly positive social, economic and environmental good that is possible to achieve through an IS Rating,' Mr Kent says. CRL Ltd Chief Executive, Patrick Brockie, says the Council's independent assessment is a powerful endorsement of the values and hard mahi adopted and demonstrated by the project, contractors and subcontractors from day one. 'Success for CRL Ltd and our Link Alliance delivery partner is testament to the passion, commitment, and tenacity of the many talented people who have delivered a project that is not just good for Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, but good for the sector, shifting the needle on how we integrate sustainability, environment, social outcomes and culture into large scale infrastructure projects,' says Mr Brockie. The Infrastructure Sustainability Council praised the commitment by CRL Ltd, Link Alliance and mana whenua to imbed Māori cultural values in the project's design, and deliver positive social outcomes for Māori, Pasifika and rangatahi (youth) by creating employment and training opportunities and supporting Māori and Pasifika businesses with supply chain opportunities. 'Te Ao Māori has environmental sustainability at its very core,' says Edith Tuhimata from the project's Mana Whenua Forum, 'and we have an inherent responsibility to future generations for the way we conduct our businesses and the impacts that has on the environment and the people, if we take care of the Taiao (environment), the Taiao will take care of us. Mana Whenua bring a holistic approach to the CRL project to ensure whakapapa links are acknowledged and the best practical environmental, sustainable, social and cultural outcomes are achieved.' Alongside positive social outcomes, the ISC was impressed by CRL's protection of the environment: substantially reducing the project's carbon footprint; savings around the use of construction and operational energy; more efficient use of water and materials; a dramatic reduction in waste earmarked for landfill; use of high-tech computer technology to help produce more efficient design and construction methodology. Link Alliance Project Director Jean-Philippe Guillemenot says: 'We're proud of the environmental, social, cultural and economic outcomes achieved. The innovations developed by the team has left a legacy, many sustainability firsts for New Zealand, and new benchmarks for future infrastructure projects.' Mr Brockie added that once operational in 2026, CRL will give Aucklanders more sustainable transport choices. 'We are determined to leave Auckland a better place than when we started construction and our success with the two Infrastructure Sustainability Council leading ratings certainly demonstrates that we are on the right track,' Mr Brockie says. The contracts included in the ISC leading ratings are:
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26-06-2025
- Business
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Double Bonus For City Rail Link's 'Amazing Achievement'
Press Release – City Rail Link ISC Chief Executive, Toby Kent, praised the CRL teams amazing achievement and its commitment to the practice of sustainability. Shifting the bar higher for New Zealand's infrastructure industry has delivered a double bonus for Auckland's game-changing City Rail Link (CRL). The project has received two top-tier leading ratings from the Australian-based Infrastructure Sustainability Council (ISC): An As-Built leading rating specifically for the design and construction of its main C3 tunnels and stations contract delivered by Link Alliance covering the work to build the Te Waihorotiu, Karanga-a-Hape and Maungawhau Stations, including its use of a tunnel boring machine between Maungawhau and Te Waihorotiu. An As-Built leading rating for the overall CRL project covering the design and construction of C1, C2 and C3 contracts – CRL's entire 3.45 kilometres route of tunnels and stations. The CRL is now the first project to be awarded ISC's Leading IS (Mahi Rauora Aratohu version 1) As Built programme rating overall. The entire CRL project—from Waitematā to Maungawhau – is now officially recognised as meeting the highest sustainability standards ever awarded on either side of the Tasman. ISC Chief Executive, Toby Kent, praised the CRL team's 'amazing achievement' and its commitment to the practice of sustainability. 'The ISC is proud to see New Zealand's biggest transport infrastructure project adopt sustainability into the DNA of its operations. This has been an amazing achievement and demonstrates the overwhelmingly positive social, economic and environmental good that is possible to achieve through an IS Rating,' Mr Kent says. CRL Ltd Chief Executive, Patrick Brockie, says the Council's independent assessment is a powerful endorsement of the values and hard mahi adopted and demonstrated by the project, contractors and subcontractors from day one. 'Success for CRL Ltd and our Link Alliance delivery partner is testament to the passion, commitment, and tenacity of the many talented people who have delivered a project that is not just good for Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, but good for the sector, shifting the needle on how we integrate sustainability, environment, social outcomes and culture into large scale infrastructure projects,' says Mr Brockie. The Infrastructure Sustainability Council praised the commitment by CRL Ltd, Link Alliance and mana whenua to imbed Māori cultural values in the project's design, and deliver positive social outcomes for Māori, Pasifika and rangatahi (youth) by creating employment and training opportunities and supporting Māori and Pasifika businesses with supply chain opportunities. 'Te Ao Māori has environmental sustainability at its very core,' says Edith Tuhimata from the project's Mana Whenua Forum, 'and we have an inherent responsibility to future generations for the way we conduct our businesses and the impacts that has on the environment and the people, if we take care of the Taiao (environment), the Taiao will take care of us. Mana Whenua bring a holistic approach to the CRL project to ensure whakapapa links are acknowledged and the best practical environmental, sustainable, social and cultural outcomes are achieved.' Alongside positive social outcomes, the ISC was impressed by CRL's protection of the environment: substantially reducing the project's carbon footprint; savings around the use of construction and operational energy; more efficient use of water and materials; a dramatic reduction in waste earmarked for landfill; use of high-tech computer technology to help produce more efficient design and construction methodology. Link Alliance Project Director Jean-Philippe Guillemenot says: 'We're proud of the environmental, social, cultural and economic outcomes achieved. The innovations developed by the team has left a legacy, many sustainability firsts for New Zealand, and new benchmarks for future infrastructure projects.' Mr Brockie added that once operational in 2026, CRL will give Aucklanders more sustainable transport choices. 'We are determined to leave Auckland a better place than when we started construction and our success with the two Infrastructure Sustainability Council leading ratings certainly demonstrates that we are on the right track,' Mr Brockie says. The contracts included in the ISC leading ratings are:
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26-06-2025
- Business
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Double Bonus For City Rail Link's 'Amazing Achievement'
Shifting the bar higher for New Zealand's infrastructure industry has delivered a double bonus for Auckland's game-changing City Rail Link (CRL). The project has received two top-tier leading ratings from the Australian-based Infrastructure Sustainability Council (ISC): An As-Built leading rating specifically for the design and construction of its main C3 tunnels and stations contract delivered by Link Alliance covering the work to build the Te Waihorotiu, Karanga-a-Hape and Maungawhau Stations, including its use of a tunnel boring machine between Maungawhau and Te Waihorotiu. An As-Built leading rating for the overall CRL project covering the design and construction of C1, C2 and C3 contracts - CRL's entire 3.45 kilometres route of tunnels and stations. The CRL is now the first project to be awarded ISC's Leading IS (Mahi Rauora Aratohu version 1) As Built programme rating overall. The entire CRL project—from Waitematā to Maungawhau - is now officially recognised as meeting the highest sustainability standards ever awarded on either side of the Tasman. ISC Chief Executive, Toby Kent, praised the CRL team's 'amazing achievement' and its commitment to the practice of sustainability. 'The ISC is proud to see New Zealand's biggest transport infrastructure project adopt sustainability into the DNA of its operations. This has been an amazing achievement and demonstrates the overwhelmingly positive social, economic and environmental good that is possible to achieve through an IS Rating," Mr Kent says. CRL Ltd Chief Executive, Patrick Brockie, says the Council's independent assessment is a powerful endorsement of the values and hard mahi adopted and demonstrated by the project, contractors and subcontractors from day one. 'Success for CRL Ltd and our Link Alliance delivery partner is testament to the passion, commitment, and tenacity of the many talented people who have delivered a project that is not just good for Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, but good for the sector, shifting the needle on how we integrate sustainability, environment, social outcomes and culture into large scale infrastructure projects,' says Mr Brockie. The Infrastructure Sustainability Council praised the commitment by CRL Ltd, Link Alliance and mana whenua to imbed Māori cultural values in the project's design, and deliver positive social outcomes for Māori, Pasifika and rangatahi (youth) by creating employment and training opportunities and supporting Māori and Pasifika businesses with supply chain opportunities. 'Te Ao Māori has environmental sustainability at its very core,' says Edith Tuhimata from the project's Mana Whenua Forum, 'and we have an inherent responsibility to future generations for the way we conduct our businesses and the impacts that has on the environment and the people, if we take care of the Taiao (environment), the Taiao will take care of us. Mana Whenua bring a holistic approach to the CRL project to ensure whakapapa links are acknowledged and the best practical environmental, sustainable, social and cultural outcomes are achieved.' Alongside positive social outcomes, the ISC was impressed by CRL's protection of the environment: substantially reducing the project's carbon footprint; savings around the use of construction and operational energy; more efficient use of water and materials; a dramatic reduction in waste earmarked for landfill; use of high-tech computer technology to help produce more efficient design and construction methodology. Link Alliance Project Director Jean-Philippe Guillemenot says: 'We're proud of the environmental, social, cultural and economic outcomes achieved. The innovations developed by the team has left a legacy, many sustainability firsts for New Zealand, and new benchmarks for future infrastructure projects.' Mr Brockie added that once operational in 2026, CRL will give Aucklanders more sustainable transport choices. 'We are determined to leave Auckland a better place than when we started construction and our success with the two Infrastructure Sustainability Council leading ratings certainly demonstrates that we are on the right track,' Mr Brockie says. The contracts included in the ISC leading ratings are: C1 - Waitematā Station (Britomart)/Lower Queen Street and Commercial Bay: designers Aurecon, Mott MacDonald and Jasmax; delivered by Downer and Soletanche Bachy Joint Venture C2 – northern end of Albert Street between Customs Street/Commercial Bay and Wyndham Streets: designers Aurecon, Mott MacDonald, Grimshaw, Jasmax, Arup; delivered by Connectus (McConnell Dowell and Downer Joint Venture) C3 - Main Tunnel, Stations, Western Line Connection and Rail Systems, delivered by Link Alliance (Vinci Construction Grands Projets, Downer, Soletanche Bachy, WSP, AECOM, Tonkin+Taylor and CRL Ltd) Iwi represented on CRL's Mana Whenua Forum: Te Ākitai Waiohua, Te Kawerau a Maki, Ngāti Maru, Ngāti Paoa, Ngāi Tai ki Tāmaki, Ngāti Tamaoho, Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei, Ngāti Te Ata Waiohua
RNZ News
20-06-2025
- Entertainment
- RNZ News
Mercia Dawn-Yates on Rotorua Matariki drone show
Thousands headed to the Rotorua lakefront to watch the Aronui Indigenous Arts Festival matariki drone show on 27 June 2024. Photo: LDR/ Laura Smith Kara and Mark have a kōrero with Mercia Dawn-Yates about Rotorua's Matariki drone show. As part of Matariki celebrations the aronui arts festival is putting on a drone light, the show in Rotorua it blends cutting-edge technology with te ao Māori storytelling, lighting up the night sky with a uniquely Rotorua vision of the Māori New Year. A respected figure associated with Māori performing arts and cultural advocacy, Dawn-Yates is renowned for her mahi in the spheres of community empowerment and indigenous storytelling.
