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Nicola Thorstensen receives the prestigious $1000 prize for her sequence ‘Reclamation’, a tribute to her father John Thorstensen, and an exploration of childhood loss and grief. Michelle Elvy is awarded runner-up for her sequence, ‘The map in your palm’.
On 22 November, the Association is lodging 22 proposed amendments to the 2022 Incorporated Societies Act as part of the Statutes Amendment Bill 2024 now before Parliament. The omnibus Bill comprises “amendments to Acts” to ensure that legislation is "fit for purpose."
The AUT-led study Relationships Between Reading For Pleasure And Children’s Wellbeing In Aotearoa New Zealand looked at the pandemic lockdown experience of 2421 children from the Growing Up in New Zealand (GUiNZ) study who were 11 years old at the time.
Manatū Hauora’s evidence brief has found limitations in the quality of evidence for the benefits and risks of using puberty blockers, reflecting the methodological and ethical limitations of running randomised-controlled trials for gender affirming care.
The exhibition will open on 29 November 2024 and runs until 31 August 2025. It showcases the heroic era of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic exploration, where the crew of his sunken ship survived by clinging to floating ice for five months.
The annual NZ Health Survey data for 2023-2024 showed that the proportion of children from homes where food ran out sometimes or often had increased by nearly six percentage points in just one year, from 21.3 per cent to 27 per cent.