Month: March 2020

  • Chair’s report – Corvid-19 is changing everything

    Chair’s report – Corvid-19 is changing everything

    I am sure I have no need to tell you that we are living in a difficult time. So far locally we have been shielded from the direct effects of the Covid-19 virus but throughout the world we are seeing the effects that the virus is having on health systems and communities. And the economic…

  • Remember March 15

    Remember March 15

    Twelve months ago the unthinkable happened to Aotearoa New Zealand.  A right wing extremist armed with weapons of mass destruction went on a rampage through a Christchurch mosque and killed 51 human beings and injured another 49. I can recall the day well.  I had been to Aotea Square at Auckland where thousands and thousands…