This week’s Good Sort is Auckland landlord Jackie Trevdeich. She put aside her rental property for a prospective tenant who was desperate for a home, giving her first option on the place. Having lived in emergency housing for two years, Shelly Clarke needed a rental property in Auckland to be close to the medical community Read more
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Auckland landlord waits two months for tenant whose son has rare health condition
Thursday, September 24th, 2020Man says placements became a training ground for jail
Thursday, September 24th, 2020The struggles of a man who was taken into state care as a young boy were relayed to the Abuse in Care inquiry in Auckland today. Chassy Duncan, 31, spoke to the Royal Commission via an audiovisual link in the Falkland Islands. He is currently in prison in Port Stanley along with two other fishers Read more
Prison guards were more caring than welfare homes
Thursday, September 24th, 2020A man has given a harrowing account of the consequences to his life after going into state care in the 1970s. Earl White, which is a pseudonym to protect his identity, gave evidence to the Abuse in Care Royal Commission sitting in Auckland on Thursday. White was physically abused by his father and step-father before Read more
Mental health, housing, and poverty exposed
Monday, September 21st, 2020
Communities struggling to deal with the effects of the COVID-19 lockdown are the subject of a new study by the Salvation Army. The study reports three major areas of concern seriously impacting New Zealand communities, a lack of mental health support, insecure housing and inadequate incomes. These areas of concern are forcing people to look Read more
Lockdown 2 increases demand for shelter
Monday, September 21st, 2020
Catholic emergency housing providers in Auckland are struggling to cope with increased demand for shelter as the COVID lockdown continues to wreak havoc on employment. Monte Cecilia Housing Trust chief executive officer Bernie Smith puts the increased demand down to reduced working hours and increasing unemployment. Smith told NZ Catholic the Catholic housing trust received Read more
ACT leader David Seymour reminds Catholic Bishops of The Commandments
Monday, September 21st, 2020
ACT leader David Seymour, Wednesday, issued a reminder to the New Zealand Catholic Bishops to keep the Commandments. In a statement on the End of Life Choice Act, Seymour singled out New Zealand’s Catholic Bishops and told them they needed to follow the ninth commandment and to ‘stop bearing false witness against their neighbours in Read more
- Oregon Death with Dignight Act 2019 Data Summary (pdf)
- New Zealand Medical Association End of Life Choice Act Referendum Fact Sheet
- Hospice New Zealand - Euthanasia - our opinion
- Herx L, Cottle M, and Scott J. The “Normalization” of Euthanasia in Canada: the Cautionary Tale Continues. World Medical Journal
A big audience for young musicians
Monday, September 21st, 2020A much bigger audience that expected faced pupils from Whakaaro Tahi Community Trust. Music tutors Jane Hillier and Eli Moore, and a group of music students from Kaitaia’s Pompallier School had a surprisingly big audience when their performance at mass at St Joseph’s Catholic Church was broadcast on National Shine TV, Bishop Dunn (Auckland) saying Read more
Christchurch schoolboys’ head shaving raises more than $63,000
Monday, September 21st, 2020A head shaving fundraiser by Christchurch schoolboys has raised thousands of dollars. More than 100 schoolboys from a Christchurch high school ditched their lids in the fight against cancer. St Bede’s College students swapped their running shoes for clippers as the usual charity run for CanTeen, run every second year by the school, was replaced Read more
Science and faith a false dichotomy – God has given us brains
Thursday, September 17th, 2020
Wesleyan Methodist minister and media chaplain Frank Ritchie says opposing mass gathering regulations is not a hill on which Christians need to die. He describes the resistance to following the Government’s COVID-19 rules by Murray Watkinson, the leader of Wainoni’s revivalist Celebration Centre and other Christian leaders as “extremely sad”. Richie says Watkinson’s posts – Read more
Kiwi company continues making money out of mega churches
Thursday, September 17th, 2020
New Zealand company, Pushpay, will see business pick up now from churches in the United States. Pushpay services include a web-enabled giving platform and online donor management. Net profit fell 15 percent for the year ended March 31. One of the issues facing Pushpay has been the recent sale of shares by key investors. That Read more