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New National High Performance Training Centre announced at AUT Millennium Campus
An exciting new National Training Centre for high performance sport which is at the core of the Government’s sports strategy was announced today by Prime Minister John Key and Minister for Sport and Recreation, Murray McCully.
New Zealand's number 1 child advocate
He was the first ever appointed Children’s Commissioner in New Zealand, played a major part in a world-first cot death study and has just received a reward from the UN for his work with children. If ever there was a child advocate who walked the talk, Dr Ian Hassall is him.
I'm still learning: Ray McVinnie on MasterChef
Even for a master chef himself, Ray McVinnie says judging the hit series on TV ONE was still an opportunity for him to learn.
She may be small in size but she certainly packs a punch for women's rights and equality.
Election promises. Can they be delivered?
There’s no doubt he has passion, but does he have the support and the drive to make the changes Auckland needs and the changes he promises?
Editors, journalists face challenge of ‘price of freedom’ in latest PJR
Editors, journalists and media researchers face the challenge of the “price of freedom” and the cost of reporting global conflict in the latest edition of Pacific Journalism Review.
Pacific Island flair infused in book
Pasifika food, music, singing and dancing all played a part in the AUT University-hosted launch of Robert Oliver’s new book.
John Pulu who graduated with a Bachelor of Communication Studies this year is now working at TVNZ's Tagata Pasifika programme. He recently produced this report the opening in March of AUT University’s new campus at Manukau.
AUT expert discusses Pacific press freedom on TVNZ 7
Associate Professor David Robie, Director of AUT’s Pacific Media Centre, appeared as part of a panel on TVNZ 7's Media7 programme (15 April) to discuss Pacific press freedom and Fiji’s draft media decree. Robie was joined on the panel by TVNZ Pacific Correspondent Barbara Dreaver and Chair of the Commonwealth Press Union’s Media Freedom Committee, Tim Pankhurst.
Futuristic worlds, disillusioned housewives and racoon eyed grandmothers catch judges’ attention
A futuristic world where people choose their appearance, a disillusioned Ponsonby housewife, and an ode to a grandmother were what caught the judges’ attention in the first AUT Creative Writing Competition.