### RNZ News Updated at 7:36am on 24 August 2009
Queens Wharf competition launched
The Auckland City and Auckland Regional councils have jointly announced the next stage in the multi-million dollar re-development of Queens Wharf on Auckland’s waterfront.
A design and ideas competition has been launched, which will help shape how the new facilities may look for the [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘2011 RWC’
August 24, 2009
2011 RWC: Queens Wharf Party Central
August 22, 2009
Rugby officials expressing anxieties about 2011 RWC budget in private for months
Taxpayers, run and hide !!!
### sstlive.co.nz Last updated 05:00 16/08/2009
Hobbs: NZRU won’t go bust
By Greg Ford – Sunday Star Times
New Zealand rugby isn’t about to go broke, but chairman Jock Hobbs admits it will have to write a substantial cheque after hosting the Rugby World Cup. The Sunday Star-Times last week revealed the forecast loss [...]
June 1, 2009
2011 RWC: Dropping the ball on sustainability
New Zealand has less than a 1,000 days to get sustainable…
### scoop.nz.co Friday, 29 May 2009, 2:41 pm
Green My World Cup
Opinion: Gareth Hughes
The Rugby World Cup will be the biggest international event to come to New Zealand ever and our best chance in a generation to brand ourselves on the world stage as clean and [...]
May 12, 2009
Another stadium spend for global TV
### ODT Online Tue, 12 May 2009
Govt puts $2.5m into Whangarei stadium upgrade
The Government is putting $2.5 million into the upgrade of Whangarei’s Okara Park to get it ready for the Rugby World Cup. The minister in charge of preparations for the tournament, Murray McCully, said today the upgraded stadium would leave a lasting legacy [...]
May 1, 2009
Govt lavishes stadiums
### Scoop Regional Thursday, 30 April 2009, 2:10 pm
Govt thanked for $15 million AMI Stadium funding
Press Release: Christchurch City Council
To: Chief Reporter
From: Diane Keenan – Communications Team
MEDIA RELEASE 30 April 2009
Government thanked for $15 million AMI Stadium funding
Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker is delighted at the Government’s announcement that it will provide $15 million towards the [...]
April 25, 2009
More on High Court decision + Farry glee
### ODT Online Sat, 25 Apr 2009
Stadium: ‘This is about the legality’
By David Loughrey
The last-minute shot from stadium opponents to legally challenge the Dunedin City Council on its support for the project has come up short, with Stop the Stadium’s lawyer failing to convince a High Court judge his arguments stood up to scrutiny.
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April 25, 2009
Glory be: Employment = Rugby
### National Business Review Friday April 24 2009 – 03:55pm
Dunedin stadium will employ 500 for two years to be ready for RWC
By Robert Smith
If you can swing a hammer or operate heavy machinery you might be needed down south. With the last legal barrier kicked into touch, construction of Dunedin’s new $200 million stadium will [...]
April 22, 2009
2011 RWC: Eden Park consents
### Radio New Zealand News Updated at 10:30am on 22 April 2009
Final Eden Park resource consents passed
Final resource consents for upgrades at Eden Park for the 2011 Rugby World Cup have been passed. Work on the $240 million redevelopment began in August last year. The final two consents cover the construction for the last part [...]
April 20, 2009
$15M government 'grant' (offer)
The brass hurrah…
### ODT Online Mon, 20 Apr 2009
Govt confirms $15m stadium grant
By David Loughrey and Chris Morris
The planned Otago Stadium has received a boost at today’s extraordinary Dunedin City Council meeting, with confirmation the Government’s $15 million contribution will come as a grant.
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April 20, 2009
Tahuna Upgrade or Stadium, or both
### ODT Online Mon, 20 Apr 2009
Opinion: Tahuna vital, stadium not
By Neville Peat
Former Otago regional councillor Neville Peat says that, new stadium or not, the City Council must complete the Tahuna wastewater treatment project on time.
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ODT credits Neville Peat as having chaired the panel of commissioners at the Otago Regional Council’s Tahuna wastewater outfall [...]
April 15, 2009
2011 RWC TV
### ODT Online Wed, 15 Apr 2009
Snedden denies World Cup exclusivity claims
Claims that Sky Television’s successful broadcast bid for the 2011 rugby World Cup will deny New Zealanders free-to-air access to the tournament have been rubbished by the man heading the event here.
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April 3, 2009
"People: work very hard NOW"
MAINTAIN MOMENTUM
YOU SHOULD – everybody for or against the stadium – LOBBY HARD by going public at every opportunity there is to tell DCC, ORC, CST and (maybe) those in central government about the benefits or non benefits of the Otago stadium project.
Some of you are very vocal, you’re writing lots of letters, speaking to [...]
March 27, 2009
2011 RWC: DCC budgets for hosting
### ODT Online Fri, 27 Mar 2009
$200,000 world cup spruce-up
By Chris Morris
Dunedin looks set for a $200,000 spruce-up, paid for by ratepayers, as part of preparations to play host to six Rugby World Cup teams and their visiting fans in 2011.
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