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Accredited Employer Work Visa

The Accredited Employer Work Visa (AEWV) is a new, temporary work visa. New Zealand employers wanting to hire migrant workers may be able to do so under the new scheme from 4 July. 

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Veterinarian Dr Robert Mills named Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit

Veterinarian, Dr Robert Mills, has been named a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2022 Queen’s Birthday Honours list for services to wildlife conservation.

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Increase in cases of Canine Cough in New Zealand (May 2022)

We have been informed that veterinarians are seeing an increase in cases of canine cough in dogs in certain parts of New Zealand. There is no evidence to suggest that this is in any way related to Covid-19 and it is not a zoonotic disease (it is not transmitted from animals to humans)

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Canine cough update

Over the last two weeks, we have been made aware of increased case numbers of canine cough in parts of the country. Reports have also detailed that a number of these cases have developed an acute bronchopneumonia.

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Relief for veterinarians as profession makes Government's new Green List

The inclusion of veterinarians on a new Government Green List is welcome relief for the country’s vets, according to Kevin Bryant, Chief Executive of the New Zealand Veterinary Association (NZVA).

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99th NZVA Annual General Meeting

Join our Team! NZVJ Administrator

Are you looking for a part-time role that can be worked from home? We are looking for an enthusiastic person with excellent writing skills and computer literacy to support the New Zealand Veterinary Journal (NZVJ) as NZVJ Administrator.

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Changes to NZ immigration

As part of the staged border reopening, the criteria for long term critical workers has been changed.

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Some useful COVID-19 documents

These useful documents outline how a few relevant systems work at Phase Two of the Red Light Setting of the COVID-19 Protection Framework.

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Government confirms critical worker scheme

A new close contact exemption scheme will keep critical supply chains running through Omicron.

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