Media Coverage
Thursday 2nd September 2021
Stuff.co.nz
You can listen to the audio here
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Thursday 26th August 2021
RNZ Checkpoint
Wednesday 25th August 2021
RNZ News & Morning Report
You can read the full article here.
You can listen here to Morning Report within which Natalie Horspool and Suzi Hume (midwife) talk to Emma Hatton.
You can listen here to Morning Report within which Natalie Horspool and Suzi Hume (midwife) talk to Emma Hatton.
Tuesday 24th August 2021
Front Page - The Hutt News
(no paper version as in Alert Level 4 Lockdown!)
Front Page - The Hutt News
(no paper version as in Alert Level 4 Lockdown!)
Following this media coverage we learned that Te Awakairangi was going to be built in Melling, Lower Hutt by the Charitable Trust - The Wright Family Foundation. We continued to be voluntarily part of clinical guidance groups and/or steering groups at HVDHB and CCDHB to promote physiological birth and primary birthing spaces behind the scenes. Te Awakairangi Birthing Centre was built and opened in July 2018 with no support, promotion or funding from the DHBs - something we've continued to fight. (Edit: August 2021 - the Birthing Centre is now under threat of closure and we're fighting once more)!
The Dominion Post covered our Birth Centres For Wellington campaign on 15th May 2016
after we sent out this press release on 6th May ----------------------->>> |
There are comments in the Press Release from the then opposition Labour MP Grant Robertson (now, August 2021, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Finance & Infrastructure!) which you may be interested to read!!
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Have you seen the coverage of our project in The Dom Post (16th May 2016)?
Next time you see your midwife ask her for a postcard campaigning for this or email [email protected] if you are a midwife and would like some for your clients. |
Article that appeared last year before we held the "Freedom For Birth" screening in Wellington.
We are looking for specialists in PR/Media work to help us with this project so that we can promote our ideas for the Birth Centre amongst the Wellington community.
If you are supportive of this project and can help us in anyway with our press releases, talking to the media and general PR tasks, please get in touch.
This is an article dated February 2012 from Canada. Midwives around the world agree that Birth Centres are needed as an alternative to hospitals.
The campaign of the Ontario Midwives has greatly inspired our group. Take a look at their website.