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The Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor this week presented a report summarising the discussions around science and society that took place at the Transit of Venus Forum earlier this year. Over 250 New Zealanders – including leaders from government agencies, local bodies, science organisations, academia, business, iwi and NGOs – gathered in Gisborne in June […]

Columnist Toby Manhire writes about his experience so far at the Transit of Venus Forum – Lifting Our Horizons,  for the Listener website: Transit of Venus: a fine(ish) dawn out east Transit of Venus: In Tolaga Bay, the clouds part as the anthem sounds David Shearer: stargazing at the Transit of Venus Science Media Centre […]

The Dominion Post‘s  Hawke’s bay reporter, Marty Sharp (winner of the the 2012 Cannon Media Award for the Reporter – Science and Environment  category) is in Gisborne covering the Transit of Venus Forum – Lifting Our Horizons. An excerpt (read in full here): Environmental problems ‘now business problems’ Environmental problems are now also business problems, […]

On Wednesday 6 June 2012 Venus will pass in front of the Sun’s disk — a rare astronomical event with rich historical associations for New Zealand. No one alive today has seen a transit of Venus from New Zealand. The transit in June 2004 was visible from the other side of the Earth. Before that the previous […]