Samantha Olley

New Zealand

Journalist at Radio New Zealand (RNZ)

she/her 1News Reporter [email protected]

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Former charter school Te Rangihakahaka Centre for Science and Technology looks back on 'mammoth' first year

Oct 2, 2024 | nzherald.co.nz | Samantha Olley

Te Irimana Hatu Edmonds Huriwai looks forward to every Friday. That's because it's Te Ao Māori (the Māori world) day at Te Rangihakahaka Centre for Science and Technology, and he is speaking more te reo than ever. Since starting at the centre last year, the keen 10-year-old has learned enough to have basic, fluent conversations with his koro. "I tell him what I've been learning about at school, and he tells me about my whakapapa."Te Irimana Hatu Edmonds Huriwai, 10.
Staff shortages cut Auckland urgent care clinic hours

Apr 20, 2023 | newstalkzb.co.nz | Samantha Olley
Staff shortages hit Auckland urgent care clinics: ‘Cavalry yet to arrive’

Apr 20, 2023 | nzherald.co.nz | Samantha Olley
Staff shortages hit Auckland urgent care clinics: ‘Cavalry yet to arrive’

Apr 20, 2023 | nzherald.co.nz | Samantha Olley

White Cross Clinics in Glenfield, New Lynn, and Mt Wellington have been cutting back opening times due to staff shortages. Photo / Jason Oxenham, FileBy Samantha Olley of RNZNew Zealand’s largest privately-owned healthcare group is having to intermittently close urgent care and general practice clinics due to staff shortages in Auckland. Tāmaki Health runs the seven-day-a-week White Cross clinics, but the New Lynn, Glenfield, and Mt Wellington clinics have been cutting back opening hours and days.
Scientists sequence whooping cough strain, but struggle to track it

Apr 6, 2023 | 1news.co.nz | Samantha Olley |Felix Walton
Rules on food ads aimed at kids should be tighter, say researchers

Apr 6, 2023 | nzherald.co.nz | Samantha Olley
Rules on food ads aimed at kids should be tighter, say researchers

Apr 6, 2023 | nzherald.co.nz | Samantha Olley

By Sam Olley of RNZNewly drafted rules about advertising to children should apply to all under-18-year-olds, rather than under-16-year-olds, a leading food and nutrition policy expert says. The Advertising Standards Authority plans to stop brands associated with junk food from showing logos on sponsored prizes, promotional give-away merchandise, and children’s sports teams uniforms as part of its new children’s code. But the code is industry-run and voluntary.
Rules on food ads aimed at kids should be tighter

Apr 6, 2023 | 1news.co.nz | Samantha Olley
Rules on food ads aimed at kids should be tighter - researchers

Apr 6, 2023 | rnz.co.nz | Samantha Olley
Whooping cough: Scientists sequence pertussis strain but face challenges in tracking spread

Apr 6, 2023 | nzherald.co.nz | Samantha Olley |Felix Walton

By Sam Olley and Felix Walton, RNZA strain of whooping cough spreading has been sequenced, but scientists are finding it hard to track where it has come from. Public health officials were urgently trying to sequence the strain to see if it is unusually deadly after three babies died from the disease, also known as pertussis, this year.