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27/09/2024

Huzzah for the Whitcoulls Kids' Top 50 Books for 2024. Book legend Joan Mackenzie talked to RNZ Afternoons about Aotearoa's young bookworms and their passion for reading. For them, top of the pops are local authors and classic books.

School holidays kick off this weekend and with that Whitcoulls has announced their annual Top 50 Kids' Books list. This year nearly a quarter of the titles included are new to the list, and more than a third come from New Zealand authors. So, if your kid is a bookworm and needs something to occupy y...

12/08/2024

What a story. Thrilled to have had a hand in working with the wonderful Mary Garden to get this into the public domain.

‘Mum had lived and died with this secret,’ says writer Mary Garden.

07/05/2024

Fat is a issue and Sacha Jones makes the personal political in her new book 'The Fatter S*x.' Talking to Kathryn Ryan on RNZ Nine to Noon, she speaks with courage about how she battled the bulimia Beast and how she'd like women to work together to battle thin (and fat) privilege.

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Ballerina-turned-author and comedian Sacha Jones on her book The Fatter S*x - looking at women's battles with diet, weight and body confidence.

03/05/2024

What a blast, promoting dancer, feminist, educator, mother (and more!) Sacha Jones' punchy book, 'The Fatter S*x.' Interviews, features, and extracts are about to roll out, starting next week, including RNZ, Newsroom, RNZ Nine to Noon, AWW, Weekend Herald Canvas, New Zealand Listener (online).

Buy your copy here: https://umbilicalbooks.com/

18/04/2024

Bryan Bruce has just won another Silver at the prestigious NYF TV & Film Awards, this time for his documentary 'The Food Crisis.' In accepting the award on behalf of his team, Bruce drew attention to the plight of Fourth Estate journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand. He has just launched the subscriber channel bryanbruce.substack.com

For the second year in a row, Bryan Bruce has won a New York Festivals Film & TV Silver Award, this time for his documentary The Food Crisis which screened on Sky Go last year.

09/11/2023

Huzzah for Greg Fleming's gem of a review on Kete Books.

‘…a brilliantly researched and compelling look at one of our most significant unsolved cases, one that also gives readers a fascinating peek into our cultural and legal history.’

31/10/2023

If you build it, they will come. Sam Stubbs' bold vision will see 25,000 new homes come onstream across Aotearoa New Zealand – the equivalent of building a settlement the size of Whangārei or Nelson. How? Through Simplicity's new Homes and Income Investment Fund. Sam talked about it with Kathryn Ryan on RNZ.

Non-profit KiwiSaver provider and fund manager Simplicity says it wants to build and fund 25,000 new homes in the next 10 years. It aims to try hit this goal by launching a new investment fund today that will essentially ramp up its existing programme to increase housing supply. That includes its bu...

19/10/2023

Climb every mountain! https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018911632/guy-cotter-mount-everest-is-my-church-my-temple

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28/09/2023

Huzzah for yet another quality, long-form review over on Newsroom.

On the memoir of a can-do, plain-speaking, Amazonian farmer who was at the centre of New Zealand's commune experiment

26/09/2023

Everyone loves Rewi!

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Michelle Rahurahu reviews Rewi Ata haere, kia tere by Jade Kake and Jeremy Hansen published by Massey University Press Pub by: Massey University Press RRP: $75.00

23/09/2023

Life on a commune isn't always what it's cracked up to be.

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In 1979, inspired by the countercultural movement sweeping the country, teenager Olive Jones embraced rural communal living. By the age of twenty-one she was one of the founders of the Graham Downs farming community in the Motueka Valley. Built on anarchy and idealism, with the aim of self-sufficien...

22/09/2023

Genius idea of RNZ Morning Report producer Brad to introduce the Whitcoulls Kids' Top 50 Books List announcement with a poem.

Now here's a story kids won't want to miss, It's the Whitcoulls Kids Top 50 list! Our Tamariki voted for their most favoured book, They love emotional tales - not just how they look. Some books have fairies, and some, well, they're scary. But this year's top spot? It's Hairy Maclary. Now let's talk....

08/09/2023

An encore screening of an acclaimed documentary about our food crisis. ‘The Food Crisis might not be as provocative and shocking as Paddy Gower lighting a spliff, but this is the documentary every New Zealand of voting age should see before making their decision in six weeks time,' says James Croot, Film and Television Reviewer, Stuff.

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03/09/2023

Compulsory viewing on Sky Open (Sky channel 4 and Freeview channel 15) tonight at 8.30pm.

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REVIEW: It might not be as provocative and shocking as Paddy Gower lighting a spliff, but Bryan Bruce's latest effort is sobering, thought-provoking viewing.

03/09/2023

Documentary filmmaker Bryan Bruce tackles the food crisis head-on and points the finger at neoliberal politics over decades to explain how it happened. Find out more when his doco airs on Sky Open (Sky channel 4 and Freeview channel 15) tonight at 8.30pm.

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OPINION: Bryan Bruce asks how can we do things differently to benefit all?

19/04/2023

Talking to historian Dr Danny Keenan (Ngāti Te Whiti ki Te Atiawa) about his new book, 'The Fate of the Land Ko ngā Ākinga a ngā Rangatira,' which explores politics and land loss during the Liberal era and decades prior. Keenan is the 2023 recipient of the Michael King Writer’s Fellowship.

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Historian Danny Keenan's new book tells the stories of Māori during the Liberal era.

14/03/2023

Imagine a world where a safety tunnel is also a walking and cycling commuter network. The Norwegians just did. In our patch of paradise, the Matakana Coast Trail Trust is building a commuter and leisure trail. They've already built a bridge to Matakana and now they're going to connect this humming settlement to Point Wells and Omaha. For the latest, head over to https://mctt.org.nz/

The colourful construction is car-free and bike-friendly.

09/03/2023

Philanthropy on two wheels as three Rodney women cycle the length of Aotearoa to fundraise for the Matakana Coast Trail Trust.

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