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Articles by Matt Abraham
Black Stilt
It’s not often you get to be in a building where almost an entire species came into this world, but you can visit one near Twizel. In a couple of basic, corrugated iron-clad buildings, past a power substation and down a pot-holed, gravel road a few kilometres out of the town, is a place Liz Brown calls a “bird factory”. “It’s a production line,” she says. For the last 14 years, Brown has run DOC’s kakī captive management centre.
Vanda Symon
There is a particular pleasure to good crime fiction. At its core, the genre usually concerns a single character with problems to solve: some of them criminal, some personal. The pages flash by — there’s a physical satisfaction in feeling the weight of the book quickly transfer from the right to the left hand — and one rarely needs to go back to separate the good guys from the bad guys. For many readers, it’s a contest: can I identify the killer before the detective does?
More of Us Are Hitting Retirement Without a Home
In this country, stories like Lyn and Peter’s aren’t supposed to happen. Since the introduction of the old age pension nearly 125 years ago, New Zealand has held itself up as a world leader when it comes to the care of our elderly; a place where everyone can live secure in the knowledge that when they get old they will have food on the table and a place to live, regardless of what life throws their way.
The Most Outspoken Man In Sport
Jimmy Neesham was in purgatory — the blandly comfortable kind of purgatory to be found in high-end international hotel chains. The simple act of eating breakfast was to be oppressed by the familiar. It was late 2021 and over the past two years he’d been in the United Arab Emirates, India, England and Wales, but no matter the location the omelettes all looked the same. So did the waiters, and so did the rooms. “What am I doing?” he would think, contemplating his eggs.
The Real History of Our Country's Name
Te Pati Māori (the Māori Party) used this year’s Māori Language Week to renew its call for changing New Zealand’s name to Aotearoa, which it described in a press release as the ancestral name for these islands. Winston Peters was quick to disagree. “‘Aotearoa’ was made up and promoted by colonialists in the late 1800s”, the former deputy prime minister wrote on Twitter. Many conservative commentators and activists have recycled Peters’ words.
How Nicola Willis Organised a Radical Shift in National's Housing Policy
National’s housing spokesperson Nicola Willis spent the morning of 14 April fighting people on Twitter. Her party had proposed a new bill aimed at increasing housing supply and Willis was going after her critics one by one. “Sue, with all respect [you’re] completely wrong,” she told former Labour MP Sue Moroney, who said the proposal raised spectres of the deregulation that fuelled the 1990s leaky homes crisis.
A glimpse into the West Michigan manufacturing market
Are you a local manufacturing company looking to expand in the West Michigan area? Now is the time to do so. Over recent years, the West Michigan industrial and manufacturing market has experienced a path of steady growth — much of which can be attributed to the aftermath of the economic downturn between 2008 and 2010. Unfortunately, a lot of large closures took place in a variety of industries due to the nation’s economic situation.
West Michigan: A hotbed for new investment
Within the last few years, West Michigan has experienced an economic surge with more jobs being created, particularly in the manufacturing sector, and more investment in community resources such as Van Andel Arena, DeVos Place and the Medical Mile. That upswing in economic activity locally has caught the attention of investors from outside Michigan and even outside the United States.
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