Meet the residents: Huia Books publisher Eboni Waitere
Lucy Revill’s The Residents is a blog about daily life in Wellington that has morphed into a stylish, low-key coffee-table book featuring interviews and photographic portraits of 38 Wellingtonians. In this extract, Revill profiles Eboni Waitere, owner and executive director of Huia Publishers.
The Residents features names like Monique Fiso and Jacinda Ardern, a bunch of artists and musos, a cobbler, a professor, a parliamentary services co-ordinator, and a Unity Books legend (Tilly Lloyd). Lucy Revill has been running the blog for five years and it shows in her collection of profiles: she’s got the mix exactly right, and her writing and photography both carry a reassuring tone of ease. A book to potter about in. Appropriately, it was crowdfunded.
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Linda Collins is sharing her grief at losing her 17-year-old daughter to suicide to help prevent similar deaths.
An Otago-based author who lost her teenage daughter to suicide urges parents “don’t be fobbed off, keep pushing” when their child appears to be struggling. One morning, author Linda Collins went to wake her daughter Victora McLeod for school to find an empty bed. Police handed over her beloved child’s laptop months later, and she discovered the 17-year-old had been grappling with suicidal impulses for years. “My daughter’s death was preventable and I hope other people can use my knowledge so other lives can be saved,” Collins said.
New Zealand secures global sustainability event on coral reefs
New Zealand has secured a major global conference on coral reefs, highlighting the plight of the South Pacific to the rest of the world.
The International Coral Reef Society’s Symposium will be held in Auckland in the New Zealand International Convention Centre in mid-2025. Around 2,500 experts are expected to attend – the largest number of delegates that New Zealand can host, bringing $6 million to the economy.
Tourism New Zealand and the Auckland Convention Bureau worked alongside Victoria University of Wellington, the University of Auckland and the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Fijian office to secure the event. While New Zealand does not have coral reefs, it does have coral communities – for example around the Kermadec Islands. Currently there is not enough known about them to determine how they might be affected by climate change.
Jan 13, 2021
The U.S. on Tuesday declassified a national security document that reveals details of the Trump administration’s strategy for the Indo-Pacific region, including Japan’s role as well as a plan to “deny,” “defend” and “dominate” China in the western Pacific.
Observers said the document’s release, just days before Donald Trump hands over the White House keys to President-elect Joe Biden and his team, may have been intended to bind the new president to the vision it laid out for the region while reassuring allies of a continued U.S. presence.
The rare decision to release and declassify the strategy, which provided the “overarching strategic guidance” for U.S. actions in the region, “demonstrates, with transparency, America’s strategic commitments to the Indo-Pacific and to our allies and partners,” national security adviser Robert O’Brien said in a statement accompanying it.
Reading a cervical smear test. The screen shows precancerous (CIN3) cells. (File photo) About 900 women from the Te Tai Tokerau Northland region were involved in the study, which focuses on Māori women. Māori women were two and a half times more likely to die from cervical cancer than others. The study showed almost 60 per cent of Māori women took the human papillomavirus self-test when offered it - about three times more women than those offered the standard cervical smear. The university s director of the Centre for Women s Health Research, Bev Lawton, said she expected that improvement to be seen in all women.