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School teachers have spent the year in negotiations with the Ministry of Education, speaking up about systemic problems of low pay and increasing workloads. Is the whole profession nearing a breaking point?
Wearing a face mask on a domestic flight has been mandatory for months - but there is one exception that many still can't get their heads around.
Many gardeners were horrified last week when a 80-year-old tenant at a Christchurch social housing property had her garden ripped up by authorities without warning. Jacky Braid of Havelock North decided she had to collect plants for Wang because it felt personal. Photo: Tom Kitchin Since then, offers of help to replenish the garden have come from far and wide, including some from as far away as Hawke's Bay. When Jacky Braid from Havelock North heard Zhang Wang's garden in Christchurch had been destroyed, she knew she had to act. "My mother's an elderly Asian woman too and I just saw this ...