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Save Share The legal stoush between exchange traded funds pioneer Graham Tuckwell and his US private equity backers has entered yet another chapter, with the firms appealing against a ruling which saved Mr Tuckwell $US35 million ($45 million). That money, which the private equity firms argued belonged to them as part of their one-third stake in Mr Tuckwell’s ETF Securities, was destined to further plump the coffers of the Tuckwell Foundation, which funds scholarships at Australian National University. Louise and Graham Tuckwell’s foundation funds scholarships at ANU.  Kristoffer ...

Fields of bitter fruit: The true toll of wartime crisis and stress 24 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM 6 minutes to read Anzac soldiers marching to the front in France during the First World War. Photo / Getty Images Anzac soldiers marching to the front in France during the First World War. Photo / Getty Images By: Christopher Pugsley Broken or whole, can still be reticent; They do not wear that face we are discerning As in a mirror momentarily lent, A glitter that might be pride, an ashy glow That could be pity, if the shapes would show. – Allen Curnow, "Attitudes for a New Zealand Poet II"

A HISTORIC memorial fountain and the junction surrounding it in Alexandria are set for a refurb and redesign by West Dunbartonshire Council (WDC). The B-listed Smollett Fountain at the junction of Main Street and Bank Street was built in 1870 in memory of local landowner Alexander Smollett, MP for Dumbarton from 1841 to 1859, in recognition of his efforts to bring a clean water supply to the area. Designed by Dumbarton man John McLeod, the fountain cost £500 to build – the equivalent of almost £60,000 today – and was built by local man William Barlas using Bannockburn freestone an...

- They Called it Passchendaele, Lyn Macdonald​, 1978. An English historian details the daily lives and struggles of the much maligned British Tommy on the Western Front. - Man Alone, John Mulgan, 1939. A novel based around a man named Johnson, a British soldier who was billeted with Kiwis on the Western Front. After the war he came out to New Zealand looking for a better life. Instead, he finds a “grim” country struggling to recover economically from the impact of the war. - We Will Not Cease, Archibald Baxter, 1939. If there is a book that dispels the myth that New Zealand was fightin...

Sleeper hit: Pot isn’t just for partying. Many say they can’t sleep without it. Years ago, Jerry Millen — a TV sportscaster-turned-owner of the dispensary the Greenhouse of Walled Lake — was working as a producer of MMA events, which required frequent flights between Detroit and Tokyo. The jet lag "really kicked my ass," he says. "I would take Ambien CR like it was Tic Tacs because the doctor gave it to me," he says. "And if the doctor gave it to me, it must be safe, right?" Millen later read studies that found sleeping pills could cause cancer. "I'm like, great. I to...