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New Zealand television entertainment pioneer and author Max Cryer has passed away. He was 86. According to reports, Cryer passed away at his home yesterday

Lifelong friend and colleague David Hartnell remembers a man who was "showbiz through and through".

One of the first stars of New Zealand television, Max Cryer spoke the first words on nationwide TV in 1969.

'I kicked and fought for my life': Sue Kedgley reveals all in new memoir 11 minutes to read By: Joanna Wane Me too. Young women didn't say those words out loud when Sue Kedgley was at university, not even to each other. It's time, she says, for her to say them now. Let's call the assault what it was: an attempted rape by a powerful, entitled older man used to getting what he wanted and who probably didn't give her a second thought after she fled his hotel room. Sound familiar? The parallels with Harvey Weinstein don't stop there. There's far more to Kedgley's new memoir, Fif...

'We were blubbing like babies': How New Zealand got its national anthem by accident 6 Jan, 2021 04:00 PM 5 minutes to read By: Max Cryer Many people know the story of how God Defend New Zealand came to be written, but fewer know that it became our national anthem by accident. Max Cryer tells the story. Irish-born Thomas Bracken gathered experience in New Zealand as a writer, poet, and also as an editor. In the late 1800s he was editing the Dunedin-published Saturday Advertiser news-magazine into which he often put pieces of his own writing - sometimes disguised with a fictitious name. Read M...