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Brennans Bread bakeries has been ordered to pay a worker €15,000 after “serious defects” were found in the way it sacked him for breaking its smoking policy – which the company said risked “fire, explosion and death”.
From a standing start of little tank engines chugging along wooden rails, New Zealand built a vast rail network, made up of enough steel rail to wrap halfway around the moon.
Prejudice is bad, but so is "inspiration porn".
We’re here to talk about her memoir, From the Centre: A Writer’s Life, which will be launched at the Auckland Writers Festival, where she is one of the guest speakers. Grace is one of New Zealand/Aotearoa’s most celebrated Māori fiction authors, who, over five decades, has won national and international awards for her work, including the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (considered the most prestigious literary prize after the Nobel). She was made a distinguished companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services to literature in 2007. Grace is k...
- 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...