the author of the new novel, while justice sleeps, which is now number one on the new york times bestseller list for affection. thank you very much for joining us tonight. we really appreciate it. congratulations on the bestseller list. i want to get a word in about the book after we discuss voting rights and these issues of the day at this moment. i want to start with what senator manchin is trying to do in the senate now which is to reauthorize that provision of the voting rights act that the supreme basically squashed. what is your reaction to that effort at this stage? i think it s an important step to take. we do need to reauthorize the voting rights act because it is the only way to preclude new laws that will erode access to the right to vote. the challenges that it is not enough on its own. we have to be both prophylactic with this, but we also have to respond to and neutralize the bad bills that are passing at
Beehive Diaries: Simon Bridges confessions, MPs wayward texts
14 May, 2021 12:29 AM
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National leader Judith Collins on the government s announcement for combatting gangs and organised crime. Video / Mark Mitchell
National leader Judith Collins on the government s announcement for combatting gangs and organised crime. Video / Mark Mitchell
This week, Minister Ayesha Verrall got into a slippery situation, Simon Bridges wrote enough words to make a book, and Herald journalists got some wayward texts.
Sunday: Associate Health Minister Ayesha Verrall in a slippery situation
Ayesha Verrall turned up at a cervical smear clinic in Lower Hutt for her first pre-Budget announcement: funding for self-testing for cervical cancer.
Fore! Three holes axed at Chamberlain Park golf course after vehicles struck
26 Apr, 2021 01:24 AM
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Three holes at the Chamberlain Park golf course will be closed after three incidents in close succession which saw vehicles getting hit. Photo / Dean Purcell
Three holes at the Chamberlain Park golf course will be closed after three incidents in close succession which saw vehicles getting hit. Photo / Dean Purcell
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Wayward golf balls and several near misses have led to three holes at an Auckland golf course being closed.
Three vehicles travelling along the Northwestern Motorway have been struck by golf balls coming from Mt Albert s Chamberlain Park in the three months between December and February this year
Hollywood eyes up Taupō author/illustrator s work for animated movie
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Carly is a weekend writer for the Bay of Plenty Timescarly.gibbs@nzme.co.nz@ Bay Times
Donovan Bixley has a tuft of wayward blonde hair that s standing vertical, and he s dressed in a T-shirt that he designed, with a black-and-white pussycat s face sewn on it. But it s not just any old tom, it s Claude D Bonair, the scarf-wearing Parisian pilot in the cat air corps, from his adventure book series Flying Furballs.
Bixley s flashed up on to our shared Zoom screen, sitting in his office.
Behind him are his piano, saxophone and a canvas of his own artwork.