Letters: Auckland growth, property investors, vaccination pace and light rail
12 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM
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Is central Auckland already too densely populated? Photo / Michael Craig
NZ Herald
Groan pains After being put up this week in an Auckland CBD accommodation unit, 14 floors up, looking out over similarly small units, with many even higher up, I can see why your editorial (NZ Herald, April 9) makes perfect sense.
Indeed, we have a rather sparsely populated nation, where an absolutely unexpected newcomer, called Covid-19, has forced many of us to reinvent ourselves; work from home part-time; all the time or even have a fully remote-controlled business model.
Sunday, 11 April 2021 - 8:32
The First Round of Foreign Ministry Consultations between Sri Lanka and New Zealand was held virtually on 08 April 2021. The meeting was co-chaired by Actg. Director General of the East Asia Division of the Foreign Ministry Rohana Ambagolla and the Divisional Manager, South, and Southeast Asia Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of New Zealand Andrew Needs.
A wide range of matters of mutual interest were discussed.
This included enhancing cooperation in multiple spheres ranging from trade, development cooperation, defence, people-to-people exchanges, and education to sports and tourism. The two countries agreed to finalize a bilateral arrangement for establishing a constructive mechanism for enhancing trade and economic cooperation and for increasing bilateral exchanges in all areas of engagement.
Seeing Pandemic as a Blessing
posted April 3rd, 2021 at 12:57 AM
The people I thought were close were actually not. And that s turned out to be a really good thing
Thank God pants are not as often necessary as in Before Times
The relationships I bled for before ended up bleeding themselves out on their own
The people who stuck around were not who I thought would
I m actually more than ok on my own than I thought I could be
Nesting is a very real thing, and when done right (just authentically for myself) is actually amazing
The feel of Good Toilet Paper is absolutely real (when available)
Zack Snyder on fulfilling his superheroic Justice League vision
17 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM
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Karl Puschmann is a senior entertainment writer and columnist for the New Zealand Herald.karl.puschmann@nzherald.co.nz@CritiKarl This movie has no business existing, director Zack Snyder admits, before adding, especially in the form it exists. He s right. We ve had director s cut versions of movies before, most notably Ridley Scott s tinkering with
Blade Runner or Sir Peter Jackson s extended
Lord of the Rings films, but we ve never had anything like
Zack Snyder s Justice League.
It s bigger, more ambitious and, at a bat-whisker over four hours long, more butt-numbing than any director has previously attempted. The Snyder Cut, as it was unofficially dubbed by its legion of worldwide fans is, in reality, a completely different film than 2017 s