Liam Dann: Could we make Westpac a Kiwi bank?
3 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM
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In 1996 Trust Bank sold out to Westpac in a deal worth $1.2 billion. Photo / 123RF
In 1996 Trust Bank sold out to Westpac in a deal worth $1.2 billion. Photo / 123RF
OPINION:
I bank with it.
And as a customer I couldn t care less who owns it. But as a supporter of the New Zealand economy and financial markets I d love to see it back in local ownership.
My preferred option would be to see the government take a cornerstone stake via the Super Fund and ACC, merge it with Kiwibank and list it on the NZX.
Liam Payne brings back 1D meme to celebrate Harry Styles’s Grammy win
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Tue, Mar 16, 2021
Liam Payne couldn t be happier after his pal Harry Styles won his first ever Grammy Award on Sunday.
The Watermelon Sugar crooner was congratulated by his former One Direction mate who turned to his Instagram and expressed his joy for Styles after his first Grammy win for best pop solo performance.
Payne shared a meme on One Direction referencing their 2013 music video
Best Song Ever, and wrote: “This did make me chuckle.” Congrats @hshq on your Grammy win. What a huge moment, proud to be your brother,” wrote Payne, 27.
Once
Shameless made the decision to have Liam’s stray bullet paralyze rather than kill Terry Milkovich, I knew there had to be a reason.
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Killing Terry at that point would have been perfectly acceptable as a story development. He’s a racist homophobe who was last seen before this season trying to kill his son for having the gall to be gay and get married, so his death would have been welcomed in the grand scheme of things. But the writers clearly believed that there was something else that needed to be accomplished with Terry, and so after he returned from the hospital the story shifted toward Mickey’s sense of family responsibility to the man who made his life a living hell in more ways that I have time to recount right now, which confounded me. What did the show think needed to be resolved in this story that Terry dying wouldn’t have accomplished?
Rotorua s Liam Messam wades into nephew s brain tumour battle
14 Mar, 2021 10:36 PM
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Former All Black Liam Messam is stepping into the boxing ring for his nephew. Photo / Supplied
Former All Black Liam Messam is stepping into the boxing ring for his nephew. Photo / Supplied
Māori Television
Originally published by Māori Television
A former All Black - Rotorua s Liam Messam - is gearing up to fight in the boxing ring for his nephew who is being treated for a brain tumour.
In November last year, Messam s nephew, Antonio Pohatu-Barbarich of Tauranga, was diagnosed with medulloblastoma, a cancerous tumour at the base of his skull.