Simon Prast: My Story as told to Elisabeth Easther
8 Mar, 2021 04:00 PM
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Actor Simon Prast in Cornwall Park. Photo / Dean Purcell
Simon Prast stars as Adam Harding in the new season of the popular local series The Gulf, screening Mondays, 9pm on Three. I was quite a reserved, grown-up, formal little boy and I enjoyed a wonderful childhood on an acre of land in Waikōwhai, beside the Manukau Harbour, overlooking the airport and Māngere Mountain. We lived there with a great dane, a goat, two sheep and a cat. My folks worked really hard so my younger brother and I could go to Kings Prep, which was quite an expensive private school. I m so appreciative of the effort they made, they put a lot of love into their boys.
The reinvention of the Chow brothers - from the sex industry to property
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Jane Phare is a senior business reporter for the New Zealand Heraldjane.phare@nzme.co.nz
Property investor, Stonewood Homes director and former sex industry king John Chow talks to Jane Phare about his $2 billion target, overcoming his shyness and his purple Rolls-Royce. There s a video on John Chow s LinkedIn page that shows him next to his gleaming $500,000 purple Rolls-Royce SUV, wearing a pair of bright orange Crocs. He s bought another Rolls, he tells the camera, this time a red one. Here goes , he says gleefully, bending down to roll a miniature version of his SUV across the concrete.
Rodney Hide suggested in the Herald this morning that if James Shaw was leader of the Greens there would be a greater chance they could go into coalition with National. James Shaw does not think so. Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:44 am, February 15th, 2015 - 69 comments
The John Key led National Government is showing signs of third termitis. Symptoms are a confusion of the national interest with National Party political interests, a willingness to sell state houses and pay the proceeds to large corporates when even your best friends are saying don’t, a staleness and inability to handle issues properly and being completely bereft of new ideas to improve the country. The condition is almost inevitably terminal.
Dec 30, 2020
Len Brown, left, director of a documentary on the Ashtabula train disaster, adjusts a camera with Rick Elliott, background assisting, during filming at the Jefferson Train Depot in February of 2019. The production has been put on hold with the coronavirus pandemic. WARREN DILLAWAY | Star Beacon
ASHTABULA â It has been 144 years and one day since the Ashtabula train disaster that left 92 people dead when a bridge collapsed over the Ashtabula River on Dec. 29, 1876.
Attempts to remember the lessons of the horrible disaster, that is credited with changing railroad safety regulations, are still on hold as documentarian Len Brown waits for the opportunity to continue shooting the movie after a decade of research and about a year of filming before COVID-19 put the project on hold.
This opinion piece is written by Alec Tang, Auckland Council Acting Chief Sustainability Officer.
Cities consume over two-thirds of the worldâs energy and account for more than 70 per cent of global CO2 emissions, so have a critical role to play in meeting our emissions reduction commitment. On top of this, with 90 per cent of the worldâs urban areas situated on coastlines, cities are at high risk from some of the devastating impacts of climate change, such as rising sea levels and powerful coastal storms.
TÄmaki Makaurau Auckland is no different. In fact, with a seemingly indefatigable obsession with automobiles and a push for further growth into areas already at risk to climate impacts, Aucklandâs challenge is one that epitomises the need for a transformational approach to climate action, not simply business as usual with a bit less carbon.