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Breaking Good will be released in November, with 1000 copies given to “people who need it”. “There was a lot of violence, coercive control. I was young, just 20. The psychological stuff was worse than the physical,” Mead said. When her partner punched holes in the wall of her home, she felt “grateful”. “He did it instead of punching me in the face . I lived in fear.” When she was six months’ pregnant with their child he “got angry and threw me on the floor”.
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Christchurch businesswoman Lisa Mead has written a book, Breaking Good, covering her domestic violence experiences and how she spent more than 10 years rebuilding her life.
Smit confirmed all applicants had been informed bar one which had missed out on funding. In spite of his recommendation not to move the discussion into public, the majority of councillors voted to do so in the name of transparency. The decision was split between councillors Marin Glucina, Hamish Daine, Sandra Wallace, and Peter Schulte who were in favour and councillors Thomas Lee, Hans Nelis, Alex Jansen, and deputy mayor Bill Machen who were against. The casting vote fell on committee chair councillor Arama Ngāpō who voted in favour of the shift. And it didn’t take long for things to turn heated.
The Future Of Work conference is back in Blenheim next month, after a Covid-enforced hiatus in 2020, with more than 75 Marlborough businesses, across 40 industries, already locked in. Tickets for the 2019 event sold out in an hour, so organisers – Graeme Dingle Foundation and the Marlborough District Council – decided to double the amount of tickets available this year to 300 to keep up with demand. Tickets for this year’s conference had almost sold out.
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The Future Of Work conference had its inaugural event in 2019. Marlborough Boys’ College prefect Thom Hall, 17, was unsure whether to attend university or take a gap year.
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