It will be soon be easier to get lending, but harder to get help for debt The post Debt clifftop guardrail and ambulance removed at same time appeared first on Newsroom ..read more

Just Life’s chief executive says the exchange’s regulatory burden outweighs any benefits to small business The post Just Life exit from NZX puts listed company regulation under microscope appeared first on Newsroom ..read more

The Prime Minister has committed to resuming direct flights to Thailand. But it’s not a promise he will be able to deliver on anytime soon. The post Prime Minister jumps the gun in Thailand appeared first on Newsroom ..read more

Opinion: Delays getting to the starting line of new programmes of work are causing significant disruption across the sector The post The outlook for engineering specialists looks bleak appeared first on Newsroom ..read more

It’s not that long ago Eliza McCartney was seriously wondering if the Paris Olympics would be her pole vaulting swansong. After years of being hounded by injury after injury, the Rio Olympics bronze medallist was still confident she would compete at her second Olympics in Paris in July, unless something went “horrendously wrong”. But as she struggled to return to the heights she once cleared, or regain the confidence in her jump, McCartney pondered if the 2024 Games would be her last competition. “I started to think maybe that could be a natural endpoint to my career,” says the 27-year-old Au ..read more

FICTION 1 Take Two by Danielle Hawkins (Allen & Unwin, $36.99) There’s commercial fiction, like this book, and then there’s quality fiction, quality writers, quality literature; the forthcoming Auckland Writers Festival is full of quality, and ReadingRoom has two tickets to give away to the following events:  Paul Lynch (Dublin writer, winner of the 2023 Booker Prize for his novel Prophet Song), Richard Flanagan (Australian writer, winner of the 2014 Booker Prize for his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North),  Lauren Groff (Florida writer, whose latest novel The Vaster Wilds ..read more

Loading… Got a good quiz question? Send Newsroom your questions. The post Newsroom daily quiz, Friday 26 April appeared first on Newsroom ..read more

You can’t have missed the Gallipoli story as the movies, documentaries, essays and books capture what it was like for New Zealand troops in their eight-month campaign on the Peninsula.  But this Anzac Day the Auckland War Memorial Museum has published a book that sheds light on a little-known aspect of the conflict, called In The Midst of Death We Are In Life.  The title reverses the word order from The Book of Common Prayer, used during World War I in the committal at the end of a funeral service.  It’s a small but fascinating volume centred around objects the museu ..read more

Opinion: It needs wiser leadership to learn from the past to have a balanced planning and resource management law The post Govt repeats mistakes of Muldoon’s authoritarian excesses appeared first on Newsroom ..read more

There are three books I have wolfed down in one sitting over the last two years. Colleen   Maria Lenihan’s gorgeous and sad debut Kōhine, Noelle McCarthy’s memoir Grand about becoming her mother and then unbecoming her, and now Hine Toa, a staunch yet gentle self-portrait by living legend Ngāhuia te Awekōtuku (Te Arawa/Tūhoe/Waikato). I wonder if she would baulk at being called a legend, because Hine Toa is full of humility, especially in the way she gives the wāhine who raised her their due, even when she was called a know-it-all and a show off with a posh voice. Even when she was ..read more