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I am David – book review
I can’t say for sure when I first read the book I am David, but I know where I was. A junior school in my home town in the UK sometime in the early 1970s. It was one of those books that […]
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Time to reboot the system
When you first hear that banks create money by typing numbers into a computer you can’t quite believe it. When you hear that this free ‘money’ is lent out with interest added, you dismiss it as lies because the banks would be no […]
CLNZ payments to writers
Revised 11 March 2013 In the October/November 2012 edition of the NZ Society of Authors’ newsletter, NZSA’s president Tony Simpson comments on the fact that royalty payments collected by Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) on behalf of authors are typically sent to […]
Auckland’s 1951 waterfront dispute
First published in the New Zealand Herald, March 2008. In New Zealand’s short history there has been three key periods of industrial trouble, each separated by regional disputes. Some ended in death, all ended in tears. But each one has taken the […]