Sarah Ann Walker
Audio, Radio New Zealand
Sydney-based NZ soprano who has arranged an Australian fundraising concert for Christchurch earthquake victims.
Sydney-based NZ soprano who has arranged an Australian fundraising concert for Christchurch earthquake victims.
Seven $750 a day - plus expenses. That's the sum being earned by more than 414 people employed by the Earthquake Commission to carry out property inspections in Christchurch.
With many people in Christchurch still without power and water and the streets covered in a thick layer of silt, getting clean clothes is proving difficult.
Suzanne Craig has not heard from her husband since the Canterbury earthquake.
The Rescue operation following Christchurch's earthquake has now officially moved to a recovery operation.
For the first time in six years, music has filled Christchurch's Town Hall, which suffered significant damage in the February 2011 earthquake.
The Goverment has offered to pay out five thousand home owners in Christchurch of the most severely quake damaged properties.
Columnist on her observations on life in Christchurch after the September and February earthquakes.
Denis discusses the performance of the media in covering The Christchurch earthquake.
Highlights from Radio New Zealand National's programmes for the week ending Friday 9 September. This week .... New Zealanders getting savvy about price discrimination, sorting the News from the TV programmes, studying coral reefs to save them from extinction, we remember sports braodcaster Graeme Moody, the World of Wearable Arts travels to Hong Kong, and we have a series of features and interviews from a weekend of commemorating a year of earthquakes in Canterbury.
The police say there have been more burglaries in Christchurch following the February earthquake.
Our tech/science correspondent Peter Griffin takes a look at technology use after the Christchurch earthquake. Plus version 2 of the iPad.
Roading contractors are already repairing many Christchurch streets damaged by last week's earthquake.
Christchurch will lose its Rugby World Cup games with a report finding the city's stadium is unfit to host matches in the wake of last month's earthquake, British media is reporting.
People are leaving Christchurch for good at double the rate than before February's earthquake.
The impact of the Canterbury Earthquake on insurance and the EQC's finances.
The political consensus over the response to the Christchurch earthquake is in danger of collapsing.
Three time capsules, recovered after the Christchurch earthquake, have been opened in the city today.
The Christchurch-based insurer, AMI, says it won't be until June next year before it knows the final cost of earthquake claims, though the company's confident it won't need to draw on the government's backstop support package.
Caroline Bell, consultant psychiatrist and the clinical head of the Anxiety Disorders Unit at the Canterbury District Health Board talks about the psychological fallout from the Christchurch quakes.
Damaged properties, water, sewerage and the demolition of buildings in the city centre are first on the list for the new man in charge of the recovery operation in Canterbury.
Founder of Purple Cake Day held on the 1st of March, fundraising for children in Haiti and Christchurch.
German pianist and professor of music at Canterbury University previews upcoming earthquake fundraising concert tour of NZ.
The creator of Christchurch's online 'earthquake map' explains its mechanics and its wide appeal around the world.
A year after the first earthquake on 4 September 2010, aftershocks continue to be felt in Canterbury, and they're not always seismic ones. When buildings collapse or are cordoned off, or even just closed for repairs - what happens to the lives and livelihoods of those who used to fill them with noise and energy? Kris Vavasour returns to Lyttelton to catch up with performers and friends, to hear about life in an altered landscape.
Poet/Journalist Richard Langston's fifth collection 'Things Lay in Pieces' starts with a sequence about the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake.
The Ministry of Education has been forced to apologise for its flawed handling of school closures and mergers after the 2011 Canterbury earthquake.
The size of Christchurch's devastating February earthquake and its aftershocks have been revised upwards.
NZ SAS troops involved in another gun battle in the Afghan capital Kabul. Another fatal police pursuit, this time, in South Auckland and Police investigate missing cheques for earthquake damage in Christchurch.
Christchurch principals say schools' recovery from Tuesday's earthquake will focus more on emotional issues than infrastructure.