Cantabs confused about who pays for flood risk mitigation

Audio, Radio New Zealand

Christchurch residents whose houses have sunk since the earthquakes want to know who will pay to raise and remediate their land to prevent flood risk.

Women'™s Unheard Voices Summer Research Scholarship Presentation 13.2.14

Articles, UC QuakeStudies

"The Stories that we tell shape us to be who we are", a report by Elizabeth Ashby produced as part of her Summer Research Scholarship on the Women's Unheard Voices project.

The Panel with Barry Corbett and David Slack (Part 2)

Audio, Radio New Zealand

Topics - If you like a quiet time, head for the Spanish city of Seville. Seville's silent summer, they're calling this. They've banned outdoor noise. Seville's been noisy; flamenco singers, old men playing dominoes, bar patrons chatting. The city councillors have now banned most of this, and they seem to have support. Gerry Brownlee the Earthquake Recovery Minister will have the final say over what happens to a piece of land near Christchurch airport, on the corner of Memorial Ave and Russley Road. It's currently zoned as rural, but industrial development could be on the cards. The NYT wonders why with so much violence in movies and games, the big Comic-con pop entertainment convention in San Diego is so peaceful. John Banks snapped phone-driving, we saw at the weekend. John Banks accused of breaking the law again, this time for using a cellphone while driving.