Nine To Noon

What happens when people find themselves nearing retirement with adult children who need a hand with tertiary fees or a house deposit and elderly parents in the late stage of retirement with assisted living costs?

In the 80s Mari Hill Harpur led her and husband Doug to buy a high country property called Fairlight Station, an historic 8000 hectare farm with a homestead that dates back more than 150 years.

The artist behind Dunedin's Ed Sheeran portrait welcomes a 'Free Palestine' tag slapped across it, while a Dunedin city councillor is trespassed from Otago University grounds. Otago Peninsula celebrates becoming possum-free.

Simon Wilson reviews two books: Heresies by Richard Flanagan (Penguin Random House), and Captain Cook and the Unsettled Afterlives of Empire by Tony Ballantyne (Bridget Williams Books).

ANU researcher Dr Elise Stephenson has studied gender in the space sector in more than 80 countries and argues that addressing the major gender disparity in the field is critical. Her new book is Space XX: Gender, Power and the New Space Race.