Sam Ackerman looks at the weekend of sport as several competitions start to get serious.
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Around the motu: Alexa Cook in Hawkes Bay
Alexa discusses the situation in Wairoa for residents, one year on from its floods, the uproar over water rates in Central Hawke's Bay and the success of an apple bred to cope with warming climate conditions.
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Book review: Island calling by Francesca Segal
Carole Beu of the Women's Bookshop in Auckland reviews Island calling by Francesca Segal published by Chatto & Windus
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Why a documentary about Filipino fishermen was banned
It was banned in the Philippines, now a Kiwi film festival has resisted pressure from China to remove a documentary about a disputed area of sea.
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