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Finlay Macdonald
Finlay Macdonald is a widely respected contributor to newspapers and publications throughout the country. He is the former editor of NZ Listener, commissioning editor for Penguin Books, and now writes columns, social commentary and edits the Sunday Star-Times books pages.
He has also worked for Metro Magazine, and as a writer for television, including documentary, serial drama and comedy.
At last year's Qantas Media Awards, Finlay was given the Best Overall Columnist Award for his weekly Sunday Star Times column. British-born Macdonald recently joined Radio Live, hosting a Sunday morning show with a focus on current events, politics and reviews. |
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Dr Helen Anderson
Dr Helen Anderson is Chief Executive of The Ministry of Research Science and Technology. She sees her role as helping research, science and technology improve New Zealand, and during her tenure she has made a significant contribution to increasing the impact of research, science and technology on a wide range of policy issues. Helen has played a central role in determining high level science priorities, enhancing New Zealand’s research infrastructure, and encouraging greater private sector research and development.
An expert in seismology, in particular the mechanics of large earthquakes, Helen has a Ph.D. in Geophysics from the University of Cambridge. She was a practicing scientist at both New Zealand’s Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and one of its successors, Geological and Nuclear Sciences (GNS), a Crown Research Institute.
Helen has received several awards including a Fulbright Senior Research Scholarship for study at the University of California (1990), a Chevening Aotearoa Public Science Fellowship (2002) and the New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal (1993). In 2007 she won a Work & Life Award from the Equal Employment Opportunities Trust in recognition of her support for work-life balance.
In 2009 Helen was elected as a Companion of the Royal Society of New Zealand, and was appointed to the board of Fulbright New Zealand. She is an inaugural member of New Zealand Global Women, a leadership organisation formed in 2009 comprising leaders from a range of disciplines and industries.
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Ray Avery
Ray Avery is the founder and driving force behind award-winning independent development agency Medicine Mondiale. He is a charismatic New Zealander who does not accept social inequity and is dedicated to using science and technology to make quality healthcare accessible to all. Through empathy, brilliance and passion Ray has transformed his humble beginnings into a stellar career in science, business and philanthropy and an array of global award-winning life enhancing intentions.
Avery is now using his commercial success and experience to "take responsibility and bring about change in a world that continues to accept social inequity." His vision is a planet where everyone has access to quality medicines and healthcare. His tireless energy is being applied to achieving just that.
Medicine Mondiale manages a global network of experts donating their knowledge and time to help develop medical solutions with the reward of helping change the world.
He believes establishing sustainable social enterprises which focus on the health and wellbeing of our planet and its people is a blueprint for the future of mankind. |
Great Music Artist Profiles |
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An Emerald City
Forming in late 2005 this New Zealand six-piece has created a sound that combines Eastern traditional instruments and psychedelic leanings with experimentation and musical liberation. An Emerald City have gathered a rabid following from those who thirst for music that pushes boundaries and experiments with sounds very rarely created. Their debut EP of 2008 featured bNet radio favourites Qing Song and A Question and the band’s reputation grew further in 2009 after the release of debut album Circa Scaria which was recorded in the great cave of Whatipu amongst the black sand of Auckland’s isolated west coast.They have begun to make their mark amongst the lively streets, smoky dens and grassy parks of Berlin and return mid 2010 after a summer of touring New Zealand and creating new music. |
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Mana Maoli Collective
The highly acclaimed Mana Maoli Collective of Hawaiian performers has featured hundreds of artists from student and underground talent to Hawaii’s favourite and most respected artists of various genres, such as Jack Johnson, John Cruz, Paula Fuga, Ooklah the Moc, Natural Vibes, Fiji, Oshen, Amy Gilliom, Aunty Genoa Keawe, Makaha Sons, Kaumaka’iwa Kanaka’ole, and much more. One hundred percent of net profits of Mana Maoli’s CDs and concerts - featuring student, underground and pro artists on stage and in the studio together - have supported a variety of community development projects in Hawaii. |
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Stinky Jim
Stinky Jim is a broadcaster, music journalist, record company owner, occasional studio type, and most importantly - for over 20 years, a DJ. The stereophonic stenchmesiter's tastes and knowledge run far and wide but he can usually be found wherever there's some excessive low frequency action with a bit of innovation, intelligence and uniqueness involved. Generally that means songs rather than mindless doofing pap specifically designed for inter-DJ gratification. Probably best known for his longstanding passion for Jamaican music and enthusiasm for its myriad offshoots, Jim most often plays a variety of styles as well, ranging from the heftiest hip-hop,loose-limbed Latino styles, ez listening, un-ez listening, non-frilly funk, dirty old dubstep and stirring soul through to elsewhere business from odd parts of the globe and whatever else is currently cooking in the stinking kitchen. | |
