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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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Gordon DrydenGordon Dryden is a New Zealand author, researcher, publisher and broadcaster who has spent many of the last 30 years searching out new methods of learning. As well as writing the best-seller ‘The Learning Revolution’ he has produced 22 television programs on the same subject. Gordon is also the co-founder of the Pacific Foundation, a New Zealand-based charitable trust, which has put many early-childhood learning methods into practice. |
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Professor John Hattie
John Hattie is a Professor of Education at the University of Auckland and is a world authority on the testing of student achievement. He is the author of numerous books including Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement and Computer Applications in Australian Classrooms. Professor Hattie is also part of the independent advisory group reporting to the Minister of Education on the newly introduced National Standards. His research interests include performance indicators and evaluation, as well as creativity measurement and models of teaching and learning. |
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Charmaine PountneyCharmaine Pountney is passionate about growing healthy minds, hearts and communities. She has extensive experience in secondary education, including ten years as principal of Auckland Girls' Grammar School, and many years in teacher education, including time as principal of Hamilton Teachers' College and then as founding dean of the School of Education at the University of Waikato. Since 1992 she has worked with many different educational institutions and community groups. She is widely known as a speaker and writer, and has published a book about education, Learning Our Living.
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Heart Attack Alley Heart Attack Alley is the result of a weekly blues practise on the front step of a house in Grey Lynn. Consisting of Karl Steven (The Drab Doo-Riffs, Supergroove) on the Harmonica, Kristal G (The Vietnam War, Country Club) on guitar, and Caoimhe Macfehin (The Drab Doo-Riffs, Tourettes) on vocals, this group have been showing their raw, stomping blues sets to Auckland’s late night music scene for the last year.
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Kirsten MorrellAfter 10 years writing and recording with multi-platinum band Goldenhorse, singer Kirsten Morrell has gone solo – releasing an album called Ultraviolet. The mercurial Jol Mulholland has co-produced the record with Kirsten. Geoff Maddock, her Goldenhorse collaborator, is heard on a range of instruments throughout the recording. These three musicians have created something very special. The 12 songs range from synth-heavy elctro-pop to brooding, chugging laments with Kirsten’s singular voice tying the whole project together.
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Steve Abel & The ChrysalidsDescribed as a ‘kiwi supergroup,’ Steve Abel & The Chrysalids has a potent alternative and pop pedigree. With members drawing their lineage from the likes of Bressa Creeting Cake and the Brunettes though to the quirky synth pop of Goodshirt and present day incarnations Pluto and Goldenhorse. Abel’s influence, with his elegiac ballads and rolling 6/8 rhythms, defines this rich collaboration as completely unique. |
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Nick Bollinger Live Radio Show
Nick Bollinger was born in Wellington in 1958. He attended Clifton Terrace Primary School and Onslow College. He describes his tertiary education as 'very motley, not worth mentioning'.
Nick was introduced to Beethoven, Gilbert & Sullivan and the Fireside Book of Folk Songs as a pre-schooler. His life changed at the age of five, when he heard the Beatles' recording of 'Twist and Shout'. He went on to become a bass player and a member of many bands, from Rough Justice, Ducks, Pelicans, Living Daylights and Laconics, to Wellington's iconic Windy City Strugglers.
Nick worked as a postie and trained as a teacher before finding an outlet for his musical obsession as a record reviewer and rock journalist. He is a regular contributor to the New Zealand Listener and has written for Mojo, Rhythms, International Arts Manager, Rip It Up, The New Zealand Herald and many other national and international publications. Since 2001 he has written, produced and presented the music review programme The Sampler for New Zealand's National Radio.
Nick was the curator for Sound Design, Kiwi Style an exhibition of New Zealand record cover design, which toured the country from 2002 to 2004.
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