Articles by Joan McKenzie
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Education
“Forgotten” student loans could hurt students' financial futures
Monday, 27 March 2023, 10:08PMStudents are adding more debt to their loans and are concerned about how it'll impact their futures. Studylink’s student...
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Auckland
Barfoot and Thompson records shortage of Auckland rentals after recent extreme weather
Tuesday, 14 March 2023, 9:33PMAuckland's largest real estate company is recording a serious shortage of rental properties across the region in the wake...
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Audio
Whitcoulls recommends Four Treasures of the Sky and The Palace Papers
Sunday, 15 May 2022, 1:00PMFour Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang. Fiction about a Chinese girl in the 19th century who is sent to the city...
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Audio
Joan Mackenzie: The Plot and The Judge's List
Sunday, 21 November 2021, 12:26PMThe Plot by by Jean Janff Korelitz. She wrote a book called You Should Have Known which was turned into the TV series The...
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Book review: Cloud Cuckoo Land and Bewilderment
Sunday, 14 November 2021, 2:14PMCloud Cuckoo Land is the new book by Anthony Doerr, who wrote the fabulous All The Light We Cannot See which I think is one...
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World
Russian govt resigns as Putin looks to extent his grip on power
Thursday, 16 January 2020, 3:10PMThe entire Russian government is resigning, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced Wednesday, after Vladimir Putin proposed...
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Audio
Joan's picks: Open Side, Cold Storage
Sunday, 29 September 2019, 2:50PMOpen Side by Sam Warburton - For all fans of Andre Agassis’s Open – this is an Open for rugby. I have no real interest in...
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Joan's Picks: The Secrets We Kept, North Korea Journal
Sunday, 22 September 2019, 1:51PMThe Secrets We Kept by Lara Prestcott: This is the story (fictionalised) of Boris Pasternak, who wrote Dr Zhivago which was...
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Joan's Picks: The Wife and Brave
Sunday, 18 February 2018, 4:03PMJoan Mackenzie joined Kerre McIvor this week to recommend a couple of new books for you to read. The Wife, written by Alafair...