Rebecca MacfieRebecca Macfie

Rebecca Macfie is a journalist and author of Tragedy at Pike River Mine: How and Why 29 Men Died (Awa Press)

‘We don’t really have the luxury of time to rely on elections’ – David Wallace-Wells

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Rebecca Macfie talks to the acclaimed, alarm-sounding David Wallace-Wells, author of the extraordinary new book The Uninhabitable Earth “It is worse, much worse, than you think.” With these words, New York journalist David Wallace-Wells proceeds to pound the reader of The Uninhabitable Earth with brutal truths about climate change. About how much more rapidly it … Read more

A victory for the Pike River families – and for those who live by their labour

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Rebecca Macfie, author of Tragedy at Pike River Mine: How and Why 29 Men Died, explains why today’s announcement by Andrew Little that the mine drift will be re-entered is such a historic moment. After eight years, the Pike River Mine drift will be re-entered, explored and treated as the crime scene that it is. … Read more