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The brick path: from war-zone aid worker to Christchurch crime novelist

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Christchurch writer Chris Stuart spent decades toggling between high-stakes overseas aid work and the strange safety of home. Out of that has emerged a crime novel: For Reasons of Their Own.  I used to always tell people that when you work in war zones and disasters, you are only ever a brick in the wall … Read more

Letter from Viti Levu: One year on, Cyclone Winston is still battering communities

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A year ago this week, the strongest cyclone in recorded history to make landfall in the South Pacific Basin hit Fiji. Unicef NZ’s Lachlan Forsyth travelled to the tiny village of Rakiraki to see how a devastated community is slowly rebuilding. It’s a modest collection of buildings. A couple of classrooms, some homes for the … Read more