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Onslow College
Onslow College is a state co-educational secondary school located in Johnsonville, a suburb of Wellington, New Zealand. In 2022 it had 1405 students. The current principal is Sheena Millar. History Onslow College opened in 1956 to serve Wellington's rapidly growing northern suburbs. It was named after the 4th Earl of Onslow, governor of New Zealand from 1889 to 1892. The school roll grew from 201 third form pupils in 1956 to 1180 pupils in 1969. Former principal Stuart Martin described the "Onslow Way" as "socially liberal but educationally conservative, decile 10 but physically run down". In 1969, Peggy-Anne Wendelken became New Zealand's first woman chair of a school board of governors; at this time Onslow's board had student representation, twenty years before this became a legal requirement. The school has not had a school uniform since 1974 when it was abolished following student protest, despite the strong opposition of the Headmaster. In 2016 Onslow was one of the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnsonville, Wellington
Johnsonville is a large suburb in northern Wellington, New Zealand. It is seven kilometres north of the city centre, at the top of the Ngauranga Gorge, on the main route to Porirua (New Zealand State Highway 1, State Highway 1). It is commonly known by locals as "J'ville". Johnsonville was settled from the 1840s, became a town by 1896 and grew rapidly during the twentieth century. Johnsonville became an independent town district in 1908 and amalgamated with Wellington City in 1953. History Johnson's clearing Johnsonville was originally the site of a Māori track from Wellington to Porirua (the Old Porirua Road), and had no indigenous inhabitants prior to European settlement. Vegetation was dense native forest, dominated by tōtara, mixed podocarp trees (notably tōtara and rimu), rātā and hīnau. Johnsonville was settled in 1841 by, among others, Frank Johnson who had purchased a certificate of selection and had drawn the 100 acre 'Section 11 Kinapora (Kenepuru) District'. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Camp
Kate Camp (born 1972) is a New Zealand poet and author who currently resides in Wellington. Early life and education Camp was born in 1972 in Wellington, New Zealand. She attended Onslow College. She has a BA in English from the Victoria University of Wellington. Career Poems by Camp have appeared in the ''Best New Zealand Poems'' series in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2010, 2012, and 2013. She has also been published in numerous literary magazines, including ''Landfall'', ''New Zealand Books'', ''New Zealand Listener'', ''Sport'', ''Takahe'', ''Brick'' (Canada), ''Akzente'' (Germany) and ''Qualm'' (England). Camp hosted a monthly radio segment, 'Kate's Klassics' on Kim Hill's radio show ''Saturday Morning'' on Radio New Zealand National. Camp currently works at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa as the head of marketing and communications. Awards At the 1999 Montana New Zealand Book Awards Camp's collection, ''Unfamiliar Legends of the Stars'', won the NZSA Jessie Macka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tāmati Coffey
Tāmati Gerald Coffey (born 19 September 1979) is a New Zealand broadcaster, politician, and former Member of Parliament. As a broadcaster, Coffey presented television programmes such as ''What Now'', ''Breakfast'', and ''New Zealand's Got Talent.'' He was a Member of Parliament for the New Zealand Labour Party for six years from 2017 to 2023. Early life and family Coffey's parents are Gerald (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Awa) and Rangi (Ngāti Whakaue, Tūhourangi, Ngāti Tūwharetoa). He has two older sisters. Coffey was raised in Lower Hutt and attended Onslow College. Coffey's parents were both factory workers and encouraged him to continue with his education. He was the first in his family to complete high school and attend university, and he earned an honours degree in political science from the University of Auckland in 2003. While at Auckland, he was president of the Māori Students Association. Coffey came out as gay during a 2009 interview with ''Woman's Weekly'' and said t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgina Beyer
Georgina Beyer (November 1957 – 6 March 2023) was a New Zealand Labour Party politician who represented Wairarapa in the Parliament of New Zealand from 1999 to 2005, after serving as mayor of Carterton from 1995 to 1999. Beyer was the world's first openly transgender mayor, and the world's first openly transgender member of parliament. As a member of the Labour Party Beyer supported progressive policies including prostitution law reform, civil unions, anti-discrimination laws, and the promotion of Māori rights. She resigned in 2007, and, in 2014, unsuccessfully stood for election on behalf of the Mana Party. Early life Born in 1957 at Wellington Hospital to Noeline (née Tamati) and Jack Bertrand and assigned male at birth, she was named after her grandfather, Lieutenant Colonel George Bertrand, who was second in command in the Māori Battalion. Her parents were living in Hataitai at the time of her birth. She was of European and Māori (Te Āti Awa, Ngāti Mut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Delahunty
Catherine Delahunty (born 1953) is a New Zealand politician and environmentalist. From until 2017 she was a member of parliament in the House of Representatives representing the Green Party. During her time as an MP she served variously as the Green Party spokesperson on Education, Water, Toxics, Te Tiriti o Waitangi, Mining (Terrestrial), Forestry, Civil Defence, Disability Issues, Women's Affairs, Arts, Culture & Heritage, and the Community & Voluntary Sector. Political career Delahunty was the female co-convenor of the Green Party from 2003 to 2005. She has been placed high on the Greens' list for several years, just missing getting into Parliament on several occasions. Member of Parliament Delahunty was placed at number eight on the Green Party list for the 2008 election. She was elected as a Green Party MP and gained the fourth highest number of candidate votes in the East Coast electorate. In 2011 Delahunty was ranked at number 4 on the final Greens list for the 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rocky Wood
Rocky Wood (19 October 1959 – 1 December 2014) was a New Zealand-born Australian writer and researcher best known for his books about horror author Stephen King. He was the first author from outside North America or Europe to hold the position of president of the Horror Writers Association. Wood was born in Wellington, New Zealand and lived in Melbourne, Australia with his family. He had been a freelance writer for over 35 years. His writing career began at university, where he wrote a national newspaper column in New Zealand on extra-terrestrial life and UFO-related phenomena and published other articles about the phenomenon worldwide, in the course of which research he met such figures as Erich von Däniken and J. Allen Hynek; and had articles on the security industry published in the US, Canada, the UK, New Zealand and South Africa. In October 2010, Wood was diagnosed with motor neurone disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). He died of complications on 1 Decem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Wishart (journalist)
Ian Wishart (born 1964) is a New Zealand journalist, author and publisher, and the editor of ''Investigate (New Zealand), Investigate'' magazine. He is a Christian conservative Christian, an opponent of the scientific consensus on climate change, and has been described as a "professional controversialist". Early career Wishart went to Onslow College, and studied journalism at Wellington Polytechnic, graduating in 1982. He has worked for Radio Windy, Radio Hauraki, Radio Pacific, TV3 (New Zealand), TV3 and Television New Zealand. Winebox affair In 1992, New Zealand politician Winston Peters began raising a series of allegations in Parliament about prominent business leaders trying to bribe politicians. Wishart was assigned by the TV3 network to report on the case, and came into possession of some confidential business transaction papers that became popularly known as "The Winebox Inquiry, Winebox documents" because they had first turned up in an old wine carton. The documents ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Schrader
Ben Schrader (19 July 1964 – 19 April 2024) was a New Zealand historian specialising in urban history. His areas of interest included the history of state housing in New Zealand and urban development in New Zealand in the 19th and 20th centuries. Education and personal life Schrader was born in Christchurch in 1964, and grew up in Wellington where he attended Onslow College. He obtained a bachelor's degree in arts from Victoria University of Wellington in 1986 followed by a master's degree in 1993. Before obtaining his master's degree, Schrader married Lis Cowley; they had two sons together. Schrader's master's thesis was titled ''Planning Happy Families: A History of the Naenae Idea'', and it received the university's F.P. Wilson Prize. He spoke publicly about the importance of Naenae to New Zealand's urban planning history. In 2001, he completed his doctorate at the University of Melbourne; his thesis was titled ''Rebuilding Melbourne: modernity and progress in the central b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riiki Reid
Raquel Abolins-Reid (born in 1999), known professionally as RIIKI REID (formerly Riiki), is a New Zealand singer-songwriter, producer and dance choreographer. Several of Reid's songs have charted highly in the NZ Hot Singles Charts, including ''Good times'' which reached number 1. Reid released several singles from 2019 to 2021 independently, continuing her work with Warner Music New Zealand in subsequent years. In 2022 she released two EPs with the label, ''Newer Oxygen'' and ''Crash & Collide''. She followed up with ''Skin'', her third EP, in 2024. In 2023, Reid and Fazerdaze toured as a supporting acts for Lorde's ''Solar Power'' concert in New Zealand. In 2024, she performed at Homegrown festival. Reid has also toured with other New Zealand acts including L.A.B. and Dave Dobbyn. Biography Reid grew up in Churton Park, Wellington and was a student at Onslow College. She reached the finals in Smokefreerockquest with her highschool band Retrospect. Reid went on to study ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scoop (website)
Scoop, a New Zealand Internet news site, is operated by Scoop Publishing Limited, a company owned by a non-profit charitable trust dedicated to public-interest journalism. Operational model The website publishes many submitted news and press releases due to their permissive policy. Their website states: "If it's a press release issued in New Zealand, is legible, legal, sane, not hateful and not defamatory we will most probably publish it." In addition to being a general news website, Scoop also contains sub-sites with specific fociWellington.scoop which aggregates Wellington-specific news with editorial comment, and alsPacific.scoopwhich publishes Pacific-related news and is edited by Auckland University of Technology's Pacific Media Centre. As of March 2012, the website claimed to receive 246,500 visitors and 614,500 page impressions per month. Scoop was ranked 3rd by Nielsen Net Ratings in their News Category. History It was established in 1999 by Andrew McNaughton, Ian Ll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leon Wadham
Leon Wadham (born 1989) is a New Zealand actor, writer and director. He is best known for his roles in the film '' Under the Mountain'' (2009), comedy series ''Go Girls'' (2013) and the Amazon Prime fantasy show '' The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power'' (2022–present). Early life Wadham was born and raised in Karori, Wellington, New Zealand. He attended Karori Normal School and Onslow College. He studied at Toi Whakaari Drama School from 2009 to 2011, graduating with a bachelor's degree in Performing Arts (Acting). He also received the Museum Art Hotel Scholarship Award in his final year of training. Career Wadham started acting at a young age, and made his on-screen debut in 2000, appearing in a guest role in the sci-fi series '' The Tribe''. After finishing his education he also went on to become a filmmaker. He wrote and directed several short films, TV shows and plays starting from 2013. In 2009, Wadham starred as Ricky in the fantasy film '' Under the Mountain'', wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taika Waititi
Taika David Cohen (born 16 August 1975), known professionally as Taika Waititi ( ), is a New Zealand filmmaker, actor, and comedian. Known for quirky comedy films and expanding his career as a voice actor and producer on numerous projects, he has received many accolades including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award and a Grammy Award. ''Time (magazine), Time'' magazine named him one of the Time 100, 100 most influential people in the world in 2022. His feature films ''Boy (2010 film), Boy'' (2010) and ''Hunt for the Wilderpeople'' (2016) have each been the top-grossing New Zealand film. Waititi's 2003 short film ''Two Cars, One Night'' earned him an Academy Award nomination for Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film, Best Live Action Short Film. He co-wrote, co-directed and starred in the horror comedy film ''What We Do in the Shadows'' (2014) with Jemaine Clement, which was adapted into a What We Do in the Shadows (TV series), television series of the same name in 2019. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
