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Otago Daily Times
19 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Otago Daily Times
‘Miracle of colours' on display at show
Two fantastical still lifes by Marta Brash, on show at Croydon Aviation Heritage Centre, Mandeville, until the end of August. Photo: Ella Scott-Fleming Robert Brash says his home is full of his wife Marta's paintings. "You get to know them," he said. A broad selection of her works are on display at the at the gallery in the Croydon Aviation Heritage Centre, Mandeville, until the end of August. The artist is away visiting her home of Budapest during that period, but Mr Brash was at home working on the farm and available to talk about his wife's art practice. The bright colours, rainbow backgrounds and natural elements were due to his wife's sunny personality, Mr Brash said. "It's just her, I want to say nature. She's got a bright disposition, put it that way." Orange Pebbles by Marta Brash, on show at Croydon Aviation Heritage Centre, Mandeville, until the end of August. Photo: Ella Scott-Fleming The show features a range of works, from bright landscape paintings to ink drawings of mushrooms with a psychedelic watercolour wash. When asked if his wife had an affinity for nature, Mr Brash said she was simply a happy person, who liked happy things. One of the paintings was a detailed portrayal of an Airlie Beach craft gin bottle. Mr Brash said the bottle was gifted to the couple by the distillery's owner, who once lived locally. Nothing was safe in their home, Mr Brash said, as items such as the gin bottle became memorialised in his wife's still lifes, with more exaggerated, fantastical backdrops. Born in Budapest in 1954, Marta studied art and music and grew up wanting to be a music teacher. Marta Brash at an exhibition in 2018. Photo: supplied Her life was redirected and interior design and painting became her main focus. In Budapest she ran a shop selling custom-made furniture and decor as well as offering home staging and interior design consultancy. She moved to New Zealand in 2001 with her daughter, gained a interior design diploma and met her husband while she was working in New World Gore and married in 2014. She described her husband as as her "first and very strict critic". In her exhibition write-up, she said she cared about her community as well as nature and animals. She believed in the power of colours to make viewers feel happy or sad which she called the "miracle of colours".
Hindustan Times
23-07-2025
- Sport
- Hindustan Times
Cal Raleigh homers as Mariners halt Brewers' 11-game win streak
Cal Raleigh hit his major league-leading 39th home run of the season and Logan Gilbert pitched 6 1/3 scoreless innings as the Seattle Mariners put an end to visiting Milwaukee's 11-game winning streak with a 1-0 decision Tuesday night. Cal Raleigh homers as Mariners halt Brewers' 11-game win streak Raleigh, who won the Home Run Derby during last week's All-Star festivities in Atlanta, went deep to right field with two outs in the bottom of the sixth inning off Brewers reliever Nick Mears . Gilbert , a former All-Star who spent more than six weeks on the injured list earlier this season with a right elbow flexor strain, allowed just two hits a leadoff single by Jackson Chourio in the fifth and a one-out single by Christian Yelich in the seventh. Gilbert, a right-hander, didn't walk a batter and struck out 10. Mariners relievers Matt Brash, Eduard Bazardo, Gabe Speier and Andres Munoz combined for 2 2/3 hitless innings. Munoz worked around two walks and a wild pitch in the ninth for his career-high-tying 22nd save of the season. Brewers phenom Jacob Misiorowski pitched 3 2/3 scoreless innings in his sixth major league start before being relieved after 64 pitches. The right-hander, who represented the National League in the All-Star Game, allowed three hits, walked one and fanned seven. Misiorowski faced a scary moment when Seattle's Julio Rodriguez led off the bottom of the fourth inning with a liner that hit "The Miz" in the back right pocket of his pants before rolling into foul territory along the first-base line while Rodriguez reached safely on an infield single. As Misiorowski walked back up the mound, he glanced toward the Brewers dugout and waved off manager Pat Murphy and trainers, indicating he was OK. The Brewers threatened in the seventh after Yelich's single ended Gilbert's night. Chourio hit a one-hopper back to the mound that went off the back of reliever Brash's left calf. Brash had trouble finding the ball, then fired to first where Luke Raley dropped the throw as Chourio raced down the line. The error by the first baseman put runners at first and second. Isaac Collins grounded to third baseman Ben Williamson, who stepped on third to force out Yelich, but Raley again couldn't handle the throw as the Brewers avoided an inning-ending double play. Brash got Andrew Vaughn to ground to third to finally get out of the jam. Field Level Media This article was generated from an automated news agency feed without modifications to text.
Otago Daily Times
09-06-2025
- Politics
- Otago Daily Times
Distant noises of other voices
As Prime Minister, Christopher Luxon receives no shortage of advice. Quite apart from his Cabinet and caucus colleagues and coalition partners — let alone suggestions from the ever-helpful Opposition or media — he has several staff members whose entire role is to advise him on the issues of the day. Then there are the lobbyists, business leaders, interest groups, local government leaders and other influential people who are fortunate enough to capture the PM's attention and offer their two cents' worth. Even the general public can advise the prime minister — ultimately at the ballot box, but also through correspondence or even in person should they be lucky enough to be in the vicinity when Mr Luxon embarks on one of his weekly visits out to the regions. Not all advice is welcome, of course, and Mr Luxon may well have wished not to hear from former Labour prime minister Helen Clark and former National Party leader Don Brash when they chimed in last week with some salient words on New Zealand's relationship with China., There is little chance of Mr Luxon ignoring them, though, given that they chose to drop him a line via full-page advertisements in the nation's newspapers rather than sending him an email or letter. The nub of Miss Clark and Dr Brash's letter — which was also signed by former National MP and speaker Sir David Carter, former New Zealand ambassador to China Carl Worker, and Beijing-based New Zealand businessman David Mahon — was that they thought New Zealand's foreign policy was taking a concerning direction. "In recent months, you and Foreign Minister [Winston] Peters have made a number of statements which we consider to be positioning New Zealand alongside the United States as an adversary of China," they said. "We see no upside and very considerable downside in the situation which has developed... we do believe that a military relationship with the United States directed against China has many risks for New Zealand." The former politicians were, mainly, referring to Aukus Pillar Two, a defence arrangement with Australia, the United Kingdom and United States, which New Zealand is still mulling over whether to join. Signing up would no doubt please countries with which New Zealand has long-standing relationships and alliances and also allow the country access to modern defence and intelligence gathering technology. But Miss Clark, Dr Brash, et al, point out that the strategic grouping is "explicitly aimed at China" — a country with which New Zealand is also friendly, and which is, as no-one has forgotten, our biggest trading partner. A vital plank in Mr Luxon's "going for growth" agenda is increasing export sales, and the ready, waiting and able-to-buy Chinese market is a critical one. Mr Luxon met Chinese President Xi Jinping at last year's Apec meeting, and he is widely expected to visit the People's Republic sometime this year. Such visits always include an obligatory but delicately phrased reference to some of China's more questionable policies in terms of human rights, a topic quickly skimmed over before the parties turn to dollars and cents. New Zealand's attempts to become closer in step with the United States will already have been noted by Beijing, and this will no doubt be added to the awkward topics list when Mr Luxon does make it to the Chinese capital. No-one is suggesting that Miss Clark or Dr Brash, experienced operators in their own right, are acting as stalking horses for China in placing their advertisement: their views on this matter are backed by lengthy and independent track records, and they raise a legitimate argument. Mr Luxon will not have welcomed such high-profile questioning of his policies at a time when his staff may well be making final arrangements for what will be a vital trip — as all meetings between China's and New Zealand's leaders are for this country. Mr Peters, in typically colourful language, said that he saw "no value in indulging the tired arguments of various former politicians" — before defending the government's foreign policy approach. But indulge them Mr Luxon will likely have to do. In finding language to counter them, he may well find himself grateful that those varied notables raised their voices and offered their opinion.
NZ Herald
04-06-2025
- Business
- NZ Herald
Don Brash v Matthew Hooton defamation case: High Court hears Brash wants ‘unreserved apology'
Brash has said Hooton's comments suggested he was dishonest, lacking in integrity and corrupt. But Dickey told Associate Judge Grant Brittain, KC, that the remarks were not as offensive as suggested and Hooton had already apologised. The court heard any rewards in the case would be nominal, not substantial. Dickey said at one point Brash seemed to suggest 'iwi' were paying Hooton, which was totally unfounded. Brash's views on the Treaty of Waitangi and race relations were largely what Hooton's monologue was about. Specialist defamation lawyers Peter McKnight and Ali Romanos appeared for Brash. Romanos said the remarks were serious because Hooton was not 'some random person on Reddit' but an established figure with gravitas. Romanos said Brash wanted an unreserved apology from Hooton. He said some 3500 people might have heard the initial podcast monologue, which was later circulated to more people on social media. McKnight said it was not right to strike out a case with 'very serious matters alleged'. He argued the case should go to trial. McKnight asked for today's strike-out application to be dismissed and costs awarded. Associate Judge Brittain reserved his decision but indicated a judgment on the strike-out application would likely be made in about a fortnight. Hooton was not in the courtroom today. Brash was, but he declined to comment afterwards. Brash, apart from also being a former Reserve Bank Governor, leads the Hobson's Pledge lobby group. Hooton is a columnist for the Business Herald and has worked in political and corporate communications and strategy for clients including the National Party. John Weekes is a business journalist covering aviation and court. He has previously covered consumer affairs, crime, politics and court.
Yahoo
28-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Fears for 2,000 UK jobs as Airbus and Boeing carve up Belfast factory
More than 2,000 jobs are under threat at one of the UK's biggest aerospace plants after some workers were left out of a deal between Boeing and Airbus to carve up the site. The Spirit AeroSystems factory in Belfast, one of Northern Ireland's largest manufacturing locations, is being broken up by the two jet manufacturers as part of a complex takeover deal of Spirit AeroSystems. While Airbus has agreed to rehire about 1,600 workers from the site, there are fears for the non-Airbus staff after Boeing indicated it did not wish to take on the remaining 2,000 chiefs and local MPs, who had campaigned for the plant to be kept together, warned that the settlement leaves a question mark over the majority of jobs Brash, the regional officer for Unite, called on Sir Keir Starmer to intervene, saying the Prime Minister should leverage the importance of the factory in supplying wings to Airbus and receiving Government grants to put pressure on the company to said: 'This announcement leaves an uncertain future for thousands of workers, with no mention anywhere of safeguarding jobs.'It is completely unacceptable and the Government should not just be lying down over this.' Sharon Graham, Unite's general secretary, said 10,000 jobs in Ireland were dependent on Spirit and that a break-up of the plant would destroy vital economies of plans to send a delegation to Westminster on Wednesday to put its concerns to Sarah Jones, the industry minister. The Belfast factory was built by Short Brothers in 1936 and produced Second World War aircraft including the Stirling bomber and Sunderland flying boat. Spirit, Northern Ireland's largest private employer, is best known for supplying wings for the Airbus A220, a small airliner popular on short routes such as those from London City airport. However the rest of the complex, which spans six manufacturing sites in and around Belfast, predominantly supplies parts for Bombardier, Honda and Rolls-Royce engine casings – making it unattractive to both Airbus and Boeing. Spirit had been seeking a buyer for the unwanted assets after Boeing said last year that it would take over the Kansas-based company, which was blamed for making a faulty door plug that blew out of a Boeing 737 Max jet at 16,000 feet. Beyond wing production, which employs 1,100 people, even the commitment of Airbus to parts of the business it is taking over appears uncertain. The company said it will take on an operation that makes the A220's centre fuselage and supports about 500 posts only if a 'suitable buyer' cannot be found before the transaction closes. Outside of Northern Ireland, Airbus will take ownership of a Spirit plant at Prestwick, near Glasgow, which makes parts for its best-selling A320 and the A350. However, it said the acquisition of the site, which had been the subject of disposal talks with at least one third party, is being made only 'to ensure continuity of production' and that it will be operated as an affiliate while its long-term future is said it will 'continue close engagement' with the UK and Scottish governments and with the Northern Ireland Executive 'to support a sustainable future' for the UK representatives did not immediately respond to requests for comment on its plans for the other half of the Belfast also agreed to take ownership of Spirit operations that make parts for its planes in the US, France and Morocco and will receive $439m (£328m) from Boeing in compensation for doing so. Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
