Super Travel Prize offer, flights included!
Last chance to enter! Entries close 2pm Saturday. Winner drawn at 1:50pm Sunday.
Experience what it’s like to live the high life on the Gold Coast.
Fly to Brisbane in style & comfort with Air New Zealand. Your “Works” Air New Zealand flights include checked-in luggage, meals and entertainment.
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A winner will be drawn on the Travel Show on September 2. You must answer our call to redeem the prize. Travel until 31 March 2013, prize is a subject to availability.
Saturday, September 1
11:25:- Environews. Eco-legend Muriel Fisher In Memoriam. On July 23rd Muriel Fisher died just ahead of her 97th Birthday. She not only protected her North Shore Kauri grove “Fernglen” from developers at great personal cost, but was in the front line of many environmental campaigns. She also popularised native planting in gardens with several books. Hear an interview with the feisty Muriel recorded at her home in Fernglen when she was a young 92.
Natural History book Give Away.
New Zealand's Wilderness Heritage is destined to be one of the most significant conservation books published in New Zealand for many years. Written by Les Molloy, and photographed by Craig Potton and Rod Morris, this book is a celebration of the extraordinary wilderness legacy that sits at the heart of New Zealandness.
WIN A COPY! To go into the draw just e-mail Graeme from the form at top right and say Wilderness please, and include your postal address. A winner will be drawn just before 2pm on Sunday.
To find out more about this book or to order a copy just click here. RRP $99:99 (let’s just say a hundred bucks shall we?)
12:40:Australian correspondent Colin Espiner has abandoned his desk and is going Walkabout. Hear his latest instalment live and follow his big red road trip here.
International Film Festival Audio Guide with James Croot. Go here and scroll down to see the trailers.Click here to view the schedule.
1:40: Big Screen Symposium speaker Gillian Armstrong, Director of My Brilliant Career, Oscar and Lucinda, Charlotte Grey and Little Women on “10 ways to F#*k Up Your Film”.
Sunday, September 2
North Pole
10:30:- Climatologist Dr James Renwick on the record ice-melt in the Arctic. An area of Arctic ice nearly the size of NZ is disappearing every day. He describes it as “jaw-dropping… climate change isn’t a distant menace but on our doorstep today.”
South Pole
11:15: Robert Mackay, Associate Prof of Physical Geography at Victoria University on the intriguing climate history of the Antarctic Continent. His research involved boring deep into the history of Antarctica.
11:30: Dr Ian Raine had the job of analysing the biological clues from the deep time sediments, discovering it was once a rich forested land, even at its current location, so what happened?