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Earthquake in Wellington: Photos from the CBD

Monday, 22 July 2013, 2:31 pm
Article: Alastair Thompson

Earthquake in Wellington: Photos from the CBD

by Alastair Thompson
July 22, 2013

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Alastair Thompson

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Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.

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Earthquake in Wellington: Photos from the CBD

Earthquake in Wellington: Photos from the CBD

Alastair Thompson

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Binoy Kampmark: Trump, AUKUS And Australia’s Dim Servitors

Peter Dunne: Dunne's Weekly - The Wrong Answer To A Question That Does Not Exist

Martin LeFevre - Meditations: Perception, Conception And Beauty

Alastair Thompson: On The Publication Of The First NCQG Text 'New Collective Quantified Goal On Climate Finance'

Ramzy Baroud: A Nation In Denial - Why Israel’s Defeat Is Imminent

Richard S. Ehrlich: Trump's Victory, Authoritarians & Trade Warriors

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