Party Central, structures and silos
During yesterday's parliamentary debate about the problems at Party Central and the Minister's ‘solo’ attempt at fixing them,...
LATE OCTOBER: Life in the Margins: Otherness in New Zealand
On its way to a final affirmation, Bill Pearson's landmark 1952 essay Fretful Sleepers has harsh words aplenty for New Zealanders' attitu...
Island Time
I went to Samoa the other weekend. It was a work trip (I know, right, but someone’s gotta do it), filming an interview ...
中國大事週刊 Issue 111 Page 010 N.Z. Chinese Weekly News
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The Minister's Brain Has Exploded
Since the events on Auckland's waterfront last Friday, officials from central and local government had been discussing what both sides wa...
My day in green and gold
It definitely is the jersey that you wear. In the opening stages of the game, as South Africa dotted down right in front of the touch jud...
Auckland City Nights
The editorial column of the New Zealand Herald has generally looked fondly on roads and private cars, sometimes -- as in the notorious ed...
Complaint and culture
By the time Donna Chisholm had finished writing North and South's August cover story, A Failure to Deliver, about the state of New Zealan...
Sock-Puppeting Big Tobacco to Chew on ACT
Don Brash's speech on Saturday was pitched at farmers and property owners. The focus was on the RMA, but at the end of that, he tagged on...
Just don't call it "Party Central"
For the next while, Shed 10 on Queen's Wharf is a giant public bar -- or, if you were to be uncharitable, a giant beer barn. Its Rugby Wo...
Four Years Ago
It's not really hard to troll an All Black fan. You can go down the well-travelled route of English rugby journalists, pointing out our f...
Towards the Truth
Former Air Marshal Sir Bruce Ferguson, the ertstwhile chief of the New Zealand Defence Force, joked with me before I interviewed him on t...
No Need for Leg Shows - (Te Ao Hou - No. 7 Summer 1954)
High praise for the Maori Concert Party in Korea is contained in a letter from the Rev. Sam Rangiihu, former Vicar of St Faith's Church, ...
HOW TO APPLY LIPSTICK: - (Te Ao Hou - No. 16 October 1956)
When using lipstick it is always wise to learn to apply it with a brush. If a lipstick brush is unobtainable, a small camel hair paint br...
MAORI ART STUDIES - (Te Ao Hou - No. 5 Spring 1953)
Have Pakeha artists ever made serious attempts to study Maori art, and learn from the Maori artistic tradition? Have enough serious attem...
Let the Eagles Soar
It is impossible to ignore that today is the tenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks in New York. It seems somehow scripted t...
中國大事週刊 Issue 132 Page 002 N.Z. Chinese Weekly News
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