This year marks the 25th anniversary of Woman Far Walking, and the premiere of a new bilingual version. Sam Brooks talks to the playwright Witi Ihimaera and actor Miriama McDowell ahead of the show’s ...

In mid-2024, Judge Holden upheld my personal grievance and ruled that the university had breached its contractual obligations to protect my health and safety. She awarded me $20,000 in damages. You ...

We mark Halloween with a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the debaucherous MPs, fires and feral animals that haunt parliament’s past.

In his first face-to-face encounter with Donald Trump, Christopher Luxon has exchanged hair jokes and golf banter, shared a view on tarrifs and, unlike so many of his counterparts around the world, ...

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West Coast of New Zealand. He is a fourth generation mixed Chinese/European descendant - he describes himself as a translator of sensory perception. He has been published by NZSA ‘Top of the South’ ...

The 1985 Booker judges Marina Warner, JW Lambert and St John Stevas, supported The Bone People; but judges Nina Bawden and Joanna Lumley vocally and publicly opposed the violence in the novel and ...

Tara Ward talks to Anne Hegerty, aka The Governess, as she prepares to tear New Zealand quizzers to shreds on The Chase NZ.

The prime minister's face-to-face encounter with the US president was brief, informal – and by all accounts, a diplomatic coup.<br /> <br /> ...

It’s a hard truth, but one we have to acknowledge if we’re going to move forward as a country, writes Hayden Donnell. In the second month of spring, half the trees in the South Island blew over. In ...

The number of deaths caused by Samoa’s measles outbreak. Most were children under five. The percentage of the population that needs to be vaccinated against measles to achieve immunity and prevent ...

Stacey Wood is the chief executive of the Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA). She studied law and English at Otago University and journalism at Massey University in Wellington, and worked as a ...