The Others Way seems to get better every year. It’s a huge credit to the Banished Music crew that while growing bigger it remains so eclectic, curious and anchored – easily meeting the measure of any ...

The Labour Party’s rave-esque conference made big pitches for a 2026 win, but playing it safe might not be enough to recreate the party’s past fanfare. Over the weekend, in do ...

Canterbury is the fastest-growing region in the country, with the satellite towns of Rangiora and Rolleston at the centre of much of that growth. If congestion carnage is to be avoided, there’s got to ...

Another persuasive argument for an upper house was made by the political philosopher Jeremy Waldron in a 2008 lecture. “Any way you slice it, the New Zealand decision in 1950 was a reduction in the ...

These buzzy Japanese islands offer polka-dotted pumpkins, tiny fishing villages, and underground art unlike anything you've seen before.

Eden Fusitu’a (Ngāpuhi, Te Arawa, Tainui) is a Māori writer and communications lead in Māori public health, focused on storytelling that amplifies Māori voices and strengthens whānau across Aotearoa.

The way New Zealand is connected to the internet is a lot more fragile than you might think. Almost all electronic communication to and from New Zealand is sent through just five cables, each the ...

Peter Jackson tends to get the lion’s share of the credit, but Forgotten Silver was as much the work of filmmaker Costa Botes, who died last week.

Doug Woolerton, the New Zealand First president (and a newly elected MP), was in the room. So was Rob Eaddy, chief of staff for the incumbent prime minister, Jim Bolger. He describes the scene in ...

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Tara Ward looks back on the TVNZ newsreader’s two decades on our screens.

Ian Pryor loves movies. He has written a book about Peter Jackson, been editor of website NZ On Screen and reviewed films for ...