A quick word of praise for Eleanor Catton. Hers is a story well worth following to its end.
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The America's Cup -- building boon or boo-hoo?
There has been heaps of hype around the America's Cup, but beyond our national ego and sporting competitiveness, there is one very practical reason to hope Emirates Team New Zealand can somehow pull one out of the bag
Read MoreThis is a public service announcement, with guitars
The following is an exercise in introverted nostalgia, for which I apologise in advance. That said, some readers may enjoy it, and a few may even understand what it's talking about.
Read MoreOld photo reminds us what marriage equality has won
The marriage equality win has made New Zealand a better place, but here's hoping it's been done right
Read MoreAn open letter on Auckland trains. Grrrr
I'm having a commuting crisis due to rubbish Auckland trains, the very trains I once so loved. Here's why
Read MoreFrom Dennis Connor to Dotcom: Paul Holmes remembered
When I heard my friend Paul Holmes had died, I needed to write. This is what came out
Read MoreWairarapa Maori own water in Wairarapa lakes
John Key says nobody owns the water. One hundred and sixteen years ago Richard Seddon told Ngati Kahungungu despite gifting Wairarapa lakes to the Crown, they still owned the water and the fish. Two prime ministers, which one is right?
Read MoreThe new Herald reviewed: Granny is gone
In which I spend a bit of time before breakfast browsing through the new paper that arrived in my letterbox... the good, bad and meh
Read MoreTED comes to Auckland
Tickets now available for TEDx Auckland, a day of discussions around technology, entertainment and design, in the internationally-famous TED format
Read MoreNew Zealand, together the victor
Rugby World Cup 2011 has been a blast, reminding ourselves how good we can be. And being at Eden Park from 7am on the day of the final is a very special memory
Read MoreToo much time, not enough phone
We're too dependent on our phones, right? Obsessed. But when you're cut off, all you can do is spend all that down-time coming up with conspiracy theories. As BlackBerry has found out after its (almost) worldwide outage
Read MoreThree cheers to becoming a Two Flag Nation
They're just wee flags squeezed onto car windows. But they symbolise something much more than rugby and something I hope will out live the Rugby World Cup
Read MoreAuckland looks great, now let's smile, eh?
The work of many years looks to have paid off in our largest city. New Zealanders seem to be putting the rugby corporate nonsense behind them. But can we all now start acting like good hosts?
Read MoreManagement wisdom: 7 top tips for NZ
New Zealand has spent a decade looking for the fast track back to the top half of the OECD. So here are seven top ideas for where this country goes next and how our businesses might succeed on a global scale
Read MoreAlasdair Thompson is wrong... but also, um, right
Yeah, he's a dinosaur and all that. Yes, it's given good fodder for comics, talkback and office wags. But Alasdair Thompson has a few points in his favour. And I've got a few questions about the media coverage
Read MoreYou Shan't Go To The Ball, Pimentella
How quickly the oppressed become the oppressors
Read MoreSo What, Mediawatch?
RNZ's Mediawatch, in its own words, "looks critically at the New Zealand media – television, radio, newspapers and magazines as well as the 'new' electronic media." So why doesn't it criticise the train wreck which Morning Report is rapidly becoming?
Read MoreNew Zealand TV – there’s got to be a better way
Mediaworks gets a $34 million government bail-out. TVNZ blows $79 million on two non-commercial digital channels. And successive governments drop the ball on free-to-air public service television. There has to be a better way of broadcasting
Read MoreIn a courtroom next door to Mark Hotchin's... another suppression is granted
I wonder what would have happened to Mark Hotchin if he hadn't been quite so respectable, quite so upper class and quite so, well, rich
Read MoreThe return of Hone Heke
So Hone Heke's bones are to be moved... What an excellent opportunity for us to re-connect with one of the great characters of New Zealand history and maybe build a new industry at the same time
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