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Adventure cruise: Journey to the Subantarctic Islands with Heritage Expeditions
Travel
Adventure cruise: Journey to the Subantarctic Islands with Heritage Expeditions
Travel

A small ship cruise with Heritage Expeditions reveals remote lands full of wonder and wildlife.

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Travel
Profile: Shaun Markham on inclusive workplaces
Government, Disability Issues, Profile
Profile: Shaun Markham on inclusive workplaces
Government, Disability Issues, Profile

Jacqui Gibson finds out what an inclusive environment can achieve when she talks with Reserve Bank analyst Shaun Markham, who has athetoid cerebral palsy.

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Government, Disability Issues, Profile
Travel in the US: The food heritage of New Orleans
Food, Travel, Heritage and Culture, Drink
Travel in the US: The food heritage of New Orleans
Food, Travel, Heritage and Culture, Drink

Hurricane Katrina posed the greatest threat ever faced by New Orleans’ culinary scene. But determined foodies are ensuring that the Big Easy’s distinctive food heritage is preserved.

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Food, Travel, Heritage and Culture, Drink
NZ travel: A journey into Mackenzie Country with AAT Kings
Travel, Heritage and Culture
NZ travel: A journey into Mackenzie Country with AAT Kings
Travel, Heritage and Culture

It contains the country’s highest mountains and biggest skies and more rabbits than people while its heritage sites make a high-country-farm tour of Mackenzie Country a lesson in early New Zealand history.

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Travel, Heritage and Culture
NZ travel: Monique Fiso's pop-up hangi on the Whanganui River
Food, Heritage and Culture, Travel, Drink
NZ travel: Monique Fiso's pop-up hangi on the Whanganui River
Food, Heritage and Culture, Travel, Drink

Summer in New Zealand is a great time to enjoy the flavours of Māori kai in the great outdoors.

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Food, Heritage and Culture, Travel, Drink
Heritage feature: The story of conserving Pūtiki church in Whanganui
Heritage and Culture, Travel
Heritage feature: The story of conserving Pūtiki church in Whanganui
Heritage and Culture, Travel

A Whanganui community has taken a hands-on approach to conserving its stunning Category 1 church.

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Heritage and Culture, Travel
NZ travel: Reinvention of a Great Walk
Heritage and Culture, Travel
NZ travel: Reinvention of a Great Walk
Heritage and Culture, Travel

How Tūhoe is rethinking the future of Lake Waikaremoana — and asking trampers for patience while they do it.

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Heritage and Culture, Travel
NZ travel: The century-old star of Whanganui Heritage Month
Heritage and Culture, Travel
NZ travel: The century-old star of Whanganui Heritage Month
Heritage and Culture, Travel

In October, the Durie Hill Elevator will star in Whanganui Heritage Month, an annual event promoting the district. Learn more.

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Heritage and Culture, Travel
Australia travel: Dark tourism in Norfolk Island
Heritage and Culture, Travel
Australia travel: Dark tourism in Norfolk Island
Heritage and Culture, Travel

Norfolk Island is preparing to lure more visitors by embracing its dark past.

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Heritage and Culture, Travel
NZ travel: A visit to the Radons on Arapaoa Island in the Marlborough Sounds
Travel, Design and Living
NZ travel: A visit to the Radons on Arapaoa Island in the Marlborough Sounds
Travel, Design and Living

They live in beautiful isolation, make their living from land and sea and home-school their children and they don’t feel they’re missing a thing.

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Travel, Design and Living
Luxury stay: Wharekauhau in New Zealand's Wairarapa
Travel, Food, Drink
Luxury stay: Wharekauhau in New Zealand's Wairarapa
Travel, Food, Drink

It was reportedly the quality of New Zealand's wine that first drew Californian billionaire William P Foley II (Bill) to the Wairarapa wine region in 2001.

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Travel, Food, Drink
Heritage feature: How Pukeahu National War Memorial is teaching us about our past
Heritage and Culture, Government
Heritage feature: How Pukeahu National War Memorial is teaching us about our past
Heritage and Culture, Government

The upgrading of Wellington’s Pukeahu National War Memorial Park has uncovered tangible reminders of its military past.

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Heritage and Culture, Government
Profile: Jacqueline Leckie on writing about New Zealand's 'invisible histories'
Heritage and Culture, Profile
Profile: Jacqueline Leckie on writing about New Zealand's 'invisible histories'
Heritage and Culture, Profile

Seeing our ‘invisible histories’ gives us a better understanding of ourselves and our heritage, says Jacqueline Leckie. Interview with Jacqui Gibson.

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Heritage and Culture, Profile
NZ travel: The rise and rise of gourmet tramping in New Zealand
Food, Travel, Drink
NZ travel: The rise and rise of gourmet tramping in New Zealand
Food, Travel, Drink

Tramping can be hungry work, so why not pick a trip where food is as much the focus as the wilderness.

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Food, Travel, Drink
Hotel review: Nisala Arana, rustic luxury in Sri Lanka
Heritage and Culture, Travel, Hotel review
Hotel review: Nisala Arana, rustic luxury in Sri Lanka
Heritage and Culture, Travel, Hotel review

Jacqui Gibson reviews Nisala Arana, a luxury boutique hotel in Sri Lanka.

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Heritage and Culture, Travel, Hotel review
Luxury stay: Glass-box glamping in Kaikōura, New Zealand
Travel, Food, Drink
Luxury stay: Glass-box glamping in Kaikōura, New Zealand
Travel, Food, Drink

Ultimate privacy and breath-taking views nestled in the snow-capped Southern Alps.

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Travel, Food, Drink
NZ travel: Winter stargazing in New Zealand
Heritage and Culture, Travel, Science, Wine
NZ travel: Winter stargazing in New Zealand
Heritage and Culture, Travel, Science, Wine

Winter brings Matariki — and with it opportunities to embrace the wonders and stories of Māori astronomy.

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Heritage and Culture, Travel, Science, Wine
Travel in the US: The dramatic revitalisation of Downtown Los Angeles
Travel, Heritage and Culture
Travel in the US: The dramatic revitalisation of Downtown Los Angeles
Travel, Heritage and Culture

Once abandoned to all but drug dealers and the homeless, historic Downtown Los Angeles has undergone a dramatic revitalisation, thanks to vision and some innovative heritage preservation solutions.

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Travel, Heritage and Culture
Wellington travel: A walking tour of the capital’s Modernist icons
Heritage and Culture, Travel
Wellington travel: A walking tour of the capital’s Modernist icons
Heritage and Culture, Travel

What parts of a city would you forgo in the name of progress and what parts would you hang on to? Jacqui Gibson takes walking tour of Wellington’s Modernist icons.

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Heritage and Culture, Travel
Heritage feature: Exploring the story of Pacific voyaging and navigation
Heritage and Culture, Government
Heritage feature: Exploring the story of Pacific voyaging and navigation
Heritage and Culture, Government

The extraordinary stories unfolding in a small Northland bay are helping to tell the wider story of 1000 years of Pacific voyaging and navigation.

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Heritage and Culture, Government
Travel in the US: The story of San Juan Island National Historical Park
Heritage and Culture, Travel
Travel in the US: The story of San Juan Island National Historical Park
Heritage and Culture, Travel

The only park in the US commemorating a diplomatic resolution to a military dispute demonstrates the ties between nations and provides a chance to tell new stories.

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Heritage and Culture, Travel
NZ travel: How to experience the natural world in a new way
Heritage and Culture, Travel
NZ travel: How to experience the natural world in a new way
Heritage and Culture, Travel

Manuhiri are being invited to experience Te Urewera in a new way.

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Heritage and Culture, Travel
Government feature: Time to front up, says Northland kaumātua
Heritage and Culture, Government
Government feature: Time to front up, says Northland kaumātua
Heritage and Culture, Government

Some fundamental changes have been happening in Northland in the way public servants and iwi do things. JACQUI GIBSON did some investigating.

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Heritage and Culture, Government
Travel in the US: Road tripping in the San Juan Islands
Drink, Food, Travel
Travel in the US: Road tripping in the San Juan Islands
Drink, Food, Travel

Road tripping in the San Juan Islands, a stunning archipelago within Washington’s Pacific Northwest.

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Drink, Food, Travel
Government feature: Decolonising museum practice
Government, Science
Government feature: Decolonising museum practice
Government, Science

How a Northland iwi’s partnership with Auckland Museum provides a possible model for government.

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Government, Science
Wellington travel: Exploring the food and wine of New Zealand’s Wairarapa
Food, Travel, Wine, Drink
Wellington travel: Exploring the food and wine of New Zealand’s Wairarapa
Food, Travel, Wine, Drink

Fast becoming world-renowned for its boutique pinot noir, New Zealand’s Wairarapa region is an oenophile’s dream destination.

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Food, Travel, Wine, Drink
NZ travel: Arrowtown, where the quest for gold lives on
Heritage and Culture, Travel
NZ travel: Arrowtown, where the quest for gold lives on
Heritage and Culture, Travel

Arrowtown’s goldmining heritage now draws thousands of visitors to the Central Otago town every year, but striking it rich in the tourism sector has taken decades of planning and hard work.

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Heritage and Culture, Travel
Science feature: Early findings from the New Zealand Working Dog Project
Science
Science feature: Early findings from the New Zealand Working Dog Project
Science

Farm dogs have been part of the fabric of New Zealand life for 150 years, yet little is known about important aspects of their health, productivity and longevity.

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Science
Profile: Veterinarian Andrew Roe
Profile, Science
Profile: Veterinarian Andrew Roe
Profile, Science

Meet Andrew Roe, Southland veterinarian and winner of the Alan Baldry Award, whose 30-year career has put him at the centre of disease outbreaks and taught him the value of collaboration.

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Profile, Science
Heritage feature: Towning around in Macetown Historic Area
Heritage and Culture, Travel
Heritage feature: Towning around in Macetown Historic Area
Heritage and Culture, Travel

Writer Jacqui Gibson hitches a ride to Macetown Historic Area.

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Heritage and Culture, Travel
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