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Reinvention of a Great Walk
Heritage and Culture, 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
Why a century-old underground elevator has won the hearts of tourists and locals in Whanganui
Heritage and Culture, Travel
Why a century-old underground elevator has won the hearts of tourists and locals in Whanganui
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
A visit to the Radons on Arapaoa Island in the Marlborough Sounds
Travel, Design and Living
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
How Pukeahu National War Memorial is teaching us about our past
Heritage and Culture, Government
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
Jacqueline Leckie on writing about New Zealand's 'invisible histories'
Heritage and Culture, 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
The rise and rise of gourmet tramping in New Zealand
Food, Travel, Drink
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
Nisala Arana: rustic luxury in Sri Lanka
Heritage and Culture, Travel, 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
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
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
Embracing the wonders and stories of Māori astronomy
Heritage and Culture, Travel, Science, Wine
Embracing the wonders and stories of Māori astronomy
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
A walking tour of Wellington’s Modernist icons during Wellington Heritage Week
Heritage and Culture, Travel
A walking tour of Wellington’s Modernist icons during Wellington Heritage Week
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
The Mangahawea Bay Partnership Project: exploring the story of Pacific voyaging and navigation
Heritage and Culture, Government
The Mangahawea Bay Partnership Project: 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
Te Urewera: how to experience the natural world in a new way
Heritage and Culture, Travel
Te Urewera: 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
In safe hands: the story of conserving Pūtiki church in Whanganui
Heritage and Culture, Travel
In safe hands: 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
Time to front up, says Northland kaumātua
Heritage and Culture, Government
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
Decolonising museum practice: new insights for government
Government, Science
Decolonising museum practice: new insights for government
Government, Science

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

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Government, Science
Ripe for the picking: exploring the food and wine of New Zealand’s Wairarapa
Food, Travel, Wine, Drink
Ripe for the picking: 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
Arrowtown: where the quest for gold lives on
Heritage and Culture, 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
Early findings from the New Zealand Working Dog Project
Science
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
Good southern man, veterinarian Andrew Roe
Profile, Science
Good southern man, 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
Towning around in Macetown Historic Area
Heritage and Culture, Travel
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
Rebel with a cause: the legacy of architect, Ian Athfield
Design and Living, Heritage and Culture
Rebel with a cause: the legacy of architect, Ian Athfield
Design and Living, Heritage and Culture

At nearly 50 years old, Ian Athfield’s iconic Wellington complex of terraced dwellings and offices continues bravely to evolve.

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Design and Living, Heritage and Culture
Women, take the matter up
Government
Women, take the matter up
Government

New Zealand women were granted the right to vote 125 years ago thanks to suffragists like Kate Sheppard and Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia. So how have women in the public service fared since 1893?

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Government
Uncloaking mysteries: the Whakapapa of Paru Project
Science, Heritage and Culture
Uncloaking mysteries: the Whakapapa of Paru Project
Science, Heritage and Culture

New forensic techniques and ancestral knowledge are uniting in a breakthrough research project that aims to reconnect taonga with the people and places they came from.

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Science, Heritage and Culture
Fly me to the moon: the comeback of mountain runner Melissa Moon
Profile
Fly me to the moon: the comeback of mountain runner Melissa Moon
Profile

On the comeback trail after battling injury, burn-out and loss of her coach, mountain runner Melissa Moon is looking to the support of a home crowd to regain her world title in Wellington this month.

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Profile
If you're going to San Francisco: how a Kiwi couple broke into the San Francisco Flower Mart
Business, Travel
If you're going to San Francisco: how a Kiwi couple broke into the San Francisco Flower Mart
Business, Travel

Caught out by an unexpected redundancy during the heady days of 1980s America, a corporate Kiwi couple fought back by putting flowers in more than their hair.

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Business, Travel
Cloud catcher: Cherise Thomson, jewellery artist
Business, Corporate and PR, Profile
Cloud catcher: Cherise Thomson, jewellery artist
Business, Corporate and PR, Profile

Getting your hands on rare boulder opal can be as elusive as catching a cloud, says Auckland jewellery artist Cherise Thomson.

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Business, Corporate and PR, Profile
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