Business / Innovation
Time to reboot
New Zealand’s capital is driving to establish itself as a major hub for innovation. It’s small enough to create an intimate working environment – and big enough for the plan to work.
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Affairs / Politics
Oceania Briefing
Kiwi PM John Key gets foot-in-mouth disease and Fiji puts up a fight against Rupert Murdoch
Business / Industry
Monocolumn
Wednesday 16 February
It’s back to the 80s with massive state sell-off
After spending much of his first term taking a cautious approach, New Zealand prime minister John Key has finally raised a very unpopular idea indeed.
Affairs / Defence
Monocolumn
Tuesday 16 March
Spotting the lesser-bearded soldier
When a French photojournalist captured striking images of western soldiers emerging from a Kabul firefight earlier this year, New Zealand would have been one of the last places he might have expected his pictures to make…
Affairs / Politics
Monocolumn
Saturday 10 July
Expenses scandal, Kiwi-style
A year after the expenses scandal that threw the UK’s parliament into crisis, aftershocks are registering in New Zealand.
Affairs / Industry
Monocolumn
Thursday 15 April
Pictures from the edge – the new design district
Day three of Milan’s Salone coincided with the cloud of Icelandic volcanic ash descending on northern Europe and wreaking havoc with air traffic.
Affairs / Transport
Oceania briefing
New Zealand's prime minister and his choice of transport, and Australia's renewed efforts to get people on their bikes.
Affairs / Media
Monocolumn
Tuesday 23 February
A Kiwi quandary
As citizens of a small nation still emerging from a postcolonial adolescence, New Zealanders are proud of the clutch of symbols recognised as their own.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Friday 20 May
Weekend Agenda 21/22 May
Something for your weekend: Monocle’s global selection, including exhibitions to lose your Saturday in, new aural treasures, and a garage sale held to benefit one of the UK’s best provincial art spaces.
Design / Industry
Monocolumn
Friday 6 August
DIY and the death of design
The Industrial Designers Society of America’s annual International Conference brings some 600 designers, engineers and professional thinkers from around the world to Portland this weekend.
Affairs / Politics
Oceania briefing
The boats are hosed down, the kids are back at school and the holidays are well and truly over in the southern hemisphere, so now New Zealanders are bracing themselves for a year of political blood sport. An election must…
Affairs / Politics
Oceania Briefing
National identity in Australia, Tonga and Fiji's territorial dispute and rugby World Cup headache in New Zealand.
Culture / Media
Culture Briefing
Dan Brown's literary stalkers, plus Monocle's music tip-offs.
Affairs / Business Hubs
Lost and found
Thanks to a strong leader, oil discoveries, new direct flights to Europe and a prime-time drama set in St John’s, it’s boom time for this Canadian province, leading everyone from Norwegian engineers to New York art direc…
Affairs / Society
Oceania Briefing
The challenges facing Papua New Guinea's new prime minister, solving a housing shortage in Darwin, and why Kiwi students are being spared Shakespeare.
Edits / Food & Drink
Monocle travel guide
This month our selection of destinations includes a French countryside retreat, a Norwegian bakery on the Med, a New York-style café in Paris and an egg-obsessed restaurant in Singapore.
Affairs / Politics
Oceania briefing
Why Australia's new gay Malaysian-Chinese MP is the politician to watch, and making high-rise healthier.
Business / CEOs
Head in the sky
As chief executive of Cathay Pacific, it’s John Slosar’s job to steer the airline along a straight path as it increases its reach in China, while keeping staff and passengers on board.
Culture / Music
Culture briefing
Books, films and music to make a date for.