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Affairs / Architecture
Monocolumn
Monday 5 March
Christchurch – A rebuild that’s not just bricks and mortar
As Christchurch reels from what could prove to be New Zealand’s worst natural disaster, a new dread is gripping residents
Affairs / Industry
Our time has come
There are countries that are simply too big to have one time zone, while others have always been a bit eccentric in their time-keeping. But for some, such as New Zealand, enterprising minds are trying to turn time to their…
Affairs / Environment
Monocolumn
Monday 15 August
Cold front leaves locals grappling with graupel
Aucklanders learnt a new word yesterday: “graupel”. Halfway between snow and sleet, it forms when very cold droplets of water hit snowflakes to form a “rime”.
Affairs / Diplomacy
Diplomacy Briefing
We meet José Luís Robaína García, Cuba's ambassador to New Zealand, for the first on our new series on diplomacy. We also look at the "diplomatic pouch", that slightly quaint method of shipping secret documents.
Affairs / Diplomacy
Monocolumn
Monday 29 November
New Zealand asserts itself
To use the Antipodean vernacular, New Zealand and Australia are great mates.
Affairs / Society
Monocolumn
Saturday 29 May
New Zealand’s Apartheid shame
There’s no symbol dearer to New Zealand’s vision of itself as a multicultural nation than the All Blacks.
Business / Travel
Everyone on board
Air New Zealand’s laid-back chief executive isn’t bothered about business speak and motivational babble. His is a hands-on, direct approach. And that means being able to communicate with everyone from the hallowed customer…
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.
Affairs / Environment
Monocolumn
Wednesday 8 September
New Zealand faces up to its fault lines
Within hours of Saturday’s magnitude 7.1 earthquake in Canterbury, streets were flooded by broken water mains and sewage pipes.
Affairs / Society
Oceania Briefing
The foreign land ownership debate in New Zealand, Cuba's bid to send doctors Oceania-way and Tonga finally gets connected to the rest of the world.
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.
Affairs / Defence
Oceania Briefing
Fiji's dictator is this issue's style leader, Australia makes friends to handle cuts to military spending, and why new boats are part of New Zealand's defence forces' shake up.
Affairs / Politics
Oceania Briefing
The king of Tonga is our dapper Style Leader, Australia is a wise old goat, and New Zealand strips its prisoners of the right to vote and smoke.
Affairs / Politics
Oceania Briefing
A round-up of news from the Pacific islands, plus the election in Palau and New Zealand's hunt for diplomats.
Affairs / Politics
Oceania briefing
Australia tackles tax evasion on Vanuatu, New Zealand uses music to fight antisocial behaviour and the tiny state of Timor-Leste gets its own airline.
Affairs / Diplomacy
Oceania Briefing
Tuvalu's internet cash-in, NZ reviews its carbon-trading scheme, and Fiji's growing isolationism.
Affairs / Diplomacy
Oceania briefing
What Australian PM Kevin Rudd uses to get around, the PE teacher crusading for a revival of Maori sports, and the new city in the Aussie outback.
Affairs / Politics
Oceania briefing
Sydneys' refit, a change of fortune for New Zealand's "arsehole of the world", and Perth "does a Dubai with its waterfront.