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Stuart Parker
NEW
ZEALANDERS IN GLOBAL HEADLINES
New Zealand headlines in this week's sampling of global media appearing in The
Independent, Sky News, Classic FM, Radio Australia, NME, Telegraph,
Guardian, Edmonton Sun, San Francisco Weekly, Star Gazette, San
Francisco Examiner, All That Jazz, Islands, Dwell and WA
Today include:
• Zane
Lowe, DJ, 35, piloting "radio with pictures" for BBC's
Radio 1 – The Independent
• All
Blacks win first in Bledisloe, Tri Nations series vs. Wallabies
22-16 – Guardian
• Scott
Dixon, 28, Indy star, "driver to catch" ahead of
Edmonton race – Edmonton Sun
• Seddon
Bennington, 61, Te Papa CEO, dies in his beloved Tararuas – WA
Today
• Saffron,
Queenstown, at forefront of homegrown produce "revolution"
• New
Zealand tourists 14th best in the world and 6th 'stingiest',
according to Expedia travel survey
• Simon
O'Neill, 37, opera singer, among the world's top 10 tenors – Classic
FM
• Warwick
Freeman, Auckland jeweller and artist, exhibiting latest
collection in Melbourne
• Lt.
Col. Jeremy Ramsden, awarded NZ's first NATO Meritorious Service
Medal at ceremony in Belgium
• Stuart
Parker, dairy farming astronomer, discovers supernova – Radio
Australia
• Ladyhawke
plays Glastonbury crowds ahead of one-off UK charity gig – NME
• Pakiri
Beach horseriding, a BBC 'Unforgettable Thing To Do
Before You Die' – Examiner.com
• David
Cone, Baa Blacks trainer, lets racing sheep loose in Methven – Telegraph
• Alka
Patel, former process engineer, now gourmet pie baker, San
Francisco – SF Weekly
• NZ
String Quartet celebrate Haydn's death with Ithaca performance,
NY – Star Gazette
• Jerry
Collins, back-rower, 28, swaps Toulon shirt for Welsh Ospreys –
BBC
• Ford/Tipping/Wise
Trio's latest jazz album "impressively creative" – All
That Jazz
• Waiheke,
ranked 6th in 2009 list of 'World's Best Islands to Live On' – Islands
Magazine
• Andrew
McKenzie, musician, creates "orchard jam" with new
sustainable bachelor's pad
• Queenstown
and Wanaka, pitted against each other in deep south showdown – WA
Today
 SEDDON
BENNINGTON, 1948 – 2009
A brief tribute to Seddon Bennington, CEO of Te Papa, the
national museum and art gallery in Wellington, who died of hypothermia
during a snow-hit tramping expedition in the Tararuas, along with friend
Marcella Jackson, on July 14. Seddon was an outstanding New Zealander
whose intellectual depth, engaging presence, and commitment to
storytelling made him an ideal leader of Te Papa. I met Seddon in
1981 when he was Director of the City Art Gallery in Wellington, I was
with the NZ Students' Arts Council and we were producing a tour of
Mervyn Thompson's song play about Maori land rights, Songs to the
Judges. It was a hair-raising tour in more ways than one – raw
emotion on stage and off. Seddon was the perfect host, committed and
calm. He went on to an international career in science museums and
returned to New Zealand to lead Te Papa in 2003. A year or so ago I was
on a selection panel he chaired, and saw him as a consensus leader in a
challenging role, needing to balance scholarship with populism, local
stories with global ones, authenticity with consumer engagement. That Te
Papa has been the most visited museum in Australasia over the past five
years is a fine statement of his leadership.
NGA
KUPU AROHA: WORDS OF LOVE, #34, BY DENIS O'REILLY
An ongoing social commentary on the affairs of
Aotearoa and the tribe of Nga Mokai.
THE STUB OF YOUR CHEQUE BOOK, JULY 2009
The D writes that it's what is recorded on the stub of
our national cheque book that indicates the relative value we put on
issues. In the area of criminal justice, despite the Government's stated
commitment to 'top of the cliff' interventions rather than reliance on
prison, "crush and crate 'em" is the flavour of the day. D
praises the leadership of Dr Pita Sharples as Minister of Maori Affairs
for getting 'buy in' from Maori street leaders towards a quest for peace
on the streets of Aotearoa and for his advocacy of Maori learners
getting access to tertiary education. There is korero about a possible
spike in the availability of P, an account and reflection on the death
and burial of Nomad's leader Denis "Mossie" Hines, and
celebration at the graduation of Te Rangatira Jack Tuhi "Ranga"
from Massey University. (3,657 words) Read
more.
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