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Government Gardens,
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To Members of the
Global Network of New Zealanders
From Brian Sweeney, Producer, The New Zealand Edge
Greetings to all and
especially people who are newly registered at the site, from Auckland to
Atlanta and Adelaide, Brisbane to Bogota and Basel, Foxton to
Philadelphia, Mumbai and Melbourne, Tokyo and Torrance, be you bankers
or bakers.
NEW ZEALAND EDGE MAILBOX
JANUARY-MAY 2005
110 messages about the emotional bonds to New Zealand when living
overseas; coming home and finding optimism and energy; coming home and
finding insularity and violence; the right to vote in New Zealand when
living overseas; Brazil’s little place of Aotearoa; recognizing Nancy
Wake; and more. Received January-May 2005. http://www.nzedge.com/mailbox/31_May05.html
WEATHER WITH YOU
http://www.nzedge.com/media/index.html
Our global review of New
Zealanders cutting headlines in the international media takes in the
Architectural Review, Sydney Morning Herald, Seattle Post-Intelligencer,
the Guardian and Observer, New York Times, Kerala Next, 125 Magazine,
Variety, Xinhua, the Daily Californian, Passport, Oyster, Gulf News, Yen,
the Independent, China Post, the New Hampster and more:
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ANZAC
commemorations and dramatisations |
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Chris
Liddell CFO and #3 at Microsoft |
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Martian
rocks get Maori names, after Roger Burns
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Young
qualified Kiwis continue to take flight
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John
Hood signals changes at Oxford
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Russell
Crowe is the Cinderella Man
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Architecture
Workshop’s Peregrine vin-shed tops UK award
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Andrew
Patterson in top 100 world architects
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Peter
Cooper in love with Bay of Islands
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Max
Gimblett wild, innocent in San Francisco
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Robert
Creeley, friend of NZ, dead at 78
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Owen
Wilkes beyond his natural term
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Drummer
Paul Hester no longer in our house
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Joh
Bjelke-Petersen passes at 94
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NZ
cancer rates third highest in world
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Sandra
Costa produces Love Is In The Heir
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Princess
Ann Claire a half Kiwi hit
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Christopher
Luxon champions unorthodoxy in US markets
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James
Coltman-Mitchell realises family assets
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NZ
wagyu beef stars at London’s Zuma
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Tom
Peters at Auckland’s Better By Design
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Peter
Jackson heads Hollywood most-powerful list
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Philosopher
Derek Mesler published by MIT Press
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Dr
Dave Jenkins surfs to neighbours’ aid
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Dutton’s
Arts&Letters Daily celebrates 100 millionth hit
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Batch
Espresso serves up slice of heaven
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Cash
injection looms in form of British Lions fans
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Old
meets new: Edge fashion storms Paris
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Oscar
nominee Taika Waititi wows U.S
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Andrew
Thompson blows whistle on U.N
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Peter
Jackson and Weta restore ANZAC film
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InStyle
editor Louise Chunn talks fashion
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Brit
readers vote NZ “most desirable destination”
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Meek
Zuiderwyk and co grace 125’s pages
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Scribe
takes crusade to NYC
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Anna
Wilding’s Buddha Wild
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Double
All Black Eric Tindill reminisces
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Chinese
Gold Rush camp unearthed
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Airini
Mason nets NZ’s highest international surf placing
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Author/academic
Joanna Bourke gets down and dirty
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Enu
Chung signs to Berkeley golf team
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NZ
pension scheme the go in Britain
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Calvert
Plastics revolutionises export industry
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Wairarapa
the pearl in North Island’s crown
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Rachel
Hunter profiled by The Guardian
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Brian
Goggin explores eco-power
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Guardian
toasts Martinborough
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Zambesi
uber-cool at Australian Fashion Week
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Keith
Urban sells out in a good way
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Gareth
Hughes’Kiwi pies a hit in NYC
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Datsuns outta sight outta mind
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Yeast
gets sexy at Auckland University
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Steriogram’s
sound “as well drilled as the AB backline”
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more: Sauvignon Blanc, the economy, royal invites, curling
championships, trade agreements…
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10 IDEAS TO HELP NEW
ZEALAND THRIVE
Kevin Roberts at the Thrive
Conference attended by 2500 people at the Aotea Centre Auckland in April
2005: “My job is to engage with the world through ideas. To get quantum
returns from multiple connections. Here’s ten ideas to help you
Thrive. 1: Be emotional, 2: Create Lovemarks, 3: Make It
Irresistible, 4: Move to Tokyo and Shanghai, 5: Make the Consumer your
Boss, 6: Bust through with SiSoMo, 7: Connect with our Edge, 8: Move to
New York and Washington, 9: Make the World a Better Place, and 10: Inspire
The Future.
http://www.nzedge.com/speeches/thrive.html
MESSAGE TO MY GIRL
“New
Zealand is a wonderful place to live, and like many people now, I'm
continually coming and going. It's official, however, that the leaving
part is reaching catalytic proportions. The OECD has just reported that a
quarter of New Zealand's tertiary graduates live overseas. There are more
New Zealanders living out there in the world than Australians living
outside Australia.” NZEDGE column in the NZ Herald about building the
global community of New Zealanders.
http://www.nzedge.com/speeches/familyabroad.html
THE SPACE AT THE EDGE
The Tui sings for
contemplation, and Denis O’Reilly reviews the peaks and valleys of the
past few months. The importance of attending Tangi, the passing of a
Pontif, a visit from the P-Funk Allstars, Napier's Pilot City Trust and
Policing in an election year. An indepth run down on the attendees,
readings, gang engagement, and uplifting success of March's Heretaunga
symposium “Self, Race, Drugs & Justice in New Zealand”. A
reflective poem of farewell and new beginnings.
http://www.nzedge.com/hot/ar-denis05.html
10 THINGS KEEPING ME AWAKE AT NIGHT
Rugby
from Kevin Roberts: three columns: anticipating the Lions; better participation, viability, programming and
marketing; strengthening Asia, North America and the Pacific Islands;
Olympic contention; and the IRB.
http://www.nzedge.com/hot/rugby/index.html
THE
RIGHT TO VOTE
An intriguing constitutional point
has been raised by David Baigent, the only New Zealander living in Wels,
Austria He writes: “It’s election time. Thousands of kiwi
expats log on daily to NZ news sites to keep up with
the play. Who’s hot, who’s not - and why. Informed
to the teeth we are but...can we vote? Three years away? Sorry
mate, Godzone election not interested in ya anymore!
“If you are an Italian expat, you have senators representing you.
If you are a Portugese expat, ditto. If you are German, they are
seeking you out to throw voting rights at you. But if you are a kiwi who
has not set foot in Enzed for three years - you lose the right to vote.
Our diaspora comprises around one million New Zealanders. Together
we would make up the second largest city in NZ. I estimate half of
us have had our right to vote taken away. It’s there for all to
read on the Elections NZ website. http://www.elections.org.nz/enrolment/how_to_enrol_overseas.html
“It rankles, it smarts and I for one, have had a guts full of being
treated like a second-class New Zealander. Letting us expatriates
participate in Godzone's democratic process can only be a gain for
everyone. We all left to broaden our horizons and we have
experience that can enrich New Zealand - but only if this experience is
given a voice. Is there anyone between Cape Reinga and the Bluff who cares
about us. We are your sons, daughters and above all - your fellow
citizens of the finest country in the world. Bring us back into the
political fold.”
Comments? Send through http://www.nzedge.com/contact
or direct to David Baigent, baigent@eunet.at
www.baigenttraining.at
“Everywhere you go, always take the weather, the weather with you”
- Neil Finn
Travel well.
Brian Sweeney
Publisher, Producer
THE NEW ZEALAND EDGE
http://www.nzedge.com
mailto: brian@nzedge.com
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