NEWS ABOUT GLOBAL NEW ZEALANDERS
Dunedin Swimmer Erika Fairweather Wins in Doha
Erika Fairweather has won her maiden swimming world championship title with victory in the women’s 400m freestyle final in Doha. The 20-year-old from Dunedin is the first New Zealander to win a long course swimming world championship title, the Otago Daily Times. The swimmer also took home a gold in…
Pirate Comedy Deserves Another Season
Cancelled after two season, Taika Waititi’s “silly comedy” Our Flag Means Death “deserves one more voyage”, according to Radio Times critic George White. “ was meant to be sacred…
Amy Brown’s New Novel Inspired by Women and Art
Like many writers before her, New Zealand-born Amy Brown takes inspiration from the Australian feminist icon Stella Maria Miles Franklin in her captivating debut novel My Brilliant Sister – but instead…
Unique Prehistoric Dolphin Discovered
A prehistoric dolphin newly discovered in the Hakataramea Valley in South Canterbury appears to have had a unique method for catching its prey, Evrim Yazgin writes for Cosmos magazine. Aureia rerehua was…
Feijoas Take Kate Evans Back to Her Childhood
Inspired by her own personal obsession, award-winning journalist and author New Zealander Kate Evans dives into the unique charm of the feijoa. An edited extract from Evans’ book, FEIJOA: a story of…
JLo Shares Moment She First Spotted Parris Goebel
In anticipation of the release of her ninth studio album, Jennifer Lopez recently spoke to the NZ Herald’s Jenni Mortimer, with the singer sharing the moment she first spotted the New…
MP Efeso Collins a Champion of Equality
Green Party MP Fa’anānā Efeso Collins, who had only recently started his new role as member of parliament, has died at the age of 49. He was participating in the ChildFund…
Auckland Home Has Rooms with All the Views
“The design of this newly listed home in Auckland will make your head spin – literally,” Abby Montanez writes for luxury lifestyle magazine, Robb Report. “Dubbed The Lighthouse, the three-bedroom…
Emilia Wickstead Helping Airline Make an Impression
Around the globe, airlines and hotels are collaborating with top fashion houses to reshape brand narratives, like Air New Zealand and their partnership with London-based Emilia Wickstead. Condé Nast Traveler’s Caitlin…
Who’s Behind TikTok Megastar Paloma Diamond?
Julian Sewell, the creative genius responsible for the internet’s favourite imaginary actress spends his days teaching in South Auckland, Sam Brooks writes for The Spinoff. “I can’t fix this! That’s what I’m…
Punk Goes Down Under in Comedy Head South
Punk arrives in New Zealand, a little bit late, in Head South, the new dramedy from New Zealand director Jonathan Ogilvie (Lone Wolf, The Tender Hook) which opened this year’s International…
Analiese Gregory Opening Tasmanian Anti-Restaurant
New Zealand-born Tasmania-based chef Analiese Gregory, who lists high-profile restaurants such as London’s The Ledbury and Spain’s Mugaritz on her resume, as well as Sydney’s three-hatted Quay and Hobart’s two-hatted Franklin,…
Barefoot Is a Way of Life in New Zealand
“I had just moved to New Zealand, at age 12, when a new friend suggested that we slip out to the corner store (dairy in New Zealand English) for some candy…
Parts of Waitākere Ranges to Reopen After Rāhui
The lush Waitākere Ranges that line the western ridge of Auckland are home to some of the country’s most precious native flora, including New Zealand’s hallowed native tree, the kauri (Agathis…
Why New Zealand Novelists are Making Waves
When author Emily Perkins decided her next novel would be set in the New Zealand capital, her editors in the UK were pleased. The 53-year-old says this specific detail “seemed to…
Feathered Icon Breeds in Wellington
New Zealand’s national bird, the kiwi, has hatched eggs in the wild in the Wellington area for the first time in living memory, thanks to a multiyear conservation effort, Pete McKenzie…
NYC-Based Designer Jenny Jiang on What Matters
Jenny Jiang is a New Zealand-born CGI designer and motion artist based in New York. Her artwork involves crafting visual worlds that explores aspects of surrealism, joy and storytelling in the…
One Point Closer to Hall of Fame for Lydia Ko
New Zealander Lydia Ko has started her new season in style with victory at Florida’s Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions on the LPGA Tour, Mike Hall reports for the UK…
Friedensreich Hundertwasser’s New Zealand Legacy
“ Hundertwasser designed buildings in many countries across Europe, in California’s Napa Valley, in Israel, in Japan. But I’m not in any of those places. I’m on the other side of…
Thomasin McKenzie Speaks About Eileen Role
William Oldroyd’s psychological thriller Eileen, based on the 2015 novel by Ottessa Moshfegh, is a challenging movie. But that’s exactly what drew in Thomasin McKenzie and Anne Hathaway. McKenzie, who plays…
How Xena Became Sundance’s Hottest Director
The former Warrior Princess, New Zealander Lucy Lawless, tells Daily Beast’s Obsessed about her unlikely journey to directing the documentary Never Look Away, about fellow New Zealander, intrepid war correspondent, Margaret…
Anton Thomas Illustrates World Without Borders
In July 2020, his universe shrunk to a two-bedroom apartment by a rattling train line, New Zealander Anton Thomas pulled out an H pencil and opened a portal to the world,…
Take a Transcendent Train Journey
New Zealand by train has made The New York Times ‘52 Places to Go in 2024’ list, coming in at number four. “Road-tripping across New Zealand via camper van is a free-spirited…
Jon Nabbs Running Across Canada for Hope
Inspired by his family’s struggle with cancer, New Zealand-born adventurer Jon Nabbs is embarking on an unprecedented solo and unsupported run across Canada, Joelle Tomlinson writes for Global News. The 33-year-old man,…
Biotech Firm Novozymes Appoints Alison Winger
Biotechnology company Novozymes Ireland has appointed gut health expert New Zealander Dr Alison Winger as general manager of its growing Irish operation at the Airport Business Park in Cork, Joe Dermody…
Joe Schmidt New Wallabies Coach
Former Ireland coach New Zealander Joe Schmidt has vowed to “get Australia up and running” after being named as the new Wallabies boss, replacing Eddie Jones, AFP reports in a story…
Finn Allen Slams Record-Equalling 16 Sixes
Finn Allen blasted a world-record-equalling 16 sixes in an innings of 137 from 62 balls as New Zealand beat Pakistan by 45 runs in the third Twenty20 international to take a…
New Zealand’s Story in Pictures Nearly Lost Forever
Rescued from landfill by Duncan Miller Gallery in Los Angeles, a trove of photos depicting pivotal scenes dating back to 1841 in New Zealand is now being auctioned and sold to…
Mustering with Sheepdogs in the High Country
In New Zealand’s high country, the economy runs on four paws. Reader’s Digest gets up close with the sheepdogs who patrol the Mackenzie Country’s perilous slopes. First brought to the Otago area…
Lisa Eldridge an Avid Vintage Beauty Collector
Where most fixate on finding the next big thing, these beauty fanatics, including Auckland-born UK-based make-up artist Lisa Eldridge, instead journey back in beauty history, and their findings have interesting implications…
New Zealand’s Bird Extinction Rate Study’s Gauge
About 12 per cent of birds have died out as result of human activity in past 120,000 years, say scientists, with New Zealand used as the baseline for bird species loss…
Warren Gatland Embodies a Great Coach
What makes Warren Gatland arguably one of rugby’s greatest coaches of all time – and, to many, the greatest? Most pundits and observers, professional or armchair, will give their reasons, but…
Cinematographer Dave Garbett wins Emmy
The second annual Children’s and Family Emmys took place in Los Angeles recently, and while Disney+ and Netflix tied with nine wins each, there was one New Zealander who stood out,…
AGT Act Tape Face Talks About His Inspiration
When mime Tape Face made his first appearance on America’s Got Talent in 2016, judge Simon Cowell called him “clever”, Mel B labelled him “genius” and Howie Mandel called him “brilliant”…
Entire Studios the Brand to Stock Right Now
Unisex brand Entire Studios is one of the trendiest labels right now – seen on Kylie Jenner, Dua Lipa and Hailey Bieber – but co-founders New Zealanders Dylan Richards Diaz and…
New Zealand’s Vernacular Confuses American
An American living in New Zealand has shared some of the differences she’s experienced since moving – with phrases like “up the Wahs” leaving her completely puzzled, Emily Lefroy writes for…
Tennis Star Leaps from Auckland’s Sky Tower
US Open champion Coco Gauff, 19, apparently has no fear while she’s Down Under, Anna Lazarus writes for People. Gauff shared a gallery of impressive images and videos from her recent…
Margaret Rich Was a Gifted Psychiatrist
“My friend Margaret Rich, who has died aged 89, came to the UK in 1959 from New Zealand to be a psychiatrist, and worked for most of her career at two…
Inside Story of Entire Studios’ Celeb-Fuelled Rise
After forging a relationship last year, the LA-based brand Entire Studios and London-based retailer Selfridges take things to the next level via an exclusive collection and an in-store pop-up. Esquire UK…
Aotearoa Is in the midst of a Food Revolution
Chile-born Giulio Sturla’s Mapu Test Kitchen in Lyttelton is representative of something powerful that is happening in New Zealand right now: a quiet culinary revolution; a shift to small-scale, local,…
Birnam Wood Gets the Paperback Makeover
New Zealand-born author Eleanor Catton’s bestseller Birnam Wood is one of “eight intriguing” paperbacks included in a New York Times piece about book design – “the paperback edition is the second…
Baritone Phillip Rhodes Debuts at Opera Australia
New Zealander Phillip Rhodes (Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Kahungunu) “proved to be a safe hand” in his debut role as Giorgio Germont for Opera Australia in Verdi classic, La Traviata. “Listening to his…
Harper’s Bazaar Gets the Georgia Fowler Treatment
Auckland-born supermodel Georgia Fowler is “taking cues from the reflection of sunlight on the sea” in a summer fashion photoshoot that features in Harper’s Bazaar Australia/New Zealand. Pregnant with her second…
Looking Back at the Lord of the Rings Effect
“ absolutely put us on the map,” says Jasmine Millet, head of creative industries at Tātaki Auckland Unlimited and an advocate for the region’s filmmaking…
Unveiling a Breathtaking Whangārei Green Roof
“During the World Green Infrastructure Congress 2023 in Berlin, we were awarded the Built Environment Green Roof Award for the Hundertwasser Art Centre and Wairau Māori Art Gallery,” University of Auckland…
Discovering New Zealand’s Newest Dark Sky Reserve
The stars have long held a special resonance within Māori culture. Now, the plight of a small seabird has triggered Kaikōura to seek dark sky status – and the results are…
Kim Cadzow’s Rapid Rise Through Pro Peloton
Every pathway into professional cycling is different, but few are as unique and as varied as New Zealander Kim Cadzow’s, who until just a few years ago was a swimmer-turned-triathlete with…
Thomasin McKenzie Gets the Accent Right in Eileen
Thomasin McKenzie takes it as a compliment when people don’t know she’s from New Zealand. The 23-year-old actor – who broke through with 2019’s Jojo Rabbit and 2021’s Last Night in…
Mixed Win in Florida for Lydia Ko
New Zealander Lydia Ko and Australia’s Jason Day have won the inaugural Grant Thornton Invitational in Florida, the ABC News reports. Ko, 26, and Day, 36, posted their second-straight round of 6-under-par…
Photographer Hōne Naera-Scott on a Journey
Dwelling in foreign territory is something fashion photographer Hōne Naera-Scott is used to, Ticia Almazan writes in a story for Vogue Philippines. “Up until my early 20s, I was always just…
My Back Garden Does Look Like it Belongs to Bilbo
If The Lord of the Rings had you yearning for New Zealand, or Julia Roberts on a bike made you fall in love with Bali, you’re not alone. But did you…
Capital City a Top Spot for 2024
Wellington has been named one of the 12 most LGBTQ+-friendly destinations to visit in 2024 by US-based Vacationer Magazine. “The city is known for its iconic red Wellington Cable Car and ‘Windy…
Electric Plane Set to Deliver Mail Across NZ
Parcels and letters will soon be distributed by electric aircraft between regions of New Zealand as the sparsely populated country embarks on a “new age of propulsion” in its attempts to…
Chill Out with Taika Waititi’s Next Goal Wins
Taika Waititi has always seen cinema as something optimistic. Growing up in a poor area of New Zealand, where he was born to an Ashkenazi mother and Māori father, movie theatres…
Māori Wardens Want People to Feel at Ease
The strategies used by the Indigenous community policing alternative, the Māori Wardens, are in stark contrast to more muscular tactics pitched by the incoming government, Natasha Frost reports for The New…
Journalist John McBeth a Legend in Asia
Whanganui-born John McBeth, one of Asia’s pre-eminent journalists with a record of scrupulous and ground-breaking reporting, has died. He was 79. This obituary is published by The Diplomat. “Over a career spanning…
Nancy Wake
Nancy Wake was the Allies’ most decorated servicewoman of WWII, and the Gestapo’s most-wanted person. Code-named ‘The White…
Charles Upham
Acknowledged widely as the most outstanding soldier of the Second World War, Captain Charles Upham is also the…
Ernest Rutherford
The creator of modern atomic physics and forerunner of the nuclear age, Ernest Rutherford was one of the…
Edmund Hillary
He explored places no man had gone before, conquered Everest and captured a world’s imagination. Yet where others…
John Britten
John Britten was a revolutionary motorcycle designer whose home-brewed machine won international ovations with its stunning design, engineering…
Rewi Alley
Rewi Alley: social reformer, educator, fireman, writer, poet, translator, great internationalist, industrialist, revered citizen, potter, hero and friend…
Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield revolutionised the English short story. Her best work shakes itself free of plots and endings and…
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Arthur Lydiard
Arthur Lydiard invented jogging – the method of building up physical fitness by gradually increasing stamina. Lydiard’s methods…
James Keir Baxter
As well as being one New Zealand’s foremost poets, JK Baxter was a social activist, alcoholic derelict, dogmatic…
Brydone & Davidson
Now exporting meat to more than 190 countries around the world, this is the fascinating story of how…
Colin McCahon
Colin McCahon is the region’s most revered artist. He reconceived Aotearoa as the land of the long black…
Colin Murdoch
Colin Murdoch designed and invented the disposable syringe, a device that has saved millions of human lives. He…
Bruce McLaren
Starting from an early age, Aucklander Bruce McLaren was a brilliant and visionary race-car driver. He became engineer,…
William Atack
Today the referee’s whistle is a ubiquitous feature in sport, but it was William Harrington Atack of Canterbury…
Te Ruki Kawiti
A Maori Tohunga, Te Ruki Kawiti, was a mastermind of leadership and tactical warfare. During the 1860s, his…
Beatrice Tinsley
Beatrice Tinsley was a world leader in modern cosmology and one of the most creative and significant theoreticians…
William Hudson
New Zealand Engineer Sir William Hudson was the man and motivator behind the Australian Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme,…
Burt Munro
Burt Munro, known as the fastest man from New Zealand, became internationally known for the records he broke…
Jean Batten
Jean Batten stood for adventure, daring and exploration. She was the manifestation of triumph and hope through the…
Bill Hamilton
Hamilton loved speed. From his homegrown jet propulsion laboratory on the Waitaki river and its tributaries, Bill Hamilton…
William Pickering
The USSR’s launch of Sputnik in 1957 forced the United States into the space race. Less than three…
Peter Jackson
NZEDGE presents a personal account of the Peter Jackson story by filmmaker Costa Botes – an idiosyncratic case…
Rewi Alley Postscript
In November of 2002 a book on Rewi Alley, Friend of China – The Myth of Rewi Alley, by Anne-Marie…
