Famed Wartime Pilot Irving “Black” Smith
Invercargill born Group Captain Irving Smith, famed for his courage and low-level precision bombing raids during WWII, died on Feb 16. Irving Smith: May 21 1917 – February 16 2000
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New Zealand Sets the Standard in How to Say Sorry
“The question of an official apology to the indigenous people which is proving so contentious in Australia, has been dealt with quite differently in New Zealand, as part of the settlement process initiated by the Waitangi Tribunal”….
The America’s Cup is New Zealand’s Cup
Exclaimed a jubilant Peter Montgomery when New Zealand won in 1995 – and doesn’t the world know it now. The humid Hauraki Gulf breeze not only filled the sails of Team New Zealand to…
Magicians Who Turned the Test Tide
“Two outstanding bowlers proved once again that in almost any conditions a top-class slow bowler who truly gives the ball a tweak is a precious asset”.
Kiwi Sweeps Up Aftermath of War in Kosovo
John Flanagan, a colonel from New Zealand, who heads the UN’s mine action coordination centre in Kosovo. “They [Nato} may have intended to drop six bombs on one target and four go off somewhere…
Nabokov’s Pale Fire Still Smoulders
38 years later, the mystery continues to intrigue… Auckland University’s Professor Brian Boyd attempts to solve the enigma.
America’s Cup: New Zealand Style
“Is this Monte Carlo, Rio de Janeiro, Cannes or Santa Catalina, the playground of California’s rich and famous?” Auckland, New Zealand’s “City of Sails”, must have been tourism’s best-kept secret destination – the Pacific’s own Riviera –…
Quietly Evolving: Auckland Smooth
“Auckland is a city without an edge and the locals don’t seem to mind” – well it doesn’t fit the brief, but …
New Zealand Has No Edge
“It’s like a beauty queen, gorgeous, but dull”, writes LA Times travel writer Mike Mcintyre … rage, rage against the impudence!
Bugger
A Cultural phenomenon has reached Asia, and it has bugger-all to do with Bulgarians or heretics, but something to do with a car advertisement, a racehorse and climbing Mt. Everest.
Where There’s Smoke…
Green MP Nando Tanzcos and political cartoonist Tom Scott debate the currently topical subject of marijuana decriminalisation on Crossing Continents.
Piping up a storm down under
Cultural history was made as the massed bands of the Edinburgh Military Tattoo played in front of a sell-out crowd in New Zealand, the first time in its 50-year history that the event has…
Justine Wright Nominated For Oscar
New Zealander Justine Wright has been nominated for this year’s Oscar Awards for her editing of a dramatic documentary One Day in September, an account of the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972…
Detectors Search for Nuclear Material
The world’s first nuclear monitoring station is being established in New Zealand.
That Auld Mug? Why Should Anyone Care?
“No wonder the Kiwis hate us. This week, Team New Zealand became the first syndicate to successfully defend the America’s Cup in its 149-year history, and the Australian media barely bothered to acknowledge it.” The trans-Tasman perspective.
Jane Campion is a model profile of a working artist
Anthropologist, artist, and award winner, internationally acclaimed New Zealand director exercises an organic approach to her craft …
US Venture Capitalists Eye Kiwis
New Zealand’s win of the America’s Cup confirmed its yachting prowess. Now the country wants to be known for its high-tech wares.
Three wishes for the World
On the eve of International Women’s Day Thinkers from the four corners of the globe, including a New Zealand women’s rights and healthcare advocate, offer their visions for enriching the economic, educational, social and emotional lives of their…
New Zealand Destination of Choice for Wall Street’s Status Sleepers
One of the most shocking news stories of 1999 was a Wall Street Journal article revealing that Jeff Bezos gets eight hours of sleep every night.
Week of Glory for New Zealand
“Little New Zealand” has done it again. A country of less than 3.8 million people has once again proved how talented it is at sports.
Child Superstar Anna Paquin’s Vampish Turn
Anna Paquin has got something tucked away in her closet: an Oscar … becoming the second-youngest Academy Award winner is a tough act to follow.
Russell Crowe: Inside Story
Playing a 52-year-old tobacco company executive in The Insider is all in a day’s work for 35-year-old Russell Crowe; giving up the smokes is not.
“I Love Dick”
Interview with Kiwi writer and avant-garde filmmaker Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick (the spare-no-prisoners tell-all that scandalised the Soho Intelligentsia) talks about anorexia, romance, and faking it.
Ciao for Now New Zealand
Beaten by Black Magic, Prada promises they’ll be back for America’s Cup rerun. Minutes after New Zealand’s Black Magic sailed past the finishing line to clinch the America’s Cup with a 5-0 whitewash …
When Substance Puts Style in its Place
There’s more to the web than pornography, semi-literate navel-gazing and slick shopping sites, but finding quality information can be difficult … a site that makes it easy.
New Zealand Sweeps Up
Dean Barker, a fresh-faced 26-year-old backup skipper and Russell Coutts’s protege, helmed Team New Zealand to its second America’s Cup win yesterday, beating Italy’s Prada by 48 seconds to sweep the series, 5-0
Black Magic Casts its Spell; All New Zealand Celebrates
Skipper Russell Coutts always put the emphasis on ‘team’ in Team New Zealand, and today, he gave an understudy the glorious job of winning the America’s Cup …
Escorial Eases into Esquire Style Guide
New Zealand elite wool makes the Esquire A-Z for 2000. “With Wall Street having doled out $13billion in bonuses last year you can bet your cashmere socks that luxury fabrics will fly high in…
I Think It Can
As the Southern Alps loom into view, Douglas Rogers seriously doubts whether his train can complete New Zealand’s greatest railway journey.
Swimsuit Edition 2000
Supermodel Kylie Bax was born and raised on her parent’s horse breeding farm in North Island, New Zealand.
Breakers Go for Broke
US co-ed are looking for a spring-break change and NZ is on the bikini-trail. “Europe is big this year”, she says, “So is Australia and New Zealand. People are spreading their wings”.
Kiwis Claim Hong Kong
New Zealand enhanced their reputation as stars of the sevens game with a crushing victory over the defending champions Fiji in the final of the Hong Kong Sevens.
Wellington: A Village with Skyscrapers
“Kia-ora Wellington: All the high-tech architecture in the world cannot disguise the fact that New Zealand’s capital city is still a village at heart. Paul Gogarty ventures into a very enjoyable timewarp”.
Russell: The Prequel
Oz comment: “Crowe is a national hero” (despite “inconveniently managing to get himself born in New Zealand”); jokes from the Katzy kitchen; Crowe, Hillary and Rutherford make Australia green; Crowe “a…
New Zealand writer nominated for Commonwealth Writer’s Prize
Kapka Kassabova, regional winner for best first book in Commonwealth Writer’s Prize to be decided in April.
The Rumours began about a year ago…
Comix 2000 New Zealanders Dylan Horrocks (whose extraordinarily moving comic novel Hicksville was 1998’s breakout alternative hit) and Chris Knox each contribute wonderful strips.
Cool Hand on Deck
“Sir Peter Blake, head of Team New Zealand, is that rare thing: an international celebrity who has remained popular in a homeland where cutting “tall poppies” down to size is a national pastime …”
Vaccine Hope for Epilepsy
University of Auckland… A vaccine that protects against the effects of epilepsy and stroke has been successfully tested on animals.
Nuclear Physicist has Designs on America’s Cup
New Zealanders say their country was built with No.8 wire, corrugated iron and Kauri logs… what is its key to success in high-tech battles against world technology leaders?
Gene Therapist Develops Vaccine Against ‘Brain Insults’
Kiwi Dr. Matthew During, in articles published in the New Yorker and Science reveals ‘revolutionary’ research that could limit brain damage caused by epilepsy and strokes.
Yacht to Watch this Animation
You won’t get the sea-breeze or the sea spray, but an internet animator from New Zealand can almost get you to the America’s Cup.
Artist and Architect with a Childlike Love of Embellishment
The straight lines of modern architecture particularly incensed him.
FBI Feels Vengeance of Kiwi Hacker
e-summit Calls for Vigilance as the FBI tightened its focus on a small number of suspects.
Great Red Hope
It’s not New Zealand’s fault. Little more than 10 years ago they took the world by storm with their fruit-packed, freshly acidic, amazingly aromatic Sauvignon Blanc. Now …
Austrian Painter, Architect, Hundertwasser Leaves Unusual Legacy to NZ
Hundertwasser, who died last week aged 71, has left New Zealand with two vivid legacies — a flag design and a magnificent toilet. Friedensreich Hundertwasser: December 15 1928 – February 19 2000
Who are you? What the Audi ad says about you
The wakeboarder depicted is a chap called Gavin Broadbent, who is New Zealand’s wakeboarding champion. The ad was filmed in the Tasman Sea off the west coast of NZ.
Youth TV Prepares for the Digital Challenge
Interview: Brent Hansen: MTV Europe’s president has seen the network flourish in his 13 years there.
Natural Born Thriller
Adrenalin junkies flock to the adventure playground of the world for a big fix of bungee- jumping or white-water rafting. David Davies settles for a gentler approach to Godzone country.
WTO Chief Reminds Rich of Moral Duty to Help Poor
Mike Moore said on Tuesday that opening up the markets of wealthy nations to exports from the poorest countries was a crucial pillar of free trade.
Great Balls of Lightning: A Lucky Find
Two New Zealand scientists report in Nature today a more down-to-earth explanation for something that has been puzzling physicists for hundreds of years.
Check Out This Landscape of Timely Tastes
Are you still reeling from the way your guests drained your wine supply during those blowout millennium parties?
