EDGE #324: Double World Champions: Men’s 7s Match Women’s Achievement, Tane Mahuta, Marlon Williams, Lorde, + Falconer Crawford Post-Brexit Architect + +

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News of Global New Zealanders From Brian Sweeney, publisher, NZEDGE.COM | 25 July 2018 | #324 | New York Researched, edited and produced by Jane Nye (Berlin), Carla Hofler, Henrike Forschler (Auckland). See all stories and a 14,000 story archive of international New Zealand news 2000-2018 at NZEDGE/MEDIA. Fern symbol by www.nzflag.com founded by Lloyd Morrison. Rugby | New Zealand Herald 23 July 2018 Double World Champions: Men Match Women’s Achievement For only the second time in world rugby sevens history, the New Zealand men’s and women’s teams have won their respective World Cups, with the men sealing the rare accomplishment with a 33-12 win over England in San Francisco today. Their win follows the Black… Community/General | Fortune 24 July 2018 PM Makes Fortune’s 40 Under 40 List The influential Fortune magazine 40 Under 40 list includes Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern at No 12. Co-founder and CEO of Instagram, Kevin Systrom took top place in this year’s… Te Ao Maori | Art Newspaper (The) 19 July 2018 German Museum Returns Tattooed Māori Skull The Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum of world cultures in Cologne, Germany has returned a tattooed Māori skull, which had been in its collection for 110 years, to a delegation… Nature | Independent (The) 18 July 2018 Sign Up to Help Protect Our Iconic Bird Kiwis for kiwi is a national charity working with community and Māori-led conservation projects to put a stop to the horrific decline of our national icon.With the support of… Nature | Guardian (The) 20 July 2018 Time May Be Running Out for Tāne Mahuta New Zealand’s oldest and most sacred tree, Tāne Mahuta (Lord of the Forest), stands 60m from death, as a fungal disease known as kauri dieback spreads unabated across the… Media | National Geographic 19 July 2018 National Geographic to Feature Whanganui River When the Whanganui River was given legal personhood Danish freelance photographer Mathias Svold was so intrigued by the headlines that he went to Washington DC… Business | Indian Newslink 20 July 2018 ANZ Introduces Digital Human Assistant “If you are an ANZ Bank customer, chances are that your queries will be answered by ‘Jamie,’ the latest ‘Customer Services Officer'” and the bank’s new Digital Assistant,… Music | Metro 23 July 2018 Marlon Williams on His Writing Process The most popular and persistent myth attached to the songwriting process is that artists are driven by an absolute, desperate need to do it. As cliché has it, there’s never much… Music | Weekly Volcano 24 July 2018 Wax Chattels Pursue Post-Punk with Manic Fervour “There are few record labels out there that have come to define an entire country’s quality independent music output. Flying Nun Records did that for… Music | Irish Times (The) 20 July 2018 How Lorde Defied Misogyny and Expectations It is a just over a year ago since the release of Lorde’s second album, Melodrama. Ordinarily, a retrospective would be premature, but Melodrama already merits one,… Rugby | WalesOnline 19 July 2018 Finding Keith Murdoch Four Decades On His closest friends in a remote town in the Australian outback had no idea who he was. Now that former All Black Keith Murdoch is dead at 74, the story of the man who disappeared more than… Politics and Economics | Sunday Times (The) 22 July 2018 Post-Brexit Architect Crawford Falconer Optimistic In his first interview since taking up the role of British chief trade negotiation adviser, New Zealander Crawford Falconer talks to John Arlidge… Business | Business Insider 23 July 2018 MediCann Joins Forces With Dispensing Company Shares in Australian company Jayex Healthcare Limited have more than doubled after the medical software and devices company announced a deal with private New… Writers | Sydney Morning Herald (The) 24 July 2018 Ruth Park’s the Harp in the South Now A Stage Play “My first publishing negotiation for Ruth Park was conducted in 1971, in Angus and Robertson’s rabbit warren of offices in Lower George… Theatre | Big Issue (The) 22 July 2018 Leslie Bowman Part of West End Antidote to Trump Through the story of 18th-century Founding Father of America, Alexander Hamilton, and the American Wars of Independence, blockbuster stage musical Hamilton… Visual Arts | Otago Daily Times 25 July 2018 Graduate Aïcha Wijland Wins London Design Award University of Otago advertising graduate Aïcha Wijland says rebellious student culture was behind her edgy, award-winning redesign of classic cartoon character Beryl the Peril… Obituaries | Guardian (The) 18 July 2018 Media Boss Sam Chisholm Nine Network’s Starmaker New Zealand-born media heavyweight Sam Chisholm has died in Sydney. He was 78. During his four-decade career, Chisholm was head of Australia’s Nine… Writers | Guardian (The) 23 July 2018 Author Eleanor Catton on the Books That Changed Her New Zealand Booker Prize-winning novelist Eleanor Catton recently spoke with The Guardian on the crackpot astrological study she’d like to… Film | YouTube 19 July 2018 Yellow Is Forbidden Trailer In Yellow is Forbidden, Pietra Brettkelly takes us into the opulent world of show-stopping Chinese designer Guo Pei as she prepares to make her Paris debut” Watch the trailer here. Yellow is Forbidden… New Zealand | Travel + Leisure 21 July 2018 Waiheke One of the Best Islands Waiheke Island has been ranked the fifth best island in the world in this year’s World’s Best Awards survey, which asks Travel + Leisure readers to  “weigh in on travel experiences around the… New Zealand | Evening Standard 21 July 2018 Hollyford Track in NZ One of Best Walking Holidays New Zealand’s Hollyford Track has been featured as one of the best guided walking holidays in the world in an article in the Evening… Travel | YouTube 20 July 2018 Discover Minaret Station Watch the second installment in Tourism NZ’s series about New Zealand’s luxury lodge owners and their extraordinary properties. Minaret Station, featured in this clip, is a luxury alpine lodge in Wanaka, New Zealand.