We’re All Royalists Here?

Miss representation? Put that portrait of the Queen back on the lounge wall: “All New Zealanders are royalists, not like the Aussies,” proclaims the Dame (Kiri te Kanawa). Perhaps this is not surprising coming from someone who sang for the Queen at her recent Buckingham Palace Jubilee. Kiri recently performed at Edinburgh’s newly refurbished Usher Hall and she told The Times she enjoys singing to people in places like “Turkey, Estonia, places where they’ve never heard me sing”.


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Stellar Creator Mark Toia an Advertising Legend

Stellar Creator Mark Toia an Advertising Legend

New Zealand-born visionary filmmaker and director Mark Toia has died, at the age of 51, in Brisbane, the Daily Mail reports. Toia’s career took him from filming eye-catching ads for Jeep and…