EDGE #377: ABs Deliver Bledisloe Pain With Wallaby Whitewash + 12 Stories

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News of Global New Zealanders From Brian Sweeney, publisher, NZEDGE.COM | 22 August 2019 | #377 | New York Researched, edited and produced by Jane Nye (Wellington), Carla Hofler (Auckland) and Alexandra Burnside. See all stories and a 16,000 story archive of international New Zealand news 2000-2019 at NZEDGE/MEDIA. Fern symbol by www.nzflag.com founded by Lloyd Morrison. Rugby | Guardian (The) 21 August 2019 ABs Deliver Bledisloe Pain With Wallaby Whitewash “New Zealand secured the 2019 Bledisloe Cup with a resounding 36-0 victory against Australia at Eden Park to dent any hopes of a Wallabies resurgence ahead of next month’s Rugby World Cup,” Australian Associated Press correspondent Oliver Trenchard writes in… Nature | BBC 21 August 2019 Human-Sized Penguin Lived in New Zealand The BBC reports on the findings of the remains of a giant penguin the size of a human that were discovered in Waipara, North Canterbury by amateur palaeontologist Leigh Love in… Film & TV | Entertainment Weekly 20 August 2019 Inaugural Toronto Film Fest Award Goes to Taika The Jojo Rabbit and Thor: Ragnarok filmmaker, Taika Waititi, will receive Toronto Film Festival’s (TIFF) first-ever Ebert Director Award, which will be… Visual Arts | Sydney Morning Herald (The) 20 August 2019 Performance Artist Alicia Frankovich Set to Work Alicia Frankovich suspects that the activities we undertake as children can determine the shape of our adult selves, Neha Kale writes for The Sydney… Business | Times (The) 18 August 2019 New NAB Chief Ross McEwan Faced With More Repairs Sitting in the Royal Bank of Scotland’s revamped offices near London’s Liverpool Street station last month days after accepting the top job at… Nature | Smithsonian.com 17 August 2019 Study Provides Alarming Biodiversity Figures “When humans arrived in New Zealand some 700 years ago, they discovered a plethora of unusual birds that could be found nowhere else in the world, having evolved in… Film & TV | Los Angeles Times 16 August 2019 Investigative Role for Lucy Lawless In My Life Is Murder, a “delightful new detective show”, New Zealand actor Lucy Lawless plays Alexa Crowe, a former police investigator “half-reluctantly drawn back to work as an… Arts | The Conversation 21 August 2014 5 YEARS AGO New Zealand: The Other Half of the Anzac Legend As the centenary of the Gallipoli landings approaches Australians need to consider the other half of the… Arts | Examiner.com 15 August 2009 10 YEARS AGO She is Getting on With It “Stuntmaster turned-actor of the moment seems to be New Zealand-born Zöe Bell”, writes Douglas Rusley for The Examiner in a review… Arts | The Conversation 21 August 2004 15 YEARS AGO Exploring Our Edge A couple from St Louis give a colourful account of their whirlwind 14-day tour of NZ. “Throughout ‘Kiwiland’ we bumped into geographical quirks… Legends | YouTube 22 August 2019 VIDEO Sir Edmund Hillary Centenary Celebration: Selina Tusitala Marsh performs ‘NZ, the Lucky Country’ NZ Poet Laureate Selina Tusitala Marsh performs ‘New Zealand, the Lucky Country’ and her new poem about Sir Ed… Legends | YouTube 22 August 2019 VIDEO Sir Edmund Hillary Centenary Celebration: Professor Clive Gilson’s closing speech on Hillary legacy Chair of the Hillary Centenary Steering Committee, Professor Clive Gilson’s closing speech on the Hillary legacy at the Sir Edmund Hillary Centenary… Legends | YouTube 22 August 2019 VIDEO Sir Edmund Hillary Centenary Celebration: Neil Quigley on the UoW’s Hillary Scholarship Programme Vice Chancellor of the University of Waikato, Professor Neil Quigley, speaks on the University of Waikato’s…