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4 January 2023
EDGE #430 – Ten Things to Keep in Mind Before Visiting NZ + 48 Global Stories –
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News of Global New Zealanders
From Brian Sweeney, publisher, NZEDGE.COM
| 04 January 2023 | #430 | New York
Researched, edited and produced by Jane Nye (Wellington) and
Alexandra Burnside (London)
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To prepare those interested in a trip to
Aotearoa, The Jerusalem Post polled their
“Nomad community for advice on what they would
tell someone visiting the country for the
first time”, and this included ensuring
travellers “sleep outside”, and being wary of
sand…
It’s not quite the silver screen, but for the
savants of the 16×9 phone screen, TikTok’s second
annual For You Fest held in Sydney celebrates the
top tier of talent…
As teenagers, Aucklander Holly Rose Emery (left),
who is based in New York, and Australian Gemma Ward
both shot to the top of the international modelling
industry. Harper’s…
Artisanal companies from Britain to New Zealand are
putting environmentally sensitive production,
practices and packaging at the centre of their
business models, Isabella Kwai reports for The…
With submissions on the proposed Charities Amendment
Bill closing a couple of days ago, Denis O’Reilly
argues against the changing attitude towards
charities and what he sees as the move…
Many entrepreneurs will tell you that what they’re
doing now is not what they initially set out to do.
Each month in a series called, The Pivot,
Canadian…
At 82, the exuberant Christchurch-born, Sydney-based
pianist Mike Nock has a lifetime of stories to
share, and an abundance of insights to accompany
them, Jessica…
Aucklander Shane van Gisbergen, 33, (pictured right)
now has more Supercars wins in one season than
anybody else, after he and Australian Garth Tander,
45, surged to their second…
Last month, a new indie pop star emerged – and she’s
making the main character anthems of everyone’s
dreams, according to Brittany Spanos writing for
Rolling Stone. After…
“New Zealand’s volcanic activity is so close to the
earth’s surface that you can even dig your own hot
tub in the sand,” Forbes contributor Johanna Read
writes. “[The…
Jaime Leigh McIntosh is on a rare break. The
Cambridge-born, Los Angeles-based hair stylist has
spent the last three years leading the hair
department for two…
Lance Savali is a Wellington-born dancer, who shot
to stardom after beginning his career with
compatriot Parris Goebel’s dance crew, The Royal
Family. Speaking to Complex AU,…
Auckland has made the Condé Nast Traveler global
guide to the ‘Best Places to Go in 2023′ list, one
of 23 locations worldwide to make the cut. “Widely
praised for its containment of COVID-19,…
Hamish Kilgour, a founding member of the New Zealand
band the Clean, who was celebrated among fans of
underground music for his propulsive drumming and
his…
When Simran Kaur, creator and co-host of the podcast
Girls That Invest, and author of the bestselling
book of the same name, was growing up in New
Zealand, there was no resource for young women…
In-demand New Zealand choreographer Parris Goebel
talks with Harper’s Bazaar about shaping the annual
fashion spectacle Savage x Fenty and her
longstanding creative…
Tuesday 15 November 2022 marked the day that the
global population reached 8 billion, according to
the United Nations. The impact of this is
far-reaching, putting additional…
The 92km Tinworth Trail, dedicated to a former trail
race organiser who died two years ago and designed
by New Zealander Will Hayward, runs from the North
East…
Beloved by the likes of Dry Cleaning and Grouper,
New Zealand guitarist Roy Montgomery’s life has been
hit by more than one tragedy, stories he traces
in…
Christchurch-born Marcus Armstrong was a Scott Dixon
fan his entire life and when he was eight, the
aspiring young racer asked his fellow New Zealander
to autograph a…
In New York, on the Lower East Side, Laurel Gitlen
gallery features two tile works that Kate Newby, the
sculptor and ceramist, calls “murals”. Hung like
paintings, they…
Kaeā, founded by conservationist Suzan Craig, is one
of a handful of sustainable skincare brands to come
out of New Zealand in recent years. Financial
Times…
In 1998, a team of researchers made the
three-and-a-half day trek to the isolated Antipodes
Islands in the South Pacific to study one of its few
residents: the…
The Korean-born New Zealander Lydia Ko, 25, has
captured her 18th career LPGA Tour title in Korea,
rallying from a one-stroke deficit with some
methodical golf down the…
In 2001, the American Samoa football team were
thrashed by Australia and recruited the services of
a coach named Thomas Rongen in an attempt to reverse
their…
A team of oceanographers, scientists and marine
geologists headed by the New Zealand National
Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)
investigating…
Black Ferns wing Ruby Tui can now celebrate her
World Cup victory with a new winner’s medal after
she was recently named World Rugby breakthrough 15s
player of the year at the World Rugby…
New Zealand golfer Lydia Ko has secured the LPGA’s
season-ending title, the tour’s Player of the Year
award and a big winner’s cheque with a two-stroke
win at the CME Group Tour…
Gemma New has studied under conductors whose names
are familiar well beyond the cloistered halls of
classical music: Dudamel, Salonen, Michael Tilson
Thomas. The 35-year-old New Zealand…
Arts alumnus Ken Gorbey tells Megan Fowlie,
reporting for Auckland University’s Ingenio
magazine, that he is treating his ninth decade as he
would a museum…
For the first time in New Zealand’s history, a
majority of its lawmakers are women, Nick Perry
writes for Associated Press in a story published by
the Los Angeles…
“This was the biggest game of women’s rugby ever
played and, somehow, it exceeded even that lofty
billing. New Zealand are the Rugby World Cup
champions but only after a…
Waitara-born writer Jacqueline Bublitz discusses New
Zealand’s “significant contribution to the cannon of
popular crime fiction” and recommends four authors
“you should be reading…
Not software but hardware, of the coolest kind.
Wellington materials science and design innovators
Kaynemaile have graced one of Silicon Valley’s
newest buildings with their…
Cultural Reports under Section 27 of the Sentencing
Act seek to address the entrenched asymmetry or
negative disproportionality in criminal justice
outcomes for Māori offenders. Its complex. Justice
Sir Joe…