General | Australian Aviation
1 June 2015
Air New Zealand has completed the refurbishment of its Sydney Airport lounge with Auckland, Brisbane and Queenstown to follow as part of a $40 million lounge refurbishment program.
“The key thing for us though is…
Anthem
20 May 2015
Listen to Geoffrey Knight’s powerful voice as he sings the New Zealand National Anthem for 34,500 people at Suncorp Stadium Brisbane before the NRL 2015 Anzac Day commemorative match…
Film & TV | Hollywood Reporter
18 December 2014
Cliff Curtis has won best actor at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards for his portrayal of Genesis Potini in The Dark Horse, ahead of veteran Australian actor David Gulpilil, who won the prize…
Obituaries | Australian (The) | City Beat | Courier Mail | New Zealand Herald (The)
24 July 2014
New Zealand-born James McCullough, one of Australia’s best-known financial journalists and columnists, and a former London correspondent for the Australian, has died at 56 in Brisbane.
McCullough was the long-time writer of the influential City…
Business | Australian (The)
25 February 2014
New Zealand-born James Lillis, 37, is the founder of Black Milk, “one of the fastest-growing Australian clothing companies you’ve never heard of, selling more than 1000 garments a day,” Glenda Korporaal writes in a…
Haka
2 September 2013
Watch as 20 fearsome men break into a flash mob performing the Haka in front of an Australian audience at Brisbane’s Queen Street Mall.
New Zealand | Australian (The)
21 January 2012
“My first sighting of New Zealand is from the balcony of my cabin as Sun Princess sidles up to the rugged cliffs of Fiordland,” The Australian’s Helen McKenzie describes from aboard the ship for her maiden…
Te Ao Maori | Sydney Morning Herald (The)
26 November 2010
Unnerved: The New Zealand Project, an exhibition of 26 contemporary local artists in various media, including photography, sculpture, video, painting and installation has opened at the National Gallery of Victoria in Brisbane. The pieces…
Sport | Guardian (The)
14 November 2010
The Kiwis took an exhilarating victory from the Kangaroos at Brisbane’s Suncorp Stadium, winning the Rugby League Four Nations by four points in the game’s final minutes (with a spectacular final minute try and…
Visual Arts | Australian (The)
7 May 2010
The Queensland Art Gallery’s Gallery of Modern Art is showcasing its substantial collection of contemporary New Zealand art — the largest outside of this country — with an exhibition called the
Theatre | Courier-Mail (The)
1 July 2006
Peninsula, the latest play from NZ writer Gary Henderson, is applauded in Brisbane’s Courier Mail. Commissioned by the Christchurch Arts Festival, the play was inspired by Henderson’s own experience growing up in Duvauchelle Bay,…
War & Peace | Guardian (The)
28 October 2005
Brisbane born, Dunedin raised and educated Malcolm Kendall-Smith, the man who refused to return to fight in a war that was “manifestly unlawful”, stood by his decision at a court martial hearing on 27 October at…
Science/Tech | Sydney Morning Herald (The)
29 September 2003
The All Blacks are using Telecom’s most state-of-the-art technology in their bid to win this year’s Rugby World Cup. Coach John Mitchell will be able to view streamed video footage of multiple angles of the game…
Medicine/Health | Australian (The)
19 May 2003
In a world first, surgical teams in NZ and Australia have successfully completed a trans-Tasman kidney operation using state-of-the -art digital conferencing technology. The procedure itself took place in Christchurch, where a team of doctors led by…