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Society
What Does a Business Owe the Place Around It?
Businesses create jobs, ideas and wealth, but they also leave a footprint. What responsibility do we carry for the people and places around us?
Arts & Culture
Their Arms Shall Rest Now
Central Otago writer Jillian Sullivan reflects on loss, memory and the quiet responsibility of carrying on.
Food
The Geography of Gin
From the foothills of the Andes, Gin Provincia distils Chile not as a map, but as aroma, memory and landscape.
Arts & Culture
The Country That Found the Shire
An imagined geography found a real one. On Hobbit Day, Zealanding reflects on how Middle-earth became attached to the landscapes of New Zealand.
Travel
Three Days on the Hump Ridge: The New Zealand You Have to Walk Into
Three days, endless stairs, ancient forest and a sunrise over Fiordland. Some parts of New Zealand only make sense once you walk into them.
Society
New Zealand Is Still Reading - And I Hope We Keep It That Way
I read from my phone now, but I still remember what it felt like to disappear into Kundera, García Márquez or Tolkien with a book in my hands. New Zealand has just ranked ninth in the world for reading. In a world learning to scroll faster, that feels worth celebrating.
Society
What If We Woke Up Without Them?
A campaign slogan, two policy proposals and an old film raise a larger question: when does someone who came to New Zealand simply become part of New Zealand?
Society
NZ First Wants a Ten-Year Wait for Citizenship. But What Would It Take to Become Law?
New Zealand First wants to double the qualifying period for citizenship from five to ten years. But it does not need to win the election for the proposal to matter. Under MMP, the real question may be how much bargaining power the party holds after 7 November.