22 Oct 2014:
According to financial documents published in New Zealand, the trilogy of films telling Tolkein’s classic fantasy tale have reached a cost of over £460m – with the final few months of spending still not included
Guardian Professional,14 Oct 2014: Marcus Hobley: Lessons for Whitehall on handling hung parliaments from five countries where coalition governments are the norm
13 Oct 2014:
Can you imagine NBA players performing a Native American grass dance in an act of team solidarity and national unity? In New Zealand, no one bats an eye
11 Oct 2014:
John Key says the government will look at legal changes to enable police to arrest someone if they intended to travel to Iraq or Syria to fight with Islamic State
8 Oct 2014:
Trip by Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and son Prince George expected to boost tourism dollar, and it cost a fraction of Oprah Winfrey’s tour
6 Oct 2014:
New approach to cutting dental care costs in New Zealand ‘deepens the stereotypes that beneficiaries can’t do anything themselves’, says community group
3 Oct 2014:
The development of engineered timber could herald a new era of eco-friendly ‘plyscrapers’. Christchurch welcomed its first multistorey timber structure this year, there are plans for Vancouver, and the talk is China could follow
Nicky Hager: An orchestrated insider attack has painted Key’s political opponents as dodgy, untrustworthy or incompetent. This is not how democracy should work
Antony Loewenstein: Personal attacks, backstabbings, bloggers secretly working alongside politicians: New Zealand’s latest political scandal has all the makings of a US drama – but it’s real life
Callum Clayton-Dixon: I have been asked before why I 'choose' to identify as Aboriginal. For me, it’s about three things: conviction, commitment and connection