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ALICE SPRINGS, THE modern town at the centre of the Australian continent, is also a converging point of ancient...

IN 1992, COLIN Duffy was profiled by Susan Orlean in Esquire magazine about his thoughts on wealth, consumer products,...

By Alice Pung

IT WOULD BE fascinating to know what Queen Victoria was thinking in 1893 as she penned her congratulatory note...

RANGIORA IS A small (population around twelve thousand) country town twenty-five kilometres north of Christchurch. It has an interesting...

By Paul Thomas

THE SOUTHERLY BLEW seawater over the runway. Grey foam streamed down the rocks at Moa Point and our tin...

By Rachel Buchanan

EVERY so often we can hear recordings of famous New Zealanders of the past: Hillary at the conquest of...

By Laurie Bauer

I ASSESSED OFATO in the visitor section of Silverwater jail in Sydney's western suburbs. Anxious, expectant relatives were directed,...

By Tanveer Ahmed

IN THE QUIET week between Christmas and New Year, sometimes even New Zealanders are newsworthy in Australia. Generally the...

By Peter Mares

Sally Blundell is a journalist and writer based in Christchurch. In this interview she discusses the aftermath of the...

By Madeleine Watts

Hamish Clayton is a writer of fiction, essays and criticism. His first novel, Wulf (Penguin New Zealand, 2012), won...

By Madeleine Watts

Cliff Fell is a London-born poet, essayist, musician and book reviewer who settled in New Zealand in 1998. His...

By Madeleine Watts

Lloyd Jones is an award-winning writer of fiction whose work includes the short fiction collection Swimming to Australia (Victoria...

By Madeleine Watts