from “doing a Morrison”. When the New Zealand government wanted to set up an Office of Tourism ... New Zealand’ campaign, but also drew fire from Labor MPs for being the political placeman of the country’s then tourism minister and now foreign affairs minister, Murray McCully. The New Zealand Herald ...

The Monthly - Nick Bryant - 2012-02-07 15:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Florey and New Zealand’s physicist Ernest Rutherford. Ronald Syme, the historian of ancient Rome, came ... to New Zealand from Cambridge. Don showed me, reverently or ironically, a letter from the critic moralist ... of Vienna. Paul’s original doctoral thesis for Vienna having been sunk at sea on its way to New Zealand ...

The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2011-12-01 10:30 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

far from the scene of the crime, as New Zealand Labour and the Canadian Liberals were; or whether ... for example, has no precedent as a first-term unseating of a prime minister. But consider New Zealand ... op-ed piece in the New York Times on 14 August. “Last year my federal tax bill,” wrote the man ...

The Monthly - Peter Hartcher - 2012-01-20 08:37 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Grafhorst’s family to emigrate to New Zealand in 1986; Eve, then a kindergarten student, had contracted HIV ... American men who had died of a new wasting disease that went by many names, all with the prefix ‘gay’: ‘gay ... had acquired a new name. GRID had become AIDS. It still sounded strange and it was clumsy on our lips, ...

The Monthly - Gail Bell - 2011-11-30 12:26 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

past, and news that her beloved brother, a sailor, has fathered a child in New Zealand with a Maori ... (September 2011, Books, Noted, Fiction, Kate Grenville, New Zealand) ... that would enter our history books in the 1980s. (“They called us the Colony of New South Wales … We wasn’t ...

The Monthly - Delia Falconer - 2011-09-02 17:15 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

was going off somewhere else, and the call – which was VoIP – was coming from New Zealand. It took NSW ... Mobile Phones, Natural Disaster, New Zealand) ... solutions have emerged naturally from the new technologies that cause so much trouble in this area. During ...

The Monthly - Christine Kenneally - 2011-09-02 15:52 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

New Zealand and the US agreed to aid each other militarily – for the first time in its history. He did ... of the Center for National Security Strategies at the Hudson Institute, New York. As the under-secretary ... in Bonn, Germany, in December 2001 to form a new government. The former United Nations special ...

The Monthly - Sally Neighbour - 2011-09-09 16:22 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

participants television exposure, gasp! – is spreading to New Zealand and Australia. We should not have ... New York Times, New Zealand, Parenting) ... of the coiffed, glamorous and innocent Ramsey in the mid 1990s, journalist Frank Rich reminded New York Times ...

The Monthly - Julia Baird - 2011-08-31 22:35 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Steven Amsterdam: All the Black Swans " You couldn't make this stuff up : A fruit seller in Tunisia altering history? Too saccharine. A sleepy, third-tier city in New Zealand, shaken to rubble, followed by a handful of others in Japan ...

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it in the mountains of the Milford Track in New Zealand’s Southern Alps. At 53 kilometres, the hike takes four days ... pass through here, but don’t remain . New Zealand evolved out of Gondwanaland without animals. ... (sound silence, sound silence) (May 2011, Travel Special, Energy, Hiking, New Zealand, Torture, ...

The Monthly - Craig Sherborne - 2011-05-05 12:36 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

of New Zealand. Gillard certainly is difficult to rattle. With Rudd, you could spot his panic ... prime ministership, is in an odd position: she is still a new leader but she leads a government ... public servants put in to creating them. Sometimes, new governments will salvage something from ...

The Monthly - Annabel Crabb - 2011-09-19 11:06 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

as 55-year-old New Zealand author Lloyd Jones. A writer of truly international sensibility, Jones has set his ... him most typically a New Zealand author. His novels reflect our near neighbours’ more strongly ... Arts & Letters, SOCIETY, Africa, Italy, New Zealand, Tunisia) ...

The Monthly - Delia Falconer - 2011-01-04 05:22 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

­Kaihautu of Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand; and Mr David Revere McFadden, ­Chief Curator and Vice President for Programs and Collections, Museum of Arts and Design, New York. The event is chaired by Amanda ...

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­Kaihautu of Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand; and Mr David Revere McFadden, ­Chief Curator and Vice President for Programs and Collections, Museum of Arts and Design, New York. The event is chaired by Amanda ...

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biggest success, buying into New Zealand newspapers, making Fairfax a media giant in that country. ... Zealand’s largest online classifieds site, as well as expanding the New Zealand newspaper branch. ... Media, New Zealand, News Limited) ...

The Monthly - Margaret Simons - 2011-02-24 15:35 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Australian and New Zealand universities. In December 1911, he headed for the home of the blizzard. It was two ... (July 2010, Encounters, SOCIETY, New Zealand, Universities) ...

The Monthly - Shane Maloney - 2010-11-23 15:36 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

of a boyfriend who attempted the swim between the North and South Islands of New Zealand, thought ... Macquarie Bank, New York City, New Zealand, Platypus, Travel) ... mornings before work. For a number of years, he was president of Masters Swimming New South Wales, and he ...

The Monthly - Kate Jennings - 2011-01-04 05:31 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

with an architecture student from New Zealand. That year was also the first of Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s two decades ... in IT and lives with his wife and children on a farm in his father’s New Zealand. When Langton returned from ... Two very unlike people have been opening up new ways of thinking about Indigenous affairs in Australia ...

The Monthly - Peter Robb - 2012-01-18 10:22 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

the upwards inflection on ‘mates’: to an Australian ear, the strong New Zealand accent is quite funny. ... release), a delightful coming-of-age tale that has become the highest grossing New Zealand film of all time. ... Jackson, New Zealand) ...

The Monthly - Luke Davies - 2010-09-02 12:45 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

and New Zealand Obesity Society Annual Conference, where he also noted –  with some outrage – ... a new training program focusing on sprinting and yoga-like stretching rather than the sit-ups and killer ...

The Monthly - Alyssa McDonald - 2011-09-11 09:22 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

and ill in the garden at Villa Isola Bella, France, never in New Zealand. The rags and shreds ... writers, ghost writers) (March 2010, The Nation Reviewed, SOCIETY, Cuba, France, Library, New Zealand) ...

The Monthly - Gail Bell - 2010-09-20 14:22 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

in a single literary expression, but what the hell, the man who split the atom came from New Zealand ... Letters, SOCIETY, Business, creative writing, Les Murray, New Zealand, Painting) ... in the new book had not been about the Taj Mahal. The poem, called ‘From a Tourist Journal’, starts like ...

The Monthly - Clive James - 2010-05-19 17:55 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

met its targets, BP’s operational emissions are now roughly the same as New Zealand’s. BP’s ...

The Monthly - Guy Pearse - 2010-08-05 16:20 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

is Briar Whitehead, a New Zealand native, whose late brother was gay. Whitehead compares same-sex ... Gambling, Homosexuality, New Zealand, Pornography) ...

The Monthly - Benjamin Law - 2010-04-08 15:12 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

not even “100% Pure” New Zealand. With over 6 billion tonnes of recoverable lignite, it now calls coal ... and accessible; the big perk for new recruits is that their coal exports will be immune from whatever the global ... in developing countries are so low, they won’t be forced to reduce their total emissions in any new climate ...

The Monthly - Guy Pearse - 2010-09-02 12:06 - 0 comments - 0 attachments