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I didn’t want to stay in this budget airport hotel, but I loved it
Get over your Holiday Inn preconceptions – this airport hotel is fun and funky, with surprising tropical-resort vibes.
- Katrina Lobley
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Lessons on the housing crisis from across the ditch
New Zealand offers ideas on how to cut rents and make homes more affordable. But there are also warnings about following its super-for-housing policy.
- Shane Wright
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- Airports
‘Bali is more seamless’: The passport processing headache greeting Australian travellers
Long queues are forming at Australia’s airports thanks to a digital processing system that is riddled with faults.
- Eryk Bagshaw
‘I don’t do things I don’t believe in’: Rachel Griffiths on sex, life and feminomics
The Australian actor stars in an ambitious new drama series set in an “ethical” brothel.
- Michael Idato
New Zealand courts digital nomads with new ‘relaxed’ tourist visa
“The ambition is that new visa rules will put New Zealand boldly on the map as a welcoming haven for the world’s talent,” says the finance minister.
- Amelia Nierenberg
Back to (or building) the future?
It is both ironic and appropriate that Peter Dutton has chosen to copy the New Zealand Nationals’ election slogan of “Back on track”.
Flame trees’ fiery warning for tinderbox Aussie bush
The wildfires ravaging Los Angeles hold important lessons for Australia which, like California, has large forests of highly flammable (introduced) eucalypt trees, which are nicknamed “gasoline trees” in the US.
- Opinion
- Travel tips
Back-to-work blues? These 10 tips will ignite your travel dreams
The exchange rate is brutal, there’s a cost-of-living crisis and overtourism is ruining popular spots, but here’s how you can still have a great holiday in 2025.
- Ben Groundwater
This year’s Spanish Scrabble champion? A New Zealander who can’t even speak the language
Nigel Richards lost only one of his 24 games and beat 147 competitors from around the world to claim the prize. The runner-up said his victory was a “humiliation”.
- Kyle Melnick
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