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Celebrities including Jamie Lee Curtis, Eugene Levy, Leighton Meester and Adam Brody, and Paris Hilton have been adversely affected by the LA fires.

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.

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Getting to South America is easy from Sydney or Melbourne.

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
New Zealand’s Nigel Richards competes in a category of the Francophone Scrabble World Championships in Louvain-La-Neuve in 2015.

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
Kawita Vatanyankur, Knit (from the ‘Performing Textiles’ series), 2018.

11 artists you must see in the 11th Asia Pacific Triennial

From an AI nightmare come to life to wall of metal skulls, here are the must-see highlights of QAGOMA’s huge summer exhibition.

  • Nick Dent
Four-bedroom villa, pool deck view.

The iconic NZ lodge with a dress-circle location

How cheeky to call these villas on New Zealand’s North Island “residential style”, given my domicile here is painfully temporary.

  • Catherine Marshall
Paul Fletcher MP

If the Libs offered more pros, there might be no ‘con job’

I voted for Nicolette Boele in the last federal election not because Paul Fletcher was part of one of the worst governments ever inflicted upon this country, but apparently because I am such a stupid woman I had no idea what I was doing.

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The shores and dunes of Hokianga Harbour.

Tracing the first footsteps in New Zealand’s heavenly north

The country’s human history began on an unassuming stretch of north-west coastline.

  • Catherine Marshall
Jimmy O Yang and Ronny Chieng in Interior Chinatown.

‘It’s not ego’: Ronny Chieng on Interior Chinatown and why he’ll never be the lead

New Disney+ comedy satire mocks the stereotyping of Asian characters on screen.

  • Louise Rugendyke
Thousands of people gather outside New Zealand's parliament to protest a proposed law that would redefine the country's founding agreement between Indigenous Mori and the British Crown, in Wellington

Why are thousands of people marching for Maori rights?

Tens of thousands of people have gathered in Wellington for the final stretch of a week-long protest that has spanned the length of the country. Here is why.

  • Charlotte Graham-McLay
New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters has been a key player in his nation’s politics for over four decades.

NZ’s anti-woke warrior Winston Peters is the Trump of the south

Once described as like “the drunk uncle at the wedding”, NZ’s deputy prime minister has proved the wiliest political survivor in the Pacific.

  • Matthew Knott

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