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“Here’s who I am. Here’s where I come from. Here’s where I’m going to.” Tumama Faumui, a Tongan student at Kelston Boys’ High School, sums up the meaning of his performance at this year’s Auckland ...

Ploughing—the epitome of the colonial ‘civilising’ of land—is as fundamental to this country’s history as war and rugby. Perhaps it’s not surprising that we make a sport out of it. The ploughing ...

There’s no going back. New Zealand has been irreversibly changed since COVID-19 first arrived here in February. How will this end? February 26 was the highest point of summer, and travellers stepping ...

New Zealand’s forests were cleared at a record pace, and from this destruction, a sport arose: who can fell a tree the fastest? Competitive woodchopping transformed the labour of forestry into a ...

Wallabies may have evolved in Australia, but they’re so well suited to life in New Zealand that they have reached plague numbers for the second time in a century, eating their way through the ...

Carrying a red hold-all, 22-year-old Neil Roberts strode through the darkness towards the doors of Wairere House in Wanganui—home of the ‘Wanganui Computer’. It was some 25 minutes past midnight on ...

A metre and bare milliseconds separate Johnny Racz and Greg Baynes as they vie for the Burt Munro Challenge Trophy on Oreti Beach, near Invercargill. During the 1960s, Munro himself tore up this beach ...

In inky darkness, Philip Rush dived from the three-metre rigid inflatable and touched a hand to Dog Rock, at the southwest extremity of Kapiti Island. This formality dispensed with, he turned and ...

trawlingJono Ridler is swimming the length of the North Island unassisted… but he has a lot of help. On an amphibious boat ...

In 1938, a young chemist working on developing new refrigerants accidentally created waxy white flakes instead of gas. The flakes didn’t melt, didn’t react with anything, were extremely slippery, and ...