NZ goes back to the MCG for a Boxing Day Test, after 32 years between drinks

It was the year of the first Lotto draw, with a first division prize of $360,000. Sales of VCRs continued to surge, with almost half of New Zealand households by now able to watch video cassettes. David Lange’s Labour government was re-elected. It was 1987, and it was the last time that New Zealand played in the MCG Boxing Day Test.

The Boxing Day Test! We may not know precisely why Boxing

The classic Kiwi roadie is the same every year, for most of us: from your town to a mate’s bach. To switch things up this summer, Jean Sergent has found some of the more unusual trips you can take across our country.

Through the Mountains of Madness: Queenstown to Milford Sound

This is a long-ish one, but absolutely stunning. The first two hours of the drive, from Queenstown to Te Anau, take you past Lake Wakatipu and around Taka Ra Haka/ the Eyre

You might have seen/heard a fair bit of noise surrounding the long-awaited Westfield Newmarket, on the site of the iconic and now largest shopping centre in the country. Last week the mall opened some of its eventual 200-plus doors and our new concept store was unveiled.

If you’re the type that double taps on Instagrams of stylish interiors, and pays attention to the decor of shops (not just what’s hanging on the racks), you’ll likely enjoy the

You might have seen some filthy moustaches popping up your mates’ faces this month. You might even have grown one yourself. Robert Dunne from Movember had a yarn with us about how a few Melbourne lads started one of the biggest men’s health movements in the world.

For nine years, Robert Dunne has been the country manager for Movember New Zealand. It’s more than a month of Chopper Read impersonations; it’s a global fundraising and facilitation

It’s been 41 years since Aotearoa began celebrating Te Wiki o te Reo Maori (Maori Language Week). And as much as we’d love a nation united in celebrating Te Reo every day of the year, 7 days where we give more consideration to the language is a humble and manageable start.

If you haven’t already, here’s 5 ways to get involved and give a nod this Maori Language Week:

1. Learn a little

Most of us Kiwis fall off our

There are books you flick through, forget, and consign to the KonMari pile. There are books you finish and never think of again. Then there are the classics: those stories that stick in the subconscious and that are capable, decades later, of transporting a reader back to the boy he was when he discovered them. 

Here are our top five childhood classics – stack ‘em up and brace for a wallop of nostalgia.

1. White Fang

In June Simon Day learned he was going to become a father – to twins. To find out what he was in for he spoke to Jay Reeve about his first five years raising twin boys. 

I’ll never forget sitting in the dim of the radiology theatre at our first baby scan, staring at the strange black and white image on the ultrasound machines screen trying to work out what I was seeing. I thought I could make out a head, maybe a couple of legs.