Start Me Up!

Start Me Up!

I’m a born and bred Wel­ling­to­ni­an, and as such am fiercely proud of our city. It isn’t like any­where else in the coun­try and there’s nowhere else I’d rather live. […]

Exponential Opportunities

Exponential Opportunities

Check out any uni­ver­sity or school pro­spect­us and you will be sure to find some ref­er­ence to edu­cat­ing ‘glob­al cit­izens’. We live and work in an increas­ingly inter­con­nec­ted world and […]

Baywatch

Baywatch

Round­ing the corner of Mah­ina Bay, just past the multi-col­oured bus stop and right on the seafront, sits a little slice of para­dise. Walk­ing into Josephine Culhane’s 1940s two-storey concrete […]

The Interview: Tilly Lloyd

The Interview: Tilly Lloyd

If you want it, you must have it,” says Tilly Lloyd at one point, per­haps an hour into our intensely enjoy­able con­ver­sa­tion. Well, I enjoyed it any­way. After half a […]

Foreign Exchange

Foreign Exchange

For dec­ades, eco­nom­ists have been advising New Zea­l­and that the path to nation­al prosper­ity is through exports. We have taken that to mean selling primary pro­duce for oth­ers to process […]

Kid-friendly Wellington#1

Kid-friendly Wellington#1

Intro­du­cing our three kid crit­ics   Charlie is sev­en. He’s clev­er and full of energy and a fast learner. He’s also ana­lyt­ic­al, which gave us someone in the group who […]

Rocking the free world

Rocking the free world

When Patrick Bren­nan was two years old, and liv­ing in his nat­ive state of Texas, he fell off a bal­cony. He still remem­bers the song that was play­ing at the […]

Modern Letters

Modern Letters

[quote by=“Damien Wilkins, Dir­ect­or, IIML”]It’s hard to be a writer. Firstly, it’s hard to write a good book and then it’s hard to con­vince oth­ers that you’ve done so. It’s […]

Citadel of Rail

Citadel of Rail

Here is Wellington’s archi­tec­tur­al won­der of the 1930s: the new cent­ral rail­way sta­tion, a source of much civic pride. It was a “temple of trans­port” pro­claimed a pub­li­city bro­chure of […]

High Society

High Society

If, like me, you love going to the movies but, unlike me, you actu­ally have to pay for the priv­ilege, you will be exper­i­enced at count­ing the pen­nies and hunting […]

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