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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
[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
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
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 […]
