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Our Parliament’s library

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It provides the research hub for our MPs and their staff, with its thousands of books, vast stacks of newspapers and more documents relevant...

Auckland’s aging coathanger

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When I first came to Auckland some 50 years back, the only way to take a vehicle to the North Shore was to trundle...

Broken but not subdued

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For generations Christchurch’s cathedral has been the city’s symbol, its focal point and, in many ways, its very identity. Of all New Zealand...

The Baroque glories of Schloss Eggenberg

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Europe has more magnificent castles than you can shake a stick at. Few, however, match the glories of Austria’s Schloss Eggenberg. Apart from...

Seeing stars in Sydney

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Visitors to Sydney who take time to explore the slopes above The Rocks may wish to direct their steps up Observatory Hill. At...

Events centre — well utilised and much appreciated

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Back in April 2005, the Counties Manukau Pacific Trust unveiled its TelstraClear Pacific Events Centre. Remarkably, the building opened debt-free. Since its opening,...

Eyeing you up

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They do things differently in England’s north. Up in Newcastle-on-Tyne they have a plethora of bridges crossing the river on which the city is...

Hadrian’s defining wall

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The recent celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall recall that using physical barriers to mark political borders ain’t...

Auckland’s big little new Eden

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Eden Park has been a sports ground since 1900. It became home to Auckland Cricket in 1910 and to the Auckland Rugby Union in...

Christchurch salutes the Deans

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AMI Stadium is the latest incarnation of what was once Lancaster Park that began life in 1880 under the auspices of the Canterbury Cricket...