At the bottom of the pile of invoices sent to his Auckland home, one of New Zealand's toughest rugby players discovered the secret his wife had been keeping.
A former All Blacks captain, a renowned artist and the first Māori to compete at Wimbledon have been awarded honours in this year's Queen's Birthday Honours.
Legendary All Blacks captain Wayne Shelford wants NZ Rugby and the players to hammer out their differences.
All Blacks legend Wayne ‘Buck’ Shelford believes New Zealand Rugby owes it to its constituency to consider options beyond the Silver Lake deal and calls on them to take an open mind when they sit down with the players’ association to talk through their differences. Shelford also told
Stuff in an interview discussing the very public standoff between the national union and its players’ association over the proposed $387.5 million 12.5 per cent selloff to the US private equity giant that he has major doubts whether that money would filter down to the grassroots levels of the game to make any discernible difference.
Cultural appropriation: What it means and why it matters
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Joanna Wane on navigating the social minefield of cultural ownership . The theme of the Queenstown party was Inappropriate , and the woman who contacted costume hire company First Scene had already come up with a few ideas of her own.
Maybe, she suggested, her husband could go as the Christchurch mosque shooter and she could be a Muslim? Or what about American slave and master costumes?
Owner Jo Pilkington has had a few clients she s politely declined to work with (and yes, this was one of them) but not all have set out to deliberately cause offence. When an English fashion designer wanted some korowai for a photoshoot, Pilkington gave her a call to ask what she had in mind.