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It wasn’t that long ago that amphetamines and methamphetamine were legal in New Zealand, commonly used to manage weight loss, taken by athletes or night...

This is the first time a bilingual book has won the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award.

10 August For the first time a bilingual book has taken out the top prize at the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. Te Wehenga: The Separation of Ranginui and Papatūānuku by Mat Tait (Ngāti Apa ki te rātō) was tonight presented ...

Brennans Bread bakeries has been ordered to pay a worker €15,000 after “serious defects” were found in the way it sacked him for breaking its smoking policy – which the company said risked “fire, explosion and death”.

Darren Kiernan was recorded on CCTV smoking in his van in the car park ‘75 yards’ from flour silos

Brennans Bread bakeries has been ordered to pay a worker €15,000 after “serious defects” were found in the way it sacked him for breaking its smoking policy – which the company said risked “fire, explosion and death”.

From a standing start of little tank engines chugging along wooden rails, New Zealand built a vast rail network, made up of enough steel rail to wrap halfway around the moon.

Prejudice is bad, but so is "inspiration porn".

We’re here to talk about her memoir, From the Centre: A Writer’s Life,​ which will be launched at the Auckland Writers​ Festival, where she is one of the guest speakers. Grace is one of New Zealand/Aotearoa’s most celebrated Māori fiction authors, who, over five decades, has won national and international awards for her work, including the Neustadt International Prize for Literature​ (considered the most prestigious literary prize after the Nobel). She was made​ a distinguishe...

- They Called it Passchendaele, Lyn Macdonald​, 1978. An English historian details the daily lives and struggles of the much maligned British Tommy on the Western Front. - Man Alone, John Mulgan, 1939. A novel based around a man named Johnson, a British soldier who was billeted with Kiwis on the Western Front. After the war he came out to New Zealand looking for a better life. Instead, he finds a “grim” country struggling to recover economically from the impact of the war. - We Will Not ...