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A safe haven in Dunedin has not come with stability for a former refugee family who have bounced around different properties in a stressful quest...

Kurdish-Iranian writer and political refugee Behrouz Boochani says the refugees due to arrive in NZ from Australia and detention centres in Nauru need to be treated with respect.

For many South Africans, the quiet and calmness that can be found in the water – one of the rare places with few, if any, human-related threats – has been transformational.

By Sharron Ward 23 April 2021 Sometimes, saving a species means treating one animal at a time. The veterinarians at The Wildlife Hospital, Dunedin do just that, going small to go big by caring exclusively for native animals. Headquartered close to the wildlife-rich Otago Peninsula on New Zealand's South Island, the hospital is ideally placed to help where it's most needed. And with extinction threatening up to 80% of native wildlife, from kākāpō birds to sea lions, every mended bone and tended orphan could be the difference between a species thriving or dying out. 50 Reason...

New Zealand film-maker Sharron Ward on the trauma of being imprisoned in Libya 8 Jan, 2021 07:00 PM 11 minutes to read By: Joanna Mathers Joanna Mathers talks with award-winning New Zealand documentary film-maker Sharron Ward about coming home . Isolation had the sting of familiarity. Confinement, enforced meal times, dull, aching hunger. Small aftershocks of Libya but without the lurking malevolence. Returning to New Zealand (and two weeks' isolation) from decades living in London, Kiwi film-maker Sharron Ward felt the echo of another confinement. In 2012 she was held for t...