Joe Deely – 9/6/00 – A very different side of Glenorchy… Thousands of people flock to Queenstown to get away from it all and do something that’s fun. It is such an exciting place to be; great night life and an amazing array of daytime activities to suit everyone’s taste. However, for those that live…
Siobhan – 19/5/00 Picture this: Jake Heke throws his ragdoll wife against a hard concrete wall, one of many brutal incidents where Dr Hone Ropata went bad in the grim Once Were Warriors. The skirt of Holly Hunter balloons as she sinks into pioneer mud, fingerless, while Anna Paquin dances like a mad thing on…
Dorothy – 12/5/00 We all know about dolls, but what is a Legacy Doll? The dictionary defines a legacy as something gifted in a will or handed down by a predecessor. For a doll to be a valuable possession to be handed down from generation to generation it needs to be very special, a work…
Presto – 17/3/00 Women’s Sacred Mysteries – A Ritual Performance Hands on the Drum Photo source Sue Beezley On Saturday the 25th March 6pm, the “Women’s Sacred Mysteries” will perform in Cathedral Square. All welcome to attend. It is FREE. Bring a cushion. Presto talks to Sue Beesley and finds out what’s going on. What…
Reviewed by Jacqueline Steincamp – 11/2/00 “The Unforgiving Minute: A Life of Rudyard Kipling” by Harry Ricketts. Published by Chatto and Windus 1999 We all know of Rudyard Kipling, but Harry Ricketts? Who is he? How come a new Zealand author has written the life of a man sometimes sneered at as the ‘bandleader for…
Dorothy – 4/2/00 Bent Not Broken – front cover Bent Not Broken The frank account of the life of Lauren Roche who achieves a seemingly impossible ambition after years of destructive experiences Bent Not Broken – front cover – Photo of Lauren by Vlad Petrovic, Images by Woolf, Streetwalker deatil from mural designed by…
Turi Hollis – 21/1/00 An address given by The Ven. Turi Hollis, University Chaplain, University of Canterbury, to the National Forum on Education, organised by Canterbury University on 17 November 1999. One of the things that the University of Canterbury is proud of is that one of its early graduates was the esteemed Maori leader,…
Dorothy – 14/1/00 An interview with Bernadette Kernick. Senior English Senior English can involve interactive study? Language study can relate to the way New Zealanders use English innovatively. When senior school students tell us that they are doing Bursary English in their final year at a New Zealand secondary school how many of us know…
Editor – 22/12/99 Conrad and I, the people who work on NZine, and the rest of the staff at Plain Communications Ltd., NZine’s sponsor, wish you all health and happiness and interesting surfing on the Net at Christmas, in the New Year and beyond in the next millennium. We want to thank our contributors for…
Dorothy – 19/11/99 Heated discussion and opposition from primary teachers have followed recent Government plans to introduce national tests for children in all primary schools so that their progress can be measured against that of their peers. The present system of national testing Since 1995 tests have been conducted in a national representative sample of…
