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This International Women’s Day, do something radical: love yourself

Sometimes resistance is getting out on the streets protesting, or pushing for law change, but other times the answer is ...
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Horror poll for National and Luxon: which big beasts would be out of a job?

Because nothing concentrates the mind quite like the sight of your career evaporating.
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If National MPs want to roll Luxon, there is one big hurdle in the way

1997 has entered the chat.
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Barbara Dreaver on the time she uncovered drug trafficking in Tonga

The new memoir from 1News’ Pacific correspondent reads like a thriller – it covers her early years growing up on Kiribati, ...
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Barbara Dreaver

Barbara Dreaver ONZM is a Kiribati-born New Zealand broadcast journalist and author of Be Brave: The Life of a Pacific Correspondent.
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The story of Six60 in six New Zealand venues

Gardies, Dunedin Six60’s first ever shows were famously at their rowdy flat at 660 Castle Street in Dunedin, attended by “anyone who we could convince to come” says Fraser. But what helped crowd ...
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‘Still rates its arse off’: Country Calendar marks six decades of bucolic brilliance

The voice of Country Calendar reveals why the farming show is still going strong after 60 glorious years – and which of its ...