“We believe magic happens when like-minded people share a space. We've seen this repeatedly: conversations spark ideas, which become projects that grow i ...
Read moreAs a growing town welcomes its first high school, meet the people who have imagined the environment and values that will shape the young people of this communi ...
Read more‘The past is a funny thing. Sometimes we want to cling to it, sometimes we just need to let it go. But, sometimes, the past won’t let go of us.’
Read morePut your money where your mouth is. It’s a challenge that applies equally to big business and individual purchases ...
Read more“The mob is the most ruthless of tyrants.” Friedrich Nietzsche
Read more“People who are homeless are not social inadequates. They are people without homes.” – Sheila McKechnie
Read moreAs told to Maryanne Spurdle What have you learnt from past generations? What do you hope to pass on? What has shaped you? Four politicians reflect.
Read moreIn 2010, Benjamin Johnson and a group of friends set up The Free Store, a grassroots community in Wellington’s CBD that gathers around surplus food. Seven ye ...
Read more“He aha te kai ō te rangatira? He kōrero, he kōrero, he kōrero. (What is the food of the leader. It is knowledge. It is communication.)” Māori prover ...
Read more“The New Zealand Curriculum is a clear statement of what we deem important in education. It takes as its starting point a vision of our young people as lifel ...
Read more“And I will give to you and to your offspring after you the land of your sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession, and I will be th ...
Read more“So you know all of me?” asked the boy. “Yes,” said the horse. “And you still love me?” “We love you all the more.” – Charlie Mackesy, The Bo ...
Read moreAs social understandings and stereotypes of masculinity rightly comes up for a reckoning post #metoo, Kieran Madden explores the roots of his identity as a man ...
Read moreThese Kiwis have rolled out the Number 8 wire out a little further. Stories by Maryanne Spurdle
Read moreThese Kiwis have rolled the Number 8 wire out a little further. Stories by Maryanne Spurdle
Read more“Ko taku reo taku ohooho, ko taku reo taku mapihi mauria” “My language is my awakening, my language is the window to my soul”
Read moreTeaching is not simply baby-sitting, or a mechanical transfer of skills. To help form minds, awake curiosity, help human beings to grow; that is an exercise in ...
Read more“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” Blaise Pascal
Read more"After-comers cannot guess the beauty been.” In 1879, Gerard Manly Hopkins lamented the destruction of a line of trees with this line of poetry.
Read moreRights as a conversational currency are becoming weaker, as my generation’s ears perk up instead at compassion.
Read moreThe first time I visited Te Hana Te Ao Marama Māori Cultural Centre in 2013, a group of American travel agents were visiting the property.
Read more“Trust is the cement which holds the community together, distrust the solvent which makes it crumble.” H. B. Acton, The Idea of a Spiritual Power
Read moreI passed by the school where I studied as a boy and said in my heart: here I learned certain things and didn't learn ...
Read moreThe river flows, the seasons turn, The sparrow and starling have no time to waste. If men do not build How shall t ...
Read moreAt the core of “do something you love,” the notion of “work” is framed as something to be avoided. To be clear it’s not the job, or activity that mus ...
Read more“Consumerism is the remarkable ability to be detached, even from those things to which we are most obviously attached.” William T Cavanaugh
Read more“Neither cities nor places in them are unordered, unplanned; the question is only whose order, whose planning, for what purpose?” — Urban Planner Peter M ...
Read moreI studied fashion. It was hard. I did some postgraduate studies in an attempt to reconcile myself to the difficulties of correlating this industry with the wor ...
Read moreI have two very vivid early memories. The first is of being bullied for my physical appearance.
Read more"A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert."
Read more"I was basically burnt out, almost an alcoholic, pretty unhappy.” Michael Pearce, 35, was taking a break from calving to squeeze our conversation into a smal ...
Read moreWelcome to the ninth volume of Flint & Steel. This annual publication aims to live up to its moniker’s metaphor: we want it to ...
Read moreWhen I think of the type of person best suited to help New Zealanders living in poverty, my mind doesn’t natur ...
Read moreRugby is a deeply entrenched aspect of New Zealand culture. In many ways rugby is the national game of New Zealand.
Read moreThroughout history the places we have used to gather, speak, and make ourselves heard have not always been actual pub ...
Read moreIn this age of identity it is tempting, and frighteningly possible, to reduce the fullness of a human life down to a single action, opinion, or caricature.
Read more“Freedom, I found is not only in the running but in the heart, the mind, the hands.” - Louise Erdich
Read more“People who are homeless are not social inadequates. They are people without homes.” – Sheila McKechnie
Read moreEach time I am asked to tell my story or small facts about “South Africanness,” I reaffirm my own identity as a South African, and it has been both interes ...
Read moreYouth is like a summer romance—an identity with a time limit. You know from the start this exclusive club will tear up your membership the day you turn 30. I ...
Read moreThe “workplace” means different things for different types of work. From a van full of tools or packages, to a factory or gym floor, our work takes us into ...
Read more“The life, the health, the intelligence, and the morals of the nation count for more than riches, and I would rather have this country free from want and squ ...
Read moreIn the face of finite resources and mounting landfill, Timothy Allan wants to change the future, through innovative d ...
Read moreThe vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people. - Leo Tolstoy
Read moreState housing has always been a hot political potato in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Read more‘I should like everybody in the world destroyed and the world empty of people. You yourself, don’t you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of ...
Read moreScrawled in white paint on the exterior of my neighbours’ peach-coloured weatherboard abode were three letters: “PHB.”
Read moreSmall towns face a fight for survival. How can these close knit communities retain the next generation in the face of ...
Read more“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln.
Read moreWhen asked about what home means to us we are indeed a little biased in our answer...
Read moreBoth my parents grew up in big families and multi-generational households. Our family was no different. Mum and Dad were never short of babysitters when work o ...
Read moreWhat do 6000 South Auckland kids, the United Nations, a Tongan coffee roastery, the oldest university in England, and a Royal New Zealand Air Force excursion o ...
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I AM a cultural turtle who might not be the fastest creature
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Welcome to the second volume of Flint & Steel.
Read moreState housing has always been a hot political potato in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Read moreThe COVID-19 pandemic is the story of 2020, and its social and economic aftermath may prove to be the story of this generation. While we look to politicians to ...
Read moreIn the adolescent years, young people are drawn to new relationships and community connections that fulfill their needs for exploration and autonomy. The chall ...
Read moreWe take pride in being a cohesive and safe country, with a strong co-operative culture. But New Zealand’s current record high rates of incarceration and reof ...
Read more“The social affections, says the economist, are accidental and disturbing elements in human nature; but avarice and the desire of progress are constant eleme ...
Read more“Our vocation is not a sphinx’s riddle, which we must solve in one guess or else perish. Some people find, in the end, that they have made many wrong guess ...
Read moreO le ala i le pule o le tautua The road to leadership is through service - Sāmoan Proverb
Read more“There have been two remembered histories of New Zealand since 1840: that of the colonisers, and that of the colonised...
Read moreTV’s favourite funeral directors Casketeers Francis and Kaiora Tipene reflect on the ties that bind.
Read moreIt’s fair to say that Gray Baldwin is a man of the land.
Read moreThese Kiwis have rolled out the Number 8 wire out a little further. Stories by Maryanne Spurdle
Read more“The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.” ― Jane Addams
Read moreWaikumete Cemetery, at the end of my road, is the largest in Auckland. It’s a rambling, hilly patch of green.
Read more“Thinking about whether you should take your own life is not a biological question. It is a spiritual question. Medication may help you to avoid those though ...
Read moreIll-informed societies make ill-informed decisions. The importance of well-functioning educational institutions is undisputed. Students are formed by what they ...
Read moreAs generational leadership changes take place across the world, Dr Jonathan Cole reflects on the role that Gen X must play to rebuild trust in the institutions ...
Read moreWhile many of us are happy to steer clear of raucous debates and controversy, the inhabitants of Parliament have made a career of talking about the big issues ...
Read more“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale has had its effect ...
Read more“Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.” Aristotle
Read moreEducation is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. – W.B. Yeats
Read moreAsk a range of people from Stewart Island to Cape Reinga to define what it means to be a New Zealander, and the chances are their answers will be many and vari ...
Read moreBelonging is a basic human need—as humans we are relational beings that require interaction.
Read moreAre robots coming for our jobs? How seriously should we take dire predictions of job losses and the death of industries by a thousand algorithms? Economist and ...
Read moreThese Kiwis have rolled the Number 8 wire out a little further. Story by Maryanne Spurdle. Images by Adam Luxton
Read moreIn the lead up to the 2017 elections, we talked to four Members of New Zealand's 51st Parliament about what it takes to stay connected to the ideals, the peopl ...
Read moreOur representatives in Parliament have an outsized influence on the way we work and live, responsible for policy on issues like tax, research and development f ...
Read moreThe Kitchen aimed at being a creative, well-resourced work environment and community hub for change-makers creating social and environmental good.
Read moreWhile we expect news media to perform their societal function as the “fourth estate,” the arrival of the internet has upended the business model that used ...
Read moreImages of bombed-out buildings and broken lives have brought the refugee crisis to our attention. When refugees emerge out of these stories and into our neighb ...
Read more“Use the best possible materials, and reveal the quality of those materials and the craftsmanship of their assembly.” – Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Read moreBusiness is an effective way of getting things done. We all, pretty much, believe that it is a good way to keep the world turning.
Read moreAll the amazing companies we've heard about within this magazine, go check them out.
Read more“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment.” — Albert Einstein
Read more“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln.
Read more“The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.” - Maya Angelou
Read moreVery few cities are given the chance to start over. A city generally evolves over the decades, with each generation adding flair and innovation to what their f ...
Read moreThere’s a mushrooming grey area between traditional charity and business as usual. A whole spectrum of efforts based on a conviction that things can be done ...
Read moreOver the next several decades the vitality of Western countries will depend on their ability to successfully integrate immigrants from many and diverse backgro ...
Read moreOne of our last truly public rituals, Anzac Day claims a sacred space in New Zealand’s national attention. Historian Rowan Light describes how Anzac commemor ...
Read more“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself.” Carl Jung
Read more“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.” Jim Morrison
Read moreFor some, New Zealand’s mangroves are an invasive weed, the “gorse of the water,” in need of eradication. For others, mangrove forests are the “shelter ...
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