From Brian Sweeney, Producer, http://www.nzedge.com/
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Pictured: Jemaine Clement, surfers at Piha, Neil Finn, Black Ferns, Chad Taylor
NEW ZEALANDERS IN GLOBAL HEADLINES
New Zealand headlines in this week's sampling of global media appearing in Rolling Stone, National Geographic, Times Online, Bust, Globe and Mail, Dexinger, ABC News, The Weekly Times, The Argus, Brisbane Times, BBC News, Phnom Penh Post, Fox News, The New York Times, The Toronto Star, Guardian, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald include:
• Jemaine Clement, Conchord, Bust’s favourite cleft-chinned comedian
• Piha beach secures 2010 Quiksilver World Junior Surfing champs
• Neil Finn join Wilco, Radiohead on The Sun Came Out for Oxfam
• Black Ferns, to play November double-header with ABs, Twickenham
• Chad Taylor, writer, pens new book The Church of John Coltrane
• Christopher Banks’ 13min Teddy first NZ film to screen at Iris Festival
• Rob Hamill, Olympic rower, confronts brother’s murderer at KR trial
• New Zealanders vote ‘No’ in smacking debate; “law is working”, Key
• New Zealand and Australia; “alot of differences”, union not the answer
• Badtown, West Auckland punks, sell possessions for Brighton tour
• Coronet Peak, perfect piste for international Winter Olympic training
• Jeremy Clarke, NJ-based chopper pilot dies, 32, “skilled, professional”
• Lloyd Watkin’s Tirau farm, a “peaceful middle of nowhere”
• Fat Freddy's Drop, Dr Boondigga album, “infectious loping grooves”
• New Zealand to Australia flights soon as cheap as domestic
• Omar Slaimankhel, Afghan, now Warrior, signs 2-year NRL contract
• New Zealand type exhibit tells stories in “our own local accents”
• Short-tailed bat, endangered walker, evolved from Australian relatives
• Andrew Adamson, director, to take helm on adaptation of Mister Pip
• New Zealand earthquakes triggered by deep water beneath plates
• Napier’s Art Deco Weekend, the city’s “expression of pride, identity”
• Sidhe Interactive, Welly gamesters, launch Playstation game Shatter
• Michael King, Toronto impresario, renowned for charm, accent
• Rhys Darby, comedian, takes Park Ranger, UFOlogist to Edinburgh
• Sam Neill, actor, plays ruthless railroad baron in mini-series Iron Road
• David Short, Fielding farmer, invents portable shearing handpiece
• Harold the Giraffe, mascot, first NZer and giraffe to go to space
If New Zealand is at the edge of the world, then there is no place geographically ‘edgier’ than the province of Southland (Murihiku). Radio and television broadcaster Marcus Lush presents a very personal offering on the grit, charm, and heart that makes up the fabric of the Southern region, in a new seven-part series South, screening 7pm Sundays on TV One. The jaw-dropping scenery is the obvious star of the show but its inhabitants also play a lead role. Characters such as pioneering aviator Herbet Pither, and Peanut, the finder of this country’s largest piece of space junk. The series may be a thank you note from Lush (who fell in love with the region before moving to Bluff six years ago) but it could also be a nod from the rest of the country to an area that delivers more than its fair share of epic geography, pioneering spirit and good old-fashioned heart.
THE NEW ZEALAND EDGE is a new way of presenting our identity, people, stories, achievements and our role in the world. Home to a global community of New Zealanders. Aotearoa whanau whanui kite ao nui.
Top picture, Lake Hayes; above, north of Paekakariki. More pictures at http://www.paradiseroad.com/. Fern symbol via http://www.nzflag.com/.
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You can contact Brian Sweeney by sending an email to brian@nzedge.com.
You can contact Brian Sweeney by sending an email to brian@nzedge.com.
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