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Nuclear Free: Gil Hanly’s Iconic Protest Photography

Gil Hanly’s photographic documentation of major social movements and public events since the early 1970s established her as a pre-eminent recorder of New Zealand’s recent history.

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Rugby: Much More than Just a Game

The significance of rugby and the All Blacks, runs deeper in New Zealand than just being a national pastime.

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New Zealand Stock Exchange Capital Raised

Total capital raised on New Zealand Stock Exchange Markets has passed $4.5 billion, already ahead of the $4.2 billion total raised in 2006 with two months still remaining in the year.

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Marlin Global Makes NZSX Listing

NZX welcomes Marlin Global Limited to the New Zealand Stock Exchange Market today, the third investment company listed by Fisher Funds Management.

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New Zealand looks to end live exports

New Zealand has banned live agricultural exports pending the outcome of a legislative review into the trade. The move follows a report into the treatment and handling of livestock during shipment and slaughter overseas.

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New Zealand Ballet Announces 2008 Season

To celebrate his 50th year of dancing with the Royal New Zealand Ballet, Sir Jon Trimmer will take to the stage in the title role of the RNZB’s new production, the Meridian Energy Season of Don Quixote next year – just one highlight in an action-packed year.

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Opus International Consultants Opens Strongly On NZSX Market

Opus International Consultants Limited, the largest professional infrastructure consultancy in New Zealand, listed this morning on the New Zealand Stock Exchange Market.

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NZX Group Announces Financial Result

NZX announced a Q3 2007 EBITDA result of $3.93 million. This represents a 70% increase on the $2.31 million result recorded for Q3 2006. Net profit after tax reached $2.29 million, an increase of 49% over the same period in 2006.

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Strong 6.7 earthquake shakes southern New Zealand

A strong magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck southern New Zealand early local time, but police in the region said there were no immediate reports of injury or damage.

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Darwin Exhibition At Auckland Museum

Darwin, the most in-depth exhibition ever mounted on this highly original naturalist and his theory of evolution by natural selection, opened at the Auckland Museum on 29th September 2007. Direct from the American Museum of Natural History in New York this exhibition features the broadest and most complete collection ever assembled of specimens, artifacts, original manuscripts, and memorabilia related to Darwin.

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Sensational Program Unveiled For 2008 New Zealand Opera

Three operas will be staged in 2008 - two main-stage productions in Auckland and Wellington, and a national tour to 15 centres throughout New Zealand. Two of the three productions are new, New Zealand-made productions.

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New Zealand Opera Glyndebourne Festival Breaks New Ground

The NBR New Zealand Opera's third production for 2008, The Genesis Energy Spring Season of Janácek's Jenufa, reflects an exciting new repertoire direction and important collaboration for the Company. This widely acclaimed production of Jenufa comes to New Zealand from the world famous Glyndebourne Festival.

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