In my first column for Mana Wāhine last year, I shared that a recent discovery was that my grandmother had spent her first years living on ancestral land, immersed in her Māori world.
Despite their users numbering in the millions, there’s little science to tell us whether dating apps work. But that might be about to change, reports Laura Spinney.
In Central Otago, a river’s health is being weighed against the demands of irrigation. Mary Williams investigates the complex, dry, catchment of the Manuherikia river - and the struggle to restore it
It takes some searching, but the legacy of Rakiura-Stewart Island’s Norwegian whalers runs deeper than even their descendants realise, writes Bruce Munro.
Servants in colonial New Zealand weren’t going to be put in their place, writes Robert Peden in this edited extract from his new book Nailed Boots and Crinoline Gowns.