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Hori – a Māori hero
By Insider – Jock Phillips Voice 1: I had arrived in Auckland and was walking downtown. I saw a car nicely decorated with Samoan and New Zealand flags flapping in the breeze. There was a couple also...
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Powerful, tragic, magnificent
By Insider – Jock Phillips I had not intended to write this post. I had done my piece for the day and now was the time to relax. So I had a quick bite at ‘Angie’s kitchen’, just as Mum you used to...
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Funny history
By Insider – Jock Phillips With the notable exception of the punning James Belich, us historians are serious types. We sit back, fold our hands and take time to pronounce laconically on the great...
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Arohanui, The Greatest Love
By Insider – Suzanne Peri-Chapman I’ve just been to the World Premiere of Arohanui, The Greatest Love, in Wellington. Not to be missed – it has a short season in Wellington, then it moves on to...
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Laughing through it all
By Insider – Jock Phillips It is strangely revealing that of all the Fanzones and REAL New Zealand Festival offerings that I have visited over the past month, only in Christchurch, city of quakes, city...
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The Earthquake in Chile – in Christchurch
By Insider – Jock Phillips For the third time in three days I have just had an interesting theatrical experience which was not in a theatre – ‘The Complete History of World Rugby (Abridged)‘ was on a...
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Fun in North Hagley Park
By Insider – Jock Phillips Webb Ellis trophy at Fanzone It was a message on my cellphone which inspired this post. Jackie Hay, a good friend and the inspired organiser of this blogging trip, asked if...
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Rugby World Cup of fashion at Style Pasifika
By Guest Insider – Carolyn Enting: from her blog www.enword.co.nz Liz Mitchell design for Style Pasifika Endangered New Zealand indigenous plant, the woodrose (pua o te reinga), ”flower of the...
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Rugby heroes, rugby villains
By Insider – Jock Phillips Put together a case of old jerseys, cups, programmes and tickets; throw in a couple of panels about heroes of the past; add a scrummaging or a kicking-a-goal interactive;...
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The party’s over
By Insider – Jock Phillips Almost everyone was dressed up – French supporters with tricolour wigs, rooster hats, and red, white and blue drapes; Kiwis almost all in black, with silver hats, fern...
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