Internationally renowned conspiracy theorist and public speaker David Icke is coming to New Zealand to offer his unorthodox worldview, and he doesn’t mind talking about it. Icke has written 16 books in the past 2 decades, each exposing what he considers aspects of an Orwellian-type fascist dictatorship. His lectures usually last around 7 hours. In [...]

Bristol trip-hop pioneers Portishead are gracing Kiwi shores next month for a gig at Vector Arena. Portishead are a three-piece. Geoff Barrow, Beth Gibbons and Adrian Utley, who together rose to prominence in the mid-90’s with their blend of sumptuous, sound track inspired trip-hop. The last time Portishead played in the City of Sails was [...]

A tiny 65-pupil school in Henderson is trouncing far bigger schools at Māori speech competitions – over and over again. Fifteen-year-old Mohi Allen, student at Nga Kakano Christian Reo Rua Kura, just won the Auckland junior regionals of the Ngā Manu Kōrero 2011 secondary school speech contests and is now training for the nationals in [...]

Executive director of the United Kingdom’s Fairtrade Foundation Harriet Lamb was in Auckland this week to help celebrate the first anniversary of fairtrade bananas being sold in Kiwi supermarkets. Te Waha Nui Online reporter Michael Oliver caught up with the fairtrade guru, and filed this report: Te Waha Nui Online – Harriet Lamb