Futa Helu / "The ocean of humanity is fed by the rivers of many cultures."

Scott Hamilton This image appears on the back cover of Chris Boylan and Jessica Lindsay Phillips' The Man Who Cannot Die. The book was published by JM Fogel Media in 2021. When I am in Auckland Museum's Pacific Masterpieces gallery with kids I like to ask them a question: can you spot the superhero? The gallery hosts one of the many shields that artists in New Guinea have adorned with the figure of the Phantom, a comic book superhero created by American Lee Falk in 1936. Chri

Scott Hamilton Hiroki Sakai with team mates and fans. The photo was taken in February 2025, after Sakai had signed up to play in the 2025/26 season. Sakai's kindness to young fans has endeared him to Auckland FC supporters. Often he has stayed long after the end of home games, signing autographs for kids. Sakai has played for Japan at three World Cups. Winston Peters congratulated Auckland FC after the club won the final of the trans-Tasman A League competition. But our city'

Scott Hamilton Opinion polls suggest that many young Jewish people living outside Israel have abandoned Zionism. In the United States, for example, a poll found that most Jews under the age of forty did not support the behaviour of the Netanyahu government, and that a substantial minority no longer considered Israel central to Jewish identity. Here in Tāmaki Makaurau I've watched with admiration as large numbers of Jews, most of them younger people, have marched on Queen Stre

The Dangerous Logic of Trish Deans and the Devonport-Takapuna Local Board Korean anti-fascists burn the flag of Imperial Japan at a protest in Seoul against Japan's continued refusal to compensate the 'comfort women'. A statue memorialising these women can be seen on the left of the photo. RS: AMOCAAMP is an organisation of psychogeographers, scholars, and artists, the successor to the Committee for the Reconstruction of Space and Time on Pig Island (CROSTOPI). It has branche

Scott Hamilton Photo from the website of the Vanuatu Daily Post Tributes have flowed for the late Dan McGarry, who was for many years the editor of the Vanuatu Daily Post. McGarry died in the last week of March, at the age of only 62. He had been travelling in Papua New Guinea when he felt ill. He was evacuated to Brisbane and underwent a heart bypass operation, but died shortly afterwards. McGarry's reporting honoured the complexity of Melanesia. He was suspicious of theoris

Compiled by Bridgette Amilcar, sent as a guide & warning to Reef Shark 'We should not be defined by the smallness of our islands, but by the greatness of our oceans.' —Epeli Hau'ofa 'Fear made the palagi's car The colour of the superior sea' —Allen Curnow 'Tonu, Tonu, Tonu, Seka, Seka, Seka. Ko manu o kauvaka e solo valevale' —Tuvaluan children's song, 'Avaga Sina mo Loutali e' 'I cannot see my land clearly. Isn't this symptom of a psychotic state?' —Robin Hyde 'Toro cak