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PM's chip off the old block leaves mark on gift to China

In Rotorua with Chinese Ambassador Zhang Limin, the Prime Minister took a mallet and chisel to what will be a 10m kauri waharoa, or gateway.

<i>Brian Rudman:</i> Save memorial from arty meddlers

Te Papa boss would ignore tramping advice, inquest told

Sisterhood of the travelling sketchbook

Distance has been no barrier to the collaboration of artists Melinda Young and Lauren Simeoni.

Art lovers want suffrage memorial out of the way

<i>Rebecca Barry:</i> Keep it brief and keep them interested

Exploring lost art of Maori puppetry

<i>Review:</i> Le Sud at Maidment Theatre

<i>Rebecca Barry:</i> Kookaburra only one laughing

Didn't Sinclair plagiarise a kookaburra when she came up with the original tune plagiarised by Men At Work?

<i>Review:</i> The Lover at Basement Theatre

Leaving for work, a buttoned-up English banker asks his housewife: "Is your lover coming today?"

Nothing left to chance except interpretation

<i>T.J. McNamara:</i> At last, the balance is altering

<i>Preview:</i> Le Sud at the Maidment Theatre

Roll up, roll up for memories of the Birdcage

An informal evening for the book-obsessed

<i>Preview:</i> Alan Broadbent at Auckland Town Hall