Forget Paul Henry’s narrow vision of a New Zealander. People from nearly every country in the world have made Aotearoa their home. Five new New Zealanders tell Shelley Bridgeman how they came here and why they became Kiwis.

Detainees at Sydney's Villawood detention centre may go on a hunger strike after the death of an Iraqi asylum seeker.

An Auckland university campus rejected about 50 foreign students who could speak barely a word of English.

Julia Gillard is hoping to get New Zealand support for a new refugee facility in East Timor.

A think-tank has ranked NZ the fifth-most-prosperous country, with the highest level of education and civil liberties.

Goff has spent much of the past week playing political football with two of New Zealand's major trading relationships.