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When Thomas Cheeseman arrived in Aotearoa New Zealand in 1853 at the age of eight, the world outside knew little of this country’s people, plants, animals and environment. Within weeks, he began a lifelong love of collecting and classifying, and by his early twenties he was making waves in colonia...

In 1891, a remarkable map of Wellington was made by surveyor Thomas Ward. It recorded the footprint of every building, from Thorndon in the north and across the teeming, inner-city slums of Te Aro to Berhampore in the south. Updated regularly over the next 10 years, it detailed hotels, theatres, oys...

‘The problems we face..are a consequence of the economic model we have built up in Aotearoa over the past forty years. But that model is a choice – one that we can change if we wish to.’’Aotearoa New Zealand is grappling with tough economic challenges. In , economist Craig Renney asks what k...

‘There is little more important to the success of the human species than the trust that allows information networks to form and thrive, communities to share and trade, and people to see the world as it really is.’Award-winning journalist Tim Watkin confronts the breakdown in trust between journa...

The pivotal year of 1870 brought down the curtain on the redcoat garrison world at both the metropolitan and colonial ends of the empire. In fewer than forty years, less than a lifetime, Aotearoa had gone from being a Māori world in which rangatira dominated, to a colony in which the settler state ...

Issue 003 includes:Cover and essay featuring Australia’s Kirsha Kaechele, exploring ego destruction through ayahuasca and online trolling.Interview and art by Australian Alina Gozin’a, exploring creative intelligence.Interview with New Zealand Chief Economist of the Reserve Bank, about why the N...

HĀ - To breath (noun) Essence (Verb) TUA - Beyond something (locative).HĀ TUA Magazine is a publication made in Aotearoa, New Zealand.Combined HĀ TUA is about moving beyond the breath, giving life to everyday stories while acknowledging we are the constant extension of those who have come before ...

‘She drinks coffee until she can drink wine and then she goes to sleep so that she can wake up and drink coffee until she can drink wine again. Is this not the story of every mother, she asks herself.’a compelling and beautifully written meditation on early motherhood and creativity. Told throug...

‘In 1642 Māori discovered Europe.’Vincent O’Malley’s account of the first meeting between Ngāti Tūmatakōkiri and Abel Tasman’s crew sets the scene for how two peoples navigated fraught beginnings to find a ‘meeting place’ in pre-Treaty Aotearoa.Dr O’Malley tells the story of enco...

An entertaining history of rural life in Aotearoa, told through artefacts, gadgets and ephemera that tell a story that goes deeper than the objects themselves.The most fun you'll ever have learning about rural life in New Zealand. Told through a varied selection of items from the everyday (apples, R...

I can see now this desperately lonely and painful part of my life leads me to the beauty of the mountains. I seek escape in an environment I can trust where boundaries are clear, away from human interference, eventually finding solace in climbing. I climb harder, higher, pushing myself to the extrem...

Craig Potton rose to prominence as a photographer in the late 1980s, with a distinct and original view of the landscape of Aotearoa/New Zealand. He was a photographer with little interest in a sentimentalised or romantic view of the land but rather pursued a less compromising and more muscular visio...

A significant publication that accompanies a major retrospective exhibition of the same name developed by Dunedin Public Art Gallery in partnership with the Sarjeant Art Gallery Te Whare o Rehua Whanganui.Joanna Margaret Paul is one of the major figures of our recent art history – an innovative an...

A remarkable account of the trial that gripped New Zealand by one of New Zealand's finest writers.In , literary journalist Steve Braunias takes readers on an extraordinary and often chilling journey through the most high-profile murder case in modern New Zealand history. With unparalleled access to ...

Racism. There, we said it. You can let your shoulders drop now that you know we will say the word and not sidestep it to protect people’ s comfort. Or, you can raise your shoulders in preparation for tension as you realise that this book will not talk about unconscious bias or other terms that ena...

In 2025, the year Otago Medical School celebrates 150 years, 50 per cent of graduates are women. Back in 1891, by contrast, when Emily Siedeberg, who would go on to become the school’ s first woman graduate, applied for entrance it was not at all clear that it would be granted. This book traces th...

A gripping true story of sacrifice, sabotage, survival and impossible choices, in the darkest days of war.One child. Two years in hiding. Three lives in mortal danger.In Nazi-occupied Amsterdam, near Anne Frank's house, another Jewish girl is hidden. Her name is Elli. Her father has been executed at...

‘Poverty in Aotearoa is not accidental. It is designed into our systems, our institutions, and our policies.’Poverty is not the result of individual failure or misfortune. It is a product of the design of our economic and institutional systems. Pakukore brings together leading thinkers and pract...

‘Yes, it is complicated. But behind the inequality, suffering and polarisation that afflicts Aotearoa … we have the foundations upon which we can choose to build a country that puts whanau at the centre, and where all can thrive.’Rebecca Macfie expertly weaves a narrative of resilience and cha...

From the author of the bestselling books about the escalation of organised crime and gangs in New Zealand.The brutal execution of an innocent man. The undercover DEA agent who fooled the Hells Angels in a 400kg cocaine plot. The brutal execution of a not-so innocent man. The never-ending quest to br...

Everyone told Sinead that having a newborn was a bubble of bliss - and after a traumatic pregnancy, she was hoping they were right. Instead, a few weeks in, Sinead was admitted to the Mother & Baby unit at Starship with Vivie, in the grips of severe postnatal depression.An honest, gut-wrenching, irr...

Master your winning mindset with lessons from the life and career of All Blacks coaching legend Gilbert EnokaIn a career spanning almost three decades, visionary psychological coach, Gilbert Enoka, changed the way the All Blacks played their game. With a 77% winning record in test match rugby, the h...

Well-known journalist and presenter Mike McRoberts opens up about his experiences of reconnection to te ao Māori and learning te reo, and encourages others to do the same.For much of his life, Mike McRoberts felt burdened by not knowing his own language - te reo Māori. Growing up at a time when te...

Joseph Kinsey is not a name many of us know – or not as well as we know the name Robert Falcon Scott. But from his base in Christchurch, Kinsey – book and art collector, philanthropist, science enthusiast, businessman – forged deep connections with the Antarctic expeditions and the explorers t...