This New Zealand Life

Experience real life in New Zealand

In goggle-eyed and stunned disbelief as the schedule pummels your intelligence to grey-mash.

Blog Roundup: Crash barriers Kiwi style, NZ TV and why immigration advice might be illegal.

A nation of pyromaniacs

Comment: Few activities give a red-blooded male more pleasure than lighting a fire. But when your fingers are blue from cold you begin to wonder if there isn't a better way of keeping warm.

Why should the UK buy NZ exports?

You can just see the UK dairy and meat advertising executives rubbing their hands

Comment: If NZ only commits to a 15% reduction in carbon dioxide while Britain pays for 34%, why should UK consumers purchase NZ goods and support an economy subsidised by inaction?

Minimise your cost of living in NZ

"The $100 a week budget was inspired by necessity"

The cost of living in New Zealand can be shocking, but there are ways to minimise your weekly outgoings as Lyn Webster tells ThisNZLife.

Belief is no qualification for immigration head

Former Immigration Service head Mary Anne Thompson told police she believed she had a doctorate from the London School of Economics.

NZ: Climate change news

Global Warming Art: Wiki Commons

New Zealand takes fright at enormity of challenge in the run up to the Copenhagen climate change conference later this year.

Fear and loathing in NZ

Swine flu in NZ hospitals

Editorial: As children skip happily back to school, swine flu lurks in snotty noses, and criminals wait in dark corners.

Storms batter NZ

With severe storms affecting much of the country here's a look at the weather news in time for the weekend.

Lifestyle freedom New Zealand

Free range horses, Wairarapa style

Mike Ferguson is certainly not bound by convention, and when you hear his plans you can see why New Zealand is probably the only place able to accommodate his ideas.

Cellphone ban while driving

Twice as likely to die on Kiwi roads

It's taken a long time, far longer than any European country, but it finally seems mobile phone-use while driving will be outlawed.