To the Final . . . #netball

It’s time for the Bledisloe Cup. #nzlvaus

Thomas Richardson reviews ‘Beyond the Broken Years: Australian Military History in 1000 Books’ by Peter Stanley @stanleyhistorian.bsky.social @newsouthpublishing.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

PG Kids, turn it in by Tuesday! Remembering Ken.

A Week of It. Yesterday, a souvenir photo book capturing Anzac Day 2025 I've been working was published. Today, I've got a parent and parent-in-law in hospitals on both islands. It's days like these you want to go back in time. Cheers to Family ❤️🍻 #Family

Rā Whānau Happy 80th @bryanferry.com from Aotearoa!🇳🇿 #DontStopTheMusic 🎙️ #BryanFerry80 youtu.be/XjhTHQhJLxs?...

I see we had the same idea about how to decorate our family member’s headstone. Also agree about the English poppy.

What's happening at the RSA? Burying the NZ-made poppy since 1931 for the Royal British Legion poppy with an oak leaf! New Zealanders now expected to remember their war dead on Anzac Day and at graves and memorials around the world with an English poppy? #Poppycock www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

A statue of President Trump and Jeffrey Epstein holding hands has been removed from the National Mall a day after it was placed there. The statue had a permit to remain in front of the Capitol until Sunday night.

Bonzer!

Auckland Council clears the way for high rises around public transport hubs www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa... #Auckland 🆙 🏙️

The Price of Citizen — Review by Helen Watson White in Landfall 1 Sep 25 landfallreview.com/the-price-of...

Internal Netball service completed. Ms 14 did good and now her fan club will be waiting at the airport for her triumphal return at 1am 🕐

$70M funding for major events and tourism? Build an Expo and they will come! 100 years ago a group of Dunedin businessmen built the New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition and had 3.2M visitors, more than double NZ population. #ThinkBig #Imagination

50 years ago today Te Rōpū o Te Matakite 🏳️ crossed Tāmaki Makaurau Harbour Bridge on the most important hīkoi in history. #ThoseWithForesight #TeAoMāori #history

Just watched an interview with Harper Finn on the @abcnewsbot.bsky.social breakfast show (via the tube) ahead of his debut album ‘Silo Park’ released 31 October. Most impressive and found this morning’s listening. #SiloPark #newmusic youtu.be/H7EYZrBPT2Q?...

That’s right! The last 18 months has been ‘Brutal’ and the government needs to smell the coffee. ☕️ #ReadTheCups www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Another announcement from our high-vis PM about the Stop-Start Economy! Narrator: Look behind you! 🛑 🚫

Why is our PM not joining his Australian counterpart in New York for the 80th anniversary Special Meeting of the United Nations later today? New Zealand has a proud record of involvement with the UN and many New Zealanders have served died on UN-sanctioned operations. LEST WE FORGET. #UN80

"The editorial positions do not include expenses or remuneration." Professional Historians come work for nothing! phanza.org.nz/call-for-eoi...

Tuesday 22 [September 1915] Left Port Chalmers. — Diary of 9/22 Trooper Paul Reginald Henry Clarke, Otago Mounted Rifles. 111 years ago today the Otago's left for the war. They thought they were going to England but many of them would soon become ANZACs on Gallipoli.

My precious. #Otaaaaaaago

Where was Mr Macknight 140 years ago as he would have had a blank canvas and no RSA! #GuerrillaGardener

Last training and ribbon/dress presentation for Ms 14 ahead of her Brisbane Indoor Netball Team (including a number of children of the Kiwi diaspora) competing in the Queensland State Indoor Netball Championships this weekend — time to go to work Ms Clarke!

Che Fu's album 'Navigator' went to No. 1 on the Aotearoa Album Chart this week in 2000, staying there for 3 weeks. Fun fact: 'Misty Frequencies' is a reference to the days when he’d tune his radio to 95bFM to catch Murray Cammick’s... audioculture.co.nz/profile/che-fu

With history on its final legs at the Ministry for Culture and Heritage thinking of the long government involvement in public history going back to the Centennial Branch in 1937 and the War History Branch seen here at a conference to plan the 2NZEF official histories in July 1946. #MakingHistory

95 years ago today the Massey Memorial — the final resting place of New Zealand's wartime prime minister — was unveiled at Point Halswell, Miramar Peninsula, Wellington on 19 September 1930. #newzealand #history

Hear! Hear! Dr Holbrook 👏 theconversation.com/the-australi...

And the winner . . . "I would imagine that New Zealand today is the way America was when I was a little kid. Where people bonded together, there was community work and there was joy and there was happiness, and it’s a can-do thing.’’ — Robert Redford, 2016 #FromAotearoaWithLove #RobertRedford

I saw Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid at a full house Saturday matinee at the Civic in Green Island c. 1978. This theatre later closed. Indecent Proposal was the last film I saw at The Century as it closed later in 1993 and was controversially demolished in 1994. #robertredford #dunedin

RIP Sundance

R O B E R T R E D F O R D 1 9 3 6 – 2 0 2 5

"Yes Ma'am, We have no peaches!" #NotAmused #Watties www.1news.co.nz/2025/09/16/m...

In news from my intrepid travelling daughter in QLD 4000 she has found herself a supply of Coles Chocco Chip Cookies! 🍪 #nomnom 🤣

Today we commemorate New Zealand's military involvement in Malaya/Malaysia (1948–66). In An Army of Influence I wrote, "The significance of New Zealand’s military contributions in Asia during the postwar years lies in their being the nation’s first substantial contact with Asia." #MalaysiaDay 🇲🇾🇳🇿

Today is the Battle of Britain Day and on this 85th anniversary we remember the significant contribution of the 130 of 'The Few' from New Zealand, including Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park seen here commemorating this day in Auckland in 1968 #TheFew #battleofbritain85 #battleofbritain @nzdf.mil.nz

Ms 14 leaving on a jet plane. #Queensland #netball

One of my retirement projects is a history of florists in Aotearoa starting with the oldest surviving florist — Miss Reid in Dunedin. A passion project as my single teenage mum trained under Mr Timpany in late 60s when Miss Reid was at 156 High Street before moving to its first site in The Octagon.💐

"Wellington is in a funk at the moment." — Jack Tame on Q + A this morning and not just talking about what happened at Sky Stadium last night. www.tvnz.co.nz/shows/q-and-...

There are now few alive who can remember the significance of the passage of the Social Security Act on this day in 1938 and the introduction of the welfare state "to safeguard the People of New Zealand". That's why history matters. #SocialSecurity #CradleToGrave #HistoryMatters

“I am still fond of the place but wish they could find the courage they so eagerly honour. Most soldiers I know are honest ambassadors for truth-telling about the experience of war. They know myth can get them killed.” — Chris Masters on Australian War Memorial‬⁩ www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

To think in 1989 instead of hanging out at The Empire, Cook, Ori, Gardies or even laters Foxy's I could have been swooning over Rick's Blue Falcon Café and Cocktail Bar at 27 Falcon Street, Parnell, Auckland. Yes? No? 6-7? Happy Fridays everyone! 🍸 #TGIF

Teachers to strike next week after rejecting latest pay offer #StandWithTeachers🪧 www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

44 years ago today . . . Sandringham Rd, Auckland, 12 September 1981 — Third Test between New Zealand and South Africa at Eden Park.

No Official History of involvement in recent wars and now Defence won't have to keep some war records under law change. #StandWithDrFox www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

On this day in 1928 Charles Kingsford-Smith (centre), co-pilot Charles Ulm, navigator Harry Litchfield and radio operator Tom McWilliams on 'Southern Cross' completed the first Trans-Tasman flight landing at Christchurch. This 1958 radio doco recalls the flight www.ngataonga.org.nz/search-use-c...

Ms 14 heading to Brisbane with her mother to take part in the Queensland Indoor Netball Junior State Championships but what if they don't return? 🛫 www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Back on track after 2026. www.rnz.co.nz/life/music/w...

They talk up high performance but the real problem in this country is that our sports governance is anything but high performing! Code after code . . . #rugby #netball #cycling #hockey #rowing www.rnz.co.nz/news/sport/5...

Council drank while Aucklanders drowned. newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/10/c...