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From Sun up to Sun down: Lulu's day at Wimbledon

3 days ago | newsroom.co.nz | Suzanne McFadden

She insists she’s not into rituals, yet Lulu Sun eats strawberries and cream between match days, dines at the same Korean restaurant almost every night, gets in the zone to rap, and avoids stepping on the lines as she walks on court at Wimbledon. Last year, she rocketed from No.123 in the world to become the first Kiwi woman to reach the Wimbledon quarterfinals. Now 24, and ranked 46, Sun returns with the same mindset next week – only this time, she’s straight into the Grand Slam main draw.
Central Otago, pretentiously

4 days ago | newsroom.co.nz | Steve Braunias

And so to the best and most striking illustrated coffee table book of the year so far by a long stretch.
Corks pop as UK loosens restrictions on NZ wine

5 days ago | newsroom.co.nz | Sam Sachdeva

New Zealand wines now have a smoother pathway into the United Kingdom, with one British official saying the changes show the value of the “living, growing” trade deal between the two countries. Government officials and ministers from both countries met in London last month for the joint UK-NZ ministerial trade committee set up to monitor the free trade agreement signed in 2022. Already have an account?
On a fast track from cyclist to world champ coach

5 days ago | newsroom.co.nz | Suzanne McFadden

Nicole Murray remembers the panic when she realised she’d forgotten her prosthetic before the 3000m individual pursuit qualifying ride at the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris. It was a mistake that could have mentally unravelled the Para cyclist before one of the biggest races in her career. But instead, the level-headed approach of her coach, Elyse Fraser, put Murray straight back on track. “Elyse just laid it out: ‘Here’s our Plan A, here’s Plan B; we’ll just deal with it and move on’.
An Ode to .. Maurice Gee

6 days ago | newsroom.co.nz | Victor Billot

The death of Maurice Gee last week came as no real surprise. At 93, he had outlasted most of his contemporaries of late 20th Century New Zealand literature. But it struck me harder than I expected. I had never met Maurice Gee, never heard him speak, never seen him in real life. Yet his presence, or the presence of his work, has been with me for a very long time, locked in from when I first read his children’s novel Under the Mountain. The battered cover of my long-lost copy I remember well.
Seymour's 'light up' message alarms tobacco researchers

1 week ago | newsroom.co.nz | Sam Sachdeva

Deputy Prime Minister David Seymour’s comments to a London audience calling smokers “fiscal heroes” – and declaring people should “light up” to save their government’s balance sheet – are reprehensible and make light of addiction, tobacco researchers say.
Bestselling books at Matariki Weekend

1 week ago | newsroom.co.nz | Steve Braunias

NONFICTION1 A Different Kind of Power by Jacinda Ardern (Penguin Random House, $59.99)“She wrote it without a ghostwriter,” her husband marvelled on social media this week, as though that was something amazing for an author to accomplish. Never mind; it’s one of the best books of the year, not exactly artful but a well-crafted memoir of one of the most interesting New Zealanders of the past 100 years.
The secret diary of .. Luxon in China

1 week ago | newsroom.co.nz | Steve Braunias

MONDAY“Where are your slippers?,” Amanda said. “You’ll need your slippers.”Much is at fate for the destiny and wellbeing of New Zealand as I head to China this week to deliver a set of deliverables. “I can’t find your slippers,” she said. Other great helmsmen from history must have felt the same excitement and sense of purpose as they prepared to carry the hopes of their people and sit down to make sure they get share of mind. “Your feet get so cold in air-conditioned hotel rooms,” she said.
$18m cut to Cooks aid is 'not about China'? I call BS

1 week ago | newsroom.co.nz | Jonathan Milne

Analysis: Winston Peters has taken a leaf from Donald Trump’s playbook, with news he’s paused government-to-government development aid to our closest whānau in the Pacific. “We want an assurance that our special relationship remains special,” he tells Newsroom. It’s a response to the Cooks Islands’ clumsy handling of a strategic deal between Avarua and Beijing this year, in which PM Mark Brown chose not to advise New Zealand of his plans.
Confusion as NZ becomes midpoint on China route to South America

1 week ago | newsroom.co.nz | Laura Walters

China Eastern Airlines and Auckland Airport have announced the much-discussed Southern Link to South America will open by the end of the year, with the NZ Government helping with a new electronic transit authority in place of pricey visas. The Government backs the Southern Link as part of its effort to grow the number of Chinese tourists coming to New Zealand, with the new route expected to bring an additional $48 million in annual visitor spending.