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The father of a little girl who had surgery at Starship to remove a brain tumour before undergoing six rounds of chemotherapy has hit out at the politicising of child cancer in the run-up to an election.

The damage the Mongrel Mob photos might have on the centre-left’s chances of forming the next Government is becoming apparent as the story rolls on and likely will for several more days.

Opportunity Party leader Qiulae Wong says she now has Christopher Luxon’s phone number.

Act leader David Seymour has indicated he would rather be in power with Opportunity than sit on Opposition benches watching a Labour-led Government.

Greens’ co-leader Marama Davidson says her party is open to funding the Mongrel Mob to deliver drug prevention programmes.

Greens’ co-leader Marama Davidson says her party is open to funding the Mongrel Mob to deliver drug prevention programmes.

The cost of living is set to be the cornerstone of the election, with the issue , healthcare and tax becoming flashpoints in the first head-to-head between the leaders of the country’s two major parties.

“We had built before, but once our third son arrived, the home we were living in was too small,” says the owner of this stylish 394sqm five-bedroom masonry property on a prime site in Mission Bay.

There are many things you won’t find on Viking’s brand-new ocean ship, Viking Mira. There are no formal nights and no water slides. You won’t find a flash casino or bowling alley, nor a giant shopping mall or full-sized cinema.

It’s not often a hotel offers the chance to try on local attire and model it for a photoshoot, but that’s what happens at the Capella in Shanghai. I choose from a rail of traditional Chinese qipao cape dresses, step into an orange silk number with a whopping NZ$2760 price tag and sashay down one of the hotel’s many alleys. Flanking these alleys are historic 18th-century stone townhouses which the

There are many things you won’t find on Viking’s brand-new ocean ship, Viking Mira. There are no formal nights and no water slides. You won’t find a flash casino or bowling alley, nor a giant shopping mall or full-sized cinema.

Here are eight essential Panama Canal cruise tips, from which set of locks are the best (there are two, and they’re very different) to working out where to stand, when to book, what to pack, and more.

There’s a limp orchid abandoned in the corridor of the Avalon Impression cruise ship.

Triple bottom line: it sounds like a finance reporter’s soundbite, but it’s an ecotourism strategy that delivers significant environmental, social and economic benefits. For the uninitiated, it refers to business success measured by profit, people and the planet, but is it an approach that can work for cruising? I’m about to find out on a seven-night sailing around Fiji on Blue Lagoon Cruises’...

Here are eight essential Panama Canal cruise tips, from which set of locks are the best (there are two, and they’re very different) to working out where to stand, when to book, what to pack, and more.

There’s a limp orchid abandoned in the corridor of the Avalon Impression cruise ship.

An expensive natural sweetener used in sugar-free and high-protein foods has been substituted in New Zealand with a much cheaper artificial alternative.

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She remembers waking her two toddlers in the middle of the night and telling them they were going on a “surprise holiday”.

HIT THE RIVER TRAIL

My husband and I recently cruised on Crystal Serenity from Singapore to Mumbai. Through a mix of Crystal excursions and independently organised excursions, we visited places in Sri Lanka and India we had never been to, saw things we had never seen and learned things we never knew.

I recently joined the last segment of a Crystal world cruise. On board, I realised that many guests had sailed multiple Crystal world cruises and were booked for future Crystal world cruises too.

It’s not often a hotel offers the chance to try on local attire and model it for a photoshoot, but that’s what happens at the Capella in Shanghai. I choose from a rail of traditional Chinese qipao cape dresses, step into an orange silk number with a whopping NZ$2760 price tag and sashay down one of the hotel’s many alleys. Flanking these alleys are historic 18th-century stone townhouses which the

With a little planning, your ship’s kids’ club can be a holiday highlight for everyone. Your children get to try some amazing activities and make new friends while parents enjoy some downtime. However, common mistakes can make a cruise ship kids’ club experience more fraught than fun.

Saddle up, cruisers! Let’s sail back to the American Wild West, where men were cowboys and women were ... well, being chased by those cowpokes all over the rooming houses and saloons.

My husband and I recently cruised on Crystal Serenity from Singapore to Mumbai. Through a mix of Crystal excursions and independently organised excursions, we visited places in Sri Lanka and India we had never been to, saw things we had never seen and learned things we never knew.

There are flashes of bright sunlight hitting the water but it’s still blisteringly cold. Large walls of thick ice surround our kayaks. I hear a violent, cracking sound, like a gun going off. I whip my head around and watch a cliff of frozen ice break off and tumble into the lake, metres away from a kayak. A spray of snow explodes from the water.

Saddle up, cruisers! Let’s sail back to the American Wild West, where men were cowboys and women were ... well, being chased by those cowpokes all over the rooming houses and saloons.

As the rain hammers down on the sun deck of our yacht, a family of goats emerges and trots excitedly towards the water’s edge of the opposite islet, eager to lap up the falling rainwater that has eluded the region for months.

The Viking Sky glides slowly into the harbour at Lerwick and I’m standing on our balcony watching the Shetland Islands come into view. Stone buildings line the waterfront in tidy rows. Fishing boats bob alongside weathered docks.