The Voice finalists Caleb Jago-Ward and Ella Monnery are forced to QUIT the show due to coronavirus travel restrictions By Ali Daher For Daily Mail Australia Published: 01:14 BST, 6 July 2020 | Updated: 01:59 BST, 6 July 2020 The Voice Australia’s Caleb Jago-Ward and Ella Monnery cannot continue to participate in the Channel 9 … Read more
The Lord Of The Rings television series set to begin filming in New Zealand as cast is granted permission to enter the country By Mary Mrad For Daily Mail Australia Published: 04:15 BST, 4 July 2020 | Updated: 04:15 BST, 4 July 2020 The highly-anticipated Lord Of The Rings television series is set to begin … Read more
Despite the ongoing controversy surrounding his blackface portrayals, Chris Lilley still has loyal fans – including Married At First Sight‘s Cathy Evans. The 26-year-old, an Australian of Welsh and Thai heritage who was raised in New Zealand, revealed on Thursday that a fan had recently said her humour reminded them of Jonah Takalua from the 2007 comedy series Summer Heights … Read more
New Zealand‘s health minister has resigned after a series of gaffes during the coronavirus crisis. David Clark was caught on a mountain-biking trip during lockdown, admitted driving his family 12 miles for a walk on the beach and last week caused outrage by blaming a popular health official for lapses in testing. Clark said it … Read more
Travel industry bosses demand more answers as it emerges just TWELVE air bridges have been agreed with other countries despite list of 95 destinations being published today – with no guarantee that Brits will be allowed in Boris Johnson is set to announce Britons can travel to the majority of the EU Other permitted destinations … Read more
Pete Evans has taken his controversial views to New Zealand, claiming that COVID-19 is a ‘f**king hoax’ and the pandemic ‘doesn’t compare to what is happening in the world on a large scale’. Appearing on the Well and Good podcast, hosted by The Bachelor NZ stars Art and Matilda Green, the celebrity chef, 47, also vented … Read more
Boris Johnson ‘is set to green-light holidays to 95 destinations’ – but only a dozen will have air bridges in place to let Britons enter from Day One on Monday Boris Johnson is set to announce Britons can travel to the majority of the EU Other permitted destinations will include all British overseas territories and … Read more
Five-foot-tall penguin-like birds that roamed the Northern Hemisphere 37 million years ago had ‘doppelgangers’ in New Zealand, bone fossils suggest. Plotopterids, an extinct family of flightless seabirds, had strikingly similar bone fragments to the ‘monster penguins’ that lived in New Zealand more than 60 million years ago. Although they existed at different times, both types … Read more
The South Pole is warming from climate change three times faster than the rest of the world despite being the most remote location on the planet, a study shows. Record-breaking high temperatures at the southernmost point on Earth are being fuelled by increases in greenhouse gases and natural weather shifts in the tropics. This ‘double … Read more
‘Teach them young!’ Proud Maori father teaches his tiny baby how to do the haka war dance in heart-warming video shared by New Zealand rugby star Dan Carter Rugby player Sean Wainui did the haka with his eight-month-old son Kawariki The 24-year-old performs the Maori war dance while his happy baby joins in New Zealand … Read more
Powerful 6.0-magnitude earthquake rocks New Zealand near Milford Sound A 6.0-magnitude earthquake rocked New Zealand on Thursday morning The quake struck 40km west of popular tourist destination Milford Sound As many as 3,000 people reported feeling the ‘strong, sharp’ tremor By Daily Mail Australia Reporter Published: 23:33 BST, 24 June 2020 | Updated: 00:05 BST, … Read more
Lost continent of Zealandia that sank into the sea 23 million years ago is revealed in unprecedented detail in new maps of the ocean floor Geologists from New Zealand created the new tectonic and bathymetric maps They are available both in print and in interactive from on a new web portal Covering some 1,930,511 square miles, Zealandia … Read more
Extraordinary moment an orca eats a stingray as residents in waterfront properties look on in New Zealand A pod of orcas have been filmed hunting a stingray near a waterfont home People watched on as the pod hunted and killed the stingray on Sunday Stingrays make up a large part of an orca’s diet and are … Read more