Kim McKay has been director and chief executive of the Australian Museum for 12 years.

Kim McKay was five when she sailed out of Australia. That trip changed everything

The woman who has reinvigorated a beloved Australian institution likes to think big.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons

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A strategic game is afoot in the Pacific.

How Beijing’s nuclear gambit gave Australia a surprise advantage

This week’s test is just a preview of what is to come.

  • Matthew Knott
The Wallabies are hopeful Carter Gordon will be healthy to play France.

Fate of wounded Wallabies stars revealed as World Cup formula takes shape

Two stars who left the field early in the heartbreaking loss to Ireland have had their issues addressed ahead of Saturday’s clash with France in Brisbane.

  • Nick Wright
Arapaoa Island in the Marlborough Sounds.

Discovering one of the ‘most special places on Earth’ on an unlikely trip

I wasn’t getting my hopes up about having any meaningful wildlife encounters. One minute after stepping onto the Otago Peninsula,I’m eating my knitted beanie.

  • Kerry van der Jagt
Waiheke Island’s luxurious Delamore Lodge was built in an adobe-style to complement its natural surroundings.

This luxury Kiwi lodge is basically the Flintstones gone posh

Wine-lovers have always flocked to Waiheke Island,once Auckland’s best-kept secret. And this luxury lodge is the cushiest way to experience it.

  • Anthony Dennis
Visiting Raglan is like stepping back to the laid-back beach towns of the ’80s.

Byron Bay without the crowds and celebrities? The Kiwis have it

When we arrive at this coastal town,it’s like we’ve landed back in the 1980s.

  • Sheriden Rhodes
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The George … central and welcoming.

It may look like an office block,but few hotels offer a warmer welcome

It may not look like a luxury boutique hotel,but there’s a good reason this property has been succeeding since 1987.

  • Jane Richards
Dunedin station … “a croquembouche of basalt and limestone arches and turrets”.

This train station is more like a fairytale castle and it’s seriously underused

Said to be the most-photographed building in New Zealand,the grandeur and scale of this glorious,fairytale edifice belies its current humble use.

  • Julie Miller
Clyde township with the Clyde Dam above.

Fifty metres beneath a river,only 5.5 metres lies between me and disaster

Learning this engineering marvel was built on a fault line,while you’ve got 430 cubic metres of water above you,is an unnerving experience.

  • Justine Costigan