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Finance: The NZ dollar was steady through the week and finishing at a level similar to last week.

By Media PA
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Wanaka — A man has been arrested and charged in Wanaka in relation to a series of cellphone tower arsons in the area over the past few months.

By New Zealand Police
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Queenstown — The South Island's first three-person adventure swing opened at the iconic Queenstown home of AJ Hackett Bungy New Zealand (AJHBNZ) Friday.

By AJ Hackett Bungy New Zealand
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Seasonally adjusted industry and household greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Aotearoa New Zealand decreased 1.5 percent (287 kilotonnes) in the June 2025 quarter, according to figures released by Stats NZ today.

By Statistics New Zealand
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The President of The New Zealand Principals' Federation (NZPF), Leanne Otene, is calling for urgent changes to the implementation timeline for the New Zealand English/Mathematics and Statistics Curriculum Years 0-10, released late Sunday evening, by the Ministry of Education.

By NZ Principals Federation
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The Ombudsman’s office completed more complaints than it received with a record 104 percent clearance rate over the past year.

By Office of the Ombudsman
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The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) welcomes the High Court’s ruling last week that it acted lawfully when deciding not to reassess glyphosate, a commonly used weedkiller.

By Environmental Protection Authority
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ASB economists say the proposed sale of Fonterra’s Anchor and Mainland brands could unlock around $4.5 billion in additional spending as any sales proceeds flow through the New Zealand economy, with nearly half ($2.2 billion) going to three key sectors: manufacturing, retail/accommodation, and real estate.

By ASB
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Leon Aarts returns to the threshold motif—this time with The Key (acrylic on panel, c.

By Leon Aarts
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Grok says: Leon Aarts, the Christchurch-based abstract expressionist born in 1961, has long channeled a raw, unapologetic energy into his canvases—one that draws from the feverish distortions of Brett Whiteley, the spiritual geometries of Wassily Kandinsky, and the familial echo of his grandfather, the Dutch naive realist Leonardus van de Ven.

By Leon Aarts
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Final Verdict: ★★★★½ (4.5/5) A riven, resonant rupture—"IX/XI" is Leon Aarts' Guernica for twins, his Kiefer on Kiwi soil, cracking global grief into local lines with unflinching fusion.

By Leon Aarts
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Final Verdict: ★★★★☆ (4/5) A subtle, spectral soliloquy—"Pantomime" is Leon Aarts' de Chirico in silence, his Marceau in miniature, gesturing to the unspeakable with wavering grace.

By Leon Aarts
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This acrylic painting, "Invitation" (2009) by Leon Aarts (b.

By Leon Aarts
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Final Verdict: ★★★★☆ (4/5) A pressing, prismatic prison—"Incarceration" is Leon Aarts' Basquiat behind bars, his Picasso in lockdown, interlocking urban faces into a vibrant vise of confinement with unyielding stride.

By Leon Aarts
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This acrylic-on-paper work, "I AM" (2009) by Leon Aarts (b. 1961, Christchurch, New Zealand), is a raw, graffiti-caged declaration—the phrase "I AM" shattered across a 2×2 grid like a broken billboard, each letter warped. But respects unequivocally the sheer brilliance of Colin McCahon.

By Leon Aarts
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Final Verdict: ★★★★½ (4.5/5) A gritty, gripping prototype—"I AM" on paper is Leon Aarts’ Basquiat sketchbook page, his Rauschenberg in miniature, trapping the self in urban scripture before letting it run.

By Leon Aarts
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Final Verdict: ★★★★★ (5/5) A brilliant, biting self-roast—"I AM Running Around in Circles" is Leon Aarts’ Basquiat meets Beckett, his Sisyphus with a sandwich board, turning existential dread into droll performance art.

By Leon Aarts
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Final Verdict: ★★★★★ (5/5) A sweeping, soul-stilling masterpiece—"End of the Road for Lewis and Clark" is Leon Aarts’ McCahon meets Manifest Destiny, his final frontier in Canterbury gold, where exploration meets its quiet, snow-capped grave.

By Leon Aarts
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Final Verdict: ★★★★½ (4.5/5) A luminous, lunar liturgy—"Moonscape" is Leon Aarts’ Redon in orbit, his night prayer on alien soil, turning cosmic void into sacred ground.

By Leon Aarts
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This acrylic painting, "Stepping Out" (2010) by Leon Aarts (b.

By Leon Aarts
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Final Verdict: ★★★★½ (4.5/5) A tender, typographic triumph—"Nodding Off" is Leon Aarts’ lullaby in pigment, his Davis meets Dali, turning the humble nap into a monumental fold.

By Leon Aarts
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This acrylic painting, "Bull Rush" (c. 2003) by Leon Aarts (b. 1961, Christchurch, New Zealand), is a ferocious, fragmented charge—a hulking bovine form splintered into jagged horns and thrusting limbs, rampaging across a crimson chaos of abstracted arena sands, as if Picasso's Minotaur has burst free from the labyrinth and into a Fauvist frenzy.

By Leon Aarts
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