On the brink

By Peta Carey in Ecologic

Issue Listener Plus 3805 22nd Apr 2013

Long-time opponents of power companies’ low-carbon generation plans have formed a new environmental group to try to get politicians to “wise up”.

Fighting the Milford Dart Passage

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By Peta Carey in Current Affairs

Issue 3749 17th Mar 2012

The DoC-approved tunnel under the Southern Alps to Milford Sound is running into heated opposition, writes Peta Carey.

Flutings inside Rouffignac cave shed new light

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By Peta Carey in Current Affairs

Issue 3742 28th Jan 2012

Millennia-old lines on the walls of a French cave provide the first evidence that women, too, left their mark.

Not your typical collector

By Peta Carey in Art

Issue 3672 25th Sep 2010

Shane Cotton describes him as "an old-fashioned patron", Lisa Reihana as "a 150% character". Meet globetrotting David Teplitzky and the artworks he and partner Peggy Scott are about to show to the world, starting in Wellington. by Peta Carey

A much-loved war heroine

By Peta Carey in Uncategorized

Issue 3336 17th Apr 2004

In 1994 a group of aircraft enthusiasts - the New Zealand Warbirds - attempted a delivery flight of a vintage Catalina WWII flying boat from the US to New Zealand. It crash-landed in the Pacific. As Anzac Day approaches, PETA CAREY, one of the seven crew aboard, suggests that there is far more to commemorate

Sound and fury

By Peta Carey in Uncategorized

Issue 3298 26th Jul 2003

Beautiful, isolated, romantic and ... bursting at the seams. Milford Sound now faces the huge challenge of stopping tourism overload from ruining the view - without ruining the business.