Category: Lifestyle

From a tourist town that has never looked so serene (Lake Tekapo) to meeting the queer community in the South Island’s most eclectic town (Ōamaru) – there’s nothing like a Kiwi roadie! Pre-covid there were times we passed through Lake Tekapo and it looked as busy as Queenstown, attracting tourists with its Instagram-able Church of […]

Thanks to the government’s Clean Car Discount, buyers of New Zealand’s most fuel-efficient mainstream automotive brand – Suzuki – are now eligible for up to $3,160 cashback on a new Suzuki car or SUV! To help you pick your new ride, here are express’ top picks from the Clean Car Discount range. Boasting the lowest […]

Hot off the heels of another successful car sales awards night, MINI’s top salesperson Dan Smith from Auckland MINI Garage, takes us over what makes the MINI EV one of the best EVs on the market, and the fabulous savings that are available with the Government’s Clean Car Discount. Unlike other EVs on the market […]

Last month, the New Zealand AIDS Foundation (NZAF) rebranded as the Burnett Foundation Aotearoa, and along with a new name comes new Executive Director Joe Rich, a stalwart of the organisation for the past 11 years. He talks to express about Monkeypox, PrEP, and more.  How concerned should express readers be about the recent outbreak […]

Michael Gullery tells Steven Oates how a downtown apartment became a hub for social/political change and a multi-generational queer commune in 90s Auckland. Khartoum Place is a small tranquil square connecting Lorne and Kitchener Streets.  Although best known for its memorial and waterfall dedicated to New Zealand’s Women’s Suffrage movement, throughout the early 1990s the area […]

Beatle Treadwell is the Associate Director of Midwifery – Māori Health and Equity for Auckland District Health Board (ADHB). She tells Oliver Hall about her 30-year career, being a frontline worker during the pandemic and coming out at work in the 90s. Beatle Treadwell began her three-year training to become a midwife in 1992. Unsurprisingly […]

Rainbow Counsellor Paul Letham is here to offer advice. This month he answers the age-old question: how do I let a Grindr hook-up down if they don’t look like their pics? Paul, help! I have been trying to take more control of my life including meeting up with guys from Grindr – not just messaging […]

So synonymous with students, it’s easy to forget to revisit Ōtepoti (Dunedin) once we enter the working world, but a trip South to take in their Pride festival reminds Oliver Hall that our thriving Southern city has so much to offer. As well as shielding us from the worst of the pandemic, closed borders reminded […]