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New Zealand loves culture. It hates paying for it
Artists in New Zealand are constantly told their work matters, then asked to prove it again in another form, another budget, another application. The result is a creative sector where making the work is only half the job, and surviving long enough to make it can feel like the actual art form.
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Hospo is dead. People keep opening anyway
New Zealand hospitality is having a rough year, but the better story is not another closure. It is the people still signing leases, building rooms and betting that a good table can survive an economy telling everyone to stay home.
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