by Laura Prahash*
“the international education market is worth around $4.8 billion dollars, and Chinese students make up about a third of the yearly intake.” COVID-19 highlighted just how much economic value we place on international students, especially Chinese students, but when did we begin to see them this way?

by Laura Prahash*
The year is 1979. Malaysian students in Auckland and across New Zealand had just spent the last three years battling a discriminatory quota limiting the number of incoming Malaysian international students, bolstered by allegations of ‘marriages of conveniences’. Little did these students know that the fight was far from over.

By Laura Prahash*
By the late 1960s, wider social unrest was echoed within the international student community in Auckland as the relationship between these students and their host city shifted from cultural to increasingly political exchanges.

By Isabella Wensley*
The Summit complex on Maungakiekie/One Tree Hill has a complicated symbolism. The monument and summit itself have been seen alternatively as a memorial to John Logan Campbell, a symbol of racial harmony, or a symbol of colonialist domination.

By Isabella Wensley*
The idea of Aucklanders having their own maunga and opposing views as to their function is reflected in the decades long quest of the Auckland Astronomical Society to find a site for Auckland’s first observatory.

Part Two "The Yankee Hospital" – The 39th General US Army HospitalPart One “Mere Cold Stone” The Different Meanings of the One Tree Hill ObeliskPart Three “Not in my Backyard” – The Construction of the Auckland ObservatoryPart Four Activism at the Summit: a new...

By Tom Wilkinson*
In previous pieces, I have touched upon the changing makeup of Parnell’s social and physical landscape throughout the twentieth century. In this final piece of the series, I wanted to touch on some of the ways in which residents of Parnell experienced the area during this time.

by Tom Wilkinson*
Over the course of the 1960s and the 1970s, some major changes occurred in the suburb of contrasts. The post-war cycle of economic and residential growth helped turn Auckland into New Zealand’s ‘primate city’, and as a result vast swathes of land were converted to new industrial and residential suburbs.

By Tom Wilkinson*
Located on the periphery of Auckland’s CBD, Parnell has an extensive history as one of the city’s oldest suburbs. The area has a reputation of affluence and prestige – in part due to this long history, but also to the prevalence of boutique stores, expensive restaurants, and beautiful scenery.