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Harry and Meghan's announcement of the arrival of their daughter Lilibet surprised royal watchers and sent the world's media scrambling to react.
Much of the focus has been on the name: Lilibet "Lili" Diana Mountbatten-Windsor.
The name is the Queen's family nickname and hit the headlines again recently in the wake of Prince Philip's death, when it was revealed that he referred to her by the nickname throughout their long marriage.
After their wedding, the Duke of Edinburgh wrote the Queen Mother: "Lilibet is the only 'thing' in the world which is absolutely real to me."
Her Majesty even signed off with the moniker on the handwritten note she placed on the Duke of Edinburgh's coffin.
The nickname was coined when then-Princess Elizabeth was just a toddler and struggling to pronounce her own name.
Her grandfather King George V then affectionately started calling her "Lilibet" in an imitation of her attempts.
Lili's middle name, Diana, pays tribute to Harry's mother.
Diana has loomed large over Harry's life since the 12-year old Prince was robbed of his mother in 1997 when she died in a car crash.
When Harry and Meghan first announced that she was pregnant with their second child, they made the announcement on the 37th anniversary of Diana's announcement that she was pregnant with Harry.
Diana's dedication to charity has informed Harry and Meghan's own charitable works, exemplified by a quote shared by the couple on social media in 2019.
The quote reads: "Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you."
Harry has been raising his son Archie with stories of his late mother.
In his recent AppleTV+ series, The Me You Can't See, he revealed that one of his son's first words was "grandma".
While the announcement of Lili's name was a surprise for most, the signs have been there that the couple have been considering it for some time.
While bookies were considering Diana and even Philippa as potential first names for the royal, a chance encounter with a group of young girls in Birkenhead, England, showed that their minds might have been elsewhere.
At the 2019 school visit, undertaken while Meghan was pregnant with Archie, Harry asked a mother how she spelled her daughter Lily's name.
Harry and American actor Meghan Markle married at Windsor Castle in May 2018. Their son Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor was born a year later.
In early 2020, Meghan and Harry announced they were quitting royal duties and moving to North America, citing what they said were the unbearable intrusions and racist attitudes of the British media. They live in Montecito, a posh area near Santa Barbara, California.
The birth comes after Harry and Meghan's explosive TV interview with Oprah Winfrey in March. The couple described painful discussions about the colour of their first child's skin, losing royal protection and the intense pressures that led her to contemplate suicide.
Buckingham Palace said the allegations of racism made by the couple were "concerning" and would be addressed privately.
Last year, Meghan revealed that she had a miscarriage in July 2020, giving a personal account of the traumatic experience in hope of helping others.
Despite leaving royal duties, Harry's place in the order of succession to the throne remains.
The first seven places remain unchanged: Prince Charles, Prince William, Prince George, Princess Charlotte, Prince Louis, Prince Harry, and his son Archie Mountbatten-Windsor.
Lilibet's birth moves Prince Andrew, who was born second in line in 1960, down to ninth place.
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New Zealand music industry icon and Te Reo champion Hinewehi Mohi has been recognised for her dedication to her music and culture.
The Waipukurau-born singer and producer has been made a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (DNZM) for her services to Māori, music and television in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.
Mohi said the recognition is a wonderful tribute to all those who've supported her, whanau, hapū, iwi and all the champions of Te Reo Māori who've been working hard to revitalise the language.
"Through music I have found a platform to really provide an access point for people to be able to access the language and the culture and experience it that way," she said.
The 57-year-old has been an integral part of New Zealand's music industry since the 1990s and is well-known for her performance of the national anthem in Māori at the 1999 Rugby World Cup in Twickenham.
It was the first time this had been done at an international rugby match, leading into the now customary practice to sing the anthem both in Te Reo Māori and English.
Mohi is also an award-winning television and music producer, but says her real passion project is Raukatauri Music Therapy Centre, which she co-founded in 2004 for people with disabilities.
She first experienced music therapy in London in 1999 when she was promoting her music and singing the national anthem with her daughter Hineraukatauri who has cerebral palsy.
Mohi said her daughter acts as constant inspiration.
Raukatauri now has around 600 people receiving music therapy each week in its three centres in Hawke's Bay, Auckland and Whangārei.
Mohi, her daughter and Auckland-born husband moved back to Hawke's Bay from Auckland four-and-a-half years ago, and said she loves being home.
It was at her Havelock North home that she produced the 2019 album Waiata/Anthems, supporting well-known musicians including Six60, Drax Project Stan Walker and Bic Runga to re-record their hit songs in Te Reo Māori.
She said she loved being able to help those artists connect with the language.
"Through that they connected to the culture and their own whakapapa, their own genealogy and heritage," Mohi said.
"For pakeha artists that have done the same thing, it's really empowered them as well to feel whole and complete as New Zealanders."
Waiata/Anthems debuted at number one on the New Zealand top 40 chart and achieved gold record sales.
She said it's been amazing to see the likes of Drax Project and Six60 perform hit songs in Māori to live crowds, around the country and on stage in Hawke's Bay.
Hinewehi Mohi also became a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours List.
text by Louise Gould, Hawkes Bay Today

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A businessman is among the country's newest dames and knights in today's New Zealand Queen's Birthday Honours.
Michael Daniell has been knighted for more than 40 years of service to Fisher and Paykel Healthcare.
He told Tim Dower he's not the only one who should be congratulated.
"I really like to think of it in this way; it's a recognition of the efforts and achievements of the people I've worked with over a long period." 
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Most people associate Wayne "Buck" Shelford's story with his many great feats for the All Blacks.
There's the infamous scrotum injury he played on with in France, his influence injecting mana into the haka, his record-setting three-year unbeaten run as national captain and subsequent sudden axing from the team.
But while those achievements evoke pride, Shelford speaks more passionately for other causes these days, particularly those around mental and physical health.
So, today he's gratefully accepting an unexpected Knighthood for the impact the title will have in uplifting the many deserving causes he seeks to serve since retiring from rugby.
Alongside Sir Wayne, are seven other knights and dames - former tennis star Dame Ruia Mereana Morrison for services to tennis; Dame Hinewehi Mohi for services to Māori, music and television; Dame Judy Anne Kilpatrick for services to nursing education; Dame Carolyn Waugh Burns for services to ecological research, Sir William [Bill] Alexander Denny for services to medical research into cancer; artist Sir Grahame Charles Sydney for services to art; and former Fisher & Paykel chief executive Sir Michael Grenfell Daniell for services to business, healthcare and governance.
"It's a great accolade; a great honour. It's one of those things you never think will happen – I'd never thought about it before," Shelford said. "I'll wear it with pride for the family and all the organisations I work with. They'll carry that with them because they're my biggest supporters."
In a rugby context Shelford will always be a legend among men. In an old-school era where head knocks and punches often went undetected, Shelford stood tall as a gladiator.

Wayne 'Buck' Shelford in action against Romania in 1991. Photosport
It's those on-field feats that have ultimately provided the platform to speak for causes of more importance to today's communities; those including prostate cancer, child cancer, mental health and suicide awareness.
Having served 11-and-a-half years in the military Shelford remains a patron of the NZ Defence Force and Navy rugby teams, while supporting the Auckland RSA.
The 63-year-old is, in many ways, living proof hard men can and must tackle hard issues.
"We have a lot of problems out there in modern-day society with a lot of people spiralling down with their anxiety and depression and that's driving people to whakamomori [suicide]," Shelford said.
"We lost 654 people last year. That's an indictment on how life is today that people are taking their own lines. Education is a big part of it - that's what Mike King is trying to do.
"I speak not so much about mental but physical wellbeing. It's about educating people to look after their bodies a lot better, and going to the doctors on a more regular basis."
Shelford says men especially don't like seeking help when something is wrong with their body or mind.
"I've had a lot of people come up to me after I speak a year or so later and say I inspired them to go to the doctor. I know one guy who went and he was diagnosed with prostate cancer straight away.
He said 'you saved my life because I wouldn't have gone otherwise'. Those are the things that inspire you to keep doing it.
"You've got to look after yourself first before you can look after your wife and kids because who's going to look after them when you're gone?"
Despite being dropped from the All Blacks in 1990 in a decision that sparked widespread controversy, Shelford holds many fond rugby memories.
He cites his son Eruera's birth the same week he first made the All Blacks in 1985 as a late-blooming 27-year-old from the emerging players tour alongside Victor Simpson and Steve McDowell.
Claiming the 1987 World Cup on home soil, as a domineering No 8, stands out for several reasons too.
"By winning that we brought New Zealand rugby back together again after the New Zealand Cavaliers...

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The Group of Seven wealthy democracies have agreed to support a global minimum corporate tax of at least 15% to deter multinational companies from avoiding taxes by stashing profits in low-rate countries.
G-7 finance ministers meeting in London also endorsed proposals to make the world's biggest companies - including U.S.-based tech giants - pay taxes in countries where they have lots of sales but no physical headquarters.
British Treasury  chief Rishi Sunak, the host, said the deal would "reform the global tax system to make it fit for the global digital age and crucially to make sure that it's fair, so that the right companies pay the right tax in the right places."
U.S. Treasury Secretary  Janet Yellen  said the agreement "provides tremendous momentum" for reaching a global deal that "would end the race-to-the-bottom in corporate taxation and ensure fairness for the middle class and working people in the U.S. and around the world."
Nations have been grappling for years with the question of how to deter companies from legally avoiding paying taxes by using accounting and legal schemes to assign their profits to subsidiaries in tax havens - typically small countries that entice companies with low or zero taxes, even though the firms do little actual business there. International discussions on tax issues gained momentum after U.S. President Joe Biden backed the idea of a global minimum of at least 15% — and possibly higher — on corporate profits.
The meeting of finance ministers came ahead of an annual summit of G-7 leaders scheduled for June 11-13 in Cornwall, England. The endorsement from the G-7 could help build momentum for a deal in wider talks among more than 135 countries being held in Paris as well as a Group of 20 finance ministers meeting in Venice in July.
Manal Corwin, a tax principal at professional services firm KPMG and a former Treasury Department official, said the meeting had clarified where important countries stood on several key issues, including the 15% minimum.
"Signaling that there is consensus around some of the key features of what's being discussed globally was really, really important so they have the momentum to go to the next phase of this with the G-20," she said.
The tax proposals endorsed Saturday have two main parts. The first part lets countries tax a share of the profits earned by companies that have no physical presence but have substantial sales, for instance through selling digital advertising.
France had launched debate over the issue by imposing its own digital services tax on revenues it deemed to have been earned in France by companies such as Google, Amazon and Facebook. Other countries have followed suit. The U.S. considers those national taxes to be unfair trade measures that improperly single out American firms.
Part of the agreement Saturday is that other countries would repeal their unilateral digital taxes in favor of a global agreement.
Facebook's vice-president for global affairs, Nick Clegg, said the deal is a big step toward increasing business certainty and raising public confidence in the global tax system but acknowledged it could cost the company.
"We want the international tax reform process to succeed and recognize this could mean Facebook paying more tax, and in different places," Clegg said on Twitter.
The G-7 statement echoes a U.S. proposal to let countries tax part of the earnings of the "largest and most profitable multinational enterprises — digital or not — if they are doing business within their borders. It supported awarding countries the right to tax 20% or more of local profits exceeding a 10% profit margin.
Yellen, asked if she had given her European counterparts assurances that large U.S. tech firms would be included, said the agreement "will include large profitable firms, and I believe those firms will qualify by almost any definition."
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A decision on whether nurses will go on strike nationwide on Wednesday will be made this afternoon.
Nurses had already confirmed they would stop work in mid-May, which the New Zealand Nurses Organisation (NZNO) union said would have given staff a 1.38 percent wage increase.
That led to a last-minute revised pay offer from district health boards (DHBs).
The new deal is being voted on by the 30,000 members of the NZNO, with the ballot closing at 1pm.
If it is declined, the nurses will strike on Wednesday.
Union organisers said a plan had been put in place to ensure life-preserving services would still be staffed.
Glenda Alexander from the Nurses Organisation told Tim Dower the payrise they've been offered is less than inflation and some nurses are paid under the living wage.
"They're pretty frustrated by it all. They just really want to be paid for the value of their work, and they want to get on to a good job, and do that with a good workload as well."
Waikato DHB nurses have also refused a formal request to call off the strike, while the DHB still grapples with the effects of a cyber-attack.
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In 1996, one Kiwi band achieved an extraordinary feat that few local acts have been able to achieve since. 
OMC quickly became household names after their hit How Bizarre hit Number One in New Zealand - as well as in Australia and the United States. 
The song has had a lasting impact, even breaking out as a viral TikTok trend last year. 
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the song's success, the album How Bizarre is being re-released on vinyl. 
Simon Grigg, who funded and released the song, joined Tim Dower to discuss how the song came to be and it's long-lasting legacy.
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There could be one early learning centre a week shutting its doors this year due to a perfect storm of economic factors.
Ministry of Education data shows centre closures have been rising steadily from 17 in 2016 to 40 in 2020 - with no signs of slowing down.
The Early Childhood Council chief executive Peter Reynolds says he fields a call a week from a provider that's in trouble.
He told Tim Dower Government funding is one part of the problem.
"We've got a huge teacher shortage in the sector at the moment. We are still, like everybody else, trying to come to terms with the outcome of Covid."
He says it's affecting the smaller childhood centres, which is then affecting parent choice.
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"All offers seriously considered," says the estate agent selling the stunning Far North island and luxury home once listed with a $22 million price tag.
It's a move that opens up a range of possibilities for Motukawaiti, the only privately owned island among the Cavalli group.
Among those - as suggested by the owner, Jun Zhang - is a possible return to the people of Ngāti Kura, who had the island slip from their control in 1912 amid a "wave of alienations of leasing and sales" in the area.
Zhang took control of Motukawaiti almost 100 years later as settlement for a loan default by the previous owner, to whom he had lent the money to buy it.
That was in 2016. Since then, Zhang has returned to China and since 2019, the island and its expansive luxury home have sat empty, without a caretaker, while estate agent James Law has tried to find a buyer who can meet its $22 million price tag.
That purchase price is now gone.
Laws told the Herald the latest agreement to buy Motukawaiti had fallen through and now, there is no bottom line.
"The vendor has asked the public to ignore the previous price tags of $22m or $40m or so.
"They are currently overseas, and have no plans to return to reside in New Zealand in the near future. They are going to give this their best shot this time to sell this on the open market."
Laws said the owner was now taking bids on the island. Tenders close on May 28.
The new bid to sell the island comes with an acknowledgement of the interest from Ngāti Kura, which has been lobbying the Government to step in and purchase the island. The steep purchase price was considered to be out of reach of the hapū.
Laws said Ngāti Kura's concern the island might be too expensive could be wrong.
"The vendor would like to point out that it may not be the case, as what they may accept could surprise them."
One of the pools at Motukawaiti's luxury home, green and stagnant. Photo / David Fisher
Zhang has not said how low he would go, wanting to sell the island yet asking the open market to set the sales price.
Motukawaiti has been through this dance before. One owner tried for almost 20 years between the 1960s and 1980s to have the Crown buy the island and put it into public ownership.
That owner, Peter Nisbett, of Moerewa, offered two-thirds of the island to the Crown for $100,000 in 1973. He later increased the offer to cover the whole island, rejecting private offers while the Crown dithered, eventually selling it privately in the late 1980s even as the other Cavalli Islands were brought into public ownership.
Historian Anthony Patete wrote an in-depth history of Matauri Bay, describing how those set out to "settle" this land did so supported by a developing state infrastructure that created a "wave of alienations of leasing and sales".
Land was sold out of communal ownership, often without community approval, which is what Ngāti Kura has maintained happened when the island was "sold" to George Hows. Subsequent challenges to the sale failed.
"The whole idea of the Native Land Court system was to break down tribal hierarchy and communal ownership of land," Patete says.
"The Native Land Court introduced [to New Zealand] the idea of individualised land ownership."
When the issue of taking the island out of private ownership arose recently, some in Ngāti Kura floated the idea of a co-management approach by the hapū and the Crown.
Ngāti Kura kaumatua Dover Samuels recently lobbied Government Ministers Andrew Little (Treaty Settlements) and Kelvin Davis (Crown-Māori Relations) about returning the island to the hapū.
He saida claim before the Waitangi Tribunal sought to challenge the original sale of the island.
"The history of the island gives rise to very strong evidence that the Crown accept responsibility for its alienation. Until they come back saying they are going to challenge that, we have evidence...

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The pandemic has prompted a shift in our perceptions about wealth.
A study by the ANZ Bank has found more than 60 percent of people believe Covid-19 has pushed family to the top of the list of what's important - rather than money.
Psychologist Sara Chatwin told Tim Dower Covid-19 made us re-evaluate our priorities.
"I think that Covid gave a lot of people the opportunity, if you are looking for a silver lining, of just having that time to hone in on the things that were important."
The study shows those under 30 were particularly interested in reducing debt for the future.
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