Sooshi pic 2New Zealanders are an innovative bunch and the new product from New Zealand Natural Ice Creams just adds more weight to that arguement.  They’ve launched Sooshi, which looks like a regular rice sushi but is made of real fruit and ice cream.  The fruit fillings are made to resemble fillings you can find in real sushi with lemon presenting yellow peppers, raspberry – crab, blackcurrant – red peppers and apricot – carrot etc.  The nori or seaweed part is replaced by a upmarket version of a roll-up or dried fruit strip made out of apple.

The best bit? You can ask for a squirt of ’soy sauce’ which will be chocolate syrup!

The New Luxury Signal: Emotional Stability

The New Luxury Signal: Emotional Stability

Luxury resorts used to sell status and spectacle. Now they sell something quieter: relief. Guests arrive overloaded, and the best resorts are redesigning around sensory calm, reduced friction, and emotional steadiness. Modern luxury is less about what you add, and more about what you remove.

When a town becomes the Shock Absorber

When a town becomes the Shock Absorber

The closure of AKD’s Yarram mill is more than a job loss. It’s a systemic emergency that exposes how vulnerable small towns become when economic shocks arrive without a formal response system. Yarram’s community is already mobilising, but goodwill alone can’t carry what should be a structured, predictable framework for regional crises.