After the All Blacks’ Northern Tour last month, Barrett’s wife, Hannah, who is pregnant with their third child, joined him in Europe. Photo / Paul MenezesEducation and Immigration Minister Erica Stanford’s influence in Auckland’s society circles has been impossible to ignore this year. Photo / Warren BucklandWe interviewed former Labour Cabinet Minister Stuart Nash mid-year, about his new business, Nash Kelly Global, a partnership with Kiwi forestry tycoon Andrew Kelly. The year’s best society wedding was also the first of 2025. In 2012 he took over Spy at the Herald on Sunday, which has since evolved into Society Insider.

Source: New Zealand Herald December 24, 2025 17:31 UTC