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Kakāpo come home
Four vigorous young males are relocated from the deep south to Waikato.
3 min |
September 2-8 2023
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Let's be honest
It may not seem like it, given the prevalence of scammers and con artists, but New Zealand is a high-trust country.
3 min |
September 2-8 2023
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SCREEN TIME
A new self-test for cervical cancer may be a game changer in the fight against the deadly disease.
4 min |
September 2-8 2023
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Envy of angels
Don McGlashan is this year's inductee into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame. Russell Baillie pays tribute to the songwriting great.
2 min |
September 2-8 2023
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Changing your mind
A book that's ideal for the non-scientist who wants to know more about why an artistic experience moves them so much.
3 min |
September 2-8 2023
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Portrait of a river
The story of trout fishing on the Tongariro is a tale rich with monster catches, celebrity anglers and culture clashes.
3 min |
September 2-8 2023
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Guilt trip
The politics of post-Partition India may cost many lives in Vaseem Khan's new historical mystery.
2 min |
September 2-8 2023
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CHARACTER BUILDING
Bringing Jane Halifax, one of our most iconic screen characters, to life in print was no easy feat.
5 min |
September 2-8 2023
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Finding her voice
Influential British columnist Hadley Freeman releases a book about her years of anorexia.
8 min |
September 2-8 2023
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Big grief
Lorin Clarke on the feelings that engulfed her in the days after her father's death.
4 min |
September 2-8 2023
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Dagg of a dad
In a new memoir about her relationship with her father, Lorin Clarke reflects on how John Clarke was just as funny as a family man as he was on television.
9 min |
September 2-8 2023
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Sew & tell
A new breed of at-home sewers explain what it is - besides pandemic lockdowns - that inspires them to get creative with fabric.
10+ min |
September 2-8 2023
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Citizen pain
A broken funding system is delivering record local-body rates all over New Zealand. Is there a way around the financial potholes?
10+ min |
September 2-8 2023
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The fogeys are coming
Court judge James Pickles became an international emblem of fuddy-duddyness when, in the 1960s, he enquired from the bench, \"Who are the Beatles?\"
2 min |
September 2-8 2023
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Big shots in the 'burbs
The election hoardings are up, the game is on, promises are being made. The main parties are roadbuilding. Winston Peters has a cunning plan: as the nation's handbrake and culture warrior, his new hill to die on will be the ladies' loo.
2 min |
September 2-8 2023
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Hear them roar
For the past couple of years one of the most excruciating sights in British politics has been when a Labour Party figure is asked to define what a woman is. In their desperate efforts to say nothing while speaking words, they have frequently taken the English language into whole new territories of evasion and obfuscation.
2 min |
September 2-8 2023
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Of grumps and gripes
Policy moles are popping up all over the place and being whacked down just as quickly.
4 min |
September 2-8 2023
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Swings and turnabouts
Unless the government reverses key policies - and Chris Hipkins replies to his letter - Jules Older will be taking his left-leaning vote elsewhere.
2 min |
September 2-8 2023
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Bear with me
Hangzhou Zoo in China has been accused of dressing up humans in furry costumes and passing them off as sun bears. The zoo has denied this of course. The very idea of a Chinese state-run anything carrying out any sort of deception is as ludicrous as the very idea of a human pretending to be a bear. It turns out that the idea that humans were pretending to be bears was baloney.
2 min |
August 26, September 1 2023
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Going his own way
Pianist rediscovers the lost art of classical improv.
2 min |
August 26, September 1 2023
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Share Gaul
What have we done to deserve two shows in which ex-All Blacks explain France to us?
2 min |
August 26, September 1 2023
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Reel life memoir
Lovely touches in a Gujarati spin on Cinema Paradiso.
1 min |
August 26, September 1 2023
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Talking to a brick wall
Podcaster solo act takes Monolith to great heights.
1 min |
August 26, September 1 2023
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Aged care
When an alien lands in the bushes, bored old folk go to the rescue.
1 min |
August 26, September 1 2023
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Once more with feeling
It may not be original but the Feelers’ self-tribute” album hits some worthy notes.
1 min |
August 26, September 1 2023
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An independent spirit
Bernie Griffen was a late bloomer. His first album, Everything So Far, didn't come until he was 60. Griffen, who died at 72 earlier this month, might have been late to recording but music was the pulse of his life.
2 min |
August 26, September 1 2023
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Who's a happy cavy?
In Carl Bland's new play, a guinea pig has something to say about human nature.
4 min |
August 26, September 1 2023
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More power to her
Lower Hutt's Zoë Robins takes a prominent role in the second series of fantasy epic The Wheel of Time.
4 min |
August 26, September 1 2023
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Once were warriors
Two books illustrate the ways in which women’s lives have been diminished by generations of prejudice.
4 min |
August 26, September 1 2023
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Shock tactics
Post-quake tales explore life beyond the shipping containers.
2 min |