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Suffer the child workers
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Suffer the child workers

BULLETIN FROM WASHINGTON DC

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May 27 - June 2 2023
All together now
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All together now

Yes, schools need to change, but former principal TIM HEATH argues for reforms that have nothing to do with the three Rs.

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May 27 - June 2 2023
Facing the storm
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Facing the storm

Renowned climate scientist James Renwick's sobering new forecast for NZ and passionate plea for action

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June 10-16 2023
A different tune
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A different tune

The man who helped turn NZ Opera's fortunes around tells ELISABETH EASTHER opera can be funny, moving and disconcerting

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June 10-16 2023
Courting Nanny State
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Courting Nanny State

Advocating five-minute showers to offset the rising cost of living invites a label the government won't be wanting to wear

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June 10-16 2023
All aglitter
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All aglitter

When Martin Amis moved from W London to Brooklyn, his American wife made one thing clear: the greatest obstacle they would face \"the most time-consuming and labour-intensive, the most tediously labyrinthine and the most extortionate\" would be healthcare

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June 10-16 2023
Outfoxing the squirrels
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Outfoxing the squirrels

In our - mostly laudable - doting on animals, we seldom stop to wonder whether labradors truly appreciate being made to wear bandannas or whether poodle-crosses object to all being called either Ruby or Bella

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June 10-16 2023
Untouchable swagger
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Untouchable swagger

I had dinner at the end of last month with an old friend, the writer Geoff Dyer, and we spent a good chunk of it talking about Martin Amis, who recently died in Florida at 73

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June 10-16 2023
All over the place
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All over the place

Should we return to using some of the country's original Māori place names? JULES OLDER puts the case for change

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June 10-16 2023
Fresh off the boat
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Fresh off the boat

A BBC series about post-war UK migrants down under steers a curious course

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June 3-9 2023
Platforms for change
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Platforms for change

Wellington’s Kia Mau contemporary indigenous arts festival has become an agenda-setter for other arts events.

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June 3-9 2023
Hail to the Chief
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Hail to the Chief

How Matu Ngaropo has survived and thrived as George Washington in the musical phenomenon Hamilton.

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June 3-9 2023
History in the making
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History in the making

Bustling novel packs in 100 years of life and action in NZ and abroad.

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June 3-9 2023
Death takes a toll
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Death takes a toll

A woman who comforts the dying struggles to connect with the living.

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June 3-9 2023
A wing & a prayer
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A wing & a prayer

A child convict crosses boundaries amid the birth throes of colonial Auckland.

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June 3-9 2023
The city as a stage
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The city as a stage

A young acting troupe fights to stay alive in a fantastical Elizabethan London.

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June 3-9 2023
Out of the shadows
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Out of the shadows

How two spooks and a chip shop owner helped broker peace in Northern Ireland.

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June 3-9 2023
Going viral
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Going viral

An engaging examination of microbial diseases and their far-reaching impacts on human history.

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June 3-9 2023
Mission control
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Mission control

The need to regulate artificial intelligence is becoming urgent and Europe is well out in front on this.

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June 3-9 2023
Mental block
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Mental block

Our vulnerabilities to disease and death can provoke reactions of “Eww!”

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June 3-9 2023
Tried & true
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Tried & true

Greek grandmothers take food writer Anastasia Miari into their homes and share their time-perfected recipes.

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June 3-9 2023
Kevin Ireland 1933-2023
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Kevin Ireland 1933-2023

Graeme Lay remembers his long-time friend and colleague Kevin Ireland, writer, poet, translator and wit.

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June 3-9 2023
'Nowhere else to go'
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'Nowhere else to go'

In 2012, Max Rashbrooke spent three weeks living in a Wellington boarding house, writing about the experience for the Listener. The place he chose, Malcolm’s, has since closed and Healthy Homes legislation has come into effect mandating insulation and heating standards for all residential properties including boarding houses and hostels. We are republishing Rashbrooke’s story from 2012 in light of the Loafers Lodge fire that killed at least five people on May 16. Loafers Lodge is not Malcolm’s, but it also housed a community of vulnerable people. A decade on, Rashbrooke’s experience still resonates

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June 3-9 2023
State of inertia
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State of inertia

It’s the time of the Great Centrist Drift, writes Danyl McLauchlan, an era of “lost opportunities and gradual failure driven not by ideology but a lack of it”.

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June 3-9 2023
Arts & minds
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Arts & minds

Pressure on students to qualify for careers has seen the BA degree take a battering – but the results may not be as intended.

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June 3-9 2023
Matters of the heart
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Matters of the heart

Igor Felippe’s groundbreaking research into blood pressure has meant sacrifices and challenges

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June 3-9 2023
Bloom of youth
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Bloom of youth

The director of Oscar-nominated coming-of-age drama Close talks about how his own adolescence inspired the film.

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May 20-26 2023
Hostile territory:
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Hostile territory:

Single women trying to forge new lives are at the heart of two trans-Tasman crime debuts.

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May 20-26 2023
Home truths
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Home truths

The harrowing history of a Jewish town continues to haunt modern Ukraine.

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May 20-26 2023
A saint for the ages
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A saint for the ages

Finely woven stories spanning a thousand years revisit the eventful afterlife of an English bishop.

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May 20-26 2023