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New Zealand Listener - March 7-13, 2026

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The killer you've never heard of

After nearly dying of an abdominal aortic aneurysm, Chris O'Brien calls for a national screening programme.

2 mins

Policies for the homeless

Can Opportunity provide a real alternative for voters who feel abandoned by National and uninspired by Labour?

4 mins

Intolerance is catchy

It takes less than 30 minutes to drive from Sydney's CBD west to Lakemba - a suburb that heaves with joyous diversity. It hosts the nation's largest mosque, set within a sea of dwellings where only a third of the residents were born in Australia, and Arabic is spoken more often than English.

2 mins

Roads to ruin

One day, someone poring over the archives of transport news will alight on Wellington's long tunnel and shake their head. What, that person may wonder, were they thinking in 2024?

2 mins

Courting power

When a pastor at Auckland's Westcity Bible Baptist Church declared, in a 2017 sermon, that gay people should be shot for kissing, public reaction was swift and furious. Police investigated and found no offence. The Human Rights Commission took no action. However offensive and dehumanising the remarks were, they were lawful.

2 mins

Electric shocks

In June last year, I trundled out to a warehouse in northwest Auckland to hear Climate Change Minister Simon Watts announce new solar energy regulations. Henceforth, it would be easier for households with rooftop panels to sell unwanted power to the national grid, Watts said, and this could provide enough electricity for a city the size of Tauranga. It would allow cheaper, cleaner power to the suburbs, and boost our “energy security”.

2 mins

Pump up the volume

Protein is the new darling of marketers and influencers but it's not all hype – we could all use a bit more in our diets.

10+ mins

New Zealand idyll

For 60 years this week, Country Calendar has been appointment viewing in town and country. But is it authenticity or gentle myth-making that's been the secret to its eternal success?

9 mins

Climb every maunga

In the first of a two-part series, STEVE BRAUNIAS, armed only with a bus pass, a flask of coffee and a shopping bag sets out to scale all of Auckland's remaining volcanoes.

8 mins

Sense of space

Architect Pip Cheshire leaves a remarkable legacy, one not defined by a signature style.

4 mins

Going her own way

Million-selling author Deborah Challinor has won a gong for services to literature and historical research, but some things are best not revealed.

8 mins

The mirror cracked

Charlotte Grimshaw's latest novel is filled with characters and themes that recall her excoriating 2021 memoir.

4 mins

No refuge

War crimes explored in deft blend of fact & fiction.

2 mins

Turning of the tide

Splore is no more - the left-field music and arts festival that ran for nearly three decades called time with one last hurrah on the shores of the Hauraki Gulf. Long-time attendee RUSSELL BROWN was there.

7 mins

Life of the Pati

Documentary captures singing brothers on their operatic rise.

3 mins

Podium performance

The moment the film caught something special in a French recording studio.

2 mins

A real crack-up

Actor-writer and former Shortland Street star Holly Shervey taps her own time in psychiatric care for her new rehab black comedy, directed by husband Emmett Skilton.

4 mins

The bad guy reborn

A modern spin on Bartók's famous opera may well generate a few tears.

2 mins

Attention needed

With a rise in diagnoses has come an increase in overdoses of the meds prescribed for ADHD - both accidental and deliberate.

4 mins

Bittersweet

The Great British Bake Off inaugual winner Edd Kimber's latest is a love letter to chocolate.

5 mins

Peak reds (& whites)

Te Mata's horizons have been expanding for more than a century.

2 mins

Gold mind

Stress helps to energise us, but too much of it can dash our sporting dreams.

3 mins

Mount impermanent

An ancient slippery soil may underlie the Mauao landslide.

2 mins

LAZARUS TAXON TAONGA

Thought to have been long gone by the early-20th century, takahē were discovered in 1948 to be no dead manu.

1 mins

Eye of the tiger

When Greg's mother died in October last year, he returned to Lush Places with a bag of what would once have been treasures: pile upon pile of embroidered stinky stuff. Doilies. Table runners. Napkins. Table cloths intended for afternoon tea parties. Stuff nobody uses any more.

2 mins

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The New Zealand Listener is New Zealand’s highest-selling and best-read current affairs magazine. Each week the Listener brings you the latest commentary and insight from award-winning writers and columnists.

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