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In this issue

SPECIAL INVESTIGATION - MONEY TRAIL - Where the tourist levies are really going. - By George Driver. Slash & burn - How Trump's science cuts are hitting home here. Crash, bang, Willis - Playing potluck with the economy.

Different school of thought

NCEA's replacement should reinforce a student-centred approach to learning rather than bring back an outdated system

2 mins

Headless chooks

As Luxon talks up a glorious future, his ministers are introducing disconnected policies while sectors collapse al around them.

4 mins

Taking up the challenge

More than 30 years ago, Australia's then-Labor prime minister Paul Keating was silently captivated as Māori warriors crept out of the drizzle over West Auckland's Hoani Waititi Marae to issue the challenge.

2 mins

Going to extremes

In June, Melissa Hortman, leader of Minnesota's House Democratic caucus, was murdered, along with her husband, by anti- abortionist Vance Boelter, who had already shot state senator John Hoffman and his wife, and had made a kill list of Democrats and liberal figures.

2 mins

Murrr-durrr, they wrote

Even before Jim Taggart first snarled, \"Thuz bin a murrr-durrr\" in the early 80s in his long-running eponymous TV drama, Scotland was known for a particularly gritty form of crime fiction.

2 mins

The perils of grey literature

In 2024, the Court of Appeal in Kyle v R confronted a deceptively simple question: can expert witnesses rely on “grey literature”?

2 mins

Clipping the ticket

A visitor levy intended to fund services that overseas visitors use and conservation projects has become a cash cow for the government, with little money spent on tourism infrastructure.

10+ mins

When dogma trumps science

The US administration's health and science funding cuts challenge NZ's role in global research in areas such as vaccines and climate change.

10+ mins

Into the limelight

A chance encounter with a scene from Shakespeare reveals a celebrated moment in 19th-century stagecraft.

8 mins

A quiet superstar

After a childhood of violence and broken dreams, Amanda Evans has forged a career making a huge difference to the lives of dying children.

7 mins

High on her own supply?

Patricia Lockwood's new novel doubles down and tests the patience of her devotees.

5 mins

Clever and crammed

Trent Dalton's latest has truth, lies and delusion at its heart.

3 mins

History lessons

For his second novel, Airana Ngarewa draws from his own whakapapa to tell the story of a survivor of Tītokowaru's war.

4 mins

The nuclear option

A well-researched biography of our first Nobel laureate explores Ernest Rutherford's achievements in plain language.

4 mins

And your bird can sing

Once half of The Chicks, Suzanne Lynch marks 60 years in the music biz with a memoir that touches on the big names she's backed.

6 mins

Floating in and out of comfort zones

Local albums offer smooth sailing and nightmares in space.

2 mins

Centre of the storm

Jacinda Ardern doco captures her time in power in vivid detail.

2 mins

Drive like crazy

Paul Thomas Anderson steers Leonardo DiCaprio into Coen Brothers territory as a desperate dad.

2 mins

Sam's summons

Sam Neill gathered a Kiwi-heavy cast for his third season of courtroom drama The Twelve, set in Western Australia.

3 mins

Paint by numbers

Through people's stories and data, new four-part series Counting the Beat portrays how New Zealanders are really living.

2 mins

TV Films

The big movies on TV this week

2 mins

Doctor's notes

A new work by paediatrician and composer Louise Webster gets the APO treatment.

2 mins

Little wonders

NZ research confirms most very-low-birthweight babies go on to lead healthy lives - though they could benefit from extra monitoring.

3 mins

Cook this way

Jamie Oliver's latest book is his first dedicated to healthy eating and is packed with tasty recipes.

4 mins

What's in a label?

Why finally getting a health diagnosis can bring relief – but a so uncertainty.

2 mins

Under the pump

A decline in a group of microscopic Southern Ocean algae could cascade up the food chain to penguins and whales.

2 mins

Who's the moss?

\"Are you crazy?” This is what Bob is wondering. He has written to me to explain a few things, some of it about moss, though mostly about his opinion of me. It seems that, at least in Bob’s view, I am a pitiable idiot who is unworthy to exist in the same beautiful world as moss.

2 mins

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New Zealand Listener Magazine Description:

Publisher: Are-Media

Category: News

Language: English

Frequency: Weekly

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.

An energising read, full of witty insight and award-winning investigative journalism, this is the magazine that has been setting New Zealand’s agenda since 1939.