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Chasing the dragon
Harnessing AI for good is already an elusive pursuit of governments and business. But what happens if it evolves beyond our ability to contain it?
10+ min |
July 5-11, 2025
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Betting on the house
Key results signal the country's economy is on the up. So why are voters still miserable?
3 min |
July 5-11, 2025
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Kindergarten king
I think the orange boob may have recently poked two previously slumbering bears - one of which will now awaken and bite him on the arse - and neither is the nation he just threatened, bombed the crap out of and earned a ceasefire that will likely end with a negotiated deal similar to the one Trump pulled the US out of in 2018.
2 min |
July 5-11, 2025
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Taken in paradise
Thriller offers seductive heroine and exotic location but doesn't take full advantage of its political framework.
2 min |
June 28-July 4, 2025
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Sumac your lips
Palestinian chef Sami Tamimi celebrates garden produce with recipes from his homeland.
5 min |
June 28-July 4, 2025
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Fight for survival
Former scientist's exhaustive, if flawed, account of our nation's wildlife contains fascinating stories and asks thorny questions.
3 min |
June 28-July 4, 2025
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In the driver’s seat
A new local series focuses on the challenges faced by young disabled people getting behind the wheel.
2 min |
June 28-July 4, 2025
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More than make-up
The charity Look Good Feel Better is branching out to find new ways of helping people with cancer.
3 min |
June 28-July 4, 2025
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Digital detox
The rise of deepfake technology has sparked debate in New Zealand over whether existing legislation, particularly the Harmful Digital Communications Act 2015 (HDCA), is sufficient to address the harms caused by Al-generated content. Act MP Laura McClure has introduced the Deepfake Digital Harm and Exploitation Bill, a private member's bill proposing amendments to the Crimes Act and the HDCA. But is new legislation truly necessary?
2 min |
June 28-July 4, 2025
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Days are numbered
Novel about a clairvoyant doctor is enjoyably lightweight.
2 min |
June 28-July 4, 2025
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Kindred spirits
Just a normal family living in a whare in the country - with ghosts.
2 min |
June 28-July 4, 2025
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Underwater invasion
Pest control hopes for a seaweed infestation in NZ's northern waters rest on AI surveillance.
3 min |
June 28-July 4, 2025
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At the office, naturally
Firms are going way beyond pot plants and coffee to attract a happy, diverse workforce – with paybacks in productivity and wellbeing.
10+ min |
June 28-July 4, 2025
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New world order
As international powers jockey for regional supremacy, global security arrangements are not what they once were.
4 min |
June 28-July 4, 2025
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Steady as he goes
He's a sucker for punishment, overly earnest and a political junkie. Is Andrew Little the man to save Wellington?
8 min |
June 28-July 4, 2025
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Call me Leo
Anyone who says the Catholic Church is not modernising is simply not paying attention.
2 min |
June 28-July 4, 2025
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Not just child's play
Despite the financial challenges of children's theatre, grown-ups continue to make smart entertainment for youngsters.
6 min |
June 28-July 4, 2025
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Play it again, Dad
Music not only soothes babies but helps strengthen the bond with parents.
3 min |
June 28-July 4, 2025
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Just not that into you
A basic understanding of what's going on inside the head of little Tiddles could save cat 'companions' much heartache.
9 min |
June 28-July 4, 2025
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Show me the money
The stars are brighter than the script in Celine Song's latest.
1 min |
June 28-July 4, 2025
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Bigger than the bomb
A nuclear war would wipe out millions but the lingering effects on climate would kill billions more through starvation, says a US scientist who has spent decades raising the alarm.
9 min |
June 28-July 4, 2025
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Then and now
A letter-writer rails against “poisonous vaccines and drugs” and the vast medical establishment pushing them on the population, leaving the country “littered and plastered from end to end and side to side with mad, maimed, diseased and prematurely dead”.
2 min |
June 28-July 4, 2025
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Spiritual road trip
Māori generation- gap drama has some magical moments.
1 min |
June 28-July 4, 2025
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Kings of California
The late Brian Wilson and Sly Stone embodied the different places in the Golden State's musical geography and history.
4 min |
June 28-July 4, 2025
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Half-life
British writer’s relentless search to find the toxic truth behind his German-Jewish family’s WWII survival.
4 min |
June 28-July 4, 2025
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Dons and dickheads
I was hoping to write about something other than someone from Wellington saying something stupid or ignorant. Alas, there’s no rest for those hoping for such a reprieve.
3 min |
June 28-July 4, 2025
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Turning back time
If you could go back in time and ban the Nazi party, would you? Especially given all you now know about the misery the German political party would cause before and during a world war.
2 min |
June 28-July 4, 2025
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Behind the curtain
Jacinda Ardern's memoir lets us into the mind of a PM under crisis, but says less on whether she made right calls elsewhere.
4 min |
June 14-20, 2025
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Learning to swim
At 80, one of our most celebrated authors, Witi Ihimaera, threw himself in the deep end: a year-long commitment to a full-time Māori language immersion class.
8 min |
June 14-20, 2025
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Wing and a prayer
It was a winter Sunday in 1983 above a seething Wellington sea when Robert Muldoon glanced up from The Economist magazine.
2 min |