MARCH 2025

Child Poverty

A picture of children living in poverty does not fit the stereotypical image you might imagine. The spread is far wider and more devastating long-term on families in Aotearoa NZ.

Dauntless Donna

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Dauntless Donna 25th March 2025 Lucidly and passionately, Donna Chisholm has reported on New Zealand lives and issues for nearly three decades. She promised wrongfully imprisoned David Dougherty she'd write about him until he was freed. And she did. NICOLA SHEPHEARD meets the woman colleagues call the "journalist's journalist". By…

Child Poverty

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Child Poverty 25th March 2025 A picture of children living in poverty does not fit the stereotypical image you might imagine. The spread is far wider and more devastating long-term on families in Aotearoa NZ. By Dr Renee LiangChildren living in poverty in Aotearoa do not look like those familiar…

Culture Compass

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Culture Compass 20th March 2025 Everything you need to know about arts, events, books, activism and activities around ngā motuWe're increasingly getting our cultural engagement through the device in our hand, our souls sucked into the phone and existing there, disembodied, like genies trapped in a digital urn until a…

Health – it’s a matter of consent

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Health - it’s a matter of consent March 13, 2025 "Power is not truly effective power when there is no consent; it is simply ‘power over’, which demands compliance." By: Dr Renee LiangA few weeks ago, I watched as a father signed a consent form for his newborn twins to…

Little Girl Lost

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Little Girl Lost March 13, 2025 Missing person files are, by definition, a sad lament. When it’s a child, acutely so. The disappearance in 1949 of 2½-year-old Elizabeth Shannon, who wandered off and vanished is still etched into the minds of many who lived in Wellington at the time. By:…

A Kete Half Empty

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A Kete Half Empty March 13, 2025 In her essay below, first published in North & South in January 2020, Liang describes poverty as a "heritable condition" that perpetuates and amplifies through generations: “It is also not hard to see how individual poverty flows into communities and society, with downstream…
7 March 2025 in Cover Story, Feature Article, North&South

Secrets and Lies

Secrets and Lies   An explosion in the popularity of DNA tests is exposing a litany of secrets and lies, with as many as one in four tests returning an unexpected result. And as Joanna Wane discovers, it’s ripping some families apart. How many people would have known what the…
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27 February 2025 in Cover Story, Feature Article, North&South

Japan’s theme parks

Japan's theme parks February 27, 2025   Fancy paying to play with a dog, watch a sheep being shorn or share a beer with a real Kiwi bloke? For a few hundred yen, you could find all this at monolithic New Zealand-themed adventure parks in the Japanese countryside. Michelle Duff…
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26 February 2025 in Cover Story, Feature Article, North&South

Canopies and clarity

Canopies and clarity February 27, 2025   To visit Abel Tasman National Park in the off-season is to discover wild beauty uncluttered by crowds. Sarah Daniell finds her own pace in a self-guided day walk from Tōtaranui to Medlands Beach.Abel Tasman sailed into this jewel-like world in 1642, the first…
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29 November 2024 in Culture Etc, North&South

The family album

Interdisciplinary artist Stella Brennan remixes archival objects into anti-nostalgic meditations on progress and history. Thread Between Darkness & Light is Brennan’s most personal artwork, and one of her most beautiful. By Theo Macdonald.
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Olafur Eliasson: Beyond the limits of perception

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Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki welcomes a retrospective exhibition from one of contemporary art's great ambassadors for climate consciousness and the capacity of art to affect change.

Christine Jeffs: Making A Mistake

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Christine Jeffs latest film, A Mistake, is based on author Carl Shuker’s novel in which a surgeon’s split-second decision leads to dire consequences. Shuker talks to Jeffs about directing Hollywood stars and the love of horses that keeps her home. By Carl Shuke

Man of Letters

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A conversation with painter Julian Hooper. By Theo Macdonald.
7 March 2025 in Around ngā motu, Cover Story, North&South

The cult of the meatball

The cult of the meatball
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Virtual Revolution

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NORTH & SOUTH + AUT Virtual Revolution AUT puts the latest technology in the hands of today's students AUT has opened its virtual production studio, putting top-end Hollywood production technology in the hands of today’s students. Associate Professor Dafydd Sills-Jones, Head of AUT’s Virtual Creative Precinct, says the virtual production…

Switched on: Waikato’s tech trailblazer

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NORTH & SOUTH + Dynamo6 Switched on:Waikato's tech trailblazer Dynamo6’s journey from a small startup in Waikato to a leader in digital transformation and innovation is a testament to the power of vision, resilience, and strategic thinking.   When Igor Matich founded Dynamo6, he envisioned a company rooted in the…

Harvesting the sun

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NORTH & SOUTH + Lincoln University A visualisation of the new agrivoltaic Lincoln University Energy Farm by Boffa Miskell Harvesting the sun A new farm at Lincoln University will be the first in New Zealand to produce renewable energy as well as high-value crops. Currently awaiting resource consent, the Lincoln…
29 November 2024 in Lifestyle, North&South

AUT

Growing up in the eighties, “a little girl with buck teeth and red pigtails”, Megan Dunn didn’t dream of becoming a Project Manager. She wanted to be Madison, the mermaid played by Daryl Hannah in Splash. By Theo Macdonald.
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Ocean Odyssey

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Growing up in the eighties, “a little girl with buck teeth and red pigtails”, Megan Dunn didn’t dream of becoming a Project Manager. She wanted to be Madison, the mermaid played by Daryl Hannah in Splash. By Theo Macdonald.

Auckland’s rise

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Growing up in the eighties, “a little girl with buck teeth and red pigtails”, Megan Dunn didn’t dream of becoming a Project Manager. She wanted to be Madison, the mermaid played by Daryl Hannah in Splash. By Theo Macdonald.

Farming Futures

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Growing up in the eighties, “a little girl with buck teeth and red pigtails”, Megan Dunn didn’t dream of becoming a Project Manager. She wanted to be Madison, the mermaid played by Daryl Hannah in Splash. By Theo Macdonald.
10 June 2022 in Backstory, North&South

The Northern Bear

Our relationship with Russia has been characterised by instability — cycling between friend and foe, the nation and its citizens have often become symbols of our own fear and anxieties.
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The Lost Islands

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Historic artefacts washed up by the tides hint at lost lands whose full stories we can only guess at.

Beyond the Badlands

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Strange monsters and ominous ghosts can be traced to repressed memories of violent histories, argues one Australian researcher looking at the past through a novel lens.

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