North & South

North & South is New Zealand’s premier monthly current affairs and lifestyle magazine, specialising in long-form investigative journalism, delivered by award-winning writers and photographers. North & South also showcases New Zealand ingenuity and creativity, explores the country and profiles its people. It is a touchstone of New Zealand life.

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NORTH VS SOUTH • An indispensable guide to the best of both islands. Discover New Zealand’s top beaches, roads, lakes, walks, sports grounds, cultural icons and more.

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Bye Bye Bowls

UNDER SIEGE • Just another day at the local castle.

The Covid Collectors • Museums around the country are documenting history in real time.

SYMPHONY IN GREEN

Downhill • The rich history and uncertain future of small, community-run ski fields.

THE AGE OF PERMANENT ANXIETY • As mounting crises throw our future into turmoil, anxiety may become a permanent state of mind for more and more of us. How will we cope?

Can Greyhound Racing Survive? • With damning reports of injury and doping, a once-fashionable sport is officially on notice.

The odyssey • Twenty years ago, New Zealand took in 131 Afghan asylum-seekers from the Tampa who made new lives here. Now, with Afghanistan wracked by another refugee crisis, they are hoping to help.

AN ACCOMPLICE IN ARTS • PORTRAITS OF CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS, BUILT FROM TRUST AND TIME.

Red Flags • Amid concerns that China is co-opting academics and acquiring sensitive technology from universities around the world, New Zealand scientists are being forced to navigate a perilous geopolitical maze.

A powerful alternative • Between historically low interest rates and increasingly complicated and discouraging rules around property investing, many of today’s investors are wondering if there’s another option. The short answer is yes – there is.

“THIS EVEREST OF A ROLE” • Simon O’Neill, a world-renowned Wagnerian tenor, prepares to sing one of opera’s most challenging characters.

ABOUT TOWN–TE AWAMUTU • This Waikato town was once known for dairy farming, producing the Finn brothers, and not much else. One former local returns to find it, happily, even better than he remembers.

WORSHIP ON HIGH

BOOKS

Cover Story — Steve Braunias.

WHIZ//QUIZ

10 THINGS TO

By Any Other Name • How long has Aotearoa been a name for these islands? The history between Māori and Moriori suggests much longer than some of those objecting to its current use.

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