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.

THE SECRET HANDSHAKE FOR EXPORTERS • HOW FERNMARK IS HELPING PUT NEW ZEALAND ROCK LOBSTER AT THE TOP OF THE BILL IN CHINA

FERNMARK LICENCE PROGRAMME • FernMark makes sense for seafood exporters

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Lee-Anne Duncan

North & South

HOME AND AWAY WINNERS

GENDER STUDIES • Censorship woes, concerns over puberty suppression drugs, and more readers vexed by all-online banking.

WHIZ QUIZ

EVENTS

GREENS AND GOLDS • When Tania Irons moved to the country, it was only natural she’d pick up her knitting needles.

Reader Giveaway: A TASTE OF HONEY

STANDING ON THEIR SHOULDERS • A new exhibition on the pioneering Wellington trans community is bringing Carmen home.

Z IS FOR “COZY” • Customers dropping into Zenders Cafe will simply feel gezellig – a convivial cosiness – which is just what the three sisters who built this business had in mind.

MY SPACE

IN DEFENCE OF MEAT AND DAIRY • When organisations as illustrious as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recommend Westerners eat less meat, it’s not only Kiwi farmers who worry. Food scientists argue plant-based diets can ignore the protein-packed power of red meat and milk, especially for the young and the elderly. And while agriculture has big environmental problems to solve, New Zealand’s grass-fed sheep and cattle still underpin a high-quality food industry. Glenda Lewis reports.

LOAVES AND FISHES – AND LENTILS

THE BOTTOM LINE

MEAT THE ANCESTORS

MEAT AND THREE VEG MYTHS AND TRUTHS

THE POWER AND THE PASSION • In 1989, North & South senior writer Rosemary McLeod profiled 31 women “shaping our lives and the country’s future”, at a time when the reins of power were still largely held by men. Three decades on, Joanna Wane reviews their legacy.

The Honours List

OUTBREAK! • The measles outbreak may be waning in New Zealand, but the number of people infected and rapid spread of the disease has seriously undermined our public health standing. One Canterbury medical officer of health has spoken out, warning that Kiwis remain dangerously under-vaccinated and vulnerable to the next contagion. And as Donna-Marie Lever explains, the measles epidemic is fast becoming our deadly, early Christmas present to Pacific Island nations.

PARENTS’ VAXXING CLASH GOES TO COURT • The measles epidemic brought a truce of sorts between warring parents who took their dispute over their child’s vaccinations to the Family Court. By Donna Chisholm.

WASTE BUSTERS • Who you gonna call? When it comes to joining the zero-waste warriors, Jenny Keown argues that saving Mother Earth starts at home. She tracks her family’s sometimes heroic, sometimes haphazard and messy year and a half of living sustainably.

DOWN TO ZERO • The waste-whittling movement is growing in Hawke’s Bay.

OCEAN WASTE RECYCLED

JAILHOUSE SNITCHES A BLIGHT ON NZ JUSTICE • For years, police and prosecutors have used the most repellent and unreliable informants to help convict people. Prison witnesses – criminals who claim a cellmate confessed to a crime – bolster weak police cases and gain rewards in return. Mike White investigates the shadowy world of jailhouse snitches and asks why New Zealand is doing virtually nothing to control this threat to our justice system.

A COP-OUT?

TAMA MURU • For a lifelong news and sports nut who loves to travel, a job that requires meeting...