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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THE FORGOTTEN EARTHQUAKE • Uncovering shaky secrets from long ago may deliver lessons that are useful for the future.

HELP FOR THE KELP • This winter, baby giant kelp is being planted into Wellington Harbour/Te Whanganui-a-Tara, where great seaweed forests once thrived.

SAVE THE DATE

INTO THE WILD • Aotearoa is home to hundreds of protected nature reserves and sanctuaries, but glossy parrots and fur seals aside, our wildlife refuges are also rich in the unexpected – livestreams of fluffy albatross chicks, sheep graveyards, addiction rehabilitation centres, and more.

NEW BROOM MAY SWEEP TO THE RIGHT • Will Chris Hipkins bring us closer to our traditional allies?

Features • This month in features: nuclear powered submarines and the implications for Aotearoa’s place in the world, the last-ditch effort to save the kakī/black stilt and an insight into an iconic Robin White artwork. Plus, stolen Moriori remains and the heartfelt story of the repatriation of more than a hundred ancestors.

THE CHOICES OF A GENERATION AUKUS • In a rapidly changing world, security has become more complex. At a crossroad on national security, decisions need to be made, but we can only come to them by fully understanding the past.

HOMEWARD BOUND • Moriori await the final return to the Chatham Islands of human remains recovered from institutions around the world.

ONE EGG AT A TIME • Forty years ago the world’s rarest wading bird, the kakī/black stilt, teetered on the brink of extinction with just 23 birds left. Its survival has depended on one of the most intensive and successful captive rearing programmes in the country. Will it be enough to save them?

THE BEYOND FRAME • Robin White’s Mere and Siulolovao is a national favourite, but even the best pictures can only tell us so much.

Culture Etc • Check out our captivating mix this month – a first peek at a hot new novel, a romp around celebrity cemeteries in LA, cheese rolls warm up icy Antarctica and musings about Tokoroa township.

PLAYING POLITICS • After 20 years of prolific and professional acting, Fasitua Amosa’s face and voice have become well-known. Since 2019 he has added local politics to his repertoire, serving on the Whau Local Board.

THE CHEESIEST ANTARCTIC ADVENTURE • One aspiring explorer’s quest to bring cheese rolls to the southernmost continent on earth.

LA UNDERGROUND • A trip to the City of Angels gives you angels, cherubs and witty epithets too, if you take a stroll around some of the city’s celebrity-studded cemeteries.

MODEL BEHAVIOUR • Nigel and Teresa Ogle’s Tawhiti Museum is home to an extraordinary collection of model figurines, large and small — all made by Nigel himself.

THE TOWN THAT GREW ON TREES • Once earmarked to become a city, Tokoroa stalled, leaving it feeling in many ways stuck in the 1970s.

NEW LIFE SPRINGS IN THE BATTERED BAY

DISHING UP A FRESH TAKE ON LOCAL FOOD • Whether she’s cooking in Ottolenghi’s London deli or selling her own delicious creations from her home in the Moutere Valley, the author of a new cookbook is all about having fun with flavourful food.

Finding Katherine • Part travelogue, part literary biography and part detective story, Katherine Mansfield’s...