New Zealand Listener

New Zealand Listener is the country’s most respected general interest magazine, bringing you a wide variety of news, stories, columns, reviews, plus TV listings, every week.

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Hold that thought • A locally developed mind health programme could hold the key to teaching children how to be resilient, says Sir Ashley Bloomfield.

Counting the benefits

Quips & Quotes

10 Quick Questions

It’s not easy being Green • Chlöe Swarbrick is regarded as a shoo-in to replace James Shaw but will she be able to overcome the party’s self-destructive tendencies?

News just in

Big Tech wreckers

A donnybrook at Dunlaoghaire

Entreaties of Waitangi • In its short time in office, the government has set the scene for a fiery commemoration of New Zealand’s national day.

The Historians Cannot Save Us

What’s the wAIt? • NZ needs to act as the talk of the technology world quickly becomes a key tool of business and government.

Stampede Ahead • NZ companies aren’t completely on the sidelines of AI development but they could easily get trampled in the rush.

Hold the line, caller • Fifty years on, RNZ National listeners need have no fear that the station’s signature bird call faces extermination.

The pain that remains • Former MasterChef contestant Alice Taylor says finally putting a name to the cause of her agony was just a beginning.

Stuck Signal • Pain management begins with the aim of learning to tolerate it.

Art in high places • In the Queensberry Hills between Cromwell and Wānaka, the Poison Creek Sculpture Project is enriching Central Otago’s cultural scene.

A-judging we go • The Ockham longlists are here. Who’s in and who’s left out? Books editor Mark Broatch casts his eye over the finalists.

Wheels coming off • First-time novelist takes readers along with four young expats on a satisfying if tense Italian road trip.

The one who stayed behind • Kiwi expat delivers a multilayered, literary-minded debut novel inspired by an Australian icon.

Truth will out • Compelling stories of those who are determined to defy the Communist Party line to expose tyranny and suffering.

Making trouble • Art imitates life for the roguish Irish writer with a penchant for posh killers and fancy language.

Popping his cork • The National’s frontman Matt Berninger on his need for close audience interaction, and the gravitational pull of Taylor Swift.

Grin and hear it

Outdoor pursuit • Eric Bana and director Robert Connolly talk about why detective mystery The Dry 2 is much wetter than their hit original.

A new purple patch

The King and I • Sofia Coppola delivers a poignant portrait of the powerless Queen of Graceland.

Tv Picks of the week

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Radio February 10-16

Mark your diaries • Treats are in store for lovers of opera, chamber and baroque music.

What’s your poison?

Plant power • Committed vegan Tess Eden has collated her popular online recipes into a book. Here, the Wellingtonian provides some of her favourites.

Time for a change • Give your usual chardonnays and sauvignon blancs a rest and try something different.

Party poopers • NZ First voters are out on their own, and many of them feel they’ve been shafted.

Treading water • Even some of our national parks are failing the bare-minimum water-quality standards.

SELWYN MURU, 1937-2024

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