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.

Behind the headlines • Journalist DENIS WELCH on why he went deep into the forest, literally and figuratively, for his cover story on the East Coast’s slash and erosion nightmare.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

What the hell, Auckland?

THE POLITICAL CARTOON

LETTER of the WEEK PRIZE

Bright Lines • Creative words competition

Play nicely now

Say it in song

Don’t adjust your set

A bridge too near

A nuclear reaction

Flatpack heaven

Land lies bleeding • A bold plan to convert erosion-prone East Coast land to permanent forest is gathering dust. Is the region doomed for a repeat of the devastation wrought by Cyclone Gabrielle?

‘What will flourish?’ • Western economic realities and goats confront the $600m plan to convert erosion-prone hillsides from pine forest to permanent native cover. What if nature, and tikanga concepts of reciprocity, were our guide?

Slow train coming • Auckland’s City Rail Link has been a long time in the making. Now it’s about to open, will the credit fall where it’s due?

Out of a clear blue sky • Twenty five years ago, a royal assignment in New York put LOUISE CHUNN within minutes of being in the World Trade Center when two hijacked planes crashed into it.

For her supper

Golden boy

BESTSELLERS

Extraordinary lives

Southern lights

Alone in a crowd

Plane sailing

Following the method

Giving a dame

Horror revisited

Hangover material

Urban masters

Let’s get it on

Check the change • Robyn Malcolm presents a documentary that draws on her own journey through menopause.

TV Picks of the week

TV Films

Vines & violins

Identity crisis • Transgender health advocates are seeking a fairer approach to puberty blockers rather than an outright ban.

Health briefs

That retro show

Match made in Waipara

Guilty as sin • A type of OCD associated with faith is difficult to diagnose but possible to treat.

Butting in • A new study reveals the freedom that lobbyists have to influence NZ tobacco policy.

The Bigger Picture

The parrot in the letterbox