New Zealand Listener

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All together now • Matariki teaches Pākehā the value of connection as we look back at the past and prepare for the year ahead, writes Margaret Denton.

Not like the old days

Bright Lines

Quips & Quotes

10 Quick Questions

Kicking the can down the road • Bowing to demands from the agricultural sector to be excluded from the Emissions Trading Scheme could have dire consequences.

Trump’s chumps

A long road in Paris

An embarrassment of hopefuls

Digging for victory • The fresh push to extract minerals on conservation land and at sea raises a thorny environmental issue: could it lead to a greener future?

Sand in the turbines • A thwarted seabed mining project has its sights set on fast-tracking – which could spell doom for renewable energy off the Taranaki coast.

Shifting Sands • Groups fear the fast-track bill will allow critical protect ions to be bypassed.

Unequal fight • A fund that helped community groups wage environmental battles in court has been axed amid other moves to restrict public input.

Octopus’s garden • The mystical, magical underwater world of Craig Foster, who spent a year swimming with sea creatures and ended up “falling in love” with an octopus.

Walk this way • Paul Catmur fulfils a boyhood aspiration to attempt the “horizontal Everest” – Camino de Santiago. This is the first in a series from the trail.

A thing immortal • US journalist Sebastian Junger on making sense as an atheist of a near-death spectral vision.

Bunker mentality • Suspenseful, twisty if bleak novel combines claustrophobic horror with meditation on motherhood.

Short cuts

World of her own • Literary critic’s essay collection dodges many of the questions it raises.

Until It’s Gone • A couple’s holiday turns into a thoughtful, unsentimental look at the prospect of mortality.

State Of Siege • Ka Whawhai Tonu: Struggle Without End brings to life the Battle of Ōrākau, a pivotal conflict in the New Zealand Wars. Beginning with director Mike Jonathan, RUSSELL BAILLIE looks at different aspects of the film.

THE BATTLE Stars in the firing line

A Romeo & Juliet Story

The Whakapapa factor

Pā For The Course • Veteran production designer Shayne Radford was back in the trenches in his Ōrākau replica.

Puberty Blues • These further steps in the life of Riley are laugh-out-loud funny.

A feast for your eyes

Voila Violas • Vital new albums by two of rock’s best known bow-scrapers.

Call Me Madam • Rachel Griffiths jumped at the chance to star in a comedy inspired by an American woman who started a brothel in Whangārei. She just had trouble keeping a straight face.

Muriel’s Anniversary

Let The Treachery Begin • Everyday New Zealanders will duck and dive their way through the second season of The Traitors NZ.

Tv Picks of the week

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Vision of Leov

Put a load on • Advice about protecting your back is outdated – the best tip is to accept pain as normal and keep moving.

Divine dinner

Popular pinots • Yes, you can buy pinot noir with all its famed substance and complexity for $30 and under.

Misery row

Waste not

Quiet, Please

Hair today, gone tomorrow • The Good Life