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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More power to the people • Managers need help to make workplaces more productive and AI is one of the tools that can shake things up, writes Karen Clarke.

Letters

Bright Lines

Quips & Quotes

10 Quick Questions

Critical care • Tax cuts and subsidies have been delivered as promised but beware the long-term impacts on an already struggling health sector.

Delusions of grandeur

The world holds its breath

Pop goes the union

Boom or bust • Taking our foot off the regulatory pedal means shifting risks to the most vulnerable, say observers across industries targeted in new legislation.

Make It Stick • New Zealand needs to import new building products but local suppliers should be account able, writes Russell Brown.

Out with the old • One of the best ways to get more economic growth is by narrowing inequality, says UK economist and author Daniel Susskind.

A whakapapa of trauma • Ministers have referenced the 28th Māori Battalion in the government’s military-style academy for youth offenders. But that legacy has seen many of the soldiers’ mokopuna abused in state care.

Hungry for history • Irish chefs are taking the best of the country’s traditional ingredients and giving them a top-class 21st-century spin.

Stuff & nonsense • The gutsy woman who took on ownership of media company Stuff for $1 scoffs at the idea that she’s a mogul.

Waters of life

Kindred souls • A love for the sound of British Northern soul leads to an unlikely alliance in this big-hearted novel.

All in the family • Debut Kiwi novel touches on complicated relationships, mental health and healing.

Dying to tell

Pulled apart by grief

BESTSELLERS

Wild at heart

Animal behaviour

Short cuts

Goodbye, Boy Genius • Russell Brown, a close observer of Martin Phillipps and his band The Chills across decades, looks back at his musical life and times.

Giving Me The Chills • Grant Robertson on how the songs of Martin Phillipps took him from adolescence to adulthood.

The Selfish Giant • Violin great Maxim Vengerov was a child prodigy in Siberia. Now, he is coming to NZ to play the instrument’s greatest concerto.

Duel Purpose • The latest iteration of this French classic is a rollicking, old-school romp with a dash of darkness.

The Hills Are Alive • A not-so-strange family feature from the Incredibly Strange Film Festival founder.

Cold, Hard Facts • In his latest documentary, Patrick Gower examines climate change and its repercussions.

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Radio August 10-16

A virtuoso on display

Tummy tracking • Auckland researchers have helped develop a non-invasive technique to investigate gastric problems.

Tart toppers

Elegance & restraint • Hawke’s Bay’s difficult 2022 growing season has led to high-quality chardonnays full of interest.

The Clinton factor

Seeds of hope • A team of botanists is saving one of our most threatened orchids and reintroducing it into the wild.

The Magnificent Seven

A pipe dream