The Listener

The buck stops here

Issue 3603 30th May 2009

With its first Budget, the National Government faces its biggest test yet. But can John Key and Bill English get it together to lead us out of the economic doom and gloom?

Zuma

in Commentary

Issue 3603 30th May 2009

New South African President Jacob Zuma is no Mandela. He's been called a corrupt, uneducated polygamist without a vision - but there's more to him than meets the eye.

Think positive

By Sarah Barnett in Commentary

Issue 3603 30th May 2009

Antiretroviral treatments can stop HIV advancing to Aids, but last year more Kiwis were diagnosed with HIV than ever before.

Taking on the Aids mafia

By Sarah Barnett in Commentary

Issue 3603 30th May 2009

The Wisdom of Whores challenges how Aids is perceived, and how prevention is funded.

Rebecca Priestley

By Guy Somerset in Commentary

Issue 3603 30th May 2009

Science writer and historian Rebecca Priestley, 41, is the winner of the inaugural $10,000 Royal Society of New Zealand Science Book Prize, New Zealand's first award for popular science writing: Priestley, a long-time contributor of articles and book reviews to the Listener, won with her anthology

The 140 year gap

in Editorial

Issue 3603 30th May 2009

The Budget must address the fact that Australians are 30% better off than we are.

Claws out

By Bill Ralston in Life

Issue 3603 30th May 2009

A cougar? It's too late for this old codger.

Rattling cages

By Diana Wichtel in Television

Issue 3603 30th May 2009

Sunday on-air rants, South Auckland crims in cars, mad pigs - who needs reality TV?

All expenses paid

By Deborah Hill Cone in The Internaut

Issue 3603 30th May 2009

The sneaky joys of having an expense account

One day at a time

By Sally Blundell in Culture

Issue 3603 30th May 2009

Ranging from lions prowling the stalls of a historic cinema to a massive pile of urban junk blocking an inner-city street, the One Day Sculpture series has expanded New Zeaalnders' notion of art and where you might find it.