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September 2-8 2006 Vol 205 No 3460

  • Upfront Leanne Pooley by Sarah Barnett
    Film-maker.

  • Cover Story Who’s moving in next door? by Bruce Ansley
    New Zealand needs immigrants, but applicants find the selection processes and criteria anything but straightforward.

  • Cover Story So who do we keep out? by Bruce Ansley
    Who are the ideal immigrants?

  • Cover Story Advice at a Price by Amanda Spratt
    Twenty-nine-year-old European professional fluent in English desperately seeks country to work in, pay taxes to and grow old with.

  • Cover Story Speak Mandarin? by Matt Nippert
    The anonymity of Skykiwi is probably due to its language policy – the site is only in Mandarin.

  • Testing time by Nick Smith
    Auckland’s new pathology service goes under the microscope … and comes out less than healthy.

  • End of the line? by Sally Blundell
    Regional councils and the Greens are trying to save the Overlander rail service, but its owners, Toll NZ, say it’s all over.

  • A right stink by Chris Holm
    How likely is justice for villagers caught in an environmental disaster?