New Zealand Listener

From the New Zealand Listener archive

September 23-29 2006 Vol 205 No 3463

Upfront Ant Sang by Matt Nippert
Cartoonist, animator.
Cover Story Hands off by Joanne Black
As MPs prepare to decide whether parents should lose their legal right to physically discipline their children, pressure is increasing to ensure ordinary New Zealanders are not criminalised.
Cover Story Zero tolerance by Joanne Black
Repealing Section 59 will provide children with the same legal protection from assault as adults and dogs, the Paediatric Society says.
Cover Story Love & correction by Joanne Black
Forceful Christian lobbyist Craig Smith has been ridiculed for his comments on child discipline, so why does one Wellington woman hold him and his wife Barbara in such high regard that she has given them four of her children?
One down, 3 on a roll by Amanda Spratt
One News has lost a fifth of its viewers in two years. Insiders and observers say that, at TVNZ, marketing has supplanted journalism.
Cry freedom by Diana Wichtel
Mikey Havoc is a man of many voices, huge energies preposterous opinions, back on bFM’s Breakfast.
Patric’s day by James McNeish
A pioneer professional’s final production.