New Zealand Listener

From the New Zealand Listener archive

September 1-7 2007 Vol 210 No 3512

Cover A home of our own by Rebecca Macfie
The property market is coming off the boil, but the housing affordability issue just gets hotter.
Feature Sweet surrender by Sally Blundell
It’s sweet, cheap and controversial. And it’s coming to a school near you.
Feature For the life of us by Bette Flagler
AIDS has claimed 25 million lives. But has the master of mutation met its match at last?
Feature Melting away by Dave Hansford
There’s turbulence ahead for the New Zealand tourism industry as eco-conscious visitors start counting their air miles and our carbon emissions.
Feature A lion in the meadow by Amanda Cropp
It takes 20 trees 80 years to offset the carbon cost of a cubic metre of concrete. Just how bad are landscape architects for the environment?
Feature Leave it to us by Angus Fletcher
If the government won’t sort the real issues behind the high number of uneducated school-leavers, then perhaps it’s time for the private sector to step in.
Feature Midge Marsden by Nick Bollinger
BORN KEVIN MARSDEN IN NEW PLYMOUTH in 1945, Midge Marsden got his first guitar (a bright red Stratocaster) as a...
Feature How the West was won by Bill Ralston
With crime down 40 percent, graffiti 95 percent and unemployment sitting at three percent, Waitakere Mayor Bob Harvey, standing for re-election next month, reflects with pride on a successful 15-year reinvention of his city.