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December 29-January 4 2008 Vol 211 No 3529

Features

  • Cover Peak oil by Sarah Barnett

  • Feature The year of the big ball’s up by Denis Welch
    Another year, another high Kiwi dollar. As if we didn’t have enough to worry about already. This year, we worried about global warming, the trustworthiness of our police, interest rates and saving for retirement – and whether Graham Henry was still the right person to coach the All Blacks.

  • Feature Little ‘bro town by Jane Clifton
    Only in New Zealand could the prevailing political zeitgeist for 2007 be: Beware of Little Brother.

  • Feature Look back in bemusement by Jane Clifton
    2007: The Diary.

  • Feature The last picture show by Denis Welch
    The Grim Reaper cut a swathe through the film world this year, taking out two of the cinema’s greatest directors...

  • Feature Mental as anything by Diana Wichtel
    In a year when television gave us news stories in which the words “police”, “porn” and “chicken” were used in the same sentence – and nobody looked good naked – there was plenty to choose from for our annual awards.

  • Feature Return to ’Nam by Russell Brown
    A 12-year-old escapee from the “American war” has carved out a life for himself in New Zealand and is rebuilding his connections with his Vietnamese homeland.

  • Feature - Upfront Lloyd Jones by Denis Welch
    If any New Zealander has had a terrific year, it’s Lloyd Jones. On top of making the Man Booker shortlist, his novel Mister Pip has just been named in the Economist – with well over a million influential subscribers – as one of the year’s top reads. We asked Jones, currently in Europe on his Creative New Zealand Berlin Residency, what it’s like to have all your Christmases come at once.

Arts & Books

  • Music Then they took Berlin by Sandra Dempster

  • Poetry Aphorism by Koenraad Kuiper

  • Concerts Nelson summer high by Rod Biss

  • Film Watched and watchers by Helene Wong

  • Theatre The year of rats & penguins

  • Dance Tutus & Tame by Francesca Horsley

Books

  • Books Sober reflections by Nick Bollinger

  • Books Dog’s truth by David Larsen

  • Books Write like the wind by Denis Welch

TV & Radio

Columnists

  • Health Flat on your back by Linley Boniface

  • Nutrition Out of the blue by Jennifer Bowden

  • Ecologic Green, greener, greenish by Dave Hansford

  • Economy Her majesty the consumer by Brian Easton

  • Sport Gongs and nongs by Paul Lewis

  • Inbox Where there’s a Will by David Hill

  • Food On a roll by Martin Bosley

  • Travel City slickers by Pamela Wade

  • The Black Page A word to the wise by Joanne Black

  • Wide Area News What’s the story? by Russell Brown

  • Editorial The power of small things