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1 month ago | 
northandsouth.co.nz | Clare Thomson
FRAMED BY DNA Should police have access to genealogy databases – and do the innocent have anything to fear? No wonder detectives thought they had their man in a 2012 murder case in the United States that could have put 26-year-old Lukis Anderson on death row; his DNA was found on the victim’s fingernails. Even Anderson, a homeless alcoholic, thought he might have done it.
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1 month ago | 
northandsouth.co.nz | Clare Thomson
The origin story is hotly contested. Did it start in Persia or do all roads lead to Rome? Whatever its provenance, the meatball has been balling since ancient times, travelling far and wide in sauces, kebab sticks and on platters, and while many nations and cultures stake a claim, the meatball now belongs to the world.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
northandsouth.co.nz | Clare Thomson |Geoff Bertram
There is a famous story about King Canute, who set his throne by the sea shore and commanded the tide to halt and not to wet his feet and robes. Yet continuing to rise as usual, the tide dashed over his feet and legs. Then the king leapt backwards, saying “Let all men know how empty and worthless is the power of kings”.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
northandsouth.co.nz | Clare Thomson |James Borrowdale |Geoff Bertram |John Sinclair
The disappearedSolitary confinement destroys people, but New Zealand continues to inflict it on our most vulnerable and damaged people, including children, as a matter of course. Aaron Smale reports on the practice that won’t go away and the people that are psychologically annihilated and physically disappeared in state institutions. By Aaron Smale
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
northandsouth.co.nz | Clare Thomson |James Borrowdale
Smith heads for the Coromandel Peninsula, almost wilfully oblivious to the fact that society at large, as a malevolent political force tightens its grip on the country, is following the example of his marriage and breaking down. All of that, anyway, is forgotten when his grand vision suddenly becomes his view.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
northandsouth.co.nz | Clare Thomson
“How can we know what (or who) we do not know?” This lofty challenge begins The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader, artist Stella Brennan and writer Susan Ballard’s prescient 2008 anthology on digital artmaking.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
northandsouth.co.nz | Clare Thomson |Aaron Smale
Tracey McIntosh, Criminologist at the University of Auckland, has regular contact with men and women in prison and knows the three women in the Inspectorate report. She has seen first-hand the impacts the prison environment has had on them.
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
northandsouth.co.nz | Clare Thomson |John Sinclair
Inevitably, public support for our Covid controls grew thin. Fatigue and irritation set in, and then turned to anger for a segment of the community. But by the time that happened the kind of chaos seen in other countries had been averted, and an effective vaccine was available (admittedly that created a whole new tranche of social license issues of its own).
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
northandsouth.co.nz | Clare Thomson |Anna McMartin
Allan Titford bought the farm at Maunganui Bluff in 1986, cheap at $600,000. He planned to subdivide it, quickly paying off his mortgage to own the remaining land debt free. Soon after, his troubles began. Local Māori occupied part of his farm. Titford met with them, only to have a racial slur thrown at him. Things escalated. His cattle were shot. The police refused to intervene. In December 1988, Te Roroa brought a claim to the Waitangi Tribunal. The claim related to Maunganui Bluff and nearby lands.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
northandsouth.co.nz | Clare Thomson |Henry Whyte |John Sinclair |George Driver
Smoke & Mirrors: What’s gone wrong with the ETS? The emissions trading scheme is meant to be the country’s main tool for reducing our emissions, but critics say it’s doing little more than carpeting the country in permanent pine forest. Meanwhile, the price of carbon credits has gone from boom to bust. What’s gone wrong? By George Driver
