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Secrets and Lies

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.
The cult of the meatball

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.
Auckland’s rise

Nov 28, 2024 | northandsouth.co.nz | Arbin Buenaventura |Sasha Borissenko

Then there’s Auckland’s striking increase in cultural diversity. In 2016, for example, the International Organization for Migration named Auckland as the fourth most diverse city in the world, behind Toronto. Combining his research and StatsNZ projections, Professor Spoonley says Auckland’s Asian community is expected to increase from 17 per cent in 2018 to 44 per cent in the early 2040s.
Farming Futures

Nov 28, 2024 | northandsouth.co.nz | Arbin Buenaventura

The environmental and farming sectors need to come together if sustainability is to thrive, and Lincoln University plans to make that partnership happen. The new Master of Environment and Agriculture programme is redefining how we think about food production and environmental stewardship, teaching students how to alleviate tension and bring the two sectors together in a productive way.
Canute economics

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”.
November 2024

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
Sleeping dogs: Tom Phillips and New Zealand’s wilderness myth

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.
The family album

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.
The disappeared

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.
Top cop

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).