Oct 07 issue
Heat in the kitchen
Migrant chefs exposed as members of terrorist group In an Auckland restaurant today, a young Muslim man works as a chef, and may be on the verge of getting permanent residency. But this man is […]
Past Issues
April 07 issue
Nuclear Arms in the Middle East
NUCLEAR ARMS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND WHAT IT COULD MEAN FOR NEW ZEALAND When Prime Minister Helen Clark meets President Bush shortly at the White House, one of the main topics on the agenda […]
Feb 08 issue
Cancer Society wrong on melanoma risk
SUNLIGHT: THE BEST MEDICINE? The Jury Is In For three years now, sunsafe campaigners have been appealing for calm and “more research” before making “hasty” decisions about the dangers of UV rays. But now two […]
Asteroid impacts
THE LATE, GREAT, PLANET EARTH INVESTIGATE: MAR 03
Sometimes ignorance can be bliss, but science writer Nick Sault argues the world needs to take the threat of asteroid strikes a lot more seriously… Over the last few decades there has been a great […]
April 06 issue
Vector Energy sold to Chinese spy?
ANY STORM IN A PORT China’s Trojan horse in NZ [The following story initially ran in the April 06 edition of Investigate magazine, but is directly relevant to the purchase announced April 28, 2008 of […]
June 02 issue
Deborah Coddington pinged
JUNE 2002 EDITION Evidence of a political and financial spider’s web involving Cabinet Ministers, millionaire businessmen, senior journalists and newspaper editors in a plan to manipulate public opinion has emerged in a pile of explosive […]
Australian edition
TRAVEL: May 05, AU Edition
RED LIGHT, GREEN LIGHT Gary A. Warner says that if you look beyond the sleaze, Amsterdam is full of treasures Forget the canals. Forget the coffeehouses. Forget the acres of Rembrandts and Van Goghs. Forget […]
Australian edition
SCIENCE: July 05, AU Edition
COPY CATS Entrepreneurial American scientists are destined for the dog house, says Susanne Quick It’s just another brown brick building in a suburban American business park. But Suite J at the Waunakee Business Center in […]
Investigate back issues
LINE ONE: Mar 05
CHRIS CARTER A state-sponsored frontal lobotomy How do you finally discover that you have crossed the threshold as it were and become, irrevocably, a grizzly old bastard? Could some of the signs, for instance, be […]
Australian edition
TECHNOLOGY: July 05, AU Edition
IT’S A SMALL, SMALL WORLD From cough syrups to eyeglasses for cows, Martha McKay takes a peek into a very tiny future At the nanotechnology show in New York City recently, companies touted the state-of-the-art, […]
Australian edition
TRAVEL: Sep 05, AU Edition
SUBCONTINENTAL DRIFT After a whirlwind trip through India’s sights, smells and sounds, Robert Cross vows to return AIPUR, India – ‘I was told that the first thing you’ll notice is the smell,’ said my friend […]
Double Speak
DOUBLE SPEAK: Mar 05
IAN WISHART Killing us softly with their song Cellphones kill 17 in road crashes”, screamed the newspaper headline, or something like it. I almost choked on the latte (come on, I live in Auckland). Seventeen […]
Australian edition
THE WATCHER: Dec 05, AU Edition
ALAN RM JONES The year of the monkey… It was an annus horribilis for an increasingly isolated and beleaguered Republican president under attack from a scathing media and irresolute Democrats in Congress. Each day’s news […]
Australian edition
FOOD: May 05, AU Edition
HOMEMADE PROZAC When the weather’s cold and the sun sets mid-afternoon, Eli Jameson finds brightness in the kitchen It has always amazed me that when T.S. Eliot wrote the line, ‘April is the cruelest month’, […]
Break Point
BREAK POINT: Mar 05
ANN COULTER The problem of fruitbat university lecturers… University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill has written that “unquestionably, America has earned” the attack of 9/11. He calls the attack itself a result of “gallant sacrifices […]
Australian edition
THE ARENA: Dec 05, AU Edition
JAMES MORROW Get ready for a long, hot summer… Anyone who has ever taken a holiday in a beach community knows that such places can be fairly insular places. When so much time is spent […]
Australian edition
FOOD: Sep 05, AU Edition
NOODLING AROUND Want a fun challenge in the kitchen? Make your own pasta, says Eli Jameson Ah, the pasta aisle of the supermarket. Fettucini, cavatelli, oricchiette, rigatoni, penne rigate…just reading off the names on the […]
Australian edition
May 05, AU Edition
TRAFFICKING IN TEARS Slavery was supposed to be a thing of the past. But in the dark corners of Australia, it is still flourishing – and as SHAUN DAVIES reports, despite recent efforts the government […]
Eyes Right
EYES RIGHT: Mar 05
RICHARD PROSSER A burning question A millennium dawns, and a power and environmental crisis beckons. Or does it? The globe is warming, oil is running out, and it’s all our fault, apparently. Mankind’s fondness for […]
Australian edition
FIRST DRAFT: May 05, AU Edition
MATT HAYDEN Even Kofi Annan’s got his own weblog now… MARCH 21 2005 Man, this investigation into Kojo and me is a real drag. It’s total pressure, 24-7! I thought having this position meant I […]
Australian edition
TRAVEL: Dec 05, AU Edition
‘NAM PLUSSED Patricia Rodriguez discovers the joys (and hassles) of Vietnam, but falls in love with it anyway LAU CAI, Vietnam – After sleeping fitfully on the night train from Hanoi – note to self: […]
Investigate back issues
LAURA’S WORLD: Mar 05
LAURA WILSON Identifying and eradicating unwanted pests New Zealand Customs officers are among the world’s most rigorously protective. We love to keep things out of our remote little country. I quite frequently fly around the […]
Investigate back issues
Simply Devine: Mar 05
MIRANDA DEVINE Wolfe howls at loose moon units of the Left After thoroughly enjoying Tom Wolfe’s latest novel I Am Charlotte Simmons, it came as some surprise to read review after review that panned the […]
Australian edition
Sep 05, AU edition
LOST IN TRANSLATION She was a Russian dancer. He was a suburban psychopath. IAN WISHART has the story of a paedophile’s manipulation of the law to gain access to children, and a trail of wrecked […]
Feb 05 issue
MOVIES: Feb 05
“DOOR” BORES, SEX SELLS Great acting belies the controversy over “Kinsey”, while Kim Basinger’s latest is just plain creepy. Door In The Floor Released: February 3, 2005 Rated: M 2 stars Sure, Door In The […]
Australian edition
FOOD: Dec 05, AU Edition
SEEING RED Eli Jameson celebrates summer and separates the ripe tomatoes from the hoary chestnuts Hear the word ‘tomatoes’, and what do you think of? Spaghetti piled high and swimming in marinara sauce? Garden vines […]
April 05
CAN GRANT HACKETT?: Apr 05, AU Edition
CAN GRANT HACKETT? Fully recovered from the health woes that plagued him during last year’s Olympics, and now breathing down the neck of the world’s fastest man, Grant Hackett speaks to JENI PAYNE about motivation […]
Australian edition
HEALTH: Dec 05, AU Edition
PERCHANCE TO WALK Sleep is still barely understood; sleepwalking, even less so. A look into the bizarre world of people who go bump in the night So I sleepwalked the other night. I didn’t go […]
April 05
THE DEATH OF TAXES: Apr 05, AU Edition
THE DEATH OF TAXES As pressure builds on the Howard Government to cut taxes, IAN WISHART reports on moves in the United States that go one giant leap further, and which may yet impact on […]
April 05
Money: Apr 05, AU Edition
THE CREDIT CARD TRAP They’ve done it again, says Peter Higgins: banks have figured out a new set of tricks to turn your plastic into their gold You’ve just finished paying off the overseas holiday […]
Australian edition
TECHNOLOGY: Dec 05, AU Edition
RAIN AND TERROR What makes a storm a killer? Scientists are searching for the early warning signs, say Jeremy Manier and E.A. Torrier The two hurricanes that roared into the Gulf of Mexico earlier this […]
Australian edition
SCIENCE: Dec 05, AU Edition
TO HELL AND BACK Was life on early Earth as bad as all that? And what does that mean for life on other planets? Robert S. Boyd reports A scientific quest called “Mission to Really […]
Australian edition
DIARY OF A CABBIE : Nov 05, AU Edition
FEMALE TROUBLE Women, alcohol, and friends who don’t look outfor each other are a potentially tragic mix The other night an all-too-rare thing happened in the cab: two young women separated from their group of […]
Australian edition
FINANCE: Dec 05, AU Edition
OFF THE STREET New breeds of community banks are getting customers out of queues and into high interest, says Todd Parker Australians love to hate their banks. It’s a constant staple of talk-back radio; one […]
Australian edition
THE ROUGH LIFE: Nov 05, AU Edition
A DAY ON THE BEACH At Pacific Dunes, Eli Jameson plays a round – and pulls out his sand wedge Port Stephens, NSW – Getting a chance to drive up the coast and play a […]
Australian edition
MUSIC: Nov 05, AU Edition
GET HEP! An old dog learns new tricks. Plus: deep in the heart of Texas (and England) Paul Anka ‘Rock Swings’, Verve 3 stars Paul Anka is another pop cat seeking new life in jazz. […]
Australian edition
MOVIES: Nov 05, AU Edition
MOB RULES Skip the fairy tales this month – the best flicks on offer this summer are all about nitty-gritty reality Inside Deep Throat Released: Nov 10, 2005 Rated: R 5 stars Deep Throat cost […]
Australian edition
DVDs: Nov 05, AU Edition
WATCH AND LEARN James Fletcher on all the latest options for the small-screen cinema Death of a Beatle – Collector’s Edition DVD 4 stars On December 8 this year it will have been 25 years […]
April 05
POSTCARD FROM THE EDGE: Apr 05, AU Edition
POSTCARD FROM THE EDGE If Geoff Mackley were a cat, he’d almost surely have used up his quota of lives by now. As the world’s ultimate storm-chaser and subject of the Discovery Channel’s Dangerman series, […]
Iraq
The Arena: Mar 05, AU edition
THE ARENA JAMES MORROW Australians should be proud of the role they played bringing democracy to Iraq From the moment John Howard committed troops to help the United States enforce the slew of U.N. resolutions […]