August 07
Book Reviews: Aug 07 issue
In association with The Nile HUNKS OF BURNING LOVE Michael Morrissey writes of infidels, painted ladies and the ghost of Elvis
Year: 2007
July 07 issue
Under the Tuscan sun: July 07 issue
SLOW AND SULTRY IN TUSCANY Take it slow: Do nothing and savour it, writes Lisa Hotchkiss For the record, we decided to go to Tuscany months before “Under the Tuscan Sun” opened in movie theaters. […]
Islamofascism
Radical ‘moderates’ squash real moderates: Jun 07
Documentarians battle America’s PBS TV to get Islam film on the air, reports Karoun Demirjian The film features grainy footage and dramatic music, presenting itself as a stark look at the way fundamentalist Muslims in […]
April 07 issue
THE GREAT SOUTH BASIN: Apr 07
Back in the 1970s, some of the world’s richest oilmen came prowling the coast of New Zealand. According to popular rumour and conspiracy theory they struck it big, but chose not to tell the NZ […]
Book Reviews
Book Reviews: July 07 issue
In association with The Nile Mailer’s Magnum Opus Michael Morrissey enthuses about the possession of Hitler
Book Reviews
Book Reviews: May 07 issue
In association with The Nile What Males A Woman Tick… And other stories…Michael Morrissey’s autumn discoveries
May 07 issue
Beautiful Dubrovnik: May 07 issue
Back to the Balkans Historic Dubrovnik plays to the crowds, as Robert Cross discovers DUBROVNIK, Croatia – On my first day, thunderstorms exposed the town’s true nature. In good warm weather, Dubrovnik can feel like […]
Feb 07 issue
Dragon Naturally Speaking 9.0: Feb 07 issue
SCOTT ME UP, BEAMIE Ian Wishart discovers speech recognition software is light years ahead of where it used to be It was in the mid 90s that Dragon and I first became acquainted, and I […]
April 07 issue
Book Reviews: April 07 issue
In association with The Nile PAGE-TURNERS Michael Morrissey’s picks for an Indian summer INES OF MY SOUL by Isabel Allende, Fourth Estate, $36.99 Ines of my Soul is Allende’s tenth novel – and an excellent […]
April 07 issue
Blame it on Rio: April 07 issue
BLAME IT ON THE RAIN Chris Welsch discovers Samba is the heartbeat of Brazil, and manages to avoid the Carnival RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil – Rain fell in sheets that battered the pavement like the […]
Feb 04 issue
An Easter Story
They’re calling it the most explosive movie on the life of Christ ever made, but as millions flock to see The Passion, sceptics and evangelists are again at loggerheads over the truth of the Gospel […]
Islamofascism
Preachers of Hate
SPECIAL INVESTIGATION HELEN HOODWINKED BY PREACHERS OF HATE OSAMA BIN LADEN’S TENTACLES REACH NEW ZEALAND’S FIVE MAIN CENTRES IN MASSIVE BORDER SECURITY BREACH Some of the world’s most extreme Islamic preachers, and organizations linked to […]
Crime
Stunning Revelations: The untold story of deaths by Taser
With New Zealand three months into a year long trial of Taser stun guns, there’s growing controversy here and overseas about whether Tasers are as safe as claimed, and whether the company itself has cut […]
Book Reviews
Book Reviews: March 07 issue
In association with The Nile MY FAVOURITE BOOK And other stories, by Michael Morrissey
March 07 issue
Northern Queensland: March 07 issue
The Back of Beyond Ecotourism adventures abound in northern Australia’s Queensland, writes Tim Johnson CAPE TRIBULATION, Australia – It might have been the primeval forest noises. Or perhaps it was the tree-climbing kangaroos. It also […]
Intellligence
PACIFIC JIHAD: TERRORISTS IN NZ INVESTIGATE: OCT 00
Is the tide of Islamic fundamentalism now washing at our own door? One of the world’s most-wanted terrorists has visited New Zealand without being arrested by security authorities here, despite his involvement in attacks that […]
Conspiracy Theorists
MOON SHOT OR LONG SHOT? INVESTIGATE: JAN 03
“That’s one small step for man….one giant leap for conspiracy theorists”: did we really land on the Moon? HAMISH CARNACHAN investigates the controversial argument over whether NASA faked it, or whether the people pushing the […]
Jan 03 issue
BIAS: does the media play fair? INVESTIGATE: JAN 03
IAN WISHART hunts for subtle slants in our daily news coverage Back in the late 1980s, as AIDS hysteria swept New Zealand and the world, and virtually every second newspaper headline screamed warnings that “on […]
Jan 03 issue
SUMMER BREEZE INVESTIGATE: JAN 03
Ask anyone about the summers of their childhood and the stories are likely to be similar – long lazy days at sleepy coastal towns. But now those sleepy hollows are becoming mega-resorts, and HAMISH CARNACHAN […]
Crime
LOST IN THE MATRIX INVESTIGATE: JUN 03
From Donald Duck to Donald Dark, is a new breed of cartoon a threat to our childrens’ mental health? IAN WISHART brings together research from around the world that suggests violent cartoons and interactive games […]
Crime
RESCUING 111 INVESTIGATE: JUN 03
Leaked documents suggest the collapse of the police emergency communications system is imminent, and as HAMISH CARNACHAN reports, public lives may already be at risk… Picture this: A police officer gets an urgent dispatch to […]
Auckland infrastructure
ELECTRIC DREAMERS INVESTIGATE: JUN 03
You know the drill: cold shower threats every two years, government warnings of a “1 in 60 year drought” every 18 months – are solar and wind power really the answer to our power prayers? […]
June 03 issue
THE LIFESTYLE BLOCK BOOM INVESTIGATE: JUN 03
Is it the call of the wild, or something even more primal? HAMISH CARNACHAN investigates a growing phenomenon in population drift: They call it downshifting. A word evocative, per-haps, of a steel blue Porsche 911 […]
Crime
HUNTING ACCIDENTS INVESTIGATE: JUL 03
They act before they think, almost pre-programmed to shoot on reflex -HAMISH CARNACHAN investigates the campaign to stop hunters killing each other in the bush On Easter Sunday a young Hamilton man, out deer- stalking […]
Alcohol & Drugs
GRIPE JUICE: LIQUOR TAX FALLOUT INVESTIGATE: JUL 03
Imagine trying to cut the road toll by making it illegal to ride a bicycle. Then imagine trying to reduce teen alcohol consumption by putting a hefty new tax on port and sherry. Little wonder, […]
Auckland infrastructure
BOOMTOWN BRATS INVESTIGATE: AUG 03
Tthe rest of new zealand is paying for auckland’s new transport network through petrol taxes, but now aucklanders are getting uppity about paying their share of a rates increase. HAMISH CARNACHAN asks whether aucklanders are […]
August 03 issue
WILD GEESE: THE WMD HUNT INVESTIGATE: AUG 03
Did the Weapons of Mass Destruction ever exist, or was it just a ruse? JIM LANDERS, IAN WISHART & WILLIAM SHERMAN examine the evidence, the allegations and the fallout from Gulf War 2 In the […]
Aviation
WHO KILLED CITYJET? INVESTIGATE: MARCH 00
What you’re about to read is the aviation equivalent of a game of Cluedo. On the floor is the corpse of an airline. In the wings, so to speak, is a cast of potential suspects, […]
Bill & Hillary Clinton
ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN INVESTIGATE: MARCH 00
A major weakness has been discovered in New Zealand’s foreign intelligence analysis: trade officials invited a rich Asian businessman to invest here and meet the Prime Minister and top business leaders – apparently unaware that […]
April 03 issue
PC THINK POLICE INVESTIGATE: APR 03
Political-correctness, just a mild nerdy aberration or the new face of socialist mind control? HAMISH CARNACHAN talks to British expert Frank Ellis Cricket is a simple game. The object is to score more runs than […]
April 03 issue
WHO LET THE DOGS OUT? INVESTIGATE: APR 03
Vicious dog attacks have dominated domestic news coverage in New Zealand. Now Parliament is looking at new laws to leash and muzzle the country’s canines. HAMISH CARNACHAN spent a day in the dogbox with Animal […]
April 03 issue
PROJECT BABYLON: WHO ARMED IRAQ? INVESTIGATE: APR 03
Popular myth these days would have you believe Saddam Hussein is a creature of the CIA, a stooge of the West, armed to the teeth by America and set loose. The truth, as IAN WISHART […]
Iraq
WAR & PEACE: ESSAY 2 INVESTIGATE: MAR 03
A 19 year old Iraqi exile in Britain, RANIA KASHI, tells her friends to welcome the war, not protest it Dear All, I am writing this email after a lot of deliberation about whether I […]
Genetic Modification
GLOBALISATION, GM & THE PROPHETS OF BOOM INVESTIGATE: MAR 03
NOTE: full article in print edition With the moratorium on GM due to lift in just a few months, disturbing new evidence is emerging from overseas about GM’s failures, but no-one seems to be listening […]
Abortion
DOES ABORTION CAUSES BREAST CANCER? INVESTIGATE: MAR 03
One in four New Zealand women have an abortion in their lives. One in ten will develop breast cancer. Now doctors suspect our soaring abortion rate is causing our breast cancer epidemic, as IAN WISHART […]
April 04 issue
THE CIVIL UNIONS BILL INVESTIGATE: April 04
The Civil Union Bill is be-ing promoted as reasonable legislation, to rectify civil rules and regulations that allegedly discriminate against homosexuals and lesbians. Many New Zealanders, including senior politicians from other parties, are supportive, believing […]
Child Custody
PAWNS IN A GAME, DEC 2004
She was 27 years old. Her Australian-born daughter was only two. They had already suffered much, but at the hands of a New Zealand Judge, a lawyer and an alleged paedophile and drug dealer, they […]
April 04 issue
AROPAX NATION: A HARD HABIT TO BREAK, APR 2004
Are modern anti-depressants actually making people crazy? CLARE SWINNEY investigates the growing controversy over the side effects and withdrawal sympoms of the SSRIs: Janet Frame touches on the association between doctors and patients in Faces […]
Islamofascism
ISLAM VS THE WEST, PART 4 INVESTIGATE: DEC 02
On the other hand, say Western dissenters, we need to accept responsibility for our cultural imperialism, for the fact that our culture is offensive to many Muslims and that violent protest is sometimes the only […]
Islamofascism
ISLAM VS THE WEST, PART 3 INVESTIGATE: DEC 02
In the west, the word ‘peace’ has a certain meaning, but among militant followers of the Prophet, peace can only be attained once the world has surrendered to Allah and his holy warriors. IAN WISHART […]