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North & South is New Zealand’s premier monthly current affairs and lifestyle magazine, specialising in long-form investigative journalism, delivered by award-winning writers and photographers. North & South also showcases New Zealand ingenuity and creativity, explores the country and profiles its people. It is a touchstone of New Zealand life.

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Four corners • Behemoths of the bush

HIGH IMPACT • Legal hearings in London are placing the spotlight on the risks of traumatic brain injury from playing rugby. Meanwhile, scientists in Aotearoa New Zealand are using new technology to seek answers about how much risk is too much.

Gifts to science

SIOUXSIE’S SAGA • After a drawn-out hearing, no quick judgment is to be expected in the case taken by academic and science communicator Siouxsie Wiles against her employer, the University of Auckland.

ROBOT HEART • World-renowned New Zealand scientist Peter Hunter is well on the way to transforming healthcare through digital modelling of the human body. Just don’t expect him to get over-excited about it.

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No church in the wild • Has middle-class atheism run its course? Despite decades of declining population share, Christianity appears to be having a moment with millennials and zoomers. North & South speaks to some of these 20-somethings to discover what Christian faith offers young Kiwis in 2023.

A Spirituality of Enough

The Madonna and I • Travelling the gravel backroads of New Zealand, David Herkt must also face the human religious impulse.

Fight or flight: An old suburb and the sea • South Dunedin is home to the country’s largest low-lying community, with 2700 homes less than 50cm above the high-tide line. As the sea level creeps up, its 13,500 residents are waiting to see whether they have a future, or whether the suburb will be reclaimed by the waves. The answer will reverberate through coastal communities around the country.

Pain relief • Unlocking the Healing Power: Helius Therapeutics Revolutionise Medicinal Cannabis Access in New Zealand

Tails from the year of the BUNNY • Scandals, resignations and a fixation on potholes: 2023 has been a year many in (and out of) power would prefer to forget. Felix Navidad not only remembers, he also has predictions for 2024.

Predictions for 2024 (Year of the dragon)

OPEN SESAME • New Zealand’s out-of-date approach to financial technologies will receive a long-awaited shake-up in May 2024, when the big four banks — ANZ, BNZ, ASB and Westpac — implement open banking.

Super idea • Reached 65 but don’t need all your superannuation? A simple platform makes it easy to help give kids better chances.

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SIT ON IT • A new exhibition explores 170 years of local chair design. Curator and Objectspace director Kim Paton reveals to North & South what stories the humble chair has to tell...