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Win tickets to Kon-Tiki

in Competitions

Issue 3807 30th Apr 2013

The New Zealand Listener has 65 double passes to give away to Kon-Tiki

Book giveaway : Everlasting Feast

in Books

Issue 3807 24th Apr 2013

The Listener has five copies of Lauraine Jacobs’s new book, Everlasting Feast, to give away.

Bill Ralston: Resistance is infantile

By Bill Ralston in Commentary

Issue 3807 23rd Apr 2013

The only sane response to robocallers is to take them on at their own game.

A bank is born

By Linda Sanders in Money

Issue 3807 23rd Apr 2013

How the Reserve Bank started, and why the Government uses Westpac.

Diana Wichtel: Flat 3, a funny, warm and weird web-series

By Diana Wichtel in Television

Issue 3807 22nd Apr 2013

A new online-only series in which three good keen Chinese Kiwi girls go flatting. What’s not to like?

Knight Vision

By Guyon Espiner in Current Affairs

Issue 3807 21st Apr 2013

Ngai Tahu made a $55 million profit last year but it’s not the tribe’s only impressive achievement. Guyon Espiner talks to its inspirational leader.

Unwedded bliss

By Peter Wells in Current Affairs

Issue Listener Plus 3807 19th Apr 2013

Even now they can legally marry, says Peter Wells, he and partner Douglas Lloyd Jenkins will never “tie the knot”.

Whittaker's: Brand of brothers

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By Ruth Laugesen in Current Affairs

Issue 3807 18th Apr 2013

Andrew and Brian Whittaker are on track to overtake Cadbury as the country’s biggest chocolate sellers. Ruth Laugesen looks at how they’ve done it

20/20 Vision

By Guy Somerset in Culture

Issue 3807 18th Apr 2013

As Granta announces its latest Best of Young British Novelists list, editor John Freeman says an Australia and New Zealand issue may be in the offing.

The ethics of war: What is it good for?

By David Hall in Current Affairs

Issue 3807 18th Apr 2013

The generally accepted rules for when it’s okay to go to war may be based on a myth, and a new justification has a patchy record.