Investigate Nov 03
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PRIMARY COLOURS: Love her or loathe her, no New Zealand Prime Minister has polarised the country this much since the 1970s. IAN WISHART pores over dusty archives and talks to Helen Clark’s inner sanctum to find out what’s driving her, and discovers a turbulent, troubled woman... SQUEEZEFRAME: As profits in the boom-bust-boom apartment biz get harder to nail, developers are now pitching studios you couldn’t swing a cat in. HAMISH CARNACHAN explores city living with rising real estate star Martin Dunn in the wake of the leaky building scandal and a superheated property marketGREEN OR GREED?: Once upon a time, the idea of protestors picketing the Green Party offices would have been unheard of. But Green support for two highly contentious Government law changes is exposing the Greens to a possible backlash, as HAMISH CARNACHAN discoversTHE ROCKING OF THE DOME: Fanatical saudi militants with philosophical ties to al qa’ida launch a takeover bid for the Christchurch mosque. IAN WISHART investigates the organisation behind it, and poses the question: does New Zealand want fundamentalist Islamic groups here? SLEEPY OR SASSY? Dargaville licks its wounds after an offhand remark about a name change turns into a national talking point. CLARE SWINNEY rediscovers a town doing very nicely, thank you...
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