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INVESTIGATE July 2009:

Rankin Breaks Silence FIRST INTERVIEW

Christine Rankin • Apprenticeships • The Deadliest Caveman

The Young Apprentice This could save the NZ economy

The Deadliest Caveman A special report

Issue 102

The Blame Game What’s really behind the economic collapse?

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Contents 28 FEATURES

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28 The Rankin Interview

She wants a Commission of Inquiry into New Zealand’s social problems, and thinks the anti-smacking laws are chilling freedom of speech. IAN WISHART interviews the new Families Commission member about her baptism of fire and vision for the future

36 The Young Apprentice

In the not so distant past, apprenticeships were the engine-room of the New Zealand economy, giving work and skills to idle hands and providing employers with a critical pathway to business growth. But now apprenticeships are a politically-correct shadow of what they once were, as TREVOR LOUDON reports

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44 Barbarians At The Gates

Many of us have blamed the economic collapse on the greed of bankers and investors, but ALAN GALLAGHER is worried a growing contempt for capitalist excesses has opened the door for a bloodless socialist takeover in the West

50 The Deadliest Caveman

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He’s holed up in a cave on the Afghan border somewhere, but Osama bin Laden still has the power to spook Obama and increase world tensions. PHILIP SMUCKER has been in Afghanistan

56 Prince Of Persia

Iran is on the verge of developing nuclear weapons, but like that other failed state Pakistan, Iran has erupted in bloodshed in the wake of controversial presidential elections. A UPI photo team captured these images

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Editorial and opinion 06 Focal Point

Volume 9, Issue 102, ISSN 1175-1290

Editorial

08 Vox-Populi

The roar of the crowd

16 Simply Devine

Miranda Devine on chk-chk-boom

18 Mark Steyn

Obama’s Ode to Arabia

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20 Global Warning

Joe Fone on climate change

22 Eyes Right

Richard Prosser on the Greens

24 Line 1

Chris Carter on Whine-flu

26 Soapbox

Martin Hanson on Peak Oil

Lifestyle 14 Poetry

Amy Brooke’s poem of the month

66 Money

Peter Hensley on estate planning

68 Education

Amy Brooke on the NCEA

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70 Science

The end of the world in 2012

72 Technology

Intelligent cellphones

74 Sport

Chris Forster on the Warriors

76 Health

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84 Food

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78 Alt.Health Toxic plastic

80 Travel

In search of Sherlock Holmes James Morrow on TV chefs Michael Morrissey’s winter reads

92 Music

Chris Philpott’s CD reviews

94 Movies

Up, Land of the Lost

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Heidi Wishart Bozidar Jokanovic

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