Werewolf #5 Out Now - Lycanthropes Rejoice!

Wednesday, 4 November 2009, 8:25 am
Article: The Scoop Team

Another full moon equals another edition of Werewolf - Edition No. 5 (See...http://werewolf.co.nz/ ).

Dear Scoop Subscriber,

Now I’ve returned from Europe, Werewolf will resume its usual monthly appearance with the full moon. Supposedly, journalism is meant to evaluate how power is being used and abused, and this issue contains a couple of interesting variations on that theme.

This month's featured interview is with Commerce Minister Simon Power and reveals that NZ is moving to adopt Australian tools and attitudes in how business should be regulated.

In her story about loan sharks, Catriona MacLennan slams the failure of the Clark and Key governments to control loan sharks, while Denis O’Reilly feels encouraged by the current government’s plans to lead and co-ordinate action against the drug, P.

Taken together, is this balance? Not really. The more basic point is - how can governments see the need to respond to the damage being done to communities by P, while continuing to ignore the damage being done (often to the very same communities) by loan sharks ? National and Act plan to vote down Charles Chauvel’s private members Bill that aims to exert the most basic forms of control on loan sharks. Why ? Good question.

This issue also contains the first of a planned series on science research and ethics by Melody Thomas, and a piece by Brannavan Gnalalingham on the flaws in the judging of the Nobel Literature Prize.

There is also a piece on left politics in Portugal, interviews with Wellington musician Disasteradio and film-maker Niki Caro. Nicola Kean talks about life in Burma under the Junta, Rosalea Barker profiles the peculiar race for the next Governorship of California and Lyndon Hood ponders the parallel universe which is the news.

In Cartoon Alley, Tim Bollinger reviews comics from New Caledonia, and more besides. Next month, I’m hoping to revamp and expand Cartoon Alley considerably.

Cheers,
Gordon Campbell,
Werewolf/Scoop
Werewolf layout by David McLellan

Links to the full contents of this edition follow

Doing the Transtasman tango
http://werewolf.co.nz/2009/11/doing-the-transtasman-tango/
An interview with Commerce Minister Simon Power about how business will be governed in the single economic market by Gordon Campbell

License to prey
http://werewolf.co.nz/2009/11/license-to-prey/
The government needs to stop ignoring loan sharks by Catriona MacLennan

Politics in the P pipe
http://werewolf.co.nz/2009/11/politics-in-the-p-pipe/
Evaluating John Key’s community crusade against P by Denis O’Reilly

Can science take pain and guilt off the menu?
http://werewolf.co.nz/2009/11/can-science-take-pain-and-guilt-off-the-menu/
How science could foster ethical eating by Melody Thomas

Here, there are no anonymous citizens
http://werewolf.co.nz/2009/11/here-there-are-no-anonymous-citizens/
Portugal weathers the recession by Gordon Campbell

When angels fall to earth
http://werewolf.co.nz/2009/11/when-angels-fall-to-earth/
A Niki Caro interview about Vintner’s Luck by Carolyn Meers

Taking stock with Disasteradio
http://werewolf.co.nz/2009/11/taking-stock-with-disasteradio/
An interview with Wellington musician Disasteradio by James Robinson

For whom the Nobel tolls
http://werewolf.co.nz/2009/11/for-whom-the-nobel-tolls/
Regional bias and politics can decide the Nobel Prize for Literature by Brannavan Gnanalingham

Left Coasting : Governor Jerry Brown, by default ?
http://werewolf.co.nz/2009/11/left-coasting-governor-jerry-brown-by-default/
The race to be the next Governor of California by Rosalea Barker

From the Hood
http://werewolf.co.nz/2009/11/from-the-hood-4/
Looking beyond the veil into news beyond our own by Lyndon Hood

Travelling Light : Burma on a budget
http://werewolf.co.nz/2009/11/travelling-light-burma-on-a-budget/
Life in the grip of the generals by Nicola Kean

Classics : The Pirate Twins (1929) by William Nicholson
http://werewolf.co.nz/2009/11/classics-the-pirate-twins-1929-by-william-nicholson/
Race stereotypes in children’s books by Gordon Campbell

The Complicatist : The canonisation of J. Dilla
http://werewolf.co.nz/2009/11/the-complicatist-the-canonisation-of-j-dilla/
Unpacking the basis of a legend by Gordon Campbell

Sporting Life : David Tua’s limited future…
http://werewolf.co.nz/2009/11/sporting-life-david-tuas-limited-future/
Déjà vu with David Tua, and what’s golf doing at a green Olympics ? by Lamont Russell

Cartoon Alley
http://werewolf.co.nz/2009/11/cartoon-alley/
Reviews, commentary and comics from local artists by Werewolf

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