Samples of Philippa's work
Click on the links below to see samples of Philippa's published work:
BUSINESS:
Powdergate – International Federation of Agricultural Journalists, August 2007
How an IFAJ member unearthed and investigated an international trade scam - a resource for the professional development of agricultural journalists. Read the full article »
Justice seen to be done in dirty milk powder case - Farmers Weekly, May 22, 2006
Powdergate was a creature of its time. This brand of dirty dairying blasted into the headlines in September 2001 at a crucial point in the fraught merger talks between New Zealand Dairy Group and Kiwi Dairies.
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Powdergate 101 - NZ Listener, June 11, 2005
Four years after it sprang into the headlines, Powdergate - the persistent, but, for many, confusing, dairy-industry saga - is to go to trial. Journalist Philippa Stevenson who broke the story explains the workings of the alleged $44m scam that rocked the dairy industry and why it still matters.
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Milking it - NZ Listener, April 3, 2004
"Dirty dairying" is a phrase coined to discredit the environmental record of dairy farming.
"Powdergate" is a sobriquet that New Zealand's biggest industry earned for another kind of dirty business - an alleged $75 million corporate fraud.
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ENVIRONMENT:
In defence of the magpie - NZ Herald, August 14, 2003
Magpies are over-loud, over-abundant, over-territorial and, regretfully, over here.
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Working together redeems a peat lake - NZ Herald, August 3, 2005
Lake Kaituna is the little lake that could. Hope floats on this speck of peaty water on the outskirts of Hamilton
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PCPs: Crunch time for the timber industry - Terra Nova, August 1992
PCP contamination of the Waipa timber mill near Rotorua is likely to be just the tip of a very dirty iceberg that no one wants melting in their back yard.
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"No risk to employee's health" - Terra Nova, August 1992
Until they met for an interview with Terra Nova Reg Ruder and Mike Harman didn't know they shared a highly irritating skin condition or a burning sensation in their eyes. They hadn't seen each other for five years, not since the day in 1987 when they drove for the last time through the gates of the Forest Service Waipa timber mill, 5km from Rotorua.
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PCP's victims deserve more than a study - NZ Herald, September 30, 2004
The PCP scandal 12 years on. Read the full article »
HUMAN INTEREST:
UpFront: Nicky Coles & Juliette Haigh - NZ Listener, October 1, 2005
Since September 3, 2005, Nicky Coles, 33, and Juliette Haigh, 23, have been world champions - one New Zealand team among four to win gold at rowing's World Championships at Gifu, Japan, in the most successful hour in our country's sporting history.
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Preserving days of tea and roses - NZ Herald, February 15, 2005
It's sad when neighbourhoods go to hell but for elderly sisters-in-law Audrey and Micky Moltzen their Hamilton neighbourhood has simply gone.
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Flag-waver for lonely cause - NZ Herald, July 22, 2004
If a line formed of all the people who have wanted to change the New Zealand flag, Frank Bailey would be near the front.
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SCIENCE:
This café feeds the mind, not just the body - NZ Herald, June 16, 2005
It's not often you come out of a bar feeling you've done your brain cells some good. But then we were sloshing back the human genome like there was no tomorrow, gulping down a heady mix of genes and proteins, and poking junk DNA with our straws to see if there were any signs of life.
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Budding scientist meets his heroes - NZ Herald, July 14, 2005
You'd excuse Peter Mace for being a tad overawed. The boy from Tokoroa is not long back from mingling with dozens of Nobel Prize winners, chatting with them and sharing their discoveries, even sharing a quiet meal with one. Heady stuff, you'd think.
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HEALTH:
Bin Laden has nothing on killer diabetes - NZ Herald, May 4, 2005
Terrified of terrorism? Afraid of headlining diseases such as Aids and Sars? To rank your fears in the order that they are likely to occur you'd be better to be scared stiff of the next thing you put in your mouth.
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If the young have to go they deserve a good death - NZ Herald, May 25, 2005
Jazz pianist Jann Rutherford's last days. Hospice carers helped at home until the music stopped.
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SOCIAL ISSUES:
Every five weeks a child is murdered in Godzone - NZ Herald, February 2, 2004
Statistically speaking, between the time we basked in the New Year's Day sun and today one child has been murdered in our country.
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Communities profiting from gamblers' misery - NZ Herald, June 22, 2004
The groups who line up for largess from gambling trusts are making money out of the least well-off in their communities.
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QUIRKY:
Why our tourism people need toilet training - NZ Herald, July 1, 2003
A brush with a good public toilet always leaves you relieved - in more ways than one.
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Why the chicken crossed the road - NZ Herald, July 29, 2003
I may have the answer to one of the most vexing questions of all time - why the chicken crossed the road.
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In search of the Steptoe gene - NZ Herald, May 5, 2005
Some people are collectors by choice. Others find collections creep up on them.
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Just a bag lady in pursuit of a perfect purse - NZ Herald, June 23, 2005
What do women want?
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FOOD:
The secret of Christmas pies revealed - NZ Herald, December 21, 2004
At last! A scientist who has turned his mind to one of the great mysteries of the universe - how to make a really great Christmas mince pie.
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