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Charlie Gates

Stuff.co.nz

Charlie Gates is a senior reporter at Stuff based in Christchurch.

Dr David Livingstone went to Antarctica in 1958 to study the impact of isolation on people who lived there (Photo: Supplied / Stuff)

David Livingstone was an LSD pioneer – why it’s taken 50 years to restart his research

A legal loophole could make NZ a global leader in LSD research, picking up where one Christchurch psychiatrist left off in the 1960s.

By Charlie Gates | 26th January, 2023

Tubby Hansen with his rusty and mildewed truck, which he believes is being sabotaged. (Photo: Alden Williams/Stuff)

An interview with Tubby Hansen, who’s run in every Christchurch election since 1969

Across 34 elections, he's received a grand total of 9,468 votes.

By Charlie Gates | 5th October, 2022