Auckland

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Luckily there's a whole bunch of fakes ones that can be the first to go.

Hear me out: Auckland has too many suburbs

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Māngere is currently far from a cycling haven, but locals want to change that. 

How Māngere plans to become the cycling capital of the Pacific

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A new train station isn't the only upgrade proposed for the city's creative precinct.

Future-proofing the Karangahape Road neighbourhood

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‘Don't fucking come and talk to me, write a submission,’ reckons Mayor Wayne Brown. So how do you do that?

A dummy’s guide to having your say on the Auckland budget

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How I moved house entirely by bike

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Historic waterways reemerged during Auckland's devastating deluge – taking the city 200 years back into the past.

Auckland’s ferocious floods took the city back in time

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It was dark when Louisa Opetaia got out of bed and stepped into a rising tide.

After the flood: a Māngere evacuee recalls that terrible Friday, and what happened next

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Auckland mayor not available for comment.

Tory Whanau launches recruitment drive in Wayne’s world

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Launching his campaign office, Molloy took aim at his rivals, saying of Efeso Collins, 'He’d look beautiful mounted on that wall.'

Leo Molloy pledges ‘slugfest’ as first public poll for Auckland mayoralty shows dead heat

'Slugfest': Molloy and Collins neck and neck in first public poll on Auckland mayoralty

Viv Beck Election 2020

For the candidate seeking to cement the right-leaning vote, the mantra is clear: We don't talk about Leo.

Viv Beck and the plan to break the centre-left stranglehold on the Super City mayoralty

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With Auckland in the midst of an omicron outbreak, the world's largest Polynesian dance festival has gone virtual.

With ASB Polyfest going online-only, students are cheering on their school from the couch

Jemaima Tiatia-Seath

The public health expert tells Sela Jane Hopgood about her new role as the University of Auckland's acting pro vice chancellor Pacific.

What can you get out of Pacific studies? Just look where Jemaima Tiatia’s at now

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Every weekday morning, a group of Auckland city commuters fight to claim one of 10 free car parks. How long can this 'secret oasis' last?

It’s car vs car on the central Auckland street where parking is free

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Are long-awaited renovations to Tāmaki Makaurau’s ageing entertainment hub finally under way?

Something is happening at Skyworld

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An appreciation of the city that's forever changing.

I love you, Tāmaki Makaurau

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Jobs don't get much more important than this. Does your country need you?

Situation vacant: who will turn around the transport supertanker for Aotearoa?

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Auckland’s usually busy streets are again all but empty after the country returned to level four lockdown – here's what that looked like.

Watch: The streets of Auckland under level four lockdown

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Collins says he has been reflecting on his future in politics after a bomb threat was made against him and his family in response to comments about Police Ten 7.

‘God, not my girls’: Auckland councillor receives bomb threat following TV show criticism

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It all started with a 'meet your neighbours' barbecue. Three years later, the community group were celebrating the opening of a $600,000 playground they'd fought for. 

How to get a new playground – the Ōtara way

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Stealth speed bumps leave South Aucklanders fuming

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A beguiling look inside the latest in a series of Aotearoa-made ‘picture books for adults’.

The Arks of Arks: an excerpt from Little Doomsdays by Nic Low and Phil Dadson

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Want to smell like you've just been retrieved from the stacks of the Turnbull Library? We try out the new fragrance designed for book lovers.

This perfume smells like old books. Is that a good thing?

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The journey of a Palestinian soul seeking the embrace of home. 

The Sunday Essay: I am a son of Palestine

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It didn’t used to be this way. Why have things changed?

Why are drive-thru menus so hard to read?

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How a stinky encounter with a Hollywood star helped launch a New Zealand comedy classic.

‘She just got Will Ferrell to fart on camera’: Jaquie Brown’s most important interview

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'I am your whānau, and my whānau back home is suffering.'

Why should you care?

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In just four years, Pals has gone from a failing startup to a category-changing monster. This is the untold story of how four friends created a phenomenon.

The inside story of Pals, the little RTD that did it all wrong and got it so right

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A lesson in how to eat pretty things while doing the bare minimum of gardening work.

Their house, my garden: The do-nothing farmer

Gabi Lardies

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Cancelled bookings, ‘temporary’ closures and customers left in the dark at two very different businesses with one very big thing in common.

What’s going on at Cotto and the Leigh Sawmill Cafe?

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'It's always been challenging for young people to buy a house,' says John Key – but how true is that? Using historical and contemporary data, and with the help of comics artist Michel Mulipola, we look at the experience of two generations of the same family in their quest to own a home. 

The Spinoff

AucklandOctober 5, 2016

Spinoff Comics present: The Generation Game

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AucklandOctober 5, 2016

Spinoff Comics present: The Generation Game

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