In this very special Christmas episode of Get It to Te Papa, Hayden Donnell sets out to restore the winking eye and beckoning finger to Auckland's Giant Santa.
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Here are some actions that you can take to redirect your anger and sadness following the death of Grace Millane.
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This week Massey University opened polling for their top 10 quotes of the year. Here's our 10.
It's McDreamy's new show, a mid-aughts mum classic and two of the year's most fun films - they're all on Lightbox this month! Plus, what you need to catch before it leaves.
Get It to Te Papa follows journalist Hayden Donnell on an ambitious quest to collect underappreciated Kiwi cultural artefacts and get them into New Zealand’s national museum, Te Papa. Watch the second episode right here – for free.
The first episode follows a desperate quest to find the Waitangi Dildo, the sex toy hurled at a New Zealand government minister which became a media sensation. Watch the entire episode here, for free!
A hugely important report seeks to effect a ‘paradigm change’ in NZ mental health services. Here are the essential findings and recommendations.
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The Spinoff's resident beard expert Madeleine Chapman ranks the top five facial hair situations on Vikings.
Want to give to charity this Christmas? Hold the tinned tomatoes – here's what they really want.
In the second of two films in our Aren't Can't Don't series, women explain why they don't vote.
In the first of two films in our Aren't Can't Don't series, women explain what it meant to be denied an opportunity to vote while imprisoned
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Howdy, and welcome to The Spinoff's live blog of the 2018 US midterm elections, brought to you by Catherine McGregor, Toby Manhire, Alex Braae, and maybe some of your other mates at The Spinoff.
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Time travel, a bleak dalliance with the French King, and some dubious flatmates – is Jamie and Claire's relationship actually worth it? The Spinoff's senior fictional relationship expert Madeleine Chapman passes judgement.
Your Northern hemisphere favourites are back this month (Outlander and Vikings) but there be gold on these here Lightbox shores too, yarr. The Spinoff staff run through what's new to Lightbox in the month of November.
Today's 6.2 earthquake was centred near Taumarunui and transmitted via a rigid subducting slab on the east of the North Island A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck at 3.13pm today, centred 25 …
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According to reports over the weekend the MP Jami-Lee Ross has been admitted to mental health care after being 'sectioned'. But what does that mean?
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Communication broke down in Britain's parliament today as a New Zealand-born MP struggled with his opponent's Glaswegian accent.
