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From jerks to dicks to tables, the political debate is really on one

Losing our shit till '26.
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By Toby Manhire | 4th December, 2025
Editor-at-large
The NZSO’s Summer Brass on on this week.

Stonehenge Aotearoa, Summer Brass and Nadia Reid: The Spinoff event guide

No better time to explore Stonehenge Aotearoa.
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By Claire Mabey | 4th December, 2025
Books editor
Rima Nakhle.

One MP, One Pint: Rima Nakhle on being a Lebanese diva

The National MP spills the beans on her quest to build a perfect pub quiz team, and reveals the opposition MP who cracks her up.
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By Lyric Waiwiri-Smith | 4th December, 2025
Politics reporter
Ikea-geddon live updates: Nation’s economy now hangs on Ikea’s meatballs

Ikea-geddon live updates: Nation’s economy now hangs on Ikea’s meatballs

For the past six years, New Zealand has waited. Now the day has finally come.
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By Alex Casey | 4th December, 2025
Senior writer
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Opinion

Why does it feel like everyone hates the state?

It's facing a greater challenge than it has in decades, with its critics spanning a far wider spectrum.
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By Max Rashbrooke | 4th December, 2025
Contributing writer
You’ll find them across the nation. (Images: Trade Me, Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections Map 9797)

Finally, something we can all agree on: Canterbury shorts are great

In praise of our national uniform.
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By Emma Gleason | 3rd December, 2025
Contributing writer
Three species putting New Zealand’s native wildlife (and honey bee populations) at risk: gold clams, yellow-legged hornets, and feral cats.

How cats, clams and Asian hornets are putting Aotearoa’s wildlife at risk

While Auckland battles the hornets, a highly invasive type of clam is poised to devastate waterways further south.
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By Catherine McGregor | 3rd December, 2025
Contributing writer
Is everyone really leaving? 
(Image: Mad Max Fury Road)

New Zealand’s Aussie exodus, by the numbers

It seems like everyone's leaving for Australia, and these numbers point to why.
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By Emma Gleason | 3rd December, 2025
Contributing writer
Images: Getty Images; design: The Spinoff
Opinion

Why the new history curriculum will deepen divisions in Aotearoa

Rather than 'restoring balance', it reinforces a Eurocentric framing of the past.
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By Bronwyn Houliston
Guest writer
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, Jane Jarman
Guest writer
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 & Kārena Ngata | 2nd December, 2025
Guest writer
The beep test in action (Image: DefenceCareers YouTube)

The beep test: ‘Ritual humiliation’ or efficient fitness appraisal?

You probably did it at high school. Your kid probably did too. But why?
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By Emma Gleason | 2nd December, 2025
Contributing writer
Jim Bolger and Tainui leader Sir Robert Mahuta (Photo: Ross Land / Getty Images)

Juggernaut 2: The seven generations fight

The unlikely story of a landmark decade in Treaty settlements.
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By Juggernaut | 2nd December, 2025
Podcast
The $2.3 million public toilets in Inglewood Place, Wellington – a favourite target for critics of council spending priorities. (Photo: Wellington City Council)

Will ratepayers come to regret having their rates capped?

The government says a rates cap will end 'dumb' spending, but critics warn it will only make councils' infrastructure problems worse.
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By Catherine McGregor | 2nd December, 2025
Contributing writer
Image by Alex Casey.

New To Streaming: What to watch on Netflix NZ, Neon and more this week

Important: here's where to watch Love Actually this Xmas. Plus: Clooney and Sandler combine for a 'midlife crisis masterpiece', and a classic turns 40.
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By Thomas Giblin | 1st December, 2025
Guest writer
Almost every major supermarket pie brand now has a butter chicken option. Image: Joel MacManus

Finding the national hero who invented the butter chicken pie

It's risen from a niche fusion food to New Zealand’s third-best-selling pie flavour. Who gave the nation this unique culinary taonga?
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By Joel MacManus | 1st December, 2025
Senior writer
Senior minister Chris Bishop has tried and failed to unseat Christopher Luxon, reports Andrea Vance. (Photo: Hagen Hopkins / Getty Images)

Luxon, Bishop and the coup that never happened

Christopher Luxon has reportedly beaten back a leadership push from Chris Bishop – for now. But the forces that fuelled the bid have not gone away.
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By Catherine McGregor | 1st December, 2025
Contributing writer
There’s much to love when it comes to wild fennel. (Image: The Spinoff)

Legal (and free) weed: Why you need to start eating wild fennel

Delicious fronds, tender stalks, citrussy pollen and fragrant seeds – there’s more to this ubiquitous weed than meets the eye.
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By Charlotte Muru-Lanning | 29th November, 2025
Contributing writer
Amy Boroevich aka HINA. (Image: Supplied).

Ko Wai Tēnei: Māori singer-songwriter HINA

'If I won Lotto, I’d get it done every week.'
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By Liam Rātana | 29th November, 2025
Ātea editor
This has been the news, Simon Dallow (Photos: Screengrabs / Design: The Spinoff)

So long and thanks for all the news, Simon Dallow

If Judy Bailey was the mother of the nation, how does he fit into the family?
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By Tara Ward | 28th November, 2025
Staff writer
After a flat year, forecasters expect only modest house price rises in 2026. (Image: Tina Tiller)

The OCR falls again – so why are house prices stuck in neutral?

Economists say house price growth in 2026 is likely to stay muted. Would that be such a bad thing?
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By Catherine McGregor | 28th November, 2025
Contributing writer
Let the chocolatey countdown to Christmas begin. (Design: The Spinoff)

The supermarket advent calendars of Aotearoa, reviewed and ranked

Few things in life are more joyful than opening a tiny cardboard door to reveal a tiny average chocolate.
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By Charlotte Muru-Lanning | 28th November, 2025
Contributing writer

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