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The Spinoff Members

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What will dominate the headlines this year? Our pundits take a punt.

NZ politics in 2025: The big issues on which the year will hinge

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The Kim Dotcom challenge to John Key culminated in an extravaganza joining dots from the US, the UK and Russia – even North Korea. It got messy.

The Moment of Truth: Revisiting a wild night in NZ politics

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A special live edition of The Spinoff's politics podcast, revisiting the turbulent Lange years with special guest Kim Hill.

Gone By Lunchtime Live: A trip to 1980s New Zealand with Kim Hill

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Submissions to the Justice Committee on the controversial legislation are currently tracking at three times the previous record number.

Submissions reopened for treaty principles bill after record response and ‘technical issues’

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Forget that bullshit biscuit tin. The parliament petitions page is the real receptacle for the nation’s political identity.

Celebrating the lynchpin of our democracy, parliament’s online petitions page

Lange and Douglas

The meltdown in the relationship between the key players can be charted in an extraordinary exchange of correspondence.

‘Grossly misleading to me and to the country’: the Lange-Douglas letters, unearthed

Maori Party Leaders Portrait Session

A tribute to the co-founder of Te Pāti Māori, who has died aged 80. 

A politician for the people: Dame Tariana Turia, 1944-2025

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Coups, councils, canines and constitutional crises: our pundits roll out their most outlandish prophecies for another year. 

Ten wild political predictions for 2025

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Making a splash: Is this the most impressive select committee submission ever?

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I was one of hundreds of people who lost my government job this week. Here's exactly how it played out.

What it’s like to be made redundant by the Ministry of Education

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Why do those Lange-Douglas years cast such a long shadow 40 years on?

Juggernaut: The ghosts of 1984

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It would be a more wonderful time of year if I knew there was no exploitation under the Christmas tree.

All I want for Christmas is modern day slavery legislation

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Looking back at the events that made headlines around the globe in 2024. 

A world on fire: the World Bulletin year in review

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In six hours, everything changed: Watching Korea’s political turmoil from afar

Ben McKay

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The return of the glitteriest rubber gongs of New Zealand politics.

The 2024 Golden Jandals for conspicuous contributions to NZ politics

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Did anyone make an accurate call? Let's find out.

Our outlandish political predictions for 2024, revisited

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ICYMI: that festive pileup of opinion polling, in one snapshot.

All those recent political polls: a quick recap

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Immigration NZ could have made any decision on the controversial speaker's visa and it would've been better than a minister intervening. 

What we should have done with Candace Owens is nothing

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Ready the lifeboats: the coalition boat appears to be listing. 

Gone By Lunchtime: A plan to have a plan about some ferries

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From 'testing' to 'tiring', there's a clear theme.

The world in 2024, in one sentence

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Despite fewer machines, pokies are raking in more than $1bn a year. So are restrictions working?

Sinking lids and rising profits: The problem with pokies

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The tide is turning on Insta-therapy. Good riddance, but actual therapy is still good and worth doing. 

Don’t let the backlash to therapy culture stop you from doing therapy

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When is it too late to say ‘Happy New Year’? An official ruling

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For all the spectacle of WoW, Alex Casey couldn't tear her eyes off Christopher Luxon in the front row. 

I watched Christopher Luxon watch the World of Wearable Art

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Treaty issues will dominate the first six months, but that's not all.

What will be making headlines in 2025?

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An in-depth examination of the causes, implications and potential cures for homelessness across the country.

Inside the urgent race to solve homelessness in Aotearoa

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New Zealand used to be a country of vibrant synthetic striped polyprop. What happened?

Rainbow warmth and garish colours: When did stripy polyprop disappear?

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Because history isn't just about the big-ticket items.

‘All our rabbits are dead’: 10 moments of national insignificance from the NZ Archives

Editor Toby Manhire returns for his regular round-up of the week in New Zealand news. This week: embarrassing NZ values, underwhelming #sponcon, Judith Collins on ‘going lez’, Hosko and Leighton salute The Spinoff, and more.

Good Week, Bad Week: October 5 | The Spinoff TV

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Editor Toby Manhire returns for his regular round-up of the week in New Zealand news. This week: embarrassing NZ values, underwhelming #sponcon, Judith Collins on 'going lez', Hosko and Leighton salute The Spinoff, and more. 

The Spinoff

PoliticsOctober 5, 2018

Good Week, Bad Week: October 5

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PoliticsOctober 5, 2018

Good Week, Bad Week: October 5

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