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PoliticsOctober 5, 2018

Good Week, Bad Week: October 5

Staff writers

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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.

Whale tails will be on display around Auckland for the next four months. Image: Supplied/Archi Banal

24th January, 2022

A PSA for Auckland parents: Whale tails are here to save your school holidays

Sick of screen time and snack packs? Get your kids to go hunt some whales.

By Chris Schulz

Features editor

Illustration: Tina Tiller

24th January, 2022

Not farewell, just mā te wā

Ātea editor Leonie Hayden says goodbye for now.

By Leonie Hayden

Manurewa marae’s family fun day saw 338 people across the day including 104 children get vaccinated. (Photos: Justin Latif, additional design by Tina Tiller)

24th January, 2022

‘We’re here if you need us’: Manurewa marae gets South Auckland boosted

Manurewa marae's mass vaccination event was well timed for South Aucklanders to get boosted before the city moved back into red.

By Justin Latif

Local Democracy Reporter, South Auckland

(Image: Archi Banal)

24th January, 2022

What it’s really like to not have enough

No, I can’t just stop buying takeaways

Image: Toby Morris

24th January, 2022

Siouxsie Wiles: Omicron is in our community. Here’s how we can reduce the risk

Omicron is here and vigilance is key.

By Siouxsie Wiles

Contributing writer

Image: Archi Banal

24th January, 2022

Our new lending rules have everyone confused. What went wrong?

The rules were meant to restrict predatory loans, but hundreds of other borrowers have been caught up in the ensuing mess.

By Felix Walton

Contributing writer

From left to right: Carrie Coon as Brenda Russell, Christine Baranski as Agnes van Rhijin, Dame Maggie Smith as the Dowager Countess Violet Crawley (obvs), Cynthia Nixon as Ada Brook and Denee Benton as Peggy Scott. (Image Design: Tina Tiller and Archi Banal)

24th January, 2022

The Gilded Age is Downton Abbey with more Dowager Countesses

What if you took the best part of Downton Abbey and multiplied her? You get the best bits of The Gilded Age.

Staff Feature Writer

Red Bands, Red Bands everywhere – the little chook in her dad’s gummies is author / illustrator Kat Quin (Design: Archi Banal)

23rd January, 2022

The Great Kiwi Gumboot Mystery

Why are Red Bands suddenly clomp-clomping all over kids’ books?

By Catherine Woulfe

Kharl Wirepa: A designer, a pageant advocate, a kharacter. (Image Design: Archi Banal)

22nd January, 2022

Gowns and Geysers’ Kharl WiRepa is a Kharacter

The star of TVNZ OnDemand's new beauty pageant docuseries is a complicated, charismatic, deeply watchable figure.

Staff Feature Writer

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Andrew Coster on claims of racism, Police Ten 7 and the future of the force

8th January, 2022

Andrew Coster on claims of racism, Police Ten 7 and the future of the force

An interview with the man branded the 'wokester commissioner' on his first year in the job.

By Justin Giovannetti

Political editor

Photo: Abbas Nasziri

5th January, 2022

I remember 9/11. I’d just been rescued by an Australian frigate

While the world recoiled, we we watched from a frigate.

By Abbas Nazari

The machine upon which Hayden typed his opinion (posed by model). Photo: Getty Images

2nd January, 2022

Opinion: My opinion on NZ’s Covid strategy is bold, unwavering and probably wrong

The truth is that I didn’t know what an 'R number' was a year ago.

By Hayden Donnell

Contributing writer

Image: Archi Banal

1st January, 2022

Thirteen wild predictions for the political year 2022 AD

From the cautiously optimistic to the terrifyingly dystopian.

A bunch of people

Māori Party Co-leader Rawiri Waititi(Photo by Lynn Grieveson – Newsroom/Newsroom via Getty Images)

29th December, 2021

Metiria Turei on the parliament necktie fight and why it matters

Why should wearing a business suit be considered business attire for an MP's actual business: being representative?

By Metiria Turei