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The Spinoff Members

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ThreeNews spent almost seven minutes focused on the former PM and his very relatable passion: helicopters.

Exclusive: John Key has a hobby 

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The Sisyphean struggle over capital gains tax returns, while Dunedin says we're not going to take this.

Gone By Lunchtime: The big hill and the tax boulder

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We're unlikely to meet our target by buying carbon credits or reducing our emissions. So will we just leave the Paris Agreement? 

Paris is burning: Will New Zealand abandon its climate change targets?

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The Casey Costello guide to the school holidays

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How a month has turned into six days, and six months have been compressed into one.

The government’s latest time warp

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The finance minister reckons a capital gains tax would discourage business investment. We went in search of someone who would back her innovative take.

Can we find an economist who backs Nicola Willis’s CGT stance? Not easily, no

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'This is the biggest crowd in the Octagon since Danyon Loader came through here in 92.'

‘National hates the south’: On the ground at the Ōtepoti hospital protest

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It's a calculated move to remove a significant barrier to the party's privatisation and deregulation agenda.

The real reason behind Act’s push to redefine the Treaty principles

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It’s mainly family violence, and mainly female victims.

Exclusive: Here’s what we weren’t told about the recent rise in violent crime 

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$3 billion for a new hospital? Unaffordable. $3 billion for a new motorway? Now we’re talking.

The things that are unaffordable and the things that aren’t

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The wobbles on the coalition seismograph. 

Twangs on the tripwire for Act and NZ First 

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The star of the prime ministerial press stand-ups is stepping down. Who will fill his angry shoes?

Huge opportunity: Could you be the guy standing behind the PM looking furious? 

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Tax reform of some sort is a given. But will they go modest or radical?

Here’s what’s at stake in the Labour tax debate

The boss of NZ’s biggest bank is not the only supporter of a broad CGT.  

A roll call of all the people championing a capital gains tax

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Benefit: Office romances will support Chris Luxon's mission to make Kiwis have more babies. Cost: Policy analysts will miss the high-risk eroticism of sexting on Microsoft Teams.

Revealed: A cost-benefit analysis for public servants returning to the office

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Winston Peters certainly thinks so, so we take a look at the evidence.

Is parliament in a state of decay?

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Nangs, nos or nitrous – no matter what you call it, it is now an unapproved psychoactive substance.

The crackdown on nangs, explained

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On the one hand, politicians love the idea. On the other, politicians love the idea.

MPs want a four-year term. Should we give it to them? An argument with myself

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After some 'light lunch and networking', the PM played the hits to an appreciative audience.

Businessman Christopher Luxon talks business to business people

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The CGT debate is back in the news – and it’s been met with the same tired old arguments.

Debunking some capital gains tax myths

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The Friday Poem: ‘cabbage rolls’ by Jiaqiao Liu

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Becky Manawatu's second novel gives Sally Rooney a serious run for her money. 

The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending October 4

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Less than a third of New Zealand households still have a landline telephone. Kids these days simply don't know what they're missing out on.

For the love of landlines

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His 'common sense' world view holds little time for losers and dreamers... with one major exception.

Mike Hosking is one of the Warriors’ biggest fans, and it doesn’t make any sense

Mike Hosking is one of the Warriors' biggest fans, and it doesn't make a lick of sense

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If you want to read a book that makes you feel good about your body, I beg you to look elsewhere.

In defence of Sally Rooney’s skinny protagonists

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Over a million lives are on the line around the world, and New Zealand is in the spotlight.

The lives that could be saved by creating a ‘smokefree generation’

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For this Year 11 social studies class, the cuts to Ka Ora, Ka Ako funding hit close to home.

Why free school lunches matter – and what one group of students is doing to save them

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Some are simply terrible. Others are fanciful but fun. A couple are actually quite good – but there can only be one champion, and it might shock you.

All the Auckland harbour crossing ideas, ranked from worst to best

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Some very effective ways to reduce a huge chunk of your emissions often fly under the radar.

If you want to reduce your emissions, focus on your fuels

In our video series Kiwis of Snapchat, comedian Tom Sainsbury sources exclusive Snapchat footage of Kiwi citizens making the news. Today: Bill English and Paula Bennett have a plan to target the youth vote.

The Spinoff

PoliticsJuly 27, 2017

Kiwis of Snapchat: Bill and Paula have a message for the youth of NZ (WATCH)

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PoliticsJuly 27, 2017

Kiwis of Snapchat: Bill and Paula have a message for the youth of NZ (WATCH)

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