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From healthcare to schools to roads, are core public services becoming the preserve of those who can afford them?

The slow drift towards ‘user pays’ risks turning New Zealand into a two-tier society

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Can you make your way around the country via expedited transport, housing, energy and mining projects?

Let’s play Tour of New Zealand: Fast Track Edition

Lyric Waiwiri-Smith

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Live analysis and updates of the debate between David Seymour and Helmut Modlik on Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the Treaty Principles Bill.

Te Tiriti o Waitangi: Live analysis of the Seymour-Modlik debate

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Some notable numbers from the government's grab bag of projects skipping to the front of the consenting queue.

By the numbers: Projects on the fast track

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Surveying the big survey of business leaders reveals something that should have been blindingly obvious.

The business community has no time for Seymour’s culture wars

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The environmental impacts of a 'highly probable' oil spill is just the latest in a long relationship of New Zealand causing harm to Samoa.

New Zealand’s long history of being a shit friend to Samoa

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If the Labour Party was to dream up its ideal opponent in a fight to implement capital gains tax, they'd probably sketch the current prime minister.

Could anyone but Luxon lose the CGT fight for National?

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'Please help. I don’t know how to explain this. I have written so many articles.'

Traffic is made of cars

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Simeon Brown has tied himself to an unpopular and probably impossible project. But are there any positives? 

Windbag: Is there a case for the long tunnel?

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Anna Rawhiti-Connell reflects on the week that was.

The Weekend: Is Wellington really ‘gayer’ than Auckland?

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

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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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The Reserve Bank followed through on a widely predicted double rates cut. It's just the beginning.

The sun peeks through the economic clouds, but when will it fully emerge?

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Toheroa were so good, we ate them all. But one group is working hard to restore them along one of Aotearoa's most famous beaches.

The fight for the toheroa of Te Oneroa-a-Tōhe

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As we head into the competition's final week, which of the six remaining castaways stand the best chance?

Celebrity Treasure Island power rankings: The mad king’s destiny

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Does the maligned Folie à Deux at least deserve a little credit for daring to try something different?

Review: The new Joker movie isn’t great, but is it really as bad as people are saying?

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John Campbell doesn’t solve a crime in his new series – instead he uncovers how long you can ask a question before someone finally listens to you.

Review: John Campbell, true crime and a taste of TVNZ’s new era

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The brat green billboards were right, the Chappell Roan rumours were wrong. 

Our quickfire reckons on the Laneway 2025 lineup

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Is there such a thing as too many moons? This Spinoff writer says yes.

I hate and repudiate our new ersatz, pretender moon

Spinoff editor Toby Manhire is back to hand out the bouquets and brickbats from the week in New Zealand news.

Good Week, Bad Week: 31 August 2018 | The Spinoff TV

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Spinoff editor Toby Manhire is back to hand out the bouquets and brickbats from the week in New Zealand news. 

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PoliticsAugust 31, 2018

Good Week, Bad Week: 31 August

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PoliticsAugust 31, 2018

Good Week, Bad Week: 31 August

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