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A girl smirking at the camera with an "Auckland Council" sticker on her forehead; a house burns fiercely in the background, and a faint Auckland transit map is superimposed over the scene.

Auckland Council keeps trying to sabotage its own multibillion-dollar rail upgrade

black and white image showing four money tins with new zealand currency printed on them

The Weekend: Did you grow up terrified of investing?

Madeleine Chapman

Two people in business attire, Chris Bishop and Nicola Willis, smile and hold a document titled "The Estimates of Appropriations of the Government of New Zealand." A graphic ticket reads "Budget 2025" on a blue background.

A budget for machines, not midwives

Booklets titled "The Estimates of Appropriations for the Government of New Zealand: Economic Development and Infrastructure Sector, 28 May 2025" rest on a column, with “Budget 2025” text and graphic quotation marks on a blue background.

Budget 2025: The great Spinoff hot-take roundtable

A brightly colored microscope is centered over New Zealand banknotes, with several blue and white tickets labeled "BUDGET 2025" scattered around, all set in front of open double doors.

How can research contribute to economic growth if it’s not funded properly?

A stone prison wall topped with barbed wire stands in front of castle-like towers; a row of red silhouettes of people is overlaid in the foreground.

Who really makes up New Zealand’s sentenced prison population?

A grayscale image of an adult holding a baby, overlaid with multiple blue "BUDGET 2025" labels scattered across the scene.

Who pays when the budget cuts?

Zoe Aroha Witika-Hawke

Two men are shown in conversation, one wearing casual clothes with headphones, the other in a suit speaking into a microphone, set against a blue background with white triangle patterns.

From tikanga to ‘protocol’: Luxon’s war on the Māorification of Aotearoa

A child sits alone on a playground, head down and arms crossed, overlaid with a fluctuating blue line graph and a "Budget 2025" label, suggesting a link between budget and child wellbeing.

What kind of economy produces the highest adolescent suicide rate? Ours

Three women speak individually into microphones in separate video frames. The first woman wears a black jumper, the second has blonde hair and expressive hands, and the third wears a floral top with text onscreen about sexual abuse.

The many complex truths within the #PedosOnThePae movement