Summer 2022

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Native Sparkling

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All six episodes of Hair Now in one handy tab.

Hair Now: Omnibus edition

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All six episodes from the latest season of Alice Snedden's Bad News together in a single tab.

Alice Snedden’s Bad News: The omnibus

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As writers, all we really need to defeat our inner-coloniser is someone to believe in us.

Waharoa: An (indigenous) hero’s journey into the world of publishing

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The last living kaitiaki of the tino rangatiratanga flag only has one condition for its use: 'It has to go back into the community.'

The enduring legacy of the tino rangatiratanga flag

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Toasted buns: A first-timer on why you should go naked this summer

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It’s a daily spectacle, a show that never ends. And what’s more, it’s free.

Twelve classic clouds coming to a sky near you this summer

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This is one club I wish I'd never joined.

Hear me out: Guinea pigs are the worst pets

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Sharing decision-making power is precisely what the country’s Māori and British founders envisaged.

Do the English and Māori texts of The Treaty of Waitangi actually reconcile?

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A rave review from the future King sparked a worldwide frenzy for the prized shellfish – and almost drove it to extinction.

When toheroa soup went global

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Father and son Ivan and Oliver Sutherland changed Aotearoa profoundly, and for the better.

Every New Zealander should know the Sutherlands

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Think you're too creative to be replaced by AI? We briefed the Dall-E 2 art generator to find out. 

Could a bot do your creative job better and faster than you do?

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The best things that are neither fish nor chips.

All the fish and chip shop sides, ranked

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The deals sound hard to resist, but are they too good to be true?

The pros and cons of getting your groceries delivered from Australia

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On growing up Westie in the '90s and early 2000s.

In memory of Waitākere City (1989-2010)

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What happened when Anke Richter got a hands-on lesson in 'orgasmic meditation' at OneTaste in San Francisco. 

My weekend at OneTaste, the ‘sex cult’ made famous by Netflix’s Orgasm Inc

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The iconic New Zealand pottery brand is more popular – and valuable – than ever before.

The Crown Lynn craze: What’s behind the skyrocketing price of vintage ceramics?

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Down For Love is transforming reality romance

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The EV revolution does precisely nothing to combat the motorways strangling our cities and encouraging urban sprawl.

Electric cars won’t save us

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Forget fluffy toys and little booties. Let's talk about the total headf**k of having a baby instead.

Nobody told me that new motherhood would be this strange and wild

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The 'flasher in a raincoat' might be a punchline in the movies, but when it happens to you in real life it's anything but funny.

I was flashed at my local mall and it was no joke

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A new novel set in Wellington is a narrative of grief, and an ode to beautiful food writing. 

A love letter to Wellington: when i open the shop by romesh dissanayake, reviewed

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The government has made it well known it expects departments to cut roles. We break down the numbers as they currently stand.

An updated tally of the public sector job cuts

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Of course I wind down my window at the lights to profess my love to the strangers in the black De Tomaso Pantera. And of course they accommodate me with amused grins.

Confessions of an unlikely petrolhead

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They pressured me to have children, and I had two. Now they won't lift a finger. 

Help Me Hera: My parents won’t help out with my kids

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Job cut proposals from the Ministry of Education and Oranga Tamariki added another 1000 roles to the public service job loss tally.

Over 3,000 public service jobs now proposed to go

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Mild headache? School. Severe headache? Home. Don't know how to read your kid's mind? That's your problem.

How to tell if your child is well enough to go to school or is in fact sick

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When the Crown is the self-appointed ultimate authority over a process to deal with Crown misconduct, we run into big issues.

We’re asking the wrong questions about treaty settlements

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Is New Zealand's trumpeted independent foreign policy in peril?<br />


Gone By Lunchtime: Aukus ruckus reveals division on foreign policy direction

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The bookseller confessional uncovers the best bookshop in Ireland, what it's like having a panic attack in front of Sally Rooney and more.

‘Coffee table books or Dune’: Secrets from the bookshop floor

Summer read: Cleaning a rental to a spotless level in the hopes of getting your bond back is a familiar feeling for renters – but are landlords expecting unfair standards? 

‘s Toby Morris looks at what the law says.

The Side Eye is a monthly non-fiction comic by Toby Morris, supported by NZ On Air. Read the rest of the series 

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Your landlord might expect you to leave their rental spotless before they give your bond back, but the law says otherwise.

The Spinoff

Summer 2022January 9, 2023

The Side Eye: Reasonably clean and tidy

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