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What if the holiday didn't have to be a hellhole of unwanted expectation and obligation?

Why (and how) I’m not going to be a Christmas grinch this year

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'Wife pays the mortgage and food, I pay all other bills.'

The cost of being: An ebike-riding, vinyl-loving dad who ‘only spends what I have’

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At the outset, expectations were low – but even with considerable headwinds, progress was made.

Here’s what was – and wasn’t – achieved at the Cop29 climate talks

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Hundreds of thousands of New Zealand women are impacted by stalking and harassment, and they’re being failed by the official response. 

Zeni’s experience is extreme, but it isn’t rare

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Zeni Gibson has been stalked and gruesomely harassed for nearly nine years by a man in Wellington she rejected when she was 17. This is her story.

‘I need to make you suffer’: My near decade of violent harassment by a man I barely know 

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Wellington editor Joel MacManus pitches his big idea to save the capital: more statues on the waterfront. 

Windbag: If I were mayor for a day…

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'Five words to describe my financial personality? Bills paid, time to shop.'

The cost of being: A clothes-mad 20-something who walks everywhere

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Two new surveys show a dramatic shift in New Zealanders' drug use habits – and there has been a sharp discount in prices. 

Drugs are getting cheaper and easier to find in Aotearoa

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There are calls for New Zealand’s Family Violence Act to name economic harm as a standalone type of violence.

Financial forms of family violence affect one in seven of us – but the law is lagging

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My parents are finally getting divorced. So why do I feel like my stepdad's feelings are still my problem?

Help Me Hera: Should I cut contact with my ex-stepdad?

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But we have a solution within the current body of nursing students.

In a global nursing shortage, NZ’s reliance on overseas-trained staff is not sustainable

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'My mother became a single mother supporting two kids on her own and I started working at the age of 11 to help out.'

The cost of being: An ‘anti-capitalist’ barista and tutor renting in Wellington

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The bridge is a Wellington icon, but we must say goodbye. It's time to demolish it. 

Windbag: On the City to Sea Bridge and the power of letting go

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The sector is highly volatile, highly competitive and changing rapidly.

What can we really expect from an expanded mining industry?

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'We are counsellors, we are social workers, we are a lot of things to a lot of different people at different times'

Pacific profiles: Meet the Southside Aiga Midwives, who serve whānau in the heart of Māngere

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A new campaign is targeting ASB due to its Kiwisaver funds having investments into Motorola, a company that supplies Israel's military.  

Public pressure mounts for Kiwisaver funds to invest ethically 

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When the Toitū te Tiriti hīkoi hit Auckland, Aotearoa's most multicultural and (arguably) fashionable city rose to the occasion.

Toitū te Tiriti hīkoi fits: Savage style for seasoned steezers

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Dog of the month: Georgie, who would like The Spinoff to rank peanut butters

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New Zealander Tasha Black relays what it's like in post-revolution Bangladesh from an eight-hour traffic jam in Dhaka.

The slowest city in the world is on the brink of change

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On the most extraordinary human achievements you’ll never, ever notice, and possibly shouldn’t celebrate. 

The Nobel Prize in Not Beating Up Your Kids

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An expiration date on longform video journalism means news shared to TVNZ+ is destined for a short shelf life.

The hidden problem when ‘news’ isn’t popular

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In the first instalment of a three-part series, Oliver Neas investigates the dramatic showdown between councillors and activists over Wellington Airport.

Privatisation lost: How the Wellington Airport saga split the left

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The former minister and Auckland Central dynamo has died aged 44.

The indomitable Nikki Kaye

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An excerpt from Diana Wichtel's tremendous new memoir, Unreel.

Diana Wichtel: ‘Virginia Woolf might have made a decent TV reviewer’

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A rave review of the big tree with pretty lights.

Bad news for grinches – the Christmas tree in Auckland city is wonderful

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Reflections and predictions for the sixth National government.

The coalition’s priorities, and the challenges it faces, in year two

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It was his last time leading an All Blacks haka and TJ Perenara was sure it sent a message.

All Blacks haka controversy: A bold statement or brand risk?

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Including HBO's latest crime drama, Martin Scorsese's new Beatles documentary and a season with the Chiefs.

New to streaming: What to watch on Netflix NZ, Neon and more this week

Auckland’s usually busy streets are again all but empty this week after the country returned to level four lockdown for the first time in over a year. For everyone staying home right now, here’s a quick tour of the city centre, Karangahape Road, Devonport, Mt Eden village and harbour bridge, showing just what that looked like on day one – Wednesday, August 18, 2021. 

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Auckland's streets under level four lockdown (August 2021) | The Spinoff

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Auckland’s usually busy streets are again all but empty after the country returned to level four lockdown – here's what that looked like.

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SocietyAugust 20, 2021

Watch: The streets of Auckland under level four lockdown

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SocietyAugust 20, 2021

Watch: The streets of Auckland under level four lockdown

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