Society

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He's fine but it feels like I'm losing a friend and it's making me bitter. How do I say 'enough is enough'? 

Help Me Hera: My friend’s boyfriend Steve is always, always, always around

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Cum chairs, stolen pay and shitting bans: Workers share their horror stories with us

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India's election are under way. Here's what you need to know. 

What you need to know about the world’s biggest election, happening right now

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Why do so many owners think public bins in which to dispose of their dog's shit are a god-given right?

If you love a dog, you must also love disposing of its shit

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A burnt-out corporate escapee explains how she gets by 'working as little as possible'.

The cost of being: A ‘semi-unemployed’ house-sitter with dwindling savings

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More than a thousand claims have been lodged with ACC over children, some younger than a year old, being injured by shopping trolleys in the last five years. 

The surprising number of babies being injured at the supermarket

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One works with wood, the other makes rugs – and their new exhibition is a perfect union of the two artists' practices.

In the studio with artist power couple Claudia Kogachi and Josephine Jelicich

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Dog of the month: Scout, who is so independent she could be a cat

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A new exhibition in Wellington showcases the faces behind your local goods and services.

Behind the counter: Wellington shopkeepers

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A proposed law might make it easier to fix the broken stuff laying around your house.

An afternoon at the Repair Café, where everyday objects get a second life

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What does a forever relationship look like when you don't believe in marriage? And how do you celebrate it?

Dreaming of my not-wedding day

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I'm on the wrong side of 40, I never pursued creative work and now my job is killing my soul. Help!

Help Me Hera: Do I even want the public sector job I might be about to lose?

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For all its virtues, Anzac Day – unlike its cousin Armistice Day – is a commemoration of war, not peace.

Seize the day

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Australian and New Zealand volunteers fought together in the Waikato War, yet still its place in the Anzac tradition is unacknowledged by our defence forces or RSA.

The first, forgotten Anzacs, more than 50 years before Gallipoli

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How will the recent wave of job cuts impact ethnic diversity in the media? 

The voices that vanish in a decimated newsroom 

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Welcome to the whirring wonders of one brain trying to align its actions with its beliefs in a system it thinks is evil.

Is it time for anti-capitalists to embrace shopping? An argument with myself

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'My husband puts 10% into KiwiSaver and I put 8%. We also save about $500/$600 a month.'

The cost of being: A frugal charity director with two teens and two houses

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Why Restore Passenger Rail has set its sights on stopping cruise ships

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Trust me, I know: I’ve been living in a damp, violent hotel in central Auckland for six months and counting.

There’s no need to make emergency housing harder. It’s hard enough already

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And no, I will not accept the miniature puddle-covered excuses for ice rinks that towns pull out of the cupboard every winter.

Hear me out: It’s embarrassing that Wellington doesn’t have an ice rink 

Cows In Farm Against Sky

A poem by Tessa Keenan, from AUP New Poets 10.

The Friday Poem: ‘Mātou’ by Tessa Keenan

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Wellington street art, the story of a spy, the joys of foraging and more.

The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending May 3

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'Some of the comments that came out of my mouth left me gobsmacked.'

‘There was life in the old girl yet’: Dame Susan Devoy on taking reality TV by storm

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First Kerekere, then Ghahraman, then Tana and now Genter. The Greens' uncompromising posture creates an awful pressure, one that recent events suggest is untenable. 

Can the Green Party’s holy mission survive its fallible disciples?

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What's to blame for the coalition's choppy start?

Gone By Lunchtime: Mojo machine misfires, honeymoon cancelled

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Its simple and forceful articulations of what Te Tiriti means, and of the Crown's obligations as Treaty partner, should have far-reaching impacts.

The Waitangi Tribunal’s latest report is about far more than just child protection

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Winston Peters is facing legal action from Bob Carr and Julie Anne Genter is facing a second allegation of bullying.

Legal action and bullying allegations: Peters and Genter knock government agenda off its perch

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Please rise for the national anthem (Bic Runga 'Sway' in American Pie).

Knocked Up, American Pie, the Bean movie: A brief history of NZ music in Hollywood 

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People trust other people more than institutions. So how can the media gain that trust through journalists without losing what's important about the institution?

The Spinoff

SocietyJuly 22, 2022

Quiz: How well do you know periods?

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