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Live updates from the 2026 NZ Book Awards for Children and Young AdultsAll the action as it happens.By Claire Mabey | 19th August, 2026Books editor
Dating Files: A 58-year-old aromantic looking for community on the Kāpiti Coast'Mostly I’m finding: People who want a lover on the side.'By Dating Files | 19th August, 2026Guest writer
OpinionTe Pāti Māori will be in risky territory if it tries to engineer an overhangExploitation of the overhang loophole has always been possible, but no party has tried it because of how voters are likely to react.By Graeme Edgeler | 19th August, 2026Guest writer
The greatest children’s books in the world, according to our childhood selvesWe celebrate New Zealand Children's Book Week by remembering the books we loved most when we were kids.By Group Think | 19th August, 2026A bunch of people
‘Don’t feed the machine, use your beautiful brain!’: Lily Uivel’s creative writing advice'Using AI to write stories is nonsense to me. Why skip all the good bits of life like that?'By The Spinoff Review of Books | 19th August, 2026⚖️
Is Te Pāti Māori’s candidate-only strategy risking our whole electoral system?Concerns have been raised about what impact the party’s strategy could have on the future of both the Maori seats and MMP itself.By Henry Oliver | 19th August, 2026Bulletin editor
OpinionNational’s tax claims tripped up Labour, but misleading marketing comes with risksSimeon Brown got the better of Chris Hipkins yesterday, but he’s walking a high wire claiming Labour wants to introduce 11 new taxes. By Joel MacManus | 19th August, 2026Senior writer
His brother is standing for Opportunity in his electorate, but he’ll be voting NationalOwen Huang doesn't want a citizen's income, he wants Simeon Brown representing him.By Characters of the Campaign Trail | 18th August, 2026Guest writer
New and approved: Matchbox, AucklandLate-night snacks are taken up a notch at this new Ponsonby bar that's taken over the space of an old favourite.By Sophie Albornett | 18th August, 2026Guest writer
Love, actually, at 61: The sex is ‘frequent, intense, satisfying’'If I hadn't met my partner I would be in jail.'By Love actually | 16th August, 2026Guest writer
All by myself: When your inner voice does a runnerSome people have a narrator, others don’t, but what happens when you’re used to a monologue and then it vanishes? By Kate Langdon | 16th August, 2026
NZ Fashion Week: Industry veterans reminisce about their first runway show Schoolbags, side fringes and hazy memories.By Emma Gleason | 15th August, 2026
How being an only child shaped my lifeAs birth rates decline in New Zealand and around the world, David Hill remembers having no siblings back when that was the exception.By David Hill | 15th August, 2026
A third of people called for jury service last year didn’t show up. Is the system broken?When trials are getting longer and the 'meagre daily payment' hasn't increased in 30 years, is it any wonder that most of us find a way of getting out of it?By Shanti Mathias | 14th August, 2026