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OpinionWhy does hardly anyone ever buy a house on Location Location Location NZ? For a show about buying houses, there's not a lot of house buying going on. By Tara Ward | 13th December, 2025Staff writer
NZ racism hits different: ‘I’m not even going to try to pronounce the next name’After swapping Wellington for London, Preyanka Gothanayagi was surprised to find people treated her like an actual person. By Preyanka Gothanayagi | 13th December, 2025Contributor
I still don’t know what Synthony is and at this point I’m too afraid to askWhat is it, who are they and what do they want from millennials? By Alex Casey | 13th December, 2025Senior writer
The art of Camp A Low Hum: 2007 – 2027A dazzling visual journey through 20 years of posters.By The Spinoff Review of Books | 13th December, 2025⚖️
Ko wai tēnei: Hospitality leader Marisa Bidois'When you’re clear on what matters most, you stop being swayed by every wave that comes your way.'By Liam Rātana | 13th December, 2025Ātea editor
The Unity Books bestseller chart for the week ending December 12That book about the hare is back.By The Spinoff Review of Books | 12th December, 2025⚖️
The Friday Poem: ‘The Ancestral Call’ by Ari PrakashThe new moon spins into the distance in this week's poem.By Ari Prakash | 12th December, 2025Guest writer
Echo Chamber: The week parliament pushed away the publicDog, hog or whoever's breakfast it is, it's hard to not feel like a mess after a week of urgency.By Lyric Waiwiri-Smith | 12th December, 2025Politics reporter
Sophie Barker haunted Dunedin’s Larnach Castle – now she’s running the city'People think living in a castle would be glamorous – but it was just cold.'By Tara Ward | 12th December, 2025Staff writer
Help Me Hera: My closest friends don’t read my blogDo they all hate me? Or am I just a narcissist? By Hera Lindsay Bird | 11th December, 2025Contributing writer
The 'brown Karen’ who keeps taking Apple to the Disputes Tribunal – and winningThirty hours on the phone, four pairs of headphones, two laptops, three Disputes Tribunal hearings, and one giant victory for consumers everywhere. By Alex Casey | 11th December, 2025
The Clarke Gayford and Christopher Luxon guide to festive fashionMismatched couple fits are a Kiwi tradition, and what better time to embrace tradition than Christmas?By Emma Gleason | 10th December, 2025
Every hydroslide at Christchurch’s record-breaking new aquatic centre, rankedThe Parakiore hydroslides are a very late contender for 2025’s best thing.By Alex Casey | 10th December, 2025
The cost of being: A screen industry worker saving for their ‘unemployment fund’'Work can be incredibly unstable so I make sure I'm always prepared in case I have to go weeks (or even months) without any income.'By The Cost of Being | 9th December, 2025
