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The Side Eye is a monthly non-fiction comic by Toby Morris, supported by NZ On Air. Read more comics here.

Mourners gather to lay flowers at Bondi Beach. (Photo: Izhar Khan/Getty Images)

Bondi attack reignites gun debate in Australia and security fears at home

The shooting has renewed scrutiny of firearms laws, intelligence failures and how both Australia and NZ protect their crowded public spaces.

By Catherine McGregor | 16th December, 2025

Contributing writer

M Nolan Gray outside Ockham Residential’s Toi apartment building in Point Chevalier.

A plea from house-price hell: don’t let the nimbys win

A visiting US town planner has a cautionary tale for New Zealand.

By Hayden Donnell | 16th December, 2025

Chris Warner (Michael Galvin) has a lovely time in this year’s Shortland Street cliffhanger (Photo: SPP)

Does the Shortland Street cliffhanger still deliver bang for its buck?

The explosive 2025 Christmas cliffhanger, reviewed.

By Tara Ward | 15th December, 2025

All I want for Christmas is Judith Collins’ favourite app

Judith Collins is pumped about the new government services app. Is it any good?

When the minister for digitising government has given you an early Christmas present, it would be rude not to open it.

By Shanti Mathias | 15th December, 2025

Contributing writer

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

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

Including a fresh season of Fallout, a bromance gone wrong, an epic new disaster movie and more.

By Thomas Giblin | 15th December, 2025

QR code payments are popular overseas. Will they take over in Aotearoa? (Image: The Spinoff/supplied)

Is a cardless future in sight for New Zealand?

Wallets stuffed full of plastic are becoming an endangered species.

By Shanti Mathias | 15th December, 2025

Contributing writer

From left to right: road cone, Wayne Brown, more road cones, Chris Bishop, more road cones.

No one had a bigger year than New Zealand’s road cones

We made art about cones and snitched on people who used too many of them, but there was a twist coming.

By Greg Bruce | 15th December, 2025

Arrivals queue to go through border checks at Newark Airport, New York. (Photo: Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Would you hand over five years of social media posts to visit the US?

The Trump administration plans to make NZ visitors submit sweeping personal data, including social media, family details and even DNA.

By Catherine McGregor | 15th December, 2025

Contributing writer

Climate change minister Simon Watts, pictured ignoring New Zealand’s Paris commitments.

New Zealand will fail its Paris Agreement climate change targets

The government won't admit it yet, but The Spinoff is calling it: New Zealand has no viable path to reach its 2030 emissions targets.

By Joel MacManus | 15th December, 2025

The Best Of

The Papatoetoe-Ōtara Action Team didn’t just win, they dominated.

Did NZ’s most brazen electoral fraud just take place in Papatoetoe?

In court, they opened up 53 wrongfully cast ballots. Fifty of them had gone to the winning side.

By Hayden Donnell | 10th December, 2025

Ruth Richardson and Nicola Willis in budget mode. (Images: Getty; Parliament TV. Design: Tina Tiller)

Ruth Richardson v Nicola Willis: the mother of all epochal debates

Two National finance ministers, three decades apart, are locking horns. But just how different is the political environment of today to the time of the juggernaut?

By Toby Manhire | 10th December, 2025

Editor-at-large

Christopher Luxon at the opening of Ikea on Thursday, December 4 (Photo: Phil Walter/Getty Images)

Why Christopher Luxon thinks Ikea could win him the election

National’s strategy in 2026 will be all about grand openings and major events.

By Joel MacManus | 9th December, 2025