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The Best OfJune 28, 2019

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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.

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From left, Te Tai Tonga candidates Lisa Te Morenga, Mananui Ramsden, Tākuta Ferris and Lisa Marie Murch.

Tākuta Ferris is coming last in a new Te Tai Tonga poll

The incumbent Te Tai Tonga MP, formerly of Te Pāti Māori and now independent, is trailing all three of his challengers in a new poll.

By Te Ao Māori News | 29th September, 2026

Image: The Spinoff

The cost of being: A part-time worker caring for an elderly parent

'I would once have described us as comfortable, but incessant cost increases are eroding security.'

By The Cost of Being | 29th September, 2026

Greening out on the latest polls. (Design: The Spinoff)

A Green surge in new polling puts the left bloc in reach with Opportunity holding the balance

Both major parties are tied on 28% in the latest 1News-Verian poll, while the Greens have hit a record 16%.

By Henry Oliver | 29th September, 2026

Bulletin editor

An artist’s impression of the public sector’s approach to the OIA. (Image: Emily Wong/The Spinoff)

That Ministry of Education official’s real crime? She said it on video

Politicians and public servants have been trying to skirt or subvert the Official Information Act for about as long as it’s existed.

By Hayden Donnell | 29th September, 2026

It’s hoarding season, baby! (Photos: The Spinoff)

New Zealand’s 2026 election hoardings, ranked and reviewed

Which party's offering 'makes me wanna do democracy', and which is 'very real estate power couple'?

By Henry Oliver | 29th September, 2026

Bulletin editor

Jack Tame: time to make the Q guy the A guy. (Photo: Te Aihe Butler. Design: Emily Wong)

Jack Tame on getting ghosted by Christopher Luxon

The Q+A host talks about the struggle to get the PM to appear – and how he is preparing to host the first big leader debate.

By Toby Manhire | 28th September, 2026

Editor-at-large

May need to get some new seats. (Image: Tina Tiller)

Winston Peters warms to overhang strategy: ‘You don’t just carry on with previous ways’

John Key’s speech to National faithful was ‘suicidal’, says NZ First leader.

By Toby Manhire | 28th September, 2026

Editor-at-large

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 Florence Pugh in Ōamaru and a rom-com directed by our own Alice Snedden.

By Thomas Giblin | 28th September, 2026

We meet the teenage boys with a wholesome hobby. (Composite image: Emily Wong. Photos: Emma Gleason/The Spinoff)

Inside the Westlake Boys High School sewing club

They love it and they’re 'not worried what people think'.

By Emma Gleason | 28th September, 2026

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Nurse Cathy van Miert will never forget May 15, 2010 (Portrait: Supplied. Composite image: The Spinoff)

I knelt in Jason Palmer’s blood – his death still haunts me 16 years later

Jason Palmer is the only New Zealand corrections officer to die at work. The first nurse on the scene remembers that fateful day and the meaning of Palmer's death.

By Cathy van Miert | 15th September, 2026

New York mayor Zohran Mamdani (right), one of many international politicians looking to NZ for answers to the housing crisis, and housing minister Chris Bishop. (Photos: Getty Images. Composite image: The Spinoff)

Why the world thinks New Zealand solved the housing crisis

From Zohran Mamdani to the Financial Times, international media and politicians seem to think NZ has fixed housing affordability. Um… what?

By Joel MacManus | 9th September, 2026

The rocket lift at Sky World (Photo: Chris Schulz. Design: The Spinoff)

She was assaulted in the rocket lift, now she’s fighting for more security in dilapidated Sky World

Is the entertainment hub on Auckland's Queen Street a dangerous building? The victim of a late-night sexual assault says yes.

By Chris Schulz | 7th September, 2026