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By The Spinoff | 18th January, 2024
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We’re hiring: The Spinoff is looking for a partnerships director and project manager

We’re hiring: The Spinoff is looking for a partnerships director and project manager

Come and join our commercial team! Applications for two new roles are open now.
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By The Spinoff | 7th August, 2023
Staff writers
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A Labour volunteer alleged a violent sexual assault by a Labour staffer. This is her story

A woman who says she was subject of a sustained sexual assault by a Labour staffer has for the first time described the harrowing events and the botched internal investigation which followed.
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By Alex Casey | 9th September, 2019
Senior writer
Illustration by Toby Morris

‘I’m still living it’: a Roast Busters survivor’s story

Joseph Parker got a primetime TV slot this week to seek redemption. Here, one woman tells the story he left out.
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By Alex Casey | 25th January, 2019
Senior writer
Dirty Politics, 2018: Nicky Hager assesses the Jami-Lee Ross saga

Dirty Politics, 2018: Nicky Hager assesses the Jami-Lee Ross saga

The Jami-Lee Ross saga has prompted many to draw parallels with Nicky Hager's 2014 book. Here he argues we're seeing a stark reminder that our politics remain at risk from the poison of dirty politics
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By Nicky Hager | 25th October, 2018
Guest writer
Catherine Woulfe’s first child was born four years ago

C-sections can cause infertility. Mine did

For a select few women, this could be the difference between a baby, and not. I'll say it again: c-sections can cause infertility.
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By Catherine Woulfe | 13th August, 2018
Contributing writer
Former Jehovah’s Witness Debbie Oakley, aged seven

Silent lambs: Child sexual abuse and the Jehovah’s Witnesses

Jehovah’s Witnesses are on a quest to save the ‘wicked’ from damnation. For victims of sexual abuse within the organisation, however, that quest has seen perpetrators shielded from justice
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By Amy Parsons-King | 23rd July, 2018
Guest writer
The mystery of Zach the miracle AI, continued: it all just gets Terribler

The mystery of Zach the miracle AI, continued: it all just gets Terribler

Earlier this week David Farrier lifted the lid on the very strange case of the Christchurch AI that would supposedly revolutionise global medical practice. What has he discovered since?
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By David Farrier | 9th March, 2018
Contributing writer
Illustration: Toby Morris

The mystery of Zach, New Zealand’s all-too-miraculous medical AI

An artificial intelligence bot called Zach is creating a stir in the medical community. But AI experts are not convinced. David Farrier goes in search of Zach.
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By David Farrier | 6th March, 2018
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Drink yourself for bliss? The rise and fall of beer in New Zealand

Once a bastion of Kiwi masculinity, the backbone of the working class, beer's hallowed place in New Zealand culture is no more. Charles Anderson traces the long decline of the national drink.
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By Charles Anderson | 3rd December, 2016
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Stay hungry: the insatiable appetites driving New Zealand’s restaurant and bar revolution

Stay hungry: the insatiable appetites driving New Zealand’s restaurant and bar revolution

New Zealand’s restaurants and pubs have changed a great deal in the last 10 years, and in the next decade they’re likely to change even more. Rose Hoare speaks to our greatest bar and restaurant identities to get a sense of the forces that are transforming the hospitality industry.
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By Rose Hoare | 20th August, 2016
Contributing writer
A brown girl’s dilemma

A brown girl’s dilemma

Aaradhna opens up about the racism that has haunted her throughout her life, and became a foundation of her new release Brown Girl.
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By Duncan Greive | 22nd July, 2016
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A crisis heads south: the new homeless of Hamilton

A crisis heads south: the new homeless of Hamilton

Families sleeping in cars, in sheds, on marae floors. Desperate parents racking up thousands in WINZ debt for emergency motel rooms. Not just in Auckland – but now in Hamilton.
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By Aimie Cronin | 9th July, 2016
Guest writer
A week at Te Puea

A week at Te Puea

Te Puea Memorial Marae has become the epicentre and symbol of Auckland's homeless families. The Spinoff's Madeleine Chapman spent a week volunteering there to compile this report.
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By Madeleine Chapman | 2nd July, 2016
Special correspondent
‘I will come forward’

‘I will come forward’

How a prominent New Zealand music identity conducted a troubling series of relationships with young women, including girls as young as 12.
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By Alex Casey and Duncan Greive | 11th April, 2016
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