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Goodnight Kiwi doing some revenge bedtime procrastinating
Opinion

The Weekend: Please don’t say goodnight when you leave the office

Madeleine Chapman reflects on the week that was.
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By Madeleine Chapman | 10th May, 2025
Editor
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Opinion

The ‘muddy waters’ of pay equity

The sweeping changes being made to our pay equity framework are apparently about 'improving the process'. But what, exactly, is the problem that needs to be fixed?
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By Katherine Ravenswood | 8th May, 2025
Guest writer
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Opinion

Once again, workers pay the price in the fight against inflation

If prices start to rise, it's never the companies making excess profits that bear the burden of bringing them down again.
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By Max Rashbrooke | 8th May, 2025
Contributing writer
Image: Getty images; additional design The Spinoff
Opinion

Banning teens from social media won’t keep them safe. Regulating platforms might

The burden of online safety shouldn't fall on young people themselves, while the systems that foster harm continue unchecked.
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By Cassandra Mudgway | 7th May, 2025
Guest writer
Wellington mayor Tory Whanau and former prime minister Jacinda Ardern. Image: Tina Tiller
Opinion

Windbag: Tory Whanau is the anti-Jacinda

They're both young, female, progressive leaders whose career trajectories are intertwined with Andrew Little. But their legacies couldn't be more different.
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By Joel MacManus | 6th May, 2025
Wellington editor
An argument for the potential benefits of the new proposed English curriculum.
Opinion

The new English curriculum is not the real enemy

'Explicit teaching and stronger guidance about when and what to teach is not inherently bad just because it has been designed by a curriculum panel we are critical of.'
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By Tansy Oliver | 5th May, 2025
Guest writer
tfw 31 years old and a nana
Opinion

The Weekend: My nephew keeps calling me nana

Madeleine Chapman reflects on the week that was.
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By Madeleine Chapman | 3rd May, 2025
Editor
Photo: Phil Walter/Getty Images; additional design The Spinoff
Opinion

Here we go again… why voting is not a privilege to be removed as punishment

The move to reinstate the total ban on prisoners voting resurrects a deeper debate over who deserves to be a part of our political community.
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By Andrew Geddis | 1st May, 2025
Contributing writer
Vision for Wellington’s third public meeting on Monday saw the pressure group vibe-check the capital. (Photo: Lyric Waiwiri-Smith)
Opinion

Vision for Wellington hunts for the mythical lost vibe of the capital

If the only stories we tell ourselves are that we as Wellingtonians are miserable and vibeless, we're destined to live it.
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By Lyric Waiwiri-Smith | 1st May, 2025
Politics reporter
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Opinion

Reinstating a blanket ban on prisoners voting is retrograde and harmful

It is an unjustifiable limit on the electoral rights of New Zealand citizens that will disproportionately harm Māori.
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By Carwyn Jones | 30th April, 2025
Guest writer
Design: Liam Rātana
Opinion

Ngāpuhi at a crossroads: Unity, settlement and the future of the north

Ngāpuhi stands at a crossroads as the push for unity, settlement and a stronger future reaches a critical moment.
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By Pene Dalton | 30th April, 2025
Guest writer
Finally, the Golden Mile is under way (Photos: Supplied)
Opinion

The Golden Mile gets going, with or without the nimbys

Dare we dream of a reality that makes us a real city? Dare we want more from this life?
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By Lyric Waiwiri-Smith | 29th April, 2025
Politics reporter
Design: Liam Rātana
Opinion

Australia’s Anzac Day Welcome to Country controversy is why I’m glad I don’t live there

A racist backlash to a simple act of respect on Anzac Day shows how far Australia still has to go.
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By Liam Rātana | 29th April, 2025
Ātea editor
An argument against the new English curriculum released in April 2025.
Opinion

Why I’ve told my principal I will not teach the new proposed English curriculum

'If the ministry is unable to provide us with something fit for purpose, it is not my job to compound the harm it will cause to my students, but to protect them from it.'
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By David Taylor | 28th April, 2025
Guest writer
Ray Ploshansky screams into the noisy void on Girls
Opinion

The Weekend: The sound of silence

Madeleine Chapman reflects on the week that was.
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By Madeleine Chapman | 26th April, 2025
Editor
Image: Getty Images; additional design by The Spinoff
Opinion

A stocktake of all the policies rolling back workers’ rights in New Zealand

The government is subtly chipping away at pay, conditions and many of the other things that make work life-giving.
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By Max Rashbrooke | 24th April, 2025
Contributing writer
JK Rowling celebrates the UK judgement, which has appeared to inspire NZ First’s Jenny Marcroft and Winston Peters
Opinion

NZ First wants to copy the UK in defining ‘woman’. It makes no legal or human sense

In a swift importation of global culture wars, NZ First has introduced a new member's bill.
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By Paul Thistoll | 23rd April, 2025
Guest writer
Andrew Little, Ray Chung and Tory Whanau are the leading contenders to be Wellington’s next mayor (mage: Tina Tiller)
Opinion

Windbag: Andrew Little reshapes the Wellington mayoral contest

The former Labour leader's entry into the race makes life more difficult for Tory Whanau, but there are silver linings for her campaign.
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By Joel MacManus | 22nd April, 2025
Wellington editor
The ‘attack’ ads against the Green Party
Opinion

Defunding the police is good policy, actually

Suggestions of defunding the police have sparked uproar but it's a sensible and noble goal, argue two crime researchers.
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By Peyton Bond and Erin Silver | 17th April, 2025
Guest writer
If domain payments aren’t kept up, the movement of knowledge through the internet disintegrates. (Image: The Spinoff)
Opinion

The rise of linkrot: What happens when the internet starts to disappear?

We love to say the internet is forever, but all the dead links out there are a reminder it’s only forever if someone’s willing to pay for it.
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By Shanti Mathias | 16th April, 2025
Contributing writer

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