Winston Peters promised that New Zealand’s recognition of Palestine was a matter of 'when, not if', which has a real deadbeat-dad-promises-he’ll-have-his-shit-together-next-week air about it.

For a long time the Black Ferns' immense talent has papered over shortcomings in how we run the women's game. But talent alone is no longer enough.

A startling truth has emerged from a new long-term forecast: we may have to resign ourselves to paying taxes at a rate most Europeans would take for granted.

Internal affairs minister Brooke van Velden has told Newsroom her Online Casino Gambling Bill will set up “guardrails” in an otherwise unregulated (and largely offshore) industry. By allowing the ...

As local elections fever grips the nation, council candidates are jostling for your vote the best way they know how: by chucking up great big bloody signs on the side of the road. Here are The Spinoff ...

We're updating live from a packed council chambers as two factions go head to head to vote on a new plan that would zone for two million homes.

As local elections fever grips the nation, council candidates are jostling for your vote the best way they know how: by chucking up great big bloody signs on the side of the road. Here are The Spinoff ...

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The sentence has one verb too many to be catchy, and sounds very similar to what Mauger said about Christchurch when The Spinoff interviewed him in 2022. “Christchurch is going to be the events and ...

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In an excerpt from Pakukore: Poverty by Design, Huhana Hickey (Ngāti Tāhinga, Ngāti Ira) argues that policy failure keeps people in Aotearoa in a cycle of poverty – especially if you’re disabled and ...

At the tail end of the election campaign in Queenstown, five of the six mayoral candidates made their cases to a room of undecided voters. The first question at the Queenstown may ...