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Bringing you the latest on the Covid-19 delta crisis – and more.
The Spinoff
Staff writers
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Chris Schulz
Features editor
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Hollie Smith has braved a relationship break-up, confidence issues and multiple lockdowns to make her new album happen.
Sam Brooks
Staff Feature Writer
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No scripts, new presenters and a comms meltdown moments before it went to air. Here’s how last weekend’s Vaxathon came together.
Doom? Gloom? Down on the waterfront there was an air of real celebration.
George Driver
Contributing writer
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Josie Adams refuses to fix the cracks in her phone screen even though they’re slicing her fingers to ribbons. Why?
Josie Adams
Staff Writer
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The numbers tell a compelling story.
Siouxsie Wiles
Contributing writer
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What are big companies planning – and what does the law say?
Leonie Hayden
Ātea Editor
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As we record the highest number of daily cases since the start of the pandemic, the argument to raise alert levels again is growing stronger.
Charlotte Muru-Lanning
Staff writer
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Bringing you the latest on the Covid-19 delta crisis – and more.
Stewart Sowman-Lund
Live Updates Editor
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Bringing you the latest on the Covid-19 delta crisis – and more.
Stewart Sowman-Lund
Live Updates Editor
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'There's been some wariness and a little paranoia from farmers over there.'
Justin Giovannetti
Political editor
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Bringing you the latest on the Covid-19 delta crisis – and more.
Stewart Sowman-Lund
Live Updates Editor
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Bringing you the latest on the Covid-19 delta crisis – and more.
Stewart Sowman-Lund
Live Updates Editor
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When you can't face cooking but you need more than toast, make this.
Emma Boyd
Contributing writer
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Now is the perfect time to embrace foraging.
Olivia Sisson
Guest writer
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Aucklanders can picnic from today. Here's how.
Charlotte Muru-Lanning
Staff writer
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One woman's quest to perfect the South Indian breakfast staple.
Perzen Patel
Guest writer
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Supporting the dining scene means supporting all those who keep the industry alive – including those at the lowest rung of the ladder.
Jihee Junn
Contributing writer
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It’s stirred up a hornets' nest of Nimbys, but there are some benefits in challenging the party faithful.
Bernard Hickey
Contributing podcaster
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Deep into a delta lockdown, businesses in New Zealand's biggest city urgently need a new form of support.
Richard Meade
Guest writer
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Demand for ever-newer consumer tech means New Zealanders generate more than 80,000 tonnes of e-waste annually. Where does it all go?
Reweti Kohere
Staff writer
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None of the streaming services have made premium drama directly for NZ audiences, and they won't change that unless change is forced upon them.
Andrew Szusterman
Guest writer
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The moment the streaming wars changed forever.
Chris Schulz
Features editor
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It had two stellar seasons and has been remade in multiple countries. So why did Step Dave get cancelled?
Chris Schulz
Features editor
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It was camper than a row of homosexual tents, and we need more shows like it.
Sam Brooks
Staff Feature Writer
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Nobody is sleeping, everyone hates rice, and there's only one pair of Art Green's shorts to go around.
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Contributing writer
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Come Dine With Me New Zealand's Kelvin Taylor wants to see more African-Kiwi talent on local screens.
Kelvin Taylor
Guest writer
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The new local series makes a moving family drama out of an issue most of us would rather not think about.
Catherine McGregor
Deputy Editor
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Cool, I guess.
Leonie Hayden
Ātea Editor
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What drives you? What are your core values? Once that mutual respect is established, we can start to get somewhere. A doctor writes.
Elspeth Frascatore
Guest writer
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Maps showing the vaccination rate for every suburb in the country, now searchable and with uptake trends – has your neighbourhood improved?
Harkanwal Singh
Head of data
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Jobs don't get much more important than this. Does your country need you?
Jolisa Gracewood
Guest writer
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They don't just look terrible, they can encourage people to drink more too.
Justin Latif
Local Democracy Reporter, South Auckland
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Brace yourself: this Christmas, your boss might be getting you a book about empathy.
Ahead of their appearance together at Verb, Catherine Robertson reviews Sue Orr's new novel.
Catherine Robertson
Guest writer
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Poetry by Vanessa Mei Crofskey and Victor Rodger.
Vanessa Mei Crofskey and Victor Rodger
Guest writer
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Big fiction, a new Ottolenghi – it's beginning to feel worryingly like Christmas.
A new poem by j. taylor bell.
J. Taylor Bell
Guest writer
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In celebration of Super Saturday, three much-admired whaea from Northland and Waikato share their words of encouragement on the Covid-19 vaccine.
Charlotte Muru-Lanning
Staff writer
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On Monday, Corrections announced three confirmed Covid-19 cases within Mt Eden prison. For Māori, it’s especially worrying.
Charlotte Muru-Lanning
Staff writer
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The Northland community leader claims people are sneaking over private land, using distraction tactics and misusing exemptions.
Liam Rātana
Guest writer
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Māori risk being left behind in the vaccination push. That throws the scant representation of tangata whenua among government experts into stark relief.
Lara Greaves
Guest writer
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Because every week is Māori language week.
Leonie Hayden
Ātea Editor
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Microplastics aren’t just swirling around our oceans, they’re also floating around in the air.
Mirjam Guesgen
Contributing writer
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What does a gold standard plan for safely reopening look like?
Jin Russell
Guest writer
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Dwelling on every single thing you've done wrong in the middle of the night? You're not alone.
Greg Murray
Guest writer
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Everything you need to know about the 'game changing' new Covid drug.
Stewart Sowman-Lund
Live Updates Editor
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Scientists have been among the heroes of the pandemic, but away from the headlines their careers are more precarious than ever.
Mirjam Guesgen
Contributing writer
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With a little help from a $400 jacket and some gin.
Matthew J Saville
Guest writer
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The Spinoff is seeking a finance manager to join its fast-growing team.
The Spinoff
Staff writers
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This month on The Spinoff's Comic of the Month we meet Rufus, a chimp with anxiety issues.
Ross Murray
Guest writer
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We need to talk about the thing you're staring at right now.
Chris Schulz
Features editor
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It was just a month ago that she got her dream gig, and also had the hardest on air shift of her life.
Sam Brooks
Staff Feature Writer
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A global pandemic has made people rethink what was once peculiar – the option to work from home.
Reweti Kohere
Staff writer
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Personal investing can be fun, but do your research.
Gillian Boyes
Guest writer
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Offshore touts are trying to flog off expensive tickets to concerts all over NZ. And sometimes those tickets may not even exist.
Chris Schulz
Features editor
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Get ready for less choice and higher prices, warns the vehicle import industry. Worth it, say climate campaigners.
George Driver
Contributing writer
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Many of us are acutely aware of the things we’re missing out on during lockdown. Here's how they add up over a two week period.
Emma Vitz
Contributing writer
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'She’s bloody welcome to cover it. I’d love her to.'
FIRST
Guest writer
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'I've gripped a block of ice in the freezing cold for an entire day; I've been on stilts, which I don't know how to do; I've had a high-powered fan blown into my face…'
FIRST
Guest writer
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'Shout out the Corona. All my boys remember the Corona, yeah.'
FIRST
Guest writer
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No one can go to a big gig right now, but a 2020 concert by The Beths has become the lockdown movie experience the country needs. How'd that happen?
Chris Schulz
Features editor
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Producer Haz Beats tells us about his first gig, taking a goat to the Aotearoa Music Awards and more on this week’s episode of FIRST.
FIRST
Guest writer
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Auckland’s usually busy streets are again all but empty after the country returned to level four lockdown – here's what that looked like.
The Spinoff
Staff writers
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Collins says he has been reflecting on his future in politics after a bomb threat was made against him and his family in response to comments about Police Ten 7.
Justin Latif
Local Democracy Reporter, South Auckland
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It all started with a 'meet your neighbours' barbecue. Three years later, the community group were celebrating the opening of a $600,000 playground they'd fought for.
Justin Latif
Local Democracy Reporter, South Auckland
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'I’ve seen a few cars lose bumpers.'
Justin Latif
Local Democracy Reporter, South Auckland
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Labelling cyclists as ‘rats’ and ‘cockroaches’ is retrograde and dehumanising.
Kirsty Wild
Guest writer
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On boxing, writing, and an unlikely friendship with Joseph Parker.
Patrick McKendry
Guest writer
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Ahead of an historic NZ v South Africa Test, reflections on a family history within which the two nations are deeply entwined.
Scotty Stevenson
Senior Sports Writer
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New Zealand's next swimming star speaks to Madeleine Chapman.
Madeleine Chapman
Senior editor
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Rugby writer, rugby fan, and an inspiration to so many, Mike Pulman has died aged 29.
Jamie Wall
Contributing writer
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After more than two decades as one of New Zealand's foremost sports journalists, Dylan Cleaver is striking out on his own with The Bounce, a newsletter 'on sport, the business …
Dylan Cleaver
Guest writer
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What does it take to get a New Zealand made oat milk onto our shelves?
Simon Pound
Business is Boring boss
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Lightforce's Luke Nutting joins Simon Pound to talk about helping New Zealand catch up with the rest of the world on solar power.
Simon Pound
Business is Boring boss
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Simon Pound talks to Vignesh Kumar, a partner in venture capital fund Global from Day 1, about helping local companies scale for global success.
Simon Pound
Business is Boring boss
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She was John Key's media trainer. She was Judith Collins' head of media in the 2020 campaign. Here's what she has to say today.
Duncan Greive
Managing Editor
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Ockham Residential co-founder Mark Todd joins Simon Pound for a chat about our broken property system, and what his company is doing about it.
Simon Pound
Business is Boring boss
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Access to nature might seem free, but poverty can be a significant barrier to outdoor education and its benefits.
India Hendrikse
Guest writer
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Children learn best when they're having fun, and that's how this New Zealand app is helping kids break through learning barriers.
Ben Fahy
Guest writer
Partner content-
Talking about breasts is important. So important, in fact, that Sarah Gandy is hosting a new podcast series about it.
Sarah Gandy
Guest writer
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Ahead of the show’s third season on Neon, The Spinoff rounds up the best moments from TV’s best show about bad people.
Group Think
A bunch of people
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Teaching students mindfulness is even more crucial in such unpredictable times.
Emily Writes
Contributing writer
Partner content-
Netflix debuted its first Broadway musical this past weekend. Perhaps they shouldn’t have.
Sam Brooks
Staff Feature Writer
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This Netflix smash hit is set in a world of playground games, but it's definitely not suitable for kids.
Jihee Junn
Contributing writer
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Nobody does RuPaul’s Drag Race like the British.
Sam Brooks
Staff Feature Writer
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Because where else are you going to hear an all-women Muslim punk band sing 'Voldemort Under My Headscarf'?
Ronia Ibrahim
Guest writer
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This new seriesisn't just a history-making collaboration between Sterlin Harjo and Taika Waititi, it's a crucial immersion into a world ignored.
Sam Brooks
Staff Feature Writer
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This week's discussion document on New Zealand's emissions reduction plan sets a low bar, then fails to clear it.
Richard Wagstaff
Guest writer
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The goal of zero cases brought us together. Without a strong plan, enmity and blame may take its place.
Duncan Greive
Managing Editor
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Data on media coverage of the National Party's Covid plan suggests it was her most effective few days as opposition leader.
Toby Manhire
Editor
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We must now tread a very narrow path to avoid overwhelming our hospitals and throwing our at-risk populations under the bus.
Michael Plank
Guest writer
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Today’s outage should serve as a wake-up call to those who have their lives tied to digital platforms, and prompt us to think harder about regulation.
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