Indie darling Molly Payton shares her perfect weekend playlist. Tāmaki Makaurau’s Molly Payton is close to wrapping up a tour across the UK and Europe, off the back of her debut album, Yoyotta. The 10-track record, inspired by the stylings of Big Thief, Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell, sees Payton ...
A lockdown birth, an abortion, and an excruciating back injury: Annie Wolfe traversed three hospital rooms on her hard road to motherhood. The Spinoff Essay showcases the best essayists in Aotearoa, on topics big and small. Made possible by the generous support of our members.Mum dropped me off at the ...
Sam Brooks reviews the latest novel from one of NZ’s modern crime queens. It’s 2024, and we’re officially in the era of Covid art. After the deaths, after the lockdowns, after the vaccines, it was sort of inevitable. The entire world went through something, and now the artists have the ...
The Reserve Bank hopes high frequency data will better equip the central bank to see the road ahead more clearly – but warns we’re not ready to relax into cruise control just yet. The Reserve Bank’s recent pivot to cut the official cash rate, despite weeks earlier stating that ...
Interim Chief Executive Dom Kalasih says while paying fuel excise at-the-pump was convenient for drivers, changes in vehicle technology and variability in fuel consumption meant it wasn’t an effective way of vehicle users paying a fair contribution towards ...
Now, Templer is hopeful these initiatives will help projects get started soon and that there will be consistent management of the pipeline of infrastructure projects and workforce needed to ensure their delivery. ...
The Waitangi Tribunal has hit out at the government for blindly adhering to its coalition agreement by making it harder for Māori to get customary marine title. ...
Analysis - David Seymour's Treaty Principles Bill is a step closer to Parliament, and Chris Hipkins' hints his party could go into the next election with a radical tax policy. ...
The Government has taken a decision based on ideology which fundamentally impacts Māori without consulting Māori. There’s a clear pattern here of a government again setting out to divide New Zealand. No-one voted for that. ...
Health ministers' comments prove the Crown knew it breached legally binding agreements to improve midwives' pay and contracts, a lawyer has told the court. ...
Successive Govts have failed to regulate NZ’s worst freshwater polluter - the intensive dairy industry, who pollute lakes, rivers and drinking water with contaminants like E coli and nitrate. And now, Luxon’s govt is removing the only effective freshwater ...
A poem by 2024 Young Writer in Residence Sherry Zhang.My favourite beige activity is 2048. I started playing on a 12 hour long flight before my 24th birthday. These transient spaces become forced group meditation. I usually let my death anxiety spiral. This time, I let my arms ...
The only published and available best-selling indie book chart in New Zealand is the top 10 sales list recorded every week at Unity Books’ stores in High St, Auckland, and Willis St, Wellington.AUCKLAND1 Make It Make Sense by Lucy Blakiston & Bel Hawkins (Moa Press, $37) The bright brains ...
‘The fight for a habitable planet is on right now, and we need everyone to show up.’ Ellen Rykers gets a reality check from climate scientist Joëlle Gergis. This is an excerpt from our environmental newsletter Future Proof. Sign up here. In the summer of 2019, an acrid fug of smoke ...
Cabinet ministers have issued a directive to the public sector, reminding them all services must be delivered based on need rather than race - and that contracts be awarded on value. ...
Changes to customary marine title showed a blind adherence to pre-existing political commitments at the expense of Māori, the Waitangi Tribunal has found. ...
Targeting services to Māori and Pasifika is not a racist agenda, it is simply acknowledging that there are communities that do not access the appropriate primary health services they need when they need them. ...
Tara Ward travels to the Coromandel to watch the reality show’s first day of filming. This is an excerpt from our weekly pop culture newsletter Rec Room. Sign up here. It’s a warm, grey day in March, and Duncan Garner is up to his elbow in a hole. The well-known broadcaster ...
Te Wiki Āhua o Aotearoa, the rangatahi-led, do-it-yourself fashion week, opened its first show on Monday. Lyric Waiwiri-Smith reports from the runway. When New Zealand Fashion Week (NZFW) was cancelled for 2024, it seemed to some the death knell of an industry buckling under financial pressure. To others, a gap ...
Breaking up with someone well is an art. Here’s how the professionals get it done. The year was 2014. I was sitting in The Indian Spice Bar in Dunedin’s North East Valley, waiting on an Aloo Gobi. Unbeknownst to me and everyone else in the packed restaurant, we were all ...
The annual document dump reveals previously unknown details about how the coalition’s first budget came together, writes Stewart Sowman-Lund in today’s extract from The Bulletin. ‘Proactive’ document dump reveals new budget details A dump of ...
FICTION1 The Bookshop Detectives: Dead Girl Gone by Gareth Ward & Louise Ward (Penguin Random House, $38)The book that just won’t stop selling, number one for the seventh consecutive week, a pageturner of apparently widespread charm: “Two small-town booksellers (and their cowardly dog) solve a decades-old murder-mystery in this witty ...
The results revealed a shocking downgrade for one snack and a bias towards people who want to win at life. Honesty, as Billy Joel once wailed, is hardly ever heard. Except when you dangle a bounteous birthday week prize of snack hampers and ask people to query the art, nay ...
Climate funding is an essential part of the agreements used to reduce the impact of climate change. But is New Zealand contributing our fair share? At the Pacific Islands Forum held in Tonga in August, climate change was a key topic. The UN secretary general, António Guterres, described how the ...
As the Government throws back responsibility for everything from water to speed humps, the country’s heavily indebted councils face paying more to service their debt The post Council credit downgrades cost ratepayers millions appeared first on Newsroom. ...
Christopher Luxon must wake up some days with the Sound of Music song of exasperation playing in his head. How does he deal with the problem of Act leader David Seymour and his will-o-the-wisp coalition contrarianism?Newsroom political editor Laura Walters, senior political reporter Marc Daalder and co-editor Tim Murphy discuss ...
Opinion: Company directors are subject to duties which include the requirement that a director must act in good faith and in the best interests of their company. They must exercise due care, diligence and skill, they should not cause their company to trade recklessly, and so on.Increasingly, directors’ duties are ...
Auckland police are playing down the increase in attacks on bus drivers.Inspector Dave Glossop says the reporting and publicity of attacks may be giving Kiwis a false perception about public safety.Auckland Transport data shows drivers have been physically assaulted 33 times in the first six months of the year. That’s ...
Mariam Gul says it’s her right to know how the Christchurch terrorist “became that beast”. In 2019, Gul’s father Ghulam Hussain, mother Karam Bibi, and brother Muhammad Zeshan Raza were shot dead at Linwood’s mosque – three of 51 shuhada martyred in the terror attack at two city mosques, Linwood ...
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