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Lindy Chamberlain at an inquest into her daughter Azaria’s death, Alice Springs Coroner’s Court, February 1982. (Photo: Supplied)
Opinion

Review: Lindy Chamberlain finally gets a happy ending in Trial in the Outback

The most wronged woman in Australia gets to tell her story.
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By Sam Brooks | 21st February, 2021
Culture Editor
Illustration: Toby Morris

The agapanthus city

Agapanthus are considered pests by the council, but it wasn’t always so.
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By John Summers | 21st February, 2021
Guest writer
Two walks. Two different organisations. Two different sets of values. (Image: Tina Tiller)
Opinion

Two years after the breakup, what does Pride in Auckland look like?

What separates the Rainbow Pride Parade and the Pride March? A thin blue line.
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By Sam Brooks | 21st February, 2021
Culture Editor
Ranking every creature in the Hairy Maclary universe

Ranking every creature in the Hairy Maclary universe

Content warning: features fanfiction involving Miss Plum and a juicy bone.
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By Tara Ward | 20th February, 2021
Contributing writer
Photo: Bloomberg via Getty

Facebook is running an uncontrolled news experiment on a whole country. Let’s hope it doesn’t work out

The Australian legislation is crumby, but the response from Zuckerberg is something else.
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By Hal Crawford | 19th February, 2021
Contributing writer
The many faces of the two-faced Nurse Carla. (Image: Tina Tiller)

Hello darkness, my old friend: After 25 years, evil nurse Carla is back on Shortland Street

Like a truck through a hospital, Shortland Street’s greatest villain is back with a bang.
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By Tara Ward | 19th February, 2021
Contributing writer
Aroha arohatia love te reo Māori language
Opinion

Some thoughts about Pākehā learning and speaking te reo Māori

Be gentle. Ask permission. Count yourself lucky.
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By Leonie Hayden | 17th February, 2021
Ātea Editor
A funeral for a Head Hunters associate who was shot dead in February 2020 (Photo: Alan Gibson / New Zealand Herald)

Gangland: a book about meth and the people whose lives it touches

A senior journalist tells the story of how meth arrived - and flourished - in Aotearoa.
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By Chloe Blades | 17th February, 2021
Guest writer
A Britney Spears promo photo, 2013  (Photo: Michelangelo Di Battista/Sony/RCA via Getty Images)

Review: Framing Britney Spears will make you feel angry – and guilty

The documentary is an uncomfortable watch that forces us to consider our own complicity in the pop singer's suffering.
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By Emily Writes | 15th February, 2021
Parents Editor
Anti-lockdown protesters outside Jacinda Ardern’s Auckland electorate office (Alex Braae)

An afternoon at alert level three with the anti-lockdown protesters

A surreal anti-lockdown protest took place today outside the Auckland electorate office of the prime minister, who is currently in Wellington.
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By Alex Braae | 15th February, 2021
Staff Writer
Review: When a City Rises is a celebration of a fallen city and its people

Review: When a City Rises is a celebration of a fallen city and its people

The follow-up to When A City Falls celebrates the people of Christchurch and the wins of the rebuild, but loses some nuance in the edit.
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By Erin Harrington | 15th February, 2021
Guest writer
Image: Tina Tiller

The cultural nostalgia of ‘Asian’ Spam

The American lunch meat has a special place on dining tables halfway across the world, from the Philippines to Japan to South Korea.
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By Jihee Junn | 14th February, 2021
Staff Writer
Image: The Spinoff

Pretty much every school uniform in Auckland, reviewed and ranked

Who is serving the best looks at the inter-school events?
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By Janaye Henry | 12th February, 2021
Contributing writer
An architectural rendering of the proposed Olive Leaf building, Arrowtown (Image: Architecture van Brandenburg)

The dramatically modern church building that’s dividing historic Arrowtown

Its name and design are meant to evoke peace and reconciliation, but the proposed Olive Leaf building in historic Arrowtown has instead stoked division, backlash and now court action.
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By Oliver Lewis | 11th February, 2021
Guest writer
Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, November 30, 2016.  (Photo: JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images)
Opinion

Microsoft just landed a knockout blow in Australia’s great digital media battle

The veteran tech giant has waded into the war between Facebook, Google and the Australian government – and may emerge the ultimate victor.
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By Hal Crawford | 10th February, 2021
Contributing writer
British author Bethany Clift and her debut novel

The pandemic novel that’s about to be a phenomenon

The new virus was said to have a 100% kill rate. But it left one woman standing.
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By Catherine Woulfe | 10th February, 2021
Books editor
Photo: Getty Images

British kids are being taught some very dodgy things about Aotearoa

From dubious craft projects to blatant factual inaccuracies, colonialism is alive and well in the classrooms of Britain.
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By Laura Walters | 10th February, 2021
Guest writer
Richard Prebble on the campaign trail in 1999. Photo: Phil Walter/Getty Images

The Prebble adventure: Reading I’ve Been Thinking, a quarter century on

The great promise of neoliberalism: free markets solving problems centrally planned governments could not, bringing better economic results. The great failure of neoliberalism: it didn’t work.
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By Danyl Mclauchlan | 8th February, 2021
Guest writer
Image: Tina Tiller

Oh no: one landlord is set to own all of Christchurch by the year 2053

Our special Spinoff data analysis has uncovered some disturbing findings.
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By Hayden Donnell | 7th February, 2021
Contributing writer
Image: Toby Morris

Siouxsie Wiles & Toby Morris: Covid-19 transmission 101

Our understanding of the way Covid-19 is transmitted from person to person has changed a lot since the pandemic began. A year in, here's what we now know.
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By Siouxsie Wiles | 5th February, 2021
Contributing writer

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