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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
    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
    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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