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Summer reissue: Spinoff cartoonist Toby Morris spends a session in the recording studio with The Beths.

The Side Eye: In the studio with The Beths

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Summer reissue: Spinoff cartoonist Toby Morris travels to Waitomo to see first hand the impact of Covid-19 on one of New Zealand's oldest tourist destinations. 

The Side Eye: The tunnel, the lights

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Summer reissue: Squaaawk! Toby Morris meets the community trapping groups changing Wellington's sky.

The Side Eye: The Trap Life

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Summer reissue: Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1999 – minus the fear our eftpos cards will all stop working at midnight.

The Side Eye: Bugged Out

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Summer reissue: Toby Morris reconnects with Tasia, essential worker, following level four lockdown.

The Side Eye: Essential

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A brief illustrated history of 45 years in the political life of Winston Peters NZ politician.

The Side Eye: How to draw Winston Peters

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Each week in the lead-up to the election, The Side Eye cartoonist Toby Morris is teaching us how to draw a different politician. This week, it’s the Green Party co-leaders.

The Side Eye: How to draw Marama Davidson and James Shaw

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Each week in the lead-up to the election, Toby Morris is going to teach us how to draw a different NZ politician. This week, it’s the leader of the Act Party.

The Side Eye: How to draw David Seymour

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Each week in the lead-up to the election, The Side Eye cartoonist Toby Morris is going to teach us how to draw a different New Zealand politician. This week, it's the leader of the opposition.

The Side Eye: How to draw Judith Collins

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Each week in the lead-up to the election, cartoonist Toby Morris is going to teach us how to draw a different New Zealand politician. First up, it's the prime minister.

The Side Eye: How to draw Jacinda Ardern

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On October 17 NZ will decide whether cannabis should be legalised and regulated. Toby Morris compares and contrasts weed with another popular drug: alcohol.

The Side Eye: Weed versus Booze

Spinoff cartoonist Toby Morris spent a session in the recording studio with The Beths and got an intimate view of the beloved band at work.

Spinoff cartoonist Toby Morris travels to Waitomo to see first hand the impact of Covid-19 on one of New Zealand's oldest tourist destinations. 

Toby Morris reconnects with Tasia, essential worker.

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Spinoff cartoonist Toby Morris, with help from Dr Siouxsie Wiles, looks at the coronavirus up close. And from a long way away.

The Side Eye: Viruses vs Everyone

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We've all got teeth, so why can only some of us afford to look after them? 

The Side Eye: The high price of bad teeth

This time 20 years ago, New Zealand was preparing for apocalypse. The Side Eye looks back at the Y2K bug phenomenon 20 years later and asks if it was all a scam. 

Skwaaak! Toby Morris meets the community trapping groups changing Wellington's sky. 

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Toby Morris looks into shopping bags, fatherhood and what being a man means in 2019. 

The Side Eye: Who’s the man?

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Toby Morris gazes back to a time where almost every NZ yard had a plastic bottle full of water in the middle of it.

The Side Eye: The Bottles – a story about nostalgia and dog poo

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Can Sandringham’s South Asian flavour survive gentrification?

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A Labour volunteer alleged a  violent sexual assault by a Labour staffer. This is her story

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Summer reissue: This time 21 years ago, New Zealand was preparing for apocalypse. The Side Eye looks back at the Y2K bug phenomenon 20 years later and asks if it was all a scam.

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The Side Eye: Bugged Out

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