As local elections fever grips the nation, council candidates are jostling for your vote the best way they know how: by chucking up great big bloody signs on the side of the road. Here are The Spinoff ...

A startling truth has emerged from a new long-term forecast: we may have to resign ourselves to paying taxes at a rate most Europeans would take for granted.

In an excerpt from Pakukore: Poverty by Design, Huhana Hickey (Ngāti Tāhinga, Ngāti Ira) argues that policy failure keeps people in Aotearoa in a cycle of poverty – especially if you’re disabled and ...

Could New Zealand be about to have its first female governor of the Reserve Bank? Alice Neville reports in today’s extract ...

Internal affairs minister Brooke van Velden has told Newsroom her Online Casino Gambling Bill will set up “guardrails” in an otherwise unregulated (and largely offshore) industry. By allowing the ...

We're updating live from a packed council chambers as two factions go head to head to vote on a new plan that would zone for two million homes.

Lewers’ facial expressions were a frequent source of amusement: when Shand said “if wages show importance, the CEO is far more important than the mayor”, Lewers smiled sardonically. (The CEO is paid ...

A Swedish strategy game has rebranded the Tūhoe sovereignty flag as a communist emblem – a misstep that erases history, but also opens the door to telling it properly.

Welcome to The Spinoff Books Confessional, in which we get to know the reading habits of Aotearoa writers, and guests. This week: Naomi Arnold, author of Northbound.

In the late 1970s, workers joined Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei to stop luxury housing at Takaparawhau – a landmark alliance of unions, Māori and environmentalists.

Instead of being filled with dread by all the signs pointing to the end of democracy as we know it, the former PM has taken the productive route: writing a book.

It’s a local election year, and you know what that means – few people caring enough to vote and have their voices heard in shaping their towns. In New Zealand, local election voter turnout is ...