Alex Casey reviews Pike River, out in cinemas nationwide this week. One of the many enduring scenes in Pike River sees Anna Osborne (Melanie Lynskey) holed up in Sonya Rockhouses ...

Labour’s capital gains tax is pitched as simple and sellable – but its limited scope is catching flack from critics.<br /> <br /> ...

The simplest way to implement a capital gains tax would be as a pure tax switch, using the new revenue to reduce income tax for working people. But that exposes the dirty little secret of Labour’s ...

The author of new novel Hoods Landing on reading War and Peace in a day, meeting Nigella Lawson, an overrated recent bestseller and more.

With homelessness an increasingly visible part of Auckland CBD’s social fabric, charities providing food and other support for those in need say demand has never been higher, while funding proves ...

For the first 20 years after it’s released, methane is 80 times worse for climate change than carbon dioxide. Here in New ...

In many ways, the Labour Party has been the political equivalent of the 'go girl, give us nothing' meme for the last two years.

Signed 190 years ago today, He Whakaputanga still defines the Māori struggle for mana and self-determination. The very first Māori dictionary defines “Whakaputa” as – “to boast or make visible”. This ...

Tasmin Prichard won the 2025 Landfall Tauraka essay prize with their essay ‘Four Hours in the Dark, Forgetting’, a quiet and ...

Some call the regime 'prohibitive', but others say exempting the majority of the companies currently subject to it is a 'backwards step'.

The Spinoff’s Liam Rātana joins Dunan Grieve to discuss the seismic changes coming for the Māori media landscape.

While ministers say the Roads of National Significance are about delivery and growth, critics say their costs are too high and their benefits too uncertain.<br /> <br /> ...