Echo Chamber: Burn, baby, burn the bill
Lighting shit on fire isn’t the worst thing that’s happened on the parliamentary steps, but it is a…
What, exactly, will Labour’s new Future Fund achieve?
New Zealand’s state investment vehicles have often suffered from having unclear aims. The challenge for Labour lies in…
I spent 18 months training generative AI – here’s what I learned
A first person account of training AI for tech giants. For 18 months, until September this year, I…
What, exactly, will Labour’s new Future Fund achieve?
New Zealand’s state investment vehicles have often suffered from having unclear aims. The challenge for Labour lies in…
The cost of being: A young lawyer saving heaps through house-sitting
As part of our series exploring how New Zealanders live and our relationship with money, a law graduate explains…
What’s in New Zealand’s long-awaited climate adaptation plan? And what was left out?
A new framework lays out the role of central government, local government and individuals in responding to the…
I’m starting to hate my phone
Traversing the hellscape of spam, scams and AI shams. I second-guess everything that lands in my inbox now…
A brief history of New Zealand’s buzziest op shop finds
From Victorian vibrators to top secret defence notes, you truly never know what you might find at your…
The cost of being: A disability beneficiary who can only work one day a week
As part of our series exploring how New Zealanders live and our relationship with money, a disability beneficiary and…
Reo and rage: why I’ve stopped taking the bait
Māori linguist Vincent Olsen-Reeder has had enough of social media outrage masquerading as reo Māori discourse – and…
‘An excellent PM and an even better person’: memories of working with Jim Bolger
Jim Bolger, prime minister from 1990 to 1997, has died at the age of 90. We asked those…
New Zealand Tomorrow might be the best local show of the year
‘New Zealand Tomorrow is one of the best things Guy Williams has ever done,’ writes Tom Augustine. If…