The Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts: The Spinoff event guide
The Spinoff’s top pick of events from around the motu. Here’s the best for the week February 26–March…
Why Fonotī Pati Umaga doesn’t want to be your inspiration
With his genre-bending new show debuting at Auckland Arts Festival in March, artist and advocate Fonotī Pati Umaga…
He was filmed without without consent during sex. Then he turned it into a theatre show
Writer and actor Hamish Annan reveals how a shocking violation of consent inspired his new theatre production Before…
The critical minerals debate is mired in confusion, duplicity and agendas
Elements we can extract from our rocks promising riches and security may sound appealing, but the reality is…
Big costs, big profits: the state of the electricity sector in 2026
Electricity in New Zealand is expensive, and is set to be a major election issue. Here’s a quick…
Goodbye Splore. We’ll try to hang on to the memories
At the last ever Splore, Simon Day reflects on the end of the festival that was so much…
Bishop’s housing backtrack is a hollow victory for Parnell
Auckland’s grumbling inner suburbs got the housing cuts they wanted. They may be disappointed by what comes next.…
Leather & Chains: excerpts from Kate Camp’s 1986 diary
Selected entries from Kate Camp’s teenage diary, annotated by her grown-up self. The 180-odd people who pushed and…
Fashion designer Tom Conway can talk about his neck-breaking accident now
The son of Kate Sylvester and Wayne Conway tells The Spinoff about fashioning a new identity and moving…
Why I’ve watched Schitt’s Creek 43 times (and counting)
Poet Tusiata Avia on keeping the darkness at bay. A friend of mine said she has a copy…
Reserve Bank signals a ‘structural change to the housing market’ in Anna Breman’s debut
In her first big moment as Reserve Bank governor, Anna Breman made predictions for the New Zealand economy…
What northern NZ’s wet and sticky summer reveals about our warming atmosphere
Humidity is not just a source of discomfort, but an early warning signal of a moisture-laden atmosphere and…