In announcing changes to the school lunches programme, David Seymour said kids would no longer be served ‘woke’ foods. To clear up any confusion, The Spinoff has compiled a guide to the wokeness levels of some common food items.
Please keep this handy for when Seymour starts coming after parents who feed their kids Quinoa and hummus charging them with child abuse....
Housing minister Chris Bishop has announced his decision on the Wellington District Plan, approving a series of amendments to radically upzone most of Wellington, allowing tens of thousands of new townhouses and apartments that were previously illegal to build....
I love the work The Spinoff does.
Building bigger roads won’t make driving nicer. It will make traffic worse. That may seem counterintuitive. It’s also one of the most studied assertions of the last few decades in transport planning. A report from the University of Berkeley shows that for every 1% of extra highway capacity added, traffic volumes increase...
Therapy chatbots like Meeno and Psychologist (of Character.AI fame) are gaining popularity as tools to help people with their relationship issues and emotional management. Developed in response to rising loneliness and social isolation, especially among young adults, these AI applications aim to offer actionable advice and a...
Self-governance is an idea that’s been advanced by indigenous peoples in countries around the world – including in Aotearoa....
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James Shaw was great! I really like Chloe Swarbrick too, but I feel like Todd Mueller makes some good points about Shaw striving for consensus and working across the aisle. Hope the Greens can keep it after he’s gone.
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Really interesting article which serves as a good background to the current problem with state housing....
An increasingly crowded field of parties are competing to harness the vestigial energy of the parliamentary occupation.