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Gabi Lardies reflects on a week of bleak reading. There’s a pattern in this week’s most popular stories on The Spinoff. We’ve got Trump supporters in New Zealand, a harrowing new drama in ...

Alex Casey talks to the women behind 51 Threads, a community art project helping those affected by the Christchurch mosque attacks. In the weeks before March 15, 2019, Noraini Abbas Milne had ...

Amy Marguerite (she/her) is a poet, essayist and library assistant living in Tāmaki Makaurau. In 2022, she completed an MA in Creative Writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters. Her ...

On rolling hills overlooking the Kaipara Harbour, one millionaire’s vision of exotic animals coexisting with monumental contemporary art has been realised. Gabi Lardies pays a visit. I thought I ...

Amid rising concerns over the state of paediatric palliative care in New Zealand, Emma Gilkison reflects on the short life of her son Jesús Valentino, who died with the people who loved him best ...

The Children’s Commissioner describes the current situation as “untenable, inequitable and inadequate”, writes Anna Rawhiti-Connell in today’s extract from The Bulletin. Earlier this week ...