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Power bills will increase an average of $10 per household per month from April 1. What do these changes mean for people who are already struggling? Your power bill will be rising by about $120 over the coming year, with increases continuing annually until 2030 (by when the year-on-year rise will have reduced to about … Read more
Neon’s new series feels like a kids’ adventure show from the 80s – and that’s a very good thing. This is an excerpt from our weekly pop culture newsletter Rec Room. Sign up here. As a child of the 1980s, I grew up feasting on a nutritious diet of local kidult TV dramas: Hotshotz, Strangers, Under … Read more
Extra payments to landowners and a ‘streamlined’ objections process are designed to get diggers in the ground more quickly, writes Catherine McGregor in today’s extract from The Bulletin. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here. Extra cash for those who sell up quickly Landowners who act fast to sell their properties in … Read more
Alex Casey goes inside the booming film and TV industry in Canterbury, and talks to the people championing the region as Aotearoa’s next big screen destination. If you’ve been keeping up with New Zealand film and television, you might have noticed that there’s been a familiar character popping up time and time again recently. Whether … Read more
Hūhana Lyndon and Chris Penk. Photo: VNP / Phil Smith / Louis Collins The government is proposing changes to the Public Works Act, including incentivising payments of up to $150,000 for early land sales. If the plan goes ahead, landowners would not be able to submit objections to the Environment Court anymore – instead that … Read more
Hume insists her work is designed to help people find what they need on the shelves of their local shoe shop. Photo: 123rf An Auckland study into insoles aims to make relief more accessible to sufferers of pain in feet and throughout the body. AUT professor of human performance Patria Hume has completed phase one … Read more
Skyla Cannon is 14 years old, 175cm tall, and was last seen in Albany by Albany High School. Photo: NZ Police / Supplied Police are asking the public’s help to locate a 14-year-old girl last seen at school in Auckland on Thursday. Skyla is 14 years old, 175cm tall, and was last seen in Albany … Read more
Could the next Reserve Bank governor unleash a new mortgage war? This article was first published in Bernard Hickey’s newsletter The Kākā. Adrian Orr appeared to surprise everyone early yesterday afternoon by announcing his immediate resignation as Reserve Bank governor, just two years into his second five-year term. The still unexplained reason for the departure has … Read more
The NZ First leader is one of parliament’s greatest quippers, but his hit rate lately has been well below his career average. Echo Chamber is The Spinoff’s dispatch from the press gallery, recapping sessions in the House. Columns are written by politics reporter Lyric Waiwiri-Smith and Wellington editor Joel MacManus. Question time on Wednesday opened … Read more
If the US president decides to force Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the negotiating table against his will, and Europe continues urging and supporting him to fight on, New Zealand will have to take sides. It cannot take both. The aftermath of one of the most undiplomatic – and notorious – White House meetings in recent history … Read more