The Friday Poem is edited by Hera Lindsay Bird. Submissions are now open. Please send up to three poems in a PDF or Word ...

Dr Mataroria Lyndon (Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Whātua, Ngāti Wai, Waikato) is a senior lecturer in medical education, director of population health and equity at Tend Health, and member of Te Tiratū ...

Heidi Thomson is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington. She was born in Ghent, Belgium, in 1961, and immigrated to New Zealand in 1990.

For the first time in its history, The Spinoff is publicly recruiting for the role of editor. The search has begun for ...

Aperahama Hurihanganui is from Wairarapa, Te Arawa, and Te Tai Rāwhiti. He is a Māori culture and language advisor, and is passionate about Te Ao Māori. He loves to write, and recently won the ...

Hazel Phillips is the author of four books: Fire & Ice (2025); Solo: Backcountry adventuring in Aotearoa New Zealand (2022); Wild Westie (2014), a biography of Sir Bob Harvey; and Sell! (2013), a ...

Putting bikes on the bus is a good way to encourage people to ride: it means that if it starts raining, or if you have a ...

I began last night thinking my friend liked scary things. When we were walking down Queen Street, towards the containers, ...

National has come up with some key messaging to justify why the pay equity law it once supported had to be scrapped. But how does it measure up with reality? It’s weird that fisheries officers ...

Alex Casey suggests a bold amendment to the social media ban. Last week, National MP Catherine Wedd chucked a member’s bill into the biscuit tin that would restrict social media access for ...

Peyton is a lecturer in sociology, gender studies and criminology at the University of Otago. Erin is a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of Otago. Suggestions of defunding the police ...

Pene Dalton is a New Zealand-born educator currently based in Nagasaki, Japan. His iwi affiliations are Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Porou, and Ngāpuhi, and he was raised in South Auckland.