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Generations of Rebecca Jayde’s family have suffered from severe post-partum depression and received little help. She asks why New Zealand still doesn’t give mothers the support they need. Warning: This article discusses suicide In Pukekohe in 1897, my great-great-great grandmother Sarah died while her horrified childre
A new study shows how young New Zealanders actually watch, listen and engage with media platforms in 2026. For the first time, NZ On Air’s long-running Where are the Audiences study has broken out a standalone project focused solely on young people, surveying 360 New Zealanders aged 15-24. Duncan Greive is joined once
We round up everything coming to streaming services this week, including Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV, ThreeNow, Neon and TVNZ+. A Remarkable Place To Die (TVNZ+, September 13) Chelsie Preston Crayford is back as Detective Anais Mallory, star of the “ sleek and scenic ” A Remarkable Place To Die. Still haunt
A report on the crowds, chaos, bathroom selfies and conviviality of a busy and brilliant festival. Day 1, Wednesday September 2 Flight was bumpy. Felt sick after landing but in the car to the hotel Mike Stevens told me and Gina, the festival’s artist liaison, about the Shortland pounamu currently on display at Christch
The Capital Kiwi Project has just marked a major milestone: the final monitoring transmitters have been removed from the 250 kiwi released in the hills around Wellington. Founder Paul Ward tells Shanti Mathias about what it took to get there, and what comes next. Tell me about taking the final transmitters off. How did
Is distressed central Auckland entertainment hub Sky World a dangerous building? The victim of a late-night sexual assault who is fighting for security improvements says yes. This feature was made with the support of the Auckland Radio Trust, sponsors of the Vince Geddes In-Depth Journalism Fund. Warning: This story in
One of the party’s most promising candidates faces an uphill battle to claim an electorate split between the centre-left and left of left. Labour Party president Jill Day reckoned the 150 people gathered for a campaign launch at Miramar’s Oriental Rongotai Football Club must’ve been blown in by Sunday’s wild winds. The
A documentary about his life was inevitable, but Lomu will mean different things to different people. “Lomu! Oh! Oh!” That famous line of rugby commentary from Keith Quinn manages to describe nothing and everything about Jonah Lomu’s most viewed highlight, where the All Black physically ran over English fullback Mike C
Our mean-spirited personalities are social poison. Want Hera’s help? Email your problem to helpme@thespinoff.co.nz or fill out this form . Dear Hera, We’re sending you this email because we find our behavior ends up harming our friends with how harsh and outright hostile we tend to be towards them. We’re genuinely at a
Alex Casey attempts to unravel the years-long, frequently frustrating family mystery that is One NZ’s Let’s Get Connected ad campaign. Here in Aotearoa, we adore a good long-running ad campaign, even when it means being haunted by the same faces for years, and sometimes decades. It’s why The Briscoes Lady essentially l
Two years after she stole the show at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Raygun tells her story in a new Netflix documentary. “It still feels surreal to me,” Rachael Gunn says in the opening moments of Untold: Raygun Breaking Badly. Gunn is in Taipei, preparing to compete in her first break dance battle since she became a worldw
Welcome to The Spinoff Books Confessional , in which we get to know the reading habits of Aotearoa writers, and guests. This week: author of That Was Not My Intention, Frances Pavletich. The book I wish I’d written Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn. The twist is masterful. But I also love the way she writes her women – they a
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