The Spinoff Weekly: Can you really make $400 a day picking cherries?
November 23 – November 30
Why couldn’t it happen here?
Donald Trump has grudgingly accepted that preparations for a White House transition should commence, after weeks of crying fraud, mounting spurious legal challenges and attempting, in effect, a coup d’état. However hapless and distant it might seem, is there the potential for a similar breakdown in New Zealand? Duncan Greive examines our defences and our vulnerabilities.
Can you really make $400 a day picking cherries?
Claims that cherry pickers can pull in $400 a day should have all of us packing our bags and heading south. But is orchard work really that lucrative?
Grant Robertson v Adrian Orr: those letters, decoded
The New Zealand housing crisis, and how to tackle it, took epistolary form yesterday in letters from the finance minister and the Reserve Bank governor. We read between the lines.
Six Wellington flats that don’t breach the healthy homes regulations
Renting in Wellington can seem like a nightmare, but you just need to look a little harder. We’ve found some of the best-value flats in town.
Ardern pledges to care 9% more by 2030
Some observers are questioning whether there are sufficient Facebook livestreams to support the goal, writes chief caring correspondent Danyl Mclauchlan.
A hard day to be wahine Māori
Leonie Hayden gets in her feelings about a shitty day for Māori women.
Eugene Bareman: the beating heart of New Zealand kickboxing
City Kickboxing’s Eugene Bareman talks to Michelle Langstone about what drew him to the sport, training his fighters during the Covid-19 lockdown, and helping build his beloved gym from the ground up.
Cha chow down: A food comic about Courtenay Place’s cosiest cave
In the first in a series of Wellington-focused food comics, Liliana Mañetto Quick illustrates why she loves Cha, a haven of calm on Courtenay Place.
How much would you pay for a photo of our ancestors?
Photographs of tūpuna Māori are fetching top prices at auction houses, with their descendants often forking out to ‘bring them home’.
Is our mental health approach in need of a rewrite?
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In the final episode of the first season of Conversations That Count – Ngā Kōrero Whai Take, we discuss and dissect the way that Aotearoa talks about mental wellbeing.
