The Spinoff Weekly: The hunt for Little Ted’s head
June 21 – June 28
How hope for a generation was lost
Kids born after 2008 into rentals were already hamstrung. Now their hopes for secure, healthy homes for their own whānau and futures are gone. Bernard Hickey explains how the housing market bolted and destroyed the dreams for our youngest people. And why there’s no real prospect our leaders can (or want to) wrangle it back to affordability.
The hunt for Little Ted’s head
It has been an enduring local mystery for over three decades: where in the world is Little Ted’s head? Hayden Donnell set out to find the truth.
Why the Covid-19 weekend in Wellington is so serious
How did we get here, why is the alert level change necessary, and could this all have been avoided? Dr Siouxsie Wiles explains.
Every pudding in the Edmonds cookbook, cooked and ranked
Catherine Woulfe stocks up on white sugar and Granny Smiths and kills pudding for her family forever.
NZ’s housing market is broken and we’ve got the maps to prove it
Inspired by a map of the US housing market, analyst Emma Vitz created a graph showing how much people needed to earn to afford a property in their region. It quickly went viral.
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The Sunday Essay: Narrating the seasons of grief
As Matariki approaches, Nadine Anne Hura learns that all endings are beginnings.
We, the children of Centrepoint, are breaking through the silence
As Centrepoint once again becomes a focus of media attention, Dr Caroline Ansley, a survivor of the North Shore commune, asks why the work of grappling with its legacy continues to fall on those who suffered.
The adaptation era arrives
For decades, climate change discussions have been dominated by what we can do to stop it, but there is a growing focus on how we live with its consequences.
Eat it, haters. NZ are the champions, the greatest test side in the world
Historically, Black Caps tragics have not had an easy time of it but today’s result confirmed how dramatically that had changed. Now, finally, is the time for unbridled joy, writes Samuel Flynn-Scott.
Our climate future is happening now
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The Spinoff spoke to a range of Kiwis about how the climate crisis affects them, and how they are changing the way they live and the way they do business to mitigate its effects. Art by Ezra Whittaker and interviews by Josie Adams.
