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Today on The Spinoff, Duncan Greive meets the mayoral candidate positioning himself as Auckland’s Mr Fix-It, Shanti Mathias explores how digital science projects are using the internet to help people access and understand the natural world and Stewart Sowman-Lund presents a refresher course on renting rights.
On that note, The Side Eye asks: What does “reasonably clean and tidy” actually mean?
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Renting 101: What are my rights as a tenant in 2022?
New Zealand’s poor housing ‘a failure of our democracy’
The natural world in your pocket: How citizen science is democratising discovery
Prisoner numbers are down – let’s not go back to a ‘lock ’em up’ mindset
Wayne Brown and the cantankerous track to the mayoralty
Instead of a grand vision, Wayne Brown more often offers tetchy critiques. Yet it appears to be working. Duncan Greive meets the outsider who is topping polls to be Auckland’s next mayor.
Race briefing: Otago Regional Council contest swims in toxicity
Cursed rentals of New Zealand: Bed, bath and beyond edition
I pay $750 a week in rent – this is how I live
Celebrity Treasure Island power rankings: What’s in the monolith?
The Thursday Poem: Bad example
A poem for NZ Chinese Language Week 2022 and Chris Tse, by Tze Ming Mok.