A Spinoff inquiry into NZ Rugby’s Chiefs inquiry

NZ Rugby hoped this week to draw a line under the scandal around the Chiefs behaviour at an end-of-season function. Fine, but we just have a few nagging, planet-sized questions, writes Hayden Donnell. Where is the report? Does it exist? Where is it? Just about all we’ve heard about this extensive report is from a … Read more

Add your signature to this open letter to change toxic rugby culture in New Zealand

Yesterday, NZ Rugby held a press conference in relation to the Chiefs scandal, wherein they barely said anything at all. Today, the Human Rights Commission invites you to add your name to a letter calling for a change New Zealand rugby culture.  The NZ Human Rights Commission has this afternoon published an open letter to … Read more

It’s 2016 and a rugby exec only just found out that strippers are people too

Alex Casey reminds Andrew Flexman that a woman who takes her clothes off professionally is still a human.  Yesterday, a stripper named Scarlette spoke out about her experience at a Chiefs end-of-season function, where she was subjected to inappropriate licking and touching without her consent. Flexman, the Chief Executive of the Chiefs, responded to the … Read more