Eight extremely topical and uniquely New Zealand Halloween costumes

Don’t have your costume sorted yet? Fear not: Halloween and bizarre news story enthusiasts Alice Neville and Toby Morris bring you eight ideas guaranteed to impress and terrify the neighbours in equal measure.  It’s a little-known fact that the Halloween costume was invented in a small Scottish village in 1585, when local children dressed up … Read more

The Spinoff presents: ‘Emotional Junior Staffer’ by Hayden Donnell

The Spinoff is proud to debut a major new musical work by singer-songwriter Hayden Donnell. After National Party leader Simon Bridges last month misled The Spinoff over the post-15/3 removal of a controversial petition, the deletion was blamed on an “emotional junior staffer”. The emotional junior staffer was later revealed to have worked for National … Read more

The Bulletin: Gun clubs, gun laws change after Christchurch attack

Good morning, and welcome to The Bulletin. In today’s edition: Gun clubs, gun laws change after Christchurch attack, protests promised against new oil drilling, and widespread construction employment law breaches revealed. In less than a month since the Christchurch mosque shooting, sweeping changes have come to both gun laws, and the gun community generally. The new law … Read more

The Bulletin: Shareholders approve, so what will TradeMe sale mean?

Good morning, and welcome to The Bulletin. In today’s edition: Shareholders approve of sale of TradeMe to private equity firm, family ties between Shane Jones and logging boss, and Newsroom journalists detained in Fiji. TradeMe shareholders have given overwhelming backing to a takeover offer from a British private equity firm called Apax Partners, reports Business Desk. It’s the … Read more