Ahiahi mārie, welcome to The Spinoff Daily in partnership with the Brain Drink, Ārepa. Today on The Spinoff, a teacher explains why they’re leaving the profession, Alex Casey asks the experts how to make good on your resolution to create less waste in 2023 and we count down the most-read stories we published in 2022. But first, it’s time for the annual champs and flops of NZ politics lists.
How would we know it was the week before Christmas without a deluge of recap lists inviting us all to remember the highs, lows and everything in between from the year that’s been? This year in politics has brought us a fiery protest outside parliament, a pair of turbulent byelections, a cost of living crisis, a surge in the polls for the National Party, local elections – and a lot more. In celebration, and for the seventh year in a row, we present the annual champs and flops of New Zealand politics, as chosen by our panel of pundits.
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These are The Spinoff’s most-read stories of 2022 Exclusive: Beauden Barrett never asked for a ‘radical’ exemption from NZ Rugby How conspiracy theorist Liz Gunn took the Baby W story global
Alex Casey learns how to produce a lot less rubbish in 2023: “Do you ever just look around and freak out deep within your soul about how much crap there is literally everywhere? Whether it’s the inner-city gutters riddled with discarded vapes or the unimaginable scale of textile waste, it’s very easy to start feeling very stressed out about how much rubbish we create every day. So, as we look ahead to 2023, what can we do about *gestures around* all of this? We asked two experts to weigh in with their top 10 tips to reduce your waste in the new year.”
Book of the year: Straight Up by Ruby Tui Why doesn’t this supermarket want its abandoned trolleys back? Twelve days of Christmas scams: How to stay safe over the holidays
The great, late Christmas books guide 2022 Let The Spinoff Review of Books steer you through a selection of titles published in Aotearoa and the world in 2022 that will make for thoughtful and timely gifts for family and friends when you’re last-minute panic buying this week.
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The champs and flops of NZ politics in 2022
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