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Alice Neville is The Spinoff's deputy editor. Her interests include politics, food and data-driven deep dives of all kinds.

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Government officials think scrapping the BSA is a really bad idea

Gloved hands hold a drug test kit in front of a blue checkered pattern, with a police cap floating above on a purple background.

Revealed: Six months of roadside drug testing in New Zealand, by the numbers

A woman holding a smartphone is seen three times in a distorted, glitchy effect, with horizontal lines and blurred details across the image.

New Zealand’s proposed social media ban for under-16s, explained

a hand placing a ballot in a box

As election day approaches, what do we know about who’s enrolled to vote?

A man in a suit and pink tie speaks, while a report titled "Inquiry into the Healthy School Lunches Programme" featuring students and a teacher is shown on a blue grid background.

School lunches inquiry finds long list of failures

A collage featuring a money tree with banknotes and coins, a cash-filled bazooka, a hose spraying coins, and text phrases: "spray the cash bazooka around," "put the money hose on full blast," and "there is no magic money tree at the bottom of the garden," all over a background of a government assembly hall.

Nicola Willis’s magic money tree and other go-to spending metaphors in NZ politics

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A blue-toned, repeated image of medical equipment and curtains with red highlighted quotes expressing criticism of inclusive language such as "pregnant people" and "chest-feeding" replacing traditional terms.

Maternity care in New Zealand has many problems. Wokeness isn’t one of them

Our phones are hurting us (and not just mentally, emotionally and spiritually)

A hand inserts several colorful banknotes into an orange ballot box with a lock, set against a teal grid-patterned background.

Three-and-a-bit years and $50m+ of political donations, visualised

A landslide has caused soil, debris, and a broken fence to slide onto a wet road near houses, with trees and power lines affected. Cars are parked along the street and rain is visible on the pavement.

Wellington region state of emergency: what you need to know

A hand places a stack of euro bills into an orange ballot box, suggesting the concept of money influencing elections, against a green and yellow abstract background.

Who’s funding who in election year?