OpinionIs Jim Beam Homegrown a festival or a time machine?The long-running Wellington music festival is too focused on the Jim Beam-ness and not enough on the Homegrown-ness.By Zoe Taptiklis-HaymesGuest writer & Kelly Davenport | 19th March, 2024Guest writer
OpinionLuxon’s budget problem is not going awayEvery week that passes seems to tighten the fiscal noose for Christopher Luxon and co – a noose, moreover, of their own making.By Max Rashbrooke | 18th March, 2024Contributing writer
OpinionHousing wins the warThe War for Wellington is over, and there is one overwhelming winner: housing. By Joel MacManus | 15th March, 2024Wellington editor
Opinion‘A child’s dream’: Baking bread in PalestineEven in its simplest form, bread is a dream – but it should be a dream that's easy to fulfil.By Lucinda Bennett | 13th March, 2024Guest writer
OpinionWho benefits from a feminist city?When you design to consider the needs of women, you design for everyone – regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation or culture.By Miriam Moore | 13th March, 2024Guest writer
OpinionWe need to have better conversations about our citiesMeaningful and engaged debates about the future of our cities are hugely important: but are we having the right conversations?By Jonathan Manns | 11th March, 2024Guest writer
OpinionThe story of Wellington’s housing panelEven assuming everything the panel did was perfectly well-intentioned, their results are still egregiously flawed. Their recommendations must be rejected.By Joel MacManus | 11th March, 2024Wellington editor
OpinionThe tyranny of efficiency has ruined our longest and most important roadThe drive up and down the country may be a bit quicker now – but at what cost?By Gabi Lardies | 10th March, 2024Staff writer
OpinionWe don’t need another ‘Indian’ restaurantIn India, the cuisine changes every 100km. So why does pretty much every Indian joint in Aotearoa serve the same thing?By Perzen Patel | 9th March, 2024Contributing writer
OpinionGreat news: building new housing makes old housing cheaperDoes building new housing improve affordability? An economist breaks down the important but controversial question. By Stuart Donovan | 7th March, 2024Guest writer
OpinionTamatha Paul: Wellington can enable tens of thousands of new houses overnightThe former city councillor and current MP for Wellington Central's message for the council. By Tamatha Paul | 7th March, 2024Guest writer
OpinionWhy the 100-day plan is stupid at best, evil at worstThis arbitrary benchmark for measuring the success of a new administration makes no sense. It's also deeply undemocratic.By Marcelo Rodriguez Ferrere | 7th March, 2024Guest writer
OpinionThe perfect work lunch doesn’t existDo you eat your work lunch al fresco, al desko, or not at all?By Lucinda Bennett | 6th March, 2024Guest writer
OpinionIf Wellington won’t allow new housing, should we all move to Upper Hutt?The case for moving to the region's fast-growing and unfairly maligned northern city. By Peri Zee | 5th March, 2024Guest writer
OpinionThe Newtown Festival is the promise of WellingtonNewtown's legendary street fair is Wellington at its very best. It also shows what the city risks losing.By Joel MacManus | 4th March, 2024Wellington editor
OpinionCutting through the noise: Why whānau-centred midwifery is not erasing womenProposed changes to a document that regulates midwifery practice in Aotearoa should be celebrated, not feared. By George Parker, Elizabeth Kerekere, Fleur Kelsey and Suzanne Miller | 1st March, 2024Guest writer
OpinionWellington’s Town Belt is a weird quirk of its past – and could be the key to its futureWith more people living in apartments, public green space like Wellington's Town Belt will be the key to supporting a better, denser future in our cities.By Jonathan Manns | 26th February, 2024Guest writer
OpinionDear Wellington, please don’t allow more housing. Love, an AucklanderWe have finally found a city with a housing situation worse than our own. Please don't take that away from us.By Hayden Donnell | 26th February, 2024Contributing writer
OpinionThe old town and the new city: a clash of two WellingtonsThe Lambton ward byelection wasn't about left vs right, it was a tussle between two amorphous political factions that have defined Wellington local body politics for decades.By Joel MacManus | 22nd February, 2024Wellington editor
OpinionThe gap Grant Robertson leavesAs he returns to Dunedin, parliament watchers will wave farewell to the most captivating debater of his political generation.By Toby Manhire | 20th February, 2024Editor-at-large