Lyric Waiwiri-Smith

1 week ago | thespinoff.co.nz | Lyric Waiwiri-Smith

Societyabout 12 hours agoCahoots began as a mobile queer tradie collective driven by Jade Musther. Now, she’s on the cusp of opening a workshop to further share her skills with other women and the trans community. Behind a roller door in Wellington’s Mount Cook – one of the queerest suburbs in Aotearoa’s queerest city – handy ma’am Jade Musther has spent weeks building the makerspace of her dreams.

1 week ago | thespinoff.co.nz | Lyric Waiwiri-Smith

Wednesday’s question time saw our MPs discuss women, wildlife and… what was that? Something about NZ Music Month? Only 3.2% of The Spinoff’s readership supports us financially. We need to grow that to 4% this year to keep creating the work you love. Please sign up to be a member today.

1 week ago | thespinoff.co.nz | Lyric Waiwiri-Smith

Welcome back, parliamentary girlbosses. After three weeks away from the House, it didn’t take long to dirty up the clean slates. Xoxo, Gossip Girl. Echo Chamber is The Spinoff’s dispatch from the press gallery, recapping sessions in the House. Columns are written by politics reporter Lyric Waiwiri-Smith and Wellington editor Joel MacManus. It’s been three weeks since the cast of the 54th New Zealand parliament were last together in the House.

1 week ago | thespinoff.co.nz | Lyric Waiwiri-Smith

A disabled woman who turned to Work and Income after suffering burnout so intense she had to leave her multiple jobs says the agency hung up on her as they didn’t believe she was deaf. A disabled woman, who once held three jobs before suffering burnout so extreme she had to quit working altogether, says she was made to feel that she had faked her deafness on a check-up call with Work and Income.

2 weeks ago | thespinoff.co.nz | Lyric Waiwiri-Smith

The pressure group’s latest event focused on retail and hospo – and the pursuit to bring back all those great vibes the capital once supposedly had. Vision for Wellington’s third public meeting saw the supergroup of powerful Wellingtonians undertake an important side quest in the perilous mission to save the capital: locate Wellington’s missing vibes, specifically in the city’s businesses.