Lyric Waiwiri-Smith
Lyric Waiwiri-Smith (Waikato Tainui and Ngāti Tūwharetoa) is an award-nominated politics reporter at The Spinoff. She currently covers parliament from the press gallery, and has previously written for Stuff and The Post.
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Verb Readers & Writers Festival 2026 events Lyric Waiwiri-Smith features in:
Don’t Worry, Tech will Save Us – A Verb Debate