Nexus Interview Amber Clyde – Founder of Girls Skate NZ
Girls Skate NZ is a not for profit who have been running skate lessons for 8 years. The organisation has carved their way into parks all over Auckland and shown how far some funding and some gnar can take you – even supporting Kiwis competitively shredding! What did you enjoy about skating and how long […]
The Classical Argument
Waikato has some great courses available under the Bachelor of Arts… but I’m thinking it could be even better. When looking at paper and subject options when I was enrolling for my degree, there was one particular subject that appeared to be missing, Classics. I never studied it at high school, but as someone who […]
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Things You’ll Need: How to:
Turn Down the Heat
At what point do we stop calling it ‘crazy weather’ and start calling it what it is? Every year seems to bring another record. Another heatwave, flood, wildfire. Antoher storm that ‘nobody could have predicted.’ We talk about the weather as if it’s a force out of our control when really, we’ve been steadily turning […]
Adults Season 2
Rating: 4/5 Alongside a brand-new pilot episode, Adults made a grand return with season 2. I went in with so many questions: what’s happening with Paul Baker and Issa, are Anton and Paul Baker together now, will Billie ever get a job? This season wasted no time getting back into it. Issa uncomfortably watches all […]
Sterling Point
Rating: 5/5 Released just last month on Prime Video, Sterling Point is an effortless teen drama that includes comedy, mystery, and one-too-many Camp Rock 2 references. Born from the brain of Megan Park, an actress turned screenwriter, the tv show stands out against the current wave of Gen Z focused media due to its compelling […]
Lost Weekend – Phoebe Bridgers
Rating: 4/5 Phoebe Bridgers’ new record, Lost Weekend, continues her evolution as an artist, remaining relatively mainstream, yet her music reflects an uncompromising originality we don’t see from many major artists today. The songwriting is the standout, along with the perfect tension created by the synths and drum machines that appear alongside banjos and mandolins. […]
Active Imagination: How Protests Hold Power.
‘Protest’ falls into the lexical category of both noun and verb. The past participle is not commonly used. We say that we are ‘protesting’ but very rarely do we say that we have ‘protested.’ This is because change and power are both results of ongoing imagination and continual action. The work is never complete. Protests […]
NATIONAL ARE POCKET-WATCHING YOUR PARENTS – THE WAR ON NEETs
The NACTFirst coalition’s favourite move – the infatigable passing under urgency – was flourished again on Friday, the 28th of August. Jobseeker beneficiaries aged 18-19, whose parents make $67,225 or more, will lose access to their benefits. This policy has been critiqued since it was launched. The Green party argued very simply that taking jobseeker […]
GETTING (STUDENTS) BACK ON TRACK (TO VOTE FOR NATIONAL)
National MP Nicola Willis unveiled a new policy which the party promises to implement if reelected in November. They announced they would reduce the student loan repayment rate to 10% from 12% after having been the ones that increased it to 12% back in 2012 to begin with. Far be it from a full-bow sorry […]