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The Notesapp

SUNDAY Scalding at the bottom of the kettle, a bloom   I decide it’s nothing but   like the sting and the red after this   weekend getaway of sexing, fucking   the beachside’s famous vanishing act   Piss it drunk down the motel sink   SATURDAY   On Saturday morning   they confirmed the worst news   I watched the caterpillars gather, beneath

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PULP… REALITY: THE ‘MINISTER OF WAR’ VERSUS A MINISTER OF GOD 

We sent Dylan to talk to Campus Chaplin and genuinely good human Brother Andew. Or at least we planned to. We were curious as to ‘Brother A’s response to Trump reposting AI generated images and Pete Hegseth quoting fake scripture from Tarantino. Dylan wisely opted out of entering a house or worship in fear of

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GENERATION Zzzz… ‘Cuz they’re sleeping on us. 

There was a twinkle of optimism drifting through the air just a week ago, it seems. Greens MP Francisco Hernandez put forward a Private Members’ bill that would see students receiving support during winter under the pretense that, like our country’s old, students are particularly at risk during the colder months of the year.   But Fees Free is getting canned, continuing

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Cost of Learning Crisis: Quiet Questions with Quigley

Fees Free is gone! Winston Peters let it slip on the eighth that one of the outcomes of the upcoming budget would be the end of Fees Free, and Finance Minister Nicola Willis confirmed it. The policy has had a short and, to put it bluntly, awkward life.   Introduced by Labour in 2018, the policy made

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BYE BYE BSA – OR – BUSTING SHIT, ACT?

The coalition government is scrapping the Broadcasting Standards Authority. You know, ‘if you think we’ve breached these standards, please feel free to make a complaint’? That BSA.  What does this mean? Well, the proponents of this happening, like ACT MP Laura McClure say that it’s a “Massive win for free speech.”  It means that, rather than broadcasters (which broadly includes podcasters and streamers,

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Reviews

GENER8TION & YUNG LEAN – STORM

Rating: -3/5 Yung Lean’s new song is trite shit. Fantano was right. I knew this for sure when, lashed by the sun and staving off offerings of gear, I watched him & Bladee project themselves in AI Generated Dragonball Z style form at Laneway.   Now, I can’t blame Lean for trying to divorce himself from shit he was making when

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Nexus Breaks the News – Issue 9 2026

Better Bus Services on the cards for Cambridge  You read that right, Cambridge’s population – which consists entirely of people over the age of 70 – will finally be seeing better bus services that will more efficiently shuttle them between their retirement homes and the horse races.   CHRIS BISHOP REBUFFS PLEAS TO SLOW DOWN

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LUXON LUCKS-OUT… SO LUX-IS-IN 

On the 21st of April, during a National party caucus meeting, Christopher Luxon initiated a vote of no confidence upon himself, a vote the National party leader and current prime minister survived. This comes after the 1News-Verian Poll placed the National party at just 30% and Luxon’s own personal favorability at 16%, 3% beneath Chris Hipkins. The results incited a resurgence in whispers of a

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Columns

GAME OF PRICKS ONE 

I’m in Raglan now instead of the same couple suburbs of Hamilton and the street I live on in Cambridge which have been my only routine sights out of a sense of complacency for the past whatever.  Alsatia splashes water over herself on the front porch of her cousin’s bach and I’m leaning against the yay-high chainlink fence strangling

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OUR CHRISIS

Chrisis… I think I’ve mentioned the word in an article before, but to rip the bias tape off and walk through the door in broad daylight: I don’t think Labour really knows what they’re doing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯     I also don’t think National knows what they’re doing either… obviously. I mean, Luxon’s inability to answer without working through “Well what I’ll say…

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Night, blooming jagoff – Fakemink’s Terrified

Since his rocket to stardom with the danceable EDM-laden Easter Pink in 2025, UK Rapper Fakemink has been a staple of everyone you know’s TikTok FYP thanks to a slew of catchy hooks, a distinct pitched-up voice and constant invoking of Belgian fashion designer Ann Demeulemeester. Mink’s debut 2023 album London’s Saviour made him concrete in the “UK

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The Notesapp: For Grant

It sat empty, the armchair  Black, bold, scuffed  Home to the ghost of a man  He used to fish,  He used to walk,  He used to laugh,  He used to be  Then he didn’t  It began in his feet,   Tickling his toes and grabbing at his ankles,  A cruel, curling pain 

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$50 date 

Welcome to the $50 Date, where a broke university student takes his girlfriend on a date with a budget of $50, and rates the activities accordingly. The rules of this exercise are simple; Whatever we do, we can only spend $50. Each, or total, I hear you asking? Yes. After the activity,

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What’s The Buzz – MMBee

Some people have a countdown until Christmas. I’m crossing off the days on the calendar until it reaches the 7th of November: Election Day.  Whether you’re anxiously watching the votes get counted, you’re actively avoiding any mention of politics, or you have no idea how to even wrap your head around the election, it’s important to understand

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The Notesapp 

The air was stagnant, I could taste the presence of hundreds of pastors who had led services years before. The congregation rustled— shifting weight, creaking pews, the soft drag of dress shoes across the hardwood. Pastor Sheridan’s voice rolled from the pulpit, controlled but thunderous through my unsettled ears. As he lifted

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Unconventional ways to survive university with ADHD

Properly diagnosed or not, medicated or not, having ADHD while trying to get yourself an education is a little bit of a bitch to deal with. You’d think it wouldn’t be so hard; this is a degree I want to do, I chose to do, I like the subjects, but every reading and assignment and tutorial feels

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Waikato Spots

When you’ve been in Hamilton long enough you realise this place kinda sucks, we don’t have aesthetic historical buildings and multiple libraries like dunedin, we don’t have a supermodern student bar and restaurant like Christchurch, we don’t have a rooftop soccer pitch and multiple dinner spots on campus like auckland, I dont know what those country Bumpkins do at massey and lincoln but we’re

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The Notesapp

SUNDAY Scalding at the bottom of the kettle, a bloom   I decide it’s nothing but   like the sting and the red after this   weekend getaway of sexing, fucking   the beachside’s famous vanishing act   Piss it drunk down the motel sink   SATURDAY   On Saturday morning   they confirmed the worst news   I watched the caterpillars gather, beneath

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What’s the Buzz: Winnie the Pooh wants his honey

If you pay attention to what goes on in New Zealand politics at all, you’d know the Beehive contains more drama than a high school theatre kid friend group. The politicians that we trust with our country with are… volatile, to say the least.   What’s ever-so-slightly concerning is how high-school-style drama has recently encapsulated New

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Puppets; and their connection to media and the world of Punk 

Byrne Power says, quoting Tomáš Procházka; “It’s nice to say it. Because then we can say we do Punk. We do Punk Puppetry.”  With DIY elements and a fundamental concept of alienation to the standard creativity leech that is capitalist powers, the puppet is punk, in and of itself. Through parody and

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The ultimatum: Central government x local government (sfw)

In November of 2025, Minister for Resource Management Act Reform Chris Bishop and Minister for Local Government Simon Watts announced reforms to local government. On Tuesday the 5th of May, they gave councils three months to figure out how they would do it before the New Zealand Government steps in. According to

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The Scent of Black Gold 

If you are familiar with the world of perfume and fragrance, you have probably come across the word “oud” at some point. A staple on the shelves of fragrance bros around the world, oud is a scent that is widely known but scarcely understood. In fact, oud is the Arabic name for Agarwood, a

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Drying Out

It’s a Friday night. Classes have finally – and politely – fucked off for the weekend and campus is buzzing. Typically, we would see large groups of first years heading to

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Beware The Goth Youth

The ‘90s were a time of both optimism and unease. The internet promised connection, the economy was booming, and pop culture was fueled by irony

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Spooky Moons, Spooky Moods

It’s a windswept October’s night; a long howl echoes through the night, curling and searching its way through the misty streets. The clouds scud across

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The Right Move

Dance can be many different things: exercise, fun, enjoyment, a form of expression and so on. It can also mean many different things to people,

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Head? Is it tapu?

Part 1: Ripeka Paapu The notion that receiving or giving oral sex while wearing moko kanohi is tapu reflects a modern discomfort, not the lived

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Reindigenising & Decolonising

Written By Manasseh Cowley We had just finished presenting at one of Bogotá’s most prestigious universities and it was now time for whakawhanaungatanga and kai.

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Nukutawhiti Editorial

He waka kotuia, kāore e tukutukua ngā mimira!  Mauri ora! Nau mai, haere mai ki Nukutawhiti 2026.  He mihi nui ki ngā ringa, ngā reo

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Is This Our Year?

“Ki te moemoeā ahau ko ahau anake, ki te moemoeā tātou ka taea e tātou.” Arā kā kupu aTe Puea Hērangi e kawe ana i

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Adults season 2 

Rating: 2/5 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

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