A Green Party led study has revealed that students in Aotearoa-New Zealand are poor, cold, overworked, and depressed. Who knew? Findings from the People’s Inquiry into Student Wellbeing were released last week by Greens’ tertiary education spokesperson Chlöe Swarbrick, who launched the nationwide survey after political parties wouldn’t believe...
Well, it’s been a while, hasn’t it? While you’ve been off vaping, watching Netflix, subsidising John Lawrenson’s hedonistic lifestyle, and spending 5 hours a day on TikTok, the constant dull screams of our dying planet have been going on in the background. And who better to let the cancerous...
On a sunny Sunday morning in 1864, Captain Gustavus Ferdinand von Tempsky, accompanied by the Forest Rangers No. 2 Company, arrived at the small settlement of Rangiaowhia, just outside of modern day Te Awamutu. Von Tempsky’s ‘blood was up’ – in the midst of the Waikato Wars, emboldened by...
A Pōhutukawa tree in Kāwhia is in the running to take out Tree Of The Year Aotearoa. 2022 marks the first year of the Rākau o te tau awards, which aims to recognise significant trees across the country. Described as one of the ‘most culturally significant living taonga for...
Last week, I received a few comments along the lines of, “but did anything good happen in the world last week?” I mean, probably. But I tend to gravitate more towards the ‘holding truth to power’ type reporting – if you’re after more positive shit, maybe go watch Seven...
I’d just like to use this introduction paragraph to let you all know that I am not a journalist – I am simply a fuckwit with internet access and a couple of pages in Aotearoa’s best student magazine. Will I give you well researched, impartial stories about things that...
A manhunt in the Te Awamutu region is underway after Bob the Sheep went missing from his Kihikihi property. The young lamb, who was described by the family to the Te Awamutu Courier as ‘very gentle and sweet,’ has been missing for weeks after he mysteriously broke out of...
It’s getting to the business end of the first trimester, and students everywhere are desperately looking for a distraction from the threat of looming exams, trying to decode instructions for assessments, and watching on in horror as the lecturers we pay $10,000 a year for struggle to turn on...
Sure, mainstream news has all the gore, glitz and glamour that the public lusts for so strongly – but where else are you going to find stories of everyday citizens standing up to the big man (New Zealand Food Safety) and standing up for what they believe in (selling...
Hey, I’m sorry about that outburst I had last week. It’s okay if you don’t care about the news and only care about yourself. There’s plenty of things going on out there in the world – some good, some not so good – but that shouldn’t matter to you,...
