One of the most common relationships you’ll find around the youngins these days is, in fact, not really a relationship at all: it’s the casual hookup. A no-strings, no-fuss scenario that offers the physical perks of an actual relationship without any of the admin shit. In other words, it...
August 10, Greenlane 1995 – Grace Rihari The day my angel decided to breathe me into lifeMy mum wanted Phoebe, my Dad thought otherwiseAnd so they settled on Grace, don’t ask me how or why With 33 letters and 3 middle namesMy Ingoa is quite the mouthful to sayI...
Hamilton’s a small world. You’ll see the same folks in your classes and around campus year in, year out. And you’ll come to see the same familiar faces on the House d-floor or smashing back shots of Mother Russia at your local Beaumont hotspot every Saturday. So with small-city...
Jamie Strange The New Zealand electoral system has been mixed-member proportional (MMP) since 1996. MMP was introduced after a referendum in 1993. MMP replaced the first-past-the-post (FPP) system New Zealand had previously used for most of its history. I believe a key reason New Zealanders voted for MMP was...
GAP YEAR Gaps are great. Some might have said the cute gap you had in your front teeth at age 5 was one, others would consider the land gap between Australia and New Zealand to be another, but the best gap of them all is the one you have...
Top 8 biggest cheaters in sports history Ricky Bobby once said, “if you ain’t first, you’re last”. Throughout the history of competition, some seem to have taken this a little too seriously. This week we’re taking a look at some of the more infamous sporting cheats that have graced...
There are people who spend hours of mahi researching, staying up late, scrolling through countless papers to try and discover some new particle or what the meaning of life is. I haven’t done any of that. But today I present you something perhaps not as scientific, but a theory...
David Bennett New Zealand’s economy needs to decarbonise over the next 20 to 30 years, however if the Government continues to discourage the exploration sector, New Zealand will have a future domestic natural gas shortage. New Zealand still requires a significant amount of natural gas. Natural gas supplies 400,000...
COOKING FOR THE FLAT Food. Now that’s a topic I’m passionate about. And food I don’t have to put in effort to prepare? That’s even better. Cooking for the flat, and therefore having the flat cook for you in turn, is arguably the best trade deal in the history...
