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Nudity & Rudity

Posted 11:15am Sunday 24th April 2016 by Kirsty Gordge

After spending some time in a nude sauna in Finland, Kirsty Gordge explores public nudity in New Zealand, asking the big question: Why don’t Kiwis get naked more often?  Boobs: perky, droopy, and wrinkled. Nipples: dark, pink and small. Bums: tight, big, and saggy. Hair: thick, black Read more...

Guidance for Jobseekers

Posted 11:34am Sunday 17th April 2016 by Anonymous Bird

It's getting to the time when, while students are stressing about assignments and exams, they have run out of course related costs and are frantically applying for part time work and graduate employment. Job hunting can be a dreary and disheartening process, but you’ve got to stick at it Read more...

Pride in Prison?

Posted 11:06am Sunday 17th April 2016 by Nath B

Content warning – accounts of rape and physical violence The acronym LGBT is used through-out the article in an all-encompassing manner to refer to the queer community.  LGBT is used in lieu of writing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, pansexual, genderqueer, asexual, Read more...

Spilled Soup, Secrets & Schadenfreude

Posted 11:18am Sunday 10th April 2016 by Jean Balchin

Jean Balchin on that gleeful feeling of happiness when something horrible happens to someone else. Imagine, if you will, a cold, blustery day in the city. With the wind howling and the rain coming down in horizontal sheets, the interior of the bus seems positively luxurious. From your Read more...

A Special Pass For God

Posted 11:13am Sunday 10th April 2016 by Joe Higham

Joe Higham discusses the exceptional treatment religion gets in the media, and how it turns us into hypocrites. It was 1988 and Salman Rushdie, a British-Indian author, was sat in a secure, undisclosed safe house somewhere in the British Isles, under overwhelming police protection. He was only Read more...

Harm Reduction

Posted 11:00am Sunday 10th April 2016 by Lucy Hunter

Lucy Hunter looks behind the doors of the Dunedin needle exchange Needle exchange programmes were created to reduce harm and to educate people on taking drugs in the safest way possible. I spoke to Manager Barbara Smith and one of her colleagues Dene Barnes from the Dunedin Intravenous Read more...

Cos It's All About The Play

Posted 12:07pm Sunday 3rd April 2016 by Victoria Ransom

The smell of makeup, face paint and coloured hairspray fills the air. Masses of people are all flocking to one place for a day of excitement, laughter and all out craziness.  For those of you thinking these are the sights and smells of the annual Hyde Street party, you are sadly mistaken. We Read more...

Intercontinental Drift

Posted 11:55am Sunday 3rd April 2016 by Norman H. Maclean

“They change their sky but not their soul who cross the ocean.” When Roman poet, Horace penned these words over two millennia ago, he could scarcely have envisaged the chaos unfolding in our time as hundreds of thousands clamour for salvation in the West, carrying with them both faith Read more...

A Week In The Life Of A Sex Store Employee

Posted 11:41am Sunday 3rd April 2016 by Chelle Fitzgerald

“Wow, that is so cool! What’s it like? Are all the customers hella kinky?” This is the most common response I hear when people find out what I do for a living. To be fair, it’s a natural reaction, as so many people have never set foot inside an adult store. Many people Read more...

Breaking News: The News Is Broken

Posted 12:43pm Sunday 20th March 2016 by Amber Allott

Admit it. You know you regularly choose to read entertaining trash over reminders of how the world is turning to shit. Amber Allott investigates if we are entirely in control of our ignorant habits, or if they are the result of capitalism and political manipulation within the media. ‘How Read more...