Tessa and Azaria break down two very different 2020 elections; New Zealand’s, and America’s. First up, Tessa Webb reports on the madness that was the battle for the Whitehouse.
No matter who emerges victorious after November 3rd, there will be endless analysis, commentary, and possibly protest in response. Tessa attempts to break down some of the jargon.
There are certainly few teenagers in Aotearoa who can tell a story of skipping school just to hear a politician speak. Likely none of those few would have that politician be the 75-year-old leader of New Zealand First, Winston Peters.
Keeping the Green Party vibrant is a thriving youth wing, who are constantly advocating for a progressive policy agenda. Tessa Webb had the pleasure of zooming with conveners Matariki Roche and Danielle Marks to yarn about accessibility, policy, and making change in a system that you want to deconstruct.
For Young Labour’s Adam Brand, Labour is “in my blood”. From a working class family, he joined Labour through a union and has stars tattooed on his right forearm. After being serenaded by Kiwi classic Fred Dagg’s ‘We don't know how lucky we are’, Adam’s pick for song of the election, we chatted over Zoom and reflected on lockdown.
He enjoys video games.
He lives in a shoddy student flat.
He used to scrape grease out of the fryers at McDonald’s
He is also president of the youth wing of the ACT Party, number 50 on ACT’s party list, and a candidate for Auckland Central – going up against the big names of the Greens' Chloë Swarbrick and Labour’s Helen White.
On the day that NZ marked the 127th anniversary of women getting the right to vote, the world learnt of the death of a gender equality champion - a death that shocked the world.
Māori incarceration runs deep in New Zealand history but two university professors say taking a tikanga approach to criminal justice could break the racist system that traps Māori in generational cycles of imprisonment.
Tearaway’s future is in safe hands as it’s publishership is officially handed over to a new owner this week.
Long-time music columnist Erica McQueen broke the news to contributors that she would be taking on both publishing and editing responsibilities, last Monday — taking the magazine into its 35th year of publication.
In order to stand in solidarity with the BLM movement in the USA, we must first acknowledge our own history of intolerance towards our Maori and Pacifika people.
Should students be living off of instant noodles and low-wage jobs or off of Government support? Azaria Howell looks at why we should be supporting tertiary students more during this crisis.
While it is understandable in this current climate that the [remembrance ceremony] was cancelled, we wanted to take the time to acknowledge what happened on March 15th, 2019, and that we have not forgotten the values we pledged to uphold one year ago.
