Re:hearsal Room: Swizl Jager
Swizl Jager is all about using as much te reo in his music as he can. He talks about "keeping it reo" and the joys of…
Who are Rohingya refugees and why is their country going to court for genocide?
The UN calls the Rohingya "the most persecuted minority in the world." Although they have lived in the land now known as Myanmar for hundreds of…
Rediscovering Aotearoa: Kōrero and Coffee
This week we launched the final episode of Rediscovering Aotearoa – a decolonisation series.
Here are some highlights from our panel chat about decolonisation and race relations.…
A Day in the Life of an Intern: The Warehouse
You need work experience to get a job, but you need a job to get work experience. It's the age-old conundrum that continues to stump uni…
NZ's best new filmmaker of the year shares her top 5 films of all time
Matasila Freshwater, winner of the 2019 SPADA (Screen Production and Development Association) award for New Filmmaker of the Year, sat down with Re: to share her…
Rediscovering Aotearoa: Manatika | Justice
A Pākehā criminal lawyer sits down with a Māori former-prisoner to talk about Aotearoa’s justice system. Awatea Mita was jailed for a non-violent drug crime. She…
Exploring queer identity through stripping
"Honey is soft, Honey is sweet," and Honey is a performer at Bodyhaus, a collective of queer strippers. Honey AKA Logan Collis talks about undermining the…
Re:hearsal Room: Raiza Biza
What's it like to move to NZ and feel the pressure to fulfill the classic immigrant's tale? That is: get educated, make lots of money and…
A Day in the Life of an Intern: Burger King
53% of young bachelor grads go straight from study into work. Internships can help make that first career move a lot smoother. We spent the day…
Rediscovering Aotearoa: Aroha | Love
Tyla is a 28-year-old from Ngāi Tahu who converted to Islam six years ago. Saba is Pakistani, and moved to Aotearoa when she was eight. They…
Stupid Robot Fighting
Stupid Robot Fighting is even more amazing than it sounds. There's no good explanation for it so you really just have to see this NZ invented…
Staying Safe Online
Online shopping scams are everywhere, just ask Jack - he was scammed when trying to buy a ticket to a gig. You can’t be too careful…
Rediscovering Aotearoa: Whānau | Family
When he was four weeks old, Mana was placed into foster care. The first years of his life were marked with fear, violence and isolation as…
NZ Music Awards: Breaking Down the Breakthrough Artist of the Year
Stylist to the stars Sammy Salsa takes us through a night at the Vodafone NZ Music Awards following the nominees for Breakthrough Artist of the Year…
The Only Kiwi at PAX Melbourne Takes on Australia’s Best Gamers
This Marvel vs Capcom gamer is competing overseas for the first time - and he's the only Kiwi around. Isaac ‘IsaacFromDC’ Bishop is putting New Zealand…
Boxing for Parkinson's
Parkinson's disease isn't stopping these people from throwing hands. We visit a boxing programme in Nelson especially for people with this condition that affects one in…
Illustrator Ruby Jones on Going Viral and the Power of Drawing Kindness
After the Christchurch terror attacks, Ruby Jones illustrated two people hugging with the words, "This is your home and you should have been safe here." The…
Rediscovering Aotearoa: Hauora | Health
Medicine student Aniket Chawla is welcomed into a rongoā Māori wānanga (course) at Motatau Marae, near Kawakawa in Northland. He meets Juan and Tahjai Brown, twins…
Surfing for mental health
When Restoke founder Hayden Thorpe gets on a surfboard, he feels alive. He wants to help others capture that feeling as well, and maybe alleviate their…
Why we love fighting games
Gamers talk about their love for Street Fighter V, Mortal Kombat and just fighting games in general while they're in Auckland to compete at Southern Crossup…
The green fairy advocating for medicinal cannabis
'Green Fairy' Rose Renton successfully campaigned for her son Alex, then 19, to be the first person to receive a medicinal cannabidiol product in New Zealand.…
Rediscovering Aotearoa: Takatāpui | LGBTQIA+
Gender diversity was an accepted part of Māori and Pacific societies before colonisation. But European Christian values brought stigma and shame. Jaimie Waititi and Falencie Filipo…
New Zealand police show us their tattoos
We get tattoos for all sorts of reasons - to carry our loved ones with us, to symbolise our heritage and to express who we are.…
Last of the Mountain Gorillas
We ventured deep into the jungles of Uganda to catch a rare glimpse at one of the most endangered animals of the planet: the Mountain Gorillas.…
Student Side Hustles: Necta
After creating a brand for a marketing assignment at AUT, Noor and Jesse took their idea out of the classroom and into the real world. Necta…
Rediscovering Aotearoa: Mātauranga | Knowledge
There are 110 statues or monuments in Wellington, but only 10 of those represent Māori narratives. Two strangers, Safari Hynes and Peter McKenzie, meet to discuss…
Michel Mulipola is the 'Bloody Samoan' comic book artist
Michel Mulipola is the 'Bloody Samoan'. It's a derogatory term he heard a lot growing up, but he's now reappropriated it as a moniker in his…
The City of Garbage
In Manshiyat Naser, a ward on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt, is an area known as the City of Garbage. Here, the Zabbaleen - which translates…
The writer of the book that inspired Jojo Rabbit
Christine Leunens is the author of Caging Skies, the book that was adapted into the movie Jojo Rabbit by director Taika Waititi. She tells us about…
Rediscovering Aotearoa: Reo | Language
Ngā Hinepūkōrero are a group of champion slam poets fluent in te reo. They meet Takunda Muzondiwa, who moved to Aotearoa from Zimbabwe as a child,…
