Youth
Cheap rent, compromise and stigma: What it's like living with your parents in your 30s
Is it time we get over the stigma of living with your parents as an adult?
‘It's hard without your family’: Teens tell us about living on Auckland's streets
Young and The Reckless is a new documentary about teens who lived on Auckland’s streets.
Gen Z are way less likely to be straight
"There is a sexual revolution happening and Gen Z are at the heart of it."
Smokefree 2025: A generation of New Zealanders will never be able to legally purchase cigarettes
The Government unveils its plan for a Smokefree Aotearoa
‘I felt pressured to go to uni’: Better career advice for teenagers could prevent dropouts
Former uni student says better career advice at high school could help prevent students dropping out
‘We are not drowning, we are fighting’: powerful indigenous speeches from the global climate…
"This COP, learn our histories, listen to our stories, honour our knowledge."
Vapes just make vaping more common, don’t decrease smoking rates, research shows
New research shows the impact of vaping on university students.
'I went from having nothing, to having something.' Homeless rangatahi on being housed during…
Rangatahi who found homes during lockdown after experiencing homelessness share their stories
With Delta spreading, should young people kiss their OE goodbye?
When you’re young there is often this perfect window for traveling overseas.
NZ has around 19,000 homeless young people. Lockdown leaves them vulnerable to abuse and harm
It is estimated that half of New Zealand’s 41,000 homeless are under the age of 25.
How playing really loud music on Auckland’s streets is bridging gang divides
“Look at us now, this is pretty wicked."
Only 37% of young NZers think life is fair, compared to 54% of boomers
New research looks at the fairness of life between younger and older New Zealanders
New regulation to stop teenagers vaping comes into force today
It aims to protect young people and non-smokers from the potential dangers of vaping.
New Instagram settings designed to protect younger users
All Instagram accounts for those aged under 16 are now private by default.
Young people are less likely to know their consumer rights
Here are some things you may not know about consumer law.
75% of young people in detention facilities have not yet been sentenced
“The talk is crime, crime, crime” - the deep problems with our youth detention centres.
A third of young people develop a mental health problem after a concussion, new research shows
The literature review involved nearly 90,000 under 18-year-olds in nine countries including NZ.
Teens should get special contraception consults, study says
Researchers say contraceptives should be proactively offered to teenagers.
The study Proactively Providing Contraception to New Zealand Adolescents from the University of Otago was published on Tuesday…
The Dunedin band asking 'what are we going to do with all this shit?'
Dunedin Doom Pop duo Night Lunch’s new track ‘House Full of Shit’ really connects with the consumerist nightmare we are all living in.
“What are we going…
Only a quarter of NCEA students say they’re coping after Covid
Covid-19 caused significant disruption to schools, according to new reports released today by the Education Review Office.
Secondary students are struggling most, with only 26 percent of…
People in their 20s have Covid-19 the most, but it’s not because we’re irresponsible
Despite popular belief, experts say it isn’t because young people are rebelling against lockdown more than others. There’s actually a pretty simple explanation.
Sophie’s phone lit up…