EDITORIAL | ISSUE FIVE | PUORO O AOTEAROA / LOCAL MUSIC Written by Tashi Donnelly she/her | @tashi_rd | Editor If you love plugging hot tunes directly into your ear holes, you’ve come to the right place. We’re talking about puoro o Aotearoa, local music, because our homegrown musicians deserve a spotlight, or five. So store your Taylor Swift, Olivia Dean, and even your Tame Impala in the overhead compartment, because this is a domestic flight. Destination: NZ music. These day

EDITORIAL | ISSUE FOUR/20 | RONGO Ā / DRUGS Written by Tashi Donnelly she/her | @tashi_rd | Editor Nau mai haere mai, welcome to the rongoā/drugs issue of Debate . Although the word ‘drug’ is defined by the Oxford Dictionary as ‘a medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body ’ , we tend to associate it more with recreational use than with medical use. But before we get into it, I want to take this opportunity

EDITORIAL | ISSUE THREE | WHENUA Written by Tashi Donnelly she/her | @tashi_rd | Editor We forget how unpoetic English can be as a language until we encounter words like ‘whenua’. Those words that say what English would need ten words to describe. Words like ‘wabi-sabi’ or ‘schadenfreude’. Translated into English, ‘whenua’ could mean ‘land’ or ‘homeland’. It could mean ‘Motherland’ or ‘Mother Earth’. ‘Ancestral land’ might come close. Another translation is ‘placenta’. Whenu

EDITORIAL | ISSUE TWO | WAIRUATANGA / SPIRITUALITY Written by Tashi Donnelly she/her | @tashi_rd | Editor Haere mai, welcome to issue number two. Here we will celebrate the voices, experiences, and perspectives that make our community vibrant and diverse. That’s right, we’re covering Spirituality. The existence of the human spirit, or soul, is a hot topic of debate. While some atheists question the existence of the soul, theologians study its divine nature, and agnostics rema

We’re starting off the year with a theme that can feel insurmountable: identity. It shapes our sense of self, from our bodies to our communities, spanning the personal and the political. For some, it’s a passing thought. For others, it’s a lived reality every day. And right now, identity is being weaponised.

EDITORIAL | ANAMATA / THE FUTURE Written by Liam Hansen (they/them) | @liamhanse.n | Editor-in-Chief Illustration by Stella Roper (they/she) | @dodofrenzy | Arts Editor When I began volunteering across the road at 95bFM in 2021, copies of Debate were strewn across various coffee tables, couches, and desks. They were bought over by various AUT journalism students, to be poured over by a little baby Liam in their last year of college while they poorly wrote the news bulletins

EDITORIAL | HANGA / CRAFT Written by Liam Hansen (they/them) | @liamhanse.n | Editor-in-Chief & written by Stella Roper (they/she) |...

EDITORIAL | PŪRĀKAU / MYTHOLOGY Written by Liam Hansen (they/them) | @liamhanse.n | Editor-in-Chief Illustrated by Stella Roper...

EDITORIAL | TANGATA WHENUA / LOCAL Written by Liam Hansen (they/them) | @liamhanse.n | Editor-in-Chief Illustrated by Stella Roper...

EDITORIAL | RONGOA / DRUGS Editorial by Liam Hansen (they/them) | @liamhanse.n | Editor-in-Chief Illustrated by Stella Roper (they/she)...

EDITORIAL | MATARIKI Written by Hirimaia Eketone (they/them) @hiri_music | Te Ao Māori Editor Foreword by Liam Hansen (they/them)...

EDITORIAL | AROHA / LOVE Written by Liam Hansen (they/them) | @liamhanse.n | Editor-in-Chief Illustration by Stella Roper (they/she) |...

EDITORIAL | PUORO O AOTEAROA / LOCAL MUSIC Written by Liam Hansen (they/them) | @liamhanse.n | EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Illustrated by Stella...

EDITORIAL | MAHIMAHI / SEX Written by Tashi Donnelly (she/her) | @tashi_rd | Feature Editor With forward by Liam Hansen (they/them) |...

EDITORIAL | WHENUA | TOUCHING GRASS Written by Liam Hansen (they/them) | @liamhanse.n | Editor-in-Chief Edited by Tashi Donnelly...