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2 days ago | renews.co.nz | Rachel Barker

Content warning: This article discusses emotional and physical abuse. With a controlling or abusive partner, it can take months, or even years, to realise the extent of the control they have over your life and how much they’ve hurt you. This article is part of our new series on healthy relationships, sponsored by Love Better. Lone actions turn to patterns and the gut feeling you have that something is wrong never goes away.
How to spot controlling behaviour in a relationship

1 week ago | renews.co.nz | Rachel Barker

Relationships are full of issues and road bumps. Some are silly and messy and part of being young and figuring out how to get it right. Some have the potential to be more dangerous and harmful. Coercive control falls into the second category. This article is part of our new series on healthy relationships, sponsored by Love Better. Coercive control is a pretty serious-sounding term, and you might know it better as “controlling behaviour”.
One in 5 young people in NZ are neurodiverse

1 month ago | renews.co.nz | Stephanie Ockhuysen

When Holly Earl read her autism diagnosis she says it was like reading a book about herself. The 18-year-old Christchurch student was diagnosed with autism and dyslexia when she was 14 which she says is early for a girl, but late overall. “I was always a shy kid but there were clear signs when the lockdown hit and my routine went away.
Getting my autism diagnosis at 16 changed my life

1 month ago | renews.co.nz | Mandy Te

“You actually have a sense of knowing who you are when you get that diagnosis.” Autism NZ says at least 128,000 New Zealanders have autism but the number could be higher because of underdiagnosis. When Charlotte Billings was six, her mum tried to get her an autism diagnosis. But she says she was dismissed by a psychologist. After that, Charlotte grew up feeling different - leading her to mask and pretend to be someone more neurotypical.
Life as a country boy in Waimana

1 month ago | renews.co.nz | Mandy Te

“Would I ever move to the city? No. Never, never, never. Just nah, I like staying in my quiet valley.” Taiwhakaea Osborne (Ngāti Awa, Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Porou, Te Aitanga-a-Materoa) is 18 and loves Waimana, a small town in the Bay of Plenty. But his desire to be a farmer means he’ll have to move away from home - and his whānau. “I got to learn to provide for myself.
Hot or Not: Whakatāne edition

2 months ago | renews.co.nz | Mandy Te

Hot or Not: Whakatāne edition Whakatāne locals tell us what’s hot (and what’s not so hot) in their small town. The Regions is a docuseries that gives a snapshot of the lives of regional rangatahi in Aotearoa and what matters to them most. Watch the series now on TVNZ+ and YouTube. Made with the support of NZ On Air. More stories from The Regions:
Life as a teen on the isolated West Coast

2 months ago | renews.co.nz | Baz Macdonald

This video discusses mental health. A quarter of New Zealanders aged between 15-25 say they are lonely - more than any other age group, the New Zealand General Social Survey found. This is most common in the regions. We follow a group of teenagers on the West Coast who have created a community where isolated young people can find purpose, place and support. The Regions is a docuseries that gives a snapshot of the lives of regional rangatahi in Aotearoa and what matters to them most.
Growing up in New Zealand’s most isolated hapū

2 months ago | renews.co.nz | Baz Macdonald

“It’s crazy to think my whānau have probably been on this stretch of coastline for 800 to 1000 years.”Te Tauraka Waka a Māui, located at the bottom of the South Island’s West Coast, is likely New Zealand’s most isolated marae. Maya Mahuika shares what it was like growing up in this beautiful, but isolated, landscape. The Regions is a docuseries that gives a snapshot of the lives of regional rangatahi in Aotearoa and what matters to them most. Watch the series now on TVNZ+ and YouTube.
Hunters fear losing their guns for seeking mental health help. They don’t have to

2 months ago | renews.co.nz | Zoe Madden-Smith

Content warning: Animal hunting, guns, mental healthHunters fear losing their guns for seeking mental health help - but they don’t have to. Misinformation around firearms license revocation has caused hunters like Brodie Green to avoid seeking help for their depression out of fear they will lose their gun license. In New Zealand, Police can revoke a firearms license if someone has unmanaged physical or mental health issues that mean they are not ‘fit and proper'.
We made a series about the lives of regional rangatahi

2 months ago | renews.co.nz | Zoe Madden-Smith

From hunting to boy racing, our new series The Regions shows what it's like to grow up in small towns. Re: journalist and one of the directors, Zoe Madden-Smith, who was born and raised in central Auckland, shares what she learnt from regional young people. I watch as Brodie Green pulls out a small scalpel from his bag and slices open the deer he shot just minutes ago.