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What’s in the Budget for young people

1 month ago | renews.co.nz | Anna Harcourt

Here’s some of the key things impacting young people in the government’s 2025 budget. From July 2027, single unemployed 18 and 19 year olds will need to do a “parental assistance test” to qualify for the Jobseeker or Emergency benefit.
Wanting to control your life is normal. Controlling your relationship is not

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

Feeling a need for power and control over our own lives is normal – healthy, even. Getting your shit together feels good, and having ownership over your decisions feels good, but when this need for control crosses over into your relationship things can get ugly. This article is part of our new series on healthy relationships, sponsored by Love Better.
How to help when your friend has a controlling partner

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

Realising a friend is in a controlling relationship can bring on intense feelings of rage. We wanna bust into the partner's bedroom and berate them, to make them feel as small as they’ve made our friend feel. This article is part of our new series on healthy relationships, sponsored by Love Better. We want to hold our friend tight and tell them we won’t ever let anyone hurt them. We want them to leave, immediately. But it’s rarely that simple.
three people share their stories

2 months 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

2 months 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

Mar 5, 2025 | 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

Feb 28, 2025 | 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

Feb 25, 2025 | 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

Feb 23, 2025 | 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

Feb 21, 2025 | 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.