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10/02/2025

Submissions for our second issue of 2025 are open! The theme "MATIHIKO" / "TECH" can be interpreted in any way that you like 👩🏻‍💻

Pitches are due Monday the 17th of February!
Pieces are due Monday the 24th of February!

If there are any delays or caveats, don't stress, just let us know.

Where to send your submissions (see slide 2):
(Essays, investigations, short stories)
(Māori issues, creatives, projects)
(Reporting on AUT, Auckland, & student issues)
(Interviews, music, discussions, reviews)
(Illustration, photography, painting)
(Videos, podcasts, web exclusives)n (Comics, weird s**t, miscellaneous)

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04/02/2025

Having a problem with a big life decision? Need some relationship advice? Have a question you'd like pondered? Come spill the tea with Aunty Tashi, Debate Magazine's Feature Editor, so she can give you advice.

The "Spill the Tea with Tashi" Column will be published in each new issue of Debate Magazine, and on debatemag.com.

Queries can be submitted completely anonymously via the form on our website at debatemag.com/spill-the-tea.

Alternatively to the form, you can send an email directly to Tashi Donnelly at [email protected].

31/01/2025

Confused about where to send your pitches? Swipe through to find out exactly what each of our staff works on!

Submissions for #1: Whakakāinga / Home are open now!

• Features ➡️ ➡️ [email protected]
• Te Ao Māori ➡️ ➡️ [email protected]
• News ➡️ ➡️ [email protected]
• Arts & Culture ➡️ ➡️ [email protected]
• Graphic Design ➡️ ➡️ [email protected]
• Digital ➡️ ➡️ [email protected]
• Miscellaneous ➡️ .n ➡️ [email protected]

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28/01/2025

Submissions for our first issue of 2025 are open! The theme "WHAKAKĀINGA" / "HOME" can be interpreted in any way that you like 🏠

Pitches are due Monday the 3rd of February!
Pieces are due Monday the 10th of February!

If there are any delays or caveats, don't stress, just let us know.

See slide two for where to send your submissions, we'll be posting a full submission guide here and to our website soon.

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23/01/2025

Meet Team Debate 2025! Some returning faces, and some new ones!
We have:
Editor-in-Chief: .n
Graphic Designer:
Te ao Māori Editor:
Feature Editor:
News Editor:
Arts & Culture Editor:
Social Media Coordinator:

05/12/2024

Kia ora! We’re opening applications to join the team at Debate in 2024. These roles are part time, and great stepping stones into the media industry. Former contributors and staff of Debate are highly encouraged to apply.

Please send through your CV, cover letter, preferred role and portfolio to [email protected].

Feel free to email EIC [email protected] if you have any further questions.

07/11/2024

FEATURE: “I often get a wistful feeling while listening to music or watching a film made before I was born. The haunting, anxiety-inducing synths of the original Terminator soundtrack; the grainy, saturated hues of a film like The Warriors or To Live and Die in L.A; the bustling soundscapes of a neighbourhood park during the early 1990s - all of these vignettes conjure up an odd sensation in my mind. It is a feeling of missing out on something important, of having lost something that was never mine to begin with. It is a nostalgia for a time that one never even experienced - a feeling described by the writer John Koenig as ‘anemoia’.”

Read the full article by Stu Paul with illustrations from at debatemag.com - link in bio.

06/11/2024

ESSAY: “When I decided to move abroad I knew I’d miss my family, my friends, the food, and the city where I lived for 30 years. But nothing prepared me to miss the small things about the house where I spent most of my life and how that would shape who I want to be.

I’ve dreamt of the house I grew up in almost every day since it sold six years ago. It reminds me of simpler times, times when my family were all together. Times when I could shut my door and enter a world of my own, completely under my control, where no one was allowed to disrupt it, and I miss it. Now I live in a house with three other people. I share a room with my boyfriend and nothing is totally mine anymore; only the drawer filled with mementoes still carries a sense of who I am. “

Read the full article from at debatemag.com - link in bio.

29/10/2024

“Upon first glance, Justine Kurland’s Orchard (1998) spells something idyllic. A field, a fruit tree with girls hanging from its boughs, all of which evoked nostalgia for cold waterholes, lilting breezes, dark purple of cool plums, crumbling bark and the sweaty crooks of limbs. Beneath the surface of its simple beauty, the photograph seemed to hold a simmering energy that gnawed at me. When I first laid eyes upon it, I ached to understand.“

Read the essay by .torrance at debatemag.com - link in bio.

28/10/2024

FEATURE: “Many of us grew up with the internet, giving us a high-definition look back at the content that helped us through adolescence: breakups, sporting failures, and hours avoiding guests in our darkened bedrooms. And that’s precisely what we, Henry and Luke, did.

We had similar tastes in content growing up. Sports YouTube. We worshipped channels like the Sidemen, ChrisMD, Dude Perfect, and football compilation creators. We wanted to explore the supposed superiority of yesteryear’s content. Are the jokes still funny, or were we just ignorant kids snickering at anything edgy?”

Read the full article by .lee11 and

23/10/2024

COMIC: Social Media Co-ordinator illustrates and writes about her past lives in her last comic for Debate in 2024 ✨

Read the full piece at debatemag.com - link in bio.

16/10/2024

CULTURE: “Picture this: It’s the early 2000s. Frosted tips are still a thing, flip phones are the height of cool, and suddenly, this sleek brick called an iPod drops into our laps like a gift from the tech gods.

There I am, fumbling with the packaging like a kid on Christmas morning, ready to cram my entire music library into something smaller than a muesli bar. And let me tell you, that first iPod was a game changer.”

Read the full piece from contributor at debatemag.com - link in bio.

14/10/2024

ENTERTAINMENT: “I have always yearned for the past. But as I’ve aged, that feeling has intensified. I’m now 24. With each birthday comes grief for what I’ve left behind.

My high school years were miserable. Instead of socialising, I spent lunchtimes in the hallway of the science block. I’d watch YouTube or scroll Reddit. I dreaded waking up each morning and wallowed in my sadness, listening to Lil Peep on my commute.

But I now oddly mourn and ache for this period of my life. Perhaps this is the curse of adulthood, as life is no longer as simple as it once was. Was your life better ten years ago? Nostalgia says yes.”

Read the full piece from Entertainment Editor at debatemag.com - link in bio.

13/10/2024

ARTS: “As I sat at my desk, in my hoodie and track pants, brothers Oli and Louis from the hit band Lime Cordiale were on their way to an early morning surf. Where? The frigid Cornwall countryside.

The pair had made friends with some locals, who offered to take them to a hidden beach. Looking out the window behind them, I saw nothing but overcast skies—they have an unwavering commitment to surfing. Cornwall beaches are Antarctic in comparison to Bondi or Bronte Beach. The Aussie spirit never leaves you, even when you’re halfway across the world. “We make a point of sightseeing everywhere we go.”

Read the full piece by contributor at debatemag.com - link in bio.

11/10/2024

ARTS: Contributors , ._.banerjee, and Arts Editor teamed up to report from the runway of with photographs by .

Read the full piece at debatemag.com - link in bio.

09/10/2024

CENTREFOLD: took on our last centrefold of the year, showcasing the runaway at 💃

see the full centrefold and more at debatemag.com !! link in bio 🕺

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