Punk’d Penny For Your Thoughts Peeking into Twin Peaks Helen Yeung discusses discrimination in the Rachel Berryman examines the rise of online Nikki Addison marvels over David Lynch’s alternative music scene crowdfunding mind-bending creation [1] 360° Auckland Abroad Add the world to your degree Auckland Abroad Fair Wednesday, 12th April 11 am - 3 pm in the Quad • Explore your study abroad destinations • Meet students and staff from our overseas partners • Talk to current and past exchange students • Attend a faculty exchange seminar • Learn about awards and funding www.auckland.ac.nz/360 [email protected] ISSUE SIX CONTENTS 6 10 NEWS COMMUNITY BUGGIN’ OUT REACHING FOR RAINBOWS Putting an end to pesky An interview with pathogens. RainbowYOUTH 12 18 LIFESTYLE FEATURES FIGHT THE FLU! THE ASCENSION OF ARDERN Top tips for staying healthy these Should Jacinda be Labour colder months Leader? 30 34 ARTS COLUMNS MUSIC TO YOUR EARS SUPER SCORES An exhibition of Kiwi music at Mark Fullerton gets weird with the Museum rugby stats [3] EDITORIAL Catriona Britton Samantha Gianotti What is it with chicks and horses, huh? As two people who routinely rely on Walt open at least halfway. (YouTube it. We’ll wait.) what was to come? Disney soundtracks to provide an emotional This made us very happy. Then it made us When it came to Journey 2: The Mysterious crutch in times of personal crisis (read: at least very sad. What happened to Brendan Fraser? Island, it was said that our boy Brendan wasn’t once a fortnight), we were positively fizzing When did Brendan become Bren-done? When going to jump on board for a sequel until Jour- over the prospect of a live-action remake of did this 90s hottie become a nottie? Will we ever ney to the Centre of the Earth director Eric Bre- Beauty and the Beast. Upon the film’s inter- be able to stop talking in Cosmopolitan titles? vig signed on as well. But sweet Brendan was national release, reviews were somewhat mid- The years 1995-2001 contain a handful of schtipped by one Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson dling, but with thoughts of a seven-and-a-half Brendan Fraser bangers. George of the Jungle is for the sequel’s cool-father-figure role, and Bren- foot tall half-human, half-beast (but all man, a masterpiece. The film’s central figure dances dan’s exposed biceps and fingerless gloves were amirite ladies), we held out hope. It was just around a bonfire with a mere swathe of fabric replaced by a slick bald head and bouncing pec- last week that this tweet passed across our feed: asunder around his waist; he cares not for rigid torals. Slowly, he slipped out of the spotlight, social norms, and was coated in such an even not quite fading into obscurity, but hanging on “@Lana_Wallie: In beauty and the beast sheen for the entire film that it must have been the fringes—showing up regularly enough to Matthew Crawley has long hair and he someone’s job to lather his abdominal wall with remind us what fun we used to have with him looks like George of the Jungle” EVOO every morning. It was filled with self-ref- and now we just feel kind of sad because we erential self awareness that its 2003 successor don’t have fun anymore, like the glad-wrapped If we were fizzing before, you could colour us fair (sans Brendan, mind you) couldn’t even dream egg sandwich you found at the bottom of your well frothing over this news. With new-found of achieving. The Mummy films (the first one, schoolbag after a long weekend, heartbroken by vigour, we packed our bags and girded our loins, plus Returns, not the shithouse third one that its wasted potential. Now The Mummyfranchise trundling down to Event Cinemas to pay a cool dared to recast Rachel Weisz) are filled with is being rebooted under Tom Cruise’s tutelage, $278 for a student ticket and a single kernel of shitty casual racism that dates them pretty sig- and the first trailer seems to suggest the film will corn that we were to sit on and pop ourselves nificantly, but they were schweet action films be taking itself very seriously, replacing goofs and using the heat of our own posteriors, ready to that inspired some of us to consider seriously a joke-em-ups with the opening riff of “Paint it witness Dan Stevens in all his Tarzanian glory. career in archaeology (and the desert climate Black” repeated over and over (and over) the top Of course, we had to wait one hundred provided Brendan with another setting to get of muted colours and serious, stoic faces. and twenty-eight minutes out of the film’s one nice and sweaty). As the 2000s continued, the If the recent Kong: Skull Island is anything to hundred and twenty-nine minute runtime for bangers were few and far between—Looney go by, there is still room for fun in action films, Beast to turn back into a human (spoilers). We Tunes: Back in Action is alright if you, perhaps, puncturing the shadow cast by gritty superhero sat (atop our yet unpopped kernels) with bated block one ear, squint and hum under your breath reboots and movies where aliens find all new breath, waiting for the moment to arrive. And so you can’t really make out more than some co- manner of horrific ways to rip people to death. arrive it did. As the Prince stood in his white un- loured shapes while you watch it; Journey to the There’s still room for Brendan, in our films and dershirt and what appeared to be a pair of eigh- Centre of the Earth didn’t have much going for in our hearts. Brendan Fraser: the loinclothed teenth-century jorts, he bore a striking resem- it, besides Brendan’s fingerless climbing gloves. larrikin we deserve, and the one we need right blance to Brendan Fraser in the scene in George Despite a dearth of character development or now. ◆ of the Jungle where our titular hero runs about quality writing or good direction, these films among a herd of horses in dazzling slow motion, were carried through by Brendan’s charm—he hair blowing in the breeze, billowing white shirt was trying his darndest. How were we to know [5] NEWS Auckland Motels Given $1.3 Million To House Homeless BY ELOISE SIMS Figures recently obtained by Checkpoint with people “when all other options are exhausted, growth in homelessness, would be used up in John Campbell show that the homelessness to provide a short-term solution,” according 15 months alone. crisis has reached new depths in Auckland, to Associate Social Housing Minister, Alfred In speaking with Craccum, Salvation with the government granting five Auckland Ngaro. Army Social Policy Unit Director Ian Hut- motels over $1.3 million in three months to However, the recent charted rise in the son said that such demand reflected years of provide emergency housing for the homeless. number of New Zealand’s homeless has poor planning and investment in affordable Overall, according to the figures, the meant that demand for the grants is growing housing. government approved 8860 grants to 2616 rapidly. Last year, a study conducted by the “There is no quick fix to this unfortu- homeless people from October to December University of Otago showed that the rise in nately high level of need, and expenditure on last year, at a total cost of over $7.7 million. homelessness was outstripping New Zea- emergency accommodation will continue for The Budget Travellers Inn in Papatoetoe land’s population growth, with numbers of some time.” received $351,958 in these grants, provided those sleeping rough increasing by 25% from “Commitment to a long-term plan with by the Ministry of Social Development—the 2006–2013. appropriate investment in affordable housing largest of any emergency housing provider in Radio New Zealand has estimated that over the next decade is what is needed to rem- New Zealand. if the current level of demand for emergency edy the current situation.” Recently, manager Alok Tulsankar said grants stays the same, the government will The Salvation Army have also said they in an interview with the New Zealand Herald spend more than $30 million per year placing are currently still experiencing significant that 14 of the inn’s 42 rooms were housing the homeless in hotels and motels. demand from families needing emergency people with emergency grants, including This means the government’s four-year accommodation, and urge concerned Kiwis 22–25 children. emergency grant budget of $41 million, to get involved in their Red Shield Appeal The grants are designed to be given to unveiled last year in response to the rapid from the 1st–7th May. ◆ Greens Propose “Public Interest” Journalism Fund BY MICHAEL CALDERWOOD The Green Party has proposed investing sources would be contestable, and the party person, Gareth Hughes. $3 million a year in a Public Interest Jour- believes it would help address the lack of “Government can play a role in making nalism Fund, should they be elected into public interest journalism in New Zealand, sure those stories are being told and those government. which the party says the commercial media voices are being heard.” The fund would provide resources for market is incapable of doing. New Zealand has the second lowest freely available journalism projects and sal- The fund would be administered by per-capita spending on public broadcasting aries for specialist journalists.