VICE New Zealand

VICE investigates the female experience of national politics, embedding with three women from across the political spectrum to find out what it’s like to be a female politician in 2018.

Sex workers in New Zealand have the most legal rights of anywhere in the world. VICE goes into high-end brothels, solo home operations, and on the freezing, cold streets and finds an industry of extremes and lingering stigma.

VICE follows the journey of three unlikely heroes on their pursuit to heavy metal fame as well as their internal voyage to encourage New Zealanders to revive their indigenous language - Te Reo Māori.

In this episode of Zealandia, VICE embeds with a group of youth offenders growing up among poverty, gangs and boredom and goes deep into the New Zealand bush on an early intervention programme.

Inside the lives of West Aucklanders affected by the highly addictive and gravely dangerous synthetic cannabinoid drug known as “synnies”.

For a growing community of young LGBTQ Māori and Pacific Islanders in Auckland, the vogue scene is a place of expression and sanctuary. We meet some of the scene’s breakout stars to understand how their personal journey’s intersected with voguing.