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Top 10 stories of the month - July 2016

11:11 am on 31 July 2016

In case you missed something, here are our most read (and watched!) stories for the month.

 

    Are you sick of making chit chat and silly jokes about the housing crisis? Toby Morris is. Photo: Unknown

    A new photography project explores what living on $176.86 per week really looks like. Photo: Unknown

    The potential to make millions off international students has led to an industry marred by fraud, lies and bad policy.  Photo: Unknown

  1. INSIDE THE INDUSTRY SENDING INDIAN STUDENTS TO NEW ZEALAND (VIDEO) 

    Thousands of Indian students come to study in New Zealand every year. The Wireless went to the source to find out why these young, ambitious people are coming to our shores.

  2. Notes on losing a sibling to suicide. By Harrison Christian.  Photo: Unknown

    Chelsea Thomson, 23, is asexual. Grey-sexual with hetero-romantic and autochorissexual tendencies, to be exact. She explains what that means when it comes to finding love.  Photo: 1232RF

    Every two years, the Gloriavale Christian Community welcomes 6000 people to watch a four-hour concert extravaganza. Katie Scotcher and three friends went there to check out the show, Candlelight Castle, in the community’s own dining hall. Photo: Image: Cody Packer

    We talk to four people under 30 who have put their hands up to change their cities. Photo: Unknown

    Paul Stevens, 28, comes from a devoutly Baptist family who believe homosexuality is a sin. This is what happened when he realised he was gay. Photo: 1232RF

    Following the Brexit vote, London just doesn’t feel the same for some of the 200,000 Kiwis living there. Photo: AFP