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Wellington’s Only Progressive Mayoral Candidate? An Interview with Alex Baker
By Darcy Lawrey (he/him) If you’ve been following the Wellington mayoral race, you’ve likely heard about Ray Chung, Andrew Little and...
OPINION: Poo? Nah. (The Terrifying Toilets in Ngā Mokopuna)
By James Hornsby Ngā Mokopuna is the hot new eco-warrior kid on campus. If you're not familiar with the building, it "aspires" to meet a...
Opinion | If We Can Watch a Child Starve on Screen and Feel Nothing
By Phoebe Robertson TW: Death, Starvation, Genocide It’s July. The world moves on. Gaza does not. Over a thousand people have now been...
OPINION: The Closure of Te Auaha Is a Cultural Loss We Can’t Afford
Words by: Em Maguire (they/them) On July 16, it was announced that Te Kahui Aūaha, Whitireia/Weltec’s creative campus on Dixon St in...
People’s Select Committee Gives Parliament a Piece of Their Mind
by Will Irvine At 9am on Tuesday morning, community organisers from around Te-Whanganui-A-Tara gathered outside the steps of Parliament...
Who is Behind Independent Together? Whaling, Tobacco, and Conspiracy Theories.
By Darcy Lawrey (he/him) With roughly 100 days to go until Wellington will elect a new council, it’s likely you’ve spotted Independent...
WCC decides to enforce its own rules
By Dan Moskovitz Wellington City Council and scandal are two peas in a pod. WCC councillors and scandal practically share the same bed....
It’s a Renters World, and We’re…Not Living in it?
By Fergus Goodall Smith You may have seen headlines telling you that Wellington rental prices are dropping, that it’s a renter’s market,...
Getting Methy – New Zealand’s changing drug market
By Darcy Lawrey (he/him) Trigger Warning: Discusses drug use. Testing of New Zealand’s wastewater over the last year has revealed an...
Opinion: Can Chris Hipkins Pull it Off?
By Walter Hamer Zamalis The 2023 New Zealand general election was one in which Aotearoa saw nothing in its future, and so voted according...
The Dark Underbelly of Unregulated Gambling Advertising, and How it’s Affecting Students
Fergus Goodall Smith Over the past year, you may have noticed something change in the behaviour of advertisements on the platforms you...
Little’s Big Launch
By Darcy Lawrey (he/him) Last Saturday, Labour-endorsed Mayoral candidate Andrew Little and his team packed out Te Raukura convention...
Interview: Lower Hutt Mayor Campbell Barry on the Living Wage
By Walter Hamer Zamalis Scrapping pay equity can be loud, but silence is usually louder. A noticeably empty chair sat on in a packed St...
Demand for Student Finance Services Spike
By Dan Moskovitz In 2021, every financial hardship scholarship the university offers received an average of 67 applications. In 2025,...
How will DoC protect native birds from bird flu?
By Dan Moskovitz H5N1 bird flu has caused devastation in equal part both to poultry birds and wild birds. Only Australia, Aotearoa, and...
OPINION: Students Left Confused and Disoriented After Being Asked to Leave University
By Will Irvine On May 1st, as we went to print on our most recent issue, Metservice issued an emergency “red” wind warning. The...
OPINION: Is there such a thing as too many cookies?
by Anon Recently Salient ran an ad for the Cookie Time Christmas Cookie Sellers initiative, and I felt the call to action. The call to...
UC Security Injures Students Protesting “Armament” Investments
By Darcy Lawrey (he/him) Protestors who rallied outside of UC vice chancellor Cheryl de la Rey’s office on the 1 st of the month left...
VUWSA to campaign on more job opportunities for students
By Dan Moskovitz In what will surely come as breaking news to all, getting a job in Wellington is downright difficult. As a student, even...

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