Jul 41 min read
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....
By Dan Moskovitz Wellington City Council and scandal are two peas in a pod. WCC councillors and scandal practically share the same bed....
By Fergus Goodall Smith You may have seen headlines telling you that Wellington rental prices are dropping, that it’s a renter’s market,...
By Darcy Lawrey (he/him) Trigger Warning: Discusses drug use. Testing of New Zealand’s wastewater over the last year has revealed an...
By Walter Hamer Zamalis The 2023 New Zealand general election was one in which Aotearoa saw nothing in its future, and so voted according...
Fergus Goodall Smith Over the past year, you may have noticed something change in the behaviour of advertisements on the platforms you...
By Darcy Lawrey (he/him) Last Saturday, Labour-endorsed Mayoral candidate Andrew Little and his team packed out Te Raukura convention...
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...
By Dan Moskovitz In 2021, every financial hardship scholarship the university offers received an average of 67 applications. In 2025,...
By Dan Moskovitz H5N1 bird flu has caused devastation in equal part both to poultry birds and wild birds. Only Australia, Aotearoa, and...
By Will Irvine On May 1st, as we went to print on our most recent issue, Metservice issued an emergency “red” wind warning. The...
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...
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...
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...
Providing lists of resources is essential when advocating for sexual harm awareness. However, speaking as a person who has accessed some...
By Darcy Lawrey (he/him) “VuW: Meaningful Confessions” is a bit of a Vic institution. Scrolling through the page’s posts you’ll come...
Fergus Goodall Smith Along State Highway 1, in the midst of Wellington suburbia, there lies an intersection. So terrible and so powerful...
By Darcy Lawrey (he/him) Mayor Tory Whanau has shaken up the upcoming Wellington local elections with a surprise announcement on Tuesday...
By MAYA FIELD An ironic, and slightly metaphorical, shitshow has been brought to our attention: the women’s bathroom opposite Mauri Ora...
Fergus Goodall Smith On the 11 th of April, secondary students from the surrounding Wellington region will gather to march on...
By Dan Moskovitz Vic’s Disabled Students Association is accusing Metlink of breaching the human rights of disabled persons, with on-bus...
