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Chris Kraus isn't Done With Wellington
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- WILL IRVINE in conversation with CHRIS KRAUS Over the summer, I had the rare pleasure of being able to interview Chris Kraus. Most people...
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We Found Love (Community) in a Hopeless Place (Law School)
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- Ethan Rogacion (he/him) Ahh, the Old Government Building. Home of a bizarre exhibition about the history of the public service, an...
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Hunger Pangs: Trying To Find Food on Campus
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- Will Irvine (he/him) It’s become a truism at this point that developing an in-person study routine is crucial to ensuring academic...
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Tūhototia! - Connecting tauira between campuses
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- By Manaia Barns (Ngāti Tūwharetoa ki Kawerau, Te Arawa Whānui) Being a tauira Māori at Te Herenga Waka can be challenging; new systems...
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The State of the (Student) Union
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- By Emma Maguire (they/them) You might know the Student Union Building from its greatest hits; excellent pizza from the Hunter Lounge,...
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Saigon Sex Abuse Restaurant Gone - Or Is It?
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- Will Irvine (he/him), Maya Field (she/her) Saigon, the Willis Street restaurant where two employees were sexually abused by government...
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Mansions and Slums at the Heart of Kelburn Campus
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- By Maya Field and Georgia Wearing If you ever needed a visual metaphor for the prosperity gap in Aotearoa, or even globally, you can...
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Navigating My Mixed Feelings About OGB
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- By Emma Barnes-Wetere (Ngāti Maniapoto, Tainui) The Old Government Buildings (OGB) stand as an imposing relic of colonial rule - one that...
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Post-Code Switching
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- Jia Sharma (she/her) I once had to rush from a Tort Law lecture about false imprisonment at Pipitea to a film screening of The Princess...
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Instagram Woke Up and Chose Violence
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- Fergus Goodall-Smith (he/him) On Wednesday February 26th, Instagram reels switched to demon time. Millions of users started encountering...
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Government Plays the Blame Game
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- by Darcy Lawrey The “parent/child” relationship between local government and central government being outdated was the key message of...
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Chris Hipkins wants us to trust our democracy again
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- Dan Moskovitz (he/him) When democratic precedent is eroded by one government, it provides the next government with a problem. Do they try...
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A Tale of Two Campuses
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- Shay McEwan. (she / her) Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Ngāti Pāhauwera, Ngāti Porou There is no greater divide at Te Herenga Waka than that...
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Three Spells
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- Jackson McCarthy (he/him) Make me of the body spell And even if the night were bad, how could I want the wanting day, everything in...
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Big road can hurt you
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- Dan Moskovitz (he/him) A recent study by the University of Otago found that New Zealand’s automobile industry (Big Road) lobbies...
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Liquor laws? I hardly know ‘er!
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- Darcy Lawrey (he/him) If you’re one of the many freshers starting your study at VUW you were probably excited to kick off the year with...
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James Cameron Thinks Welly’s Film Sector is in a Slump
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- Fergus Goodall Smith (he/him) Last Wednesday, James ‘Jim’ Cameron, director of Avatar and Titanic, took to the stage at the Michael...
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The future of public transport is expensive
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- Dan Moskovitz, He/Him Public transport is about to get more expensive, thanks to the government’s policies. The cost of each public...
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Anti-Fascist Reflections on the Labour Struggle
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- By the Pōneke Anti-Fascist Coalition. The battle for workers’ rights is a fundamentally anti-fascist kaupapa. In their struggle for...
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Student Communism: Who the hell cares?
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- Kennedy Dailey (She/Her) At the pub quiz, on a particularly intoxicated Tuesday, I met a guy wearing a t-shirt of Che Guevara’s portrait...
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Te Hau ki Tūranga
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- Mā te kimi ka kite Mā te kite ka mōhio Mā te mōhio ka mārama” (Seek and discover. Discover and know. Know and become...
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Tales from the retirement village
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- Words by Maya Field (she/her) When I told people that I worked in a retirement village, specifically a bartender in a retirement village,...
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The Living Wage
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- Improving workers’ lives under a hostile government William Bell-Purchas (he/him) Over the last year, the National–Act–New Zealand First...
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Carrying Home on Their Backs: The Price Of Migration
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- SAAD AAMIR (He/Him) The myth of Atlas has fascinated people since antiquity— a man condemned to bear the crushing weight of the world for...
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Review: Don The Monsta
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- GEORGE HARRIS (HE/HIM) What do Jamiroquai dance routines, a chair of Monster cans, and a lengthy game of beer pong have in common? They...
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Review: Compromise
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- GUY VAN EGMOND Compromise , let me tell you, did not. The show’s four separate plays—the product of collaboration between two young and...
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Review: Tecuani
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- GUY VAN EGMOND (He/They) Tecuani has to be, hands down, one of the most impressive shows of this year’s Fringe Festival. Bringing...
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Friedrich’s Ulcer
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- Bob van Beek Self-hygiene had never been one of Friedrich’s strengths. This fact is most readily apparent in his oral region, which,...
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Behind The Decks
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- Jia Sharma (she/her) O-Week is often described as one of the cornerstones of the first-year experience. But while the money management...
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