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The Bloke Who Animated the Apocalypse
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- When Charlie Faulks talks about animation, it’s with a kind of unstudied inevitability. “It was just always there,” he says. “I didn’t have to force myself to like it. It was just this passion that formed very quickly.”
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Tue, 8:41p.m.
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- For Ali It was something about it, Just sitting there — cat curled into a comma against my thighs, fridge humming softly in the...
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Vanishing Enrolment Records Spark Fears of Voter Suppression
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- Colden Sapir (they/them) Voters’ enrolment records are disappearing into thin air. The Electoral commission claims that they are being...
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ACT MP Moves to Criminalize Harmful Deepfakes, Citing a Dangerous Gap in NZ Law
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- CW: Self Harm, Revenge Porn When first-term ACT MP Laura McClure stood in Parliament and held up a blurred, nude AI-generated image of...
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Meet the Pres: Aidan Donoghue
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- By Darcy Lawrey (he/him) The day I interviewed Aidan Donoghue, the 2026 VUWSA president, he was already getting stuck into the job...
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Stolen Speakers and Vandalised Posters: VUWSA’s Complaint-Ridden Election
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- By Darcy Lawrey (he/him) VUWSA’s election last month saw a massive jump in candidates. It was the first time more than one person ran for...
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“When that happens, PGSA fails”:PGSA in Limbo Amid Funding Cuts
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- Dan Moskovitz (he/him) The future of postgraduate representation at the university remains unclear, with a funding cut to the Post...
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Love Strands
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- A dove wisp daydream – in the reflective space of sweat and tears. A strand of hair tied around your pinkie toe murmurs "hello...
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He Mutunga, He Timatanga - Māori Students Reflect on Their Year
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- Shay McEwan (Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Ngāti Pāhauwera, Ngāti Porou) As we head into the final stretch of classes for trimester two, I wanted...
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What is our Worth?
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- TW: Violence Against Women, Domestic Violence There’s this opinion piece I’ve had in my mind for a while; since starting back at Salient...
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Maranga Mai te Ngākau Pōuri
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- Column by ISO Socialism can be a suspicious kind of politics. You’ll often find someone trailing the money, or exposing some hidden...
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The Radium Girls
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- TW: Medical Neglect, Graphic Content There’s a photograph I can’t stop seeing: A small house in Illinois, 1938. A woman, Catherine...
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Tough on Crime, Except When It’s Me
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- On March 4, 2024, I was sexually assaulted by members of a visiting Vietnamese delegation. I was an international student from the U.S., far from home but trying to build a life in Aotearoa, a place I believed could be safe for me.
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Opinion: Why Should I Believe You This Time?
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- On Wednesday, October 1, 2025, Detective Scott Rankin called me into the Wellington Police station. I hadn’t heard a word from him since February, when Stuff was told an extradition file was being prepared for the Vietnamese officials who sexually assaulted me. At 6:30 p.m., sitting in a bland police office under fluorescent lights, Rankin told me the file was being dropped.
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To someone by no one…
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- I adorn your face from multiple lifetimes. Do you recognise me as yours? My voice resembles yours in one sentence, Did I sound...
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When We Were Fish
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- By Emily Johnston When we were fish, it wasn’t practical to love. Fish need food, fish need to reproduce, fish need to swim, and then...
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What’s at Stake?
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- By VUW International Socialists / ISO Is there any point in voting in local elections? Yes! And let’s stay active in other ways too....
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Priests Chain Themselves to the Office of Nicola Willis in Solidarity with Gaza
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- Te Urukeiha Tuhua (he/they/ia, Tūhoe) “ We pray for our elected officials and for our MPs May they let themselves see the suffering and...
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A Whale’s Call in an Empty Room
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- By Ryan Cleland “One in ten people in New Zealand live alone.” These were among the first words spoken at A Show for When You Feel Lonely...
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Tiaki I Ā Koe Anō – Looking After Yourself This Study Period
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- Nā Taipari Taua (Muriwhenua, Ngāpuhi) It’s that time of year—exams are looming, lecturers are breathing down your neck, your to-do list...
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Opinion: Austerity is Whatever I Want It To Be
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- By Dan Moskovitz (he/him) The debacle over Wellington’s City to Sea bridge, which links civic square to the waterfront, has been going...
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Home Ground: Art and Incarceration
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- “You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time”—Angela Davis For the past...
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The Rebrand of Addiction
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- By Sophie Cook I look back fondly on a time when smoking was gross and pokies were cringeworthy. For years, attitudes in New Zealand have...
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Opinion: AI- It’s Not Fair!
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- By Martha Schenk ( she/her) Is Turnitin really using our submissions to train its commercially generative AI? Hot on the trail of this...
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Academic Board: BDS Enshrined in VUW Policy
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- By Henry Broadbent (he/him) On Tuesday, September 23, the Academic Board of Te Herenga Waka met in the Hunter chambers. The Board—our...
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Don’t Date Musicians
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- Dating in Wellington Sucks By Georgia Wearing It’s nearly post-break-up season in Wellington — that time of year where warmer days and...
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Lived Experience Identifies “Glaring Gap” In Legal Protections for Survivors of Sexual Assault
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- There is another, less headline-grabbing element of Cook’s experience that has led her to seek Parlimentary support: the absence of readily available, publicly funded, non means-tested legal advice for survivors of sexual assault.
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Boycott, Divest, Sanction: Holding Institutions To Account
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- The struggle for Palestinian liberation has been going on for decades, and its leaders past and present have articulated many modes of solidarity. One of these is BDS: an effective and accessible way to make a material difference.
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We Asked the VUWSA Candidates!
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- Ahead of the 2025 VUWSA elections, we asked the presidential candidates two key questions to help you get to know them better. Their...
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‘Resign or Die’: A Student Candidate Faces the Threats Women in Politics Know Too Well
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- TW: Sexual Violence, Death Threats, Stalking By Phoebe Robertson On Saturday 6 September, while students were still nursing beers at The...
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