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    • Arohanui, Carmen xx
      • Zia Ravenscroft When I first moved to Te Whanganui-a-Tara, I was entranced by the diva on the green pedestrian crossing lights around Cuba Street. A hand on her hip, hair piled high, strutting across the street like she owns it. Because she does. This is Carmen Rupe, the Queen of Wellington, New Zealand’s most famous transsexual. Arohanui, Carmen xx is a new exhibit at Wellington Museum and the first to celebrate her incredible life. I had the honour of being shown around by Lizzie Murray,...

    • Everything I learned Editing Salient for Three years
      • Students who started university in 2024 and are graduating this year probably don’t know this, but you’re not really supposed to have the same Salient editor for three years. The last person to edit the magazine for more than one year did so in 2000 and 2001. So, yes, it has been a while. And, thanks to a slightly strange series of circumstances that brought me back to the job in 2025, you very nearly got rid of me. After three years in this job, I have learned a lot about journalism: how to...

    • The Mountains We Inherit
      • Susannah Crawford In the dining room of my family home in Christchurch, a black‑and‑white photograph hangs on the wall. Four men stand on an icy Himalayan ridge, their tents pitched on what looks like a forty‑five‑degree slope. The ridge is on Thamserku—a steep, fluted giant rising 6608 metres above the Khumbu in Nepal. Every Everest Base Camp trekker sees its dramatic profile from Namche Bazaar, but almost none will ever stand on its summit. Only six confirmed ascents have been made. On 4...

    • CRITIC-AT-LARGE: Taylor Swift: The Encore
      • The Taste of Me is Acquired, But It’s His Favourite Dish Taylor Swift: The Encore Well, well, well... just when you thought the year would escape Taylor Swift, she’s back. This time it’s with four new tracks, The Encore, to round out last year’s The Life of a Showgirl. By all accounts her worst album, I, too, disliked it—for its schmaltz, its derivative musical aspects, its unnecessary Charli xcx diss, and for its straightforwardly triumphal tone about newfound love: “You dug me out of my...

    • Opinion: Everyone wants to break the supermarket duopoly. But what would actually work?
      • If there is one thing New Zealand’s political parties can apparently agree on this election, it is that something has gone badly wrong at the supermarket. What they cannot agree on is what to do about it. ACT wants to make it easier for another supermarket chain to enter the country. Labour wants to prise open the wholesale networks controlled by the existing giants. National and New Zealand First want to split Foodstuffs in two. The Greens would go further still, forcing both major...

    • Munch: Final Ranking & Kai Ora/Kaibosh
      • A feed for fuck-all Dessert, anyone? Thank you for following along as I ate my way around the city, sniffing out the best deals and which promos were bogus. There were the stalwarts that always pull through, like Everybody Eats and KC Cafe, but also surprising first-timers for me, like Kera-la-carte and Platform 145. Of course, there were let-downs as well; places touting a good deal like a Fata Morgana in this desert of empty stomachs and bank accounts. Little Astoria, and Kajiken lured me...

    • STRICTLY 4 THE ISLANDS: DON’T MINE THE MOANA?
      • Weekly Pacific Politics with Otis Whinney DON’T MINE THE MOANA? A FINAL WORD ON OUR CLIMATE CONUNDRUM On September 26, Greenpeace activists occupied an Earth Sciences New Zealand-owned ship named Tangaroa. One was dressed as President of the USA Donald Trump, while the rest waved various signs carrying messages opposing seabed mining in the Pacific. By early afternoon, Police had removed them without much hassle. Spokesperson Juressa Lee stated that the ship had been used to survey deep sea...

    • Issue 24 Puzzle Answers
      • Connections Answers: First Connection Entry Spaces: Foyer, Atrium, Vestibule, Lobby Second Connection Interconnected structures: Matrix, Grid, Lattice, Mesh Third Connection Light/optical effects: Halo, Glint, Shimmer, Mirage Fourth Connection Biomes: Taiga, Savanna, Prairie, Tundra

    • A $6 Pill or a $1000 Diagnosis: Inside the Student ADHD Access Gap
      • New ADHD rules were supposed to broaden access to diagnosis. But Te Herenga Waka’s planned free assessment pathway never opened, private assessments still cost around $1000 or more, and publicly funded care remains limited. Salient investigates the gap—and the student market in prescription stimulants growing around it. In several Signal group chats shown to Salient, prescription ADHD stimulants are advertised with the casual shorthand of any other student-marketplace sale. One seller posted...

    • Pollen Counts
      • NEZOLIKA It’s in being so luck-drunk That we fall to the ground And don’t know pain (We’ll know it tomorrow, but) Now we’re back on our spines On the grass outside, And there’s dew sopping into Our tees and to our skin, but It’s dry out and you hung your clothes out on the line To dry too, I flip the calendar to June, 2 weeks, 3 days late, but I’ll leave my sinuses out to dry too, And let my unfeeling fingertips grip And leave those half moons. And drink your coffee even though it’s cold now....

    • Meet the Pres: Charlotte Lawrence
      • Elected 2027 VUWSA president Charlotte Lawrence is excited to make the position her full-time gig next year after she finishes studying in only a weeks’ time. The history major brings a huge sense of enthusiasm for community orientated events, protests, and campaigns to the role, and looks forward to mobilising student action to bring about change. “I think it’s going to be a really monumental year,” she told Salient. Lawrence grew up in Upper Hutt, where she attended St Orans College, the...

    • On Life, Love and Other Stuff: On the Epic Highs and Lows of Early 20’s Dating
      • Dear dating diary, As we come towards the end of the year (and my final Salient article eek!!!), it only feels fitting to reflect on the past year of my life. A lot has happened and I have certainly grown as a person. I have found out a lot about myself and what dating means to me, which has been tough but incredibly enlightening overall. There have also been a few stories that I haven’t had the opportunity to tell through this column. SO, without further ado, here are some of the epic...

    • From Homs to Wellington: The Taste of Belonging
      • Hanadi Hammad Al Bakhas In Syria, water was never just water. It carried the taste of belonging. I was five years old in my grandfather’s garden in Homs. Summer wrapped the day in warmth. Butterflies wandered through the air, flowers leaned towards the sun, and my little cat followed me wherever I ran. I was the first grandchild in my mother’s family, and everyone treated me like I was something precious. I grew up surrounded by love, convinced that childhood would always feel that safe....

    • Why Should You Vote Opportunity?
      • In the run-up to the 2026 election, Salient is interviewing all of the major parties to understand their responses to the issues students face. Here, Qiulae Wong, leader of the Opportunity party, pitches Opportunity. What is the biggest challenge facing students in New Zealand in 2026? I think it’s the real lack of vision for this country. Things are tough, cost-of-living is tough, all of it is really challenging, and it doesn’t feel like there is much hope on the horizon either. I think we...

    • The Dinner Table Is Where Identity Gets Made
      • A Constructivist Case for International Dinner Parties Angela Ipock International Relations spends a lot of energy debating what states want and why they fight. But one of the field's more interesting insights—one that constructivist theory puts at its center—is that neither wants nor identities are fixed. They are built. States, like people, come to understand who they are and what matters to them through interaction with others. Identities and interests are not given in advance; they are...

    • Salient Weekly Challenge: Confessions of a Phone Addict
      • I’ll be vulnerable and admit I have a phone addiction. This past year, I've realized my world revolves around a slab of metal, and I’ve let myself become its slave. If I have an extended period of time to myself, I’ll enter a rabbit hole of scrolling, deeper and deeper as hours pass by. What’s scary is that I’ll be aware of it, thinking, “I should look away soon…” Yet, I’ll stay paralyzed in my bed as the afternoon turns dark, and it’s too late to be productive. I’ve wasted many evenings...

    • An Eye for Arovision: 28 Days Later (2002), Scream (1996), The Blair Witch Project (1999), The Salient Mini Film Fest
      • An Eye for Arovision What to watch on Welly’s local streaming service As we enter October and all the spookiness that comes with it, I figured I would use this—my last article in the last Salient—to remind you of some essential and influential horror classics you can find on Arovision. Horror is hot right now, and it feels fitting to peek back at some turn-of-the-century hits that revitalised the genre. I’m sure you’re at least familiar with these films, so let me focus less on plot and...

    • Sounds Unheard
      • News Writer Martha has done a run down of all of our summer festivals, unfortunately, she got too carried away and overdid the word count. Check out the first one below, and read the rest by scanning the QR code at the bottom of this article. Everyone knows about Laneway, has been stuck in the mud at R&V, or has missed out on a ticket for Electric Ave in the online queue. If you’re real hard-core, you might even have been a part of the annual Wellingtonian migration down to Twisted. But what...

    • CRITIC-AT-LARGE: Carly Rae Jepsen: Day and Night
      • Carly Rae Jepsen: Day and Night Pop’s reigning princess returns with an inspired double album Sometimes the marketing copy gets it exactly right. “Carly Rae Jepsen’s pristine, prismatic pop has long been the blissful soundtrack for first kisses and swirling romances...”—so goes the Canadian singer’s Spotify bio. Pristine, prismatic pop—well, that’s absolutely it. (I guess somebody will hire the English majors after all!) But around the time of the release of her third album, Emotion, a number...

    • Bye Bye Pizza Oven Boulcott
      • Boulcott Hall has welcomed thousands of students through its doors since opening in 2013, but the University will stop operating it as student accommodation from the beginning of 2027. A University spokesperson said the decision “reflects changing student preferences, with growing demand for more flexible, self-contained living options, and a reduced need for traditional ‘dorm-style’ accommodation.” However, of the 142 responses to a Salient Instagram poll, 94 percent of students who stayed...

    • Motel Blues & wisdom
      • NEZOLIKA Motel Blues 8:30 rushed and still i took it, timed the chance to snatch some couple frames of you content for you not to notice my blatant staring or the vacancy whose neon light conveniently flicked on its proceeding NO pretty soon after your car came up i won’t be billing you but if you pop by the office you can take a mint and i’ll wave you off back you know it’s on the house (‘course it was on the house) check out’s 9 o’clock some degree of hospitality given for the folks in...

    • What do baby snatching, brainwashing, and violent girlbossing all have in common?
      • Pedro Hay If you’ve ever found yourself at a party, completely lost for something clever and interesting to say, perhaps you’ve tried sneaking in your incredible insect knowledge by mentioning that most ant species can lift ten times their own bodyweight with ease. Not only would this make you look really weird, but it’s also a lame fact. You should probably excuse yourself from the conversation at this point. If you want to really be the life of the party, tell them about the ants that have...

    • Issue 23 Puzzle Answers
      • Connections Answers: First Connection Cricket terms: Wicket, Crease, Over, Innings Second Connection Volcanic Materials: Pumice, Scoria, Lapilli, Tuff Third Connection Structural Lumber: Plant, Beam, Joist, Rafter Fourth Connection Water-control barriers: Levee, Dike, Dam, Weir

    • Why Should You Vote Green?
      • In the run-up to the 2026 election, Salient is interviewing all of the major parties to understand their responses to the issues students face. Here, Tamatha Paul, former VUWSA president and Wellington Central electorate MP, pitches the Greens. What is the biggest challenge facing students in New Zealand in 2026? Cost of living, hands down. But equally, there’s just the lack of hope for the future.The lack of job security, internships, and opportunities, especially here in Wellington. They’re...

    • Charlotte Lawrence Elected VUWSA President for 2027
      • Charlotte Lawrence has been elected VUWSA President for 2027, beating Ethan Rogacion and Skyla Ashford with a landslide 59.18% of the vote. The results were announced on Thursday 24 September at the VUWSA Annual General Meeting, following three and a half days of voting across Te Herenga Waka. During the campaign, Lawrence centred her pitch on helping students thrive, promising to make life cheaper for students, build student political power and create a greater sense of community at Te...

    • Ciph’s Cabinet: New Classic ~ The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil.
      • Bi-Weekly Game Reviews This is it. My ultimate study-break franchise, although it is so, SO much more. With its latest entry bringing the series officially out of Japan for the first time, and releasing on consoles as well, I am beyond excited to finally recommend Touhou Project to a wider audience with New Classic ~ The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil. New Classic is a fantastic entry point into Touhou Project as a remake of the sixth entry in the series—the first entry in the ongoing canon....

    • Ngā Hua te Taiao: A bird’s eye view
      • Good news stories (and more) for the planet Kia ora, Salient reader! Welcome to our fortnightly column on the environment, sustainable living, and the small, stubborn act of hope amongst a world on fire! Check in every second week for waste-free recipes, genuinely good news, and practical ways to lend a hand—nudging a happier, healthier earth a little closer into view. Recipe: Focaccia is surely the most fantastic bread of all time. It’s very simple to make and you can spice it up with fun...

    • Are Students Really Poor?
      • Charlie Lehmkuhl Realising I grew up poor was not something I expected to happen at uni. Before I moved to Wellington, everyone told me the same two things about becoming a university student. First, they warned me about the hills—which I was NOT prepared for. Secondly, they told me how poor I was going to be. So I assumed we would all be in roughly the same situation: super fit from climbing the hills and flat-out-broke from trying to afford rent and food. Instead, I am still stopping...

    • A Love Letter to Childish Things
      • Zara Boon "Act your age." While it might not be said to me explicitly very often, it's heavily implied. Look, I know I'm louder than most, and not just in decibels. I wear overly bright colours and have interests that a lot of teenagers would scoff at for being childish. I’m open about those interests, and love talking about them. I have little to no social anxiety anymore, and I throw compliments like confetti. At the end of each trimester, I give my lecturers tiny 3D-printed ducks as a...

    • Opinion: Rage Against The (Vending) Machine
      • Christopher Simpson This article is about a vending machine. While I love a nice V as much as the next student, there is one machine in particular that I do not like. In fact, I hate it. Ahab has Moby dick, Sherlock has Moriarty, and I have the refrigerated vending machine on floor six of the Kelburn Library. Let's unpack this together, shall we? Kia ora. Like many students at Te Herenga Waka, I would like to get a degree. And to get that degree, I am likely going to need to study… a lot. I...

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