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    • The Student Executive’s Year Ahead
      • Te Urukeiha Tuhua Last year’s student elections for Victoria University of Wellington’s Student Association (VUWSA) saw a huge leap in candidates, with significantly more people running than in recent years. Importantly, it was the first contested race for presidency since 2018, when current Wellington Central Member of Parliament Tamatha Paul was elected. Now that the buzz has settled down and executive members have moved into their new roles, Salient reached out to hear about what they...

    • A Modest Selection
      • Ali Cook When I told my family I was moving from America to Aotearoa for university, they reacted as if I’d announced plans to join a cult—or worse, a megachurch. My uncle swore I’d lose all my rights, my guns first, though I had to remind him that I do not, in fact, own any. He warned me that I’d wake up each morning to fetch water from a river with my bare hands, presumably before churning butter and writing letters by candlelight. He asked if I even spoke the language. Fair question....

    • HOW TO FRINGE!
      • An Insider’s Guide to the Wellington Fringe Festival Rebecca Stirling It's that time of year again. Boosted campaigns stalk your social feeds, posters multiply across campus, and theatre students begin materialising in your first lectures, eager—desperate, even—to tell you about their shows. Ah yes: the New Zealand Fringe Festival (just Fringe is fine) is nearly upon us. For one month a year, artists truly run rampant across Wellington, transforming the city into a low-level state of...

    • Critic-at-Large
      • Jackson McCarthy New True Romance Charli xcx’s Wuthering Heights looks to the past to find a future “Can I speak to you privately for a moment? / I just want to explain”. So begins Charli xcx’s ninth studio album, in a huskily-voiced spoken-word piece by John Cale (The Velvet Underground). But that opening track, ‘House’, with its creep and crescendo, its screams and distortions, is about as dark as Wuthering Heights gets. Though it’s been conceived of as a companion piece to the new...

    • voyeur’s martyrdom
      • Elio Mikoi the woman in black begged me to take her husband / she was a gentle figure of horror / and so i did. / i exist as her husband’s darkest secret / i’m not even back in black yet. / rough bites and cuts / swollen lips and bruised wrists / bodies swelling with pride. / his body is unforgiving, / and i am no priest to forgive such vindication. inhabit me, instill jealousy and love within me / his skin leaves me delirious / his hands leave me hungry, breathless. / and i chant in the...

    • University’s New International Scholarships Operate as Automatic Tuition Reductions
      • Phoebe Robertson Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington introduced two new international scholarships in 2025, offering $15,000 for undergraduate students and $10,000 for postgraduate students. The University confirmed the scholarships were launched in September 2025 for students enrolling from Trimester 3, 2025, positioning them as an upfront financial incentive at the point of acceptance rather than a later academic award. Nine students received the undergraduate award and 47...

    • Munch
      • Guy van Egmond Nau mai and welkom to Munch , your weekly guide to a bite to eat that won’t devour your budget. I’ll be your taste-tester of Wellington’s finest frugality; your penny-pinching truffle-pig to hunt down dining deals. My appetite is both discerning and decent, so if I’m full, trust that you will be too. But besides taste and portions, I also want to share the places in town that look after you—that feel homely (or surprisingly swanky)—and those that make their meals accessible....

    • Student Health Plan to Offer Free ADHD Assessments From Trimester Two
      • Dan Moskovitz Student Health is planning to introduce free ADHD (Attention Hyperactivity Deficit Disorder) diagnoses and prescriptions for students from trimester two—in a move it says could remove a major financial barrier to care. ADHD symptoms include inattentiveness, hyperactivity, and impulsivity, which can make sustained academic work difficult and leave university students particularly affected. Until recently, only psychologists and psychiatrists could diagnose ADHD and prescribe...

    • Hunk Unc
      • Hunk Unc: How do I know my friendships are good and healthy? Most people don’t realise a friendship’s off because something bad happens. They realise because something small keeps happening. You catch the bus home and feel oddly flat. You lie in bed replaying a conversation. You feel more tired after hanging out than you did before—that’s usually the first sign. Good friendships don’t leave you feeling like you’ve just done a full-body session you didn’t consent to. I had a mate I used to...

    • New Drug Tests Ask One Question: Would You Make a Good Cop?
      • When Public Safety Requires Your Open Mouth On December 15 2025, in what police are calling a “positive” development for road safety, the New Zealand Government quietly launched roadside drug testing in Wellington. Officials insist the initiative is simply meant to deter impaired driving—but independent sources now reveal a far more ambitious national project : the Government wants your DNA. The Government claims that the newly introduced roadside drug testing regime rolling out across...

    • Issue One Puzzle Answers
      • Connections Answers: First Connection Te Ao Māori Food Related Terms: Kai, Puku, Waha, Matira Second Connection Plant Structure: Branch, Root, Stem, Bank Third Connection Types of Strikes: Punch, Kick, Jab, Sock Fourth Connection Culinary Herbs: Mint, Basil, Sage, Thyme

    • The Bloke Who Animated the Apocalypse
      • 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.”

    • Tue, 8:41p.m.
      • For Ali It was something about it, Just sitting there — cat curled into a comma against my thighs, fridge humming softly in the...

    • Meet the Pres: Aidan Donoghue
      • By Darcy Lawrey (he/him) The day I interviewed Aidan Donoghue, the 2026 VUWSA president, he was already getting stuck into the job...

    • Love Strands
      • A dove wisp daydream – in the reflective space of sweat and tears. A strand of hair tied around your pinkie toe murmurs "hello...

    • What is our Worth?
      • 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...

    • Maranga Mai te Ngākau Pōuri
      • Column by ISO Socialism can be a suspicious kind of politics. You’ll often find someone trailing the money, or exposing some hidden...

    • The Radium Girls
      • TW: Medical Neglect, Graphic Content There’s a photograph I can’t stop seeing: A small house in Illinois, 1938. A woman, Catherine...

    • Tough on Crime, Except When It’s Me
      • 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.

    • Opinion: Why Should I Believe You This Time?
      • 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.

    • To someone by no one…
      • I adorn your face from multiple lifetimes. Do you recognise me as yours? My voice resembles yours in one sentence, Did I sound...

    • When We Were Fish
      • 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...

    • What’s at Stake?
      • 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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