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    • The Bare Minimum
      • The mark of a great athlete is his technique. His skill. His championship wins. The mark of a great female athlete is how much scrutiny she faces. How often she’s used for clickbait headlines. How expensive her athleisure wear is. Think about the best female athletes you know: Serena Williams, Simone Biles, Tonya Harding, Alysa Liu. Every single one of them has something in common, and it’s not just the incredibly lengthy hours of work put into their craft. It’s the intense pressure placed...

    • Hunk Unc: I’ve fallen for my neighbour who’s also my good friend and I’m not allowed to be how do I get over it
      • Hunk Unc: Last year I told my friend I had feelings for them and they told me they didn't feel that way about me, I believed I had moved on and recently realised I still have those feelings and hate myself for it, I'm not sure what I should do. Students, today your Unc is pairing up two emotionally shipwrecked souls with the same issue in different fonts. One of you confessed feelings, got rejected, thought you’d moved on, and then your heart did the deeply rude thing of circling back for a...

    • Issue 12 Puzzle Answers
      • Connections Answers: First Connection Insult: Jerk, Chump, Sap, Stooge Second Connection Ways to interlace strands: Lace, Plait, Braid, Weave Third Connection Public open areas: Plaza, Square, Mall, Court Fourth Connection Last names famous actresses: Knightley, Robbie, Stone, Weaver

    • Opinion: Take from the Poor, give to the Rich: Why Fees Free Needed to Go
      • Saad Aamir Fees Free was a policy that covered the first year of tertiary study, providing up to $12,000 in tuition payments per student at a cost of roughly $350 million a year to the taxpayer. It was presented as a policy that would improve equity and open the doors of higher learning for disadvantaged people. In 2024, the National-led coalition shifted the policy from the first year of study to the last. Then, on 8 May 2026, Winston Peters and Nicola Willis announced that the scheme would...

    • Munch: Lemongrass Kitchen
      • A feed for fuck-all Lemongrass Kitchen What: Vietnamese Price: $11.00 - $15.00 When: 11:00 - 21:00; Monday - Sunday Nothing mindblowing, but wins by the size and value of their menu. ⭐⭐⭐ There’s something doggedly endearing about Capital Markets that calls me back. It’s beyond the fact that it’s a gold mine for plates of food at reasonable prices. The bare concrete floor and the restaurants built inside old shipping containers give the space a liminal but functional feel; it’s got a job to...

    • An Eye for Arovision: Jemaine Clement
      • What to watch on Welly’s local streaming service This week, I’m covering one half of Aotearoa’s fourth most popular folk-comedy duo—Jemaine Clement of Flight of the Conchords. From indie rom-com, to downright absurdity, to Men in Black 3, this national treasure has a varied and pretty weird filmography. Most of his greatest hits are streaming on Aro, so have a read of my picks and then go get watching at ondemand.arovideo.co.nz! An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn (2018) — $5 dir. Jim Hosking,...

    • Weathering the Welly Winter
      • The weather’s cooling down, and with only a week left until winter officially ramps up that wind chill factor, it’s high time to hunker down. If you hail from the South of Aotearoa, you might be well versed in the practice of rolling your eyes at shivering JAFA’s and lending your jacket to those of us with more subtropical customs. But even for you cold-hearted highlanders and scarfies, the first winter after living in a warm family home or heated hall can be rough, especially on a student...

    • Immigration Policy or the Politics of Fear Against Asylum Seekers and Vulnerable Migrants?
      • Antonio Cadavid Member of the Wellington Community Justice Project, a student-led charity at Te Herenga Waka’s Law School When the Government speaks about asylum seekers, language of risk increasingly dominates the conversation. New Zealand migration policy relating to refugees appears to be shifting away from humanitarian protection and toward a risk-based approach, one that makes already vulnerable people even more vulnerable. Rather than treating asylum seekers as individuals seeking...

    • Opinion: Red Square Closes: Clubbing Standards Increase
      • CW: Sexual assault, Homophobia An Anonymous Hater The Establishment. MishMosh. Red Square. For years, these were the bars students either avoided on a night out, or only ended up at once they were too pissed to care. But with Red Square set to close its doors, a serious question now hangs over Wellington’s student nightlife: where will students go when they want to party without any standards? On May 10, Red Square announced on Facebook that it would be closing after 23 years of operation....

    • Young men are switching right. How will Labour respond?
      • Across much of the democratic world, a familiar pattern has emerged across various elections: young men, once part of the left’s natural base, are shifting right. In the UK and Germany, young men have been twice as likely than young women to support right-wing populist parties such as Reform and AfD. South Korean conservative parties hold a 30% advantage among young male voters. The same holds true across much of the rest of Europe and Canada, though curiously not Australia. Traditional...

    • STRICTLY 4 THE ISLANDS: ISSUE 12
      • Weekly Pacific Politics with Otis Whinney As these twelve weeks near their end, there is still no shortage of things going on in our sea of islands. So let's hop from island to island and round up some of the interesting and important stories going on in the moana as this trimester comes to a close. The Solomon Islands have been in and out of the news for a while thanks to the ongoing leadership crisis, where Prime Minister Jerimiah Manele was voted out of his seat due in part to allegations...

    • Te Pāti Māori Party fractures as new Te Tai Tokerau Party is announced, multiple parties follow suit
      • Just last week, Te Tai Tokerau MP Mariameno Kapa-Kingi announced her split from Te Pāti Māori and subsequently the creation of a new political party, named after her electorate. Speaking to RNZ she said, “This is about restoring balance, strong local representation, and sending a clear signal that Tai Tokerau political power will no longer be taken for granted.” She said she hoped other candidates would do the same to “promote truly local decision-making and restore power to the people.” The...

    • Opinion: #SluttyfortheButty
      • For the past couple of months, I have been on a personal crusade. No, not to get the window fixed in the Salient office (but it was nice that that happened). No, not to victimise VUWSA with overly researched and pedantic hit pieces (but that scratched an itch in my brain I haven’t felt since my last Salient survey). No, my crusade has arguably benefitted students much less: to bring back Bacon Buttys at the Hunter Lounge. Picture this: two thick, crispy slabs of sourdough bread, a bed of...

    • Salient 58 Years On: Student Activism from the Year 1968
      • Salient has been a driving force on campus since 1938, and has become a fixture of student life. From infamously helping collect VUWSA funds for both the Viet Cong and South Vietnam in 1972, to setting up the somehow more controversial “Lundy 500” in 2009 where teams of vehicles travelled from Petone to Palmerston North in an attempt to recreate Mark Lundy’s alleged timeline of the infamous Lundy murders, Salient has had its fair share of tumultuous history. Throughout that time, we’ve always...

    • Salient News Writer Ryan Cleland, Announces Departure From Magazine Following Dispute With Co-Worker Martha Schenk
      • It was a dramatic afternoon in the offices of the student magazine Salient, as staff gathered for the final news meeting of the trimester. What was expected to be a routine wrap-up quickly turned tense after senior news writer Ryan Cleland announced his departure from the publication following an alleged disagreement with co-worker Martha Schenk. According to several students present at the meeting, discussions became increasingly heated while the news team debated coverage priorities for the...

    • Critic-at-Large: Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
      • They Got It Right This Year (Almost)! Ah, the Ockhams. Or, as Susanna Andrew coined last year, the “Shock-’ems”! Her point was not just that there’s something a little weird and very milk-loving-Briscoes-sale-deck-furniture-Kiwi about our national book awards being sponsored by a massive construction company. Nor was it just that her pick for the fiction award didn’t make the shortlist—though that was true, too. She also thought that, in an industry as small as New Zealand books, it was so...

    • On Playing the Field, Bros, and Abstinence
      • Dear dating diary, The past two weekends have potentially been some of the most romantically confusing and stressful I have ever experienced. For the first time since being single, I have been seeing multiple people at once. I know this is no big deal considering I am not exclusive with anyone. However, the stress ensues when your circles begin to cross. Two weekends ago, some friends and I decide to go to a gig. Our friend is hosting pre’s so we head there and to my shock (and horror)...

    • I stood at the edge and claimed it as central…
      • Dandifil after Toni Morrison I arrived to meet the ancestors at the edge of the world. I arrived breathless, dripping of sweat, snot and tears and my jaws clenched so hard my vision blurred. At least ko oti te ta’ua. They say my ancestors were the first surveyors of the ocean, some of the first to master and practice aerodynamics. Engari i luga i te maunga nei, They say I might be the first of this ancient agni, first of this ocean salt to be given flesh and bone. Koia anō, seki oti...

    • Issue 11 Puzzle Answers
      • Connections Answers: First Connection Leniency: Mercy, Grace, Pity, Clemency Second Connection Parliamentary procedure verbs: Table, Motion, Draft, Charge Third Connection Workshop tools/devices: Wrench, Clamp, Vice, Jack Fourth Connection Fabrics: Cotton, Linen, Wool, Silk

    • Issue 10 Puzzle Answers
      • Connections Answers: First Connection Things in space: Comet, Meteor, Asteroid, Satellite Second Connection Spices: Clove, Nutmeg, Cinnamon, Paprika Third Connection Marks on Skin: Freckle, Dimple, Wrinkle, Scar Fourth Connection Surnames that are also occupations: Mason, Taylor, Baker, Carter

    • Te Herenga Waka Quietly Bans Controversial Animal Test
      • For years, researchers at Te Herenga Waka, wanting to study depression in rats, could dunk them in a tank of water and watch how long they struggled before giving up. The Porsolt Swim Test (PST)—also called the forced swim test—was a standard tool in preclinical drug research for decades. Now, the University has made its position explicit: it won't approve the procedure anymore. VUW’s Animal Ethics Committee updated its website to formally reflect what had already become practice in the lab,...

    • Petrol Prices
      • Zara Boon I sit and listen as my belly dancing class discusses petrol prices. The other Arab person in the class isn't here today. I miss her familiar words, the warm accent, the laughter as we trade dialects. They worry about the shipping costs of their costumes. I regard those prices with a bleak indifference. For me, no strait has to be closed to leverage power. I would pay a fortune in transport fees if it meant my olive trees were left alone. Instead, they burn, and I hold my hands out...

    • Final Year Fees-Free Goneburger; Cost-of-Living Crisis Remains
      • The government has moved to scrap final year fees-free, resulting in up to $12,000 of extra costs for future and current students. When announced by Labour in 2018 (then as first year fees-free), the policy had four major goals: to reduce financial barriers to education, support life-long learning, reduce learner debt, and increase participation. A 2024 Ministry of Education analysis found that out of the four goals, the policy had only reduced learner debt and recommended scrapping it...

    • University Digitalisation a ‘Hack’
      • The cybersecurity breach of online learning platform Nuku has caused alarm for students and staff alike, calling Te Herenga Waka’s reliance on digitised learning into question. Reports indicate that Instructure, the company that owns Canvas, and the software on which Nuku runs, were made aware of a “cybersecurity incident perpetrated by a criminal threat actor” on 1 May 2026, that was “contained” by the following day. On Wednesday 6 May, the University informed students and staff that the...

    • Broadcasting Standards Authority to be scrapped, replaced with brand-new Winston AI
      • Ryan Reinolds Last week, the decision was made to dismantle the Broadcasting Standard Authority. In explaining the move, Minister for Media and Communications Paul Goldsmith cited, among other things, inconsistencies between digital and print media, along with removing more “red tape.” In order to keep up with consistent regulations, Goldsmith has announced an AI replacement for the authority: Winston AI. The new system is eponymously named after not once, not twice, but thrice-former...

    • Intelligence is Fucking Stupid
      • Andy Lester I hate the concept of intelligence. I hate even more the way we use that word. At first glance, it’s pretty unassuming. You’ve probably used it plenty of times and thought nothing of it, whether you were talking about the smart person in your course or someone who you find particularly inspiring. But as students, the word “intelligence” can be hugely detrimental to us, our confidence, and our learning. To understand why, we first have to ask… What is Intelligence? ...

    • My Appreciation for Walking Armoured Beach Frisbees
      • Pedro Hay There is a good chance many people read that title and immediately threw their copy of Salient into the bin, because surely nothing good can come from an article with such a nonsensical bullshit headline. It sounds like something clearly cooked up by a dangerous raving maniac. Well, unfortunately for those people, they will now never know what makes these frankly insane creatures so special. They will not understand why they matter, why we should care about them, or how there may...

    • Opinion: Held Together with Ratchet Straps
      • Arie Joe The most damning indictment of the state of this Victoria University of Wellington’s building stock is presently on public display above the front doors of the Student Union Building. There, in plain view of every passing student, are blue cargo straps rated to 2,500 kilograms apiece, doing the job that the architects and structural engineers were paid to do thirty-odd years ago. Namely, keeping the roof attached to the rest of the building. Now consider that Wellington is the...

    • Salient Weekly Challenge: 100 Resumes on Lambton Quay
      • Within the span of a week, I’ll be trying to accomplish a long-term task just to see if it’s possible, and to see what I can get out of it. Life lessons, skills, resilience training? The stimulation alone should be enough motivation. Currently, I work a lot. By day I slave in the Salient office, but by night I’m my alter ego: hospitality Front of House. My parents always forcefully encouraged me to have a job or two during study. In the past three years, I’ve complained to them endlessly...

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