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    • Issue 18 Puzzle Answers
      • Connections Answers: First Connection Uppermost/covering things: Cap, Crown, Lid, Top Second Connection Upright supporters: Post, Stand, Pillar, Beam Third Connection To prevent/restrict: Bar, Ban, Block, Barricade Fourth Connection Extent/how far something goes: Range, Scope, Breadth, Reach

    • Reduce your risks with cocaine
      • Author: KnowYourStuff Cocaine! “Coke” to its friends, “Nose Beers” to its mates, and “Booger Sugar” to the joker in the back of the class that thinks he’s funny. Cocaine is a stimulant drug that increases the rate at which messages travel between the brain and the body. It is made from the leaves of the coca bush, which is native to South America. Cocaine has two main forms, the salt and the freebase: The Salt form Cocaine HCl is the white powder form most people are familiar with The...

    • Daffodil Dancefloor to Bloom
      • CW: Cancer, familial loss. On Friday 28th August, San Fran will come alive with Pōneke’s best dance music as more than 15 DJ’s take the decks from six o’clock all the way until three in the morning. All of them are doing it for free, with the entirety of profits set to be donated to Cancer Society New Zealand. The fundraiser, dubbed Daffodil Dancefloor, is the brainchild of Ben Bonetti. Together with Gabe Stuart, Jessica Arndt, and Seini Denicaucau, as well as the support of countless other...

    • Student Vote Will Decide Who Joins Te Herenga Waka’s Top Governing Body
      • Students will elect one of their two representatives on the University Council when voting opens on Monday, 10 August. The Council is Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington’s highest governing body, responsible for overseeing the institution’s strategy, finances, leadership, and long-term direction. Electronic voting will close at 5pm on Friday, 14 August. All students are eligible to vote, and the election will use first-past-the-post, meaning the candidate with the most votes...

    • Lessons on Life, Love and Other Stuff: On Love Island, Body Counts and Shame
      • Dear dating diary, Like many of you lovely readers I have recently been watching Love Island. No spoilers, but all the islanders were asked about their body counts as part of a challenge recently. Their answers typically ranged from around 5 to 12 (with some significantly higher). As one does, I reflected on my own body count (9) and felt a weird bit of shame surrounding it. I feel as though the people on Love Island are stereotypically those with higher body counts. It forced me to...

    • Munch: Platform 145
      • A feed for fuck-all By the time this issue goes to print, Wellington will again be going feral for chunky sandwiches. Every pub, cafe, and ferry terminal will be scrambling to serve their own Wonky Bonky Baby Burger—a 60-centimetre tall monstrosity, made with the mince of a steer called Jeremy who was fed on a stash of Snickers Pods—topped with beetroot, banana, and a relish of wild dandelion root picked under a new moon, in an Arobake brioche bun. No, I jest. A midwinter festival to get...

    • The Fear of Canonization
      • There is this idea that the best way to kill a revolutionary ideal is to idolize their leader, converting them into harmless icons that can be put upon a pedestal. How many Che Guevara t-shirts are there? How many Martin Luther King Jr Boulevards? I think in some twisted way this happens to us as well. When we lose someone, when they disappear from our lives, our nostalgia grips us and takes hold and their memory is forever unblemished and held above. I fear this will happen to you too, now...

    • Former Taxpayers’ Union Youth Leader Seeks University Council Seat
      • Despite his right-wing political connections, Arie Joe’s campaign for a seat on the University Council prominently features the branding of democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani. Joe’s candidacy has also brought attention to his Save Our Clubs campaign, his admitted use of pirated analysis software, and a domain registration bearing his name for an invite-only men’s club. Arie Joe, a former Wellington president of the Taxpayers’ Union youth wing (Generation Screwed) is running for a vacant seat...

    • The Uninvited Guest
      • Emma Bradfield Picture this: it’s a busy Saturday evening shift at a Wellington restaurant. There’s glassware to polish, drinks to run, and orders to take—but I am standing in front of a customer who has been staring at the beer list for the better part of two minutes. Finally, he turns to me and says, ‘Do you have anything that isn’t this Wellington shit?’ People working in hospitality have been dealing with this sort of thing since the dawn of time. The serving wenches in the taverns of...

    • You Are Not Angry Enough
      • Freddy Jarman I heard my friend doesn’t want to vote in this election. It's fine—he goes to Massey. Still, it astounded me. I can’t imagine looking at everything that has happened over the past three years and deciding that abstaining is the best course of action. But he got me thinking about why somebody might not want to vote. The political world can feel exhausting to look at, let alone invest time in. This political indifference is present in so many people I talk to now. It is the kind...

    • Opinion: National Wants Women to Forget
      • The National Party appears to have developed a new campaign strategy just in time for the election. It is called amnesia. National is suddenly presenting themselves as the party prepared to fix the justice system for survivors of sexual violence. The rebrand only works, however, if we forget what the National-led Government has already done with the power they have. In May 2025, the Government rewrote the pay-equity system and forced the legislation through every stage under urgency. The...

    • Ngā Hua te Taiao: 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. Waste-free recipe of the week Make your own Muesli bars! It's no secret that a good muesli bar is one of the few unrivaled snacks. Whether it's for getting you through...

    • CRITIC-AT-LARGE: L'Étranger (The Stranger), The Strokes: Reality Awaits, Ariana Grande: petal, Arca: XXXXX
      • HEADING L'Étranger (The Stranger) SUBHEADING New Francois Ozon movie scans a bit like a perfume commercial Albert Camus’ 1942 novel L'Étranger is essentially impossible to adapt in another medium. Francois Ozon’s solution is to turn it into a film of surfaces, glossy exteriors, perfume-commercial sheen. It’s an appropriate treatment for a novel centred on a disconnected, lonely, existentially aloof young man who quite literally can’t see past surfaces; who refuses to allow himself re-entrance...

    • GSA Seminar Series
      • Kia ora Salient readers, My name is Sarah Douglas, and I'm the Vice President of Connections for the Postgraduate Students' Association (PGSA) here at Te Herenga Waka. You might be wondering: We have a Postgraduate Students' Association?! The answer is: Yes! We're a small but determined group of volunteers working to support and represent postgraduate students across the university. Like many organisations, we've been through a rebuilding phase, but this year we're focused on bringing people...

    • An Eye for NZIFF
      • What to watch during Welly’s upcoming New Zealand International Film Fest Go to nziff.co.nz and get your tickets! I have been attending NZIFF since I moved to Pōneke, and every year it is an absolute treat. Last year, I was an usher. This let me sit in on movies on shift and get my greedy hands on some comp tickets. The best time of my life. I saw seventeen movies (!!!) at a fraction of the cost. This year, I’m slowing my roll a little with a forecast of 10 screenings. That’s not counting...

    • STRICTLY 4 THE ISLANDS: LAKAPI SĀMOA VS THE WORLD
      • Weekly Pacific Politics with Otis Whinney It’s hard to deny the importance of sport in the Pacific. Our sea of islands has produced countless athletic success stories, and Pacific peoples have become famous world-wide for their sporting achievements. Not only is sport a great cultural unifier, but it is also an essential pathway for many Pacific people to find a level of success that is much harder to come by otherwise. In smaller nations that depend on their relationships with larger...

    • Ciph’s Cabinet: Mina the Hollower
      • Yacht Club Games have already proven themselves with the groundbreaking Shovel Knight in 2014 and its subsequent expansions, reinventing what it meant to be retro-inspired with a genre defining staple I count among my favourite 2D platformers. Nearly 12 years later, I have seen proof that lightning can strike twice. Mina the Hollower has convinced me to burrow headfirst into the top-down adventure genre with its stellar world design, combat, music… basically everything you can think of. Puns...

    • Munch: Kajiken, Angry Ramen (The Terrace)
      • A feed for fuck-all Kajiken What: Abura Soba Price: $17.50 When: 11:00am-8:30pm, Monday-Sunday Not worth it in value or taste, in short. ⭐ As chain restaurants go, Kajiken is a cut above. The moment I stepped in the door, I was bombarded with greetings from left and right. If a mite enthusiastic, the staff were lovely. Inside, it was all pale pine panelling, paper screens, and renditions of Hokusai’s The Great Wave out of noodles, but tastefully done. Each table has a small pull-out drawer...

    • Should You Own a Cat as a Student?
      • New Zealand loves cats. We have one of the highest rates of cat ownership in the world. But is owning one realistic for students? Iona Anderson, president of Cats Protection Wellington, says there is a lot to consider before adopting a cat. “There are some things we’d want to talk through with a student wanting to adopt,” says Anderson. “How long will they be a student for? Are they intending to travel at the end of uni—a lot of people want to get out of the country, and a cat’s not going to...

    • Opinion: I Went to the SPCA and Came Home With 24 Toes
      • In 2023, I adopted my cat, Beans, from the Wellington SPCA. I had moved to Wellington from the United States the year before, and adopting her felt like a way to mark my first anniversary in the city. Wellington was beginning to feel less like somewhere I was temporarily living and more like somewhere I could build a future. With all my family still in the United States, I wanted a companion. A pet seemed like the closest thing to having family here. I was drawn to cats because they are...

    • Blind Date With a Cat
      • Te Herenga Waka student Milla Brown says there has been “so many benefits” since she began fostering Bella, a 17-year-old cat, through Cats Protection Wellington’s senior foster program last June. She described the long-haired domestic as “really good company” and a great source of emotional support as well as entertainment. “She’s very cute, she’s very cuddly. She hangs around giving people cuddles, eats, sleeps—rinse and repeat. “The good thing with an animal is that when you come home,...

    • STRICTLY 4 THE ISLANDS: WHAT YOU MAY HAVE MISSED IN THE MOANA
      • Weekly Pacific Politics with Otis Whinney WHAT YOU MAY HAVE MISSED IN THE MOANA The Rock’s horrific wig in the live-action Moana was not the only distressing thing in the Pacific news landscape this month. Movies I don’t plan on watching because they look AI generated aside, there is much to be discussed about the ever-changing ocean we all inhabit. So let's run down some of the significant stories from July, from further escalations in occupied West Papua to even more security agreements....

    • Fat Moon/Good Bird
      • Keira Batten Coogan Winter is swallowing my chances with you. The moon is fat in tonight's sky, and there are these dull clouds following me to each body of water I visit. I am swallowing wine from the week before and wishing you were here on this porch—then I would know where to lean, and who to laugh with, and when the night should end. I want to invite you into me, and then you would say yes and mean it, and we would both turn to rain, or grass, or something else ordinarily good. Do...

    • Grandfathered into Unc Status
      • Or, why the fuck is everyone born in the ‘90s calling themselves unc? Author: Ox Let’s roll that back a little. I was an avid reader and miniature academic as a child. I was seen as weird and different for this, but books could never judge me by my cover—and I promised to never do the same to them. Year after year, my shelves filled with new titles and new adventures. I had the highest grades in English from primary all the way to high-school graduation. Rooted beneath this was a PC...

    • New Pet Rules Give Student Renters More Rights, But No Guarantees
      • New tenancy rules make it harder for landlords to reject pets without explanation, but students wanting a pet may still face added costs, shared liability, and restrictions based on where they live. Since 1 December 2025, tenants have been able to ask their landlord for permission to keep a pet under changes to the Residential Tenancies Act. Landlords cannot unreasonably refuse a request. However, tenants must receive permission before bringing the animal into the property, unless the pet is...

    • Physical Media is Dying
      • Jake Ellis Physical media is dying. I, for one, cannot wait to purchase a temporary licence for everything I ever buy. I look forward to the day Paramount Pictures and the ghouls who run it crack open my brain and rip Transformers One from my mind because they decided it wasn’t worth running on Paramount Plus, my FAVORITE streaming service. Sony just announced that, come January 2028, they will cease making physical discs for new games released on PlayStation. This comes right after they...

    • A Cry for Beauty: A Reflection on House of the Father
      • On the 22nd of May—after the sun had gone down, the stars had begun to shimmer, and the air had turned crisp—hundreds of people found themselves treading up stairs to pack into Wellington Cathedral of St Paul. Inside, warm lights illuminated at ankle height against the light grey tiles, and wooden chairs carved a long runway down the length of the cathedral. In the centre of the runway stood a cross, commanding the audience’s attention to its presence. The event in question was House of the...

    • Critic-at-Large: Charli xcx shows no signs of stopping
      • Music, Fashion, Film Charli xcx shows no signs of stopping As I wrote earlier this year, Charli xcx has known for a while now that she needs to escape out from under the towering legacy of her 2024 opus brat. She’d been an important left-of-field pop star since at least 2017’s mixtape Pop 2, but brat was bigger than anyone could’ve anticipated. One of the more lucid pleasures of my life—and for music kids like myself—was rolling to Charli deep cuts like “Track 10” in a field full of...

    • When Music Remembers More Than I Do
      • Naomi Waxman When I talk to my friends about their relationship with music, a lot of them give a similar answer—music truly makes them feel. Whether that feeling is enlightened, tragic, nostalgic, or best described by another suitably dramatic adjective, really depends on the person. Personally, I strongly associate music with experiences that I’ve had. When I listen to those songs now, I either feel nostalgic and think back on how much fun I had, or, quite frankly, never want to hear them...

    • Salient Weekly Challenge: Everything Costs Money
      • 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. When I was in high school, I badly wanted a Nintendo Switch. The retail price was about $550, and what I discovered motivated me to save was equating everything to the value of a Switch: If you save your birthday money, that’ll be a quarter of a Switch. If you...

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