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• • Up the coast: a trip to Japan

    • 20 Oct 2020
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• • Where they’re playing

    • 19 Oct 2020
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• • The case for moving the Library

    • 17 Oct 2020
    • Wellington Scoop
    • The Ian Athfield designed Wellington Central Library that was built in 1991 was placed just a stone’s throw, and a quarter turn around the square, from the 1940 Centennial Library building that it replaced. That building continues to provide great service as the City Gallery.
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• • Let’s do it! Costs and risks reduced for Central Library strengthening

    • 17 Oct 2020
    • Wellington Scoop
    • Thank you Wellington for your feedback on the future of our Central Library. Your input has been thoughtful, informative, and your views have been diverse. Many of you sympathised with us in the decision we have to make – recognising that there were pluses and minuses of each of the five options.
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• • Socialising the benefits, but privatising the costs

    • 16 Oct 2020
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• • The only way to get affordable homes

    • 15 Oct 2020
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• • Affordable housing in the CBD – a pipe dream

    • 14 Oct 2020
    • Wellington Scoop
    • Partly as a byproduct of the Spatial Plan and partly because of the real-world challenge of trying to find well-priced housing in an increasingly expensive city, the current debates are tending to polarise into the people who want to preserve heritage and the people who want a sensibly-priced place to live. Both ambitions are laudable – but in Wellington, it may well be that “affordable” is not one of the feasible options, no matter how many ratty old flats we demolish.
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• • No sign of a truce

    • 13 Oct 2020
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    • There’s no sign of a truce in the battle over Wellington’s Spatial Plan. Who’d have expected that town planning would create so much passion? Even animosity in some quarters, despite the fact that there’s so much common ground – all the opposing groups agree that Wellington needs more homes.
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• • Five years on: the transformation of Victoria Street

    • 8 Oct 2020
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• • Why the Spatial Plan is wrong

    • 7 Oct 2020
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    • The Draft Spatial Plan is hopelessly inadequate for citizens to accept, as they have not been properly consulted over its reasoning or its likelihood of success. Much more information is required for informed opinions to lead to good decisions.
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• • Missed communication

    • 6 Oct 2020
    • Wellington Scoop
    • When the Wellington City Council asked us to comment on its new Spatial Plan, it told us the city’s population was going to increase by between 50,000 and 80,000 people over the next thirty years. This led to a great debate about adding blocks of apartments in inner city heritage areas alongside character homes. But towards the end of the consultation period, the council quietly released information that indicated all that debate may not have been necessary.
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• • MRT, and density well done

    • 6 Oct 2020
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• • It’s agreed – where high rise apartments shouldn’t be built (and why)

    • 5 Oct 2020
    • Wellington Scoop
    • I agree with Guy Marriage when he opposes plans that would allow high-rise apartment buildings in narrow central city streets.
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• • Meet The Candidates for Te Tai Tonga Panel Held at VUW

    • 4 Oct 2020
    • Salient
    • Te Aorewa Rolleston | Ngāi te Rangi, Ngāti Ranginui | She/Her Candidates standing for the largest electorate in the Māori electoral roll met at Victoria University last Monday to outline their policies and discuss issues posted to them by the student community.
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• • Damage of Whiria Project Furthering Distrust

    • 4 Oct 2020
    • Salient
    • While the highly controversial Whiria project did not progress further into stage 2, many restructural plans are continuing with similar essence. The impending financial issues VUW face are further building tension between University staff and University senior leadership. A university staff member spoke to Salient about their concerns shared with many colleagues, saying they “actually expect nothing good anymore [from the University]”
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• • Diversity as well as height

    • 1 Oct 2020
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• • Left against left – but there’s common ground

    • 30 Sep 2020
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• • A sad dad in Berhampore

    • 29 Sep 2020
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• • Adversarial, when we need consensus

    • 28 Sep 2020
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• • VUW Academics Stand with Māori Academics at University of Waikato

    • 27 Sep 2020
    • Salient
    • Rachel Trow | Kāi Tahu, Ngāti Tūwharetoa | She/Her <figure class=" sqs-block-image-figure intrinsic " > Photo: Stuff After incidents at Waikato and Otago Universities, an open letter to Education Minister Chris Hipkins has been undersigned by Māori academics across the country. The open letter calls for a national enquiry into racism at New Zealand universities “for the purpose of committing to, and accelerating with urgency, a tertiary sector that honours te Tiriti o Waitangi.” The letter comes after caps on Māori and Pacific entry to Otago Medical School and an independent enquiry into racism at the University of Waikato garnered national attention. Leading academics Dr Linda Tuhiwai Smith (Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Porou) and Prof. Brendan Hokowhitu (Ngāti Pūkenga) have not had their contracts renewed at Waikato while the review takes place, according to RNZ reporting. In a statement to Salient, Victoria University expressed support for the open letter sent to Minister Hipkins, adding that they “do not conduct specific cultures [sic] reviews as such” themselves. The University listed their “commitment to decolonisation and indigenisation” as ranging from “symbolic changes” such as changing the University’s name to “active and visible commitments” such as including Māori leadership at all levels of University structure. VUW also recognised that “there is always more to do.” Academics at VUW have come out in active support of Māori academics at the University of Waikato, participating in a solidarity event on Friday the 18th of September. Staff were encouraged to wear purple and “incorporate Waikato Indigenous academics” into their teaching. Salient spoke to Dr Emalani Case (Kanaka Maoli) and Dr Vincent Olsen-Reeder (Ngā Pōtiki a Tamapahore), representatives of the solidarity event at VUW. Olsen-Reeder commented on the situation at Waikato, stating that “it’s really hard to see your colleagues, friends and whānau in distress. So many of us have been victims of racism in some form, at some time, so we’ll always want to show solidarity in that way.” Case and Olsen-Reeder were in agreement that VUW had “solid fundamentals in place” in regards to race at the University citing their Treaty Statute and Māori Outcomes Framework. However, the pair echoed the University’s assertion that there is always more that can be done. Dr Case offered that “one of the things I think all universities can do is hire more Māori and Pacific staff.” Case highlighted the importance of hiring Indigenous staff in permanent positions. When asked what they would like tertiary staff and students to consider moving forward, Olsen-Reeder told Salient, “I would love for us all to review what it means to be a great citizen of Aotearoa, regularly… Ask yourself how you can dismantle harm today, or open up space for someone, or challenge the stuff your parents taught you. Those are great things to do not just to combat racism, but to be anti-racist.”
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• • Last to zero?

    • 26 Sep 2020
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• • A tightrope act in Newtown

    • 25 Sep 2020
    • Wellington Scoop
    • On Wednesday last week, a responsible Covid-19 community meeting in Newtown heard constructive suggestions for the increasingly polarizing WCC Draft Spatial Plan. A hundred or so people attended spaciously, while 50 others obliged and walked home to join the other 400 on the live Facebook stream.
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• • Defending the streets of Newtown

    • 24 Sep 2020
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• • Housing: up, up and out

    • 22 Sep 2020
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• • VUW Loses $30k on Cancelled Re-O Week

    • 20 Sep 2020
    • Salient
    • Rachel Trow | Kāi Tahu, Ngāti Tūwharetoa | She/Her In emails obtained under the Official Information Act (OIA), Salient can confirm that the total cost to the University for the cancelled Re-O Week event, Drum & Bass In Your Face, was $30,723.
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• • Saving our good character

    • 17 Sep 2020
    • Wellington Scoop
    • Wellingtonians are taking sides about the city council’s new spatial plan. Let’s be pleased that there’s such passion about the development of our city.
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• • Being kind to your neighbours

    • 15 Sep 2020
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• • New group campaigning for council&#8217;s Spatial Plan

    • 15 Sep 2020
    • Wellington Scoop
    • A new campaign has launched to support the Wellington City Council’s proposed Spatial Plan, which aims to set a blueprint for more affordable housing as the city grows. A City for People is a non-partisan group of Wellingtonians who share a progressive and sustainable vision for Wellington. We see the Spatial Plan as an important opportunity to put people first and make a plan to share our city as it grows. “We’re asking Wellington City Councillors to support the Spatial Plan so all generations of Wellingtonians can share the city we love, and we have a chance to live in an affordable, warm, dry home,” said City for People spokesperson Isla Stewart.
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• • Status quo – not an option

    • 14 Sep 2020
    • Wellington Scoop
    • It is a common rhetorical device to say the status quo is not an option. What we usually mean by this is that the old ways of doing things will not set us up for success in the future. When it comes to Wellington city’s spatial plan this is true.
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• • Music during and after lockdown

    • 13 Sep 2020
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