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- Candidate Kōrero: Debbie Ngarewa-Packer (Te Pāti Māori)
  - 1 Oct 2023
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  - When it comes to Te Pāti Māori’s political ideology, co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer says it’s complicated. While the party was formerly “comfortable with National”, she says they now “lean left” in the “Western-centric sense”. But Ngarewa-Packer thinks they’re best described as simply “indigenous”.
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- Candidate Kōrero: Prime Minister Chris Hipkins (Labour Party)
  - 1 Oct 2023
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  - We met the Prime Minister at his office in the Beehive—Chippy was 15 minutes late, largely due to a tray of sausage rolls being wheeled into his office (Fair enough).
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- Candidate Kōrero: The Act Party
  - 1 Oct 2023
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  - ACT wasn't interested in speaking with Salient, so instead, we’ve summarised a non-conclusive list of the key ACT Party policies you need to know. For more information, check out Policy.nz or the Act Party Manifesto.
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- Candidate Kōrero: Nicola Willis (The National Party)
  - 1 Oct 2023
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  - Nicola Willis says she was never “a Young Nat or anything” during her time at Victoria University of Wellington. It's been a huge turn around for the MP vying to be New Zealand’s next Finance Minister, who says she “wasn’t even into politics” while studying a BA in English Literature in the early 2000s.
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- OPINION: The VUWSA Election Gives Us No Choice
  - 1 Oct 2023
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  - This is the third year in a row where a VUWSA President is elected uncontested, signalling a dire trend of dwindling engagement in student politics. This is more evidence than ever that candidates willing to put their dignities on the line to advocate for students are a critically endangered species.
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- D-Day for Humanities as Confirmed Course Cuts Rock University
  - 1 Oct 2023
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  - The long-winded process of staff cuts at Victoria University of Wellington finally has an end in sight, with Vice-Chancellor Nic Smith sending an email to all staff and students on 21 September, communicating the university’s final decision for courses set to be cut.
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- Candidate Kōrero: Winston Peters (NZ First)
  - 1 Oct 2023
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  - Winston kindly came along to the Salient office for a robust and hostile 30-minute chat peppered with personal insults, including calling me ignorant, a hypocrite, and saying I need to find a new job.
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- Candidate Kōrero: James Shaw and Marama Davidson (The Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand)
  - 1 Oct 2023
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  - The Green Party have hit the ground running this election, being the first party to release their full suite of policies, which they say are unapologetically student focused. The Party’s policies include a free universal student allowance, reforming student accommodation, and working towards a student debt write-off.
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- Election 2023: Pasifika Decisions
  - 24 Sep 2023
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  - With the upcoming 2023 election only weeks away, it is extremely important for us as Pasifika to play our part and vote. Voting ensures that we are represented in Parliament and that we are at the head of the table when it comes to decision making that impacts Pasifika people.
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- Candidate Kōrero: Fleur Fitzsimons
  - 17 Sep 2023
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  - Fleur Fitzsimons is the picture-perfect Labour Party candidate—black blazer, red scarf, and all—with The Spinoff crediting her look to a Labour MP ‘laboratory’. Fitzsimons has been a Wellingtonian for 26 years, ever since she first moved to study Politics and Law at VUW. She joined the VUWSA executive, alongside the current Prime Minister, then VUWSA President, Chris Hipkins.
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- Putting New World’s Massive 5% Student Discount to the Test
  - 17 Sep 2023
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  - If you get the feeling you're being fleeced at the self-checkout, you're not mistaken: the price of food has increased a fat 8.9% over the past year. The cost of living crisis has financially crippled Aotearoa and students are feeling the squeeze. But there seems to be a glimmer of hope on the financially chequered horizon: New World Metro.
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- Candidate Kōrero: Karunā Muthu
  - 17 Sep 2023
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  - Karunā Muthu describes himself as a “political animal”. He's not lying; rocking up to our interview in his royal blue National Party branded jacket, he jokes that he’s going to be the Prime Minister of New Zealand. The National Candidate for Rongotai is optimistic he’s able to turn Rongotai blue, despite it being a safe Labour seat since 1996.
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- International Students Screwed Over By “Advanced Graduation” Mismanagement
  - 17 Sep 2023
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  - International students have been cold shouldered by VUW about their graduation ceremony this year, following miscommunication of the university’s decision to forgo advanced graduation from this year onward.
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- Candidate Kōrero: Julie-Anne Genter
  - 3 Sep 2023
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  - Julie-Anne Genter regularly braves the cold for a swim in the South Coast’s marine reserve, Taputeranga. “It’s really magic,” she says. So it was an easy choice to film a campaign video there—until a whale visited Island Bay the day of their filming, disrupting their plans. Genter wasn’t disappointed. What a better sign, she thought, for a Green campaign than a whale visiting.
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- Mite Mania: Capital Hall Under Scabies Siege
  - 3 Sep 2023
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  - Freshers have been left itching and scratching as an unwelcome guest has taken over VUW’s Capital Hall: an outbreak of the small skin burrowing mite commonly known as scabies. Salient understands a small group of residents first noticed some unwelcome itches two weeks ago, and have since informed staff they were receiving treatment for scabies, causing mite hysteria throughout the hall.
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- It’s Squid Game at VUW after 74 Staff Members Granted Voluntary Redundancy
  - 13 Aug 2023
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  - Seventy-four staff members have successfully applied for voluntary redundancy at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. The university has released a consultation document to staff detailing the roles, programmes, and academic areas that may be targeted for cuts and redundancies.
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- Candidate Kōrero: Ibrahim Omer
  - 13 Aug 2023
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  - During his three years at Victoria University, Ibrahim Omer had a strict ritual every Friday afternoon: getting a coffee from Vic Books and a packet of sushi from MakiMono. Omer looks back at this time with fondness, and expressed immediate concern at the lack of students on campus before we even stepped foot into the Salient studio - “it's so quiet!”
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- Candidate Kōrero: Scott Sheeran
  - 13 Aug 2023
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  - Dr Scott Sheeran has lived many lives before throwing his hat in the ring for Wellington Central. He went from being “famous for not turning up at school”, and sporting dreadlocks while in a university band, to becoming a published author on human rights law and working multiple stints at the UN.
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- Cuts to Theatre: Undervaluing an Industry
  - 6 Aug 2023
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  - The teachers and students of the VUW Theatre programme are staring down the barrel of severe job cuts that have been described by staff and students as “blindsiding” and “tearing apart a community”.
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- Wellington's Transport Future Uncertain as Election Approaches
  - 6 Aug 2023
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  - The polarising Let’s Get Wellington Moving (LGWM) initiative is on the rocks, with National campaigning to scrap the project and Labour refusing to commit its support after the election. LGWM is a joint initiative between Wellington City Council, Greater Wellington Regional Council, and central government.
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- Tertiary Education is Not Dying Quietly
  - 6 Aug 2023
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  - On Tuesday afternoon last week, the Hub was occupied by a funeral ceremony in memory of tertiary education.
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- Broke Students Take Advantage of Campus Vending Machine Glitch
  - 30 Jul 2023
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  - Students are catching on to an apparent vending machine loophole, getting free sweet treats from a machine that dispenses beverages—specifically, Vanilla Coke Zero Sugar—seemingly free of charge.
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- Candidate Kōrero: Tamatha Paul for Wellington Central
  - 30 Jul 2023
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  - Tamatha Paul (Waikato Tainui, Ngāti Awa) was in Bunnings trying to find a new light for her flat when her phone “started blowing up” with the news that Labour Party MP Grant Robertson wasn’t standing for Wellington Central this year.
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- NZSM Refuses to Face the Music
  - 23 Jul 2023
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  - Tucked away at the top of Kelburn Parade, Te Kōkī—the New Zealand School of Music (NZSM) may seem a bit cut off from the rest of the university. That was decidedly not the case on Thursday, 6 July, with over 100 musicians lending their voice or instrument to the ‘Save the NZSM’ protest concert in the Hub.
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- Wake Up Babe, New Council Housing Just Dropped
  - 16 Jul 2023
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  - …except it’s not the type of housing that Wellingtonians were hoping for. Wellington City Council (WCC) have completed the latest installment of Te Kāinga affordable rental programme, a development consisting of three different apartment buildings on Willis Street. Combined, the buildings house a total of 178 two or three bedroom apartments, but the price tag has raised eyebrows.
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- Stafford House Evades the Residential Tenancy Act: Payout of $4800 Ordered
  - 16 Jul 2023
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  - A past resident of Stafford House has been awarded $4800 in compensation and damages by the Tenancy Tribunal, in a ruling combining eight different breaches of the Residential Tenancies Act 1986 (RTA). The resident lived at Stafford House from February to November 2022, during his first year at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, in accommodation he described as “disgusting”.
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- Hundreds of Proposed Job Losses, Programmes to be Cut, and a Government Funding Boost: What the Fuck is Happening at VUW?
  - 9 Jul 2023
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  - After the University of Otago announced they had a $60 million debt in early May, suspicions of a similar blow at Te Herenga Waka arose.
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- Over Budget and Overtime: Why is Now the Time for the Living Pā?
  - 9 Jul 2023
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  - The building extension of Te Herenga Waka Marae, the Living Pā, is unique, ambitious, and future focused, but burdensome challenges have continued to push the project backwards. An OIA received by Salient confirmed that a revised budget of $52 million for the project was approved in late 2022, an increase of $17m from the original budget of $35m approved in 2019.
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- NZSTYLE: Fashion Trendsetter or “Hella Creepy”?
  - 9 Jul 2023
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  - The launch of NZSTYLE (@nzstyled) on TikTok has caused a stir in Pōneke. The account premises itself on spotlighting the best dressed people in Wellington, but its method for doing so has drawn criticism from some. The account does not ask the people it films for permission. Instead, it captures subjects from a distance without their knowledge.
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- One Year Without Apsara: How We're Continuing Her Legacy
  - 28 May 2023
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  - The past year has been a constant reminder of how much we miss our dear friend Apsara. Though she's no longer with us, her legacy lives on in the memories we cherish and the lessons she taught us.
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