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    Candidate Kōrero: Debbie Ngarewa-Packer (Te Pāti Māori)

    • 1 Oct 2023
    • Salient
    • 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
    • Salient
    • 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
    • Salient
    • 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
    • Salient
    • 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
    • Salient
    • 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
    • Salient
    • 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
    • Salient
    • 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
    • Salient
    • 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
    • Salient
    • 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
    • Salient
    • 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
    • Salient
    • 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
    • Salient
    • 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
    • Salient
    • 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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• • Kelp forests in peril from ocean warming

    • 13 Sep 2023
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • More frequent marine heatwaves are putting kelp forests, and the important species they support, under threat, write Christopher Cornwall and Wendy Nelson.
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• • Antarctica’s record-breaking heatwave marks year of climate extremes

    • 6 Sep 2023
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Warmer temperatures throughout 2022 saw sea-ice records smashed, the latest State of the Climate report says.
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• • Associate professor wins national diversity and inclusion teaching award

    • 5 Sep 2023
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Associate Professor Kate Schick has received national recognition for excellence in teaching for her work at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.
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    Candidate Kōrero: Julie-Anne Genter

    • 3 Sep 2023
    • Salient
    • 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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    Island Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand/Aotearoa (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Mite Mania: Capital Hall Under Scabies Siege

    • 3 Sep 2023
    • Salient
    • 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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    Capital Hall, 143, Willis Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Taxing questions: is National glossing over the likely cost of administering its new ‘revenue measures’?

    • 30 Aug 2023
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • New taxes can come with 'massive IT costs', write Jonathan Barrett and Lisa Marriott.
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• • A remarkable gift for Wellington’s national music centre

    • 29 Aug 2023
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra are delighted to announce a transformative $2 million gift from acclaimed filmmaker Sir Peter Jackson and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dame Fran Walsh.
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• • Solar power inspiring the next generation of architects and designers

    • 29 Aug 2023
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Over 400 new solar panels are now generating electricity for Te Wānanga Waihanga-Hoahoa Wellington Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation, at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington’s campus on Vivian St.
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• • Chinese Minister of Education visits Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington

    • 22 Aug 2023
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • In mid-August, the University hosted a delegation from the People’s Republic of China, deepening our relationship with our most important international market, and signing a new memorandum of understanding with the Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC).
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• • Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery exhibition: Back of House

    • 21 Aug 2023
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Current exhibitions at the Adam Art Gallery bring back of house to the fore with projects and a programme of events championing the work that normally lies behind the scenes in the public display of art.
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• • Critics of ‘degrowth’ economics say it’s unworkable—but from an ecologist’s perspective, it’s inevitable

    • 16 Aug 2023
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Reducing humanity’s demands on the planet is an 'overriding priority', writes Mike Joy.
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• • Paid parental leave for partners—why NZ could do better

    • 15 Aug 2023
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Evidence suggests children and their families benefit when parental leave for partners is adequately funded, writes Kate Prickett.
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• • The problem with jury trials

    • 14 Aug 2023
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Twelve heads are better than one, but when those heads are labouring under the same misconceptions about sexual assault it's a recipe for injustice, writes Yvette Tinsley
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    It’s Squid Game at VUW after 74 Staff Members Granted Voluntary Redundancy

    • 13 Aug 2023
    • Salient
    • 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
    • Salient
    • 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
    • Salient
    • 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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• • From Oppenheimer to Milton Friedman: how the Cold War battle of economic ideas shaped our world

    • 9 Aug 2023
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • The Cold War didn't just rest on the threat of the bomb, writes Alan Bollard. Outside the war room, economists also clashed in their views about how to run postwar economies.
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