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    Reverberations

    • 13 Sep 2024
    • Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery
    • Music performance 6.00pm 19 September 2024 Te Pātaka Toi Adam Art Gallery Free, all welcome, no booking required. The New Zealand School of Music Te Kōkī Composition programme presents a selection of new works for solo instruments by staff and students. With works from the full range of students – from first year up to postgraduates – this programme will enrich and enliven the acoustics of the Gallery, bringing new sounds and new expressive perspectives to resonate with the contemporary architecture.
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    Adam Art Gallery, Hunter Car Park, Kelburn, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6145, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  
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    Research projects get $27.7 million boost

    • 13 Sep 2024
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Investigation of recent abrupt changes in Antarctic sea ice is among research funded by the 2024 Endeavour Fund.
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    Winter Energy Grants support nearly 900 students

    • 12 Sep 2024
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Alumni, corporate sponsors, and University staff came together to help students pay expensive power bills during the Wellington winter.
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    Labour is talking about a wealth tax again—what are its options and what might work?

    • 11 Sep 2024
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Taxes on wealth are an obvious policy choice for other OECD counties and we should learn from the best of these arrangements, write Jonathan Barrett and Lisa Marriott.
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    Are New Zealanders ‘sick and tired’ of spending on cycleways?

    • 10 Sep 2024
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Survey research shows Kiwis are evenly split on their support for cycleways, despite claims that none of us want them, write Sam Crawley and Matthew Gibbons.
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    Picture Me: Illustration and/as translation panel

    • 10 Sep 2024
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Come along to the Jean Anderson Lecture in Literary Translation which this year is part of a festival of picture book illustration called ‘Picture Me’. Next Wednesday, the University will host a panel of six European and Indigenous illustrators and scholars as they discuss art, culture, and translation in children's books.
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    “Absolutely Concerned”: Benefit Sanctions Will Hit Struggling Wellingtonians Hard

    • 8 Sep 2024
    • Salient
    • A new approach to supporting beneficiaries: adding more admin work to getting welfare!
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    Study highlights key role of COVID-19 boosters in preventing serious illness

    • 5 Sep 2024
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Analysis of health data for 5.3 million Kiwis shows vaccine effectiveness against COVID-19 infection drops significantly after six months, highlighting the importance of booster shots.
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    Making waves in earth science

    • 3 Sep 2024
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • New Zealand's location on a complex tectonic plate boundary makes it highly susceptible to seismic and volcanic activity, and understanding these dynamics is crucial for enhancing our preparedness and resilience. Two recent graduates from the University are helping to advance this important knowledge.
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    The US election has shades of 1968

    • 2 Sep 2024
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • In 1968, young Americans were pivotal in shaping political debates. Today, younger voters are also expected to influence key issues, especially climate change and social justice, writes Stephen Blumenfeld.
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    Life in NZ’s inhumane ‘prison within a prison’

    • 2 Sep 2024
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Many of the prisoners at Auckland’s supermax unit—housed in prolonged solitary confinement—have little idea why they are there and what they need to do to be transferred out, writes Christine McCarthy.
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    Electricity demand will jump as NZ decarbonises—can renewable generation keep up?

    • 2 Sep 2024
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Renewables should be able to meet projected growth in energy demand and we should expect wholesale power prices to drop as a result, writes Alan Brent.
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• • Metlink Still Doesn't Like Ōwhiro Bay (or te reo)

    • 30 Aug 2024
    • Salient
    • While Metlink reports an overall 79% satisfaction with its public transport service, public transport advocacy group Better Buses Ōwhiro Bay (BBŌW) argues their suburb is being left behind. Mimicking the questions Metlink uses during its satisfaction survey, BBŌW’s own survey found 84% of Ōwhiro Bay residents were dissatisfied with the coverage the suburb receives. Comparatively, only 10% of Metlink’s region-wide survey recipients expressed dissatisfaction.
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    Owhiro Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6023, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Tattoo Artist Profiles

    • 30 Aug 2024
    • Salient
    • Rose Hu’s journey as an artist began in the most unlikely of places: an office job she loathed. 'I was working an office job for the government, and it made me want to die,' Rose shared candidly in an interview. 'I had always been creative, but I followed a more traditional career path because I was taught that "art" wasn’t a viable career. I never found it fulfilling, and I reached a point where I realised I needed to fully commit to giving a creative career a go.'
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    Waste Not, Want Not

    • 29 Aug 2024
    • Salient
    • By Will Irvine (He/Him) Peeking out from an alleyway behind the beloved Chow and Library bars is a curious new addition to Wellington’s...
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    Forresters Lane, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Salient Backs Kororā for Bird of the Year: A Campaign to Support Wellington’s Little Blue Penguins

    • 28 Aug 2024
    • Salient
    • Wellington, 2 September 2024 — Salient , Victoria University of Wellington’s student magazine, is rallying behind the kororā, or Little...
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    International CEO Champions Future Wāhine Māori Leaders

    • 27 Aug 2024
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Melanie Smith (Ngāpuhi) is still in a minority as a wahine Māori business leader in London. She hopes to change that by funding the Mokaraka Māori Women in Business Scholarship to support young Māori women studying at Ōrauaraki—Wellington School of Business and Government.
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    Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington alumni win big at The Post Gold Awards

    • 26 Aug 2024
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • The Post Wellington Gold Awards saw dozens of alumni celebrated at a glittering 1920’s-themed event at The Embassy on Thursday 22 August, with alumni receiving awards for new thinking and emerging businesses, as well as the Supreme Gold award.
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    No place like home for eminent alumna Dr Jeya Wilson

    • 22 Aug 2024
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • "She has achieved things that should give her a place in the pantheon of New Zealand's most inspirational figures," said Spinoff writer Matt Hayes in 2019. Yet you probably haven't heard of Victoria University of Wellington alumna, Dr Jeya Wilson.
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    The right to disconnect from work is growing globally. Why is NZ lagging?

    • 22 Aug 2024
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Aussie workers will soon have the right to say “no” to be being contacted by their boss outside office hours. New Zealand needs to consider giving Kiwi workers a right to disconnect too, argue Amanda Reilly and Joshua Fairfield.
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    Outdated and imprecise: why it’s time we retired the term ‘race relations’

    • 20 Aug 2024
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • 'Race relations' is a misnomer—what we are really talking about are Māori-Crown relations, writes Lara Greaves.
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    New Zealand’s white-collar crime gap

    • 19 Aug 2024
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Just one percent of serious fraud complaints result in prosecution—we need to do more to combat corruption and white-collar crime, argues Lisa Marriott.
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    The Geneva Conventions at 75: do the laws of war still have a fighting chance in today’s bloody world?

    • 12 Aug 2024
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • When international humanitarian law is respected, it can save and improve lives, writes Marnie Lloydd.
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    Cooked, served, ate

    • 11 Aug 2024
    • Salient
    • It’s 4:45 PM on a Wednesday night. Across the city of Wellington, hospo workers are preparing for the dinner shift. They are setting tables, wiping down bars, and fixing kegs. If you’re reading this article, you’re probably a student, and the chances are you’re all too familiar with this ritual. Equally familiar is the pre-shift briefing. Depending on the temperament of your manager, this could sound like anything from group therapy to a fiery military pep talk. Tonight, though, I’ve been invited to sit in on one such briefing for the non-profit restaurant Everybody Eats.
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    Pho Mo, Dixon Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
  
  

• • Restaurant Closures Leave a Sour Taste; Hope Lingers

    • 11 Aug 2024
    • Salient
    • Over the last few years, restaurants across Wellington have been shutting up shop—and the death knells seem unending.
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• • The $20 Ghost Waffle

    • 11 Aug 2024
    • Salient
    • Picture this: it's exam season, and you're hungry, rushing to finish an essay. On Uber Eats you see an influx of unfamiliar restaurants.
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    A new report lays out NZ’s humanitarian duties under the laws of war—now it needs an action plan

    • 8 Aug 2024
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • New Zealand has joined other countries in reporting on its obligations under the law of armed conflict, but there's more to do, writes Marnie Lloyd.
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    Are young climate activists finally being heard?

    • 7 Aug 2024
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • School climate strikes may be having a positive influence on adult attitudes towards including children in the political sphere, write Louise Phillips, Francisco Perales, and Jenny Ritchie.
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    Mass bleaching of marine sponges largest event recorded worldwide

    • 6 Aug 2024
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • Millions of marine sponges are estimated to have died following a mass bleaching event in Fiordland in 2022.
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    Cancer diagnosis can be devastating, but for some it gives permission to live more radically

    • 6 Aug 2024
    • Victoria University of Wellington
    • There are vastly different ways in which people experience and respond to a cancer diagnosis, but for some it’s a prompt to make significant changes, write researchers Kevin Dew, Alex Broom, Chris Cunningham, Elizabeth Dennett, Kerry Chamberlain, and Richard Egan.
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