Victoria University / April 2024
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City Bus Service Blindspots: Ōwhiro Bay Residents Develop Killer Calves
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- Ōwhiro Bay has been abandoned by the bus network, according to a new report. During off-peak times, it takes two buses and over 45 minutes to get from Ōwhiro Bay to the city centre. The suburb is disproportionately affected by bus cancellations. Its residents are fed up. Now, they’ve taken matters into their own hands, writing a twenty-thousand-word report to prove their own experience. Jack Graham and Arunan Noble are both Ōwhiro Bay residents and, in the spirit of full disclosure, friends of the author. They both live with their parents while studying at VUW. After many years of being disappointed by the bus system, hope was initially raised when Metlink announced incoming improvements at the start of 2024.
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Owhiro Bay, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6023, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Cuba Street Meal Steals
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- Served by Bianca Maria Schioler (she/her) Kia ora tātou and welcome back to another season of Meal Steals which your StudyLink budget won’t kick up a fuss about. On today’s menu we’re going to take a trip to the famous Cuba Street, well known to any Wellingtonian as the street for excellent food and creative expression. Sadly, Covid-19 saw the closure of many iconic Cuba Street restaurants, and only a few new ones have popped up in their place in the following years. However, we can contribute to making Cuba Street the same vibrant, cultural-mixing glass of culinary excellence it once was by taking to the streets, and filling our tummies.
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Review: Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812
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- Words by: Ngan Dang (she/they) Picture Credit: WITCH Musical Theatre Dream-like and grandiose; Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 was a memorable experience which thoroughly entertained me. I expected a messy love story, but the melancholy was balanced out with just as much fun and wit—this was truly a show of anticipation and charging emotions. In this classic Broadway musical, co-directors Maya Handa Naff and Nick Lerew take a youthful twist to the lavish 19th-century Moscow from Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Through the stories of “young” Natasha and “warm-hearted” Pierre, the show explores their journey to navigate love, purpose, and pleasure in the heart of emotional turmoil and conflict.
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Hannah Playhouse, 12, Cambridge Terrace, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The Glasgow Street Girls
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- Ruth Smidt, Margaret Pointer, and Annette Pearson met in their first year at Victoria University of Wellington back in 1968. While they were all from different backgrounds, and studying different degrees, they became firm friends. Fifty-six years later, they returned to the University and their first flat on Glasgow Street to reminisce days gone by.
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Creating good WIL: Work Integrated Learning NZ Conference 2024
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- Te Herenga Waka–Victoria University of Wellington recently hosted the WILNZ Conference 2024 at its Pipitea campus, with over 100 delegates and keynote speakers from around Aotearoa and the world.
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Researchers pilot world-first programme for autistic kids
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- Programme trains 300 health and education professionals to identify early signs of autism in children under five and refer them for immediate support.
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Why we need to avoid the deep-seated tendency in education to address complex issues with ‘polarising pivots’
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- New Zealand's scores in reading, maths, and science need to improve but a radical policy swing isn't the answer, write Bronwyn Wood and Taylor Hughson.
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Taking the leap on the Pipitea campus
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- Over 400 Wellingtonians headed to Te Herenga Waka’s Pipitea campus to take part in the TEDx experience in the capital city—the first time this event took place in five years.
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Prison fails to uphold inmates’ rights
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- A new report finds inmates at Auckland Prison were denied their minimum legal entitlements, writes Christine McCarthy.
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Underwater 'canary' reveals how light pollution could be affecting coastal ecosystems
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- Changes in the growth patterns of a small unremarkable fish are a clear indicator of what could be happening in other fish, write Kathleen Sterup and Abigail Smith.
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More adults are being diagnosed as neurodivergent. Here’s how employers can help in the workplace
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Employers need not fear hiring people who are neurodivergent, writes Dougal Sutherland.
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Love at the Zoo
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- There are those who believe that the penguins at Wellington Zoo are nothing more than a conspiracy theory. How else can you explain visiting the zoo multiple times and never catching a glimpse of them? Or only seeing their tiny feet and bellies peeking out from their cozy nesting boxes? Some question if they're real or just well-made statues. The keepers in charge of the penguin exhibit seem to think these birds exist, but VUWSA's Emily Bull thinks otherwise. However, I am strongly against this notion. In fact, I was so passionate about it that I contacted the zoo specifically to learn more about my beloved (and entirely real) penguin couple: Harriet and Nettle. And through my research, I discovered how they (along with some other adorable animals) fell in love.
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Wellington Zoological Gardens, Manchester Street, Melrose, Wellington, Wellington Region, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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More Pedestrians on Cuba St Will Destroy Business, Say Campaigners
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- A coalition of business owners on Cuba St are petitioning the Council to reconsider its plan to remove 20 car parks along the stretch of road between Ghuznee and Vivian. Organised by (unsuccessful) Lambton Ward candidate and famed Kaffee Eis creamslinger, Karl Tiefenbacher, the “Park It” campaign hinges itself on business owners arguing that losing the 20 car parks will make a significant impact on their profit margins. “The thing to remember is that a lot of people walk here, obviously, and I get stupid statements like, ‘cars don’t spend money, people do’, but cars don’t drive themselves either, so every car brings an extra person to Cuba St,” he told Salient. “You know, we’re selling a low cost product, and we need a lot of turnover, so if we lose something like 10% of our business [by having no car parks], that’s enough to send us under.”
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6011, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Hundreds Of Young People March To Call For Climate Action
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- Photo: Henry Broadbent ETHAN ROGACION (HE/HIM) Chants of “Toitū Te Tiriti”, “Free, free, Palestine”, and “Climate change has got to go”...
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Lights, camera, action—the Wellington Animation Film Festival and Victoria University of Wellington
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- Creative Aotearoa French Exchange recently partnered with Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington to deliver the inaugural Wellington Animation Film Festival.
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Why artificial submarine curtains won’t save West Antarctica’s retreating glaciers
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Even if geoengineering proposals work, ice loss and global sea-level rise will continue for decades—even centuries—to come, write Alanna Alevropoulos-Borrill and Nick Golledge.
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Fixing problems with the banking industry: will proposed solutions work?
- Victoria University of Wellington
- Diagnosing what's wrong with New Zealand's banks is one thing, but finding the right solution is another problem, writes Martien Lubberink.
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Ngā Ahurei a Te Apārangi Fellows announced
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- Six professors from Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington have been elected to the Academy of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.
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Hundreds Rally Against Coalition Government
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- Photo: Henry Broadbent This year’s School Strike for Climate was a broad-church action, held collboratively today by Toitū Te Tiriti,...
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Colder seas and nearly 200 years of increased snowfall needed to rebuild Antarctic ice loss
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- Research findings paint “a gloomy image” for the future of Antarctica's Amundsen Sea Embayment in a warming world.
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