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Posts By: Asher Emanuel
Trade-Offs
A list of things for which I would sacrifice various parts of my own body. Read more »
Only Judith Will Judge Me
From newly-minted electorate MP to the highest-ranked female member of Cabinet, firmly lodged on the front bench in a matter of ten years, Judith Collins is in the ascendant. Read more »
Editorial – Power
That the Power Issue coincides with the VUWSA General Election is a delightful but unintentional irony. It’s not our job (during the election) to pass comment or endorse candidates. Read more »
Editorial – Wasted Time
You’ll notice on the front of this week’s Salient it says ‘Issue 21’. Do you ...Read more »
Editorial – Politicool
It was spring 2008. We were rosy- cheeked, somewhat-less-than-pretty 16 year-olds. By the end of ...Read more »
Sir Roger
How New Zealand’s most radical and reviled finance minister made peace with the past. Read more »
10 Questions With Grant
Salient sits down for a natter with your MP for Wellington Central, Grant ‘G-Ruzz’ Robertson. ...Read more »
Losing The Age Of Innocence
“Go down to the children’s hospital in Wellington. Have a walk through the wards. They will be jam-packed with kids with illnesses they don’t need to have. Respiratory illnesses. Skin infections.” “All of the diseases of child poverty in children have gone up,” continued Bryan Bruce, an award-winning New Zealand documentary maker. “We now have tuberculosis in NZ, which we didn’t have. We now have rheumatic fever, which we didn’t have. All of these third world diseases.” Read more »
Freedom of Mind
In the summer of 1953, when Francis Crick stumbled through the front door of his home announcing to his dear wife that he had uncovered the double-helix structure of DNA, he brought about the single greatest leap in the field of genetics in history. At the time of this epiphany, he was tripping on LSD. Read more »
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