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Welcome to the Salient blog! Here you'll find every piece of writing we've published this year. Browse by category, or just go for a scroll.
Ethan Rogacion
Mar 25, 20242 min read
Motion Accepted: VUWSA Agrees To Do A Bunch Of Things
ETHAN ROGACION (HE/HIM) Last Wednesday, VUWSA Te Aka Tauira held its AGM which, unfortunately, does not stand for A lot of Gold...
Henry Broadbent
Mar 25, 20242 min read
Large-Scale Famine, Mass Death Loom in Gaza.
HENRY BROADBENT (he/him) A UN-backed IPC report has warned “famine is imminent” in Gaza. It states the “entire population in the Gaza...
Darcy Lawrey
Mar 25, 20242 min read
Gordon Wilson is Dead, Long Live Affordable Housing
DARCY LAWREY (he/him) Last Thursday, Wellington City Council passed what Councillor Nīkau Wi Neera described as “the most pro-housing,...
Dan Moskovitz
Mar 25, 20242 min read
Environmentally Conscious Large-Scale Profit? Consumer NZ Investigates Oxymoron
DAN MOSKOVITZ (he/him) Consumer NZ is establishing which corporations are frequently lying to consumers by exaggerating their...
Will Irvine
Mar 25, 20241 min read
The Girlies are Fightinggg
WILL IRVINE (HE/HIM) Readers who were disappointed by this year’s musical adaptation of Mean Girls will be excited to know that an even...
Dan Moskovitz
Mar 25, 20242 min read
Auckland Football Club Name Dropped: Auckland Football Club
DAN MOSKOVITZ (he/him) Last Saturday the Wellington Phoenix men downed Sydney FC 2-1 at Eden Park, in one of the ‘home’ games the Nix...
Will Irvine
Mar 25, 20241 min read
Opinion: Five Years On From March 15, Has Our Nation Changed?
WILL IRVINE (HE/HIM) Before March 15, 2019, it was considered a proud point in Aotearoa’s cultural identity that we did not experience...
Maia Campbell
Mar 18, 20242 min read
The Politics of Puberty: The Fight to Keep Sex Ed in Kiwi Kura
By Maia Campbell (she/her, Kāi Tahu), for Thursdays in Black VUW The Coalition of Chaos are dead set on removing relationship and...
Salient Mag
Mar 18, 20243 min read
Liberated
Words by: Cowboy (they/them) The first time I stepped into a strip club was when I began working in one. It was also the first time I...
Dan Moskovitz
Mar 18, 20242 min read
SPINELESS CREATURES BAYBEE
DAN MOSKOVITZ (HE/HIM) Aoteroa loves birds. Ask any kiwi about our biodiversity and you get loads of aroha towards our native kiwi,...
Salient Mag
Mar 18, 20242 min read
Joe Biden’s Uncomfortable Blind Spot on Palestine Grows
WILL IRVINE (HE/HIM) When Joseph R. Biden was first elected to the presidency, celebrations largely centred around the defeat of Trump...
Ashleigh Putt-Fallows
Mar 18, 20242 min read
Week In Review: Hurricanes Haka
ASHLEIGH PUTT-FALLOWS Ngāti Whātua, Ngāpuhi-Ngāti Hine, Tūhoe On the 9th of March the Hurricanes Poua performed a pre-game haka at the...
Phoebe Robertson
Mar 18, 20242 min read
“Secret Jobs” advertisements appear outside Easterfield Building
PHOEBE ROBERTSON (SHE/HER) On March 8th Salient received reports of advertisements for “my secret job” appearing near campus. The ad...
Ethan Rogacion
Mar 18, 20243 min read
Tri Three Grads Try (And Fail) To Apply For Graduation Ceremony, Sparking Student Uproar
ETHAN ROGACION (HE/HIM) Are you a recent grad of Te Herenga Waka? Did you finish your course of study in February? Do you want to attend...
Henry Broadbent
Mar 18, 20242 min read
Week in Review: Glazer and The Zone of Disinterest
HENRY BROADBENT (HE/HIM) The week in Aotearoa has seen various pundits whinging at the bothersome intrusion of petty concepts like ‘human...
Will Irvine
Mar 18, 20241 min read
Explosion on Boulcott Street Leaves Residents Shocked
WILL IRVING (HE/HIM) CW: Suicide, Violence On Friday the 8th of March, at approximately 1:00PM, an explosion ripped through a Kainga Ora...
Ethan Rogacion
Mar 18, 20241 min read
Mm, mm, mm! The Lab’s New Menu Looks Too Good To Be True
ETHAN ROGACION If you’ve recently been to The Lab at Kelburn campus, or its more recent off-shoot “Kimchi Noodle Bar”, chances are that...
Ethan Rogacion
Mar 11, 20242 min read
One, Two, Buckle Your Shoes—Getting Around Gets Tougher
ETHAN ROGACION (He/HIM) The Government released its draft policy statement on transport last week and the news is bleak for anyone who...
Ethan Rogacion
Mar 11, 20241 min read
The Beef Is Over … For Now: Brownlee Grants Salient Press Pass
ETHAN ROGACION (HE/HIM)
Alex Heine-Sheldrake
Mar 11, 20243 min read
Unneeded Urgency: Constitutional Criminals
ALEX HEINE-SHELDRAKE (HE/HIM) Last week, the Act Party twitter posted a graphic celebrating the “disestablishment of the Māori Health...
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