Issue 15

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Editorial

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Letters and Notices

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News

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Confronting my obsession with Olivia Rodrigo

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Gold Rush for the Pacific Seabed

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Artist Profile / Centrefold

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The Bureaucracy of Mental Health Columns

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$10 Jugs (26)

Culture

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Poem (32), Baggy Pants & Butter Paper (28) Above Standard (32)

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Entertainment

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Sink your teeth into it!

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Editorial Drink more water, but flush less of it while we wait for better toilets People simply forget to drink water. There’s a reason all the memes and other aspects of “stay hydrated” culture continue to crop up on the internet. Although drinking water has been around since the beginning of human history, it’s somehow trendy? But that’s okay, because sometimes it’s the simple things (like drinking water) that we need to be reminded of. If it’s because some influencer captioned a pic of them on the beach with “this is your daily reminder to drink more water”, that’ll do.

If you’re not drinking enough water you should come up with incentives. Sally believes adding ice is very helpful as it makes it taste nicer: “are you actually going to say that room temperature water is better than a nice cold glass?” This is supported by Salient designer Padraig who stated “I froth drinking water in winter because the pipes are cold.” Matthew purchased a $3 MLM branded water bottle from a hospice shop.

At uni, drinking water can be used as a form of justified procrastination. On a late night of studying, the water fountain can be a meeting place for socialisation, like an office water cooler. Drinking water while studying is the best trick in the book— it’s good for your health and you get heaps of toilet breaks.

So we’re drinking lots of water and taking all these toilet breaks. Which means we’re flushing a fuck tonne of fresh water straight down the toilet on the daily. NZ toilets have a rating system for water efficiency—4 star toilets use 3L for a half flush, and 4.5L for a full flush. If you’re going to the toilet five times a day with four half flushes and one full flush, you’re using 16.6L of water a day. Times that by the population of NZ, and it’s a lot of waste that needs to be managed

In New Zealand, waste water management has been called out for breaching tikanga. Just last year, Watercare (an Auckland Council organisation) was looking at using treated water as drinking water during a drought. Dr Te Kahautu Maxwell (Waikato University Associate Professor) said Māori would never use or consume anything to do with human discharge, and urged proper consultation.

The national significance of tikanga in water management is something the Ministry of Environment discussed in their October 2020 Wastewater Sector Report. “At its most basic, human waste is considered harmful, tapu, and needs to be kept separate from where people cook, eat, harvest food, talk and sleep.”

With all this in mind, we need to plan properly.

Droughts are inevitable. If we protected freshwater, rather than converting it into waste, we hopefully wouldn’t need to look for ways to drink our own waste, breaching tikanga (and the Treaty) along the way.

The problem is not drinking water or going to the toilet. It’s our cultural obsession with pristine toilet bowls, and flaws in waste disposal design that never considered limits on access to freshwater or sustainability. There are many alternatives— composting toilets, waterless toilets, and grey water flushing systems...long drops? Aaaand the oldest one in the book: “if it’s yellow let it mellow…”

This whole flushing thing is not something that can be solved by an individual, but we should prepare to support alternative toilet systems when presented to us.

In the meantime, stay hydrated.

Sally Ward (she/her) and Matthew Casey (he/him) Brought to you by Peoples Coffee

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NOTICES & LETTERS NZ English speakers are needed for an online reading study We are looking for participants for an online reading study. Participants will receive a $20 e-voucher that can be redeemed at over 20 different venues, including Farmers, Kathmandu, Liquorland, Whitcoulls, Dominos, App Store & iTunes. The whole procedure can be completed online and will take no more than 1.5 hours.

We are looking for students between 17 and 30 years of age, who are native speakers of NZ English. Due to the nature of the tasks and measures used in the study, participants need to have normal (or corrected-to-normal) vision and hearing and no diagnosed reading or learning disorders.

This research has been approved by the University Human Ethics Committee: #29212 If you would like to take part in the study, please email Ross van de Wetering <ross.vandewetering@vuw.ac.nz> If you have questions about the study, please contact Irina Elgort <Irina.

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Pūtiki Bay / Revenge Porn / Hominid Skull Harry Ricketts / Climate Commission / Waste / Recap

What’s Going On at Pūtiki Bay? Protect Pūtiki kaitiaki continue to occupy the Kennedy Point Marina construction site over environmental concerns and lack of consultation.

Johnny O’Hagan Brebner (he/him) The Kennedy Point Marina construction site continues to be occupied by members of the Protect Pūtiki campaign who claim that the development flouts Te Tiriti o Waitangi and will damage the environment.

The Marina is opposed by a number of groups concerned that it will have damaging environmental impacts—in particular, that it will harm kororā (little blue penguins) that live nearby.

While the developer, Kennedy Point Boatharbour Ltd, has submitted a kororā monitoring plan to Auckland Photo: via Protect Pūtiki Facebook Page Council, Protect Pūtiki, Forest and Bird New Zealand, and local environmental groups remain concerned about When granting the resource consent, Auckland Council construction. failed to hear from the mandated representatives of the iwi (Ngāti Pāoa Trust Board) and members of the iwi Forest and Bird wrote to Auckland City Council in June, themselves. calling for work on the site to stop immediately. Its Auckland regional manager told Radio New Zealand The consent process was taken to the Environment that footage showing plumes of underwater sediment Court and eventually appealed up to the Supreme Court, coming from the construction site and buoys blocking but was upheld. kororā leaving the sea were particularly concerning.

Salient asked Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations Minister Kennedy Point Marina’s director, Kitt Littlejohn, disputes Andrew Little whether the government would be taking this claim. the same course as it had with Ihumātao. He responded that “the circumstances are different.”

The area is part of the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park, established in 2000 to prevent further degradation of “The project has been the subject of decisions by and the waters surrounding Auckland. appeals to the courts which have upheld the terms of the project. The iwi with mana whenua and with mana Those opposing the development say that the moana, Ngāti Paoa has supported the project even as construction of another 7.3 hectare marina (about the some members of Ngāti Paoa have opposed it.”* size of a rugby field) runs against the recent State of our Gulf report which cited a proliferation of marinas in Minister Little further emphasised the issue was Auckland as a main driver of marine degradation. an internal iwi one, “Ngāti Pāoa are on the record as supporting the project. If there are internal Protect Pūtiki also claims that the consultation process disagreements within Ngāti Pāoa on the issue then it is on the resource consent for the Marina failed to properly not for me to get involved in that.” engage with local iwi—in particular, Ngāti Pāoa.

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Protect Pūtiki says that the process, and the judgement, “does not come close to fulfilling Te Tiriti o Waitangi obligations and the principle of Active Protection. We say that we need to be heard by the environment court in order for an active relationship and partnership that supports tino rangatiratanga to be upheld.”

A petition from Protect Pūtiki calls on Ministers and Auckland Council to facilitate a mutually beneficial conclusion.

Minister for Conservation Kiritapu Allan, along with Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations Andrew Little, were approached for comment from Salient. ​​ Minister Allan unable to respond in time for print; an updated version of this article will be available online with the Minister’s response .

However, the spokesperson also said that the “Council is committed to protecting our birdlife and will be undertaking regular monitoring and on-site inspections to ensure that all conditions of the resource consent are adhered to.”

Nonetheless, both campaigners and Green MP Dr Elizabeth Kerikeri claim that the developers are breaching the requirements placed on the consent, even if it was validly provided.

The Council is yet to make a decision on the developer’s updated kororā monitoring plan.

Videos from the occupation have shown police violence towards protestors. Some kaitiaki were rammed with a boat. More recently, a video was released showing kaitiaki and workers grappling on a platform, with one employee being pushed into a gap in the platform and a protester later being kicked in the head.

Minister Allan was invited to meet with protestors, but neither she nor any other member of cabinet have met with the kaitiaki at Pūtiki Bay at time of writing. Minister Little says that the only contact his office has received Police say that they are investigating these incidents. only some correspondence from the public on the issue.

Green Party MPs Marama Davidson and Chlöe Swarbrick Te Arawhiti (formerly the Office of Treaty Settlements) visited last week. is due to launch engagement with claimant groups on customary title and interests under the Takutai Moana The petition also calls for the Council to review the Act. Minister Little told Salient that he is “not concerned resource consent, and for Minister Allan to amend the that the occupation will interfere with the consideration Hauraki Gulf Marine Park Act to prevent further marina of customary interests under te Takutai Moana Act developments in Waiheke Island.

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A spokesperson for the Auckland Mayoral Office told Salient that its involvement with the development was limited to processing the resource consent and that it “has no legal authority to revoke the resource consent”.

* When providing this answer, Little noted that he does not lead this work.

New “revenge porn” legislation receives unanimous support in Parliament

Currently, a person will only be charged for unauthorised sharing of such content if the court is able to prove they intended to, or did, cause harm. The new Bill, on the other hand, assumes that harm will be done no matter the intent of the offender.

The petition mentioned above can be found here: https://our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/protectputiki

CW: sexual violence

This law covers recordings that were made consensually, but informed and explicit consent was not given for the content to be shared. Intimate recordings made without the consent or knowledge of the subject are already prohibited under Section 216h of the Crimes Act.

A Bill proposed by Labour MP Louisa Wall will criminalise the unauthorised posting of intimate recordings, also known as “revenge porn”.

If enacted, the Amendment will make the sharing of revenge porn punishable by a prison sentence of up to three years, or a fine of up to $50,000.

The Bill seeks to amend the Harmful Digital Communications Act (2015), which already covers issues such as cyberbullying and inciting/encouraging an individual to commit suicide.

The Harmful Digital Communications (Unauthorised Posting of Intimate Visual Recording) Amendment Act 2020 passed its first reading unanimously in March, and is now before the Select Committee.

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The ACT Party opposed the Harmful Digital Communications Act when it was first put through Parliament in 2015 due to concerns about freedom of speech, but saw the hole in the original legislation that is now being filled by the proposed Amendment.

ACT MP Nicole McKee told Parliament that her party “actually had an issue with intimate visual recordings not being captured by the primary piece of legislation”.

Ginny Andersen, Labour MP for Hutt South, told the House of NetSafe’s findings, which show “five per cent of adult New Zealanders said they have personally experienced image-based sexual abuse, and it is far more common in terms of those aged under 30.”

She added that, among those whose image-based sexual abuse involved images being shared online, instances were “far higher amongst 18 to 29-year-olds, and those who did not identify as heterosexual.”

A number of organisations made submissions in support of the Bill, including Facebook, Family Planning, Wellington Rape Crisis, the Auckland Women’s Law Association (AWLA), and the New Zealand Prostitutes’ Collective (NZPC).

The AWLA’s submission observes “It is estimated that 95% of the victims of revenge pornography are women, and therefore this issue is overwhelmingly gendered.”

NZPC expressed their support of the Bill to Salient: “It is important to recognise the harm that is caused by sharing intimate recordings online without consent, regardless of whether there is an intention to cause harm or not.”

When asked about the importance of the issue to sex workers, NZPC commented: “Sex workers post intimate visual recordings and images online frequently for work purposes, and their consent is conditional and specific to the sites and timeframes they choose [...] Sex workers must be able to have as much control as possible of these images, where they are posted, shared, and available. When they remove their consent for such images to be online, this must be respected.”

NZPC have received reports of brothel operators “sharing advertising photos of their workers on their own personal social media pages” and “brothel websites not removing photos on request and in some cases keeping them up long after the worker has stopped doing sex work.”

“These types of practices create ongoing risk for a sex worker and may (for example) result in them missing out on certain employment in the future due to the stigma of sex work. If the HDCA Amendment goes through, sex workers will have better protections in such cases and many more.”

“Exciting” Ancient Hominid Skull Re-Discovered In Northern China Potentially a New Species

Chinese researchers have identified a new species of ancient hominid, Homo longi, based on an enormous skull uncovered from an abandoned well. Critics are sceptical of diagnosing the specimen as a new species, but remain excited about the discovery.

Katrin O’Donnell (she/her) NgātI Pūkeko Archaeologists have completed preliminary analyses of a “massive” ancient human skull found in Heilongjiang, China’s northernmost province.

Photo: Xijun Ni

The skull, dubbed “Dragon Man” by researchers, was originally found by Chinese labourers building a bridge over the Songhua River during Japanese occupation in 1933. The labourers hid the remarkably well-preserved fossil in an abandoned well to prevent the Japanese occupiers from obtaining it. It was only uncovered again in 2018, when one of the labourers revealed its location to his grandson shortly before he died. www.salient.org.nz

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The skull’s remarkable recent history has unfortunately impeded on scientists’ ability to accurately date the fossil, but geochemical analyses show that it was embedded in a layer of sedimentary rock that was formed between 138 and 309 thousand years ago.

“Really what is needed is DNA evidence” says Professor Zuccarello, “as in Denisovans, which we have practically no bones for, but clearly indicate them as a unique lineage.” Interestingly, some scientists have speculated that “Dragon Man” could be a Denisovan; his skull the first piece of this ancient skeletal puzzle, but more remains would need to be uncovered to prove or disprove this claim.

The skull’s cranial capacity is large (-1,420 mL), but it does fall within the upper size range of modern humans.

It possesses a unique combination of “modern” and “primitive” characteristics, such as a thick brow ridge, a Others suspect it could belong to the same species as shallow palette, and very large molars behind a face that another fossil found in Dali county, China in 1978, called otherwise closely resembles Homo sapiens.

Homo daliensis.

Researchers used software to analyse the skull’s physical dimensions in comparison with 95 other hominid skulls to formulate a likely family tree.

According to this analysis, the specimen is a distinct species (Homo longi) which is more closely related to modern humans than Neanderthals, but a number of evolutionary scientists urge caution in drawing such conclusions.

Professor Joe Zuccarello from VUW’s School of Biological Sciences, points out that morphological analyses can’t tell us much about whether or not this fossil belonged to a distinct species:

Professor Zuccarello emphasises that broader debates within the scientific community surrounding what lineages should be considered a distinct species of hominid are ongoing.

Scientists continue to find evidence that physical differences between ancient people rarely correlated with reproductive isolation: “If you think species should be reproductively isolated, then are Neanderthals, Denisovans, which interbred with us, and ‘Dragon Man’ really species?” asks Professor Zuccarello.

Professor Hawkes, quoted in The Guardian, agrees: “I think it’s a bad moment in science to be naming new “Humans are variable in their skull morphology, just look species among these large-brained humans that all around you, so to claim an unusual skull is something interbred with each other.” new, when the natural variation is not known because there are so few archaic human skeletons, is a big Regardless of the nuances of the speciation debate, the guess.” discovery is important in helping scientists understand ancient migration patterns. “What is really cool is Professor John Hawkes, a paleoanthropologist at the that it shows that hominids (members of our genus University of Wisconsin-Madison, agrees that cranial Homo) were traveling the world well before the human shape and facial structures should not be considered an migration out of Africa that produced all the humans on accurate measure of genetic closeness, pointing out that earth we see now”, says Professor Zuccarello. skulls can look similar between distantly related ancient hominids.

Opening and Closing Chapters: Harry Ricketts’ Retirement Coincides With Book Launch Sally Ward (she/her) On Wednesday, 7 July, Harry Ricketts’ Selected Poems was launched at Unity Books. The release coincided with Harry’s retirement from Victoria University of Wellington after 40 years of teaching English Literature.

The event was initially delayed due to COVID Alert Level changes, but the turnout remained strong.

Fellow writers read their work at the event, including Nick Ascroft, Anna Jackson, James Brown, and Ashley Young, before Harry performed a selection from the new book.

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Photo: Harry Ricketts via VUW

Ashleigh Young, Harry’s editor at Victoria University Press, said that the launch “felt like a real community event as well as a celebration of Harry’s career and, perhaps even more so, a celebration of Harry as a person.”

“It felt appropriate to have a few other writers reading poems as well (Harry’s idea), because he has always gathered people around him and supported other writers. He’s a much-loved VUP author and part of the wider literary community, and you could certainly feel that warmth in the room.”

“As an editor I love working with Harry. His poems have a great warmth and humility to them, and vulnerability too. He’s a terrific observer of people, and the poems on friendship always stand out to me as among his most affecting work. It’s a privilege to have been able to help put this collection together.”

Ashley concluded by saying: “I know that Harry doesn’t quite know what to do when people say nice things about him but the fact is, he’s a legend.”

Harry stated that during his time at VUW there have been some good and bad changes.

“The English Department when I arrived had 19 people, but only three women. Now there’s half that number but the gender balance is equal”.

Although Harry has retired, he is still teaching until the end of Trimester Two, and will also be teaching at the Institute of Modern Letters next year. Harry described this as a “Clayton’s retirement” (which means retiring without really retiring).

Selected Poems: Harry Ricketts has been a top seller at the local Unity Books following the launch.

CLIMATE COMMISSION: EXPLAINED

Niva Chittock (she/her)

On May 31, the New Zealand Climate Change Commission—He Pou a Rangi (CCC) released a report on our emissions.

The CCC has laid out broad goals to achieve this, like more investment in public transport and the decarbonisation of all land transport. But exactly how this should be done is left up to Parliament.

It sets out our first three emission reduction budgets, and whether or not we are on track to reach our current targets. Climate Change Commission Chair, Dr Rod Carr, explained why.

The CCC was created in November 2019, following a unanimous vote in Parliament. It is bound by the Climate “It is up to the representatives, those who have been Change Response Act 2002, amended in 2019 to allow elected, to make the policy decisions. We do a lot of the creation of the Commission. groundwork [the Commission met with 4000 people over 200 meetings and received 15,000 submissions while Our Commission is modelled off of the UK’s Climate creating this report] but ultimately they make the specific Change Board. Founded in 2008, it has proved to be decisions, in the best interests of their electorates and highly effective, and was easy to replicate here as our thus the public.” political systems are the same.

“The Commission also simply does not have the depth, Fully funded by the Government, the Commission’s breadth, or time that Ministries have when creating job is to produce expert advice to the Government on specific policy.” climate change. It is completely independent from the Government itself.

Dr Carr explained that the Commission’s work covers every aspect of climate change advice and “is all about The primary aim of the Commission is to shape targets”, with this being the first of many reports into the direction of climate change policy through the Aotearoa’s progress. He painted a sobering image of our advice it provides. It works to deadlines and produces current emission reduction efforts. overarching goals, but, crucially, does not create specific policy recommendations.

“We know that right now we are not on track to reach current emission reduction targets of at least 10% For example, Aotearoa has committed to reaching net reduction (from 2017 levels) of methane by 2030.” zero emissions of long-lived greenhouse gases by 2050.

This includes reducing biogenic* methane emissions The Government must set its emission reductions targets between 24-47%.

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Paris Climate Accord meeting in the first few weeks of November, hence why this report was released now.

“The Earth has oscillated between -0.5 degrees and 1.5 degrees variation in its climate temperature before, as it self-corrects to an optimum temperature. This [global Dr Carr says that while these documents are for the New climate change goal] is about keeping warming to the Zealand Government, they are “being released publicly 1.5 degrees we know the world can handle. We don’t as this is an issue which has great importance for all.” know how ecosystems will react to a 2 degree warming”.

Work began on this 418 page document back in December 2019. The first draft was released in February, with time taken to hear feedback on what the Commission had so far.

“This is the first time humans have experienced a significant change in the environment’s temperature [...]

We will have to live with a warmer, wetter, winder, and wilder world.”

In this final report, the CCC has laid out what the feedback was, how they responded, and what the outcome is.

*Biogenic methane is methane gas produced by plants and animals. Methane is one of the most harmful gases to the atmosphere, only second to CO2.

Dr Carr was realistic when discussing our future with climate change.

NZ Waste Levy Increase, About Time or a Waste of Time?

Jaime Eaton (she/her)

It is no big secret that as a country, New Zealand produces a lot of waste, despite our clean, green image.

We are one of the highest generators of household waste in the OECD. Therefore, establishing the waste levy under the 2008 Waste Minimisation Act was a necessary step in the right direction to addressing this national issue.

The aim of the Waste Minimisation Act is to “encourage waste minimisation and a decrease in waste disposal to: (a) protect the environment from harm (b) provide environmental, social, economic and cultural benefits”.

Since the introduction of the levy, which was $10 per tonne of household waste, New Zealand has had a 48% increase per capita of waste being dumped. Clearly, this waste levy has not been an effective tool for achieving the goals of the Waste Minimisation Act, and despite three reviews, changes to the levy were not decided on until 2020.

The levy is set to have a 500% increase to $60 per tonne for household waste (sent to municipal landfills).

The levy will also be introduced at a lesser rate for construction and demolition fill, managed fill, and controlled fill, which are Class 2,3, and 4 of waste respectively. The levy will be introduced in increments over the next four years; the first increase occurred on July 1. This is a significant increase which will generate an estimated $269 million per year from mid-2024, and will go towards helping with efforts to minimise waste.

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It is pleasing to see such an increase of the levy, as statistics have shown big changes were needed to incentivise New Zealanders to reduce their amount of waste. With funds from the levy going towards the Waste Minimisation Fund and to territorial authorities to fund waste minimisation activities, it is hopeful that a positive feedback loop may be created. In this instance, the root of the problem is the amount of product being produced that, once used, is deemed as waste. Does the levy directly address this aspect of the problem? For example, the 2019 plastic bag ban imposed a nationwide behaviour change which New Zealanders adapted to quickly, and 1.1 billion plastic bags were kept out of homes and landfills. The levy alone is not going to have a huge impact on the amount of everyday waste such as packaging being produced and consumed; this would require a policy similar to the plastic bag ban to make substantial change.

The incentive of disposing of less waste due to a higher charge is clear, yet the Ministry for the Environment estimated that even when fully implemented, the new levy would only have an increase of about 25c per kerbside rubbish bag. It is difficult to believe that this will provide enough incentive for people to reduce their waste disposal as much as is required to have a substantial impact on the environment. Initiatives and structures funded by the levy may aid in further incentivisation and perhaps behaviour changes to encourage less waste disposal. For example, Flight Plastics has built New Zealand’s first integrated PET recycling and manufacturing facility, with the support of funding from the Waste Minimisation Fund. With the funding, they are able to recycle plastic bottles and containers onshore and convert them into new food packaging, which otherwise would have to be shipped overseas to be recycled. The increase of the waste levy

will allow the capacity for more funding for businesses such as Flight Plastics that are aiding to decrease waste disposal and build New Zealand’s capacity to deal with our own waste.

Flight Plastics is a great example of closing the loop in a circular economy model where products are designed for the longest use possible, and are able to easily be repaired, manufactured, or recycled. A circular economy is being promoted by the Ministry for the Environment as a way to tackle waste and pollution in New Zealand. The income from the waste levy will be hugely beneficial in embracing the circular economy model if funds are directed towards businesses and infrastructure that support this.

Overall, the rapid increase of the waste levy welcomes a necessary step forward in enabling New Zealand to reduce waste disposal. It is difficult to say whether or not the increase in the levy will hinder people’s waste habits enough to make a substantial difference. The income generated from the levy has promise to create new opportunities for recycling and minimising waste, contributing to a circular economy. What seems to be missing here, though, are other tools to stimulate behaviour change. The waste levy is one, however, it may not be effective enough. Given how long it took for the levy to increase, if it is not successful this time, how much longer will we need to wait for another change?

NewsRecap: Italy named European football champions

Italy beat England in the European football Championship final. This is the first time Italy has won the competition since 1968. After extra time, the game ended at one-all— Italy then won the shootout 3-2.

Wellington’s largest office building deemed earthquake risk

The Asteron building, on the corner of Bunny and Featherston Street, has been deemed less seismically sound than previously thought. The building houses organisations such as Inland Revenue and the Civil Aviation Authority. One thousand IR staff have been ordered to work from home, while hospitality staff on the ground floor of the building say they were not informed of any risk.

Driver shortages cause cuts to rush hour bus services

Wellington’s regional bus network needs 700 drivers to meet demand, but is currently 60 drivers short. While Metlink and its contracted operators, including NZ Bus, blame shortages on “more drivers taking sick leave, border closures impacting the recruitment of overseas drivers, and labour shortages due to low unemployment” (^Stuff), critics credit poor pay and ill treatment of drivers.

Twelve services in Wellington City will be affected, along with six in the Hutt Valley, and one in Porirua.

Police arrive at Pūtiki Bay

Police arrived at the protest site on Waiheke Island on Thursday morning. According to Organise Aotearoa, at least 5 boats, a helicopter and around 50 police were at the site by 9am. According to the Herald, police removed protester tents and equipment, and arrested two kaitiaki, taking them away on a boat. At time of print, the two were to appear in Auckland District Court on Thursday afternoon.

New date confirmed for Dawn Raids Apology

After the event was postponed due to Wellington’s Alert Level change in June, the new date of Sunday, 1 August has been announced for the Government to formally apologise to Aotearoa’s Pasifika community for the Dawn Raids in the 1970s. However, Pasifika leaders, among other critics, say the apology needs to be backed up by the repeal of racist laws, namely the Citizenship (Western Samoa) Act of 1982.

Britney Spears granted right to choose own attorney

After petitions were made to a Los Angeles court to allow Britney Spears to appoint her own legal representation, the star has been granted the right to do so. Spears said to the court on Wednesday that she is “extremely scared” of her father, adding that she is “here to get rid of [him] and charge him with conservatorship abuse.” “This conservatorship”, said Spears, “has allowed my dad to ruin my life.” The #FreeBritney fight continues.

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Confronting my obsession with Janhavi Gosavi (she/her) If you asked me what was keeping me up until 12 a.m. every night this past month, the answer would be Olivia Rodrigo. For all the right—and wrong—reasons.

On the surface, she appears to be your run-of-themill singer/songwriter with a pretty face and a broken heart. But as the clock strikes midnight, I find myself performing mental gymnastics to pinpoint exactly what it is that makes Rodrigo so successful. She lives in my head rent free, and I’m going to tell you why.

As someone who rolled their eyes at the naivety and repetitiveness of “driver’s license”, Sour pleasantly surprised me. It’s chaotic, emotional, and existential— everything a teenager should be. Instead of running from her youth, Rodrigo capitalises on it. She has no intention of acting older than her age, crafting an aesthetic rooted in sparkly stickers, sour candy, and conversation hearts.

Even her songs titles are strictly typed in lowercase, giving her the Gen Z stamp of approval.

First starring on the Disney show Bizaardvark from 2016-2019, she is best known for her current role as Nini on High School Musical: The Musical: The Series.

I forgive the ridiculously long title because it provides me with the Rodrigo content I so desperately crave. In January 2021, she released her debut single “drivers license”, a breakup ballad which is rumoured to be about her HSM co-star, Joshua Bassett. The song was featured in a viral lip syncing TikTok trend as the internet became obsessed with decoding its lyrics, all of which skyrocketed Rodrigo to fame.

She wrote a whopping 100 songs for Sour, and worked with producer Dan Nigro to whittle it down to the final 11 tracks. Earlier in her career, Rodrigo would hop on Instagram and spontaneously perform songs she had just written. That nonchalance speaks volumes about her as a songwriter; she doesn’t need to save all of her good ideas for albums, because she has them so often. In fact, it was an Instagram demo of “happier”, one of my favorite tracks off Sour, that caught the attention of Nigro and prompted him to reach out to Rodrigo. The produced version of the song appears identical to its demo, showcasing Rodrigo’s ability to churn out perfect drafts on the first go.

Disney darling turned pop princess, the 18-year-old then dropped her debut album Sour in May this year. It broke streaming records and received critical acclaim, solidifying Rodrigo as a breakout star who is more than a one hit wonder.

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While she does these singer-songwriter ballads best, it’s the Paramore-esque bangers I’m invested in. “brutal” and “good 4 u” are my other favourite tracks because they’re a vocal and lyrical outpour of angst and frustration. “I’m so tired that I might quit my job, start a new life, and they’d all be so disappointed ‘cause who am I if not exploited?” she sings on “brutal”. It’s a tongue-in-cheek nod to her Disney career, and I’m living for it.

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This moderation also plays out musically. Some upbeat songs, such as “deja vu”, build themselves up to unsatisfying crescendos. The drums are never loud enough, and Rodrigo is never angry enough. I crave more breakthroughs, such as those on “good 4 u”, where she throws caution to the wind and lets her heightened teenage emotions rip her apart. Just when it feels like she’s about to lose her shit, Rodrigo reigns herself in, much to my disappointment.

And then, of course, there is Sour Prom. A prom-themed concert film that was live-streamed on YouTube on 29 June. Twenty seven minutes of pop perfection.

With COVID-19 placing heavy restrictions on concerts, most artists are opting to cancel tours in favour of online performances. Rodrigo could have simply made the rounds at different talk shows, or pulled together a lowkey unplugged version of Sour. But she chose to celebrate her album with extravagance and bravado.

There’s balloon archways, metallic streamers, and ruffles galore. It’s a kitschy 2000s wet dream. Rodrigo’s Prom has high production value, yet retains the intimacy of a girl pouring her heart out to her guitar.

However, she doesn’t reign in her self-pitying lyrics, which sometimes hinge on a “not like other girls” narrative. Her claims are banal, and have little substance to back them up. On “jealousy, jealousy”, she sings: “I kinda wanna throw my phone across the room, ‘cause all I see are girls too good to be true, with paperwhite teeth and perfect bodies”. And, on “enough for you”, she sings: “I wore makeup when we dated ‘cause I thought you’d like me more, if I looked like the other prom queens I know that you loved before”.

Yet if you Google Olivia Rodrigo, you’ll find her in makeup, with white teeth and a “perfect” body. And although she famously never attended an actual prom, if she had, she would have been crowned queen in a heartbeat. It feels like she is trying to brand herself Therein lies the appeal of Rodrigo: the extraordinary as an outcast underdog. The facts beg to differ. ordinary. Nothing about Rodrigo is particularly revolutionary, but she does the simple shit so incredibly Rodrigo is a thin, ethnically ambiguous, conventionally well. Honest song writing? Check. Killer vocals? Check. beautiful teenage girl. To be crude, she is an extremely ‘marketable’ product with universal appeal.

Compelling stage presence? Double check.

To deny this, or gloss over it, is a disservice to her fans, who experience similar insecurities but may lack Being extraordinary at being ordinary can mean that the ‘pretty privilege’ she has. I look forward to seeing everything happens in moderation. more self awareness in her future work, if only for the Rodrigo is never too much of this or too much of that; sake of the impressionable little girls who idolise her. striking a balance ensures she remains palatable to a wide audience. Her style is provocative enough to suit Then, of course, there’s the matter of Rodrigo’s her age, but she is never overly sexualised. She boldly influences. Taylor Swift and Lorde have been heavily swears on her records, but would never say anything cited as Rodrigo’s biggest musical idols, so I correctly assumed I would love her music too. profane enough to risk her Disney contract.

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Feature : Confronting my obsession with Olivia Rodrigo

Streaming Sour was like getting another pair of my favourite sneakers in a different colourway—I knew exactly what I was signing up for. While some references to her influences can be considered homages, others feel like sneaky rearrangements.

For example, Rodrigo’s song “1 step forwards, 3 steps back” contains the lyric “Which lover will I get today?

Will you walk me to the door or send me home cryin’?”

This seems awfully reminiscent of Swift’s song “Dear John”, in which Swift wrote “Wondering which version of you I might get on the phone tonight [...] The girl in the dress cried the whole way home”. It doesn’t help that Rodirgo sampled another Swift song, “New Year’s Day”, to form the chords for her song.

The Rodrigo/Swift parallels don’t stop there. Swift, Lorde, and Lana Del Ray infamously share the same producer, Jack Antonoff, who they all created careerdefining music with. Rodrigo’s producer, Dan Nigro, also produces Conan Gray’s music, who is another notorious musical child of Swift and Lorde. Does this make Nigro a knockoff Antonoff? I’m spiralling.

Questions of Rodrigo’s unoriginality plague me into the wee hours of the morning. Even her character on HSM feels like a different version of Glee’s Rachel Berry, with her queer parents and penchant for stardom. As the sun starts to come up, I feel deviously gleeful.

I’ve connected all the dots and exposed her for the unimaginative wannabee she is. But the feminist in me can’t shake the feeling that if she were a young male artist, I would be less scrutinous of her.

My relationship with Rodirgo is complicated. She is living the life I want to live, while I’m tossing and turning in bed, breathing fire through my nose. Jealousy consumes me, as I find myself disingenuously slandering her music to my friends.

Rodrigo has become a vehicle for my anger at pretty women and rocket fuel for my internalised misogyny.

Yet hypocritically, for my recent 21st birthday, I curated an outfit modelled entirely off of Rodrigo’s Instagram aesthetic. I wore layered necklaces and resin hair clips, and used my full lung capacity to scream “like a damn sociopath!” I love to criticise her as much as I love to love her, and that’s credit to her brand.

While Rodrigo-the-person seems relatively simple, Rodrigo-the-brand is complex. By reinventing material by Paramore and Swift, she ages her peers into predecessors. Current pop stars are turned into icons of a bygone era, while our collective conscience registers Rodrigo as the shiny new toy. She has skillfully carved out an individual identity for herself, despite being so derivative of contemporary artists.

Such complications and criticisms are why I can’t seem to shake the thought of her. After a night of debating the pros and cons of Rodrigo, I habitually start my day off by brushing my teeth to “brutal”. The irony does not escape me, and I am forced to swallow a hard pill. For better or for worse, Olivia Rodrigo is a trend I am not willing to move on from.

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Last month, the New Zealand Government announced a rebate scheme for electric vehicles called the Clean Car Discount—the start of “fundamental shifts” towards zero-carbon New Zealand, according to Climate Change Minister James Shaw. The policy has been a long time coming after being blocked by NZ First when it was first introduced in 2019. The Clean Car Discount, introduced on July 1, is on a sliding scale depending on a car’s level of emissions—the lower the emissions, the more money you can get towards a new car from the Government. In short, the discount incentivises electric vehicles by way of lowering their price. The push towards environmentally friendly vehicles follows the release of the Climate Change Commission’s final report, which stated that all imported cars must be electric by 2035 to significantly cut transport emissions. Transport emissions is one of the easiest areas to cut down according to the report, and the Government has placed a huge focus on this area thus far.

The Clean Car Discount is the biggest climate policy announcement in New Zealand since the Zero Carbon Bill, and it has not been without controversy. The biggest opposing view is that the scheme will unfairly hurt farmers and low-income groups, for whom electric vehicles (EVs) might be unsuitable or unaffordable.

The move has been largely welcomed by environmental advocates as a tangible step forward to a zero-carbon New Zealand. Some, such as Greenpeace, have noted that investment in public transport is also crucial to reduce these emissions—transitioning to EVs without reducing our high rates of private vehicle use will not create a sustainable future.

While concerns about diesel-powered work vehicles were abound after the announcement, one area facing harmful consequences from our uptake of electric vehicles was missing from discussions: the Pacific seabed.

Electric vehicles are not a zero-carbon technology. Most of their emissions are created in the manufacturing process, well before they are gliding down New Zealand highways. To assemble those highly sought-after EV

batteries, rare minerals such as cobalt and lithium are essential, and these are often hard to find and difficult to extract. Fortunately for the electric vehicle industry, a new resource frontier is up for grabs, one that is mostly unexplored and unexploited by mining technologies— the Pacific Ocean. Here, poly-metallic nodules have been discovered in high quantities. These nodules are composed of manganese, copper, nickel, and cobalt— all of which are essential for the production of electric vehicles. Seabed mining is required to harvest them, a practice surrounded by destructive environmental impacts and scarce research. Activists are calling it continued exploitation of vulnerable nations in the Pacific; companies are calling it a legacy for future generations.

From the perspective of commercial interest, the prospect of mining the Pacific seabed is exciting. The Metals Company, formerly DeepGreen Metals, is a major party interested in the Pacific seabed, and already holds contracts with Kiribati, Tonga, and Nauru. They see an opportunity to create a renewable future for generations to come through the mining of sea-floor metals, according to the mission statement on the company’s website.

However, many Pacific scientists warn against jumping into seabed mining, because there is simply not enough research about its environmental impacts and about the deep sea itself. With 80% of the ocean remaining unexplored, it is the least understood region of Earth.

Research we do have on seabed mining compares it to land-based mining. Compared in this way, seabed mining has significantly fewer impacts, with little waste and emissions. However, it has devastating environmental impacts unique to the ocean. Seabed mining involves a process similar to raking over the seafloor, producing huge underwater sedimentary plumes which smother seabed life for decades. When so much of the deep sea remains unknown to us, there is a high chance of destroying ecosystems before we even realise they exist.

Potential impacts are not limited to the environment.

The social and economic consequences of land-based mining have been well researched. The “resource curse” is the theory of how resource-rich countries have limited economic growth and social development, while the profits and benefits of extraction are reaped by private, offshore companies. This could easily replicate with the onset of mining in the ocean.

The Metals Company is not the first company to show interest in the Pacific seabed; before its formation, seabed mining company Nautilus Minerals staged the Solwara-1 project in Papua New Guinea in 2019.

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and costing the PNG Government over 157 million (AUD). Minority Rights International reported in 2020 how mining exploration has left lasting impacts on PNG indigenous peoples and their ability to continue subsistence fishing there. Some directing officials of The Metals Company were previously employed by Nautilus, before they jumped ship and formed their venture.

The commercial push forward with seabed mining, in part driven by the need for materials to create the zero-carbon transition, has been opposed by activists and Pacific Islanders alike.

Calls for a ten-year moratorium on seabed mining began after the failed Solwara-1 project, with the PNG Prime Minister supporting such a moratorium in 2019. A moratorium is the suspension of an activity embedded in law for a temporary period to resolve issues.

Calls for a moratorium are supported by activist organisations, including the Pacific Islands Association of Non-Governmental Organisations, World Wildlife Fund, and the Deep-Sea Mining Campaign. Household names such as David Attenborough have thrown their support behind a ban. In April 2021, the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior confronted a DeepGreen Metals vessel in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, to bring attention to the widespread opposition to their presence in the Pacific.

In March 2021, The Pacific Regional NGO Alliance of Church and Civil society groups launched a campaign to stop seabed mining, calling for a global ban on the practice. Their “Pacific Blue Line” statement has been signed by activists and organisations across the Pacific.

The statement says Pacific people are custodians of the Pacific Ocean and they must protect it from extraction and destruction. “As custodians of the responsibility to protect the Ocean against its exploitation and destruction in our time, we have a moral obligation and

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longstanding legacy to uphold”, the Blue Line statement says. Such extraction would benefit powerful companies and harm Pacific people, the campaign claims. The statement goes on to say that deep-sea mining is greenwashed by the need for renewable technologies, which could be sourced through recycling and reuse programs, rather than destructive extraction. The activist campaign to stop deep-sea mining in the Pacific is only beginning to gain momentum, but as of yet no decisive action has been taken by any Government.

In 2019, on a panel about ocean conservation, Jacqueline Evans called out the hypocrisies of climate action. She asked how we could be using climate justice to focus on Pacific regions without considering how climate action itself will be at the Pacific’s expense. Cobalt, she said, is essential for the production of electric vehicles, and mining the Pacific seabed is needed to harvest it. It was the first time I became aware of the seabed mining problem. Jacqueline Evans used to be the director of the Cook Islands’ Marae Moana, the world’s largest marine reserve that covers the entire Cook Islands’ exclusive economic zone. She claims she lost that job because she spoke in favour of a moratorium on seabed mining.

In lowering emissions through widespread uptake of EVs, with the aim of preventing the worst outcomes of this crisis, nations such as New Zealand are asking the Pacific to bear the environmental, social, and economic impacts of seabed mining. We not only ask the Pacific to bear the consequences of fossil fuel dependence, but also the transition out of it—a transition which will largely benefit nations like New Zealand, allowing us to keep our current high-energy lifestyles.

While solutions to the seabed mining problem have not been thoroughly investigated, the calls from Pacific leaders are clear: a moratorium is needed in order to safeguard the Pacific from a rapidly growing industry.

There is no easy answer to the question of seabed mining and electric vehicles; EVs will likely play a part in New Zealand’s zero-carbon transition, as we are dependent on private vehicle use in many ways. But, our actions are undeniably at the expense of the Pacific.

ARTIST PROFILE

Mia McIvor

My name is Mia McIvor, I’m a 22-year-old artist living in Wellington.

After finishing my studies in Art History and Film at Victoria, I decided to finally fulfil my desires and study Fine Art full-time, which I am currently doing at Massey Wellington. Within my personal art practice, I am concerned with the physical cultivation of the subconscious mind. Through automotive mark making in multimedia, I aim to give autonomy to the subconscious mind, allowing this part of the mind full artistic autonomy. Through my own life I have found that what resides in the subconscious often demands to be brought into the physical human realm, and by giving the body permission to do so, reveals abstract imagery that tells very important tales.

The memories and traumas that the subconscious holds onto often expresses itself in ways that the logical brain is not acquainted to understand. In this sense, I try to dismantle the expectation-based process of artmaking and see the art as an abstract production of sensory information. Most recently I have been looking at the relationship between spirituality and abstraction, exploring the parts of this relationship that are symbiotic. I am interested in the cultivation of abstract imagery and finding out how the subconscious creates and reveals itself in its own physical shapeshifting. We may never understand the full extent of the subconscious, but I believe there are ways to confront it.

Arohanui, Mia www.salient.org.nz

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‘Birth of teeth’ (2020) Acrylic on board Mia McIvor

The Bureaucracy of Mental Health: How Our System Is Failing Us Isis Wright (she/her)

With a 2.9 star rating on Google, anyone who has been at Vic long enough probably has a story about Mauri Ora. Mauri Ora is an incredibly valuable aspect of student life, and plenty of students take advantage of the free healthcare available to them on campus. Yet, anyone who has approached Mauri Ora for mental healthcare might not have a hugely positive story. Under-resourced, under-staffed, and lacking in funding, the cracks in the mental healthcare system are starting to show more than ever in 2021. I set out to find out where the issues are coming from and investigate the major flaws in the Government’s mental healthcare funding and sat down with Kevin Rowlatt, Associate Director of Mauri Ora. It has been over a year now since 25 March 2020, the day New Zealand went into a nationwide lockdown.

It’s no secret what a difficult time it continues to be for many students across the country, especially for those entering their first year of tertiary study. No one can really prepare you for just how hard it is to adjust to university life, let alone during a pandemic. During times like these strong mental healthcare systems are as important as ever to ensure the ongoing health and safety of students. The flaws within Victoria’s Student Health system have long been discussed; in fact, it was something I had heard about upon enrolling, but it wasn’t until last year that I experienced the University’s counselling system for myself.

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I would first like to explain the key differences between psychiatrists and psychologists, and how they work within Mauri Ora. A psychologist is someone who studied psychology at university and then went on to specialise in a certain field. You would normally meet with a psychologist at a typical Mauri Ora counselling session. A psychiatrist is a doctor who studied medicine and specialised in psychiatry. In New Zealand, it takes 12 years to become a psychiatrist. As a result of their medical training psychiatrists are able to diagnose mental health conditions and prescribe medication, while psychologists are not. Many people feel the need to meet with a psychiatrist before seeking counselling, though it is absolutely not necessary to have a mental health diagnosis to get help when you need it.

To get a diagnosis you need a psychiatric evaluation. In my experience, a psychiatric evaluation looks like this: you sit in a (hopefully) comfortable psychiatrists office and they ask you a bunch of questions. At the end of it, if you’re successful, you should have a diagnosis and a treatment plan. I was lucky, and I walked out of the office with all of the above, feeling like my life had changed. I was the last patient referred to the psychiatrist before they left to work for another practice. Since October, the University has not had a psychiatrist on staff, leaving an enormous gap in the Mauri Ora counselling system.

The average cost of a psychiatric evaluation in Wellington is $500 an hour; follow-up treatment sessions are typically $250 an hour. Sometimes it can take multiple sessions for a doctor to come to their conclusion on a diagnosis. The cost of a psychiatric evaluation usually includes a diagnosis and prescription, a letter to the patient’s GP, and a detailed report written by the psychiatrist. Of course, psychiatrists have professional expenses to cover, but where does that leave those of us who can’t afford to seek help outside of Mauri Ora. Counselling and psychotherapy are valuable resources that are significantly cheaper, however they are only options for those who have been diagnosed and want long-term therapy, not those wanting a formal evaluation. Vic has a team of psychologists on hand who students can book regular counselling with, but psychologists are unable to diagnose mental health conditions or write prescriptions, and many find the wait time and the length between appointments to be frustrating and ultimately unhelpful.

General practitioners and psychologists do not have the training or qualifications to diagnose, instead they simply treat what they already know is there. As a result of this, myself and other students are unable to easily trial new medication as a GP is not in the position to comfortably change a course of treatment set by a psychiatrist. This has left students in a compromised position where they are unable to be accurately diagnosed, and leaves the remaining Mauri Ora team to pick up the workload left behind by the absence of a psychiatric doctor.

A $25 million tertiary mental health fund was announced by the Government in July of last year. This fund is included as part of the Government’s wider initiative to keep lower-risk patients out of hospitals and into community mental healthcare, to allow for patients requiring more immediate attention to receive the care they need. On paper, the tertiary student mental health fund is a fantastic initiative, until you realise that not a cent of that money has been spent. There is a lot of bureaucracy behind healthcare funding; funds are distributed to the Ministry of Health who then dictate where the money should be allocated. Apparently, the Ministry has been struggling to make their decisions.

So with a lack of Government funding, where does that leave the University? The budget for the 2020 Student Services Levy shows that the cost of providing mental healthcare to students set the University back over $3 million last year, with an extra $2,654,335 coming from levies, and $504,504 coming from “other sources”— presumably the Ministry of Health. It cost the University an extra $5,100,419 to fund Mauri Ora’s health service, with another $2,476,805 coming from “other sources”, a considerably larger amount than what is currently being allocated to counselling.

In the 2021 budget, the Government has stated their healthcare funding initiative this year is to allocate $2.7 billion to DHBs, $200 million to PHARMAC, and $301 million for “funding rate increases to enable early learning, schools and tertiary providers to continue providing quality education”, with no mention of funding regarding tertiary mental healthcare. www.salient.org.nz

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I then spoke with Kevin Rowlatt, the Associate Director of Mauri Ora. Kevin acknowledges the lack of a psychiatrist on staff, and tells me of the stress that this has put on the Mauri Ora staff. He assures me that hiring a new psychiatrist is well within the University budget, however there is a shortage of trained psychiatrists worldwide. A healthcare clinic going long periods of time without a psychiatrist is not an issue exclusive to Mauri Ora. Kevin says he wishes the Government would invest more in tertiary mental health, as that would improve conditions for staff and students across the board. He has not seen any of the $25 million tertiary health fund released last year.

“We are still waiting for the Ministry of Health to do their RFP process (Request For Proposal). That was supposed to happen before Christmas; the money was supposed to be available to those who were successful in March or April of this year, and that’s gone quiet.”

It is worth noting that the $25 million is destined to be spread across all New Zealand tertiary institutes over four years, which is not a lot of money. Kevin states that having PIKI counselling services available throughout the Wellington region cost the Ministry of Health $10 million alone for a three-year contract.

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When I asked Kevin what he would like students to know about Mauri Ora, he stressed the dedication of both the admin and health staff.

“I’ve worked in healthcare management for 20 years now, so I’ve seen many models of care in various general practices, and after three years [at Mauri Ora] I’m still blown away by the dedication of the counsellors, GP’s, nurses, and admin staff. It’s much busier than you would get in any other typical general practice in the community; the needs are very different from what you would normally get from general practice [...] But staff are totally student-centric in everything that they do, and I don’t think I’ve ever worked with a workforce like that.”

There is also a Mauri Ora student portal set to be rolled out soon, which will enable students to book and cancel appointments online without having to speak to reception.

I feel it is worth noting the ongoing positive experience I have had throughout the last year with Mauri Ora Health and Counselling. I love my GP who I have developed a great doctor-patient rapport with, and I am grateful that I was able to meet with the University psychiatrist before he moved on to another position.

The opportunity to access these services for free has undoubtedly changed my life for the better. Mauri Ora Health and Counselling is an incredibly valuable resource for students, and it’s only free for those few years of study—so take advantage of it while you can.

While the flaws in Mauri Ora may be detrimental to us as students, there’s no real way for the University to be able to fix them anytime soon. As hard as the staff at Mauri Ora try to provide the best possible care they can, our Government simply doesn’t advocate enough for us, and we fall short.

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SaMick

Over the break, I travelled near and far in the search for another $10 jug in Wellington. I was delighted to discover that not only was there a new one on the block, but it was in the heralded location of the old Espressoholic. Welcome one, welcome all to SaMick!

Not only was it a new jug, but it was a new flavour.

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So the $10 Hazy Jug comes from the same factory as Purple Goanna.

Now I understand why the jug is only $10.

It’s just a little less flavoursome than your average Hazy, yet is still full of aroma and hops—a very tropical taste with a true passionfruit hit coming from the hops.

THERE ARE NOW CRAFT BEER $10 JUGS. Their $10 jug is Boundary Road Brewery’s Hazy Pale Ale, weighing in at 5%. This is different to any other $10 jug, and in doing so we have to change hats. We have brought along our resident craft beer connoisseur’s… ourselves.

In the first ever $10 Jugs it was stated that: “There are two factors of cheap piss: taste and lack of taste. No $10 jug is going to give you the hoppy undertones”.

This is now an invalid statement. We know what craft beer should taste like because ever since BRB’s would get discounted at New World Metro for $12 six-packs, we have been large consumers. This is purely for the fact that they can, at times, be the cheapest option.

Boundary Road Brewery sounds so quaint. It conjures up images of a frontier craft brewery established in the days of old. So, where is Boundary Road? A quick look at Google Maps indicates that it is actually a side street off Hunua Rd, Papakura. Hunua Rd is the home of Independent Liquor, the RTD manufacturing juggernaut. In fact, the address is just another name for the same property. Independent Liquor is on the Hunua Rd/Boundary Rd Corner.

As for this location, I have fond memories of sitting out the back of here, with my friends who smoked Peter Stuyvesant cigarettes they imported from Grey Lynn. The back area is a perfect place to park up—it isn’t like a classic street-facing smokers area, it’s a top notch hidden roofless area. With them offering $20 shishas that lasted three of us about an hour, it was very relaxed and good.

With music ranging from Bob Marley to Peter Tosh, it’s the perfect way to spend your Friday afternoon.

If you’re wanting to watch sports, this isn’t the place for you, but it is if you want a casual park-up with friends and an outside, hidden smokers area.

If you believe in the hair of the dog, I don’t agree with you, but with such a lovely brunch menu and a $10 jug, this is your perfect late-on-a-Sunday location.

Maybe if you have a mate visiting from Christchurch, this could be the perfect place to give them a “taste of Wellington”.

As, arguably the Patron Saint of Beer—Arnulf of Metz said: “From man’s sweat and God’s love, beer came into the world.”

Sadly, no deity can save us from the fact that there seems to be nowhere else in Wellington (central at least) offering $10 jugs of beer.

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Columns : To be Frank / VUWSA

I Have a Memory.

I have a memory. Walking, talking, with a friend.

I have news to tell him. But not like this.

It slips out, and to my disappointment, I have said it anyway.

But that is not what happened. In fact, this didn’t happen at all.

A dream, Yet a memory, none-the-less.

I have a memory. I am talking, with this friend.

Except this time, sitting.

I have news to tell him. But not like this.

So I don’t say it.

Both a memory. Only one happened.

The question is: did the memory affect the events of the next?

If so, my dream, only helped me.

Connor Beere May 2020

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Baggy Pants & Butter Paper The Process

This interview was originally published by Baggy Pants and Butter Paper, Issue Two: The Process, 22 June 2021. Below is an abridged version. You can find the full interview at https:// baggypants.info/.

Baggy Pants and Butter Paper is edited by Hamish Besley.

Hamish Wilson @hw_architecturalstudies

Interview and editing by Hamish Besley Last but not least we have Hamish Wilson. Unlike our other guests my relationship with Hamish (or Ham if we’re both in the room) started away from school, at a place just as important to one’s education, flat parties. Whether it’s staring at each other’s posters or pouring indian ink on our shoes (I still regret that) our nights since then have often involved something art related. We sat down to discuss a lot of things including how the shortcuts of undergrad are quickly quashed by masters and his technique of emotional abstraction that has become a signature style over the years.

Straight into it, what do you do?

Um, it’s hard to put a title on it I guess.

What would you say your occupation is?

My occupation is a student at architecture school and then my other occupation is also advertising, promotions, my own occupation because I guess I work for myself as well as making clothes. But yeah, it’s kinda hard to make a name for everything that I do. I guess it would just be a few things.

I would classify you as a designer. Whether it’s the buildings, the promotional material or the clothing there is a consistent element of designing in all of them. At least in all of them you employ a clear understanding of design fundamentals.

Yeah, that’s a good way to put it actually.

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Above: Atmospheric Rendition, 2019.

Analog sketch.

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Top: Visualization, Film Museum, 2021.

Photoshop Render Bottom: Exhibition Model, Curation, 2019.

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You’re clearly a multifaceted creative. But, I would draw the line of you being a designer because in all those areas you are clearly identifying (or being handed) a problem and constructing a solution targeted at a specific audience.

So, what’s the transition from undergraduate architecture to studying a Master of Architecture?

For starters the workload is completely different, both in terms of the amount and the type. So the stuff that you’re working on now is becoming more relevant. It sort of surprises me that you can get work without knowing the things that we are learning, even in the first few weeks. Like the amount of useful, real word information that you learn is higher now than before. If that makes some sense. Another thing that changes is the professional stuff. When I was doing my bachelors the work that they were giving me was a lot less engaging. But now that I have a position in postgrad it’s opening up a lot more doorways.

Doorways in what sense?

Doorways of complexity. They’re trying to trust us with more stuff before we’re learning it.

I guess, and this is what I’ve found with my masters, is that the tasks are less abstract, less hypothetical. You find more room to attack existing real world problems or tasks.

That is a by-product of undergrad, going into masters.

Knowing that you have to think in the real world and your approach that got you through undergrad is not guaranteed to hold up to those tests.

Something that I found interesting was that my style is super abstract and conceptual, I don’t like grounding it and at the same time I’m battling with the fact that I am coming into practical work and that they don’t really cross over enough.

At the moment I know because I have a little bit of practical experience that I’m not going to be able to use these skills for another 10 years at least. But then at the same time I want to prove, like I still want to use them still. But, I also still want to get practical. So it’s a weird thing to deal with.

Design is super abstract at the moment and right up my alley, you know? Because it’s messy and textual. Whereas in architecture, our theory and practice are completely dense.

Theory is not as relevant but practice is. It’s a strange contrast.

Because at the end of the day you are designing a building and there’s rules and regulations that you are bound by.

Yeah, exactly.

I mean because I was talking to Callum (a mutual friend) last night about this and we were saying that design and architecture are very much the same thing. They run on the same principles. That’s why there are such a number of famous designers that originally got their education in architecture. They teach very similar things and if anything architecture gives you a more rigorous training.

It sort of teaches you different things but that is still applicable.

Like overload of work, quality over a short amount of time. It’s definitely helped with doing Drum & Bass advertising. Because like Jamie (Friend and DJ) has said before ‘you can pump out so much stuff in such a little amount of time” and that is because we’re so used to it. www.salient.org.nz

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That’s where your process comes in with the iteration approach. Hard and fast, let’s worry about the details later for now let’s get the jist out.

Has this battle between your abstract approach and the real world requirements of the masters program had a tangible effect on your practice? If so, how?

One-hundred percent, It’s a struggle because you’re trying to find a way to think about structure in the back of your head because it’s something that you’re going to need to apply to it.

Which is something that has never been relevant, like, arguably not even in third year. Right now they don’t want us to think about structure but, they’re going to hit us with it in the second trimester.

By structure what do you mean?

The fact that its (concept buildings) got to stand up and that it’s got to have occupation and that the spaces need to be to code.

It’s still got to have a function?

Exactly, basically not designing architecture where the people aren’t relevant. That’s definitely affected it in that sense.

Adding function into form?

Yeah, or at least trying to keep that wheel spinning in the back of my head. I guess as a summery answer it definitely changes the way in which you go about designing. Because you are thinking about it in a real world sense.

Is there a tangible example that you can give me?

I guess I’m starting with things like structural elements in a project before I’ve even thought about the design yet. It’s one of the biggest flaws you can do but, it’s also the way you pass the course for (architectural) design papers.

Is this what you’ve done in the past or are doing now?

It’s what I was doing in third year. I would tick the structural requirements and then fudged it a little bit at the end so it looked interesting.

But, that’s a ‘no no’?

Well they say that you shouldn’t let the structure dictate the design because at the end of the day it’s not design, it’s just a utilitarian building.

Is that what you are doing now?

Nah, I’m trying to transcend. Thinking about both of those parts of the work at the same time rather than one and then the other. I guess that’s the difference when you jump up. It’s something that you need to consider and because it’s not real you can test the ideas a bit more.

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Top: Concept Sketch, Film Museum, 2020.

Amalog Sketch Bottom: Vector Sketchs 2019-2021

So, in terms of how masters has affected your practice, it has made you more aware of your practice as a whole. Because you have one area of your practice (the design) that you really enjoy and one (the structural and functional requirements) that you don’t enjoy as much.

But, now you have to work out a way to balance both of them.

Is there a particular skill, mental or physical, that you find helpful in your practice?

Exactly

Another thing would be modeling because it’s quick, physical modelling or digital modelling. You can just iterate and pump those ideas out, just like the sketches. I guess it’s not a skill specific to me because it is easily obtabibly but I do find it useful.

What are you working on at the moment?

At the moment we (the class) are working on a film museum.

It’s for a class called Narrative Architecture which talks about how you can derive a concept from a narrative. This is like deeper than a concept and you take something such as a passage from a poem and then each line represents a journey through the space. For mine I have proposed that there is a man on my site and it’s tracking around the director. Then that is where a curved wall has come from. And then that’s where the narrative has come from and you develop that. Going in deeper with more narratives.

Does that mean that narrative architecture is something that you are quite heavily interested in? Is it a big part of your practice?

I don’t know. It’s weird but I was more interested in the way the lecturer taught. Because there were heaps of different lecturers talking about certain designs and the way that he works is a way that I wanted to understand, as opposed to what he was teaching. It’s kinda confusing. But, I enjoyed his course which had narrative architecture in it last year. I decided that was something that I wanted to develop naturally.

So you were interested in his process?

Yeah, yeah exactly. He actually helped me get a job interview the other day.

I’d say there’s just as much to be learnt from a 2 hour tutorial as there is in 30 minutes with your lecturer.

Definitely analogue expression. Being able to express any idea that I have through a sketch. It is basically like telling a thousand words with one drawing. But, it also shows different ways of looking at what I’m thinking about.

Ironically butter paper and sketching is the best skill because you can just keep layering it. Even if you do the worst drawing possible if you keep doing the same drawing it’s better on each layer of paper.

Those are three really good skills. I’m particularly interested in the analogue expression, that to me is the trademark for what you do. How does that inform your practice?

It allows me to access atmosphere and emotion. If you use one media on its own it obviously has as many constraints as your hand can do. So if you’re an insane drawer you still have the constraints of your ability. But, if you add in another element, that is where atmosphere starts to come out of it.

Define atmosphere.

Atmosphere is the ephemeral quality that you can’t physically touch but you feel within the space. Like a really moody, dark room with a skylight. The darkness of charcoal or smudge pens can be used to represent that. It’s sort of mood or vibe or emotional abstraction.

Can you trace back the development of that style or is that just something that has always been there.

Well I guess it would start with drawing. Drawing has only been relevant to me after primary I think. I just found it to be For sure, for sure bro. a comforting medium. I couldn’t really read or write well as a kid so it was definitely something that I gravitated towards.

Go and book a meeting with them. I mean they may not And then because that was what I would be filling my writing want to talk to you. But unfortunately, it’s in their job books with it just developed from there. But then I didn’t pick description to do so. Regardless of if you get along or up painting until the end of highschool, the end of year 12. That not. It’s something I’ve found moving into masters, you is where that atmosphere originated from, I got it from year have a lot more connection with the lectures because you 12 painting. I had to paint underwater and I didnt have any actually get to talk to them. Unlike in undergrad where photographs so I had to imagine a lot more and I think that’s they overlook everyone in the studio and direct their where it came from. Because I went from copying and tracing little students (tutors) to do the teaching for them. to imagining. Which I guess it would for anyone if they pushed their boundaries.

Dude, and the stuff you learn from them is stuff you’ll never get in class.

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Salient Podcast Day Ones

Become Our Best Friends via The Internet Francesa Georgia Pietkiewicz (she/her) Let me take you back to a Sunday morning, not too long after lockdown. Two Vic students have moved back to their flat, away from their family homes, and in and amongst the Te Whanganui-a-Tara flatting crisis once again. They happen to come into the kitchen for a well-needed coffee at the same time. The vibes are a little dusty after a night of drinking sugar-free Nitro and Sharks out of old wine glasses, experiencing deep-level bonding at a party with people they’ll never see again, and ending the night by once again saying “why the fuck didn’t we go to Club 121?” These flatmates happen to be Ella Hoogerbrug and Alice Chrisp, now chatting shit to their fellow ‘flatties’ over avo on toast. They’re about to start a podcast together.

Now, let’s flick even further back to 2019. As the end of the year rolled around, I said goodbye to my first year of university and my last year at Massey, the world said goodbye to being COVID-19 free, and back here at VUW we said goodbye to our radio station Salient F.M. Thankfully, 2020 Salient Editors Kirsty Frame and Rachel Trow weren’t done with the audio medium just yet, and Salient Podcasts was born, parented by one of our very own 2021 Editors Matthew Casey.

Back in 2020, I applied for Matt’s job as Podcast Manager, and thankfully didn’t get it. I was far from ready; I did, however, get to be a part of Podcasts behind the scenes, helping Matt produce the Salient Podcast. This year, as the current Podcast Manager, I have the privilege of working with not only the 2021 Podcast newcomers, but the OGs from last year such as Above Standard. Ella and Alice, now with a loyal listenership of 5k and sponsored weekly by their

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favourite cafe (the one and only Swimsuit on Dixon), have come a long way since the beginning, and it’s safe to say Matt and I are pretty proud.

Ella spouts to me: “We came up with the podcast idea over lockdown. I messaged our flat chat saying who wanted to start [a podcast with me] and Alice said ‘me lol’”—she’s completely serious. A mixture of being socially deprived and driven to find a hobby after lockdown, Ella, inspired by Happy Hour by Lucy and Nicki, messages her ‘flat chat’ with an idea. And, after one call with Alice, the Above Standard podcast is born. Crazy to think something that they’ve come to put so much effort into started so casually.

I became aware of Ella late last May. I was working as the producer for the Oversharers Podcast, and flicking through message requests on our IG page.

Ella had reached out to us about how she wanted to start a podcast with her friend (Alice), but she didn’t know “how to execute it”. I had told her I could help get them organised at Salient Podcasts. We arranged to meet for coffee and chat about the whole process, but this never happened. I happened to be extremely busy, a little mentally overwhelmed, and low-key a bit of a flake.

Finally Alice, Ella, and I sat down for that coffee, bundled up in the studio on a rainy Friday. We had a chat about Above Standard and the whole Salient Podcast shabang.

Ella and Alice are top-tier when it comes to duos.

They are not only podcast hosts, they are also best friends who live together. Chuffed with themselves, they told me about how they somehow manage to

balance “professional [and] productive” meetings, flat antics, and still have fun together. “Our friendship is always the thing that’s gonna push us through” says Ella with a straight face, which makes me laugh—it all feels very Frozen, but I can confirm they are 100% that wholesome.

Alice tells me that she barely thinks about the distinction between podcast, friend, and flatmate time—even though the changing dynamics “can be hard to manage sometimes”, underneath it all they’re just “really good friends hanging out”. “To be honest, I don’t really take too much notice of it. It’s not like ‘oh, my god, I have to talk to Ella with my podcast face on’, it’s honestly really helpful that we can just kind of like, bop into each other’s rooms and be like, ‘hey, so I was thinking this for the podcast could be fun’. Rather than like, ‘let’s sit down, have a meeting.”

Obviously, adding a podcast on top of your uni life is going to be stressful but I think anyone that does anything co-curricular knows the personal benefits.

“I cannot stress enough how good it feels to just take a good fucking crack at something you care about”, Ella laughs. “I totally agree with Ella”, Alice jumps in.

“It’s such a rewarding experience. You have to know it takes work, but if you’re keen, go ahead and do it. Why not, right? It doesn’t matter if the only people who are going to listen are your mums, at least you’re doing something exciting and new. It’s awesome.”

Having a podcast and watching it grow has been a massive confidence boost for Ella and Alice. As their relationship strengthens through this experience, Ella and Alice’s main goal is to make their audience feel included in the conversation, which I think is the essence of podcasting. And overtime, as Ella and Alice have “learnt how to open up around the mics” more, I think Ella senses that I’m not convinced and says: they’ve mastered the vulnerability of podcasting. “You “It’s definitely a blessing and a curse. Like, I remember know, it’s really [about] being personal and vulnerable, before going into flatting [people were] like, don’t flat cause I know when I’m listening to a show, that’s what with your best friend, but it’s been great. And at times I love to hear”, says Alice. Ella continues: “People I’ll think some things are a bigger deal than they are. appreciate honesty and transparency. We’ve learned And so it’s learning to be like, ‘okay, just let it go’.” the more transparent you are, the more people value that conversation, so that’s what we’re moving further “It’s really just about being open and saying, ‘look, I’m toward”. actually having a fucking horrific week right now’. And we can be empathetic and more progressive when it comes to [podcast work and] planning—in that sense, being flatmates and friends first helped us out, we got used to asking each other for help with the podcast.”

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“It’s less like we’re listening to friends having a chat, and more and more like we’re chatting to our best friends. We’ve kind of adopted the saying recently to ‘become our best friends via the internet’”, they say in unison. “And I feel it’s [our] foundational purpose,” says Ella. “The best thing is like, when someone comes up to you and they’re like ‘oh my gosh, I’ve been listening to your podcast. I’ve had such a shit week. And when I listen to you, it feels like I’m hanging out with my friends’”.

During my time working with podcasts I’ve been asked a few times what my advice is on how to start one. I was thinking about this during my conversation with Ella and Alice, and realised that Ella had come to me initially when she wanted to start Above Standard.

Now that the podcast has been running for over a year, I wanted to wrap up our interview, flipping the same question on Ella and Alice.

“Yeah that’s the thing”, Ella jumps in, “I think we’ve just learned to take risks. Especially when you’re in your 20s, nothing bad is gonna come from it”. In terms of advice for starting a show, Ella continues that “I really feel as though you have to have a good understanding of what you enjoy listening to podcast wise. Then Alice felt like it was right to tell me more about what they’ve learnt before they give their two cents on how once you understand that, find a niche, or something that isn’t quite meeting standards in the current to start one: “I feel like there’s a lot of like, obvious podcast scene. Your podcast should fill that gap in stuff that we would have learned, like, physical the podcast scene. Then from there, just start! I have things that we learnt to edit. And we’ve learnt how no regrets about just starting this podcast, but it did to set up a space for a good flow of conversation, require a lot of trust in myself. If you can build up that and like working with the mics and stuff. But I think trust, then take a cliche leap of faith, the worst that also, there’s just a bunch of stuff we’ve learned that can happen is that when you’re 45 you’ll look back we probably haven’t even reflected on because it and say ‘hahaha remember when we tried to start a just comes with it. Ella’s really followed that ‘just podcast’. Literal worst case scenario, so get a grip do it’ mindset, you know. To get Oli and Cam on [founders of Club 121], she just saw them at Swimsuit and fucking go for it. There are worse things going on in the world than you actually just trying something and walked up to them so nervous, like shitting her you’re keen to do.” pants—but she just asked.”

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Crossword: Themeless (Medical Ethics) ACROSS 1. Steven Spielberg, to Drew Barrymore and Gwyneth Paltrow (9) 6. Phar Lap, famously (9) 7. Suspended over (5) 8. Eerily-calm storm part (3) 9. Her last words in ‘Othello’ are ‘Commend me to my kind lord. O, farewell.’ (9) 11. They go round luggage carousels (9) 13. Greek goddess mentioned in the chorus of Tal Bachman’s ‘She’s So High’ (yes, it’s a weird reference, but just wait) (9) 14. Times when UK elections are traditionally held 15. Flexibility; benefit of solo travel on public transport (5,4) 18. The Vauxhall Adam, for example (3) 19. Colorado skiing destination named for a tree 20. Egyptian ruler mentioned in the chorus of Tal Bachman’s ‘She’s So High’ (see? Callback!) (9) 21. Country whose states observe anywhere between three and five timezones (9)

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D Aries

Taurus

Gemini

I don’t wanna freak you out, but even though you’ve convinced yourself that you’re making the right move, you’re being swayed. If I’m honest, I think you’re falling for someone from your past and their antics, but you’re being led on. It’s like that Willow song; they’re a snake, don’t fall for it they’re being fake. Instead, call your mum or your mum friend.

Get ready for electricity problems— you might have a blackout at your flat or have your laptop charger suddenly break. Compromise is the key this week. Don’t get Sour about what’s going wrong this week, instead be grateful for the things you have. This is a week for reflecting on how you react to life.

Looks like you’re having communication issues this week. I have a feeling that something you’ve said or posted on social media is going to be misconstrued. If you and your flatmates decide to hold an impromptu party, hide your phone.

And, actually, maybe a party is not the best idea this week—you’re broke, and definitely feeling that Inner City Pressure.

Cancer

Leo

Virgo

This week is all about stepping out of your comfort zone, taking risks, and changing your routine. There are changes coming your way this birthday season, so prepare yourself by getting used to a new routine. You could try switching up your playlist, coffee order, your pasta recipe, or just wear that one hat you bought—trust me, you don’t look weird in hats.

If you’re not already seeing a lot of spiritual TikTok, be prepared to have your For You page bombarded. The universe is trying to speak to you; if you feel like something is a sign, it is. Someone might have broken a promise or is lying to you this week, so listen to your intuition. Sage your flat from any energy left over from bad nights out.

Do you get déjà vu, huh? Well, you will now, ‘cause your horoscopes are the same as last week. Virgo, you gotta spend time with your friends—they’re there to support you and listen. This is not the time to spend the whole week with your partner. Beware of miscommunication; the vibes are off this week. Round up the Bret to your Jemaine and chill out with them.

Libra

Scorpio

Sagittarius

You’re feeling a bit stuck my friend, but the clear answer to your problem— along with the inspiration you need to move forward—will surface soon.

If you’re feeling lonely, try listening to a podcast (I recommend checking out Above Standard), or try asking that cool person you’re chatting with in your tutorial out for a coffee at Swimsuit.

The semester has just started and you’re still finding more and more hobbies and niches to be interested in. If you’re looking for meaning, try looking inside yourself—search up shadow work on TikTok and you’ll find what you need. Keep your eyes open for angel numbers, and other reocurrances this week—they might be signs for you.

This week you might be surprised by something you had given up hope on rising up with opportunity. This will be the confidence you’ve been needing. Try reconnecting with your younger self and do something you enjoyed as a kid. Go buy a Paddle Pop or a Zombie Chew. Be open to a mind-expanding, psychedelic-esque experience in your near future.

Capricorn

Aquarius

Pisces

This week is all about negotiation. I know you like to lead your own way, but it might be a good week to be open to external ideas, especially when it comes to any big decisions.

This is the best week to hang with your partner and watch movies and split delivery on UberEats, or maybe try going out to a random gig—be spontaneous.

Wow, you can feel your confidence from across the room this week!

Trust me, I think ^you could be a part time model. You’d probably still have to keep your normal job^, but ride that confidence regardless.

Your goal is to keep this up and shut down those negative thoughts. Be wary of potential arguments with your partner, especially over money.

You might be feeling dependent on others at the start of the week, but if you play your cards right you’ll be feeling renewed and strong by Friday.

It’s all about self-love; it’s how you’ll attract the external admiration you desire. So be kind to yourself, wear your favourite outfit, and buy yourself your favourite snack after a study sesh.

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