Candidates: Stephen Whittington for ACT in Wellington Central

We invit­ed all can­di­dates in Welling­ton elec­torates to con­tact us with their answers to fif­teen crowd­sourced ques­tions. Answers are restrict­ed to 30 words each, and we pub­lish them exact­ly as we receive them. Who are you and what do you want? I’m Steve, I grew up in Welling­ton, and I want a New Zealand that’s […]

Candidates: Gordon Copeland for the Conservatives in Hutt South

We invit­ed all can­di­dates in Welling­ton elec­torates to con­tact us with their answers to fif­teen crowd­sourced ques­tions. Answers are restrict­ed to 30 words each, and we pub­lish them exact­ly as we receive them. Who are you and what do you want? My name is Gor­don Copeland and I am the Con­ser­v­a­tive Can­di­date for Hutt South. […]

Candidates: Annette King for Labour in Rongotai

We invit­ed all can­di­dates in Welling­ton elec­torates to con­tact us with their answers to fif­teen crowd­sourced ques­tions. Answers are restrict­ed to 30 words each, and we pub­lish them exact­ly as we receive them.  Who are you and what do you want? Annette King, MP for Ron­go­tai (& Chatham Islands). I want to con­tin­ue to be […]

Review: Wake Less

Binge Cul­ture Col­lec­tive were “attempt­ing to cre­ate an envi­ron­ment that’s as flu­id and respon­sive as a dream is.” They want to “push the bound­aries of per­for­mance and explore the things that can’t be done onscreen or online.” I think they have suc­cess­ful­ly achieved these two aims. Whether the per­for­mance says any­thing more than ‘exper­i­ment­ing with […]

Candidates: Russel Norman for the Greens in Rongotai

We invit­ed all can­di­dates in Welling­ton elec­torates to con­tact us with their answers to fif­teen crowd­sourced ques­tions. Answers are restrict­ed to 30 words each, and we pub­lish them exact­ly as we receive them. Who are you and what do you want? Dr Rus­sel Nor­man, Ron­go­tai can­di­date, Greens Co-leader: 100,000 new jobs in a clean green […]

Candidates: Chris Hipkins for Labour in Rimutaka

We invit­ed all can­di­dates in Welling­ton elec­torates to con­tact us with their answers to fif­teen crowd­sourced ques­tions. Answers are restrict­ed to 30 words each, and we pub­lish them exact­ly as we receive them. Who are you and what do you want? I’m Chris Hip­kins and I want you to vote for me so that I […]

Candidates: Gareth Hughes for the Greens in Ōhariu

We invit­ed all can­di­dates in Welling­ton elec­torates to con­tact us with their answers to fif­teen crowd­sourced ques­tions. Answers are restrict­ed to 30 words each, and we pub­lish them exact­ly as we receive them. Who are you and what do you want? Kia ora I’m Gareth Hugh­es, Green can­di­date for Ohar­iu, pas­sion­ate MP, father and firm […]

KK’s A‑OK

Over the past cou­ple of months I have been review­ing Malaysian restau­rants all around Welling­ton for Malaysia Kitchen (full dis­clo­sure – I got refund­ed some of the costs). It’s time to share the reviews! The Malaysia Kitchen Pro­gramme has done its best to keep me sober by con­tin­u­ing to send me to unli­censed restau­rants, but final­ly I […]

Review: Drowning in Veronica Lake

Veron­i­ca Lake was a film star in the 1940s. She was a tiny, sexy blonde. Her hair was styled to fall art­ful­ly over her face con­ceal­ing one eye. She lived her life in a sim­i­lar man­ner – chang­ing her sto­ry to suit the mood she was in at the time. Drown­ing in Veron­i­ca Lake is […]

Ladies in the House

I would have had this up soon­er but some­thing hap­pened with the site and we lost it for a bit. But it’s back! And now I can tell you all about the event that was Ladies in the House, put on by The Welling­ton Young Fem­i­nists’ Col­lec­tive. First­ly a huge thanks and con­grat­u­la­tions to the […]