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The Limit Does Not Exist: Kura Kaupapa Māori and Beyond

Unexpected UniFlats Maintenance Visits “An Accident Waiting to Happen”

UniFlats residents caught off-guard by unanticipated visits from staff and maintenance crew have been left feeling “a bit weird”, to say the least. One Clyde Street resident told Critic Te Ārohi that she was suffering from a severe bout of food poisoning when maintenance staff entered her flat unexpectedly. “I was throwing up at 7am and I just heard a bunch of men downstairs, rustling around,” she said. Over the past...

The Plastics: “So if you’re Māori, why are you white?”

White Māori. Fake Māori. Plastic Māori. If you’re Māori, chances are you’ve heard these labels thrown around at some point – whether it’s a poke at your pale skin, your lack of fluency in te reo Māori, or even an aversion to kaimoana. You may have dropped the ‘whitewashed’ line yourself, half-joking, half-bracing for judgement as you step into Māori spaces. But here’s the...

40% of Current Exec Plan To Rerun for 2025

Nominations were open last week for the 2025 OUSA Student Exec. Critic Te Ārohi can reveal that four out of ten of the current OUSA Student Exec (40% for you maths nerds out there) are planning on sticking around next year – either rerunning for their own positions or branching into other roles. Who, you ask? That’s for us to know, and you to find out. 40% is a big jump from the mere 10% in the last elections, one that saw...

Ngā Wai-hono-i-te-pō and the Kīngitanga Movement

Shockwaves reverberated through the motu on Friday, August 30th, as Aotearoa learned of the passing of Kīngi Tūheitia Pōtatou Te Wherowhero VII, the Māori King. Less than a week later, the Kīngitanga named its new leader: Te Arikinui Kuīni Ngā Wai-hono-i-te-pō, the youngest child and only daughter of the late Kīngi. Mainstream media have covered the news extensively – it’s pretty...

Castle St Courtyard Set to Split

‘Courtyard’, the infamous intersection of breathadom between three Castle St flats, will allegedly soon be split with a fence. Breathas and sheathas alike are biting their nails at the...

Stumbled Down the Rabbit Hole

Tūhura Otago Museum hosted Alice in Wonderland after dark on Friday, September 13th, a fun (18+) event based on the Lewis Carroll book and that one Tim Burton film everyone chooses to ignore. Sporting free tickets and a craving for cotton candy, Critic Te...

Toast Time Introduced At Subs

Dunedin's iconic nightclub, Suburbia (Subs if you’re a real one), has introduced a new initiative aimed at keeping patrons' puku’s full and vomit off the floors. Taking a leaf out of residential colleges’ book, Subs has launched...

Critic Bachelor: Trivial Pursuit (Of Joel)

A hot new bombshell has entered the villa (Critic office)! Yes, you read that right – we’re stirring the pot. Keegan Wells (OUSA President) is joining the Critic Bachelor for a special...

Te Huinga Tauira, Debriefed

Te Rōpū Māori sent a delegation of tauira to Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland in the last week of August – not only to escape the Dunedin winter, but also for Te Huinga Tauira, the annual national Māori students’ conference....