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There’s always someone to talk to

Posted 11:49am Sunday 30th April 2017 by Lucy Hunter

Youthline focuses on supporting young people between the ages of 13 and 26. Brian Lowe is the Youthline Otago manager. He and one administration person are the only staff members, neither of which are employed full time. Lowe has volunteered since his university days and has always been drawn to Read more...

I Escaped Getting Baptised into a Cult

Posted 12:48pm Sunday 23rd April 2017 by Esme Hall

Tina* is a new friend. We’re in that stage of bonding over things we have in common, like both studying Politics and English, loving podcasts, and being recruited by the same cult. Our stories are months apart, but have the same innocent opening. Enter two Korean girls who ask if we’ll Read more...

Jurassic Park: Where the Plot Holes are Mightier than the Dinosaurs

Posted 12:28pm Sunday 23rd April 2017 by Chelle Fitzgerald

As a child, Jurassic Park was my favourite movie – I was hell-bent on becoming a palaeontologist (until I was exposed to Ross Geller from Friends). Jurassic Park was also everything I needed in my adolescence – a Michael Crichton plot, scientific progress versus ethics, and some goddamn Read more...

The French Did It By 1789, Surely 218 Years Later We Should Join Them?

Posted 12:20pm Sunday 23rd April 2017 by Joe Higham

The British Royal Family, and monarchies generally, have a lot to answer for; they manage to sponge millions off the state each year and have an unnerving amount to do with politics and legislature. If you were to describe the system outside of the context of the Western monarchical tradition, most Read more...

Historical Reasons People Believed in Ghosts (That Don’t Make Sense Anymore)

Posted 12:08pm Sunday 23rd April 2017 by Wee Doubt

Ghosts could be real, but it is interesting that the more advanced science and technology has become, the less likely it seems that they are. Now that everybody has a video camera on them at all times, we should be getting some sweet ghosty footage. But we are also getting better at spotting Read more...

Life in Antarctica

Posted 12:20pm Sunday 9th April 2017 by Jessica Thompson Carr

What’s double the size of Australia, covered by 98% ice, and has no permanent human residents? Antarctica.   Antarctica is a desert of snow and ice surrounded by freezing ocean at the bottom of the Southern Hemisphere. It has an average temperature of -49°C, katabatic winds of Read more...

Less is More

Posted 12:02pm Sunday 9th April 2017 by Chelle Fitzgerald

Japan is already into it in a big way and the rest of the world is catching on. Minimalism is the art of living a much simpler lifestyle, in order to focus only on what’s important – creating more time to pursue connections with others, experiences and giving more to the world than one Read more...

Twelve Hours on Hyde Street

Posted 10:53am Sunday 9th April 2017 by Joel MacManus

6:00 AM The persistent throb of bass can be heard from three blocks away; a siren call reaching out to the slumbering residents of North Dunedin, calling them to their most hallowed street. Today is the day of the Hyde Street Party. On the street itself the music pumps like a busy nightclub, but Read more...

Think Pink: A 101 of Pinkwashing in New Zealand

Posted 12:38pm Sunday 2nd April 2017 by Kyra Gillies

What is Pinkwashing and why does it matter? Pinkwashing is a government or corporate strategy to put forward a gay or LGBT friendly image to simultaneously tap into the ‘pink dollar’ (the support of middle and upper class LGBT people) and to distract from unethical practices such as Read more...

Revolution Ready

Posted 12:30pm Sunday 2nd April 2017 by Mel Ansell

If you turn your nose to the wind in the provincial town of Dunedin, New Zealand, you may smell revolution in the air. The breeze, which curves steadily over the currents of the Leith River, carries with it the explosive potential for powerful change. While for now, in the Northernmost part of the Read more...