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Dotcom Loses High Court Extradition Battle, Vows to Fight On

Posted 10:48am Sunday 26th February 2017 by Joe Higham

Last week, New Zealand’s High Court ruled in favour of extraditing Kim Dotcom and his co-accused to the United States over their roles in the now-defunct file-sharing business Megaupload.  The United States of America are seeking to have Dotcom (and the three other co-accused) Read more...

DCC and Uni Begin New Initiative to Clean up North Dunedin’s Streets

Posted 10:42am Sunday 26th February 2017 by Anna Linton

A collaborative recycling initiative between the Dunedin City Council and Campus Watch, overseen by the Proctor, will mark an overhaul in how glass and rubbish are dealt with in North Dunedin. Street cleaning, extra blue glass recycling bins and skips in North Dunedin, every Friday of February Read more...

‘17 Executive already proving to be better than 2016

Posted 4:59pm Friday 10th February 2017 by Joe Higham

The second executive meeting of the year began with a discussion about a funding request from the charity ‘Heart Kids NZ’, which was swiftly shut down after Education Officer, Bryn Jenkins, noted that OUSA “should be giving to charities in the student interest”, something the Read more...

Execrable

Posted 5:17pm Friday 16th December 2016 by Joe Higham

The agenda for the final OUSA Executive meeting of the year was largely uncontentious, as the vast majority of the agenda items were passed without issue: notably a disaffiliation a now defunct group, passing an employment agreement, reporting on Welfare and Education Committee Meetings, and giving Read more...

Execrable Xmas Edition

Posted 5:44pm Tuesday 13th December 2016 by Joe Higham

The 2016 OUSA Executive year has been marred by communication failures, finger-pointing, on-going arguments, and a lack of cohesive action, and inevitably the penultimate executive meeting of the year was similarly frustrating. 
 The meeting was largely consumed with the presentation of Read more...

Press Council ruling against Critic

Posted 2:36pm Wednesday 12th October 2016 by Critic

The Press Council has part-upheld a complaint from Dunedin City Council against two Critic articles. This is a summary of the Press Council ruling.  See here for the full decision www.presscouncil.org.nz Critic’s article headlined DCC accused of ‘active and willful campaign to Read more...

Opinion: Is yoga a sport?

Posted 10:39am Saturday 8th October 2016 by Rosa Woods

Did you just mutter the words “no of course not” internally? Hey now, let's not jump to any conclusions. I know what you’re thinking; yoga is a leisure activity, it’s nothing more than an excuse for Lululemon clad fitspos to get together, stretch and do breathing Read more...

The self-crucifixion of Colin of Howick, King of the Conservatives

Posted 10:35am Saturday 8th October 2016 by George Elliott

Colin Craig, who formed the Conservative Party in 2011, was meant to be with us much longer. He’d declared during the 2014 election campaign that he’d one day ascend to the top level of the Beehive as a true conservative. But Craig is dead. The party he created kicked him out and no Read more...

Breaking-very-important-news

Posted 10:29am Saturday 8th October 2016 by Critic

Congratulations on former OUSA President, Ruby Sycamore Smith and former Critic Editor, Zane Pocock for tying the knot recently! On the sly,Hugh and Laura refused to comment on their nuptial plans. Hugh continued whistling Skater Boy by Avril Lavigne, including some sick drum beats Read more...

OUSA Execrable | Issue 26

Posted 10:27am Saturday 8th October 2016 by Joe Higham

The final reportable OUSA Executive meeting began characteristically slowly, but became easily the most interesting meeting of the year as the largely dysfunctional group came to a head over their third quarter reports, which they present at the culmination of each quarter to determine whether Read more...

While the Labour movement has an existential crisis, what about the worker and the radical?

Posted 11:51am Saturday 1st October 2016 by George Elliott

The Labour movement in the UK and its former colonies has transformed dramatically in the past century and has slipped into an identity crisis after gazing back at the neoliberal experiments of the past four decades and, pondering Key’s eight years and Corbyn’s idealism, asking Read more...

Trump and Clinton clash in most watched televised US presidential debate ever

Posted 11:48am Saturday 1st October 2016 by Cameron Meads

Eighty four million Americans tuned in last week for the first US presidential debate between former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, and New York businessman, Donald Trump. Despite a civilised well-mannered start to the debate particularly by an out-of-character Trump, Clinton soon crawled her Read more...

Don Brash’s Hobson’s Pledge campaign seeks equality for all New Zealanders

Posted 11:37am Saturday 1st October 2016 by Joe Higham

A new campaign launched by, among others, former National Party leader Don Brash, is seeking to lobby politicians to end New Zealand’s separatism and preferential treatment of Maori. The campaign, called Hobson’s Pledge, is named after Captain William Hobson, who was New Read more...

The student candidate who dares to be Right-Wing

Posted 11:34am Saturday 1st October 2016 by Joel MacManus

“40% of the population is under 30, yet not a single member of the council represents our demographic. It’s time for a student voice”. Hamish Fraser, a 20 year old Law and PoliSci student wants to be that voice. He’s running for Council this year as an unapologetically young Read more...

Losi Filipo & Wellington Rugby part ways

Posted 11:32am Saturday 1st October 2016 by Hugh Baird

Wellington Rugby and Losi Filipo have come to a mutual understanding to part ways in the wake of a controversial assault case which saw Filipo discharged without conviction. The move to terminate the contract came after an increase in pressure from the public, sponsors of the team and victims to Read more...

Auckland mayoral forum reminds the rest of the country how Aucklanders really are

Posted 11:29am Saturday 1st October 2016 by Joe Higham

The Auckland Mayoral debate descended into chaos on Tuesday night as one candidate, Adam Holland, had painted his face brown and shouted the Arabic phrase “Allahu akbar”, meaning God is Great, while two other candidates were on the verge of a fist-fight. Others looked on in both shock Read more...

Branson’s becomes most recent target of liquor license opposition

Posted 11:25am Saturday 1st October 2016 by Joe Higham

Branson’s hotel in Dunedin has become the latest local off-license to find itself in a battle in relation to alcohol licensing issues. The hotel, located on the corner of St Andrew’s Street and Great King Street, ran into problems on the night of the third All Blacks v Wales test Read more...

Hayne’s comments factually incorrect, after public opposition of liquor license

Posted 11:20am Saturday 1st October 2016 by Liam Brown

The Super Liquor store located on North Dunedin’s Cumberland Street has had its liquor license renewal declined due to its location next to the BP service station as well as the level of harm in the student quarter that is related to alcohol.  In recent comments, Otago University Read more...

OUSA’s 2017 Budget morbidly depressing

Posted 11:19am Saturday 1st October 2016 by Joe Higham

The budget looks like a series of percentage icons, abbreviations and dollar signs at the best of times, and, apart from one significant change, the 2017 budget is no more intriguing in comparison to any of the recent budgets.  That significant change comes in the form of an amendment to Read more...

Opinion: Guardiola proving that the EPL is nothing special

Posted 10:36am Saturday 24th September 2016 by Sean Nugent

All too often the media portray the English Premier League as the toughest in the world, and that a player or manager’s career is not totally fulfilled if they do not prove themselves on a cold, rainy night in Stoke. Having won all eight competitive games so far, including five in the EPL, Pep Read more...