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Seriously accurate predictions to continue

Posted 4:35pm Sunday 22nd February 2015 by Daniel Lormans

Last year’s FIFA World Cup coverage proved our credentials in providing serious analysis, accurate predictions and the ability to type a sentence like that with a straight face. Here is an update and preview of some of the sports action that we will be reporting on and ranting about in 2015. Read more...

Fears deepen as drought drags on

Posted 4:35pm Sunday 22nd February 2015 by Bridie Boyd

O n January 30 2015, the Otago Regional Council asked the government to officially recognise the devastating dry spell as a recorded drought, after the longest dry spell since 2004. Except for the Clutha River, most tributaries and rivers still have dangerously low levels, with no sign Read more...

Backlash over University Council amendments

Posted 4:35pm Sunday 22nd February 2015 by Carla Green

A bill amending the 1989 Education Act has come under fire recently from university student associations around New Zealand. In addition to creating a new professional body for teachers — a move that infuriated the Post-Primary Teachers’ Association (PPTA) — the bill aims to decrease the current Read more...

Dunedin Sick of Mores

Posted 4:35pm Sunday 22nd February 2015 by Emma Lodes

S ycamore trees have become a topic of conflict in recent weeks, with the Dunedin City Council and the Chalmers Community Board arguing that they’re choking out native plants, hogging sunlight and stamping out undergrowth bush. According to Lisa Wheeler, DCC Parks Manager, the city is Read more...

Execrable | Issue 1

Posted 4:35pm Sunday 22nd February 2015 by Laura Munro

T he first OUSA Executive meeting for the year kicked off with OUSA President Paul Hunt laying down the law for 2015. Executive members were instructed to raise their hand if they want to say their piece during the meeting. Additionally, it was clarified that if an executive member misses Read more...

Posties stamped out

Posted 4:35pm Sunday 22nd February 2015 by Oliver Gaskell

D unedin-based postal workers are at risk of unemployment as New Zealand Post makes cuts to its residential delivery services. Dunedin is currently home to around 60 posties, all of whom could be at risk of unemployment as part of a five-year strategy to restructure New Zealand’s postal Read more...

O Week heats up

Posted 4:35pm Sunday 22nd February 2015 by Carla Green

O n Wednesday 18 February 2015, emergency services were called to four separate North Dunedin areas in the early hours of the morning. A house located on Leith Street was left with severe damage to the front porch, as well the front two rooms of the house. The Leith Street residents had not Read more...

Parties go ahead despite warnings

Posted 4:35pm Sunday 22nd February 2015 by Laura Munro

T he University of Otago took a tougher stance on out-of-control flat parties leading up to the 2015 Orientation Week, with flats being asked to cancel events before the week had even begun. Residents of the Dundas Street V Flat, Dylan Hall, Tessa Lunam, Baily Beecher and Ross Stocker, Read more...

Dunedin's proposed Local Alcohol Policies

Posted 12:31pm Monday 1st December 2014 by Isaac Yu

I'm sure you've all heard the saying that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. We all like to think, especially when it comes to the affairs of others, that what we are doing is for peoples’ own good - that if we could sit them down and have a chat we could sort them out and have their Read more...

OUSA Withdraws From NZUSA

Posted 6:51pm Thursday 27th November 2014 by Josie Cochrane

After prolonged discussion, Otago University Students’ Association (OUSA) has withdrawn from the New Zealand Union of Students’ Associations (NZUSA). The unanimous decision follows the Victoria University of Wellington Students’ Association (VUWSA) decision to also withdraw earlier this Read more...