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$10,000 street art fund not enough

Posted 12:53am Monday 18th August 2014 by Bella Macdonald

Dunedin’s first Street Art Festival is set to take place in October. With a $10,000 Dunedin City Council grant for more artwork, organisers have raised a further $5,000 to bring international street artist Dal East to the festival. The contributions of 11 artists have been confirmed to attend Read more...

Execrable | Issue 20

Posted 12:53am Monday 18th August 2014 by Josie Cochrane

We got a wee bit excited last Executive meeting after the team appeared to be having productive discussion. It didn’t last long. The meeting began with some good old-fashioned OUSA scandal. OUSA President Ruby Sycamore-Smith announced that she had entered into a relationship with Critic Read more...

Disabled student mistaken as drunk

Posted 12:53am Monday 18th August 2014 by Laura Munro

During Dunedin’s Illuminate Paint Party, which took place at Forsyth Barr Stadium on 10 July 2014, a University of Otago student was denied entry due to appearing intoxicated to staff. In actual fact he suffered from a number of physical disabilities. Critic spoke with the student, Richard, who is Read more...

The latest assault on Palestine (a primer)

Posted 9:16pm Sunday 10th August 2014 by Olivier Jutel

At university we are taught to be dispassionate analysts of world events, but in the face of the massacre in Gaza, academic detachment is hard to achieve. As the host of Radio One politics show The Revolution Will Not be Televised, I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Peace and Conflict Read more...

Greatest Hits / Greatest Shits | Issue 19

Posted 9:16pm Sunday 10th August 2014 by Carys Goodwin

Greatest Hit On Wednesday last week, Clare Curran participated in an AMA on Reddit, an activity that involves answering anything that the New Zealand Internet deems worthy enough to ask her. While it wasn’t full of cheese rolls banter, Clare gets points for responding to “can you please tell Read more...

Politweets | Issue 19

Posted 9:16pm Sunday 10th August 2014 by Carys Goodwin

Ok. Things are looking up. Henare's Helpers Cleaning Service? Dairy me. Classic election move. Oh well. Read more...

Critic tackles election year | Issue 19

Posted 9:16pm Sunday 10th August 2014 by Carys Goodwin

Laila is, without a doubt, a politician. She has deftly navigated herself across the political scene for years now, and her latest adventure as leader of the Internet Party is no exception. Even with a head cold, she was able to redefine and tear apart every question I asked her. It’s intensely Read more...

Gareth Hughes, beer pong, and how to target students

Posted 9:16pm Sunday 10th August 2014 by Carys Goodwin

On Friday 1 August, Green Party MP Gareth Hughes made his way down to Dunedin to have what was the inaugural “Flat Warming,” a youth campaign strategy designed to bring policies to the students, not confine them to stuffy lecture theatres and awkward South Dunedin forums. The idea is to break the Read more...

Sarcastically celebrating a super season of super rugby

Posted 9:16pm Sunday 10th August 2014 by Daniel Lormans

This week the Super rugby desk signs off for 2014 with a lighthearted look at how our five New Zealand teams fared over the season. We have given them a grade based on the merits of their players and performances. Disclaimer - this article contains a heavy dose of irreverent southern bias while also Read more...

New regulation sees five-year learner license limit

Posted 9:16pm Sunday 10th August 2014 by Laura Munro

A new law will see a limit imposed on the length of time individuals can hold learner and restricted licences in New Zealand. The new regulation, announced on Wednesday, will be enforced from 1 December this year. Individuals who do not move onto the next stage of the Graduated Driver Licensing Read more...