Alcohol gets its reform on, but not really.

Posted 5:17pm Sunday 2nd September 2012

After months of debate, research, and whatever else it is that Members of Parliament do, they finally dealt with New Zealand’s binge drinking culture by making absolutely no changes at all. In the first effort to create change by changing nothing at all Justice Minister Judith Collins Read more...

Poetry | Issue 21

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 19th August 2012

ACTION DEVOTION ADDICTION EXPECTATION REJECTION REFLECTION INTROSPECTION INACTION APPARITION ATTRACTION INFATUATION INTENTION DETERMINATION INTRODUCTION DECEPTION NOTION OPTION PROPOSITION NEGOTIATION INVITATION SEDUCTION POSITION FUNCTION MOTION JUNCTION Read more...

ODT Watch | Issue 21

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 19th August 2012

If you really need the “dangers” of euthanasia explained to you before you try it out, you’re probably failing to understand the general concept: The ODT put this right next to an image of Ostapchuk wearing her gold medal. I think that might be the motivation right there, Read more...

We the Living

Posted 5:14pm Sunday 12th August 2012

“ …too strong to compromise, but too weak to withstand the pressure… who cannot bend, but only break.” Many Russian authors have a tortured relationship with their motherland, but for Russo-American author Ayn Rand, Soviet Russia was an object of hatred. This, her first novel, was written Read more...

Poetry | Issue 20

Posted 5:14pm Sunday 12th August 2012

I will never compare you To some bright flower Stranded in mud. And I do not care for The songs birds sing, Or the smell of rain. I’ve never found bliss In a summer sunset. I’m colour blind And I find the sun Far too predictable. I would never hold you up As some Read more...

Somewhere in Dunedin An Executive Waits

Posted 5:14pm Sunday 12th August 2012

OUSA has set the voting dates of September 24 to 27 for the election of next year’s OUSA student executive. Nominations will be open from September 17 to 20, with the results to be announced on the evening of the 27th. Each of the ten positions on the executive is up for grabs, and with Read more...

Poetry | Issue 19

Posted 4:49pm Sunday 5th August 2012

BOI my boy wears my heart on black thread around his neck and its just a symbol - if it breaks, he still has me MATH LOV kicking buckets under the table, and falling in love and falling over into daisies. U+ME don’t set the hounds on me i’m just Read more...

Joyce and Hayne Get Together on Postgrads

Posted 4:49pm Sunday 5th August 2012

Critic has finally made sense of the changes to postgraduate access to the student allowance scheme, which will prevent all postgraduate students from receiving the allowance. Following a meeting between University of Otago Vice-Chancellor Professor Harlene Hayne and Tertiary Education Minister Read more...

Poetry | Issue 18

Posted 2:15pm Sunday 29th July 2012

Friday nights are always the same An anxiety ruminating through The shapes your lips make Desparate, decadent pleas For the public validation You crave enough to Vacuum every day, Buy organic low fat milk, Read about socialism And pretend that I’m A respectable Read more...

Poetry | Issue 17

Posted 10:46am Sunday 22nd July 2012

Do you remember that wild stretch of land with the lone tree guarding the point from the sharp-tongued sea? The fort we built out of branches wrenched from the tree is dead wood now. The air that was thick with the whirr of toetoe spear succumbs at last to the grey gull’s Read more...