Emerson's: Pride of the South since 1992

Posted 4:25pm Sunday 23rd September 2012

Emerson’s has reaffirmed its status as Dunedin’s premier brewery after ten of its finest brews were honoured at the Sutton Group Brewers’ Guild of NZ Awards 2012. The Regional Best Bitter won the trophy and a gold medal in the British Ale Styles category, with silver medals going to Emerson’s Read more...

Student Jewry Sentences AUSA President to Insincere Apology

Posted 4:57pm Sunday 16th September 2012

Arena Williams, the President of the Auckland University Students’ Association (AUSA), has been forced to apologise after taking a 10-day trip to Israel, funded by the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council (AIJAC). According to its website, AIJAC “endeavours to highlight and counteract Read more...

Otago University's Two Dirty Little Screts

Posted 4:57pm Sunday 16th September 2012

Two University staff members cancelled their plans to speak at an OUSA Environment Week presentation on the University’s use of lignite coal, apparently after discussions with the University’s communications section. Energy Manager Hans Pietsch and Environmental Sustainability Co-ordinator Dr Read more...

The Great Critic Politics Quiz

Posted 4:03pm Sunday 9th September 2012

Are you jealous of friends who describe themselves as “progressive,” “right-wing,” or “conservative”? Do you desperately yearn to categorise your political views into a neat little box? If so, good news! Critic’s resident political scientists, Callum Fredric and Sam McChesney, have studied Read more...

Shady Sheik speaks at Islam Awareness Week

Posted 4:03pm Sunday 9th September 2012

Last week, the decadent city of Dunedin was treated to the spiritual guidance of hard-line Islamic Sheik Shady Alsuleiman. The sheik was invited by the Muslim University Students’ Association (MUSA) to deliver guest lectures for Islam Awareness Week on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in the Castle and Read more...

Asset Sales Delayed by Water and Wind Claims

Posted 4:03pm Sunday 9th September 2012

In a move that is bound to have special resonance for students, the government has decided to delay the controversial partial sale of Mighty River Power (MRP). Following a Waitangi Tribunal report that was delivered to the government on August 23, but is yet to be made public, the sale is now Read more...

Homo-Haters Horrified by Humanitarian Hubris

Posted 5:17pm Sunday 2nd September 2012

August was not a good month for Family First. The lobby group’s mensis horribilis began with the Family First-affilitated “Protect Marriage” website, which opposes gay marriage, being blocked as a “hate site” by the Dunedin City Council’s automated web filter. Family First spokesman Read more...

Parliament gets FABULOUS!

Posted 5:17pm Sunday 2nd September 2012

Labour MP Louisa Wall’s Marriage Amendment Bill, which aims to legalise gay marriage, passed its first reading in a landslide 80-40 conscience vote on the night of August 29. The vote drew a packed public gallery at Parliament, and with many tuned into Parliament TV social media outlets went Read more...

Two Hours with Louis Crimp

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 19th August 2012

An interview with the outspoken and often offensive multi-millionaire about life, cats, Maori culture, and sex against trees. When I first came up with the idea of interviewing Louis Crimp, I had a very simple agenda – to get as many outrageous quotes as possible. The Invercargill Read more...

Mid-semester Crime Roundup

Posted 4:26pm Sunday 19th August 2012

A serial burglar from Christchurch had a pretty sweet routine going – drive down to Dunedin for a couple of days, saunter into student flats through an unlocked door or window, steal laptops and other goodies, then head back up the highway to safety. But his luck ran out on Saturday August 11 when a Read more...