Hepatitis C Continues to Plague NZers As Govt Fights Losing Battle

Posted 10:38am Sunday 19th March 2017

The Otago Hepatitis C Resource Centre is continuing to struggle to survive amid funding issues from central government. The current six-month contracts are doing little to provide financial security to the centre.  Hepatitis C is a disease that is spread through blood-to-blood contact, an Read more...

Executive Pledge to be Apolitical in Election Year

Posted 10:27am Sunday 19th March 2017

Recreation Officer Caitlin Barlow-Groome began with the affiliation of the ‘ACT On Campus’ group, which drew immediate discussion from the executive about former OUSA President Logan Edgar’s colourful relationship with the group (well worth a read if you are unaware of what Read more...

Democracy Behind Bars: How Arthur Taylor is taking on central government from prison and winning

Posted 12:43pm Sunday 12th March 2017

One night in late 2006, whilst incarcerated at Mount Eden Prison in Auckland, Arthur Taylor, arguably New Zealand’s most famous living prisoner, had a vivid dream. It wasn’t quite a Martin Luther King type of dream; those pivotal moments were some time away yet. At the outset of our Read more...

Critic Interviews Don Brash

Posted 12:01pm Sunday 12th March 2017

Don Brash is the former Governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand, Leader of the Opposition, from 2003-2006 (National Party), and, for seven months in 2011, led the ACT party. His return to the political sphere comes as one of the two spokespeople for controversial political lobbying group Read more...

Totally Execrable

Posted 11:27am Sunday 12th March 2017

The executive began by discussing which charity the proceeds from the Capping Show would be given to. Postgraduate Officer Lucy Northwood proposed the Lucy Foundation (no connection), as an alternative to suicide prevention charity Life Matters, which was proposed by President Hugh Baird at the Read more...

Editorial | Issue 3

Posted 11:19am Sunday 12th March 2017

Last week an advert appeared in The Star newspaper promoting Don Brash’s new political movement “Hobson’s Pledge”. In it, the group calls for politicians to stop giving “extra rights for those who arrived here first,” “favourable treatment based on Read more...

Why Use Facts When You Can Use Anecdotes?

Posted 10:24am Sunday 5th March 2017

Prime Minister Bill English has blamed unemployment rates on young people failing workplace drug tests; despite admitting the comments he made were based entirely on anecdotal evidence. English explained that high unemployment figures do not reflect a need to limit the amount of unskilled Read more...

Protestors Oppose Goldman Sachs Recruitment Drive

Posted 10:18am Sunday 5th March 2017

A group of protesters gathered at the entrance to the Hunter Centre on Wednesday 1 March in opposition to a Goldman Sachs information session as a result of their sizeable investments in the fossil fuel industry.  Goldman Sachs, a global finance company, was holding the information session Read more...

Editorial | Issue 2

Posted 10:13am Sunday 5th March 2017

On Wednesday last week, a small group of protesters gathered to oppose the presence of global finance company Goldman Sachs on campus because of their investment in the Dakota Access Pipeline (see page seven for more information). The group was no larger than fifteen at any given time, and at Read more...

OUSA Execrable | Issue 1

Posted 11:03am Sunday 26th February 2017

2016 OUSA Campaigns Officer, Sean Gamble began the meeting by speaking about the Local Body Elections student engagement report. The aim of enrolling 5,000 students to vote was “bold” according to the report, and various experimental methods were employed to achieve the goal. For Read more...