Editorial: Read This If You Intend To Run For OUSA Exec

Posted 12:22pm Sunday 23rd August 2026 by Hanna Varrs

The OUSA student executive elections are coming up, with campaigning beginning on the 14th of September. For those that are tuned in to the happenings of OUSA, they’ll have some understanding of the current Exec roles.  However, the Exec has passed a decision this week to put major Read more...

OUSA Exec

Posted 12:24pm Sunday 23rd August 2026 by OUSA Exec

Kia ora,  The OUSA Exec are aware of reports from students alleging white supremacist activity in Dunedin. At this stage, it is not clear whether these groups have any involvement with Otago students. While there is currently no confirmed connection, we believe it is important to keep our Read more...

Take Notice: Student General Meeting To Be Held September 9th

Posted 12:47pm Sunday 23rd August 2026 by Hanna Varrs

A Student General Meeting (SGM) will be held in a couple of weeks, discussing major role changes to your OUSA student executive. SGMs invite students to vote on constitutional changes passed by the OUSA Exec – the constitution cannot be altered without student backing. As previously reported, Read more...

OUSA Exec: Choose Your Power Plan Wisely

Posted 10:06am Sunday 16th August 2026 by Zoe Eckhoff

Are you signed with Contact Energy? Got that free power from 9-12am? Well, here’s your Residential Rep’s hot take – consider an alternative.  There’s lots of debate on which power plan is the best, or which will save you the most money. The reality is: the best plan Read more...

Opinion: Can The OUSA Exec Get It The Fuck Together?

Posted 3:54pm Saturday 8th August 2026 by Hanna Varrs

The OUSA Executive appears to be sick of its current structure, floating changes that would see the death of the Post Graduate Representative and Political Representative, plus the rebirth of a Disability Representative. On behalf of esteemed publication Critic Te Ārohi, I would like formally Read more...

University: A Story Of Your Own Making

Posted 3:52pm Saturday 8th August 2026 by Fergus Parks

Hear ye! Hear ye! It's your Post Grad Rep back for another Exec column! More often than not, the greatest stories and fairytales we know are born from the realities of the world we live in. You reading this might not feel like you're part of some grand adventure, slaying a dragon or Read more...

OUSA Exec Quarterly Reports: Round Two

Posted 11:44am Sunday 2nd August 2026 by Gryffin Blockley

Time sure does fly when you’re having fun – how can it be quarterly report time already? In order for the OUSA Exec to get paid their honorariums (their equivalent of wages), each member must write a report of everything they’ve gotten up to in the last three months. The Exec will Read more...

OUSA Exec: Kamesha Jones

Posted 11:29am Sunday 2nd August 2026 by OUSA Exec

For a long time, OUSA has been relatively apolitical in practice, on campus and in our strategic direction. However, over the last year, we have seen this idea begin to overturn. Seeds of political discourse internally, as well as better engagement with student politics, have grown into a more solid Read more...

OUSA Exec: Student Strike For Education

Posted 9:30am Sunday 26th July 2026 by Flynn Nisbett

We aren’t entitled to anything. If we want to go to uni that badly, we should pay for it ourselves because times have changed with AI and we just need more tradies. That’s what I would say if I hated good things. Three years of fees free, promised by Labour, was designed to address Read more...

OUSA Exec: Daniel Leamy & Kamesha Jones

Posted 11:40am Sunday 19th July 2026 by Daniel Leamy

The second semester is well and truly underway, and OUSA has got some big things coming up! With Re:Ori behind us, we are looking toward candidate debates and voter enrollment for the general election, hundreds of club AGMs, and our very own OUSA elections in September. Plus, many more free brekkies Read more...