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...

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...

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...

Joint Statement On The Legislation (Definition Of A Man and Woman Bill) Amendment Bill

Posted 3:28pm Saturday 11th July 2026 by OUSA Exec

The OUSA Executive and UniQ oppose the Gender (Definitions of Man and Woman)  amendment bill, and call for it to be withdrawn over the dehumanisation wielded against transgender, non-binary, takatāpui and intersex people.   Everyone deserves to live a life of dignity where we Read more...

Palo Alto Partnership Under “Review”

Posted 10:28am Sunday 10th May 2026 by Hanna Varrs

What Happened? As previously reported, the University of Otago has confirmed a partnership with Palo Alto Networks (PANW), a cybersecurity company that has been accused of having “deep links to the Israeli government” by Otago Staff for Palestine (OSP). The partnership is intended to Read more...

OUSA Exec: Kamesha Jones

Posted 1:07pm Sunday 26th April 2026 by Kamesha Jones

I spend far too much time on Instagram reels. It’s true – though I wish it wasn’t. And while I’ve now cut myself off from the addictive political whirlpool run by an ‘unbiased algorithm’, it is truly hard to escape from politics online. Even true before-bedtime Read more...

Execrable: Written Warning, MoU and Political Planning

Posted 1:18pm Sunday 26th April 2026 by Hanna Varrs

Celebrating 4/20 likely in a different way to most students, the OUSA Exec still managed to push their fortnightly meeting up to a marathon two and a half hours on the 20th of April. Who can say they aren’t dedicated? There was a heap on the agenda to get through, and get through it they Read more...