Student Activists Help Shutter ANZ

Posted 11:18pm Sunday 17th August 2025 by Tilly Rumball-Smith

Heads up, there’s plans to demolish Nelson! Ridiculous, right? Well, it’s not far from the truth – and 31 protestors blockaded ANZ across the motu on the 8th of August to demonstrate their disapproval. Bathurst Resources Ltd, Aotearoa’s biggest mining company, has a Fast Read more...

The Art of Dressing for Resistance: What to Wear to a Protest

Posted 9:58pm Sunday 10th August 2025 by Grace Hards

What you wear to a protest isn’t just about looking cool for the ‘gram. In reality, the clothes you wear to a protest are an intersection between fashion choices and politics: whether you’re marching for trans rights, chanting for Palestine, or standing silently in black on a Read more...

Nurses Strike Against “Detrimental To Patient” Working Conditions

Posted 8:27pm Sunday 3rd August 2025 by Via Hooks

Last Wednesday, Dunedin nurses joined a national 24-hour strike to protest dangerously low staffing in hospitals across the motu. Marching from the Octagon, a large crowd had gathered on the Museum Reserve by noon, expressing their dissatisfaction with the current Government and Te Whatu Ora’s Read more...

Ōtepoti’s Largest Trans-Rights Protest

Posted 3:07pm Sunday 11th May 2025 by Gryffin Blockley

Hundreds gathered in the Octagon on the 3rd of May in a loud, proud, and unrelenting show of solidarity against New Zealand First’s proposed gender definition bill. It was reportedly Ōtepoti’s largest ever trans-rights protest, with rainbow umbrellas against drizzly weather giving a Read more...

Ōtepoti Outrage at NZ First “Transphobic” Bill

Posted 10:03pm Sunday 4th May 2025 by Gryffin Blockley

New Zealand First has submitted a members’ bill to the Parliamentarian biscuit tin that would define the meaning of ‘man’ and ‘woman’ to mean “an adult human biological male” and a “adult human biological female” respectively within the Read more...

Student Climate Activist Summoned to Court

Posted 9:37pm Sunday 4th May 2025 by Nina Brown

Many students take advantage of the Easter Break for a Central Otago roadie, an extortionately priced flight home to the Easter bunny (Mum and Dad), or to hole up in the library and catch up on assignments – all noble causes. In a more bespoke use of their break, a handful of Otago students Read more...

Students Protest University’s Silence on Palestine

Posted 3:41pm Sunday 4th August 2024 by Iris Hehir

A crowd of 100 student protesters marched from Union Lawn to the Clocktower on Tuesday, 30 July, to protest the University of Otago's continued silence on Palestine. Otago Students for Justice in Palestine (OSJP) are demanding the University declare Palestine an “independent and sovereign Read more...

Otago Joins Nationwide Tertiary Palestine Protest

Posted 7:35pm Sunday 26th May 2024 by Hanna Varrs

Muslim Student Associations across Aotearoa New Zealand banded together last Thursday, May 23rd, to rally for Palestine. The rally is the brain-child of a meeting that took place in Wellington on the 12th of May, in which the presidents of Muslim Student Associations collectively decided on a Read more...

Disabled Community Protests Against ‘Minister’s Biases’

Posted 9:27pm Friday 26th April 2024 by Hugh Askerud

Dunedin’s disabled community hosted a 100-strong protest on Friday, March 19, against the government’s changes to the structure of Whaikaha, the Ministry of Disabled People, announcing new limits on support services and what disabled individuals can purchase with Read more...

From the Museum Lawn to the Octagon “Palestine Will Be Free!”

Posted 10:30am Monday 18th March 2024 by Iris Hehir

Disclaimer: The writer of this piece has attended Dunedin Justice for Palestine rallies in a protesting capacity. Content warning: This piece includes discussion of violence and mass death.  The world has watched in horror since October 7th last year as death, destruction, and devastation Read more...