The ship Stony Stream has just landed in Port Chalmers, carrying 25,000 tonnes of phosphate from Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara. This phosphate, which critics call “blood phosphate,” has been linked ...

The Dunedin City Council has been left reeling after a $1.5 million fraud scheme was uncovered within the council’s Citifleet department earlier this month. The alleged fraud involved $1.5 million of ...

Festival season is nearly upon us. As the semester draws to a close, and you’re stuck inside studying while the days get longer, we figured you needed a light at the end of the tunnel. There’s ...

Signing a flat is exhilarating. I think it’s just part of that ‘grass is always greener’ mentality: throughout the year, you notice more and more things wrong with your living conditions that make it ...

Founded in 1925, Critic Te Ārohi is the student magazine of the Otago University Students' Association. Critic is a member of the Aotearoa Student Press Association (ASPA). Disclaimer: the views ...

Another contentious, and occasionally chaotic, OUSA Executive Election rounded off last Thursday. A crowded Main Common Room was read out to hear the results drop after two weeks of campaigning, and ...

Last Saturday, an Instagram account going by @bigmoneystudent took a hit at presidential candidate Troy Gibbons, labelling him a “National Party jack-up”. Shortly after, the account targeted candidate ...

Dating isn’t easy, especially at university. Everything’s changed since our parents were courting each other via carrier pigeon, so we’ve put together some advice applicable to today’s dating scene.

If there’s one thing a Ngāpuhi likes, it’s arguing a case. Unfortunately for everyone else, I’ve always got one. With exam season looming, my attention has already wandered several weeks ahead. Right ...

I love the Internet. I was practically born and raised on it, and as someone who moved around a fair amount as a kid, I often relied on it to maintain my relationships with friends who lived in ...

About two weeks ago, Critic Te Ārohi grabbed a cuppa and a yarn with some of the Vote Otago team. Vote Otago is a "by students, for students" election-year group who conduct political interviews, and ...

The recent New Zealand Young Writers Festival and associated wānaka was a fabulous success, and although these Critic Te Ārohi writers were both part of this year’s cohort, we promise we aren’t biased ...