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Student finds $5 million in bank account, spends it all

A 21-year-old student living in Australia went on a lavish shopping spree after mistakenly receiving an unlimited overdraft of nearly $5 million. Christine Jia Xin Lee, a Malaysian student living in ...
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NZ Young Writers Fest Takes Over Dunedin

The recent New Zealand Young Writers Festival and associated wānaka was a fabulous success, and although these Critic Te ...
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Rock The Vote Reviewed

DISCLAIMER* Critic Te Ārohi sent their hungover designer with no writing experience to document the day. All the writers were more hungover. On October 3rd, a random street in the industrial area of Ō ...
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OUSA Third Quarter Exec Reports: First Pay Cuts of the Year

Choo choo, it's OUSA Exec quarterly reports again! Your shorthand for knowing what sort of work your almighty representatives ...
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On The Voting Fence? There’s A Website For That

On the Fence is back for the 2026 election, helping to support young people in turning out, getting involved and voting.
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In Defence Of The Small Room

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 ...
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Dunedin Thunder Women’s Hockey Team Takes On Auckland Steel

This weekend, the Dunedin Women’s Thunder take on league leaders Auckland Steel in the semi-finals of the New Zealand Women's Ice Hockey League (NZWIHL) season. This will be the last chance for ...
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Dunedin City Council at centre of $1.5 million fraud investigation

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 ...
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Artists, Activists, Ambassadors: when Aramoana Declared Independence

Over forty years ago, passionate residents of a small settlement, just 20km along the coast from North Dunedin, founded the Independent State Aramoana. While it never became anything close to an ...
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Broke, Hungry, and Over It: How Aotearoa New Zealand’s Supermarket Duopoly Hurts Students

We’ve all been there: standing in the checkout line, staring at your sad basket of instant noodles, cheap bread, and maybe some reduced to clear mince. When you’re down to your final $25 for the week ...
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Editorial: How much data is in one ejaculation?

One sperm contains about 3.3 billion base pairs, stored in DNA. Each base pair is two bits of data, for a total of 787MB of data per sperm. With somewhere around 280 million sperm per ejaculation, ...
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Otago Polytechnic Too Successful for Its Own Good

Last Tuesday Education Minister Chris Hipkins visited Otago Polytech to address concerned students, faculty, and staff, following the Government proposing a merger of all 16 of New Zealand’s polytechs ...