What You Need To Know: The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA)

Posted 6:26pm Sunday 1st March 2015

I f you type “TPPA” into a search engine, the first result will probably be the website of It’s Our Future NZ, a hub for anti-TPPA activity in New Zealand, decorated with a handy countdown to the next action organised against the agreement. The second will probably be Greenpeace’s webpage Read more...

DCC Goes Green

Posted 6:26pm Sunday 1st March 2015

T he Dunedin City Council has presented its Sustainability Audit Subcommittee with a draft proposal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The goal is to cut emissions by five per cent of 2013–2014 levels before 2019. The plan comes as the DCC prepares to vote on an ethical investment policy Read more...

Backlash over University Council amendments

Posted 4:35pm Sunday 22nd February 2015

A bill amending the 1989 Education Act has come under fire recently from university student associations around New Zealand. In addition to creating a new professional body for teachers — a move that infuriated the Post-Primary Teachers’ Association (PPTA) — the bill aims to decrease the current Read more...

O Week heats up

Posted 4:35pm Sunday 22nd February 2015

O n Wednesday 18 February 2015, emergency services were called to four separate North Dunedin areas in the early hours of the morning. A house located on Leith Street was left with severe damage to the front porch, as well the front two rooms of the house. The Leith Street residents had not Read more...