Student Services

Student Job Search - need some extra work? Free to OPSA members.

Unipol Sports Centre - need excercise or sports? Free to OPSA members.

Clubs & Societies Centre - lots of cool stuff. Free or low-cost to OPSA members.

Bill Robertson Library - need text books?

Student Health - medical centre. Free to OP students with a Community Services Card.

PolyBase - Otago Polytech's policys online (local campus network access only sorry).

OP Timetables - Otago Polytech's Timetables Online.

General:

Community Law Centre - free legal advice centre based in Dunedin.

Youthlaw - free legal advice for people under 25; excellent on-line resources.

StudyLink - fees, loans, & allowances. Apply ASAP or you may lose some of your entitlement.

StudentCard - national student discounts card - still only $20.

Career Advice - government operated scheme.

Sorted.org student finance pages - get sorted on your money matters.

Accomodation

Flatting 101 - the Dept of B&H's guide to setting up a flat for the first time.

Tenancy Services - Landlord giving you problems? Tenancy Services can tell you your rights and help mediate if necessary.

OU Accomodation Database - find a flat or flatmate

TradeMe - Flatmates wanted in Otago

Radio 1 Flatline

StudentAccomodation.co.nz

Home Energy Self Check - how much is it going to cost to heat?

Check out the OPSA Accomodation noticeboard in the Student Centre

Text Books

Tech Books - need hard to get electronics, engineering and computer books?

University Book Shop - best local source for text books.

OPSA's Secondhand Bookshop - get bargans from last year's students.

Media

Gyro Digital - your own OP student magazine on-line

Critic - the Uni's student newspaper on-line.

Scoop - storys with the author's spin instead of the media's...

Radio 1 - Dunedin's student radio station.

Otago Daily Times - Dunedin's daily, top stories online.

Channel 9 - Dunedin's own TV station.

Aotearoa Independent Media Centre - where media mogals and advertisers don't choose what you're allowed to read.

Otago Gaily Times - local LGBT newspaper

Queer News Aotearoa - gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender New Zealand news.

Varsity.co.nz - student stuff on line, news, forums, jokes, competitions etc...

Useful Dunedin Info

Dunedin What's On guide - hosted by the DCC

DunedinMusic.com - profiles, venues, gig guides, history, news & more...

Bus Timetables

Dunedin Airport

City of Dunedin - loads of info about the city and City Council.

Swimming Pools

Otago Regional Council infocentre - ORC run the Bus network, and other regional matters.

Dunedin Public Art Gallery

Otago Museum

Fortune Theatre

Fringe Festival

Otago Polytechnic

FreeCycle - Nonprofit movement of people who are giving (and getting) stuff for free

Useful Central Otago Info

Cromwell What's On - calendar of events in Cromwell.

Cromwell Things to Do - activities, walks, outings, vinyards, etc...

Central Otago District Council - Central Otago local government.

Alex Blossom Festival - a springtime extravaganza in Alexandra.

OPSA Central Coordinator - OPSA's man on the ground in Cromwell.

Trade Unions

Which Union is right for me? - click and find out...

Service and Food Workers Union - a union for workers who cook, clean & care for others, keep our hospitals & schools safe and clean & manufacture & process food.

UNITE - general workers union.

Autonomos Workers Union - for all workers.

Distribution Workers Union - a union for wood & forestry, retail & entertainment, textile & clothing, transport, engery & stores workers.

NZ Amalgamated Engineering, Printing and Manufacturing Union

NZ Nurses Organisation - the union for nurses.

Meatworkers Union - a union for workers in the meat & related trades.

Rail & Maritime Transport Union - a union for transport workers.

Maritime Union of NZ - formerly Waterfront Workers Union & Seafarers Union

Finsec - a union for workers in the financial sector.

Association of Staff in Tertiary Educations

Public Service Association - a union for public servants.

Jobs

Student Job Search - Specalist student placement - Free to OPSA members.

CareerJet - searchs several NZ employment sites.

Local Support Groups

Achive - ensuring equal opportunities and access to tertiary education for people with disabilities.

Presbyterian Support - Dunedin's largest provider of health and social services in the Otago region.

UniQ - support group for lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgendered students.

PFLAG - a group for the parents and families with lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgendered members.

Bridge Programme - a holistic approach which empowers people with alcohol, drug and other addiction problems to make positive choices for a healthy lifestyle.

Citizens Advice Bureaux - free information and advice on all sorts of problems or questions.

Student Organisations

Otago University Students' Association - our good friends along the road at OU.

New Zealand Union of Students - your national office in Wellington.

All NZ Students' Assocs

Australian National Union of Students - Ozzie's national student body.

National Union of Students - England, Scotland & Wales national student body.

United States Student Union

Dunedin Ride Share - car-pool and get priority parking around campus.

CarShare - car-share for concerts, ski-fields and other big events, or even to get home during the mid-semester break.

Cycling in Dunedin

Air NZ

Freedom Air

Mainland Air

Travel-Base - No1 Robbie Burns Car-park.

STA Travel - George St, next to Starbuck's.

Entertainment

id Dunedin - id fashion incubator.

f*ink - Dunedin's weekly entertainment guide.

Seen in Dunedin - images of Dunedin and it's people (maybe even of yourself).

Otago Sports Car Club - Give motorsport a go...

Royal NZ Ballet - have special student tickets.

TV Themes - waste bandwidth with some happy childhood memories...

Party Education Policy - Hmmm? Many seem to have forgotten the word "free".

Think you know all about the Treaty? - see if you know as much as you think.

How Stuff Works - need to know about how teleportation, four-wheel-drives, or fillings work, or how credit ratings are calculated?

Internet Stuff

Polytech E-mail - access your Polytech Groupwise E-mail via the internet.

Downloads.com - dowloand shareware, trials, drivers, etc...

Trade Me - New Zealand on-line auction site.

TradeFree - NZ on-line auction site (NZ owned, totally free listings).

Google - a pretty damn effective search engine.

Wikipedia - a free-content encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Useful & well maintained.

If you have any sugestions for links that you would find handy here, let me know.