Student Services

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

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

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

Robertson Library - need text books?

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

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

General:

BreakOut - schoularship and funding information service (accessed via Dunedin Public, Port Chalmers, Mosgiel, Blueskin Bay, or Waikouaiti libraries)

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

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.

LTD Card - local discount card (available fromt he OPSA office)

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

Career Advice - government operated scheme.

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

Accommodation

Advice:

OPSA's Student Accomodation Guide

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

STARS - Dunedin accomodation rating scheme; check out how your flat stacks up before you sign... Highly Reccomended

Department of Building and Housing - (formerly Tenancy Services), the DBH can tell you your rights and help mediate if necessary.

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

Powerswitch - Find the cheapest electricty provider for you

Listings:

STARS - Dunedin accommodation rating scheme; check out how your flat stacks up before you sign...

OU Accommodation Database - find a flat or flatmate

TradeMe - Flatmates wanted in Otago

TradeMe - Property for rent in Otago

NIDD Property management - rental accommodation search

Radio 1 Flatline

StudentAccommodation.co.nz - rental accommodation search

StudentAccommodation.co.nz - Find a Flatmate

City College - hall of residence

Check out the OPSA Accommodation noticeboard in the Student Centre

Text Books

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

University Book Shop - best local source for text books.

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

Better Books - a US based source of cheap new and used text books.

Student Discounts

Student Discount Directory - heaps of discounts with your OPSA ID card.

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 medias'.

Radio 1 - Dunedin's student radio station.

Otago Daily Times - Dunedin's daily.

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.

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 - gig guide, profiles, venues, history, news & more...

Bus Timetables - some of the most difficult to understand bus timetables in the Western world, but they're all we've got.

Dunedin Airport

Dunedin City Council - loads of info about the city, the City Council, and its services to residents.

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 Dunedin - 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 person on the ground in Central Otago.

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.

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.

Tertiary Education Union - a union for polytech & uni staff (formerly ASTE & AUS)

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.

Servants Health Care - health professionals serving people who struggle to afford usual health care.

Student Organisations

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

New Zealand Union of Students - national student body based in Wellington.

List of 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 Unions

Jayride - share a ride for cheap or free to get home during the mid-semester break, to get to the ski-fields, or go to concerts and other big events.

Gumtree carpooling - Hook-ups to share cheap or free rides around Otago Southland and further.

Obviouisly be aware of saftey issues when traveling with strangers.

Cycling in Dunedin

Crooked Spoke - Do-it-yourself bicycle workshop, Moray Place. 477-8546.

Air NZ

PacificBlue

Air NZ Grab-a-seat - cheap flights

Mainland Air - locally based charter service

STA Travel - George St (next door to Starbuck's)

Entertainment & other stuff

id Dunedin - id fashion incubator.

18+ card - Age identification card by Hospitality Assn of NZ

What's on - Entertainment guides: gigs, social sport, clubs and socities, and more.

iSwish - Upgrade your wardrobe for free; swap clothes shoes and accessories you don't wear, for ones that you will. 

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

RokPix - Pics of Dunedin's harder edged gigs.

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

Royal NZ Ballet - often have special student tickets.

Boing Boing - Tech, Culture and Arts blog

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

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

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