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Speaker 1: Dame and the Courna says the death of nineteen year

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Speaker 1: old Otago University student Sophia Christani was a preventable tragedy.

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Speaker 1: She died at an overcrowded flat party on Dundas Street

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Speaker 1: five years ago, and Corona Heathen Mackenzie's recommending that students

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Speaker 1: take better safety meets at large parties, while acknowledging the

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Speaker 1: tenants of the flat known as the manor, took some steps,

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Speaker 1: just not enough. Ultimately, Otigo University Students Association President Keegan

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Speaker 1: Wells is with us kelta, should I have it going

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Speaker 1: very well? Thank you? How much has changed since twenty

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Speaker 1: nineteen in terms of the safety of students at parties?

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Speaker 2: I would argue almost everything has changed. I have a

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Speaker 2: decently unique experience because I was a student back in

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Speaker 2: twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen, and then the whole world

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Speaker 2: basically flipped on us during COVID, and we see a

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Speaker 2: different world that students live in in terms of safety

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Speaker 2: measures and in terms of size of parties and everything

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Speaker 2: along those lines.

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Speaker 1: One of the coroner's recommendations is that students hosting large

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Speaker 1: parties should register and monitor numbers on the night. Would

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Speaker 1: students actually do that.

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Speaker 2: Students already do that good. One party Register was set

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Speaker 2: up in twenty eighteen in christ Church and students have

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Speaker 2: been registering their parties since then. I'm not going to

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Speaker 2: say that all parties are registered, because that's certainly not

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Speaker 2: the case. But I think we see a growing attitude

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Speaker 2: towards compliance. I guess that of students want their fellow

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Speaker 2: partygoers to be said, because at the end of the day,

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Speaker 2: they are their friends.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. The coroner is also suggesting that the Students Association

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Speaker 1: like better into great information about being safe at parties,

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Speaker 1: the risks of intoxification, how to safely host parties, and

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Speaker 1: student orientation and flooding resources. Have you already been doing that?

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Speaker 2: Maybe not specifically those points, but we have all been

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Speaker 2: in the business of harm reduction and advocacy for better

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Speaker 2: times for students, because at the end of the day,

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Speaker 2: if a party is more safe and everybody's a bit

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Speaker 2: more informed, it'll be more fun.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. But do students have an appetite for the safety

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Speaker 1: message when they're in the middle of O week and

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Speaker 1: they are looking to party.

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Speaker 2: Probably not at the forefront of their mind. I would

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Speaker 2: say there's like ways around it. It's more of a

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Speaker 2: marketing exercise, right of If you tell a student, hey,

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Speaker 2: you should probably register your party, they might say why.

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Speaker 2: But if you say, hey, if you rester your party,

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Speaker 2: you know, at the end of the year, you get

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Speaker 2: free pizza and you they're sick, you know. So it's

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Speaker 2: kind of about the way you frame these messages or giving.

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Speaker 1: Them the right and end of us. Bose, thanks for

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Speaker 1: your time, Kegan. That is Kegan Wells, the Otigo University

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Speaker 1: Students Association president, is just such such a sad story, that,

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Speaker 1: isn't it before six o'clock on news talks. He'd be

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Speaker 1: a really interesting message from the Retirement Commissioner who is

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Speaker 1: trying to encourage housing developers to look at some smaller options.

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Speaker 1: Of course, so much of housing these days, including high

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Speaker 1: density housing, is around the three bedroom, four bedroom, even

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Speaker 1: if it's high density stuff, so townhouses that kind of thing.

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Speaker 1: But she says we need many more one and two

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Speaker 1: bedroom houses, especially as our population ages, so that people

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Speaker 1: who are getting into the latter stages of their life

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Speaker 1: and are looking to downsize actually have better options than

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Speaker 1: are currently available. So we're going to catch up with

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Speaker 1: her very shortly. Next up, though, is the two Billboard

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