by Zoe Robson | Nov 30, 2018 | Club Otago
From the grim tragedy that was Sophie Elliott’s murder in Dunedin almost 11 years ago, a genuine ray of sunshine has emerged. The work of the Sophie Elliott Foundation in making young New Zealanders aware of potential manipulation and bullying in relationships, and in...
by Zoe Robson | Oct 29, 2018 | Club Otago
On the day she was due to leave for Wellington and a job with the Treasury, 22-year-old Sophie Elliott was brutally murdered, stabbed 216 times by an ex-boyfriend. The year’s final Club Otago lunch will feature Lesley Elliott, Sophie’s mother and founder of the Sophie...
by Zoe Robson | Oct 1, 2018 | Club Otago, News
Dunedin-based internationally-acclaimed wildlife cameraman Max Quinn is prepared for all eventualities. From spending almost a year in Antarctica, where temperatures rarely rose above minus 25 degrees and where there was a three-month period when the sun never rose,...
by Zoe Robson | Aug 2, 2018 | Club Otago, News
The next Club Otago lunch – scheduled for the Glenroy Auditorium on Thursday, 27th September – will take us to places most of us have never seen and some we haven’t heard of. Our guest is internationally-renowned wildlife cameraman Max Quinn, who has been involved in...
by Zoe Robson | Jun 27, 2018 | Club Otago, News
View the full gallery for our Club Otago Lunch > All Black icon Buck Shelford continues to pull the crowds – almost 30 years after he last pulled on an international jersey. Shelford was the guest speaker at the latest Club Otago lunch, a sell-out two months prior to...
by Zoe Robson | Mar 19, 2018 | Club Otago, News
It is not New Zealand Rugby’s job to fix the game globally and our administrators would be advised to direct their efforts towards ensuring the game here and in the Pacific Islands is better served. Forget South Africa, Japan and Argentina … strengthen the...
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