Category: Columns
-
Dear abled folk: stop questioning disabilities and be a real ally
By Imogen Barker [link description: Spotify embeded link that will play the audio version of this article. Play button is in the bottom right hand corner.] Trigger warning – ableism: academic It took a long time for me to become comfortable using the term ‘disabled’ for myself. So that we’re on the same page, I’m […]
-
Letter to the Editor: Response to “National Reconciliation Week: Opinion”
By Ganur Maynard In the wake of this year’s National Reconciliation Week and the lead up to NAIDOC Week, Mr Palanirajan’s opinion piece in the July 2019 edition of this publication was a disappointing reminder of how poorly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are understood in Australia, not least by those who profess to […]
-
Why did the ABC stalk a dead man’s Facebook account?
By Henry Chen This article forms part of a fortnightly series, Muckraking the Fourth Estate. In this series, we investigate the legal and ethical consequences of historical media scandals, in an effort to better understand the unspoken rules governing the news we see. A former US marine, Jay Schwer, suffers a serious head injury in […]
-
(Student) Bank Balance Confessions: Managing Work While Studying
By Grace Miner Last week, The Cusp published a spending diary of a 33-year-old Eastern Suburbs woman earning $775 a week. On a Facebook post linking the article, partner site, Junkee, asked: “What does it look like to live week-to-week in Sydney?” Yet, for the writer, living “week-to-week” means soy cappuccinos, throwing Tim Tams in […]
-
(Student) Bank Balance Confessions: the 27-year-old Commuting from the Hunter and Living on $222.50 of Centrelink a Week
By Cameron Cripps-Kennedy Last week, The Cusp published a spending diary of a 33-year-old Eastern Suburbs woman earning $775 a week. On a Facebook post linking the article, partner site, Junkee, asked: “What does it look like to live week-to-week in Sydney?” Yet, for the writer, living “week-to-week” means soy cappuccinos, throwing Tim Tams in […]
-
Double Irish Dutch Sandwich
Tharunka’s resident postgrad Adrian Rook takes us along as he follows a dollar of corporate profit as it circumnavigates the world, bouncing from tax dodge to tax dodge in what’s known as the Double Irish Dutch sandwich. The Double Irish with a Dutch sandwich sounds like something you would expect to see on the blackboard […]