Category: Editorial
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Meet the Clubs and Societies of UNSW! Beginning of Year Q+A
We reached out to the Clubs and Societies of UNSW with some key questions about who they are, what their goals are for the year ahead, and what you need to know about how to get involved. Whether you’re a first year at UNSW – welcome, we hope you have an amazing time here! – […]
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MSS Security and Refugees: The Contract that Makes UNSW Complicit in Torture
by Lev KayaContent Warnings: mention of suicide, abuse, refugees, and asylum seekers The UNSW academic establishment has had a keen interest in researching the legal and social experiences of refugees, asylum seekers, and those in circumstances of forced migration for a long time now. The Andrew & Renata Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law and […]
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How the Green New Deal Can Win Back the Working Class and Prevent our Climate Catastrophe
by Marc Sidarous According to a report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released in 2018, we had 11 years to limit the global temperature increase to 1.5°C, otherwise the risks of catastrophic natural disasters will increase significantly. That report was released one year ago and as of yet, nothing has […]
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Making Superannuation Work for the Living
by Stephen Melhuish If you haven’t changed any of the default options of your superannuation, you could be hurting your retirement by hundreds of thousands of dollars. Even if you have very little in super currently, spending half an hour to understand your choices can bring great benefits over the length of your working life. […]
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Movable Feast #2: Zora Neale Hurston
‘Movable Feast’ is a fortnightly philosophy and culture column by Rhys Rushton. The term ‘movable feast’ is taken from the Hemingway novel of the same name, and references that there are experiences and ideas that you take with you throughout your life and inform how you live. Today we are inundated with information. It’s hard […]
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Gold Town Road: Redefining Success In The Music Industry
by Georgia Griffiths It’s late 2018, and in the South-Eastern US state of Georgia, a 19-year-old man is looking to break into the music industry. He buys a 30USD beat that samples an old Nine Inch Nails track, and gets to work producing the song he hopes will make him a star. A native user […]