Category: Features
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What Happens When A Fraudster Refuses To Repay Their Victims?
By Henry Chen Last year, our friends over at Honi Soit reported allegations that a University of Sydney student had stolen $12,000 from various student societies on campus. If the fraud is proven, how will the societies get their money back? And, upon reflection, are we really comfortable with using the media to name and…
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I Went on a Date with A Fellow UNSW Student and They Brought Up Race Science
By Anonymous Something I brushed off at the time as naivety is now deeply troubling. From the outset, I want to be clear that this piece will not go into any details whatsoever besides certain aspects of our conversations. No names, places, times, or anything personal. Sorry. In terms of dates, it was pretty average.…
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All the Extra Details You May Have Missed in the Palace Letters
By Marc-Daniel Sidarous Along with the sacking of Gough Whitlam, the Governor-General and the British Crown’s correspondences reveal a myriad of other discussions between the Palace and its Australian representative. Sir John Kerr and Sir Martin Charteris (the Queen’s private secretary) pondered the future of a multicultural Australia, the possibility of Prince Charles succeeding Kerr…
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The Delicate Unthreading Of Misogyny From Sri Lankan Politics
By Brianne Perera Introduction: As the first woman in the world to be appointed to be at the head of her government, Sri Lanka’s Sirimavo Bandaranaike was representative of the arrival of a powerful female voice in international politics in 1960. Although many powerful female politicians, such as Bandaranaike, have emerged from South Asia, the…
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Black Squares Matter: Why Your Friend’s Tweet Might Have a Place in the Movement
By Sunaina Salagame I never thought I would see my old school teacher and Kendall Jenner posting the same thing on Instagram, until both of them – and 49.4 million other people – posted about Black Lives Matter, demanding justice after George Floyd’s murder. A barrage of black tiles and hashtags proliferated across the internet…
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Are We Really The Lucky Nation? Australia’s COVID-19 Economy Compared With Developed Countries
By Noha Tsor Australia’s 28 years of uninterrupted economic growth prior to 2020 has led to us being dubbed the “lucky” nation. But more recently, it seems that Australia’s out-performance of every other developed nation besides South Korea, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), is less a result of luck so as much as…