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    Well-Oiled Lies: The Hypocrisy Of Justin Trudeau’s Environmental Politics by Crystal Ji The global environment is in crisis. Global political superpower and supposed thought leader of the democratic world, the United States, has retreated from the Paris Agreement. Instead, it is ‘climate change champions’ such as Justin Trudeau …

The Rivers of China by Jack Zhou With China’s publication of its First National Census for Water in 2013, it became known that 28,000 rivers – a total basin area of almost 3 million square kilometres – appeared to have dried up and vanished. This remains an especially worrying figure …

Why Seeing Vegan Food at UNSW Gets Me Excited by Michael Dello-Iacovo When I first started studying at the UNSW Kensington campus in 2016, it was a struggle for me to find good vegan food. My usual was the ‘classic falafel’ at Yummba, but since they closed up shop at …

By Sophie Hodge   The final years of school are supposed to be the best times of your life. That wasn’t true for me – I was in a world of pain. I woke up every morning to legs unable to hold my own body, persistent aches down from my …

Can unconditional welfare payments finally provide the solution to working poverty in Australia? By Christopher Valencic Universal basic income (UBI) has been heralded as the future of welfare and a way to finally bring equality to societies with more than enough money to go around. Anyone who has shared the …

By Carrie Lee   In recognition of Anti-Poverty Week,  we bring you this piece in collaboration with UNSW’s Social Justice Project.   Four months before I made my final HSC rite of passage, my mum caught a plane to Papua New Guinea and trekked through the jungle, vaccinating communities with …