Features

The hotly contested Education Officer position has four candidates in the running. Issues like university fees, the climate crisis and student unionism are at the forefront of their campaigns. 

The 2021 SRC elections are in full swing, as a line of diverse women run for Women’s Officer.

What does the SRC actually do? Do they even matter? In the lead-up to student elections, Tharunka asked the 2021 SRC Office Bearers to tell us their thoughts on student politics (stupol) and their major achievements  this year.

While the last concentration camp was liberated over 76 years ago, our collective memory of the Holocaust is largely confined to the European stage. However, its effects were felt across the world. Carla interviews Ilse, a Holocaust survivor who escaped to Shanghai.

A few months ago, it was revealed that numerous UNSW students had been contacted by ‘Amelia’, mysterious catfish who asked them for sexual favors, including foot pictures. Since then, we have received clues from five more students.

A recent allegation at UNSW reveals the prevalence of sexual assault on campus and Tharunka’s indictment of the culture that enables it, the institutional dismissal that often follows, and the system that repeatedly fails to provide justice.