Author: onditmag

Words by Nicholas Birchall Yesterday (27/2) a protest was staged by several university students from the Socialist Alternative, against the presence of the ‘LifeChoice’ club at AUU Clubsland. LifeChoice has been surrounded by controversy since its approval by the AUU Clubs Committee last year, primarily due to its negative views on abortion. Credit: Socialist Alternative Adelaide […]

Words by William Miller Credit: ABC News Life is bleak, uni sucks, you never have enough time to do what you want, the train is always late and the news is always bad. So what’s the point? How did we come to this? There is a culture of anxiety that pervades the social consciousness. It speaks to […]

Words by Nicholas Birchall RCC Info Kiosk Students have been disappointed today by the news that they will be unable to collect their Royal Croquet Club membership cards. For reasons yet to be determined, the RCC Info Kiosk has today turned away students looking to collect their memberships, frustrating many. This runs contrary to information initially provided […]

Words by Felix Eldridge ‘Pork barrelling’ is the term used to describe targeted government spending in marginal electorates to improve the governing party’s chances of winning those seats. These spending measures take several forms, but infrastructure projects or community grants are the most common. Recently, the Federal Government has come under fire for using sporting club […]

Words By Nicholas Birchall Hub-Central. Credit: https://www.adelaide.edu.au/ Yesterday (the 13th of Feb), students, led by Student Representative Council (SRC) members Ahmed Azhar (Environmental Officer) and Ben Foster (General Councillor), set up a stall in Hub Central in a commitment to stand against what is being perceived as a racist travel ban for those travelling from China […]

Words by Nicholas Birchall Credit: https://www.facebook.com/adelunibar/ As Uni students, ‘value for money’ is always one of our top considerations when purchasing anything. At the end of 2018, we learned that the pseudo-pub on campus, affectionately known as ‘Unibar’, would soon have a new home and new management. For some, this sparked outrage, fearful of losing something […]

Words by Felix Eldridge The State of the Union (SOTU) column is a permanent feature in On Dit. This column enables the President of the AUU to inform students of their plans and achievements. Startling revelations have now come to light regarding allegations that a former AUU President substantially copied the work of a previous AUU […]

Words by: Lawrence Hull With the contest for the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party heating up, many policy issues are being put forth, with fiscal policy becoming a pivotal talking point. Both Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are proposing various tax reforms to pay for their proposed ideas of Medicare for all, government funded college […]

Words by Maxim Buckley An event that I didn’t know about (and I’m sure the majority of Adelaide Uni students don’t know about) is the annual Waite vs. Roseworthy football and netball competition. Once a year, all of the utes, Akubras and actually used and dusty RM Williams that the two campuses have to offer […]

Review by Jack Eccleston Chaos reigned as Melbournian noise-art-punk-psych heavyweights, Tropical Fuck Storm brought their blistering live show to The Gov for the penultimate leg of their Australian Tour in support of the quartet’s sophomore album ‘Braindrops’. Riding high off the success of last year’s acclaimed effort ‘A Laughing Death in Meatspace,’ (the group’s first […]