Author: onditmag

Words by Ethan Penglase Well…. sometimes Last night, SRC General Secretary Oscar Ong reported that Zi Han Leo, Ricker-Stocker Johns and Isabella Watts had ceased to be members of the SRC for breaching section 6(e) of the SRC Constitution. The Constitution stipulates that a person will cease to be a member of the Council if they […]

Words by Felix Eldridge Last June, the Universities of Adelaide and South Australia revealed that they were initiating merger talks, with the intention of creating a singular “Super-Uni”. I would like to encourage the University to accept a general set of guarantees for students, so that students are aware of the potential consequences of such a […]

Interview by Austin Frape Have you ever heard the catchphrase “Oh hi Mark”? That belongs to the 15-year-old classic, The Room, a film that has since achieved cult status and was infamously called “The Citizen Kane of bad movies”. Recently, I got to talk with Mark himself, Greg Sestero, who wrote a biography with author Tom […]

Words by Imogen Hindson Eurydice Dixon The death of Eurydice Dixon has sparked national debate around violence against women and the culture that allows gendered violence to grow. Eurydice’s body was found at Princess Park, North Carlton during the early hours of Wednesday June 13th, 2018. Jaymes Todd, aged nineteen, was arrested that Wednesday evening for […]

Words by Daniel Neser artwork by ANGVS Tuesday’s AUU Board meeting saw a significant debate about the future direction of the University and the role of student unions. Activists from the Disarm Adelaide Uni campaign sought to win the Union to opposing all University connections with the defence industry. With government funding per student bottoming out (the […]

Words by Andy Nguyen On a gloomy Thursday night in the middle of SWOTVAC, Mallrat kicked off her nationally sold out tour @RocketBar. Having scored #46 in the Hottest 100 with Better earlier this year, Adelaide was ready to brace both the freezing cold and the hellish footy traffic in order to finally get a […]

Words by Ethan Penglase Earlier this week, the Adelaide University Student Representative Council launched its campaign “Break the Silence: Keep College Students Safe”. The campaign was launched after a 60 Minutes episode exposed a culture of debauchery and bullying at St Mark’s College. “A spotlight has been shone into shocking instances of hazing, ritualistic humiliation […]

Words by Nix Herriot Art by angvs.art “More relationships with defence than any other university in Australia.” So boasts Christopher Pyne, Minister for Defence Industry and chief proponent of Abbott-era $100,000 university degrees. He’s declaring his fondness for the University of Adelaide’s extensive militarisation. On our campuses, war is more immediate than we might imagine. […]

Words by Terry Hughes Perhaps because looking up the word gay figures so pivotally in my own itinerary in identifying as such, my first instinct in meditating on the meaning of queer is to refer to the musty, standardising dictionary — a flawed and dangerous method, if conservative fixation on a standardised definition of marriage should have […]

Words by Olivia De Zilva Artwork by Adam Hamilton Like many young Australians, I have been on a Contiki tour. Three, to be truthful. I’ve done it all. Tactical vommed at The Tower of Pisa, done a shoey on the shores of Loch Ness, was absolutely hung when I saw The Colosseum for the first time. […]