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The Labor Party: The More Things Change…

By Ashraf Abdul Halim and Nix Herriot After nine years of right-wing Liberal-National rule, Labor has been returned to power. On the campaign trail and since forming government in May, Albanese has promised significant change. “I want to change the way politics works in this country,” Albanese told journalists after claiming victory on election night. […]

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Opinion

Setting a Standard

Words by Maxim Buckley Image description: A pointed arrow with the words ‘Setting A Standard’ written within it. Bashing The Adelaide Set at this stage seems like low hanging fruit. They are shadow banned on Instagram and whenever I criticize them my echo chamber only ever comes back the way I would like it to. However, […]

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Bragg by-election

by Sebastian Andrew The electorate of Bragg This Saturday, those in Adelaide’s Southeast (myself included) will be returning to the polls for a third and final time this year. This will be to vote in a by-election for the state seat of Bragg. Bragg is being vacated by former Attorney General and Deputy Premier Vickie Chapman, […]

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Arts + Culture

Adelaide’s music scene is diverse, noisy, quirky and well, some of it is really bloody good: On Dit’s local song recommendations!

by Chanel Trezise Generic stock photo of a band playing a gig I’ve made it one of my aims this year to go to more local gigs and listen to more local music. So I thought, heck, why not do some song reviews and recommendations to plug a few brilliant local bands. Here are a few […]

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News

AUU Board officially denies the Occult Club registration.

Words by Grace Atta Description: Occult Club logo covered by red text that reads ‘Denied’. Next to it is a stamp that has the Union logo on it. Image Credit: <Rubber stamp vector created by freepik — www.freepik.com</a> The AUU Board has informed the Occult Club that their appeal on the Clubs Committee’s decision to deny them […]

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One Nation come for our Free Speech and Democracy

Words by Habibah Jaghoori Graffiti Art on the West Bank Apartheid wall. Photo from inspiring city. Pauline Hanson’s One Nation has always and will always live true to its legacy of dismantling free speech, disbanding genuine democratic political progress and committing to the tireless campaign of upholding Australia’s imperialist and racist standard in geo and […]

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2022 Post-Election Analysis

Words by Sebastian Andrew A week and a half after the federal election, seat counting appears to have finalised. Labor wins 77, Liberals 58, and the crossbench comes in at a whopping 16! Although Labor won seat-wise, as 76 seats are needed for a majority in the House of Representatives, overall, the election wasn’t the […]

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Reviews

WE WATCHED FROZEN AND IT WAS EPIC

Words by Habibah Jaghoori & Chanel Trezise Being On Dit editors has its perks and being sent to watch the hit Broadway musical Frozen by the fabulous The Peach & Pineapple Co. is definitely one of them. The show was everything we could have imagined and more. Hosted at the iconic Adelaide Festival Theatre, we […]

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Arts + Culture

Eurovision has always been political. What Ukraine’s win means (and why it’s a long time coming)

Words by Louise Jackson Description: Ukrainian contestants — Kalush Orchestra — celebrating their win at Eurovision 2022 Photo credit: European Pressphoto Agency The Eurovision Song Contest has literally never not been political. Europe’s proudly apolitical competition is so regularly embroiled in politics that each controversy has its own Wikipedia page. Eurovision has grown from seven countries in 1956 to a […]

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2022 Federal Election Prediction

Words by Sebastian Andrew Image URL: <https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/540b6d43c65bb2c14eadedb6254d41d0?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=533&cropW=800&xPos=0&yPos=24&width=862&height=575&gt; Barring a major last-minute shock (it would have to be something pretty bad, think Anthony Albanese accidentally admitting on live tv that he eats live puppies) or an enormous error in polling, this time next week Anthony Albanese will be our prime-minister elect, and when the 47th parliament […]