Words by Stasi Kapetanos and photos by Ivan Bucalo Jankovic. Pictured left (above on mobile): striking West End Brewery workers. Pictured right (below on mobile): Adelaide and Flinders University Students, including Left Action Adelaide University Union Board Director Ana Obradovic, in solidarity with the workers together at the picket. Whatever you think of West End Draught, […]
Words by Michelle Roylance Credit: iStock. Pictured: The yellow ribbon for Endometriosis Awareness Month. “Unfortunately, your expression of interest has been rejected.” This was the message the prospective Endometriosis and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) Society received yesterday morning from the AUU, to inform them that their application to be an AUU-affiliated club had not been approved. […]
Words by Ivan Bucalo Jankovic. Credit: AUU website. Last Friday, On Dit reported that an industrious group of students acquired the signatures needed to call a referendum on whether or not the AUU Board should be removed and re-elected. Campaigners referred to a culture that “needlessly keeps secrets” from students, and a failure to affiliate the […]
Words by Stasi Kapetanos and Ivan Bucalo Jankovic. UPDATE: The AUU has since decided to dismiss the petition. Read why here. A movement of University of Adelaide students have gained the number of signatures required to launch a vote of no-confidence against the entire Adelaide University Union Board. The petition, having now passed through stage […]
Words by Nicholas Birchall On Dit can today reveal that three losing ‘Progress’ candidates, Harnoor Bandesh, Muskaan Gupta, and Angel Wadhawan contested the results of Education, Disability, and Ethnocultural Officers on the grounds that On Dit’s reporting on the AUU General election constituted a “defect in the conduct of the election which […] materially affected the […]
Interview by Felix Eldridge SA Leader of the Opposition and Adelaide Blacks player Peter Malinauskas Peter Malinauskas first served in the South Australian Parliament in 2015, filling a casual vacancy in the Legislative Council. He quickly rose up the Ministerial ranks, serving in various portfolios including Police, Health and Emergency Services. At the 2018 South Australian […]
Words by Felix Eldridge Leah Schamschurin Over the last few weeks, the University held an election to fill the vacant position of undergraduate representative on the Adelaide University Council for 2021. The University Council is the peak decision-making body at this University. It is responsible for the appointment of the Vice Chancellor, creating the University budget […]
Words by ex members who wish to remain anonymous For many young left-wing students, Socialist Alternative (SAlt) appears to be the shining solution to the global inequality and systematic class issues found in our capitalist society, and on a surface level, I can’t blame them for thinking so. As a former member myself, I also […]
Words by Taylor Jane Bardsley Image credit. Beauty standards have always determined what society deems as “desirable” throughout the ages: from the Flapper Girl of 1920 where a streamlined, up-and-down silhouette was the ideal shape, to the 1950s where screen-queen Marilyn Monroe dominated the beauty world with her enviable curvy, hourglass figure. Beauty ideals are […]
Words by Mikaila Stavrinakis Image credit. Last week I was stumped by something so simple as the act of reading a book. I sat lazily on the sofa, semi-upside down, reading Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain. In my possession for two years, I knew Bourdain wrote like he speaks, so, I thought, Why read the […]
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