To: Anne Hewitt (Convener) and the AUU Election Tribunal Cc: The AUU Board, the general student population Dear Ms Anne Hewitt, I wish to begin by echoing the AUU itself in thanking you for your thorough and rigorous review of the 2018 student elections. Your role is an oft overlooked but utterly vital one. I write not […]
Words by Clare Nolan In life, three things are certain — death, taxes, and debates about sugar taxes. The annual should-we-or-shouldn’t-we debate about implementing a tax on food and beverages with a high sugar content was sparked again by a Four Corners investigation into the obesity epidemic in Australia a few months ago. You may have read some […]
Words by William Miller Hollywood, 1933. Louis B Mayer, the co-founder of MGM studios and a giant of the industry, calls celebrated star William ‘Billy’ Haines into his office. Soon after this meeting, Haines’ acting career is over. Haines was a hugely successful leading man in the silent era but, with the advent of sound in […]
Words by Lucy Turner Artword by angvs.art Neuralink Is it no surprise that the founder of a company that seeks to aggressively speed up Brain Computer Interface (BCI) technology is the visionary, Elon Musk? His company, founded in 2016, named Neuralink aims to use and develop existing technology such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and […]
Words by Ethan Penglase The Adelaide University Union Election Tribunal has today decided that former Director-elect Zihan (Leo) Liu (International Voice) will not be elected to the AUU Board after finding that allegations of misconduct were legitimate. Separate complaints were made by Progress’s Oscar Ong and Stella Woo, and Swipe Right’s Angus Heaton. Complaints were also […]
Words by Edgar Daniel-Richards In the wake of Trump’s recent string of tariffs there are debates raging around the world about the merits of protectionism or free trade. These are long standing debates in the history of capitalism from the debates over the Corn Laws in 1840’s Britain, the early Australian electoral contest between the […]
Words by David Faber If there is one thing from which Green thinking and practice suffers, it is the lack of an over-arching historical and socioeconomic conceptualisation of the dynamics making for the trashing of the environment as habit for humans and other creatures. It is one of the ironies of history itself that this is […]
Words by Ethan Penglase A practitioner of “age play” Kink, defined as the “use of unconventional sexual practices, concepts or fantasies”, has recently made its way into public discussion. From ABC’s You Can’t Ask That hosting BDSM (bondage and discipline, sadism and masochism) partakers to SBS’s coverage of men who get sexual gratification out of pretending to […]
Words by Leila Clendon In January, the Fair Work Commission banned the Rail, Tram and Bus Union (RTBU) from holding a 24-hour train strike in Sydney, as part of negotiations to win a 6% wage rise per year. This was despite the union following all of the Fair Work Commission’s many rules including giving well over […]
Words by Francesca Castandiello Going way back into our childhood, many of us are familiar with the notion that “hard work always pays off”, or that things, without fail, will turn out the way we want to as long as we put in the effort. In primary school, as long as we completed our homework […]
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