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Maybe Later Review

Written by Simone Singh 4/5 Stars You know how sometimes you stand in front of a mirror and notice all the details on your face: the little bumps on your skin, the pores where your lashes grow from, the red veiny things in your eyes, slightly darkened corners of your lips? “Maybe Later” felt like […]

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Students Invited to South Australian Fashion Weekend!

Written by Asirah Abdul Kadir Have you been scrolling past all the Milan and Paris Fashion Week content, wishing you were sitting front row at those runways? I know I have, but with an incredibly small follower count and a lack of a ‘face card’, I’m afraid my name was never considered for an invite. […]

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Gemma Rose — Guest Poet for On Dit’s Open Mic Night

As part of On Dit’s Hearsay Launch — Open Mic Night, we are so very lucky to have a guest poet, Gemma Rose (she / they), joining us for the event. Gemma has a formidable background in poetry, performance and creative writing. Check out her bio below! Gemma Rose has been writing since she was very young. […]

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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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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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Love, death, and science fiction: Our 2021 Hearsay creative writing awards

Words by Grace Atta, Beck Rowse, and Raphail Spartalis Our three favourite contributions to our creative writing and literature-themed edition, as judged by the editors Hearsay photography by Ellie Cheesman. 1st: “love in a blink” by Grace Atta Credit: Ellie Cheesman. 2nd: “Sfumato” by Beck Rowse His cheek blended into a clump of moss. Red down to yellow […]

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UofA to sell NFTs as a part of Organisational Sustainability plan

Words by Chad Profitz After sustained losses in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic limiting the number of international enrolments, the University of Adelaide has decided to enter the NFT space in order to increase revenue. NFTs (non-fungible tokens) have shot to ever increasing popularity in 2021. Based on “block-chain” technology, NFTs are digital […]

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5 fun things one could do with stolen stupol banners!

Words By Stasi Kapetanos Every few years it seems someone cannot help themselves from stealing a student politics faction’s banners — and this year is one of them! Trying to understand the motives of these banner bandits is not very hard. Below are five different things people may potentially steal a stupol banner for. To wear them […]

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Report: First-year election campaigner wonders why there are so many UniSA students on campus

Words by Shit Dit Leon Purcell, SRC General Councilor candidate for Regress, has dreamed of entering politics ever since he was voted Most-Improved at his year 8 debating championship. “My ATAR wasn’t high enough for medicine, and I don’t like manual labour, so being in politics is pretty much the only way I can contribute to […]

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Paro Dit — Exams to return to Wayville Showground announces University!

Words by Georgia Penglis and Stasi Kapetanos The University has just announced that all Semester One examinations are to be held in person and return to their customary Wayville Showground venue. A University spokesperson interviewed by On Dit says the return to in-person examinations comes despite the complete lack of privacy concerns surrounding ProctorU and […]