Words by Anjali Beames 2019 School Strike 4 Climate at SA Parliament. Credit: InDaily. My name is Anjali Beames and I’m a 15-year-old climate activist, and organiser for School Strike for Climate. School Strike for Climate is a global movement run by students of all ages, genders, races, sexualities, and backgrounds. We are one of the biggest […]
Words by Emily Tattersall Illustration by Issi Moore. Periods. There are plenty of different ways to describe them, but put simply, they refer to the vaginal bleeding that women experience as a part of their monthly cycle, for the majority of their lives. Yet, menstruation is still considered to be a taboo in society, which seems […]
Words by Private Thomas Smith The founder of the UofA Student Veterans’ Association reflects on what the historic withdrawal means for him Author pictured. I would like to begin this article as all good opinion pieces do, by offering a disclaimer. I haven’t studied politics, history, journalism, or even as your high school friend on Facebook would […]
Words by Ngoc Lan Tran Our International Student Reporter on why international students should vote in this week’s student elections Credit: iStock. The rhetoric of international students as cash cows or “main contributors to the financial sustainability of Australian higher education sector” has been regurgitated by many politicians and bigwigs in universities’ management teams. The media […]
Words by “Tim Bergling” Which side are you on? Disclaimer: This obviously goes without saying, but for any of you fucking morons out there, please do not go and fight each other or encourage any kind of violence. This is purely a comedic (?) piece. Also, I’m writing this article before nominations have been released, so […]
Words by Leila Clendon As higher education feels the aftershock of COVID-19, staff shouldn’t be made to bare the brunt of it The University of Adelaide’s plan to fire up to 130 staff and merge the five faculties into three is nothing new. These exact mergers have been threatened before, and students and staff organised a campaign […]
Words by Stasi Kapetanos, Tom Wood and Habibah Jaghoori respectively. Illustration by Dean Plesa. Editor’s Note: Displacement of intergenerational Palestinian farmers was one of the first flashpoints between the local inhabitants of Palestine and the Zionist project to establish a Jewish state in the region, it remains a central part of Israel‘s ethnic cleansing campaign […]
Words by Jialun Qi Nobody asked for Barnaby Joyce to become Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister — or did they? Deputy PM Barnaby Joyce. Credit: 9News. Faced with the umpteenth preventable outbreak of COVID from breaches in hotel quarantine, the Coalition government is quick to react with its tried and tested management strategy: the emergency cabinet reshuffle. And away we go! […]
Words and illustration by Chanel Trezise Content warning: misogyny, domestic violence, suicide “…we refer to this as the red pill; when you suddenly realise that society doesn’t work the way you thought it worked.” Over the phone, Robert Brockway, the president of the Men’s Rights Association Inc and a researcher at A Voice for Men, described […]
Words by ‘Emily Davidson’ ‘All I can think about is the things we should have done’ Credit: Al-Jazeera. Trigger warning: Rape, sexual assault, femicide It’s been almost over a month since the March for Justice, an event that Abbey Kendall, director of the Working Women’s Centre described as a ‘reckoning’. But I have to ask: What […]
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