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POP CULTURE REWIND: An ode to Mamma Mia!
LAUREN KNEZEVIC | REGULARS Let’s have a little rewind… It’s July 2008 and the star-studded film version of the Mamma Mia! has just been...
Oct 2, 2022


You Are Here: Pyrmont
AMELIA TAYLOR | REGULARS Prior to colonisation, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation lived in Pirrama, known today as Pyrmont. While...
Oct 2, 2022

Grapey Book Club: Seeing Other People by Diana Reid
Diana Reid’s Second Novel: Seeing Other People Is An Accurate Reflection of a Post-Covid World For Young People That Doesn’t Try Too Hard
Oct 1, 2022


MUSICIANS, THE NEW POLITICIANS
FEATURES | SYED RAJA ABBAS Musicians have been one of the few, yet powerful, demographics of individuals who have led the environmental...
Sep 26, 2022

Zachary Rolfe Acquitted Over Death of Kumanyi Walker
JASMINE JOYAN | NEWS On 11 March 2022, Northern Territory police officer Zachary Rolfe was found not guilty of all charges in relation to...
Sep 4, 2022


Calling for Government Reform
OLIVIA CHAN | NEWS Prominent women in Australia, including Grace Tame and Brittany Higgins, have formed an alliance named ‘Safety....
Sep 4, 2022

Federal Budget 2022
OLIVIA CHAN | NEWS With much anticipation, the Federal Budget dropped on 29 March 2022 at 7:30pm. So, what does it entail? We’ve split it...
Sep 4, 2022


NEWSFLASH: The Oscars 2022: The Winners and Losers
JASMINE JOYAN | NEWS The 94th Academy Awards will definitely not be forgotten any time soon. With the continued jokes and discussions...
Sep 4, 2022

NEWSFLASH: How Deadly Are The Mozzies?
OLIVIA CHAN | NEWS The Japanese Encephalitis Virus (‘JEV’) that you’ve been hearing about recently was discovered at piggeries across...
Sep 4, 2022

NEWSFLASH: Kakadu National Park Returns to First Nations Traditional Owners
OLIVIA CHAN | NEWS On 24 March 2022, half of the Word Heritage-listed Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory was returned to its...
Sep 4, 2022


Macquarie University Provides Inadequate Support as Students Return to Face-to-Face Group Learning
DONYA AMADI|FEATURES A Note from the Producer: This story is important to me because it protects the public interest by advancing a story...
Aug 20, 2022

The Act of (Re)Creation
WILLIAM LAWRENCE | CREATIVES Francis sat in the waiting room, leg bouncing anxiously as he chewed on the sleeve of his oversized jumper....
Aug 18, 2022

I Am Becoming What I Want To Be
GYPSY BRYANT | CREATIVES By the very fact of being in your early twenties, living is naturally inseparable from the unimpeded forces of...
Aug 18, 2022

Finally Being a Schoolgirl
TAHLIA WHITE|CREATIVES I have already done a bachelor’s degree but with career change ideas I am back, doing a different bachelor's...
Aug 18, 2022

Green Seems Suss
Sustainability – what is it, why we should do it and how to get started. An introduction by the Macquarie University Sustainability Society
Aug 18, 2022

THE TAKEOVER: How Art is Inviting Us to Wall Street
BRUNA GOMES | FEATURES “The economy” is a mechanism that eludes me. Stocks? Investments? I’ve always been comfortable with feeling...
Aug 18, 2022


Your Personal Guide to Macquarie’s Student Societies
Macquarie University Sustainability Society (MUSS) Hello! We’re a small student group called MUSS (Macquarie University Sustainability...
Aug 18, 2022


Grapey Book Club: Aja Barber’s Consumed (2021)
NIKITA BYRNES | REPEAT OFFENDERS The main thing I want you to take away from this is the following: you need to read this book. Even if...
Aug 18, 2022

‘Don’t Look Up’ and Its Flawed Importance
NICHOLAS CHANG | REPEAT OFFENDERS “We really did have everything, didn’t we?” This is one of the last lines of dialogue spoken in Adam...
Aug 18, 2022


A Conversation with Macquarie Alumna Aylish Dowsett: Mythrill and Life as a Writer
ANTHEA WILSON | FEATURES My last semester of University is finally here and I am beyond nervous about starting my career. As a creative...
Aug 17, 2022



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We would like to extend those respects to all First Nations people reading. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.
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