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Stuck Offshore
NADIA KHAN | NEWS Nadia Khan, an international student from South Africa, speaks about the overwhelming situation and desperately calls...
Nov 11, 2021


The Red Pill: Inside the Minds of the Alt-Right
TIFFANY FONG|FEATURES When I first started on this article, I thought it would be easy and fun. It’s just memes and fascism, what could...
Nov 3, 2021


The Writers Behind the People We Remember
SHANNON DESA|FEATURES “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” When we hear these words, one...
Nov 3, 2021


Pikachu, Use Monetisation!
NATHANIEL LAWSON|FEATURES Nathaniel Lawson unpacks the dark underworld of monetisation schemes in Pokèmon Unite, and it’s SUPER...
Nov 3, 2021


Footnotes in Life, Art and Academia
ASHLEE PASFIELD|FEATURES I have no interest in small talk. I’m much more interested in the footnotes. As a teenager, this interest came...
Nov 3, 2021


The World's On Fire, Dude
LACHLAN HODSON|NEWS With global temperatures rising, droughts getting worse, and nobody doing shit about it, let’s take a depressing look...
Nov 3, 2021


RTP Mob: Yarning Circle
RHYS SAGE|REGULARS Mob: Yarning Circle Footnotes are supposed to lead people to places for further information and reading. I have...
Oct 27, 2021


Consent Matters Macquarie
ELLA SCOTT|FEATURES Trigger warning: article discusses sexual assault. In my fourth and final year at Macquarie University, I am yet to...
Oct 27, 2021


You Are Here: Winston Hills
NIKITA BYRNES|REGULARS Winston Hills: the suburb you’ve never heard of, but most people from Sydney’s inner-West have driven through it...
Oct 27, 2021


I Don't Get It: Lockdown Protestors
ELEANOR TAYLOR|REGULARS It was a nice sunny day on the weekend and I was walking the dog with my parents in Pyrmont and around the...
Oct 27, 2021

No Need to Say Goodbye — a thought process, a memory, a nostalgia.
SOFIA IHSAN | CREATIVES It came to me in waves; the unwinded vacations, yawns and packets of chips and chocolates littered across the...
Oct 25, 2021

Corn thins
OLIVIA CHAN | CREATIVES a dry crack like the cork on the wall a shy snack is enough for the night. they came monthly through the...
Oct 25, 2021

THE POWER OF POETRY
ALEX COVERDALE | CREATIVES A footnote in another’s story Is a title in my own. The power of poetry Is something we’ve never truly known....
Oct 25, 2021

Darkest Night
JADE VAN DARTEL | REPEAT OFFENDERS Providing a sensory experience of murder and mystery Podcasts are the hottest new form of media that,...
Oct 25, 2021

Saving Grace - Schitt’s Creek and the power of positive media
TESSA MARSDEN | REPEAT OFFENDERS “This town might just be your saving grace..." At the end of March 2020, I found myself in a rut. I was...
Oct 25, 2021

‘Days’ Creates a Minimalistic Slice of Life in Taiwan That Will Test Your Patience.
NICHOLAS CHANG | REPEAT OFFENDERS A Melbourne International Film Festival Review Days is a fitting title. It's simple and straight to the...
Oct 25, 2021


Pop Culture Rewind: Nora Ephron
MADI SCOTT|REGULARS I have never been embarrassed about my love of rom-coms. From as early as I can remember, I have enjoyed watching the...
Oct 20, 2021


Illustrated: Ranking Limited Edition Furbies
ELEANOR TAYLOR|REGULARS Released by Tiger Electronics in 1998, which were bought that same year by Hasbro, Furbys took the world by...
Oct 20, 2021


Challenge: Creating My At-Home Workout Routine
ELEANOR TAYLOR|REGULARS Greetings! As some of you are likely aware, NSW is currently in lockdown. Consequently, gyms are closed. At the...
Oct 13, 2021


Political Pins (And Other Gestures) At The Tokyo Olympics
OLIVIA CHAN|NEWS Two Chinese gold medal cyclists, Bao Shanju and Zhong Tianshi, were given a warning by the International Olympic...
Oct 13, 2021


Newsflash: Olympic Recap
ELEANOR TAYLOR|NEWS With 80% of Japan’s population in doubt that Japan could safely host the Tokyo 2020 Games this year during a...
Oct 13, 2021


Newsflash: Elite Athletes and Mental Health
OLIVIA CHAN|NEWS Simone Biles, world-renowned American artistic gymnast, shocked the world when she withdrew from the gymnastics team...
Oct 13, 2021
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