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Oh, How You Love Me
JENNIFER LE | CREATIVES Every night, like clockwork, boiling water carefully bottled and brought to my cold feet, hiding under soft crisp...
Jun 14, 2021


Sex Sells, but at What Price?
SHINAE TAYLOR | FEATURES We’ve all heard the expression ‘sex sells.' In fact, it’s most likely too familiar for most of us. Every day we...
Jun 14, 2021


A Vote of Overconfidence
ELEANOR TAYLOR | FEATURES Our nation's leadership is in shambles and plagued by controversies. As we look at our government which we love...
Jun 14, 2021


‘Shoot Till They Are Dead,’ Behind the Myanmar Coup
MADI SCOTT | NEWS An image can speak a thousand words, yet it doesn’t seem like enough people are talking about the confronting photo of...
Jun 14, 2021


Why We Aren’t Tackling The Climate Crisis
ROJINA PARCHIZADEH | NEWS Rojina Parchizadeh discusses the importance of taking action for climate change and how we are failing as a...
Jun 14, 2021


Billion Dollar Bruce
Grapeshot Sits Down with Macquarie Uni’s Fifth Vice Chancellor ANGUS DALTON | NEWS It’s a short walk from the central courtyard through...
Jun 14, 2021


Students Fight Staff Cuts!
AMY LAMONT & JAMIE TYERS | NEWS As Vice Chancellor Bruce Dowton continues to push for a university system driven by money rather than...
Jun 14, 2021


Witches and Weed
The Demonisation of Witchcraft and Drugs for our Corrupt Social Anxieties AYLISH DOWSETT | FEATURES When we think about witches, images...
Jun 14, 2021


I Don’t Get It: Witchcraft
AYLISH DOWSETT | REGULARS Welcome to Witchcraft 101! I’m guessing if you’re reading this then you’re probably curious about witches, or...
Jun 14, 2021


City of Stars
SALIHA REHANAZ | NEWS Featured in Macquarie University’s Newsletter The Lighthouse, here is a guide to all the beautiful astronomical...
Jun 14, 2021


Through the Political Crystal Ball
KATELYN FREE | NEWS Grapeshot asks what 2021 has in store for politics The shit-fire that was 2020 threw many aspects of our lives into...
Jun 14, 2021


Fake News: Language, Bias, and Australia’s Pandemic Press
SHINAE TAYLOR | FEATURES During the COVID-19 pandemic the news has become for many of us, a source of vital information. Every day we...
Jun 13, 2021


Chemtrails Over the Country Club: Lana Del Rey Single Review
HARRY FRASER | REPEAT OFFENDERS I am relatively new to the LDR train, but her 2019 album Norman Fucking Rockwell became my official...
Jun 10, 2021


The Faces of Fortuna
RHYS SAGE | FEATURES Fortune and luck have always been things that people have wanted – whatever form of luck they so required. As such...
Jun 10, 2021


Challenge: Nama-stay Sexy
HARRY FRASER | REGULARS Kind regards and many thanks, this is Harry Fraser, the Regulars Editor for the world-renowned Grapeshot...
Jun 10, 2021


The Breath of Winter
TORI S. BARENDREGT | CREATIVES The breath of winter – the only breath visible on naked air – slips from between warm lips, twirls in...
Jun 10, 2021


In It to Win It: Vaccination Edition
MADI SCOTT | NEWS 2021 already has high expectations to meet. No one wants a year similar to the last and following promising...
Jun 10, 2021


Film Review: Soul
Dying the Day your Dreams Come True JODIE RAMODIEN | REPEAT OFFENDERS Soul wasn’t a movie I intended to watch. Like many other stingy...
Jun 9, 2021


Pop Culture Rewind: Sabrina the Teenage Witch
ELEANOR TAYLOR | REGULARS The titular character of Sabrina the Teenage Witch was a feminist icon for the ‘90s. Created in 1962 in Archie...
Jun 9, 2021


Fight for Freedom
SALIHA REHANAZ | NEWS In the last few years, Myanmar has come under the limelight due to the atrocities the ethnic minorities have faced...
Jun 9, 2021


Mining the Stars
ELEANOR TAYLOR | FEATURES Invented nearly 4 000 years ago, the ancient practice of astrology has come in and out of fashion at various...
Jun 9, 2021


#PalestinianLivesMatter
OLIVIA CHAN | NEWS Olivia Chan recalls the incident which caught the world’s attention and dives into the timeline of the complex history...
Jun 1, 2021


Handala: The Palestinian Struggle for Freedom
BASEL HINDELEH | NEWS Handala symbolises the ragged-clothed child living inside all Palestinians, who is unable to grow up under...
Jun 1, 2021
Grapeshot acknowledges the Wallumattagal clan, of the Dharug nation as the traditional custodians of the land on which we work and meet. We acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded, no treaty was signed, and would like to pay our respects to Elders, past, present and emerging.
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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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