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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


The Campus Lowdown
RAYNA BLAND | NEWS Welcome to The Campus Lowdown! This news section of Grapeshot is your place to find campus related information,...
Oct 9, 2021


The Zen Tea Lounge Foundation’s Student Film and Music Competition
NEWS | NIKITA BYRNES Open from 1 July to 31 October 2021, the Zen Tea Lounge Foundation’s student film and music competition is asking...
Oct 8, 2021


Stories from SlavSoc
FEATURES | MQU SLAVIC SOCIETY SlavSoc is Macquarie University’s Slavic Society. “The Serbian boy” in Australia and “the Aussie boy” in...
Oct 2, 2021


Dishes of the Diaspora
JENNIFER LE | CREATIVES Jennifer Le is serving you a taste of Vietnam. Chè ba màu (3 colour dessert) A plethora of colour, bursting full...
Sep 29, 2021


I Don’t Get It: Land back
ALLY CARTER | REGULARS Let's face it: Australia's prosperity and wealth are built on and benefit from Indigenous stolen land. The...
Sep 27, 2021


In Between Two Worlds
SOFIA IHSAN | FEATURES Melting ice cream, scattered snack packets and the deafening laughter and chatter drowns the ticking of the clock....
Sep 27, 2021


Book Review: The Bench by Meghan Markle and Christian Robinson
JODIE RAMODIEN | REPEAT OFFENDERS The Bench is a lyrical picture book that celebrates the bond between fathers and sons. It contains...
Sep 27, 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.
We would like to extend those respects to all First Nations people reading. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.
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