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Top Australian News Podcasts
HARRY FRASER | REPEAT OFFENDERS 7AM This one is a short, yet informative news and current affairs podcast produced by Schwarz Media, the...
Jun 14, 2021


Representing the Past to Represent Us
TORI S. BARENDREGT | FEATURES In Australia we proudly boast values of mateship, multiculturalism, humility and sincerity. We are known...
Jun 14, 2021


Call Me By My Name
And not a nickname solely for your convenience. TIFFANY FONG | FEATURES In 1948, professors at Harvard studied whether names had any...
Jun 14, 2021


I Don't Get It: Tall Poppy Syndrome
TORI S. BARENDREGT | REGULARS Though I have lived in Australia my entire life —save one year I spent abroad, I did not hear about tall...
Jun 14, 2021


White Sails
NAVISHKAR RAM | CREATIVES White sails A flag planted A people deceived False promise made Wagon wheels Expansion by the gun And the sword...
Jun 14, 2021


Young Australians’ Fascination with American Politics
NIKITA BYRNES | FEATURES We’re a few months into 2021 and like everyone else, I’m questioning how the year has already flown by so fast....
Jun 14, 2021


Challenge: Kicking Caffeine
HARRY FRASER | REGULARS Willkommen and bienvenue, this is Harry Fraser, the Regulars Editor for Grapeshot Magazine. For the Challenge...
Jun 14, 2021


Zucced In?
Behind the Facebook News Ban OLIVIA CHAN | NEWS Breaking news. Or more accurately, a lack of news. On the 18th of February, Facebook had...
Jun 14, 2021


BEDROOM / VENGEANCE
NIKITA BYRNES | CREATIVES I am a girl of the inner western suburbs. Too posh for Blacktown but too anxious and annoyed for Town Hall. I...
Jun 14, 2021


Celeb Spellcheck, Australia’s Very Own Gossip Girl
ELLA SCOTT | FEATURES Celeb Spellcheck here, your one and only source into the scandalous lives of… Australian B-Grade celebrities? If...
Jun 14, 2021


You Are Here: Central Coast
MYKAYLA CASTLE | REGULARS For those of us fortunate or unfortunate enough to hail from the Central Coast, it’s an hour and a half car...
Jun 14, 2021


FreeGuides: Explore Like Never Before
SALIHA REHANAZ | NEWS Wondering how to explore new experiences without getting on a flight? FreeGuides enables fresh adventures and the...
Jun 14, 2021


The Health Gambit
A message from our friends at the Macquarie University Sport and Aquatic Centre TOPSY KRETTS | NEWS While Beth Harmon may not have...
Jun 14, 2021


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
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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