Honi Soit Week 10, Semester 1, 2020 / First printed 1929 Putting faith into action / p. 14 The decline of the The real housewives Swab story: An eye- humanities / p. 6 of the USU / p. 10 watering review / p. 17 LETTERS Acknowledgement of Country Letters Honi Soit is published on the stolen land of the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation. For over 230 years, First Nations people in this country have suffered from Do Androids Dream of Electronic Cottages? the destructive effects of invasion. The editors of this paper recognise that, as a team of settlers occupying the lands of the Bidjigal, Darug, Gadigal, Wangal and Wallumedegal people, we are beneficiaries of these reverberations that followed European settlement. As we strive throughout the year to offer a platform to the voices In the current contemporary modern 1978) On “The Project” TV Channel our environments, our families, our teleworking , computer fatigue, mainstream media ignores, we cannot meet this goal without providing a space for First Nations people to share their experiences and perspectives. A student paper which world Of Covid 19 Corona Virus , every- Ten ) believes that most work, most schools, our workplaces ,our televisions, isolation, alienation, interpersonal does not acknowledge historical and ongoing colonisation and the white supremacy embedded within Australian society can never adequately represent the students one is locked down in family prisons or schoolwork, most sports, most leisure our radios, our internets, our food social distancing, boredom , physical of the institution in which it operates. We seek to resist colonial violence and the racist power structures that serve to oppress those who are Indigenous to this land. lockdown jails called family homes ! The times, most family times , and most sources, our mental stimulants, our interactivity, and technology rule the Sovereignty was never ceded. Always was and always will be Aboriginal land. Governments, The National Cabinets, exercise times is done exclusively at physical stimulants and our lives remain modern world from no on until the end The Federal Cabinets, The State Cabi- home in “’electronic cottages” Or exclusively within our telecottages and Of Human kind? Will the home be your nets, The Bosses, The Needy Rich , The Telecottages” !! our ‘electronic cottages “from now to the only place in life for everything and Police and The Mass Media keep telling The Electronic Cottage is a house, end of the human world? everyone? these home grown prisoners what to do, usually in the country, which has all the Who is superior in the electronic What do you want to do in llfe ? Contents Editorial what to think, what to say, and when to necessary equipment and a connection cottage era or the telecottage era ? Where will you be in ten yearts time In go out. to the internet so that people can work Females or Males? Will the outdated the modern future world ? This week, we got a first taste of often left to slip under the radar, and These Home Prisons for The Needy there rather than travelling to an office: archaic misogynist Male Chauvinist Will we all Stick around the freedom from isolation, something he calls for those who preach faith Editor in Chief: Ranuka Tandan poor And The Needy Rich are called “ The electronic cottage has become patriarchy come to an era end due to telecottage and electronic cottage for our Who? Weekly / 3 I thought I’d be ecstatic about. to actually do it. The timing of this electronic cottages” or “ telecottages” the ideal launch pad for the flexible, corona virus covid 19 with the rise of entire life times forever? Editors: Nina Dillon Britton, Instead, I’m anxious. I had some article couldn’t be more relevant. It’s The Mass Media in The Modern independent worker, the archetype for the feminist female matriarchy era of the News / 4 Matthew Forbes, Zhiquan Gan, form of hope that the pandemic not enough to be complacent about Corona Virus Covid-19 World ( For this century electronic cottages and telecottages? Yours in future shock, Robbie Mason, Angad Roy, Lara would actually give people a sense these things, to think that somebody Example Waleed Aly (born 15 August But will our societies our economies Will mental illness, social media, Jane Wallace Sonnenschein, Ranuka Tandan, of responsibility for something else can take up the baton, that it’s Analysis / 6 Chuyi Wang, Madeline Ward, other than themselves, an not our problem. Now, more than Lei Yao understanding that self-sacrifice ever, we need activism, we need Perpsective / 8 for the sake of somebody else’s to be fighting for the people who Write, Contributors: Misbah at-risk family is more important are suffering, and who are left in A comment on our Michael Please, go ahead Ansari, Oscar Chaffey, Jocelin than being able to continue your loopholes that offer them no support. Profile / 9 routine as usual. This time, as students, it was nearly so create and Chan, Aidan Pollock, Daany Spence comedy piece just when you thought Honi couldn’t become more Saeed, Jacob Shteyman, Raúl Instead, I’m left wondering many of us. It is so many of us. obnoxious. I think I’d key my own car before I took their Culture / 10 Sugunananthan, Lucy Taylor, if there’s any hope in this often- Warmest virtual hugs to everybody articles seriously Khanh Tran quite-fucked-up world when I see who wrote for this edition and who Looks like the bootlickers have taken over at Honi - A man wearing a suit in his profile picture produce for Feature / 12 people having 20 person parties contributed art. I’m particularly proud - Annette Blanka Artists: Shrawani Bhattarai, as soon as socialisation rules of the artists who contribute to Honi Ash Duncan, Lauren Lancaster, are lifted to two adults visiting a every week — you make this paper Honi Soit Opinion / 16 Janina Osinsao, Emma Pham friend. Like so much else, it makes beautiful. Emma Cao, this cover art Another comment on our Aristotle’s ghostwriter me angry. is stunning. Thank you, thank you, Interested in reporting or Creative / 18 Cover artist: Emma Cao Yet, Raúl Sugunananthan’s feature thank you. Michael Spence comedy piece The footy king’s hunger for social capital is only trumped making art for Australia’s article, alongside the SRC’s mutual by that of the condescending junior “journalist” only remaining weekly Back cover artist: Ellie Wilson aid service, alongside the activists who Yours in love, rage and hope. i hope that this is a joke and a bad one.... A house of cards - Zachary Marshall student newspaper? Email SRC / 20 participated in May Day this week to that is collapsing... that what is left behind... - Vrasidas Karalis us at editors@honisoit. continue fighting for those who have Ranuka Tandan com or message us over on Comedy / 23 been left behind, gives me hope. In his And we thought we gave the our Facebook, Twitter or article, Raúl analyses where the radical Seriously guys just read the roots of the early Church have gone, USU a hard time Instagram pages. and tells the stories of Christians who are doing fantastic, activist work and article before you comment “To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people returning to them. He calls out the who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least Nudes, declarations of hypocrisy within the Church, and what is it about student media and providing a soap box suited to do it.” doug adams affection and hate mail within broader society, that is so to the administration haha - Joseph ‘Goodguy’ Greg - Jason Pover may be sent to: [email protected]. Disclaimer: Honi Soit is published by the Students’ Representative Council, University of Sydney, Level 1 Wentworth Building, City Road, University of Sydney NSW 2006. 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Verity challenged Wherrett’s whether or not forcing freshmen to drink until they commitment to fighting for workers’ rights, given the spew counts as a formal ritual. Zoom Zoom Zoom, let me hear you say furlough underpaying of workers by Thales Australia, the arms company which Hutchinson is chairperson Deal-icious For the editorial team, the post-Honi world is full of of. Could “Can’t Stop Connor” be taking a leaf out exciting possibilities and opportunities, and none of the book of Belinda and slicing his own staff’s Whilst we haven’t received any confirmation about more so than spying on the Zoom meetings of rival pay? Are the current Board candidates walking into which USU Board candidates are forming alliances outlets. 2009 Honi editor alumnus, Mark Di Stefano, the irony-laced jaws of a union that mistreats its with each other, like your stomach informing you “resigned” from the Financial Times last week after workers? Only time will tell ;) it’s time for lunch, we can always go off rumblings.