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Campus and the Christchurch, Women of the HIV/ coronavirus / p. 7 one year later / p. 9 AIDS epidemic / p. 11 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 Peace and love to you also! 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 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 does not acknowledge historical and ongoing colonisation and the white supremacy embedded within Australian society can never adequately represent the students 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. Sovereignty was never ceded. Always was and always will be Aboriginal land. Contents Editorial I wrote a very sentimental, introspective on the world and I am in awe of how What’s on / 2 Editor in Chief: Angad Roy essay in this week’s edition. It’s rare the poetically and strikingly such topics can opportunity comes to divulge parts of be written about. Gossip / 3 Editors: Nina Dillon Britton, our personal history to others, even rarer It feels pointless to say, but there Matthew Forbes, Zhiquan Gan, to have that plastered across a widely are a lot of issues that should cause Robbie Mason, Angad Roy, Lara read paper in words and images. I do concern and rumination. I felt some News / 4 Sonnenschein, Ranuka Tandan, acknowledge though, that any inkling of of these bearing down upon me when Chuyi Wang, Madeline Ward, egoism might seem escapist or arrogant I sat down to write my piece. It’s hard Analysis / 6 Lei Yao amidst a world where the liberals could sometimes, to ignore the vicissitudes of see coronavirus as a welcome solution the world around us. We feel helpless Contributors: Victoria Cooper, to their ageing population problem; and insignificant like an ant under the Opinion / 8 Genevieve Couvret, Marlow where stupid, personality devoid white- magnifying glass of a humoured child. Hurst, Alexander Ishac, Jenae people culturally appropriate the Hindu But amidst these problems, being selfish religious festival, Holi at a fucking is important. It’s important to take time Perspective / 9 Madden, Aiden Magro, Layla This letter also came with a laminated card, both sides of which are reproduced above. Mkh, Angelina Nguyen, Shania tragic gathering called ‘The Colour for reflection and important to take O’Brien, Claire Ollivain, Jordi Run,’ or where the skeletons of two some time out once in a while. Culture / 10 Pardoel, Kate Scott, Prudence leucistic giraffes are found in Kenya, And so in that vein, let me humour having been killed by poachers. Maybe myself and maybe humour but probably Direct your complaints at CrossSoc Wilkens-Wheat. these other examples of self-interest annoy you with a nonsensical acrostic This weeks sudoku took me 5 hours. numbers into the remaining boxes. Feature / 13 made it easier to flaunt my own. How poem: After a certain point in the sudoku May I suggest that someone should Artists: Shrawani Bhattarai, virtuous I am! there were no more leads to allow check the sudoku prior to printing it Emma Cao, Ash Duncan, Multilingual / 16 Yet, there is good that can come Mathletics any further boxes to be confidently in the paper. Thank you. Janina Osinsao, Kate Scott. from looking inward and there are AUD filled in with numbers. I spent a total some beautiful examples of this in our Slither of 4 hours “guessing and checking” - Annie Lewis Reviews / 17 Cover artist: Jocelin Chan edition: Layla Mkhayber’s reflection Sextegenarian on the Christchurch massacre (pg. 9), Alimony Creative / 18 Back cover artist: Tyronne Aiden Magro’s poignant insight into Moo-moo What did he do wrong? :( Gietzmann, xtgrx.com.au the HIV/AIDS epidemic (pg. 11), and Asafoetida Claire Ollivain’s poetic exploration of Nutcase “Fire Matthew Forbes he is a JACKASS” SRC / 20 the linkages between photography and memory (pg.18). I find it very uplifting Yours, in escapism, -Mike Ho (in our DMs on Facebook) Comedy / 22 to read such nuanced perspectives Angad Roy

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2 3 NEWS USyd cancels graduations, begins preparations for First publicly confirmed case of COVID-19 at USyd Nina Dillon Britton and Lara Sonnenschein report. potential campus closure The first case of COVID-19 has been states that the student had a tutorial in considered to have been in ‘close 452 and 355, Old Teachers College Nina Dillon Britton and Lara Sonnenschein report. publicly confirmed on campus, with a the Education Building, on Wednesday contact’. All have been instructed to psychology computer lab 403, and the first year student contracting the virus. 9AM - 11AM. The unit’s lecture takes self-isolate for 14 days from the last date Brennan MacCallum building room The University of Sydney has 16 March. The cancellation does not The decision comes amidst several exchange programs in response The student is well and is currently place in the Holme Building, which they attended a class with the student. 110. announced it will begin moving many affect regular classes or research, but uncertainty for staff and students as to the virus. units online in order to reduce the risk does include graduation ceremonies. to whether the University will close It is unclear whether this ban on receiving medical care. Honi houses the popular Courtyard Cafe, on 6 locations on the University of At the time of writing, Honi is unsure of COVID-19 spread. Affected students will be able to campuses, moving teaching online. campus events would extend to events understands the student attended first- Monday 9AM - 11A M. Sydney campus are being intensively what other classes the student went to, “Whilst for now, our campuses are graduate in absentia, with the option to On Wednesday, the Sydney Morning not hosted by the University itself. year lectures and tutorials in psychology, NSW Health and the University of cleaned today after the diagnosis. These however, we will provide updates as open, new advice from the NSW Chief attend a graduation ceremony at a later Herald reported that University staff This includes the planned National maths and education on campus Sydney have identified approximately include the Physics Road Building they come in. Health Officer is to try and avoid, where date. Spence also encouraged clubs and had been asked to prepare online class Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) rally between 24 February and 11 March. 80 students and staff who attended dry lab LG03, the Education Building possible, using communal facilities societies to cancel or defer events “for plans for the rest of the semester. protesting the University’s austerity An email from an EDUF1018 lecturer tutorials with the student, and are seminar room 618, Carslaw room where lots of people congregate,” an the time being.” Several American universities, measures in response to the coronavirus, email from Vice Chancellor Michael It is unclear when events will be including Harvard and Columbia due to be held on Wednesday 25 March. Spence to staff and students states. able to proceed as normal. Experts University, have already closed their All student, academic and public estimate that Australia will see a peak campuses seeking to curtail the spread The #LetHerSpeak fight continues events and conferences on campus in COVID-19 cases in July or August of COVID-19. will also be cancelled from Monday, this year. The University has already cancelled Ranuka Tandan wants to throw student support behind Sandra. THIS ARTICLE DISCUSSES RAPE misogynistic, victim blaming attitudes consequences of these outdated laws. However, both Tasmania, and the AND SEXUAL ASSAULT. that are rampant in Australia. That The Northern Territory has the highest Northern Territory, the last two states to University students strike for climate justice she wants to do it anyway is indicative rate of sexual assault per capita in the have these archaic laws, are in the process This week, Australia learned about an- of the importance of this issue to her, country, and police in the Northern of doing something about it. Last week, Nina Dillon Britton reports. other woman’s fight to speak out about and of the strength and resilience of Territory are less likely to pursue a Tasmanian Attorney-General Elise About 100 students from across several our lands, our rivers and children.” the world what climate activists have and changing the name on posters her sexual assault. Sandra* shared her her character. For Sandra, the benefits sexual assault report than police in any Archer introduced a bill to reform the Sydney universities left class today to “We are heading down two roads, long known: “No one’s coming to save promoting the event. story with journalist and director of End of speaking publicly far outweigh the other state or territory in Australia. The archaic gag laws of section 194K of call for action on climate change. one is a road of destruction, the other a us. This is the crisis of capitalism.” The climate and ecological crisis Rape on Campus Australia (EROCA) personal cost. laws there systematically gag survivors the Evidence Act. This reform which The strike, organised by Uni Students road of survival.” Rail, Tram and Bus Union member is the biggest crisis humanity has ever Nina Funnell, who last year created the Sandra wants to be able to speak en masse, to the point where it is would allow sexual assault survivors to for Climate Justice, saw a contingent SRC Co-Environment OfficerDamien, told the crowd that “corporate faced but for now (of course depending #LetHerSpeak campaign in partner- publicly for two main reasons. Firstly, not even possible to engage in public speak publicly about their assault if they of more than 50 University of Sydney Prudence Wilkins-Wheat reminded greed has caused climate destruction.” on where you live) we’ll have to find ship with Marque Lawyers. Sandra is she wants to educate women – and discourse about the issue. are over eighteen and provide consent students meet outside Fisher Library the Sydney University contingent “This is a system that puts profit before new ways to create public awareness now following in the footsteps of Grace especially women like herself – about This law is more dangerous again to being named in paper. The catch and March to Haymarket to meet with that the rally is being held on stolen any other climate consideration.” & advocate for change that don’t Tame and Tameka Ridgeway, who both however, is that survivors still cannot be contingents from other universities. Gadigal land. “There is no climate Several unions have plans to conduct involve too big crowds - listen to local won their right to tell their stories in the named until all other possible avenues SRC Co-Education Officer Jack justice without justice for First Nations climate strikes on 1 May this year. authorities. 3/4 media using their full names through of appeal have been exhausted following Mansell opened the rally, telling peoples.” For some speakers, this summer’s You can join the #DigitalStrike the Tasmanian High Court last year. Ar- the conviction, which could take years, protestors that the summer’s fires were Activists also criticised lack of action climate disaster was very close to home. for upcoming Fridays- post a photo chaic gag laws in the Northern Territory an unprecedented climate disaster. from both major parties. Chants of Environment Collective member of you striking with a sign and use and which still allows the defendant to “Neither Albanese or Scott Morrison “Scomo/Albo fuck you, we deserve James Sherriff , whose family lives in the hashtag #ClimateStrikeOnline currently prevent her from doing so but speak publicly and control the narrative are going to take the action we need on a future too” were chanted as the the Blue Mountains , told the crowd !#fridaysforfuture #climatestrike they are coming under attack again, and throughout the proceedings, while this emergency.” contingent made its way down Eastern that he had to watch his “family pack up #schoolstrike4climate 4/4 rightly so. silencing the victim. The importance of Indigenous justice Avenue. their homes again and again and again” Whether upcoming climate strikes Sandra is a nursing student from In the Northern Territory, the process in climate justice was a key theme for Greens members for Newtown, as unprecedented fires passed through planned for May will go ahead is Darwin. She has been through an ordeal has just begun. The government is rally speakers. Jenny Leong, criticised the Labor and the region. unclear. to get to this point. In 2017, she was calling for submissions from the public Muruwari and Budjiti activist Liberal parties for failing to commit The rally also saw an outsized police Scott Morrison has today announced raped at a buck’s party by an attendee about the change of legislation. But and founder of the Water for Rivers to no new coal. “What an incredible presence. “I think there are better things an effective ban on all events of 500 or while she was working as an adult survivors in the Northern Territory will campaign, Bruce Shillingsworth, opportunity for a stimulus package it our police can be doing than trying to more people over COVID-19 concerns. entertainer. She reported her rape to the face the same problem as in Tasmania. told the crowd of the government’s would be to invest in publicly-owned intimidate climate activists” Leong On Wednesday, Greta Thunberg police and they charged the offender, but They would only be able to speak once abandonment of Indigenous peoples. renewables and emissions free public noted in her speech. called for an end to in-person climate it wasn’t until two trials later – the first all other avenues of appeal have been “Our rivers have now become toxic. housing.” As Honi reported this week, today’s strikes as a response to COVID-19. She resulted in a hung jury – that she finally exhausted. The taking and poisoning of our waters On the relationship between strike was subject to controversy between has called for students to engage in a got justice. Her rapist was found to be The #LetHerSpeak campaign took is hurting Indigenous peoples. Our capitalism and climate change,SRC Co- campus socialist groups Solidarity and “Digital Strike” instead. guilty and was sentenced to three and a Sexual Offences (Evidence and Procedure) Act 1983 off last year when Grace Tame won government has never done anything Environment Officer Lily Campbell told Socialist Alternative, the former arguing half years in jail but was suspended after the right to tell her story. It’s such an for Aboriginal peoples, they have taken the crowd that COVID-19 is showing the strike should be labelled a “rally” nine months. 11B Revealing identity of person important campaign because it’s a way

Because of the sexual assault gag laws to support survivors while spreading (1) A person commits an offence if: that still exist in the Northern Territory, the movement to change the laws.

any journalist that spoke out and named COVID-19 financial impact sees university freeze (a) the person intentionally publishes or makes a statement or representation; The fact that these laws still exist says Sandra even with her permission would and something about us as a country. The face six months gaol time. So would she. (b) the statement or representation is not in a report mentioned in section 6 or fact that women in New South Wales funds for faculty-based societies This law that still exists in the 7; and are not impacted by it doesn’t mean we Kate Scott reports. Northern Territory is outdated and (c) the conduct mentioned in paragraph (a) results in revealing the name, and shouldn’t be joining the fight. In fact, we offensive. It’s a law that benefits dress, school or place of employment of the following, and the person is reck- should be at the forefront of it because With a large number of University whilst some have already been advised clarified that no planned events Similarly, the university asked for all perpetrators and harms victims, who are less as to the result: we do have the right to speak and we students affected by the coronavirus of a funding reduction, others will be should be financially impacted, due SSAF contestable projects, including not able to tell their stories or humanise (i) a complainant, at any time; can take some of the burden on our travel ban, the financial impact of the informed once a decision has been to the society’s large network of the Know your Rights and Racism Sux themselves in any way. The public are (ii) a defendant, before the defendant is committed for trial or sentence upon shoulders. outbreak has seen the University of made. sponsors. Although, with recent health campaigns, to be put on hold. Whilst always suspicious of people who speak a charge of having committed the sexual offence to which the statement or The best way to support Sandra is Sydney (USyd) freeze funds to several Whilst the largest societies on campus; recommendations coming from the the SRC responded that they were to the media anonymously; when you representation relates. to take a selfie and upload it to social faculty-based clubs and societies. the Sydney Arts Students Society Australian Government, the University “certainly disappointed with this freeze, can’t put a name or face to the story, media with the hashtag #LetHerSpeak. As a result of the COVID-19 (SASS) and the Sydney University Law has asked that all student, academic and and shocked by the abruptness of the it’s easier to doubt it, to make nasty Maximum penalty: 40 penalty units or imprisonment for 6 months. outbreak, current estimates suggest that Society (SULS), are still yet to have their public events and conferences (including decision”, President Liam Donohoe USyd will face a minimum $200 million funding confirmed by their respective graduations) hosted on campus from emphasised that their financial situation comments, to humanise the perpetrator Sandra* is the name which this woman shortfall of its $2.8 billion budget. In a faculties, both presidents reiterated that Monday 16 March to be cancelled or was stable, meaning that all staff, office instead, who has the power to do their rights in the adult entertainment because it silences Aboriginal women, is using to tell her story. bid to reduce costs, the University has their priority was to protect members deferred. bearer stipends, and department funding interviews and control the narrative. At industry and more broadly. Secondly, who make up over 50% of women in the introduced temporary savings measures, from being inadvertently affected and to The University of Sydney Union should remain unaffected. the time, local media called her rapist a she wants to lead the charge in Northern Territory that have faced sexual If you or someone you know has been im- which includes reducing funding to continue providing what programs and (USU) has also seen their own funding Nonetheless, with the University ‘larrikin’ and a ‘family man’ while she combating victim blaming attitudes assault and harassment. It’s impossible pacted by sexual violence support is availa- several faculty societies. services they could. impacted due to reduced student preparing for the possibility of a was referred to as nothing more than a across Australia. Neither of these to emphasise how problematic this is; ble by calling 1800 RESPECT on 1800 737 In a statement from a University of One society who has received numbers on campus; USU outlets temporary campus closure, it is clear stripper. are easy tasks, but they’re essential in the gag law perpetuates a systematic 732. Sydney spokesperson, they confirmed confirmation of a temporary funding are reporting impacted revenue, and that student life this semester will not Sandra must know the potential protecting women and creating real inequality that allows external bodies to that financial support for the 65 faculty- freeze was the Sydney University all capital funding projects have been operate as usual. for further public backlash and change. speak on behalf of Indigenous people, Photo credit: Mariel Thomas based clubs and societies on campus Business Society (SUBS). However, put on hold; including the proposed the mainstream media because of Sandra is by no means alone, and and permits them no autonomy to tell may be impacted to varying degrees; SUBS President Finn Kingston refurbishment of Manning House. her profession and because of the is not the only woman who suffers the their own stories.

4 5 ANALYSIS ANALYSIS A class act: The USyd fallacy of inclusion Campus and the coronavirus Jenae Madden explores the impossible fete of accommodation for low SES and rural students on-campus. Lara Sonnenschein and Nina Dillon Britton investigate the impacts of the coronavirus on university life. Uncertainty is penetrating all areas required to shift everything online,” It also remains unclear whether The University of Sydney (USyd) is residential colleges, which average Islander Accommodation Award within each different scholarship applied for. COVID-19’s effect on student of campus life, as students, staff Iveson told Honi. “This will require student support services will be notorious for its ethos of elitism and around $1400 a fortnight, as well as the program offers a fixed rent of $50 a There are no application fees for the organisations privilege. With some of the worst the less costly Regiment and Queen week for nominated University owned more affordable Regiment or Queen and workers come to terms with the more work, right at the time when VC delivered face-to-face. At the beginning numbers of low socio-economic status Mary, which range upwards from $720 accommodation, including the affluent Mary accommodations. Though, once impacts the coronavirus will have on Spence is imposing austerity measures of the year, the SRC ceased in person The SRC (SES) and rural enrolments in the a fortnight. If a student works a casual residential colleges. It also waives students are green-lighted for equity the University. On Sunday, Honi broke including a freeze on new appointments appointments with the casework and • Funding suspended for a sexual country, it’s not hard to see why. job at $19.49 an hour, it would take 20 application fees and bond. scholarship subsidies, they are forced the news that a first-year student was and renewals of fixed-term contract.” legal service for two days due to staff assault focused solicitor and a Though, it is more than culture and hours of work a week on top of studying The low SES and rural equivalent to pay a $200 acceptance fee, a four diagnosed with COVID-19, before Vice- The University also agreed with the concerns about contracting the virus. free food bank. class keeping rural and low SES students needed to cover the cost. This doesn’t is yet to exist, which is unfortunate week deposit and two weeks of rent in Chancellor Michael Spence notified NTEU at the local Joint Consultative Whether monthly council meetings will • Caseworkers and lawyers may from a high-class education. Even before include money for food, travel or any considering the success of the program advance, all before they receive their students. Two days before, on Friday, Committee that the University would continue also remains unclear, as with stop in-person meetings with disadvantaged students experience the other unexpected or leisure expenses. with First Nations students. financial support. the University announced preparations stop their attempt to use labour hire the student general meeting scheduled students. blue-blooded culture on campus, they While being a “poor uni student” Currently, to access equity This leaves some of the most for a potential campus closure, and in the Student Administrative Services for 1 April, where students are set to • Uncertainty over how monthly face the exclusivity of the University’s is an expected part of the university scholarships available through vulnerable of students out of pocket over the weekend many students have department, which they then broke vote on going on strike for May Day on council meetings would be run. on campus accommodation. USyd’s experience, disadvantaged and low-SES USyd’s accommodation services, before they are even notified of whether been notified by lecturers and tutors without telling the staff union. May 1, and the school strike on May 15. superficial endeavours to increase students are disproportionately excluded non-Indigenous rural and low SES their application was successful or not. SUPRA that their courses would be shifted The NTEU is planning a rally against However, the school strike for climate diversity are yet to fix the problem. by the effects of cost-of-living. And as a students are made to pay any bond and It’s a costly risk and many low SES and • Elections, scheduled for this online. With over two weeks until the the austerity measures on Wednesday in mid May was cancelled on Saturday. With an onslaught of negative PR consequence these kids are turning their application fees when applying. rural students cannot afford to apply for semester, may be delayed or census date on 31 March, contracts on 25 March at 1pm, however, it is unclear following the dangerous culture of and accept the scholarships meant to Sydney University Sport and Fitness moved online. privilege shown in the 2018 Red Zone While being a “poor uni student” is an expected part ease the financial burden of studying at hold and thousands of students stuck whether the event will go ahead at this (SUSF) is also being affected by the Report, and criticism from the Bradley of the university experience, disadvantaged and low- USyd. overseas due to travel bans, the campus stage, given that all student, academic decrease in SSAF funding, although its The USU Review calling for a 20% increase in the If the University is as dedicated community is right to be worried about and public events and conferences on operations will likely not be impacted • Funding suspended for the enrolment of low SES students by 2020; SES students are disproportionately excluded by the to increasing on-campus diversity as the future of University life. campus will be cancelled from this to the same degree as other student planned “Racism Sux” and USyd focused its 2016-2020 Strategic effects of cost-of-living. outlined in the 2016-2020 Strategic Plan, week, as well as the looming possibility organisations, considering it relies “Know Your Rights” campaigns. Plan towards ensuring students have the then attention should be turned towards Staff of a campus closure. largely on membership and passes fees, • Loss of funds from campus ability to thrive “whatever their social or backs on a high-class education. Applicants must go through the housing one of the most disenfranchised as well as external funding sources. In food and drink outlets with cultural background.” Efforts have been made by USyd process as normal full-fee-paying groups on campus. There is a need for University staff are on the frontline Student Organisations 2018, the organisation was allocated $5 less students on campus, which Though existing in the heart of the to increase social inclusion, pouring residents and are notified about the better programs and more practical of the impact the coronavirus will have million in SSAF funding, whilst also would get worse if campus country’s most expensive city, USyd has money into volunteer programs to success or failure of their scholarship funding for accommodation subsidies on campus life. The National Tertiary The effects of the coronavirus on the generating over $14 million in revenue, closed. a difficult time reconciling a tradition of encourage disadvantaged student application days or weeks later. This for low SES and rural students on Education Union (NTEU) secured a win University’s bottom line are certain to hit on top of donations from “Hockey • Clubs discouraged from exclusivity and classism with the desired engagement, which has led to positive can mean paying hundreds of dollars campus as seen with the success of holding events. from the University on Friday for casual student organisations, which are either Donors” and “Boatshed Appeal image of diversity on campus. results for Indigenous students. in non-refundable bond, application the Wingara Mura-Bunga Barrabugu • Uncertainty over elections staff, who will be guaranteed special paid funded in part (SUSF, USU), or almost Donors.” The University has also The prices of accommodation on Indigenous education programs like fees and cancellation to get out of program. Because currently, these scheduled for this semester. the cheaper side still skyrocket above the Wingara Mura-Bunga Burrabugu accommodation contracts. disadvantaged students bear witness to leave for any work they miss in a ten day entirely (SRC, SUPRA) by the Student advised students not to go to sporting or working period. This includes staff who what a University student can make have seen a 36 per cent rise in First All of the University’s residential USyd’s entrenched class divide before Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF). gym facilities. SUSF while efficiently working, studying and Nations student numbers. The strategy colleges require scholarship application they can even step foot onto the green contract the virus, or need to self isolate. With an estimated 12,000 University SRC President Liam Donohoe • The University encouraged finding their feet in a new city without includes pre-tertiary outreach programs, fees. Low SES or rural students applying manicured lawns. Several casual staff members have already of Sydney students stuck in China as a anticipates that “there is likely to be cancellation of sports daddy’s financial support. admission pathways and, crucially, for an equity scholarship at Wesley been asked to self-isolate following contact result of the travel ban, with most likely to a significant drop in enrolments next events. Though no public The most well known scholarships and rent support. College, for example, would be made to with the student who tested positive defer or leave before the 31 March census semester, and also possibly in the long- announcements of any accommodations are that of the private The Aboriginal and Torres Strait pay $1000 in bond and another $100 for Art by Shrawani Bhattarai. for COVID-19. But there are a myriad date, student organisations are set to lose run if international perceptions of cancellations at time of of other ways staff have already been approximately $1,848,000 this semester, Australian universities decline.” publication. affected by University cutbacks that have or more than 10% of last year’s funding. “If enough were worried by the • Possible losses in SSAF. been made in response to falling student That is before considering drop in student sudden travel ban, or there is a broader University campuses and schools in numbers that the staff union has labelled numbers, as some students have begun social backlash against globalism in NSW and Victoria have already closed as “austerity measures.” dropping units or deferring due to poor the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak, to curtail spread of the virus. Profits Due to an expected $200 million quality online classes or to avoid classes there may be far less international from campus outlets are the USU’s shortfall on expected student fee profits this with mandatory attendance. student enrolments, which is seriously main source of funding, with a 2018 semester, the University has announced a Importantly however, the decrease worrisome for SSAF.” financial report stating they made freeze on all new staff appointments, and in SSAF will not impact student almost $27 million annually. According on the renewal of fixed-term and casual organisations uniformly. Whereas only Casuals to Wherrett, the USU has already seen contracts. Over half of the hours worked $4 million of the USU’s more than $30 diminished profits this semester due to at the University of Sydney are worked by million budget comes from SSAF, with Though the University announced on lowered student numbers on campus, as people on fixed-term or casual contracts, most of its profits coming from food and Friday that it would be granting up to two coronavirus fears mean students avoid the freeze set to leave many staff un- or drink outlets and corporate sponsorships, weeks sick leave for casual staff who need campus and thousands of students under-employed as their contracts run out SUPRA and the SRC are entirely reliant to self isolate due to the coronavirus, it is remain in China due to the travel ban. over the coming months. If the freeze on on University funds to remain afloat. As unclear if staff at bars and outlets would In the event of a campus closure then, contract renewals for fixed-term staff is noted above, however the organisation be granted the same. University of Sydney it’s possible the USU will lay off staff or maintained, hundreds of jobs are likely to faces losses on two fronts, as a result of a Union (USU) President Connor Wherrett not pay them. be lost. potential campus closure and less money declined to comment on whether casuals Casual staff remain in the dark about According to Kurt Iveson, President being spent already at USU outlets, as a employed in campus cafes and bars what will happen to their roles in the of the NTEU Branch at USyd, “staff result of less students being on campus would be granted paid leave for isolation, event campus is closed. “I know myself have worked above and beyond for the and increased levels of social distancing. which is not currently available on their and others are really stressed about the University over the last 6 weeks to make Whilst the SRC’s base funding is contracts. impact COVID-19 will have on our arrangements for students affected by secure, meaning all staff salaries, office That is particularly concerning for employment,” one USU employee on the travel ban. Many of these staff have bearer stipends and collective funding casual staff employed in campus cafes and a casual contract told Honi. “We don’t been casual or on fixed-term contracts. remains unaffected by the changes bars who come in close contact with large have the same support as full time and To now be told that their contracts will to SSAF, the contestable projects the numbers of people through their work. part time employers, so many of us are not be renewed is a slap in the face for SRC was planning on delivering this But the greater concern for staff is left questioning whether we should their efforts.” Importantly, similar cuts year look likely to be impacted by the be looking outside for work or talking have not been announced at similarly decrease in SSAF. These include: the a potential campus shut down, which to Centrelink.” “You trade a slightly placed universities, such as UNSW, provision of a part-time solicitor with for many appears inevitable. As Honi higher pay check for lower security and leading the NTEU to question whether a focus on dealing with sexual and reported on Friday, the University irregular shifts as a casual employee - the coronavirus was being used as interpersonal impropriety, an SRC has begun moving units of study online so you can brace for the loss or gain of “cover” for staff cuts. food bank, information workshops, and and asked faculty to prepare online between five and ten hours per week, Staff have also complained they’ve constitutional and regulatory reform, class plans in preparation for a potential but no one casual employee can adapt been left unsupported in the shift to which would require extensive legal campus shut down. Several American to absorb a loss of more than 20 hours a online courses. “We’re very concerned advice before being put to a council universities, including Harvard and week,” another USU casual said. about the amount of work that will be meeting. Columbia, and several Southern Cross

6 7 OPINION PERSPECTIVE Why fighting anti-strike laws is part of the climate One year on struggle Layla Mkh reflects on the Christchurch massacre as the world reaches its anniversary. Bismillah al-Rahman al-Rahim. In the close, my mum began calling me. She is for us, and our lost loved ones await us Muslim woman wearing a hijab was Jordi Pardoel on why anti-strike laws are the first barrier to action on climate change. name of God, the most-Gracious, the quite a stressful and protective woman. in the next realm. I find comfort in this. brutally attacked, punched and stepped most-Merciful. Many have known her to call and In my life, grief and mourning are on by a man yelling islamophobic hate School student led climate strikes have on the basis that it would do “significant On 1 May in Sydney, several unions on campus. One year on and my mother has called message me often, asking for an update not something I have been a stranger speech in Sydney. All this, and it is not put striking back on the map as a protest harm to the economy,” taking away the plan to challenge the anti-strike laws in “Collective action through unions me 30 times in one evening. I have been on my location, or an estimated time of to. As an Arab woman I have witnessed just these violent attacks that permeate tactic. Though historically workers’ only source of leverage workers have their thousands, demanding “Workers’ is a fundamental political right. If the offline and without communication for arrival home; this call was different. death and murder at the hands of our everyday lives. It is consistent strikes have been one of the most in demanding better conditions. Since Rights, Social Justice and Climate university isn’t shutting down entirely on two hours after I said I would be home, I remember hearing the tremors in colonialism and western intervention microaggressions, isolation and anti- and she assumes the worst. Anyone her voice, begging and pleading for from the moment I could put a name refugee sentiment. It is silence. It is powerful methods of protest, many then, almost all railroad strike action Action.” This is a much-needed step public health grounds, then it shouldn’t would. me to come home. Chills immediately to a place. My mother and my mother’s complacency. It is calm. It is calm. It is don’t realise the draconian restrictions has been declared illegal. forward that reconnects the union just be up to managers to decide which One year on and the Christchurch overtook me and I left a whole group mother have taught me that heartbreak calm. When we are all storm. on workers’ rights to strike in Australia. These laws are designed to keep movement to its historic roots of activities can go ahead,” lecturer and Massacre haunts me. It is all but a of friends without saying goodbye. is not foreign to a Muslim woman. It is the fact that exactly one year on, Winning real climate action and taking bosses’ profits made as high as possible, resistance and willingness to defy the National Tertiary Education Union forgotten memory to those who will On the long commute home, I kept We have all endured islamophobic and my mother still worries that I will back the right to strike must therefore go rather than serving the interests of those l aw. member, Nick Riemer, has responded. never know what it is like to be a visibly refreshing relevant news outlets and attacks ourselves, our hijabs making us end up another statistic in Documenting hand in hand. who actually keep society running. But 1 May will also be the first “Responsible collective organisation to Muslim person in this country. 51 social media apps, each time the death walking targets, and we live on despite Oppression Against Muslims, and then The restrictions placed on Australian But, there are examples of unions coordinated workers’ strike for climate defend workers’ rights is essential at a people murdered, and after the initial count growing, my heart aching and this. We have no other choice. forgotten by the rest of the world. workers’ ability to strike are some of defying the law and winning without action in Australia. Workers not only time when coronavirus will be used as month of mourning and shock and my senses going numb. One year on and I can recognise that One year on and my mother and I the harshest of any developed country. penalty. In 2017, construction unions have every interest in fighting for jobs grounds for violating them. As long horror, it seems as though everyone has I still think about this day often. the grief and anguish that has been are trying to remember peace. I hope we The Australian Fair Work Commission broke the law by enacting illegal and an economy that doesn’t destroy as the University remains open, union moved on. Yet still, one year on, and Because while others have moved on, expressed by the Muslim community find it someday. enforces anti-strike laws that criminalises nationwide rallies against the Liberal the planet, they also hold the power members must be allowed to voluntarily it lingers in the minds of my mother, I can’t shake the memory of my family post-Christchurch massacre, is one any industrial action outside defined government’s proposed introduction to grind our economy and business-as- meet if they think it’s important to do my grandmother, my sisters, my aunty huddled in the lounge room staring at that is collective. This is due to the “bargaining periods.” Even inside this of the Australian Building and usual to a halt, and win a just transition so.” and my uncles. Two hours without any the television. I watched testimonies fact that incidents like this do not and One year on and we remember the 51 lives bargaining period, actions like striking Construction Commission, an anti- to 100% publicly owned renewables. Student climate actions have already communication and my mum thought I from families, distraught yet so full of have not existed in isolation. It was taken on Friday the 15th of March 2019 in solidarity with other workplaces, and union industrial regulator that had The Students’ Representative inspired workers to mobilise. We need had been kidnapped. Why? forgiveness, wondering how they did it. not even a day after the massacre in in Christchurch in New Zealand. striking for political reasons — like for been awarded unprecedented coercive Council (SRC) will be holding a Student to continue to help build the confidence On Friday the 15th of March 2019, How could they forgive, when one year New Zealand that a man rammed his Two consecutive shootings were climate action — are illegal. Individual powers over construction unions and General Meeting (SGM) on 1 April at of workers so we can smash these I attended one of the largest rallies I’d on, I have not yet? That night I stayed car into the gates of a Queensland committed at the hands of an Australian workers risk fines of up to $12,600 for workers. 1pm in MacLaurin Hall. We will vote to draconian anti-strike laws. The only way ever been to. At that point in my life, I up for hours, shedding tears for lives mosque while shouting offensive words far-right white supremacist in two different normally worked on Fridays but I had that I did not know, who still felt like to worshippers inside. It was not even taking illegal action, and $42,000 for But mass, often illegal, strike action is support workers’ action on 1 May and we are going to force our government mosques during Friday prayers. construction workers. not only crucial for protecting workers’ call on Vice-Chancellor Michael Spence to phase out fossil fuels and make the taken it off for the long awaited global kin to me. In Islam, all Muslims are 6 months after the massacre, that the During bargaining periods, unions rights, but for enacting mass political to publicly commit to not penalising investments needed for publicly-owned climate strike. I remember being in awe brothers and sisters, bound together by name of the Christchurch shooter and a May their souls rest easy, and may their are also forced to jump through change. Strike action was central to staff and students who join the May renewable energy is through mass at the hundreds of thousands of people faith, and allegiance to the oneness of phrase from a Serbian anti-Muslim song families find the strength they need to live bureaucratic hoops before industrial ending Australian involvement in the strikes. strikes. that marched globally, at the warmth of a most-Gracious and most-Powerful were sprayed onto the outer wall of a on. action is approved. In January 2018, Vietnam War, stopped the expansion In response to the COVID-19 If the University remains open, we solidarity, and at the sheer strength in God. We are driven to live and love in Brisbane mosque. It was 10 months after despite following all procedures of uranium mining and nuclear power, outbreak, the University is asking that encourage you to attend the SGM on 1 numbers. Once the strike had come to a this life, knowing that this is not the end the massacre that a heavily pregnant required to take legal industrial railroad fought for First Nation peoples’ rights events and conferences are cancelled or April and vote “yes” to stop class and workers were not allowed to strike, the and protected public park lands in deferred until “advised otherwise,” even stop work to stop our planet burning. Fair Work Commission ruling it illegal Sydney. though teaching and research continues The Lebanese-Australian in 2020 Alexander Ishac asks why Lebanese-Australians are still the butt of the joke. Lebo, wog, or the staple “cuz” — a Australian landscape. We can look oriented and drowning our food in olive of Tripoli. It’s important to realise that colourful swatch of endearments to Fat Pizza and The Footy Show oil. While “wog” remains a derogatory minorities exist within our own minority, drizzled into a conversation by your where Arabic terms of endearment term, in the year 2020 this slur still feels predicated on geographic, religious and non-Lebanese friends. While vapid like “habibi,” once used affectionately more manageable than being called an generational parameters. It’s time we attempts at appearing “in the know” by our mothers to us as children, are “Arab.” In a post-9/11 Australia, the dropped sectarian tensions and banded may earn the favour of those who repurposed for identifying an individual ethnic identity of 430 million people together in recognising that we are first have transcended intergenerational with very little prospect in life. We’ve seems to carry more stigma than a curse and foremost united as Australians, and marginalisation, an image still lingers ritualised shrugging and laughing these word. Little wonder so many Lebanese- it’s through organisations like Young of a migrant community caught stereotypes off, perpetuating a caricature Australians are resistant to identifying Australian Lebanese Association somewhere between two worlds. Where of the Lebanese-Australian as little more in such a manner. It’s perhaps time to (YALA) that we find our strength. is the line drawn between owning one’s than a meme, as though our ancestors move beyond rehashing old wounds in YALA, which takes it name from an heritage and resisting assimilation? did not toil to protect their volatile a society that struggles to separate bad Arabic word which loosely translates Despite suspicion around Irish to “come on,” “let’s go” or “Alex migrants at the time of Federation, We’ve ritualised shrugging and laughing these come downstairs and speak to your and Greeks and Italians in the 1960’s stereotypes off, as though our ancestors did not toil to aunt on the phone,” aims to make our and 70’s, many once-vilified migrant protect their volatile homeland and then leave it all voices heard. The Lebanese-Australian communities have nestled into a behind in better hopes for us. community is a proud and diverse comfortable space in Australian society. diaspora. We have a lot to show for our But why has it proven so difficult to homeland and then leave it all behind in eggs from a batch of good ones; an community: the first female Governor dismantle the image of the terrorising better hopes for us. While it might make incapacity to move beyond the mention of NSW Dame Marie Bashir, former anti-social Lebanese “other”? Call it onlookers more comfortable for us to of the Cronulla Riots in a sociology Premier of Victoria Steve Bracks, our coping humour, but perhaps we laugh along with humorous portrayals class, or to set aside race from the sportsman Hazem el Masri, fashion are part of the problem. Do we enjoy of our community, we should not let actions of the 2000 gang assaults in a designer Steven Khalil and Aussie dwelling in all two dimensions of a ourselves be the butt of the joke. At Criminal Law lecture. Home Loans CEO John Symond. We tired caricature? How much do we find what stage did “being Lebanese” begin Lebanon is a vibrant corner of the are a community that values hard work ourselves bending to such stereotypes to mean skirting the rules? Since when globe, home to 18 different religious and reveres determination, encouraging in our dress, manner and speech to the did our ethnicity mean an old-fashioned sects. A bustling nightlife and a entrepreneurship and admiring our point where an accent manages to skip take on life? Why does a “Lebanese breathtakingly green mountainous most innovative minds. Lebanese- generations beyond where the Arabic job” seem to infer a haphazard effort? terrain, Lebanon has been the safe Australians are students, we are mothers language could ever reach? Perhaps all that negative self-talk is no preserve for Maronite Catholics, Sunnis, and fathers, we are doctors and lawyers, Recurrent caricatures of our longer worth punchline. Shiites, Antiochian Orthodox, and we are politicians and tradesmen, we migrant community — particularly At one point the Lebanese-Australian Druze for centuries. With migration are traditional or fervently progressive, their disadvantaged children — are identity would fall into a backdrop dating back to 1857, it bares difficult to we live in the suburbs or by the sea, we something that Lebanese-Australian of what it meant to be a “wog”, speak of the challenges that face fifth- are Muslims, Christians, atheists and youth often cling to in an attempt sharing attributes with our European- generational Lebanese-Australians from everything in between. But above all to embody relevance and slide in to Mediterranean neighbours of speaking the village of Kfarsghab as we would we are Australian, and we are bloody a comfortable place in the ethnic- loudly with our hands, being family- first-generation migrants from the city proud.

8 9 CULTURE CULTURE What’s in a balcony? Remembering the women of the HIV/AIDS epidemic Shania O’Brien on how the balcony in Romantic literature frames women. Aiden Magro looks back on the friendships that sustained the AIDS community during the 80s and 90s. When I think about towers, I think It is interesting to note that audiences thirty metres he can see before him. glass blowers began to produce large There are many things we remember these women were more visible than about Rapunzel locked in one, survey- prefer Juliet on the balcony instead of But Naples is different. In a letter to tripartite (or, “Venetian”) windows from the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the others. For instance, Elizabeth Taylor ing an alien landscape, driven half-mad by her bedroom window. Windows, Olga Kosakiewicz, Sartre reflects on which were viewed as the frame of 80s without failure. For those of us who ran an illegal distribution of powerful by her desire to escape into the config- unlike balconies, allow people to watch the balconies in Naples, calling them a completed landscape, ready for witnessed it first hand and for those of but unapproved drugs to treat HIV/ uration of space before her. I envisage without participating. But balconies put streets that simply existed in the air, examination. Following this, windows us who understand it through the pic- AIDS out of her Bel Air home. She Robert Louis Stevenson’s dark tower in people on display: they can be viewed little pieces of boulevards lifted to the in the background of portraits became tures, stories and, more arbitrarily, a even shamed President George Bush the House of Shaws, with stairs ending during their act of viewing, they are second story. He believed them to be very popular. The soft, domestic interior profound and indescribable connec- stating, “I don’t think President Bush halfway to the top. I see black ivy creep- accessible. Juliet believed she was alone respiratory organs, not ornaments nor lit by natural light became a key motif tion to our lost chosen family whom is doing anything at all about AIDS. In we never met, there is a lot that we will fact, I’m not even sure if he knows how ing up the Tower of Flints, its sinister and spoke of her true feelings into luxuries. Balconies allow people to for romantic artists; the person peering never forget. We remember the faces to spell AIDS.” long shadow in daylight a bad omen. the night, not knowing that Romeo live, in part, outdoors. They eat and longingly outward awaiting a lover to of people who lived with HIV/AIDS Some lesser known stories of HIV When I think about balconies, I think was in the garden below her, gazing sleep and vaguely watch the spectacle appear below the best-loved character. pictured in sensationalist media. We negative women’s involvement in the about Verona. Juliet Capulet standing at her delicate form, listening to every of people passing by. There is open Most times, the window was positioned remember that it took President Ronald epidemic are outlined by Victoria on Thomas Otway’s balcony, moonlight word she said. The balcony parallels communication between the balcony as a light source, such as in Woman Reagan nearly six years to even men- Noe in her book Fag Hags, Divas and illuminating her skin, Romeo Montague the pedestal, elevating virtuous Juliet and the street; the need to go inside is reading a letter by Pieter de Hooch. tion AIDS publicly and we remember Moms: The Legacy of Straight Women looking up at her with a yearning desire. Still, at other times the window was the subsequent inaction from governments in the AIDS Community. She highlights I picture Florence, Prince Padema sit- focus of the piece, as in The Return of all over the world. One thing we seem the work of Rosa E. Martinez-Colon ting desolated as he curses everything. I Odysseus by Pinturicchio, all the action to forget about this tumultuous time for who helped educate people of all see the French Quarter, Stanley Kowal- taking place through an open window. our community is women. demographics in Puerto Rico about ski calling for his wife with heaven-split- The window itself is the sole motif. There are probably a few reasons the challenges that people who lived ting violence. When I think about win- The romantic innovation of the pure why we do not remember the women with HIV/AIDS faced. Noe also writes dows, I think about the lagoon outside window-view contrasts a vast landscape who found themselves in the middle about Trudy James, who aimed to bridge Jean-Paul Sartre’s Venetian window. I and domestic interior with each other. of an epidemic that seemingly targeted the divide between people living with hear In Your Eyes by Peter Gabriel, the Together, this brings the confinement gay men. In 1981, medical professionals HIV and religious groups. Noe herself song exploding from a boombox below of the indoors with the incongruous almost completely overlooked women appeared on the front lines, working Diane Court’s bedroom window. I see limitlessness of the space outside. The in research on the disease, aiming all with AIDS service organisations. Ted Mosby triumphantly holding up the aesthetic position of the window turns their focus at symptoms that presented One story in particular alerted me in men rather than women. This limited to the importance of women in the blue french horn, yelling about his love us into observers rather than passive access to information and treatment HIV/AIDS epidemic and this is the for Robin Scherbatsky. watchers. In doing this, the window has not only led to the rise of cases friendship of Nora Burns and David. When I think about towers and also exposes the character behind it to of HIV/AIDS in women but has also Nora met David in a gay club in Boston balconies and windows, I think about vulnerability. It is an insight into their contributed to the lack of understanding in 1979, standing on top of a speaker love. home, their routine, a window into of what it was to be a woman living with no shirt on. The two struck up an As architecture and human culture their soul, if you will. A person looking with the disease during the epidemic. instantly fierce and intense friendship, evolved, so did symbols of romance. out the window may sometimes see Despite the fact that women living with and they moved to New York City With the process of adaptation, themselves reflected in the glass, the HIV/AIDS in the 80s in the continent together after graduating from college. community when the epidemic began remember the solidarity that women appropriation, and revision, the tower unexpected image offering insight into of Africa far exceeded the amount of Through her friendship with David, she and, after David died of AIDS related have historically shown for these turned into the balcony, which turned their own self. While large windows men and by 1997 women accounted for found her home in the gay community illness in 1993, she remained a fierce communities. It is also striking because into the open window. Essentially, all of are incredibly revealing, they are also more than half of cases of HIV/AIDS of New York. However, what is most ally of the AIDS community. she continues to tell this story to this them serve the same purpose and form a tool in the hand of the observer. globally, we have nowhere near as many important about their friendship was This story is particularly striking day. the same narrative. They let light in from the heavens, and personal accounts or memories passed her undying loyalty not only to David for many reasons. It demands the Through her Instagram, she archives The History and Fall of Caius allow people on the inside to be active down by women. but to the community he welcomed her visibility of women in the gay and not only her intensely important Marius is a tragedy written by Thomas participants in interactions with the The homophobic framing of the into. Nora did not turn her back on this AIDS communities and also asks us to friendship with David, but also other gay people during the epidemic. Through Otway, the man we are indebted to for outside. A small window yields more epidemic as a gay-related immune sharing intimate photos and stories Shakespeare’s infamous balcony scene. privacy but restricts the view of the deficiency or “gay cancer” resulted in the redirection of fear of HIV/AIDS from a past we’ll never truly fathom, she There was no balcony in Romeo and outside world. itself to the people thought to be most at brings to the foreground the importance Juliet, and there was no balcony in The balcony and the open window risk of contracting it - a narrative which of friendship between women and gay Shakespeare’s England. How, then, remain prevalent motifs in literature caused discrimination against the gay men during the epidemic. She also does the balcony, the visual synecdochic and art, because it is there where community and neglect of the women has performed a one woman show for the play, tie in so tightly with a scene all the amorous peripeteia occurred: who lived with HIV/AIDS. In a world titled David’s Friend which, among that existed for a century without it? where grand gestures of love were where the epidemic was treated as a New York, disco music and sexual Audiences are less concerned with made by lovers forsaking their names universal issue, we may have had stories liberation, discusses the importance of specifics of the source text, and more and blasting boomboxes, where people from women who lived with HIV and her friendship to David and others in with modern adaptations that evolve waited silently for a spared glance, who died of AIDS-related illnesses. the community she was adopted into. to place themselves in the current era. where serenades were sung and hands What is perhaps most worrying is the Remembering Nora’s and many That being said, Otway borrowed so above Romeo, continuing the extended almost redundant. asked for in marriage, where everything number of undiagnosed women whose other women’s involvement in the heavily from Romeo and Juliet that religious metaphor of her being a saint The first windows were small and could change. stories, because of homophobic panic HIV/AIDS epidemic is vital in dealing David Garrick used the way he staged he worships. Juliet’s balcony is liminal dingy. They allowed limited light and The symbol is so well-embedded in and reactions to the epidemic, remain with a past we may never come to the appropriated scene in the mid- yet open; a means for Romeo to enter were mainly used in sacral architecture, romance that it is hard to attribute it to untold. terms with. It is in remembering these eighteenth century for Shakespeare’s it and start what they believe will be a as daylight was perceived as divine a particular source. Such movements Another way in which women are slightly less visible but undeniably tragedy. He immortalised the visual long and loving life. presence. This religious vision of tend to sprout from collective attitudes forgotten is in the way we assume important memories and stories that we can truly honour the women who, iconography of the balcony scene with In comparison, Sartre’s Venetian the art world was established by the and forms of expression, rather than an the fear of gay communities and when they weren’t burying their loved the sketch of actor Spranger Barry balcony restricts him. In Venice from Church in the Middle Ages, tying the individual’s cry of a eureka moment. It homophobia was a universal feeling during the epidemic. Despite the ones, comforting them when no one from his adaptation, suitably titled My Window, Sartre experiences a crisis symbol of the three windows in the is a rare motif where art, literature, and divisive narratives medical professionals else would and leading education on ‘Two Lovers Courting.’ And from there of existence. He is sitting, looking out Church to the Holy Trinity, as shown film borrow from each other to create and governments created in order to the epidemic in order to eliminate sprung forth the countless creations and into the world, disoriented because in paintings like Scenes from the life of whole worlds of meaning. create fear in seemingly unaffected misinformation, were our friends in a recreations of it; from blurry pictures Venice doesn’t seem to have a horizon. St. Catherine by Giuseppe Arcimboldo demographics, many heterosexual HIV time where it was dangerous to be. of cats to travellers visiting Casa di The view confines him, prevents him and Holy Family by Lorenzo Costa. negative women were instrumental Giuletta in Verona, the pseudo-balcony from projecting, condemning him to But this changed with the intellectual in the fight against the epidemic and Photos taken from Nora’s Instagram, built to appease tourists. short-sightedness. He is captive to the revolution of the Renaissance. Italian Art by Janina Osinsao homophobic discrimination. Some of @noraburnsnyc

10 11 CULTURE Goodbye to hello Marlow Hurst has some things to say about greetings.

Pssst! Over here! Yes, over here. Quickly hold sway in these lands. Greetings of a is perhaps the most powerful of the declaration where they would claim now, there are eyes everywhere. Eyes dark and terrible power. I dare not speak ancient greetings. to be transporting “a hoy” or multiple and ears which would very much like their name — but if I must, I will. Beyond the dusty deserts and frontier hoys. to get their hands on the many curios Chief among their ranks: “howdy.” lands of the far west lies the sea. A vast The greetings explored so far have I peddle. Why is that you ask? Well, Hailing from the west, over the vast expanse of water where nothing can been specific to a certain location or funny you should say. plains of the most northern America, be taken for granted...except this. The circumstance. “Salutations,” on the A greeting is a powerful thing: kings, “howdy” is a sharp blade indeed. From greeting of choice for all honourable other hand, is perfectly acceptable in mountains, and cities may fall before the ancient tongue of the Cow Boys seafaring people is “ahoy.” It should any situation (or at least we are led to it. A well chosen greeting is like a (thought to be an evolutionary precursor only be issued while wearing a captain’s believe this by translations of ancient well honed knife. It can do all sorts of to our current race, though scientists hat, a blue woolen turtleneck and a text found on what the predecessors things. But like any knife, a dull blade are divided on the subject), howdy was black overcoat. Failure to do so will called “laptops”). This greeting is does very little at all. Saying hello originally a casual greeting issued from result in plank walking which is thought suitable everywhere and anywhere. It does as much good as a glass hammer. horseback. Certain arcane gestures are to be some kind of carpentry challenge. maintains a balance between formality And “hi” and “hey” leave a recipient thought to have accompanied it, such We know that these sea dwelling people and joviality, which is a difficult thing to feeling uninspired. These greetings have as the forward angling of one’s hat or utilised a piece of ancient technology do. Not much more is known about this been bounced back and forth between the crack of a whip. These are of course called “boatery” which they used to particular phrase as many records of its generations of people, and while once not necessary to the greeting, but it is transport bananas across great distances use were destroyed in the great flooding they might have meant something, now theorised they lend it further power. and at the time a bunch of bananas was of the GFC. their power is all but extinguished. But Today it is used by those wanting called a “hoy.” The phrase therefore These three are but a taste, my with death, comes life. New greetings to appear cool, casual or country. It originated from a captain’s customs complete collection is in the back.

Five ways to make use of your unnecessary hoard of toilet paper Victoria Cooper Hey, you filthy animal. So, you’ve been hoarding toilet paper and you’re feeling kinda guilty. Well, fear the repercussions of your selfishness no more! Here are five ways to make the most of that pesky panic bought TP:

1) Use it to wipe your endless tears when you 2) Hide single pieces in the bags of your 3) Shred a roll into small pieces and remember the ineptitude of the current leadership friends to remind them who’s boss make it rain

Remembering my grandfather: 4) Write an extravagantly long love letter to your dog 5) Bribe your friends into doing the housework music and stories

Words by Angad Roy Art by Kate Scott

12 13 FEATURE

“It was 3am in the morning, Easter Sunday. All was silent except for the tingling “To be honest, baba/Ashok’s memory belongs It was an unintended consequence of my thought-process that the halfway sensation of the music from the evening’s concert in my mind with the streaming point of this essay is defined by baba’s significant physical and musical moments moonlight casting its shadows. I was feeling exhilarated, inspired and moved. I more to the world than it does to me, or because, for all the people that enjoyed a deeper connection with his music, these was in the sleepy town of Bendigo, Melbourne in 1986 and I recall finding my maybe even my family.” are the seminal moments that define the way in which I reason, understand and home in his music. This was my first meeting with Pandit Ashok Roy. engage with his life. In the same way as I perceive him through sickness and his This quote comes from the creator of a WordPress dedicated to my grandfather. formal achievements, I could have easily circumvented any misrepresentations than fifteen minutes, reverberated inside the cramped walls of his practising room. I would have preferred to recount his delicate, visceral performances, to have sat in defining my relationship with him by filling the essay, like the opening, with I try to picture his hunched over posture, eyes closed and flickering, in some in crowds and felt liberated by the sense of community that typifies any potent a long-winded collection of other people’s remembrances of him, his music, his sort of in-between space, ephemeral like the fleeting moment before we fall asleep. music but his memories, for me, are shaped, transformed and deceived through personality and his teachings. To be honest, Baba/Ashok’s memory belongs I try to picture the delicate way that his fingers pluck the thick chords, the the stories of my family and his passionate supporters. You could read the above more to the world than it does to me, or maybe even my family. pinky nail, forever long, that mutated into a pick. Sometimes, I try to feel the recount after any show, whether that be techno-heads drifting in and out of their Ashok the man is trumped by Ashok the musician, and his presence throughout stiffness of his back, the ache that shies away after it is ignored for hours on bodies, watching lights being mutated into abstract shapes through trees, on the the world lives in minuscule moments of inspiration and nostalgia. Some dwell end, the totalising vibrations of the intricate and whimsical sounds echoing floor, in the faces of others; whether that be giddy teenagers exiting arena shows in the fact that his music was enchanting and a momentary transportation into from his equally whimsical fingers. I try to imagine what it might have been adorned in glitter or punks dwelling in the after-glow of bruised bodies and frail a fantastical, heavenly world. Some remember him for his foresight, his ability like to drift away from my body the way he might have done. To drift and to facilitate multiculturalism through music before it was a political fetish. Some necks from a metal show. But reading the words, “this was my first meeting with ence to seep into some of the actions of my own life. It’s okay to be selfish in our be thrown around and suspended amidst the concoction of sounds spinning, simply appreciate his passion, his tactful teaching ability. Some bask in his Pandit Ashok Roy,” makes my stomach heave – a lumpy, murky, scrambled remembrance. It’s okay to manipulate and to plagiarise thoughts that aren’t ours crashing and exploding around the room like the frenzy of a beehive kicked artistry and indifference to popularity. Others see, hear and feel him just as one feeling of weight and indirection, like a helpless object entangled in seaweed. and to shape them in a way that provides us comfort. There are so many things by an irreverent child. remembers a lover or a place: through random, abstract and often invisible smells We perceive most artistic mediums through images. Stories especially are that cause us discomfort, so is there any harm in occasionally deceiving ourselves I try to imagine these things but every time I do, hand wash, white lights, and or sounds, which bring a sudden and unusual sense of comfort that surrounds grounded in their ability to help us bring them to life. Images are coherent and to believe something that we weren’t ever in a position to believe? sterilised smells try to unravel them. Baba’s penchant for cigarettes and dedication you like a coffin before vanishing as lightly and as insignificantly as a bird lifts of objective, words transform the way they are represented. But words can be For me, the idea that my grandfather favoured artistry over commercial success to his craft led to a leg amputation, numerous bypass surgeries, failing kidneys and a branch. misleading. Your own garden is different to the Garden of Eden. A few other is inspiring. When asked about him in an article for the ABC, my father said, “it mediums like music aren’t imagist and instead rely on symbolism. Music is a doesn’t matter whether you are playing with an unknown musician in a café in language in and of itself but one that is somewhat esoteric and for the most part, Enmore, what matters is that when you play together you should feel something very personal. Thus, to attempt to listen and moreover to appreciate this foreign in your heart. The feeling and love is what matters the most.” If I read that quote language, we rely on our ability to be open and welcoming enough to digest its in any other interview or magazine, I would have found it reductive and cliched. various intonations, deceptions and eccentricities. If we can do so, music has It’s different when, for a very rare moment in life, I have an insight into the logic the ability to shed some sort of revelatory light on our own ability to accept behind a cliché. Someone told me that the work of a writer, or any artist for that difference, to see the world in a way that deforms our preconceptions, to realise matter, is to express what can’t be expressed in words. I am sure my grandfather things that may have gone unnoticed before. did that but it is the task of his audience to accept and to translate what they hear. For many people, my grandfather’s music was the catalyst for this At times when the intention of the creator is abstract, the onus falls on a responder defamiliarisation of their worlds. I never got to experience that; I experienced to carry the work forward, to facilitate its transferral and to find relatability in baba in a slightly fractured, more impersonal sort of way. its incomprehensible construction. Very few people will know the intricacies of There were many times that my brother and I went to his house. We went there strings, the way they fuse together, the purpose of the chikari, the technicality of for no other reason than to eat my grandmother’s chicken curry. The place was slides and the only way to mitigate this lack of understanding is to lean on words two stories with tinted windows and a strong, mahogany door on the outside. like ‘feeling’ and ‘love’ that don’t really mean anything in isolation but require Inside, the carpets were tattered. Walls cracked with water damage. The house something unexpected and so defamiliarising to what we know that we suddenly reeked of spices and ash. My grandmother’s black cat, ‘Gopi,’ came occasionally realise their true meaning. to say hi but I’m sure she could sense my trepidation at her discomforting yellow eyes and the slinky way in which she lurked in cobwebbed, dark corners around the house There is one photo that I have of me as a toddler, seated beside my grandfather as he plays the sarod. I wonder whether this is the only one. I’m sure he greeted us when we arrived for those lunches but as soon as my grandmother’s amicable personality took over, he would retreat quietly upstairs and play his sarod, a 17-stringed instrument which is one of the most popular Indian classical instruments along with the sitar and tabla. I recall a story my father once told me about the intensity of baba’s practising habits. He recounted it while looking outward, seemingly searching for baba’s presence amidst the slow-moving clouds, or the shallow blues of the sky. Apparently, and this happened more than once, my grandfather would light a cigarette just before the beginning of a raga and as he slowly became controlled by the whims of himself and the song, he would forget about the cigarette. It would burn to a stud and hang languidly from his mouth as the raga, often more

Ashok with his guru, Ali Akbar Khan. Khan, nominated for five Grammys, was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship and alongside Ravi Shankar was a key figure in popularising Indian classical music in the West.

the consistent accompaniment of a blood glucose monitor for his diabetes. By the end, in 2007, I think I was at home fast asleep. Years later, my parents recall that Sometimes I wish I could tell my friends, or other interested people about a he died as soon as they left the hospital in the early hours of the morning, as if he personal story I have with him, or a moment when I saw his performances in the Ashok Roy performing in Fiji with Bhagwan Pandey, as a cultural ambassador for India. waited for the to leave so that he could finally succumb. It’s easy to think that baba flesh rather than recounting the aforementioned list of his achievements. I can’t, was a shell of himself when he died - deteriorated, weak, skeletal, even partially and I’ve decided that it is ok. In fact, it is sometimes nice to have your memories, When I was contemplating writing this, I received some hesitancy from my human because of his amputation – but the way in which he seemed to exercise your emotions dictated by others. In a way, they feel more trustworthy and real, parents. They asked me why any Australian student would want to know about self-control, even over his death, suggests a sense of exaltation that typified the not tinged, like my other memories are, by the deceptive way in which perspective an Indian classical musician who spent his life dedicated to an instrument that sentiment people attached to his music. changes with age and the haphazard, nebulous and illusory way in which we they probably never heard of. Most people probably don’t and to be honest, I don’t As easy as it is to create a shopping list of the physical detriments to his body, it picture moments of our past. think I would have read something similar. I wrote this for myself and I only can is also easy to do one of his musical achievements. In 1987, the Sydney Morning When people ask me what my earliest memory is, I say it was when I rode write this for myself because I have nothing else tethering me to our relationship. Herald said, “Ashok Roy is one of the great exponents of the Indian Sarod.” for the first time without training wheels. Aside from the cracked concrete out- It is a collective endeavour to commemorate but an individual one to relate. My He won the All India Radio (AIR) Instrumentalist of the Year Competition in side my house, the maybe blue colour of the wheels and the manic churning of story is singular, my relationship probably fractured, but it is via the nature of his 1960, toured Europe and the UK as part of the UNESCO Collection of Musical the pedals I remember nothing else. I sometimes think I hear the support of my music that this story unites with so many others. A mosaic can only find clarity Sources, held a position with the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), mother, or the scrape of the surface, maybe even what the sky looked like but it is when all the jagged bits are put together. I think my grandfather would have been was an artist-in-residence at Monash University, taught at the Victorian College of foolish to think that these are genuine. proud to know of all these jagged geographic and mental interconnections formed the Arts (VCA), became the artistic director of the Australian Institute of Eastern In the same way, I would hate to have the memory of my grandfather defined by his life’s passion and to know that his memory lives on through words that try Music (AIEM) and recorded two albums of traditional music with the ABC. by gangrene, townhouses, long finger nails and curry. I need the memories of to understand a language that he crafted on his own. Arguably, the culmination of his glittered career came when he was nominated others to shape my memory of him and to allow the pervasive nature of his influ- for a Best World Music Album award at the 1997 ARIA Awards.

14 15 REVIEWS MULTILINGUAL Review: Kill Climate Deniers 缘何自主团体不应排外 SUDS’ new play gave Prudence Wilkins-Wheat a few ideas. Nina Dillon Britton 报道/ Yue Ma 翻译 Kill Climate Deniers is as radical in style established with its audience. We’re the soundtrack on Spotify, I would as Catch, who brings all the charm and as it is in theme. Directors Ange Tran welcomed into the world with various appreciate it. But a particular innovation cool rage of a cult leader on the edge. 悉尼大学学生代表委员会发起了一系 并持立场为他们发声。再次，如果真 主义政治背景或参加过相关示威活动 的形象，上周三的旅行禁令抗议活动 and Matthew Forbes took this starkly USyd specific in-jokes (this rag gets a that audiences enjoyed was the creative The only fault, if I had to name 列可供积极分子们组织针对特定话题 的将目前被排除在外的诸如男性，非 的人才可以加入WoCo之类。 也是由国际学生和本地学生共同举办 relevant dialogue-heavy script and ener- brief appearance) and immersive acting. use of multimedia. Two projectors one, was the message in the writing, 展开讨论的团体。虽然其中不乏对普 原住民，白人，正常性取向者和当地 又次，由于每个人都具有多重政治 的。这些现象的出现，表明自主团体 gised it. What could have dragged, actu- One of my favourite moments was when mounted on the set allowed directors which is more my note to Finnigan 通大众开放的诸如环保团体和教育行 学生吸收进来，最坏的情况是其他 身份，团体内部的交流实则也会促进 的排外性正在遭到冲击。 ally became an animated, moving com- the audience melts into the crowd of the to subvert on-stage discussions. It than to SUDs. I was rather confused 动小组之类，其它的则属于自主性 成员甚至是广义的斗争会受到负面影 文化交融。一个白人女孩与一个有色 再次，抛弃排外性能为那些所谓特 mentary on one of the most politicised captured parliamentarians and we are was used to explore the role of social by his commentary. He didn’t treat this 团体，换言之，即只允许具有特定 响，或者最好的话也需要成员们花费 人种女孩在WoCo里就女权主义愉快地 权阶层参与运动一处屏障。活动家们 topics in modern times: the climate. addressed as hostages. This thrilling media in dramatising perspectives on climate issue with subtlety or detail but 身份的人群参与。这些团体的自主 力气向他们解释自己的经历。 交谈，不正是反种族歧视的最好例子 总是倡导创造改变的重担不应该只落 This satirical black comedy involves destruction of the third wall was in part climate activism and for the hilarious instead straw manned both sides by 性充分体现在其命名上，比如女子 即便对团体自主本身并不认同的 吗？虽然由于政治立场不同而发生的 到那些受迫的人们肩上，而团体排外 a group of eco-terrorists led by Catch introduced through Finnigan’s meta- satire of mining company propaganda. placing two caricatures, from opposite 团体（WoCo）,反种族歧视独立团体 人来说，前两条论点的前提也看起来 矛盾也时时存在，毕竟同为QuAC 成 性似乎使这些行动家们显得有些言不 （ACAR）,同性平权行动团（QuAC）, 无可置疑。不过在笔者看来，自主团 员并不能代表他们在Mardi Grass是否 由衷。 (Serena Dalton) who take hostage a references to the production of the play Innovative and true to the modernity ends of the political spectrum, in one 国际学生团体，原住居民联合会和残 体应当要求成员们尊重相关身份群体 接受商业赞助上意见也一致，但事实 最后，自主团体排外本身就包括 group of politicians and journalists itself, referencing the public outcry he of the topic, I congratulate AV director, closed room. It was not about activists, 障团体。笔者认为应该取消这些团体 的经历并且能够理解，在几乎任何情 证明，这些问题并未给自主团体的正 一个棘手的问题—如何界定谁属于这 in Parliament House until they put in experienced over such a “dangerous” Charlie Hollands. but communist eco-terrorists and it 在会员资格方面的自主权。 况下，他们都应做到与之并肩而战。 常运行造成困扰，正相反，人们在这 些团体谁又不属于呢？就像一个无性 place an immediate solution for climate title – to quote one question posed by However, particularly outstanding wasn’t about big businesses, but evil 该论调来自于发起这些团体时的 身份政治在当代左翼组织中的崛起显 里找到了可供交流的缓冲区。 恋者很难说他具有同性恋者身份还是 change, by threat of death. It becomes the narrators: “is the play an act of was the calibre of acting in this play. climate deniers. In the end, we’re left 初衷，即为女权主义者、反恐同主义 示那些少数的外来的活动家们适当地 基于以上讨论，笔者提出观点---排 异性恋者，阿诗肯纳滋犹太人遭到不 a show-down between the climate terrorism?” The performances were intense, funny most sympathetic towards a politician 者、反种族主义者、原住居民与残障 表现出了顺从并且在团体内部很少掌 外性为独立团体带来诸多问题。 公正对待好像也和反白人至上主义有 terrorists and Environment Minister, This delightful self-awareness was and perfectly styled for theatre. I was in the pocket of big business, who we’re 人士维权活动者在校园中开创出一片 权。比如许多校园外的难民组织已经 首先，这显然缩小了运动参与者 直接的联系。尽管有些关于区分的观 Gwen Malkin (Margaret Thanos). guided by the Finnigan duo, played by particularly impressed by the chemistry repeatedly reminded has compromised 阵地。这些团体脱胎于SRC，而SRC本 向不同背景的人们敞开了大门，但是 的基数。这对于希望团结因阶级、性 点存在其价值，但大部分是无效的。 Partial to the title and plot, I had a Declan Coyle and Tom Hetherington- between pairs, including Malkin and on real action on climate change. 身就是一个积极分子联盟，这些团体 通常延续难民身份的领导人以及原有 别、性向或种族而受困的人群并组织 这反映出自主团体用那些已经过时的 suspicion that I was going to like this Welch. These two regularly improvise her social media director (Abi Coffey) However, Finnigan does not promise 的成立亦是势在必行。此外，历史原 发展方向。如果你接受这样的参与方 大型活动的活动家门而言无疑是个麻 朦胧的社会学概念定位入会标准的问 play. with audience and cast members, at one whose comedic back-and-forth was a a nuanced stance on one of the most 因也是促成其发展的因素。而对于许 式，那么恐怕你也会意识到开放会员 烦。但对于大多数自主团体来说，这 题，更糟糕的是其中不少概念被定义 On entrance, audiences are presented moment accusing an older gentleman crowd favourite. However, the person complicated issues of our time, but a 多团体来说促使他们成立的就是他们 身份而导致这些团体的自由空间受到 是不可避免的。具有特定身份的人数 的初衷是为了将特定的人群边缘化或 with a set over-taken with activist- in the front row of being a possible most everyone remembers with daring commentary challenging the 所承担的使命，正如它们名字中所写 威胁的可能是很小的。 本就不多，再除去那些政治无感和不 用来描述他们所遭受的压迫。 style graffiti, introducing the anarchic right-wing stooge, making us all laugh, commemoration was Zoe Hinton as trust we place in either side of the 的那样。 另外笔者对所谓培训非特定身份加 了解团体、无法参加团会的，就所剩 那么，一个非排外的自主团体看起 character of the radical play. The set keeping the energy up and the transitions Beverly Ille for her science monologue. political argument. 尽管可能事实并非如此，但笔者 入者会给成员造成不公负担的客观性 无几了。统计数据显示，学生中同性 来应该是什么样子的呢？笔者看来首 updates David Finnigan’s 2014 play to smooth. Their witty banter and cameos Flitting between on-camera pantomime Indeed, I wasn’t just taking notes for 斗胆言之：在尊重这些团体社会活动 亦不乏质疑。理由如下。 恋者仅为10%，在悉尼大学原住民学 先领导权应当保留在团体内部具有相 fit its 2020 Sydney audience. Familiar were a welcome highlight that elevated and nervously shaking as a climate Honi Soit. 历史的前提下，将其转化为具有一定 首先，作为一个活动家，其身份职 生人数不超过两位数。 关身份的成员手中。集会时也可以由 Climate Strike protest chant “keep your what could have been a this-that kind of activist threatens her with a gun, she This play lived up to my expectations, 政治身份的社交群组是可行的，参考 责之一就是为其所代表的群体所遭受 会员人数过少对这些自主团体自 团体内部成员先确定好计划和目标， carbon in the soil” is graffitied next to debate into an entertaining and layered gave the audience pause in the play’s presenting something modern, fun and USyd 和WoCo. 的苦难而奔走呼告，故而笔者看来培 身的生存也构成威胁。没有足够的人 或者在会议开始时仅由相关身份成员 an infamous black and white shot of discussion with a rule-breaking style darker moments, which may otherwise a little mad — it experimented and 同时，笔者也希望再次澄清这一观 训非特定身份加入者也是情理之中。 手来推广，团体就无法吸收新会员， 发表短暂发言。这一点不同很可能会 now-Prime Minister Scott Morrison that reminded me of The Big Short have been lost between musical numbers succeeded in presenting a new twist on 点中的两点保留意见。首先，这并不 还有人指出这侧面反映出所谓新自由 当老成员们毕业之后，团体便无以为 带来很大的改变，而且不会有什么安 clutching a lump of coal, wheat-pasted or Vice. Are Tran and Forbes the new and comedic monologues. She stole a topic that thousands are trying to talk 是对这些团体拥有自主空间的讨伐， 主义框架下的问题，什么时候向别人 继。悉尼大学原住民联合会如今已经 全方面的困扰。毕竟让白人参与者们 onto the wall. Adam McKay? the show, making the argument that about. 而是对其运行模式的优化。举例来 诉苦也要收取劳务补偿费了。 停止运营，这意味着能支持其组织运 突然克服他们的种族包容暴起反对反 说，接受直男直女并不会影响同性平 其次，培训不是布道。比如说，一 行的学生群体已经消失了。 种族歧视抗争并控制 ACAR 大部分 The production deftly blurs the Many cues seem to have been “scientists suck” seem oddly convincing. Kill Climate Deniers is set to play 权运动的正常运行。其次，这也不是 个希望加入WoCo的男性，很大程度上 此外，这也显示那些任劳任怨作者 理事席位也不是件容易的事。对大多 lines between current climate anxieties taken from film, including the use of I also particularly loved the hilarious until 21 March, but unfortunately might 针对所谓身份政治或社交的批驳。 已经是一个女权主义者了。他很可能 幕后工作的人员减少了。即便在那些 数团体来说，取消排外性意味着更多 and activism and the absurdity of the soundtracks during tense moments, Annie McDonalds as Fleetwood Mac, be another casualty of COVID-19. See 那支持这些团体自主的论点有哪些 对一些涉及敏感话题的观点持开放态 规模庞大的团体中，能有机会走上街 人能够拉他们一把，帮助他们发展壮 play’s world. Indeed, one of the great fight scenes or moments of triumph. whose singing and acting were of the Facebook page for the latest updates. 呢？笔者所见如下。首先，不可否认 度，甚至乐于得到更多信息。这种培 头游行，挥舞喷漆标语的人数比例也 大。而这些帮助对那些希望让改变发 successes of the play was the relationship If the music directors could release equal star quality, and Serena Dalton 团体中那些具有特定身份的成员的确 训，更像是一种交流与宣扬的过程， 是少之又少。失去后勤保障，这个数 生的人们来说，意义重大。 更有立场为整个团体的权益而战。其 而非死板的说教。 字还会下降。 次，在激进主义者看来，将其他人排 再次，团体本身也保留对加入人员 其次，许多活动家已经意识到独立 除在外很重要毕竟他们没有过现实经 的自由裁定权来防止心怀不轨的人趁 组织的局限性并且开始尝试包容性地 Review: All Our Relations 验以真正理解这些特殊群体的挣扎， 机而入。比方说，无论性别，有女权 组织。WoCo的海报上已经出现了男性 Ranuka Tandan reviews Tanya Talaga’s new book. Last week Tanya Talaga’s book All Our David Dungay Jr. I always will. The similarities are too intense to be provides. She writes about substance Relations was released. A Canadian au- Talaga tells stories with little remarkable. The Residential Schools abuse, petrol sniffing and sexual thor and journalist of Polish and Ojibwe recognition of the lines between past, and the Indian Act reek of Stolen assault without addressing deeper descent, Talaga has spent much time re- present and future. In one sentence, Generation tactics. The Aboriginal research that contradicts some of these searching, educating on and advocating she will be writing about the horrifying Protection Act invokes the same, cruel generalisations, and without addressing 展望历史未来：尼科尔森博物馆的迁徙之途 for Indigenous peoples in Canada. nature of the Canadian residential assumptions that Indigenous people the way the mainstream media present Becky Barlow 报道/ Fiona Zhang 翻译 All Our Relations is a book school system and in the next, she has need to be taken care of, taught what issues like these through a lens that concerned with the utterly horrifying connected it to why she’s “cruising to believe in, how to assimilate. “These doesn’t judge the equivalent behaviour rates of youth suicide in Indigenous down the Albany River in a freezing day policies were influenced by theories of white Australians as harshly. She 2020年2月28日，悉尼大学尼科尔森即 史文化的聚焦点拓展、对外国文化的 松棺材曾由尼科尔森先生于1850年购 我们间的关联平凡如学子间情谊，但 nations and communities around the in July.” Similarly, the development that of Social Darwinism that portrayed simultaneously fails to provide context 将关闭迄今已有160岁高龄的历史大 重要认知，同时通过具有历史定义性 入，且一度被认为是空棺史物。这一 他作为最大、最多样化古物收藏的重 world. It explores the central issue is encroaching on the land she walks is Indigenous people as an inferior for the different – not wrong – ways 门。这一座藏匿在Quadrangle四方高 的收藏对游客完成再教育。 新发现引发了长达数月的争议，最终 要意义已远超出大学校园层面，而其 of intergenerational trauma,, and the deeply connected to the Cree who took race.” Talaga describes these policies that children are raised in Aboriginal 墙内的博物馆是南半球最大规模的文 为更进一步探索博物馆的新旧址与 通过众人一致决策采掘遗体、于棺中 丰富的演变史更反映了澳大利亚的道 solutions that are needed if there is care of the land thousands of years ago. as “an invisible anchor around their and Torres Strait Islander communities, 物收藏馆。它将会与周泽荣博物馆融 聚焦点变迁的背后故事，我诚挚向已 重新加以处理，进而以更显尊崇的方 德与教育发展。 any hope of changing the statistics. She weaves the stories she tells in such a necks.” She doesn’t hold back in her when she writes about the Stolen 为一体，且与去年迁址而至的麦克利 担任尼科尔森博物馆三年高级策展人- 式进行展示。经象形文字表明，此木 追根溯源，尼科尔森博物馆由查尔 Talaga focuses on Indigenous nations way that it matters very little what time terminology, using phrases like ‘policy Generation, and ongoing removal of 与大学艺术藏品共创新章。 詹姆斯.弗雷泽先生进行了请教。可 乃伊为埃及大祭司默.尼思.伊斯的遗 斯.尼科尔森先生于1860年建立，其目 in Canada, while providing snippets she is in. There is one main distinction: of extermination’ consistently. children from their families. 尼科尔森博物馆的迁徙之路刷新了我 谓“身在其位，必谋其政”，在此可供 体。待尼科尔森博物馆重新开放，此 的是通过向英国人展示自身所具有的 of stories about Native Americans, before colonisation, and after. There are places where Talaga falls In all other aspects, Talaga is to be 们对悉尼大学与众不同特色的整体印 其“肆意挥洒策展人才华”的弹性职位 具木乃伊将被迁至周泽荣博物馆且对 截然不同的文化，从而为新南威尔士 the Sami of Norway and Finland, She tells stories of the fight though, short however. While it makes sense highly commended. Her writing style is 象。这一颗曾紧紧镶嵌于皇冠上的明 所带来的拓展享受，詹姆斯.弗雷泽先 外进行展示。 州殖民地创造开明研习的氛围。从此 the Guarani of Brazil, and of course, and the progress. She writes about that the deepest knowledge and the clear and easy to read, and she has a way 珠，如今已成为心怀抱负的考古学家 生称时任三年策展人为“梦寐以求的 在周泽荣博物馆创建之前，想要参 以往，大学虽已革新了它的当代文化 Aboriginal and Māori peoples. the Quiet Riot of 1987, where Rance greatest focus of this book is to do with of telling the reader what they need to 与历史学家征路漫漫以上下求索之 工作”。据弗雷泽先生回忆，尼科尔 观原住民，托雷斯海峡和太平洋岛民 环境，但激发那些参观与研究其文史 It’s a heartbreaking book. It is Christianson from Kingfisher Lake the Indigenous peoples of Canada – know about policy and history by telling 源、声名远播的游览学习圣地与致敬 森博物馆享有极高的公众参与度，每 的文物材料的游客，须顺小巷而下、 藏品的人们对知识的渴望仍是博物馆 impossible to read about families that First Nation alongside his friends at Talaga being of Ojibwe descent herself stories about people and communities, 生死存亡的文化苦旅。 年接待游客数量高达80,000至100,000 穿梭于零星垃圾桶间、继沿蜿蜒楼梯 金匮石室的精神要塞。 have lost three or four children to suicide, the Residential School were arrested – it comes at the expense of proper who are at the heart of this book. 这次历史性的迁徙将翻开古老的 ，且其中10,000为在校生。他进一步 而上，最终抵至位于埃奇沃斯.大卫大 直至2月28日，尼科尔森博物馆的 about people who die from preventable for confronting the teachers who were representation of Australian Aboriginal Tanya Talaga begins and ends the 尼科尔森博物馆凤凰涅槃、浴火重生 提出，其深远意义并不局限于悉尼大 楼顶楼的麦克利博物馆。如今，悉尼 开放时间为周一至周五上午10点至 diseases like strep throat, about those physically assaulting their schoolmate. peoples, who she consistently refers to as book with four questions. Without 的新篇章。待八月下旬大门重新开启 学，而是对悉尼市乃至整个国家都是 大学将古代文化与全球文化贯穿融合 下午4：30。弗雷泽先生将于四月离 who die in gaol, without shedding She tells stories of the activism, the “Aborigines.” It’s common knowledge them, there is nothing that ties you to the 之时，澳大利亚土著历史文物收藏将 不可或缺的研习资源。 于这独立且易被访问的博物馆新址。 开，成为大英博物馆内黎凡特馆和安 tears and feeling an ache that lodges conferences, the First Nations led that this is an outdated and offensive world, and therefore, nothing stopping 被纳入众多藏品之中，以及埃及、希 追溯至三年前，弗雷泽先生经历了 尼科尔森博物馆最后一次改建是由 纳托利亚馆的策展人。 itself deep in your heart. It’s an ache People’s Inquiry which identified issues term; it shouldn’t have slipped in. you from leaving it. 腊、中东、塞浦路斯及意大利等文物 担任策展人期间最有意义的事：他和 亚历山大.坎比托格鲁翻新于1960年， which won’t leave as long as Indigenous first hand and put forward actionable Perhaps the most notable problem “Where do I come from? Where am I 收藏亦将占据一席之地。这次迁徙象 同事们发现了一具来自第26位埃及王 此举将其从维多利亚时代风格的博物 peoples around the world suffer the solutions for reconnecting people to however, are the generalisations she going? Why am I here? Who am I?” 征着大学由古代历史文化转向全球历 朝的雪松棺材内盛有木乃伊。这具雪 馆转变为现代大学博物馆。尽管它与 ongoing violence of colonisation, which land and culture. makes. A topic which requires such they always will. I cried in All Our Indigenous peoples around the world deep, nuanced understanding needs Relations when Talaga wrote about have suffered alongside one another. more detail and context than Talaga

16 17 CREATIVE Do photos replace memories? The Cynicism of the Wind (or "I've ruined wind for you") Claire Ollivain ponders our fixation with documenting fleeting moments. Genevieve Couvret It’s my last day with my paternal wouldn’t be posted on social media for lived experience — they deaden it. memories. By rethinking photos as grandmother in the alps, France, and we other’s eyes. Roland Barthes wrote that figures in fragments rather than as documentation are sitting side by side in the car on the Why do we have this urge to preserve photographs are “anesthetized and of the real, we discover new potentials in Watching him walk away way to the airport. The last time I was memory through photos? In a few fastened down, like butterflies”. Is the medium that rupture ways of seeing Was like watching the rain start to fall on a perfect day here was 5 years ago, and I remember years, the photos I took and the words our obsession with picture-taking the reality as consumable, exchangeable He was "error and fantasy"; tears and laughter these emotional drives to the airport I wrote will form the outlines of what I manifestation of a kind of anxiety? An property. He was every windy day thereafter: more clearly than other drives we’d remember from this trip. Photo albums, anxiety about mortality that prompts Almost everyone uses a phone camera been on, each one evoking the memory digital or otherwise, are abbreviations us to fasten down time and space, as now and photo-taking at graduations, Storms have eyes but they cannot see, of the last. The knowledge that a period weddings and overseas trips often I didn’t know, and nor did he, of time is about to end seems to make it replaces events themselves as important. Like the sky I opened, like the rain, I fell go on for much longer, especially when Yet there is always something aggressive And blew away in winter’s spell it’ll be a while before you see a loved about taking photos — the reason I one again. I remember the sun brightly hesitated in the car — it treats reality as The green in his eyes was a trick of the light illuminating her face as she leant on something to be symbolically possessed He was the worst hangover from my best nights the headrest, eyes closed and smiling. and controlled. By turning experience The first time I got high — couldn’t sleep but was dreaming Frost-covered fields, distant hills and into images, we create a substitute world Making worlds out of words, language into feeling decaying châteaux rushed past through that is increasingly felt as more real than Sometimes I think I smell him in the air the window and the radio emitted the reality. We may cherish the subjects we On the breeze, on the ends of my hair background noise of morning news photograph but often it becomes the But as the summer sun crests, as I watch springtime rescind, — signs of the blazing reality I was reflex of our anxiety about loss, a way I have to remember — it’s only the wind. returning to were unavoidable. of closing our eyes and creating distance I thought that the light was beautiful rather than experiencing life fully. Art by Emma Cao on my grandmother’s face and hesitated Photo-taking provides a reassurance before asking to take a photograph, that even though this car journey will remembering she had been upset when soon end and that nothing lasts forever, another relative had posted photos I can have a piece of it in a photograph of her without permission. She has and look at it one day expecting a no computer or phone, so to her the revelation. Not a revelation that I can internet is an unfamiliar place, not to of memory that eventually supplant its if everything could be turned into an own a trace of the light on that morning be trusted. I reassured her the photo content the more we return to them. article of consumption and nostalgia? in a photograph, but that the most was just for my memory and focussed When remembering my childhood, Our assumption that photos are in important interactions don’t need a lens the lens the best I could in the shaky often I remember photos of it before essence memory, rather than counter- in-between them and can simply be, in Lei Yao car, then released the shutter. I thought my own memories, as if the photos memory, drives our tendency to forget the ever-shifting murkiness of memory, about how in a month’s time when the were somehow more truthful. Held up first-hand impressions of experiences. It and that I can return to them differently film was developed this photo would as records of something that happened is the mindset we bring to photos and every time. prompt memories of our walks in the and bestowed with a special sense our faith in their indexicality — that countryside, already thinking that it of authority, photos don’t preserve they are signs of something that was would be special to me given that it the impreciseness and fluidity of there, that depreciates lived, malleable Photo by Claire Ollivain. The ever-present bullshit in reflective writing Angelina Ngyuen promises she isn't bullshitting this reflection. If my life’s writing portfolio were to The plot twist in my reflection is that my subjectivity — noisy, angsty and trying to make sense of it and how be exhibited in a gallery, I would find there was next to no truth in what I unclear — into comprehensive units little relevance it ended up having to myself gravitating to one particular had handed in to my teacher that day. and patterns of speech. The bullshit anything within the course. When I work. It is not large in scale, intricate I already knew what time management is always there, lurking behind those had not been paying attention, listening in its detail and seems, at first glance, to was, how to study effectively, and all sophisticated phrases and decorated in and gathering my thoughts actively, not belong at all. Although tucked away, of its advantages. What was intended expressions. Despite this, my reflective these fabricated idioms were reliable displayed in a slightly less lit section of to be a meaningful, thought-provoking writing does not mock, condescend or substitutes. For a long time, it almost the space and ignored by any other, it task ended up being met with an offend. More than any other aspect of made me feel like a fraud in my own shares an unlikely origin story for an internalised groan that I had masked by my writing, it seeks to appease, charm craft. However, I have come to accept equally unlikely skill that I have come a determination to simply get it done. and enlighten instead. that it was in the nonsense, lies and total to acquire. Although most students would have This deceptive tendency in my bullshit I conjured up that I grappled This artefact is a memory from 2013, shrugged their shoulders at it, I was left writing has become far more apparent with some kind of meaning from my etched right after I had just finished with this overwhelming sense of guilt. I in my university experience than at any studies. a mentoring session with the senior was ashamed of myself - was it not my other stage in my academic career. In Whether it is an art of the highest students in my high school. I could not duty to write what I believed? Vowing my first year, I had reflective writing order, to be mastered and manipulated, for the life of me remember what the to myself that I would strive to write tasks set as assessments, ranging from or really nothing more than a whole session was about but I do recall more with truth and critical judgement from weekly journal entries imploring me load of crap, the bullshit does instigate vividly how excited I was to dive into a then on, I nestled my head back into the to contemplate on the usefulness of the very thing it ends up colouring, new act of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. comforts of printed Shakespeare. my lessons, to critical evaluations of residing and thriving in: reflection. It When I headed into the classroom, In hindsight, I cite this as the first research literature. When reflecting on is only when I bullshit my way through notebook in one hand and a post-it- of many instances where an always- classroom discussions, I once isolated a the burden of an assignment in the late noted play in the other, I was instead cleverly-concealed, but nonetheless certain remark made by my lecturer and hours of the night, or through a simple handed a survey by my English teacher ever-present, amount of bullshit glorified it as an “inspiring perspective, survey back in Year 7, do I reach a and asked to review how I found the has been embedded in my writing worthy of adoption” when I had not closer understanding to who I am. That, mentoring session I had just come from. practice. Whenever I am asked to write even given it a second thought after before all else, has legitimacy to me. After mindlessly circling some multiple reflectively, I am always struggling to hearing it. I also bullshitted to downplay As you step back from that artwork, choice bubbles, I wrote with absolute understand a range of experiences I my criticisms out of politeness, writing I encourage you to continue thinking. I confidence for the final question had not consciously been engaging about the “excessive and bewildering hope you register it, reimagine a value “Today’s peer support lesson was very with. My thoughts are always isolated, nature of the author’s metalanguage”, for your own and perhaps see what sort Art by Ash Duncan beneficial because I was able to reflect scattered and disassembled, never a as opposed to saying that reading it was of bullshit you've been coming up with on why time management is important whole entity, let alone one with an exact essentially a waste of time: both because yourself. to having good study habits.” meaning. Bullshit is what organises of how long I spent on Thesaurus.com

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Consent education is assumed regular consent education, and we especially intend to run all of our educational events collective, join our Facebook group (search: two hours just to get through to them on the to be basic knowledge, and yet we still see encourage men to come along. non-autonomously, so everyone is welcome. USyd Women’s Collective 2020) to find out phone. Plan ahead and have something else Read everything they send you. We know incredibly high rates of sexual assaults on In Week 4, WoCo will be running In more exciting news, Women’s Honi when and where our meetings are. We hope to do while you wait. The same applies when they send many, many letters and emails, university campuses around Australia. Face a reading group alongside the Enviro will be released in Week 8! Women’s Honi to see you there. 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Anything that hap- edu.au. The SRC Casework Service is happy that casuals will have access to a special Climate Justice Alliance forum panel, Jack Employment law Over the last two weeks we have seen a measures, pushed through at an opportune pens that you do not report can be used as to offer independent, confidential advice. rapidly changing world. With the outbreak time in order to cut costs that management two weeks paid sick leave in response to the spoke to the crowd at the Uni Students for a reason to give you a breach (a fine), or cut of COVID-19, huge changes have been have wanted to cut for years. pandemic. However, we would like to see Climate Justice walk off. We submitted a Consumer rights made to the university sector. Unfortunately, The Education Action Group stands this provision extended so that all university motion to council opposing the austerity the changes that have been made are not in in solidarity with the NTEU’s anger at employees have access to extra sick leave. measures management are pushing the interest of you, your teachers or your these austerity measures. We have started Going forward in this health crisis we call for through, which passed. We have engaged ...and more education. Hiring freezes, outsourcing of to organise the student response to these action that does not throw vulnerable people in the revitalisation of the Concession Ask Abe casual labour and other attacks on the hard attacks; holding organising meetings and and precarious workers under the bus. Opal Card campaign, and are continuing SRC caseworker help Q&A won rights of university staff and academics producing an informative video which has In other news, activism has continued to organise with Students Against Unpaid are being pushed through in response to the been sent around the NTEU members, and pretty much as per usual. Over the last Placements. Follow our Facebook for more Tenancy: Eviction Rights economic losses caused by COVID-19. The posted on our Facebook page. We are happy few weeks we have engaged in a variety of regular updates; The University of Sydney NTEU has described these as ‘austerity’ to see that the University has announced activities and organising; Jazz spoke on a Education Action Group.” Hey Abe, Hi Daphne Deposit-back-please, Ethno-cultural Officers I paid a two-week holding deposit on a The agent must return the deposit back Altay Hagraber, Kedar Maddali, Virginia Meng and Anie Kandya rental property. 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20 21 PUZZLES THE Quick ACROSS DOWN 1 Biased (6) 2 Retained (4) 5 Residential areas (8) 3 One’s prosperity (4-5) 9 Final comment bringing closure 4 The piece of paper we come to uni for RODENT REVIEW 10 (8) (6) Fierce, independent journalists controlled by the rats on our heads! 11 Doric, Ionian and Corinthian (6) 5 Utterance following a coincidental Performance style associated with appearance (5,2,3,5) In this issue: 13 hip-hop (5-7) 6 Retreat (4,4) Underground “Sight Club” uncovered at USyd 14 Latin prefix meaning all (4) 7 Historical item of interest (5) Sarah Jasem, Eyeballs Editor 17 Detached part (8) 8 Very soon (10) First human-to- 18 Member of a governing cabal (8) 12 Unite as one (10) Students’ overwhelming unresponsiveness in tutorials and seminars potato transmission of 20 Invalid (4) 15 Very small (9) is largely due to the thriving “Sight Club”, an underground student- led staring competition, an investigation by The Rodent has found. coronavirus confirmed / 23 Classic breakfast combo (5,3,4) 16 Precious booty (8) p. 4 Olivia Newton John & ELO smash 19 Underlying intention (6) Seminar and tutorial groups across faculties have been competing 24 hit 21 The national Women’s basketball against each other during lessons via social media. collaboration (6) team (5) The uncovering comes after years of investigative reporting by North Shore teenager 25 Group at the forefront of 22 Greek goddess of the rainbow lending student journalist Betty, 45, who states that “Being the loudest voice despondently culls innovation (8) her name to a part of the eye (4) in the room makes you wonder if all of the students are actually 500-person party invite 26 Toilet paper replacement in the struggling. Then I noticed they were livestreaming themselves. Kind Stallone classic Demolition Man of related actually, when I left Tassie I was a monk in Malaysia for list / p. 10 (8) quite some ti-” Disinclined (6) This quote has been shortened for clarity. Triple J celebrates The controversial “Sight Club” is being viewed by some as a low-level cold plaguing the University for years. Vice Chancellor International Women’s Michael Spence, soon resigning to publish his poetry, agrees Day by playing stating: Sticky Fingers again “They look like turkeys, / p. 13 Or big wagyu cows in drought, Target Oh woe is the smart.” Postgraduate lecturer Mark emotionally delivered his gratitude Biden: “How about that 18 Words: In the zone to the investigative team. “I don’t cry after every tutorial anymore.” swine flu, huh?” / p. 19.2 Soduku 27 Words: Entranced Here he gestured to his skin. “More hydrated now.” 36 Words: Out of your mind! Considering the alleged goal of Sight Club is that the winning Y M O seminar /tutorial group are somehow lifted up the ranks of the University’s mental health service waiting list, there is no sign of S T P the club stopping anytime soon. SULS cruise quarantined Ethnic parent regrets First case of SAlt petition due to coronavirus outbreak forcing kid to study clipboard to human I H N Nina Dillon Britton, Boats Boats Boats Editor medicine now coronavirus transmission Bob He, Mum Stop Shouting at Me confirmed by the This Way That Way Correspondent Department of Health 1 2 3 4 ACROSS / DOWN Marlow Hurst, Trot Junior Editor 1 Evanesce 2 Not present 2 3 Stupefy 4 Observers

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4 The Sydney University Law Society Cruise has been quarantined due to an outbreak of COVID-19, to the delight of everyone else on campus. Emergency supplies of boat shoes, Sydney Law jumpers and torts notes have Week 3 Edition Solutions been shipped over by NSW Health. Get It: Farewell “We’re horrified,” a SULS spokesperson told The Rodent Review. “Who could have foreseen virus Target: Vocalists spreading on a cruise ship, of all places? Especially one full of black out drunk law students fingering each In an announcement that shook the world proletariat Film Quick Cats Quick Sudoku other?” today, the University of Sydney’s Chief Medical Puzzles by Ms In a shocking twist of events, first generation mi- Eel Kink. On board, reports emerge that things are turning Officer revealed that a petition clipboard pertaining dark. Militant factions of MOOTers vye for power grant and local ethnic parent Min Hong expressed to climate change was the first case of a petition against Clayton Utz paralegals, the two groups looking her regret at forcing her son David to study med- clipboard to human coronavirus transfer. Solutions next to dominate the rapidly depleting supplies of Smirnoff icine. The Rodent is uncertain at this time if this will affect week. and smuggled on Little Fat Lamb. After pleading with her son for him to stay home all of Eastern Avenue’s petition clipboard population, Appallingly, The Rodent can reveal that the University instead of going to the hospital he is interning at, but in their statement today the Chief Medical Officer Crossword has offered Arts students $500 dollars to clean the now which has been at the centre of the Coronavirus advised anyone who is easily guilted into providing putrid ship. This is a “good opportunity to earn good outbreak, Hong told The Rodent that she never contact details or has a compromised immune system Society meets money”, an email from Vice Chancellor Spence states. thought being a doctor would be so dangerous. to avoid Eastern Avenue entirely. in the ISL “We doubt that it is any more likely that students will “I always told my son that he should have Vice Chancellor Michael Spence is refusing to at 1pm on contract COVID-19 on the boat than elsewhere in our studied law or engineering or even commerce but rule out implementing travel restrictions for political Mondays infested campus.” he never listened to me. And now because of his hacks attempting to travel outside of Eastern Avenue, and 3pm on But despite everything, many remain positive. bad decision, I can’t even sleep at night.” but has strongly encouraged all SAlt petitioners to “I have coronavirus and haven’t eaten anything David contradicted his mother’s claims, stating consider guilting students from home and perhaps via Thursdays. except stale Doritos in two days,” one first year Arts/ that he never wanted to study medicine, but was an online platform. Updates will be provided as the Law student said, “but this is still better than that guilt-tripped into it after his mum told him she situation develops. fucking SASS Welcome to Uni party.” “wouldn’t be able to sleep at night” if he didn’t.

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