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4-5: NEWS 12-13: FEATURE :and Healing (حزن) First Nations grandmothers call for On Hazn an end to racist child removals Intergenerational Trauma Grandmothers Against Removal of Sorry Day. Since invasion in According to the Australian Rants reveals a large amount of have sent a strong message to 1788, Australia has boasted a Medical Association, many anonymous posts on depression, Australia’s politicians to end long history of child removals Australians will experience a anxiety and attention disorders, their long legacy of removing — a record that was thoroughly mental illness at some point all at varying severities and First Nations children from their interrogated by all speakers. in their lives, and almost every within different contexts. families. Around 400 people met Australian will see the effects today in Sydney’s CBD to support of mental illness manifest in the call to action to stop the a family member, friend or breaking up of families and their work colleague. A quick scroll culture on the 22nd anniversary Full story on page 4 >>>> down Facebook pages like USyd Read more on page 12 >>>> LETTERS

Do you have a qualm? Bad luck. Acknowledgement of Country We’ll be back in semester two. [email protected] I would like to acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora nation on whose land this paper is composed and distributed. I would also like to acknowledge the Dharawal people of the Eora nation, whose land I grew up on. Without the existence of a treaty, this land remains stolen land. This state remains illegitimate and the failures of colonialism continue to permeate the everyday lives of First LETTERS Nations people in the most horrific ways. Last week, several hundred people gathered in so-called Sydney to protest the lack of action since the inaugural Sorry Day in 1988. Of the recommendations detract from the President’s clear house of the ensuing Bringing Them Home inquiry into the Stolen Generations, too few have been implemented. Under recent NSW legislation concerning child adoption, First Nations families will likely the NT Intervention/’Stronger Futures’ passion for climate justice. see a second stolen generation as the removal of their children is further sanctioned. Those of us who have the privilege of going home to a mother we care about deeply would struggle to fathom the The better of legislation, and have persisted on a — Kim Hetherington heartbreak and pain that comes with this inhumane process. What is most concerning is the apathy of all non-Indigenous people in this country. I remember going on an excursion to Jibbon Beach in bipartisan basis to erode land rights. I — Anonymous Bundeena in primary school. The word jibbon means ‘sandbar at low tide’ in the Dharawal language. In the surrounds of the beach and dunes, there is a coastal walk that passes through seaside cliffs and the two evils know Liam is no supporter of the ALP, Aboriginal rock engravings. As we approached the rock engravings, we were told not to step on them. I remember a group of white boys in my class — no more than eight or nine years old — purposefully but on much of the left there continues defying these instructions to jump on the rocks, laughing all the while. These boys, like myself, proceeded to go through their primary and secondary schooling in the electorate of Cook, where our racist Dear Honi, to be a ‘vote Labor with no illusions’ Prime Minister’s seat is located. I can only hope that they realised the disrespect of their actions in due course, however, I don’t doubt that they only grew further into their privilege. attitude to elections. Perhaps we should I mourn the loss of this land to white settlers. We have lost centuries of knowledge and tradition. We continue to see dispossession and death. There will be no justice until First Nations people are In the Editorial of Week 12’s edition of begin to recognise such an attitude Jacky He is Who the fuck is afforded the dignity that no settler state can provide. Honi, Liam Thorne describes the recent itself is an illusion when each ALP election of the Morrison Government government from Hawke, to Keating, toxic? Jagjit “Jason” as a ‘truly terrible event, objectively to Rudd, to Gillard has only offered a incomparable to its alternative’ — I settler-colonial, economic rationalism In last week’s President’s report, Jacky Malhotra? Contents Editorial assume that the alternative is an ALP tinged with a few symbolic attempts He re-affirmed the SRC’s commitment victory? If so, he outlines a few points at reconciliation here, or a piecemeal to fighting against climate change, citing I don’t know if you people at Honi think of distinction between Morrison and heathcare reform there. the fact that “Carbon Monoxide [is] the rest of us are fucking stupid, but are Editors Taking a year off from university has he’s bought a gift to give me after work. I increasing at 411 parts per million per you seriously running the same comedy 3 LETTERS Shorten, arguing that Morrison is ‘a — Dexter Duckett Baopu He, Pranay Jha, Karishma been more startling than I had expected. forget about it, but over dinner he hands leader with no real compassion for year”. Although I suppose he had good piece like four or five times in the same 4 NEWS Luthria, Jessica Syed, Liam Thorne, Nell I had thought that, with this much free me a packet of berry-flavoured antacids. those born into poverty, war-torn lands, ntentions, it’s amazing how much he got semester? You guys have literally been O’Grady, Carrie Wen, Joe Verity, Annie time, I could finally get through the I spend my Sunday nights in the SRC or settler-colonial occupation’, whereas wrong in just one sentence. First of all, using a template for the same piece for 6 ANALYSIS Zhang & Alan Zheng list of “classic” books I probably should with some of the brightest people I know, Shorten supposedly isn’t such a leader. Honey, I as frankly anyone could tell you, carbon what seems like an Indian guy who is at have read by now. Or find more time to who teach me things like how to access However, it is on these apparent points dioxide is the notorious greenhouse gas. once misogynistic, hates Indian people, 8 PERSPECTIVE Writers exercise, or spend more time with my the fiduciary documents of every single of distinction that the reality of the shrunk the Carbon monoxide is a toxin that causes is an athiest and also votes Liberal. Like Victoria Cooper, Genevieve Couvret, mum. Mostly, though, I just end up in charity registered in Australia, and just situation begs to differ. The ALP has suffocation, and if it were increasing at this is somehow racist tbh??? Last year’s Nisha Duggan, Rameen Hayat, Grace 11 OPINION bed on my phone, or idly watching a TV how good instant ramen can taste with cyclically refused to increase Newstart, editors 411 ppm per year, every single one of comedy was plagiarised, but at least Johnson, Jeffrey Khoo, Layla Mkh, show. powdered cheese mixed into it. putting the party to the right of the us would be dead in months. Terrifying they plagiarised someone else and not Shania O’Brien, Daanyal Saeed, 12 FEATURE It is strangely isolating to not be This edition contains a wonderful Reserve Bank, the Commonwealth Haha, you snotty little brats... having stuff. But anyway, carbon dioxide isn’t themselves. You guys never post any Himath Sirinawasa, Tournesol & Max on campus all that often – to not be range of pieces. Somewhat inevitably, a Bank, and even John Howard on the trouble with the big people’s world even increasing at 411 ppm per year. of the comedy articles on FB, probably 14 Zhuili PHOTO ESSAY falling asleep in a lecture, to not meet lot of them turn on the multifaceted issue matter. The ALP also continues to are we ! What our glorious leader may, in fact, because you’re so scared that they friends after class. All of these feelings of the migrant experience. offer proxy support for Saudi Arabia’s Here’s an idea, get off your have been thinking of is the current won’t get any traction, or that someone 17 MULTILINGUAL Artists of disconnectedness are not unique, but To my fellow editor Pranay Jha who war in Yemen, while concurrently pampered little lefty arses and get out atmospheric concentration of CO2, would pick up on “Jagjt Jason Malhotra” Olivia Allanson, Shrawani Bhattarai, they are enough to render one feeling developed the idea of a photo essay on the promising to offer a border policy even into the real world with real adults which is indeed 411 ppm. The rate appearing like 5 times already this year. 18 CULTURE Amelia Mertha, Ludmilla Nunell directionless, or at least a little bit confused. experiences of first-generation migrants, more stringent than the LNP’s this and get a f****ing job. You will realise of increase is a much more modest 3 Get a new joke. Slowly, while being inundated by and to those who shared their cherished election. Furthermore, the ALP has that big people don’t live in your ppm per year. Nonetheless, don’t let 19 CREATIVE Cover Artist: Ranuka Tandan an excess of available time, I think I am pictures, thank you. indicated no intention of rolling back protected socialist bubble of a play the absence of even a 5 second google — James W learning to value my time more, and Layla Mkh poignantly writes on the 20 SRC REPORTS cherishing all that I am doing with it anxieties of intergenerational trauma in (even if I am doing nothing). the feature: the very act of writing such 22 PUZZLES I feel proud of myself for mixing the a thing is brave in and of itself. ideal quantity of balsamic vinegar and Ranuka Tandan’s buoyant cover art 23 COMEDY olive oil for the salad I brought in to have encapsulates the beauty of abundance – on my lunch break. The dressing looks of time, of new opportunities, of anything Disclaimer: Honi Soit is published by the Students’ Representative Council, University of Sydney, Level 1 ostensibly shiny – glamorous, even – else – and the ruminations that come Wentworth Building, City Road, University of Sydney NSW 2006. The SRC’s operation costs, space and relative to the cheap plastic container I with it. Thank you so much to everyone administrative support are financed by the University of Sydney. Honi Soit is printed under the auspices of packed it in at home last night. who contributed. OUR BODY the SRC’s directors of student publications: Laura Glase, Brandon Hale, Jinwei Luan, Kedar Maddali, Jiaqui On mornings where I have the luxury Each day feels like a drag sometimes. Shu and Jingrui Xu . All expressions are published on the basis that they are not to be regarded as the opinions of sleeping in, and especially as it’s gotten It’s too long, and often nothing really of the SRC unless specifically stated. The Council accepts no responsibility for the accuracy of any of the colder, I am amazed at how comfortable interesting happens. But with so much opinions or information contained within this newspaper, nor does it endorse any of the advertisements and and warm I feel in the fluffy rose-coloured time on my hands right now, all I can do insertions. Please direct all advertising inquiries to [email protected]. duvet cover my mum bought me in a sale is appreciate the people around me, and at Target three years ago. the small things that make them what OUR CHOICE The editorial team does not have control over the ads that appear in this paper. 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upon our unworthy heads for last President Dane Luo is considering we are still trying to live down the week’s front cover, which featured a resigning from his role! The workhorse ego boost of winning an election MARCH grimacing ScoMo. Absolutely taken of SRC, Luo has played the Condoleeza with only one real candidate (us), with the stunning piece of art, the Rice to Jacky He’s George W Bush, we’ve heard that this year’s election Daily Telegraph wrote a whole whine impressing us all with his encyclopedic could be a lot more contentious. SUN 9 JUN about lefties whining about the knowledge of the SRC Constitution. Burn Book has heard rumours of election! Truly, we’re not sure what While there is no way to confirm these a potential Liberal-Panda ticket we’ve done to be showered with this whispers we’ve been hearing about forming for this year’s election! 11:30AM much media attention. While others Luo, one thing is sure. Should Luo Such devotion to their favourite Why are you so may be dismayed by being the target resign, the SRC would crumble. God, brand of toilet paper – truly brings HYDE PARK obsessed with me? of Murdoch’s affections (poor Wendi imagine Jacky actually having to do a tear to our eyes. Deng!), we at Burn Book are firm some work! Not willing to be outdone, we’ve Like the attention-seeking, fame- believers that there’s no such thing as heard Groots is also fielding a ticket, desperate wannabe-journos we are, bad publicity! The only stupol that matters because of course they are. But far everyone deserves to have we at Burn Book were pleasantly from being a two way political surprised this week when, for Let’s collectively forget about the SRC, showdown, we’ve also heard that autonomy over their own body the third time in 7 months once Goodbye, sweet prince USU and any other irrelevant study a mystery third ticket, politically again found ourselves featured body, and talk about the most exciting unaligned, is also forming. Ahhh, as in one of Murdoch’s papers! A Burn Book has heard distressing elected body at USyd – Honi Soit. Yes, they say in French - jamais deux sans and we are fighting for it together true honour - this time bestowed rumours that our beloved SRC Vice- believe it or not, you voted us in! While trois!

2 3 NEWS NEWS Sorry Day 2019: First Nations grandmothers call for SUPRA election: Former USyd partners an end to racist child removals Chinese international student with police amid Liam Thorne students victorious convicted backlash Grandmothers Against supporting families and raising their families. The laws stop had been taken from her in halt biodiversity loss and reduce Removal (GMAR) have sent a public awareness.” It is run children from being able to recent years. She exclaimed greenhouse gas emissions to Alan Zheng Liam Thorne Alan Zheng strong message to Australia’s by aunties and grandmothers, return to their families after a that every time, she fought to net zero by 2025, and create a CW: Antisemitism politicians to end their long many of whom have themselves period of only two years in out get them back, and promised to Citizens Assembly on climate A dominant Chinese Of the remaining 12 The University, City of Sydney, Xu and Newbold told Honi. legacy of removing First been affected by child removals. of home care, and have been always fight for them. and ecological justice. As international student-led ticket positions, four seats went to A 26 year-old former and police will co-host “Coffee “We hope the University Nations children from their Aunty Hazel Collins, a protested by GMAR since their Collins spoke to the crowd Shoebridge emphasised to the will maintain control of the Student Voice, a group with University of Sydney (USyd) with a Cop” sessions outside will take police out of the event families. Around 400 people GMAR founder, spoke to her passage in November 2018. about how her experiences only diverse crowd, environmental Sydney University Postgraduate international student links, pharmacy student, convicted Fisher Library in the first and continue without them.” met today in Sydney’s CBD to personal experiences with Greens MP David encouraged her to fight harder. justice and First Nations rights Representative Association and one went to independent of committing a terrorist act week of stuvac, despite protest “Coffee with a Cop” sessions at support the call to action to having family members taken Shoebridge spoke outside NSW “We don’t fight this fight are inherently inalienable from (SUPRA) after collecting a Sayan Mitra. All six equity in 2016, planned to attack by student representative universities are not uncommon. stop the breaking up of families from her. Parliament House, against the alone, we fight this with our each other, and equally political. majority of council seats in last officer positions went to Jewish students at USyd. organisations. In 2017, the University of and their culture on the 22nd “I was a grandmother laws his very own parliament matriarchs. Our matriarchs Bruce Shillingsworth, month’s general election and independents. A remaining Ihas Khan told a court The event — primarily New South Wales co-hosted a anniversary of Sorry Day. who was affected by these passed. He has worked are the answer … Bring a new who gave the event’s ahead of SUPRAelect this week. general councillor position he had brought a knife to targeted towards international similar session with Eastern Since invasion in 1788, government policies. [This is extensively with GMAR and government, bring a new acknowledgement of country, SUPRA’s governance and remains vacant. campus several times, but had students — aims to provide Suburbs Police. Australia has boasted a long a] difficult thing to talk about other groups including Fighting Prime inister, we aren’t going spoke about the pressing need direction lies with a 33-strong During Liang’s term, never used it. Khan attempted safety tips when students NSW Police claims the history of child removals — a when you’re personally affected, In Resistance Equally (FIRE) to anywhere. We will keep this to protect NSW’s waterways, council, consisting of 27 SUPRA resolved a grading to kill his Minto neigbour in are “travelling home late at sessions have “no agenda or record that was thoroughly but … it's a conversation that reform official policy. [fight] up.” currently allowed by the elected councillors, including error affecting more than 15 2016 with a hunting knife. night after cramming for speeches” and are “a chance to interrogated by all speakers. all Australians need to hear,” “Since Kevin Rudd gave the The well-attended nature Coalition government to be guaranteed representation for students in ACCT6007 and Khan pleaded not guilty exams!” according to an official get to know officers in your Since the first Sorry Day in Collins said. tear-filled apology in Canberra, of the rally was especially plundered by big businesses. students on satellite campuses, helped settle more than 400 by reason of mental illness, University Facebook event neighbourhood,” according to 1998, when the Australian “I can assure you that till the the number of Aboriginal kids promising, given longstanding Such a phenomenon has left and six autonomously elected academic appeals in BUSS6002. however after several retrials, However, responses to the its website. Government tabled the Bringing day I die, the pain of losing my taken in this state has doubled,” criticisms that progressive communities along the Murray equity officers who hold As of this month, SUPRA was eventually found guilty collaboration have been mixed. Acting SRC President Dane Them Home Report in Parliament grandchildren will affect me. It Shoebridge said. communities tend to devote Darling thirsty, and reliant identity-based portfolios. expended $80,000 to transition at his sixth trial in the NSW The SRC’s Education Action Luo told Honi he supported addressing unprecedented rates will affect my daughter standing “In November of last year, comparatively less energy to upon water deliveries and 'Those councillors vote in a to an independent SUPRA- Supreme Court. NSW Police Group has planned a flyering NSW Police’s important role in of First Nations child removals, beside me. It will affect my my workplace, the NSW Indigenous rights actions than installation of water-filters by core executive drawn from based legal service, reducing Deputy Commissioner campaign and public protest keeping the community safe. these numbers have increased grandson, and it’s something I Parliament, passed a fresh set for other issues. groups including FIRE. the council — including paid its reliance on services from Catherine Burn said that, for the same time, attracting “I hope the event breaks five-fold. Less than 10 per cent don’t want any family to stand of laws that made it easier for This healthy attendance “We cannot live without our office-bearers like the President Redfern Legal Centre, which "We know that this person greater engagement on social down the stigma that many of the 54 recommendations have by and watch their little child First Nations kids to be taken was partially-attributable to natural environment, our water, and Education Officer — who lacked multilingual support. has strong extremists beliefs media than the university’s students have towards police been implemented, Aboriginal being driven away.” from their families. So we the Global Strike for Future, our air,” Shillingsworth said. oversee the organisation’s day- The association has also inspired by ISIS." event hosted by Student officers,” Luo said. children are almost 10 times “Kevin Rudd said sorry, God need to learn the history of a climate change rally held “We need to give it back to-day management. seen increased engagement Australian Union of Support Services. A University spokesperson more likely to be placed in out of bless him! But he could’ve stuck First Nations peoples and the several hours earlier, which to our children in a better 2019’s election was only with postgraduate students Jewish Students President SRC co-Education Officers could not confirm whether home care than non-Indigenous it where the sun doesn’t shine, collective trauma that they are was directed to feed into the condition.” contested by two main on WeChat, according to Janine Joseph said, “Threats Jessy Xu and James Newbold the University would oversee children, and in the Northern because the reality is, nobody suffering... We need to not just start of the Sorry Day rally. The Speakers ultimately groupings — down from the the annual report, tabled at like these drive home the real were among those critical of information provided on the Territory, Indigenous children gives a shit that he stood up cry tears about it, we need to organisers, Extinction Rebellion impressed that the members plurality of four last year — and this month’s annual general fear of violence on campus the event. day, but noted a multicultural are 67 per cent more likely than and said sorry. If they did, no stand shoulder to shoulder Sydney, describe themselves of both rallies, as with broader saw lower overall engagement meeting. for Jewish students.” “Police abuse of migrant community liaison officer non-Indigenous children to be child would be removed within with Hazel and Helen and fight as an “international apolitical Australia, need to mobilise with limited campaigning Three councillors of the Khan will be sentenced communities and ommunities would provide multilingual placed in non-Indigenous care. Australian borders.” to get their kids back, and fight network” fighting climate unanimously against a broader over Facebook and only 2018-19 council were re- June 5. of colour are well-documented,” support. GMAR, who organised Particular attention to change the laws.” change, and were supported capitalist and settler colonial 39 candidates vying for 27 elected under Infinity branding, the event, describes itself as was given to adoption laws The protest made highly by several student activist system. positions, compared to 66 in despite running different a “grassroots Aboriginal-led recently passed by the NSW political calls for action. Helen groups. The rally demanded “Stealing children and 2018. tickets last year. organisation that fights the Government, which have made Eason, daughter of Hazel governments recognise the stealing water are two sides Less than 1200 President Weihong Liang ongoing Stolen Generations it bureaucratically easier to Collins, began by describing pressing truth of climate of the same coin”, Shoebridge postgraduates voted, slightly (Weihong for International), SUPRA Council by taking political action, justify removing children from the three times her children emergency, act immediately to quipped. lower than last year’s record of co-Education Officer Domi 1449, but far exceeding 2016’s Dana Johnson (Impact) and for 2019-20 198 votes. Zirui Li (Jarkz) were returned to Photography by Liam Thorne Unlike 2018, left-wing Council. team Postgrad Action and The results of SUPRA’s broad centrists Impact were election continues an upsurge noticeably absent, leaving the of international students in majority of seats picked up student politics campus-wide. by a consolidated Chinese Just this month, three international student grouping, international students were Infinity (21) Infinity, which included elected to the University of outgoing SUPRA President Sydney Union (USU) Board Independent (7) Weihong Liang. in a historical first, upsetting Student Voice (4) The absence of Postgrad the grip of long-established Action — historically factions like Student Unity on Vacant (1) responsible for directing the USU Board. SUPRA funds to NTEU staff SUPRA represents more strikes and calling out Vice- than 29,000 postgraduate Chancellor Michael Spence’s students enrolled at the pay-rises — has seen SUPRA University of Sydney and move away from historically received $1,865,595 from the activist stances. Student Services and Amenities Electoral victor, Infinity, Fee (SSAF) allocation pool in which boasts international 2018. students as well as domestic SUPRAelect — the less students, won a clear majority heated counterpart to the SRC’s with 21 seats, giving it first infamous RepsElect — will see choice over the make-up of the the 2019-20 executive voted in 2019-20 SUPRA Executive. this Friday, 31 May. In 2018, Last year's SUPRA president SUPRA elected its first all- Weihong Liang told Honi he international student executive. is interested in a second term The new council term but will resign the position in commences on 1 July. July if he receives a job offer in Pictured (right): The composition of China. the 2019-20 SUPRA Council

4 5 ANALYSIS ANALYSIS The Political Vernacular Grace Johnson examines the relationship between thought and language.

Recently, The Guardian publication Guardian, follows the recent addition when it is used unconsciously. with a list of rules that he believed would updated its style guide to introduce of daily global carbon dioxide levels “A bad usage can spread by tradition clarify the language used, and demands terms that more accurately represent the to online weather pages. “People need and imitation even among people who an attitude change from the people environmental crises we are now facing. reminding that the climate crisis is no should and do know better.” A reduced accustomed to superfluous ‘political’ Nisha Duggan questions whether Mobile Drug Testing is fair, let alone effective. The original terms ‘climate change’ and longer a future problem — we need to rate of consciousness developed through language. ‘global warming,’ are now less preferable tackle it now,” Viner said in April. the framing of language is, as he says, At this point, it would normally to the terms ‘climate emergency, crisis The language of politics in media particularly favourable to political follow that a reference be made to or breakdown’ or ‘global heating.’ The is particularly malleable and prone to conformity. This is widespread and not the control of language during the Have you ever wondered whether you whereas British policy also covers the impairment he stated “they were never categorisation of opinion has also sensationalism and distortion. A specific limited to any one particular tumultuous Nazi regime in Germany, and the later were “OK to drive” after a big night out, use of prescription medications such really set up to answer that question in changed. A ‘climate sceptic’ is now a selection of words can control an time in history, as Orwell notes. It is attempt to purge the language. One or a casual smoke with friends? Do you as benzodiazepines that are known to the first place.” ‘climate science denier.’ audience’s response to the overarching also not limited to politics as a whole. could go into great depth about this know how Mobile Drug Testing (MDT) impair driving ability. “The intention of driving laws should These developments tends to raise messages of a party or candidate. Worrying compromises of language and and quote several historical events works and what the consequences for The disparity between these policies be to protect people from unsafe drivers, broader questions about language and Reporting on the election fallout, thought exist in the everyday vernacular: and facts. One could also make many being caught under the influence are? opinion. Would our thoughts change if a grand statement about authoritarian With new legislation arising we had more variations of the language control and supervised manipulation. from reforms outlined in the NSW Penalties are issued based on the mere presence we use to express it? Our thought The language of politics in media is particularly But this would be a hyperbolic attempt government’s Road Safety Plan 2021, decides what language we use, but how malleable and prone to sensationalism and to justify the argument for clearer, more drivers will face tougher penalties for of substances in an individual’s system, rather many of our thoughts have been shaped conscious language, and it is quite beside driving under the influence of an illicit than their presence above a certain threshold. simply by the structures and rigours of distortion the point. It would be surrendering drug. Since MDT began in 2016, the language? Guardian Australia’s political editor “Modern writing at its worst does to the unconscious exaggeration that number of tests conducted by police raises many questions regarding but the law as it stands doesn’t specify Changes in thought influence a Katharine Murphy wrote about how not consist in picking out words for endangers political discourse to begin per year has been increasing, with an sensitivity and accuracy of the MDT how safe or unsafe a person may be.” change in language, while language has both parties campaigns were certainly the sake of their meaning and inventing with. Above any substantial parallels, expected 200,000 tests to be conducted devices: after what length in time can Iain McGregor, a research leader the power to change and create new shaped by the ‘climate emergency.’ images to make the meaning clearer. fascist comparisons are all too common in NSW each year by 2020 — over 500 substances still be detected within the within the The Lambert Initiative ideas. Hyperbole for example is useful She noted that Opposition Leader Bill It consists in gumming together long simply because they are easy to make. a day. If a driver tests positive in the body, and does the mere involved in the research into cannabis when adding emphasis, painting vivid Shorten referred to the process as a strips of words which have already The attempt to purge language of its roadside saliva test for cannabis, presence of an and driving, also expressed scepticism imagery or keeping someone’s attention: ‘climate crisis’ in his concession speech, been set in order by someone else, and falsities and un-truths can also go too MDMA, methamphetamine or illicit substance about the accuracy of MDT in an but unchecked exaggeration can become whilst Prime Minister Scott Morrison making the results presentable by sheer far as to exaggerate what is seemingly cocaine, they will be required to in the interview with the ABC.” We found on confused with reality. used the terms ‘climate action’ and humbug. The attraction of this way of anti-fascist. Obsession with purity is give another sample of blood or occasion the tests gave a false positive Editor-in-chief of The Guardian ‘climate change.’ Sky News host Chris writing is that it is easy… By using stale the hallmark of a fascist mind, and it urine to have this result confirmed when people have very low levels of THC Katharine Viner said that these recent Kenny deemed The Guardian’s style metaphors, similes, and idioms, you save is easy to revert to non-thinking or by a more accurate laboratory and that is a concern for the carriage of linguistic changes ensure the publication change as ‘insidious’ and ‘alarmist,’ and much mental effort, at the cost of leaving compulsively motivated language. The analysis. justice, people are not impaired and they remains scientifically precise in its stated that the changes were imposing a your meaning vague, not only for your best option is to recognise that language Under the new laws, have not had cannabis for quite a long reportage, while also communicating kind of groupthink. reader but for yourself.” is not as fleeting and cerebral as we which came into effect time.” clearly with its readers. “The phrase The idea that thought can corrupt Writing is a direct manifest of might think — rather, it is malleable last week, drivers who These claims are very concerning, ‘climate change,’ for example, sounds language and that language can corrupt thought, which is why Orwell pushes and has tactile consequences. In this are found to have illicit especially considering that since the rather passive and gentle when thought, is the premise of George for a clearer everyday use of language, way, we can monitor not just our own drugs in their system could inception of MDT, there have been what scientists are talking about is a Orwell’s 1946 essay, Politics and the urging that the meaning chooses the use of language, but also the language be fined immediately and have various claims made by drivers that catastrophe for humanity,” she said. English Language. A seminal work, word and not the other way around. voiced by authoritative figures in the their license automatically suspended. passive cannabis smoking, or smoking This change in language, brought Orwell discusses at large the profound Language should express thought, not hopes of keeping language close to our Prior to these laws being introduced weeks prior to a test lead to a positive about in global publications such as The effect of language on thought, especially alter or prevent it. He ends his essay own minds and thoughts. drivers would have the option to have MDT result. Prosecution in these cases their penalty determined in court. body would obviously be unjust, as driving However, now electing to have one’s case automatically ability would not have been affected. appealed in court involves risking even lead to driving impairment? Do In a recent monumental court ruling, harsher penalties. These new policies these policies reflect a genuine concern driver Nicole Spackman, who had been make up part of the NSW Government’s for road safety, or do they represent charged with driving under the influence new plans to reduce road fatalities by 30 another battle in the so-called ‘war of cannabis, had her case overruled in per cent from 2008-2010 levels by 2021. on drugs’? Additionally, how will the court. Ms Spackman claimed she had What has not changed, however, growing use of medicinal cannabis fit in? not been smoking cannabis in the weeks is that penalties are issued based on The Lambert Initiative at The prior to the test but had been in the the mere presence of substances in an University of Sydney is a centre of company of a terminally ill neighbour who was smoking cannabis for medicinal purposes. While police argued that passive Drivers who are found to have illicit drugs in smoking could not give a positive their system could be fined immediately and result, the magistrate ruled that there have their license automatically suspended. was insufficient evidence to disprove Ms Spackman’s claim. This ruling raises many concerns and questions regarding individual’s system, rather than their research that focuses on the discovery the fairness of current MDT methods. presence above a certain threshold and development of safe and effective The question remains as to whether (as is the case with alcohol). The NSW cannabis therapy. It was developed after Australia should set a threshold limit Transport, Roads and Maritime Services the largest donation in history towards of detected cannabis within their website states that first time offenders research at the University from Barry driving laws, and whether current found to have illicit substances their oral and Joy Lambert. The centre explores MDT is accurate enough to ensure fair fluid, blood or urine may face fines of both the therapeutic benefits of cannabis prosecution. Further scientific research up to $2,200 and license suspension for as well as its safety implications in areas and policy development in this area up to six months, while repeat offenders like driving. will be critical with the growing use may be fined up to $3,300 and have Rhys Cohen, a senior project officer of recreational and medicinal cannabis their license suspended indefinitely. By within The Lambert Initiative, spoke use in Australia and around the world. contrast, laws in the United Kingdom to Honi about the accuracy of MDT Fortunately, the world-class research and Canada stipulate that drivers may methods. being conducted at The University of only be charged if substances in their “We know that they are inaccurate Sydney is helping to contribute to this systems are found to exceed a certain and insensitive at testing for the presence ongoing debate. threshold under laboratory analysis. of THC,” Cohen explained. When So, how long should you wait after Furthermore, Australian MDT methods questioned further about whether the getting high before driving? Basically, and policy only specify illicit drugs, tests could accurately determine driving we still don’t know — sorry. Art byJoseph Verity

6 7 PERSPECTIVE PERSPECTIVE A portrait of my anxiety

Tiananmen, revisited Shania O’Brien paints an honest picture.

Thirty years later, the Tiananmen protests have left a complex legacy on China and the Chinese, writesBaopu He When I think about mental illness, I and screaming let me in, let me in, quiet, someplace holy, somewhere that cursing the gods until we need a miracle, envision a physical representation of it. let me in. It’s an oil spill in the ocean, provides sanctuary from the clamour cursing ourselves until we realise that constantly on the verge of catching fire. inside my mind. 3 June, 1989. Tiananmen Square. Months know exactly what they did when the television. But unlike most, they are enterprises like many in my family, I see a woman, palms on her stomach the only constant in an otherwise lonely It’s panic creeping into spaces within But I’m getting better at of student protest in China’s political tanks rolled into Tiananmen, but my not watching state-run channels; suddenly found themselves unemployed trying to contain the sensation of existence is our conscience. myself I never realised existed. It’s distinguishing my own voice from the heart culminate in a brutal, bloody aunt notes that the young people of Guangzhou’s proximity to Hong Kong as their workplaces were privatised in something clawing its way out of her; I I look back at all the times I thought I realising an assignment is due at 10pm imposter that sounds exactly like me. crackdown. As tanks and soldiers march today know nothing about it. Not even means they can receive broadcasts order to compete in the new economy. see a man, dust in his lungs and gasping would be different. Sometimes it’s years and not 11:59pm. It’s waking up late What I’ve learnt, and what I hope you into the square, protesters are shot. By my cousin, she scowls. from the then-British Colony. They Job security and subsidised living for help into empty air; I see a child, ink- ago, sometimes it’s yesterday, but there’s on the day of an exam and rushing to figure out as soon as possible, is that daybreak, hundreds, if not thousands, But, just as she’s about to get carried see shocking details the rest of China became increasingly uncertain, and in a stained hands trying to communicate always a constant: a disenchanting sense are dead. away into explaining what she thought have no idea of. Indignant, my father, society that was at least nominally equal, what the inside of their head looks of incompleteness. Is this all there is? of the loss of innocent life, she abruptly a member of the ruling Communist signs of economic inequality began to like; I see people, humanoid shadows A constant companion, my anxiety Will I ever be more? Why did I grow * * * stops, and her tone changes. Party, decides to wear a black armband creep in, delegitimising the government’s following them, glued to their backs like often manifests in my heart flapping wings up wanting more, more, more? What is “Those poor students were exploited to work in solidarity. Some people they official Communist rhetoric. Ironically, helpless parasites. more? Is there a chance that this isn’t the 3 June, 1989. Beijing. My aunt is in by people in the shadows. They died know are even trying to make their way university students, who formed the bulk It’s often difficult to realistically against my throat. It hides in my shaking end? That I’m always, forever, becoming? middle school. Despite state-run fighting for someone else’s cause,” she to Beijing to join the protests. A close of the protesters, were the worst affected convey what it feels like. A constant hands and averted eyes. I am all too familiar with wishing for news urging people to stay inside, she says, before adding that many soldiers friend begs my father to lend him a by the liberalisation — capitalism needed companion, my anxiety often manifests another time, another place; somewhere the wrong side of campus. It’s claws at we are not here to fill empty space, to nonetheless ventures out to see what’s were killed that night as well. nice shirt he owns — one does want to workers in light industry and agriculture, in my heart flapping wings against my I will always feel wanted. But, I also my throat and my thoughts becoming always be accommodating, to always happening, more out of curiosity than The conversation ends there, and look their best at an anti-government not more intellectuals. Further burdening throat. It hides in my shaking hands know that there’s no use ignoring all I things with fears. It’s feeling blue; the be in control of every situation we are any democratic fervour. Before she can she proceeds to talk about other, more uprising, of course. My father refuses — the people was the lifting of price and averted eyes. It’s the sound of my have now for the potential of a better blue of a blossoming bruise, the blue in. Sometimes, you will feel like you’re leave Beijing’s ancient, winding back mundane topics. Tiananmen hangs in the “if they shoot you it’ll ruin my shirt,” he controls, which caused inflation and the own voice in my head echoing the same tomorrow. I am proud of being the of wilting forget-me-nots. It’s missing standing behind a door that refuses alleyways, she hears a sudden roar of mouths of people from her generation retorts. But it’s all for nought. The whole cost of living to skyrocket. Consequently, words: be brave, be brave, be brave. inarticulate, selfish, condescending, often something but not knowing what. It’s to open. Sometimes, you will feel like bullets in the distance. Terrified, she like Chinese medicine — bitter and country is in lockdown. The trains have many saw democracy as a better way Of another voice, quieter, but just as sad, often grateful, creative, opinionated losing my keys then convincing myself everyone else is living their best life and runs back home. repugnant. You want to spit it out, but stopped running, roads are closing, and to deal with the economic challenges persistent: make it safe, make it safe, person that I am. I will never, ever find a way back home. that you are missing out. Sometimes, More than 20 years later, she you know you must swallow it for your social disorder is beginning to spill out presented by marketisation, especially make it safe. It’s you are not enough, Maybe, there will be a time when I It’s my heart hammering against my you will never feel anything other than recounts that night to me. We are in own good. into streets all over China. In the days when compared to the current system but also everyone that is not you is not won’t feel so empty from wanting what chest, but suddenly it’s not just my heart, an all-consuming bitterness. Maybe that the safety of home, but still, she talks leading up to “June the 4th,” my parents which was prone to corruption, and enough at the same time. It’s the whole is not meant for me. Recognising the but my whole world pounding out of is the burden of being human: cursing about it in hushed tones and a voice so * * * recall having already seen massive controlled by men whose minds were world thriving as I watch from behind possibility of it feels like a step forward. control. It’s aching to go somewhere our parents until we need guidance, low it’s almost a whisper. My cousin protests in their own city, forcing life to stuck in a bygone era. a one-way mirror, banging on the glass But, for now, I am happy. sits impassively beside me on the couch, 5 June, 1989. Guangzhou. Thousands a chaotic standstill. But since Tiananmen, the Chinese more interested in his iPad than he is of kilometres from Beijing, my parents At work, my father realises that he is state has shown a remarkable capacity to in his mother’s story. Maybe he’s heard are fresh out of university and slowly the only one wearing a black armband. manage the economy without the help of it already. Maybe he hasn’t, but thinks it finding their place in China’s emerging Feeling rather out of place, he takes it democracy. It has learnt that the social Informal votes: the hotbed for voter frustration happened too long ago for him to care. middle class, and like most people, off, unwittingly ensuring that he will stability imperative to its survival comes Everyone in Beijing that night seems to they are outraged at what they see on eventually come to Australia as an from maintaining economic prosperity, immigrant, not a refugee. Others are not and so has pursued it at a lightning pace, Jeffrey Khoo reads your ballot paper. so lucky. A few years later, my parents with an almost inspired diligence. Its grip offer to hide a student-protester-turned- on power seems stronger now than ever I love elections. They’re my equivalent spanned the entire length of the Senate them believe their ballot will actually Working at an election is repetitive, dissident in their apartment as he waits before, not only because of its growing of the Super Bowl. Though it’s foolish, paper. Give people a rule, and it seems find its way to someone in power or arduous and devoid of the spectacle I’d for political asylum overseas. authoritarianism, but also because the I’m still enamoured by the grand idea of they’ll find a way to disobey with trigger an epiphany. And the positive expected — but nevertheless insightful. Looking back on it now, my father Chinese people are genuinely content citizens, just for one day, holding the fate creativity and flair. More common were feelings that arise out of expressing For one, you forget how many people wryly notes that had the protests held with it. And why shouldn’t they be? of characteristically arrogant politicians comments laced with anger, at politics live where you live. From kind elderly out for just a few more weeks, they When my parents compare China now in their hands. So, last week, I signed up (“ALL A BUNCH OF MORONS!!!!”), couples who held each other’s hands in would have then ridden the wave to what it was thirty years ago, they don’t as a polling official to get into the thick of at the process (“what a waste of the voting booth, to 20-strong ethnic of revolution that had swept across see human rights abuses and censorship, election season. paper”, “eat a dick”) or at specific families whose kids sprinted around the Europe, and that the China we know but a country more confident, more When it hits 6pm, polling booths politicians (my favourite, hall (one asked me for a ballot paper so today would probably not exist. He does wealthy, and more powerful than ever across the country get a brief reprieve simply “Fuck Hanson”). she could vote for Angelina Ballerina), not say this with regret about what before. Meanwhile, when they see the before the first challenge of the night: One voter wrote a the interpersonal conversations I had could have been, but more with relief bitter experience of the Soviet Union and unfolding the metre-long Senate papers, veritable monologue on were the best part of election day. about what actually happened. other Eastern European countries, many akin to laying a tablecloth, and removing their ballot. “Sorry — Maybe there’s something to be said Thirty years after Tiananmen, of which endured years of war, social the informal votes, those ballots that are nobody thinks about us,” they about reframing our democracy in “the China we know today” is deeply unrest, and economic downturn after incorrectly filled out. And as the votes claimed. “They all preach, say, terms of those human interactions and shaping how people like my parents Communism collapsed and democracy rolled in, I began seeing informal votes promise to get into power — how we sustain each other. Whether it’s and my aunt view the protests. Their was established, they cannot help but feel stack up, one after the other, until they and then they forget who put highlighting human impacts in policy initial outrage and shock has dissipated, somewhat grateful that it never happened formed a tall pile. them there. We don’t matter.” It debates, or making the experience of and from it has emerged a belief that in China. In their minds, history has It was interesting to analyse those was filled with a combination polling not so intimidating, we’re a the crackdown was tragic but necessary. shown that the government crackdown informal votes. Many possessed of resentment, resignation and better, more informed populace when This change cannot simply be attributed on Tiananmen was the right decision. artistic talent; I counted ten penises despair that was powerful, yet frustration with we’re more cognisant of what our vote to a collective amnesia brought about by Indeed, with the dysfunctional state and a detailed portrait of a corgi, and futile. Who did they think would political leadership is arguably more means, and when we’re less inclined to government propaganda — it is hard to of political systems in the West, many elsewhere I heard of a whale that see it, apart from a polling official so irrational than earnestly engaging with draw penises on our ballot papers. retell a narrative if you do not speak of Chinese have come to the understanding far removed from decision-makers politics and agitating politicians to it at all. Instead, their pragmatism stems that democracy is deeply undesirable who actually run the country? change dire situations. While I agree from how the Chinese state addressed for their country. Tiananmen, then, has Even more perplexing were the that people have a duty to educate the original concerns of the protest in become a symbol of misguided idealism. completely blank ballots, voters themselves politically, not just for their the wake of the bloodshed. who made the effort to turn own sake but to understand how their While Western tellings of up and wait in line, and then vote affects others — the thing with Tiananmen focus on how it was a * * * decided they didn’t want any say democracy is that on polling day, you fight for democracy, for many Chinese at all, formal or informal. have to take it as it is. people, the protests were a response 4 June, Tiananmen. Had I been a student Initially I thought informal In a 2016 post-election paper by to economic anxieties as much as they in Beijing then, faced with a dismal voting was simply a callous waste of the Australian Electoral Commission, were to political frustrations. Deng job market and unflinching political a precious right. What was the point? the informality rate was described as Xiaoping’s sweeping reforms in the conservatism, I too probably would have And while that might be true, I now “a key measure of democratic health.” 1980s had dragged a society still mired in marched. And, upon seeing the meteoric think there’s more nuance to it. In some That year, the informal voting rate in the Communism into capitalist modernity, rise of China that happened in many small way, the point was rebellion. What House of Representatives was 5.1%, and but while millions were lifted out ways not in spite but because of the I saw were voters so disenfranchised 3.9% in the Senate. From those numbers, of poverty as a result, the nascent failure of the protests — like my parents, from the system, so apathetic about I can’t confidently conclude that politics, market economy itself presented many I too may have come to view Tiananmen its importance, that they didn’t expect on a macro level, is broken. Maybe the problems. Workers in state-owned with pragmatic indifference. anything from it. I don’t think any of reality is not as exciting as people want.

8 Art by Ludmilla Nunell 9 PERSPECTIVE OPINION How did the ALP lose the unloseable election?

Disclaimer: Daanyal Saeed is a Daanyal Saeed has a hot take on the federal election. member of National Labor Students.

With the Coalition’s shock victory past fortnight, the franking credits where their primary vote dropped demonstrates the possibilities available music. My mum would park on a side Wigram Street, at least for now, has had recently passed away and it was the generation migrants go through. Part at the 2019 election, Australia has policy killed Labor. It was a sensible, 4.4%. The expectation was that losses when parties commit themselves to street, next to a construction site (where resisted the wave of gentrification which first time I recall feeling a true sense of that project involved distancing voted to retain a government that redistributive tax policy that ultimately in central Queensland marginal seats climate action that considers working something is yet to be built today). surrounds it. Situated in Harris Park, it of grief. Amongst the many memories myself from my ethnicity at any cost. treats marginalised communities with only affected 4% of the population: would be countered by an improved people. Alternatives also lie in their own My cousin, sister and I would hop out has been left unsullied by the trend of I have of Ammu, there is one in which As I began to buy into the myth of contempt. The question then, is how the those wealthy enough to benefit from vote in metropolitan areas. However, state platforms; NSW Labor proposed a and race up to Wigram Street, waiting “modernisation” that has unwoven the she would invite all her grandchildren my new transformed identity, Wigram Labor Party lost an election that was dividend imputations. However, in the Labor Party failed to recognise state-owned renewable power company patiently near a shop that sold pirated cultural fabric of neighbouring suburbs over and cook parathas for us. Street became a place I resented. considered all but won, whilst offering targeting the upper-middle classes, as coal mining’s centrality to the state’s at the last election, the adoption of which DVDs. like Parramatta and Westmead. This I would sit at her kitchen benchtop Despite being just ten minutes from the most comprehensive policy platform opposed to multinational corporations economy. It is not the case that central at national level would address both On some days, my mother would has meant that in a city which seems eating gobhi paratha, listening to tales the vast grounds of my elite private since the Hawke-Keating era. Given the and big business, the Labor Party chose Queensland is filled with rabid climate climate action and cost of living. Instead, take us into the shop and ask the store- determined to strip away its cultural she would make up as she frantically school, it was a place I wanted to stay magnitude of the loss and the fact that an altogether more relatable group to denialists; the Greens actually improved the ALP in its introspection concluded owner if there were any good new hubs, Wigram Street survives as a sort of attended to chores around the house. as far away from as I could. Somewhat it came in traditionally working class focus on. This was their biggest failing their primary vote in the House and that it’s the voters who are wrong. We movies. He would pull out a CD from ethnic tour de force. And yet, despite its After she passed away, my mother and I paradoxically, however, in rare instances seats, there are now shouts from the — the policy was incomprehensible Senate by 1.1% and 3.3% respectively. see this with the potential new leader under the register and place it loosely admirably persistent identity as a home would occasionally go to Wigram Street where I gave in and accompanied my party’s conservatives for it to return to to most, and anyone who did, could Queenslanders voted for jobs and for Anthony Albanese attributing the loss in a plastic sleeve with a poorly cut “3 for the Indian diaspora, to me Wigram and reflect on moments we had shared parents to Wigram Street, I felt a sense a centrist platform for the next three empathise with those affected. We saw certainty; not against climate action. to ‘messaging’, rather than the real- in 1, best of Bollywood” logo on it. He Street is constantly changing. with Ammu. of unexplained ease I wasn’t able to years. This will result in further losses, through the Liberal Party’s ‘franking Labor’s version of climate action as a world impact of Labor’s climate policy would then assure us that it was a “high- I have quite fond memories of There was one particular vegetarian experience elsewhere. and more people will be hurt. credits inquiry’ that older voters in less-than-enthusiastic response to a itself. quality” print — which usually meant Wigram Street as a child. On any given restaurant which served authentic gobhi Nowadays, I’m not as personally The Labor Party needs to commit to particular were absolutely incensed; single coal mine, as opposed to a cohesive This really was the climate election. that the guy filming the movie in the night, six of us would pack ourselves into parathas. Although they didn’t quite invested in Wigram Street as I once was. a genuinely left-wing policy platform Rodney and Sue from Woollahra would movement incorporating workers, is Progressive firebrands the world over cinemas on his camcorder had quite a a five-seater car. I would sit comfortably measure up to Ammu’s, they were able It’s a place where my family and I can go in order to succeed. Party membership get rid of their gardener and cleaner, exactly the problem. Renewable energy have realised that the dichotomy steady hand. After browsing the store on my grandmother’s lap and cause to evoke memories of her that I was to and laugh at the absurd experiences has dwindled to a fraction of what it and cancel their charity donations. is cheaper than coal, and yet not only between environmental action and cost for a little while, we’d go to one of the mischief with my cousin, as the adults desperate not to lose. we had as a young ethnic family in was before Hawke because the labour Ultimately, the campaign struggled for did Labor fail to link climate action to of living is an utter lie, most prominently many restaurants and eat, what was at discussed a recent bout of family drama As I moved into a predominantly Australia. Perhaps it’s somewhere movement has rooted its successes cut-through because it lacked cohesion lowered costs of living, but there was a seen with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s the time, quite a normal meal. that seemed quite foreign to us. white private high school, Wigram that’s slowly making its way into my in championing rights for those with — it bumbled through negative gearing baffling lack of focus on a just transition Green New Deal. Labor needs to be The first time Wigram Street changed Eventually, we’d reach the street, Street became a source of simultaneous nostalgia. When I see young families work, and not for those without. The and franking credits before moving on to from fossil fuels. The franking credits next. 2022 is a long way away, and many for me was when I was thirteen years decorated with neon lights which cultural shame and relief. During that walking down the street, though, I hope Coalition has succeeded here in its schools and hospitals. It was an awfully policy would add $10.7 billion to the communities will be hurt under this old. My grandmother (Ammu), who was accompanied an ensemble of loud period, I undertook a long term project this place can do as much for them as it pitch of ‘jobs and growth’. If the Labor diluted model of class warfare — one Australian economy over the next four Coalition Government. By the time we my only grandparent living in Australia, conversations and pumping Punjabi of assimilation which many second has done for me. Party follows Corbyn’s lead in the UK, it that relied on the electoral equivalent years, according to PBO costings — get another chance to turf them out, we will see the revitalisation of the fabled of nerf guns instead of assault rifles. It enough for a $67,000 per year transition will have used up a quarter of the time ‘base.’ Despite what the conservatives simply was not strong enough. fund for each of Australia’s 40,000 we have before climate change becomes say, it is entirely possible to lead the Electorally however, the biggest miners, who could be transitioned irreversible. As such, the Labor Party Art horror as catharsis Party back into government with an impact on Labor’s primary vote was into jobs in sustainable industry, must realise the mistakes they have unapologetically progressive agenda. not in affluent areas that benefit from manufacturing or infrastructure. Whilst made this election, and not give in to the Himath Siriniwasa’s exercise in remedial horror. As has been mused over the franking credits — it was in Queensland, this is of course a reductive analysis, it centre’s false cries of pragmatism. People often talk about the relationship of expectations: HSC success, career jealousy and impotence whilst being between art and therapy. There’s a certainty and living up to a certain mailed videos of the inside of the house wonderful case to be made for it — masculine standard. Like many others, I he shares with his wife. What follows Between Ice and Fire: Women in Game of Thrones the artistic process is well known as a was also undergoing a deep depressive are surreal deviations, transformations cathartic release of one’s inner world episode, stressed at what lay ahead and of characters, doubles and pure, cathartic to the page, canvas, camera or musical feeling impotent at living up to a selective horror. Meditating on Lost Highway now Genevieve Couvret asks for more aspirational female representation in television. instrument. While I can’t explore this boys’ school standard of academic makes me reflect on how much it taught issue as a whole, I hope to lay out my excellence, personal fitness and social me about how less-obvious features Whether it’s Dany on the back of screentime reduced to fan service, in her audience. Are they afforded the history with a genre of film I’ll loosely debauchery. My grades were slipping, of masculine expectations derail us. a dragon, Brienne being knighted, it becomes incumbent upon the moral ambiguities and complexities that refer to as ‘art horror’, and reflect upon I had become increasingly unhealthy We can be cool and calm-headed; not Arya killing the Night King, or Sansa remaining female characters to advance the male characters are? how this has guided my moral and and I isolated myself from my previous obviously aggressive nor spiteful at the becoming the Queen in the North, there empowering narratives for women. This Ostensibly, the women in emotional development. antics. I found refuge in a host of films independence of the women in our lives. is a clear recognition in Game of Thrones means that female characters are held GoT are much more likely to be Art horror refers to a type of film that helped me deal with what I would However, beliefs of ownership, jealousy, (GoT) that women should be at the to a higher standard, where they need compartmentalised on either side of that relies on a strong technical eye to call the more aggressive symptoms of and standards of dominance can still forefront of these narratives. However, to contribute to our understanding of the spectrum of ‘good and bad’. Dany’s create a looming atmosphere. Often those with pathological masculinity. I pervade and destroy our lives and our as such a significant cultural object, women overall, rather than simply being dissent was afforded far less ambiguity possessing a distinct style, the narratives found myself within these works of art, relationships. GoT has met substantial criticism for isolated within their fictions. and time for it to feel believable, even are surreal and circular, defying viewer putting myself into the minds of the Żuławski’s Possession came to me the development and ultimate fate of However, it would be reductive if it was consistently foreshadowed. expectations. What follows is a novel characters and the developers, trying to much later. A film that has been called some of its women. Of course, GoT to place the burden entirely on The erosion of her morality is followed intersection between the artistic figure out what they had to say about “one of the most viscerally vivid portraits fans should be accustomed to unsavory GoT. Audiences frequently project immediately by the next extreme of Bhattarai Art by Shrawani pretensions of creators with the mass our psychology. Perhaps even what they of a disintegrating relationship” it mixes and unfavorable conclusions. Though preconceived gender norms onto tyranny. That she can only exist at appeal of non-arthouse horror. This could say about the way I felt. this drama with grotesque horror. After I am one of the few who thought the the women of these worlds. We are either side of the spectrum reflects how dualism is overcome in subversive I came to Lynch through the now- multiple rewatches, I do not have a clue conclusion to the show was fair, the conflicted when occasionally invited little time is spent sifting through the films filled with images that combine iconic Mulholland Drive. Unaware of as to the ‘true meaning’ of the film. overall dissatisfaction with how female to sympathise with Cersei as a loving, varying layers of morality compared to folklore, popular culture and snapshots the quirks that are emblematic of Yet, piecing together the issues, linking Art by Jessica Syed characters are handled suggests that human mother, as it’s much easier to many favourable male characters. Men destiny rooted in the greater good, an of the things society represses. The Lynch’s work, I dived in to find myself the violence of the relationship, the our expectations for women’s storylines limit her to the familiar and stereotypical like Varys, Tyrion, Jaime, Theon, Jorah underlying moral vestige that is present resulting compendium sees the likes horrified, angry and confused after it gendered conflicts and the ways people go beyond how much screen time they characterisation of a Lady Macbeth- and even Jon make countless mistakes even until the end. It is important of Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, had finished. I felt I had wasted the last can destroy each other with the surreal receive, or even their ultimate fate. esque villainess. When attempts at and redeem themselves. Audiences to acknowledge the preconceived Christensen’s Häxan, Kobayashi’s two and a half hours watching what horror flick that follows is the value Clearly, we have strong female heroines nuance are made, they don’t land or were frequently prompted to question justifications that we, as audiences, bring Kwaidan, Giallo thrillers like Suspiria and has been described as the greatest film I find. It is in many ways a Cartesian and villains, but the real question is don’t feel earned. Such stereotyping is whether we still supported them. They to the screen about women in power. in the popular canon, films like Kubrick’s of this century. But after meditating on meditation — with the phenomenology whether women can substantially not informed entirely by the media, but have the facility to develop and carry It’s not about putting a woman on The Shining and Ari Aster’s Hereditary. my anger, and why it had struck such a of the horror moving through my mind, occupy a space in-between these tropes. where media has a chance to correct for both good and evil inside themselves. the Iron Throne. The depth of female I found myself enthralled in particular reaction, I pieced together the threads helping me deduce and unveil key Take an unpopular opinion: Dany’s it, there is likely a greater imperative on This is particularly pertinent within characters goes beyond their line count — with David Lynch’s Lost Highway of unnerving individual scenes which propositions about the complex world turn towards madness was not an GoT to subvert the tropes it invokes to a the quasi-medieval context of GoT it’s about helping audiences conceive of and Andrej Żuławski’s Possession. culminated in a beautiful, powerful film of relationships I inhabit. inconsistent disservice to the plot, but greater extent, lest we revert back to our where the women are normatively women in their capacity to be both good For me, these classics challenged the exploring the male gaze and gendered Art-horror may not give me the rather a disservice to the idea of her ingrained norms. subordinate. Relegating them to either and evil, independent and vulnerable. A representations of masculinity I was representation on screen. From this, I adrenaline rush of jump-scares nor the character. People want a heroine. When A reasonable expectation is for a side of the moral spectrum makes for lot of that comes not just from females familiar with and echoed in a sombre found a film which is now one of my decisive literary interplay of characters a woman, initially vulnerable, becomes suite of female characters who serve as an easier justification for their power. being represented on screen, but in the look at the degenerating impacts favourites — Lost Highway. Equal parts and storylines which we see in film a symbol of empowerment only to more than plot devices in male hero arcs: Because it’s subversive that a woman writers’ room and behind the scenes. of hypermasculinity on familial horrifying and surreal, I found myself classics. Yet its minimal, atmospheric quickly devolve into villainy, it feels women who challenge our entrenched like Cersei wields so much negative GoT has made decent attempts, but both relationships, social violence and emotionally gripped yet thoroughly and horrifying presence provides us like any empowerment she represented assumptions. Beyond whether our sway in a world of men, she must really the praise and criticism exemplifies that pathological jealousy. confused at the logic and atmosphere of with the highly technical film medium earlier has been undermined. When heroine lives or dies is the question be that bad. Similarly, Dany’s power as a it is no longer adequate to merely have I got into the Lynchian oeuvre at the film. The film follows a successful in a truly raw way — perceptually, and there is an absence of nuanced female of whether she is truly complex and woman, stems from her being that well- subversive female characters, but to do 17 years old, overwhelmed by a host saxophonist as he deals with his emotionally. representation, with much of their reflective of the spectrum of women intentioned and having some greater them justice.

10 11 (حزن) on hazn and healing an intergenerational & intersectional perspective on mental health by Layla Mkh content warning: mental illness, misogyny, domestic violence and abuse

I know only a little of the pain my Tayta has had he was seven years old, to one of her younger sisters, attention to many of the ways my father made her to describe, and I will never know the full extent to ccording to the Australian Medical Association, 1949 to deal with. In her 43 years here, she has never learnt the most chilling is her recollection of her first hospital miserable before she even married him. When you which they are still suffering. many Australians will experience a mental English. Her limited vocabulary extends to what experiences in Australia. Tayta often jokes about how are taught that you exist only in relation to men, it is It is through their experiences that I am able to Aillness at some point in their lives, and almost It is the year after the Nakba. A woman named Inaam she learns from my sisters and I. Words like “hectic” when she first arrived, she learnt the hard way that often difficult to not make excuses, to not ignore all recognise that the long-term trauma of the Arab woman every Australian will see the effects of mental illness is born in August as the summer sun rises to kiss the and “wow” are sometimes incorporated into her concentrated cordial needed to be broken down with the fuckups, to not shrug off everything as a “mistake.” is intertwined in the registers of race, gender and class. manifest in a family member, friend or work colleague. horizons of a newly independent Lebanon. Just under conversations with us, but it never extends beyond water, and that dog food was indeed not food for My Mama often tells me that in her childhood, both It transcends as a physical and psychological memory. A quick scroll down Facebook pages like USyd eight years have passed since its liberation from French that. Despite this, she is one of the most intelligent humans. But it was her descriptions of her experiences boys and girls were raised the same, but I often wonder It is reinforced by culture and daily experiences of Rants reveals a large amount of anonymous posts colonialism. My grandmother is one of eight children women I know. Born one of ten siblings, seven of at Bankstown Hospital which surprised me. I was only whether this is completely true. I have seen both my exclusion and domination. To mobilise against this is on depression, anxiety and attention disorders, all at born to a poor family in a tiny coastal village north whom were girls, my Tayta was also one of the few 14 years old when my Tayta told me that she had lost a aunty — my Khalto — and my Mama marry young, to recognise that my Mama, my Tayta and myself are varying severities and within different contexts. As of Trablos, named Deir Ammar. My grandmother, in her family who did not go to school. A mixture of child that she almost carried to term. She never got to abandoning careers and education for children. I know just some of the few that exist in a collective state of a university student who has been diagnosed with a my Tayta, is a tiny, quiet and poised woman. She is poverty and patriarchy were the reasonings, with my see what he looked like. She vividly remembers trying that deep down, no matter how much interpersonal depression around the world. severe anxiety and panic disorder, these posts are all too infinitely proud, defiant and the definition of resilient. great grandfather often jokingly boasting that she did to mime to the white nurses that she wanted to see her education passes between generations of women, these familiar and relatable. She has raised seven kids in a foreign country, and not need to go to school. “For what?” he would say. “So baby only once. That she wanted to hold the baby, skin practices are embedded within culture. My first experiences with mental illness were not had to bury one of them just before she turned 26. My she can write letters to all her lovers?” on skin in her arms, just one time before he was buried. My mother doesn’t speak much about my father To be born in this violent settler- my own. To be an Arab woman in this country is to mother is her oldest daughter. She once told me that my Tayta often whispers to me that one of the few pains Her requests were misunderstood, refused, confused— anymore. When my sisters and I were younger, her colonialist country as an Arab know heartbreak, hazn (sadness) and depression like a Tayta said that she had never felt true happiness in her in her life is that she did not learn how to read or write whatever you want to call it. Not only was she denied commentary about him ranged from sadness, to anger, second language you will never unlearn. It is from the time living after losing her son Hassan. in English or Arabic. She says this with a heavy weight her child — her mercy — she was denied a moment and then to downright despair. My mother is still Muslim woman is also to be caught generations of women who have come before me, whose in her voice – it’s obvious that it is not only her love for to see her blessing before he joined his oldest brother recovering from the long term trauma inflicted upon lives have been continuously harmed by patriarchy and between two different forms of There are moments when I see learning that inspires this feeling, but also a mixture of Hassan in Jannah. her, even over 15 years after their divorce. In the eight whiteness, that I have learnt what survival means. I terrible experiences. Some would argue that there is no literal Arabic years they were married, my mother cannot recollect a patriarchy: one that is rooted in have learnt that, despite different historical contexts, my Tayta force a smile, or a laugh To be an Arab woman is to be socialised to want to translation for the word “depression.” The Arabic word single moment where he put a smile on her face. our experiences will always be similar, bound together marry from the moment you recognise that boys are most adjacent to the word depression translates to A study undertaken by the Australian Institute whiteness, and one that is deeply by the resilience we have to learn from the pain we are that never quite reaches her boys. To be an Arab woman is to think of planning our “sorrow.” When she talks about health, my Tayta says for Health and Welfare found that intimate partner forced to experience. entrenched in the culture that one eyes — and I understand that lives around children who do not even exist – before that a lot of these “mental illnesses” are new. That, violence has one of the most serious impacts on To be an Arab woman is to know that mental even thinking of our careers, our education or our “back in the day,” there was no such thing. But there are women’s health. In 2011 alone, it contributed to more has learnt by heart. wellbeing and illness do not exist in isolation. The two futures. Children are blessings, and the Arabic word for moments when I see my Tayta force a smile, or a laugh burden of disease (the impact of illness, disability and are inextricably linked to traumatic experiences relating she has never felt true happiness. womb is rahm, with a root meaning of ‘mercy’. It is in that never quite reaches her eyes — and I understand premature death) than any other risk factor for women For us, it is something akin to feeling. These dark to patriarchy and whiteness. this mercy and the loss of these blessings that some of that she has never felt true happiness. It is definitely aged 25 to 44. Among these, mental health conditions These experiences are embedded into the lives of all In the year 1976, my Tayta, my Jedo and their kids came shadows that accompany our lives are embedded to Australia. My Jedo swears on his life that they came my Tayta’s worst pain has been felt. On her belly are sorrow, but it is also so much more. were the largest contributor to the burden due to within our daily experience. From fleeing war, to Arab women who battle between being foreigners in several large scars. The marks are still criss-crossed on physical/sexual intimate partner violence, with anxiety the West and restricted in the East. We battle between on a vacation to take a break from the war, but 43 years losing children, to living in a violent settler-colonial on and he has only ever gone back for six short stays. her skin from one end of her rib cage to another. Some disorders making up the greatest proportion (35 per islamophobic state, to being policed on our expressions finding comfort in a culture that confines us and of the marks are testaments to the children that she has 1972 cent), followed by depressive disorders (32 per cent). breaking free from the chains we don’t often know we Tayta says that there is nothing left for her in Lebnan — our experiences are intergenerational. anymore. Her parents have long since passed away and lost. My Mama says that Tayta has had 14 miscarriages Dealing with emotional, financial and physical abuse, They are not passed down but passed through, and have. As a result, it is impossible to have even a slight and counts seven as somewhat traumatic. It is in these Born the oldest girl, Mama knows tough skin like alongside cheating, I still know that my Mama was one understanding of mental health issues among Arab she now struggles to find a feeling of home in the land all we have is each other. To be an Arab woman is to that she was born in; in the land that she had to bury losses that Tayta wishes the most that she knew how to no other. Between being a translator for her migrant of the lucky ones. know sorrow like another language, but to live despite women unless an intersectional and intergenerational speak English. parents, and helping Tayta raise her baby brothers and Mama has thanked God many times for the fact that lens is used. her first son. this. To exist is to resist, and to resist is to survive, and Of all the losses she’s had, from her first son when sisters, Mama has had the experience of mothering to she has only given birth to girls. My father was the survival will only continue if we erase the problematic last a lifetime. Born in Bhanine in a tiny house in the oldest of his family, and, in a twisted and old cultural masculinities that are embedded within our culture. middle of a farming town, my Mama arrived in Sydney practice, wished that every single one of us were with a single word of English on her lips. Her name is boys. For my Mama, this meant more abuse targeted first wife. She once at another element of her life that was out of anyone’s ﷺ Kadije, like Khadija, the Prophet’s told me that in high school some students nicknamed control. She gave birth with only my Tayta as support. her “cabbage” because they couldn’t pronounce her Many times during my childhood, I knew my name. She laughs it off, says it was normal at the time, mother, though extraordinary in many ways, continued but can now acknowledge that those students were to battle demons long after her divorce. Years after she probably racist. had resigned from fashion designing, she studied social work. Though the profession is rigorously focused on wellbeing and coping, I still see the struggle. I still see Her name is Kadije, like Khadija, the post-traumatic stress with which she is forced to the Prophet’s first wife. She navigate the world. I still see the scars that my father .and the patriarchy have left on her ﷺ once told me that in high school some students nicknamed her 1998 “cabbage” because they couldn’t I was born the second of three girls to a passionately pronounce her name. Lebnani family in the suburb of Bankstown, and I am well aware of the fact that being born in this country In the early 1990s my mother was an accomplished affords me the utmost privilege. For that I will be fashion designer, working hard to become an assistant forever grateful. However, despite this privilege, to be at Supré and living the life she dreamt of. She was born in this violent settler-colonialist country as an successful, came from a well respected family and was Arab Muslim woman is also to be caught between a hard worker. Men all around flocked at the family two different forms of patriarchy: one that is rooted home one by one, asking for permission to “get to know” in whiteness, and one that is deeply entrenched in the my mother, all with the end goal of marrying her. She culture that one has learnt by heart. It is to be told that, never really gave many men time of day until she went despite the so-called progressiveness of this country, to visit Lebnan. my anxieties are absurd. That despite my depressions, Calling him the handsome boy next door, Mama I need to remain positive and grateful. My Tayta and always reminds me that she should’ve paid more my Mama have endured pain too long and too deep Art by Olivia Allanson

12 13 My mother often recalls feeling lonely in her first few months in Australia. Compared to India, this country felt empty and there weren’t a lot of people; she could FOUNDATIONS identify with. In her first few weeks here, she opened up a White Pages telephone book and called one of the only other Jhas in there, just to find someone to talk to. As more Indians migrated to Australia, a sense of com- MIGRANT EXPERIENCES: munity started to develop. This is a photo of my parents, celebrating my sister’s first birthday in a park, along A PHOTO ESSAY with ten or so other young Indian families — Pranay Jha

Mum’s family is Hoklo and their ancestral home is Tangbeiyuan, a riverside village in Guangdong. Mum came to Sydney just before the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, after which she became one of thousands of Chinese students to be grant- ed asylum by Bob Hawke. This is her visiting Can- berra not long after the news. She was learning English at the time and had her first job: boiling rice in the school’s kitchen for $20 a day. — Annie Zhang

This is my mum and dad on their second day in Aus- tralia; Mum had just joined Melbourne Uni as a re- search fellow. Both of my parents have had their adult lives defined by academia; both of them have PhDs, mum in biology and dad in genetics. Mum’s The word “multicultural” likely had its heyday sometime in the 1990s in Australia. While debates on the perils of a so- continued that theme through to this day – after called “Asian invasion” were had in Parliament House, thousands of non-white migrants moved to Australia. They moved my brother was born, she became a school teacher not only from one country to another, but perhaps between states, or even from suburb to suburb. Among these thou- and is now a principal. With both my brother and I sands were our parents and grandparents, some of whom arrived even before the infamous nineties migration boom. fully invested in academia as young adults, not only Between us, we share a sense of nostalgia for the period of time during which our relatives found our feet in their new does this photo capture my parents’ migrant ex- abodes – even though we weren’t necessarily alive at the time. That sentimental feeling is evoked by the pictures in this perience, but my entire family’s. — Daanyal Saeed piece: an earnest sense of novelty, excitement and subdued fear.

15 14 MULTILINGUAL

This is an image of my Tayta and my Jedo in the middle of the 1970s in an unknown location. They were only Little Jinan supposed to be in Australia for one year, but forty-three Poem and Art by Max Zhuili years on, my Jedo swears that he will only lay to rest here. My Jedo was a farmer by trade in Lebnan and he told me that in background on the left there is a Zaytoon (olive) tree. Zaytoon trees can survive in neglect for 几 风 里 hundreds of years, with some living as old as 1500 years. 早 家 柳 巷 — Layla Mkh 一 晴 曲 城 夏 小 照 粼 屋 山 松 水 间 莲 夜 粼 舍 杜 历 池 碧 叶 城 巢 霜 廊 宇 历 泉 玉 清 来 月 前 遍 暖 点 满 水 南 卧， 渚， 翠， 出 ， Here, my parents are waiting for a train at Gymea 歌 阳 墨 堂 station sometime in the early 1990s, around the 途 。 庐。 竹。 湖。 time they moved to Australia. They have been living in Gymea, a suburb in the Sutherland Shire, for over 25 years. They were one of few ethnic families to migrate to this traditionally white en- clave – not much has changed. I catch the train to university from this station, too. The rose bushes have been replaced with lavender and camellia.

My dad had come to Australia in 1986, having well established a life as a bachelor who worked at Time- zone and spent his money on clothes, cricket and travelling. My dad travelled home eight years later after he had gotten his citizenship and had an ar- ranged marriage with my mum. My parents lived apart for a year, waiting for my mum to come over to Australia. My mum, a quiet introvert came one year after marriage to this fast paced life her hus- band had, both excited and in awe. — Rameen Hayat

16 17 CULTURE CREATIVE A Fort Called Contemporary Art Grace Johnson deconstructs stigmas surrounding modern contemporary art.

In an episode of It’s Always Sunny in remain ignorant to the majority of art has seemingly ended, where there is declining years was trying to deny. That Philadelphia, Danny DeVito’s character throughout history, both traditional now a myriad of highly individual relationship is the lost paradise that art pretends to be a “high society art type” and modern, there does seem to be a interpretations drawn from various wants to give back to us, not as children named Ongo Gablogian to convince the common appreciation of it, even if it’s sources, very often beyond art itself, as but as adults. It’s also what the modern gallery owner to visit an art exhibition only understood in layman’s terms. we know it. Multimedia, installation, and the old have in common: Pollock at a bar. He streams into the gallery, However, the world of contemporary and performance art question the very with Turner, Matisse with Rubens, pointing at the walls and exclaiming, art remains elusive and out of reach. nature of art and much of its meaning Braques with Poussin. i wear your shirt as a constant reminder of our love “Bullshit! Bullshit! Derivative!” And In a few months time, 85 galleries is what we give to it, like Danny DeVito “The basic project of art is to make then he stops and says… “That…I will come to Carriageworks for the as Ongo Gablogian, ‘Fountain’ by Marcel the world whole and comprehensible, love! I absolutely love!” To which his 2019 edition of Sydney Contemporary, Duchamp, a readymade sculpture of to restore it to us in all its glory and i wear your shirt as a constant reminder of our love companion, the gallery owner replies, Australasia’s International Art Fair. The a porcelain urinal, or Rene Magritte’s its occasional nastiness, not through “That’s just the air conditioner.” website advertises the fair as “five days ‘Treachery of Images,’ a painting of a argument but through feeling. And “I want it! It’s everything. I mean, look of curated exhibitions and ambitious pipe with the writing below “Ceci n’est then to close the gap between you and i wear it to escape my broken heart at us. We’re just air conditioners. I mean, programming that appeals to the pas une pipe” (“This is not a pipe”). It everything that is not you and then to after all, we’re just walking around on serious collector, art lover, and those is art because we say it is. But is this pass from feeling to meaning.” the planet, breathing, conditioning the curious about contemporary art.” enough? Famed Australian art critic It’s in this space, where intellectualism my broken familial chart air. I condition it hot, that conditions it Since Renaissance times, art has Robert Hughes notoriously despised and conceptualism take precedence, cold. I mean, it’s symbiotic! You know? been institutional — an aspiring artist contemporary art. In his series ‘Shock that the emotional impact of art is lost. We’re just air conditioners, walking would pay to be an apprentice to a of the New,’ he discusses his problem Intellectualism and conceptualism is to remind myself that even if the two souls that bore me, around on this planet, screwing each master. They would receive patronage with contemporary art and the needed for progress in the arts but it is easy to lose sight of meaning in other’s brains out!” he croons. The for the arts and what they produced significance of art as a whole: “I don’t no longer shared a love that once tore me, gallery owner begins nodding intently had great significance to its time, think we are ever again obliged to look the name of progress. Much of the and says, “That’s so true, I never thought whether for political statement or at a plywood box, or a row of bricks on meaning of art lies in not just what of it like that.” an expression of beauty. Apart from the floor… and think ‘This is the real is expressed but how it is expressed a love lacking of respect and admiration The world of art prides itself on its this, their aesthetic conception of art thing. This is the necessary art of our — the message being in the medium. exclusivity. You can only appreciate it if emphasised the Greek word techne, time. This deserves respect.’ Because it One of the various purposes of art is you’re an insider, otherwise you merely meaning ‘craftsmanship’ or ‘art.’ Jump isn’t, and it doesn’t, and nobody cares. to challenge the audience, of course, of mutual self creation, remain ‘curious’ about it. Yet, even the forward to modern contemporary “The fact is, anyone except a child can but if the audience is made to feel most prestigious works of art have art and art isn’t as much about beauty make such a thing… because children they are inferior to understanding become public treasures, part of the or craftsmanship as it is about the have the kind of direct sensuous and contemporary art forms, then we must that i was still worthy of us collective conscious of creative history idea behind the work. The essentially complex relationships with the world ponder the new significance of art and and human achievement. While we may teleological model of art progression around them that modernism in its to whom it is directed. My Real Qualm With Bachelor in Paradise i was still worthy of living without the anxiety of impending love destruction of peace mutilation under a roof of so called childhood memory creation, Victoria Cooper wants more slipping, slopping and slapping in paradise. It has been about a month since Bachelor representation of both male and female on us as individuals. Perhaps this is removed on either side of the site to but rather i was worthy of dusty words, torn from the great romantic flings in Paradise (BIP) ended. I have packed body types, and is often slow to shut where we fall short, because we see the ensure it hadn’t spread. Ten stitches away my Osher bunting, farewelled my down toxic behaviour. With all of these short-term pain of a little sunburn as later, I have truly inscribed it on my tri-weekly viewing parties and finally things, it’s hard to pick just one to completely manageable so long as our heart that there is ‘nothing healthy of nectarous love dripping right from your heart strings, accepted that love is, indeed, dead. As criticise. F45, chicken weighing bodies can be about a tan.’ someone with a lifeless Instagram and But there is something that has flaunted, and we never need to put on We have to do better. BIP is not doing a weak wallet, and as someone who scratched at me every season: sun another long-sleeved rash-shirt. a particularly good job in perpetuating of a time when there were soaring heart beats relates all too well to those deemed safety. According to the Cancer Council the value of wearing polarised ‘single pringles’ — envying every single Since Jarrod Woodgate’s perma-red of Australia, sunburn causes ninety- sunglasses and getting in the shade, but one of those potato chips with the glow in season one and those fold-me- five per cent of melanomas, which are neither are we. At some point, we have banging against our rib cages, slowly yet rhythmically luxury of spooning each other in their in-half-hilarious words of that American the deadliest form of skin cancer. By to stop associating long-sleeve rash tin cans – my bulging heart-eyes could guy who said, “Shit dude, you’ve seen the age of seventy, two in every three shirts, and water-resistant draw-string not soak enough BIP and I dreamt many some sun”, it has been hard to ignore that, Australians will be diagnosed with skin hats with abnormally skinny, normally a dream of balmy, commitment-less in every episode, at least one cast member cancer. Sunburn bingo is a hoot and a hairy white dads and wear sun safety as one at a time days in the Fijian love sun. has been sunburnt. Indeed, my personal half until you realise that, statistically, a badge of honour. But, ‘with time comes perspective’, little game of ‘sunburn bingo’ quite nicely roughly 16 out of the 25 strong season Sun safety is called sun safety as they supposedly say, and much like passes the time when the whole ‘I want two cast will likely have skin cancer by because it is there to keep you safe, then together my 2009 beach themed bedroom, I have to find love’ thing gets a little bit dry. the age of seventy. Sunburn bingo just because the sun — much like love — come to see BIP in a new light. I now The sunburns are not my problem, they got awfully dark. is dangerous. accept that I am entirely incompatible are much more realistically the cast’s Few of us can criticise BIP for being for each other with the show. It would take about problem, as I can only imagine that the negligent without being hypocritical. a day for my liver to pickle from the producers deprive them of Aloe Vera I, for one, am an astonishingly white voluminous, all expenses paid day until they stare directly into the camera, hypocrite. Teenage years pretending as your head lies on my shoulder drinking. I like to let my body hair grow reach into their chest cavity, pull out their I could ‘tan’ have left me with a like my own little glassless terrarium. I heart and, while it is still beating, cry constellation of moles that make me in a time tender to my fickle mind would likely suffocate in the anxiety of about feeling unloved. look like an incomplete connect-the- the ‘pair up or pack up’ logic of the game. My greatest qualm is what those dots. Subliminally, I knew sunbaking, Thus, I will gladly drink my sauvignon burns represent — a wilful negligence or in my case, literally getting roasted in a time unsure i was to find again, blanc on the couch in my parents’ house of sun safety. Sun safety is called ‘sun by the sun, was a bad idea but I thought and remain a voyeur of those more safety’ because the concept is such that I could deal with it when I was in my Art by Amelia Mertha. confident than I forevermore. you staysafe, because the sun, much like twilight years. Last year I had a biopsy to hold hands, only to match our beats But again, ‘with time comes Tenielle running off into the night on on a mole I wasn’t convinced was a perspective’, and the perspective Nick Cummins’ season of The Bachelor, problem. Got it out. Got a stitch. Happy is a-plenty. I am, and have always is dangerous. As much as I dream of days. Two weeks later, the results came not once, but twice. been, morbidly aware of the show’s Osher interrupting every intimate back. It turned out that the mole was shortcomings. At a more critical level, conversation to remind the love puppets a nicely proportioned douchebag of BIP has employed unsubtle queerbaiting to slip, slop, slap, the responsibility to a problem and I was told I had to get techniques, failed to diversify its practice sun safety is unfortunately another three centimetres of skin

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