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photography BY jennifer yiu In Senate race, students lose The Honi Soit editorial team sifts through the rubble of the 2014 student Senate elections.

We were as surprised as anyone candidate Annabel Osborn. The This should never be a question we interest in the Senate election, by the election of Dalton Fogarty pair allege Fogarty breached the have to ask. But in this election, and very selectively contacted as the undergraduate student candidates’ guidelines by standing we do. We know that University those who had. Moreover, neither representative on Senate. In an near students as they voted, management was involved in the Massarani nor Osborn – students election that centred on the issue and that the Returning Officer elections, but we don’t know to who had overtly declared their of fee deregulation, Fogarty’s failed to respond appropriately or what extent. We know that, in intentions to “get involved with the answer to the question of where consistently. This complaint, and collaboration with the USU, they Senate process” – were invited to he stood was that it is ‘complex’ the attendant confusion around contacted at least two students and brunch with the Chancellor. And, – a euphemism, we can’t help what is and is not acceptable have good reason to believe that even if the Chancellor and Vice- but think, for “I’m not really in student Senate elections, number is higher. We know the Chancellor had acted consistently sure”. We thought, given this should spark a discussion about Chancellor and the Vice-Chancellor with the reasons they provided, it clear lack of engagement with overhauling them. Agenda items had morning tea with the Liberal was hardly principled for the most the most important student issue for that discussion: appointing an candidate Dean Shachar, but we powerful members of the Senate to the Senate has discussed this experienced, external Returning don’t know what was said or if covertly involve themselves in an year (entertained in calls for Officer; writing electoral anything was promised. election for the only two student Convocation, town hall meetings, regulations that run longer than seats on that body. It threatens the focus groups and purpotedly two sentences; and organising The University defended the very limited student space on our extensive consultation procedures), interviews and debates that would decision of the Chancellor and governing body, and it taints the that he was destined to repeat ensure candidates undergo proper Vice-Chancellor to contact rare instance of student democracy his 2012 showing – a vote count and thorough scrutiny. candidates, with a spokesperson there as well. somewhere in the region of 200 saying the pair “have always seen votes. Instead, he beat his nearest But aside from issues of Returning it as part of their responsibilities Why, then, did they do it? rival, incumbent Undergraduate Officers and regulations, a larger to encourage any student who Fellow Patrick Massarani, by question still lingers after this expresses an interest to get nearly 1,000 votes. election: did any of the candidates involved in the Senate process.” receive support from University This might be a passable excuse, This result is currently being management at any point in their except they reached out to people CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 contested by Massarani and fellow campaign? who had expressed absolutely no 3 Letters 16 Review: Schapelle! The Musical! letters 4-6 News commentary 17 SRC Help 7 Opinion 18-19 SRC Reports Vice-President Vegesoc), Priya Shaw opinion complain that ‘activism’ Bi or Trans student choosing to reach Contents 8 -9 Feature: Reforming home schooling 20 What’s On is threatening the jobs of “our out to their prospective societies for 10 An elegy for the clickwheel 21 Puzzles and quizzes An open Staff hardworking NSW miners again”, it support, I do not think there would be honi soit must be asked whether or not they any such anger, pointing to a troubling 11 Race in student politics 22-23 Honey Soy letter against issue #24 Nick Riemer (English and Linguistics know that their jobs might be being double-standard. 12 Courtyard is Other People departments); Kevin Lin (casual threatened themselves by freelance Islamophobia benevolent volunteers like Torres’ Instead of condemnation, we need 13 Lesbians are the New Black academic, NTEU); David Brophy (Lecturer, Department of History); willing to do the bidding of this more discussion and open-mindedness. 14-15 Investigation: international student housing Signatories of this statement stand Briony Neilson (History department); gargantuan industry for free? opposed to the growing racism, Anne Picot; Daisy Farnham (casual Aidan Quinn Islamophobia and fear-mongering of tutor); Erima Dall (casual tutor, Regards, the Abbott government. 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It’s easy to be transfixed by In many ways, we strived to go the way of society felt unfairly biased and more without “good reason” (effectively is pleasing, it was no surprise. completely in love with your piece on the nostalgia and decades of history attached to several college newspapers in the United States Where does this paper – the term now looking like a loose web of poorly concealed reversing the onus of proof), grant X-Men and oppression, but no that’s this paper, but it’s just as important to remain and operate as a daily, albeit with a weekly 24- more and more like an anachronistic metonym prejudices instead of weighing the police increased powers of arrest on What was surprising was that only one exactly what I’m saying I’m going to – go from here? What direction does it take? pros and cons of this new society. forward-looking, and not rest on the laurels of page supplement (and less money). suspicion of terrorism, and grant ASIO out of thirty-thousand students was frame that article on my wall and As a reader unassociated with the our predecessors. What will become of old mate Ibis? more protection and increased powers able to submit a piece outlining the nervously ask it to the year ten formal society, though admittedly a cis-male, This too has extended our reach beyond the to search and spy. conservative position on Divestment. and we’re going to have our first the article was troubling as it did not Following in the footsteps of the paper’s last two confines of campus and exposed us to an Fuck if we know. tentative sips of champagne together fairly present a case for this society’s editorial teams, we have endeavored to push audience of faraway fans and online trolls. At 2. The highly orchestrated terror raids The sentiment among the young at the after party. You married two of existence. Honi online and grow its digital presence. 2012 the time of printing we’re on track to crack half But for now, we’ll leave you with the words of carried out on 18 September, which right on campus is that conservatives my greatest loves – criticism of social gave us the first functionalHoni Soit website. a million visits to the website, just in our year- 1996 US presidential contender Kodos. Though amounted to a spectacle of police do exist a-plenty at USYD, but are systems and X-Men – and wrote a oppressed by a juvenile swathe of The main thrust of the article was 2013 took to Twitter and gave the campus live, long stewardship of this glorious rag. he was speaking to the plight of the American violence, intimidation and humiliation thoughtful article which challenged an moralistic young idealists. 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The Council accepts no responsibility for the accuracy of any of the opinions or information contained within this newspaper, nor does it Councillor, SRC Environment Officer, endorse any of the advertisements and insertions. 2 3 news commentary news commentary Uni fails sexual Two green thumbs up Geordie Crawford reports on the growing environmental movement, sweeping campus and country. harrassment victim The last weekend of September referendum should send a signal Chaneg Torres, who plagiarised Super have announced they will saw a series of protests against to the University administration: a number of passages from NSW be dumping holdings in select coal mining in northwest NSW’s “As primary stakeholders of Liberal MLC Scot MacDonald’s fossil fuel companies. The Uniting The University has failed to protect a student who had their naked photo shared Leard Forest that included one our university, and as primary website and other sources in a Church in Australia Assembly has without their consent, reports Christina White. protestor strapping himself to a stakeholders of the future of the recent Honi Soit print debate on also committed to divestment. train line. The protest, staged by planet, our voice should be, and the divestment referendum. nearly 200 people, was carried out will be heard.” USyd’s Students’ Representative at four mines and one coal loader In an almost word for word Council is now even targeting across the state. The daredevil A recent Bloomberg New Energy translation of MacDonald, Torres businesses affiliated with fossil In May 2013, ______auspices of the Office of General protestor who tied himself to Finance (BNEF) report claims that wrote: “Australia’s international fuel investments. The Council took a naked photo of a woman Council, at the request of the “I was not kept up to date with the train tracks caused delays at coal divestment is viable due to customers would simply has sent a letter to the National he was with, on his mobile phone. Registrar. They appear to be Newcastle’s port, the world’s the dramatically decreasing global substitute our resources for poorer Australia Bank (NAB) threatening “I took a photo of us in a state of shrouded in bureaucracy and investigation and would often not hear largest coal export terminal. value of this resource. With stock quality coal from international to split ties if the organisation does undress without your knowledge secrecy. prices of coal-extraction companies competitors.” not divest from coal and gas export or consent,” ______stated in a from Student Affairs for weeks.” The protests were primarily halving since 2009, the report projects in the Great Barrier Reef. letter to the woman. “After I found “I was not kept up to date with targeted at Whitehaven Coal’s suggests that “other large sectors Some of the world’s most the photograph, I showed it to the investigation and would often mining development at Maules could absorb coal equity dollars, as notorious polluters, however, are Despite this action and the other students that we both know.” not hear from Student Affairs to colleagues within the sector, the suggested she call security. Creek in the Leard Forest. The could clean energy.” making conscious decisions to general trend it reflects, it is hard ______shared the image at parties, for weeks. Towards the end of penalties that are applied here at project has been criticised for limit their carbon footprint. For to see the Maules Creek mine showed it to mutual friends and the investigation Student Affairs Sydney are commensurate with SRC Sexual Harassment Officer destroying pristine wildlife and The report also states that instance, China, which consumes development being overruled. other USyd students, the victim would not return my calls or those applied for similar breaches Georgia Carr believes the multiple cultural heritage sites divestment from oil and gas as much coal as the rest of the Whitehaven Coal have already told Honi. The photo was taken emails. I had to push them to find in other universities.” University could be doing much belonging to Indigenous Gomeroi companies could take longer and world combined, will implement been taken to court and seen during intercourse and her eyes out if the case had been closed more to support to those in need. custodians. Local farmers are also be more difficult. Yet Schofield environmental restrictions on coal the project approved, while both were shut, she said. or not.” The Vice-Chancellor’s office “Stories like this one, as well as concerned that the company’s says divestment is compatible imports from January 2015. India federal Labor and Liberal parties refused to comment. the reports and anecdotes of sexual water use may deplete nearby with economic sustainability: too is making efforts to change also support the mine. At the May meeting, ______agreed ______’s actions may constitute harassment and assault that come water tables by several metres. “We haven’t suggested that all its energy consumption patterns, a crime under NSW law. Taking to make a public apology at a later In contrast, last week the Vice- out of residential colleges during investment in fossil fuels be with Prime Minister Narendra However, if recent protests are a photo of someone in a “state of date, she said. Honi understands Chancellor of Otago University O-Week and throughout the year, In August, the University ceased tomorrow, we have instead Modi organising a global investor an indication of resolve, activists undress” without their consent that no public apology has been Professor Harlene Hayne are indicative of a lack administration announced it would proposed that of USyd’s holdings, summit focusing on renewable will continue to fight Whitehaven can result in a jail sentence of up made to date. Student Affairs publically condemned similar of initiative,” said Carr. review its investment policies the uni should divest from all energy for February. long into the future. Another to two years. Police did not press told the woman they would not actions of students posting explicit and withhold purchases in all companies whose primary business company that is mining in the charges due to a six-month time facilitate a second meeting, and it photos of their girlfriends on The way USyd deals with sexual consumable fuels until its findings is the extraction, transportation As more foreign governments Leard Forest, Idemitsu, was limit on commencing proceedings was her responsibility to do so. The Facebook. “We will take action to harassment is insufficient. Carr were complete. Since then, the and processing of coal, oil and gas. commit to environmental reform, worried about protestors enough from the date of the offence (in the woman explained how the burden set an example to the university outlined what better services could University has been “unable to The effect of divestment…will be the argument that Australia to hire a security consultancy that absence of aggravating factors) was insurmountable: “It is not and wider community that be introduced. “Services like a provide any further commentary another prominent institutional should continue to invest in coal embedded spies within activist and the victim did not find out possible for me to organise all the this sort of behavior is totally hotline for anonymous reporting on this matter.” voice added to the many calls for to prevent misuse becomes less groups. about the photo’s existence until parties (his friends especially) to unacceptable on every front,” of sexual harassment on campus a just transition away from fossil convincing. eight months after it had occurred. attend an apology meeting.” said Hayne. should be readily available, as The recent student referendum on fuels, that is both environmentally There is no doubt that mining well as an immediate point of fossil fuel divestment represents and economically sustainable.” Indeed, the case is gaining companies see protestors as a The University was made aware Further, the woman says she The woman continues to be contact for harassment that a major victory for student little traction as companies and threat to their business model. of the incident in January this has not been informed of any harassed by other students. occurs in residential colleges or activists. 79.67 per cent of USyd Some pro-coal advocates have organisations around the world Through a combination of investor year, but appears to have taken punishment taken against “Since semester one this year at university-run events such as undergraduate voters supported suggested that any form of consider divestment. A number boycotts, student referendums, and little action and dragged their feet ______. He sent an apology I have experienced intimidation, faculty balls and dinners which divestment from companies whose divestment may lead foreign of prominent overseas groups, creative grassroots protests, the at every step. ______still studies, occur at this time of year.” primary business involves fossil investors to purchase shares in including Stanford University and campaign to save the Leard Forest lives, and works on campus. fuels. international coal companies with the Rockefeller Brothers, have may yet succeed. USyd’s failure to punish him This woman was brave, but she poor environmental records. divested themselves of fossil fuel speaks to a broader resitance to “I feel abandoned by the University. is by no means the only victim of SRC Environment Officer and stocks already. In the last two take sexual harassment seriously. USyd’s inertia. “I feel abandoned Fossil Free USyd Collective This case was made by weeks the Australian National I spoke out hoping to make a change.” by the University,” she said. member, Clo Schofield, said the Conservative Club President, University and Local Government “I had to fight to get Student “I spoke out hoping to make Affairs to consider it a breach of a change, to fight for my rights misconduct and investigate my and those of my fellow students.” claim. It took months to process letter to her, but it seems that been groped at social functions, it (from January to August),” the the University has not forced excluded from social settings, Incidents of sexual harassment woman said. him to do anything. He is still a insulted and oversexualised by are a window into sexism and student on campus, and retains a group of his friends on and off misogyny that run throughout The Sydney Morning Herald reported his position as a Resident Liason campus,” she said. “Students make society; USyd is by no means that the University facilitated a at Darlington Road Terraces, comments about my body. This has exempt from these harmful meeting between the students in campus accommodation owned and happened on most of the days I cultures. Indeed, through its May. However, the woman has told operated by USyd. In this role, he attend university: it has happened inaction it becomes complicit Honi the University was reluctant is in a position of authority over in the library, walking around in a culture of silencing victims. to proceed with any such meeting, younger students in their place campus or at campus events.” offered little to no assistance, and of residence. “By concealing what they have that she had to push them The Student Affairs department done the University is condoning to organize a meeting. The Head of Student Affairs, Idena at USyd has offered her no his behaviour,” said the woman. Rex could not comment on the practical support regarding long- “They appear to be more concerned “I had to fight for it,” she said. matter specifically, but toldHoni term harassment. They initially about dampening this down, “I was told to run the meeting and the “penalty of expulsion is applied advised her to take out individual keeping the status quo and was given no help or direction from for [only] very serious incidents of misconduct claims against each protecting themselves. This makes the Head of Student Affairs.” misconduct.” person harassing her, but there me concerned for other students’ were too many instances to deal experience on the campus.” Allegations of student misconduct Rex added, “In my experience of with separately. Student Affairs are investigated under the working in universities and talking then withdrew this offer and

4 IMAGE: CLO SCHOFIELD. 5 News Commentary opinion A missed opportunity Solidarity and sexuality Their governance arrangements Assuming that the University can wing Presidential candidates received Anonymous and Anonymous explore the shortcomings of sex-positivity. need to reflect this reality.” The count to 12 just as well as we can, more than 4,000. If the campus left CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Act’s intention was to ensure that its incentive for intervening in this had engaged with the Senate elections We are sitting in some café on King positivity’, it might seem so. For those wom*n who have experienced how Laci assures us sex positivity is about elected staff, students and graduates election seems, therefore, clear; a with the same energy and fervour Street on a Thursday evening. The in the dark, sex positivity, as defined sexuality can be inconsistent with “just “potential”, but its discourse is not would hold the minority of seats left-wing, anti-deregulation bloc would they had shown in the SRC elections conversation turns to our plans for by YouTuber Laci Green, is “the embrace it” rhetoric, the expectation positioned so. Seeking an aspirational The University Senate is the top on university governing bodies, have thwarted any intentions it may a few weeks earlier (and, presumably, the night – will it be a big one? Are cultural philosophy that understands to perform to the rose-tinted dialogue reality where sex is not complex and governing body of this university. through increasing the flexibility be harbouring to hike fees, despite won a similar number of votes), no we going to get wasted? And then sexuality as a potentially positive of sex positivity has often invalidated confusing requires diminishing the It hires the Chancellor and Vice- that university management had in vociferous protest from USyd staff and amount of coercion or management of course, a painful non sequitur. force in one’s life”. It celebrates our experiences and perpetuated self- fact it presently is. We can’t support a Chancellor, decides the university’s deciding the size and make-up of these students throughout the year. interference could have got Dalton “Who’s feeling sexually frustrated?” “sexual diversity, differing desires and shame. feminism that acts as though access to strategic direction, and sets its bodies. This flexibility, Piccoli said, over the line. Instead, aside from a a friend asks, in all her blonde, relationship structures, and individual choice is uniform, that sexual violence budget. Importantly, in this political would give universities “freedom to Considering that, the travesty of this few Facebook statuses and profile leggy, outrageously attractive glory. choices based on consent”. Laci’s Further, by placing all the emphasis isn’t a tool of colonialism and that context, it approves fee deregulation govern themselves according to their election is not that Dalton Fogarty pictures changes, they were largely Everyone at the table raises their definition seems uncontroversial and on the individual subject to ensure differently-abled wom*n should fight proposals. individual missions and strategic may have stood over some people silent. We, too, must shoulder some hand – I don’t. She turns to me, we wish it was too, but unfortunately they practice enthusiastic, liberating hegemonic structures alone. By giving plans.” while they voted for him on his laptop. blame, having been distracted in our apparently incredulous. “Admit that we don’t live in a post-racial, post- sexual experiences, sex positivity sex and consent the complexity and It is made up of 22 Fellows: 10 That, ultimately, is little more than coverage by the shiny bauble that you’re sexually frustrated. Who have class, post-systematic-structures- inherently resists self-interrogation respect it demands, we can practice a appointed by either the University The management of this university, a fresh iteration of coercive campaign is SRC elections. This inattention you even had sex with recently?” I of-oppression-that-suck-and-warp- and criticism on a collective, structural philosophy that stands for all wom*n or NSW Government, including the through oversight or overconfidence, tactics that are used by ambitious speaks volumes about the left’s reply meekly that I just don’t feel that everything world. level. Instead of championing the by placing at its center those who are Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor, neglected to resize or restructure the student politicians year after year to misunderstanding of the Senate’s “sexual” at the moment, finish my idealised world of a million sexualities systematically erased. That doesn’t and 12 elected by students, staff and Senate in its favour. It has allowed try and get themselves elected. importance, and their unwillingness coffee and head home disgruntled but With its fixation on self-care and that are embraced and regarded mean rejecting the potential that alumni. Proposals brought to Senate a situation in which a bloc of 12 to work for change within University- apathetic. As a queer, wom*n of colour self-responsibility, sex positivity “equally” as Laci and we would sex can be positive, but accepting must pass a majority vote before they senators elected by staff, students and The real travesty is that he was controlled institutions, rather than with many well-meaning, but painfully can often fall into the neo-liberal like, sex positivity becomes a guise that it does not need to be and that can be implemented. Significantly, alumni could potentially change the elected in the place of a student just protesting their existence. The perfect white, heterosexual friends, trap of self-reliance and prescriptive for promoting the very patriarchal, presently it is not for many. For those therefore, if the 12 elected fellows strategic direction of the university. who could have helped divert the Senate is not students’ stomping negotiating one’s sexual anxieties is victim-blaming language of “you hetero-normative vision of sexuality wom*n who can embrace sex positivity were to vote as a bloc, they would Last year’s alumni election saw the strategic direction being pursued by ground as the SRC and USU Board difficult. And of course, the constant should”. This means that systems of that feminism should be destabilising comfortably, you are privileged. have the numbers to block any victory of a progressive ticket that this University’s management. Like are; but that doesn’t mean it should be pressure to adopt the open, fun-loving privilege are continually obfuscated – not abetting. We only need to look at However, exclaiming it to others and motions they deemed to be against has actively campaigned against fee it or not, the Senate has more power ignored. and liberal attitude – which they, and by a fun, free-for-all mentality that the increasing support for Cosmo as expecting them to adopt the same staff and student interests – including deregulation this year. Next year, the to determine the nature of students’ dominant feminist discourse, assume – regurgitates second-wave feminist a tool for empowerment; because last attitude is not only inconsiderate, motions to increase fees. staff elections will be held and there experiences at this University than Two students could have joined doesn’t make it any easier. notions of all women having an ‘equal time we checked, flawless eyebrows it’s unfair. So for solidarity’s sake: is a strong chance that four National the SRC or USU Board ever will. staff and alumni in blocking fee choice’. However, if one concedes the and “19 signs he wants you” doesn’t remember sex positivity is the future It was not intended to be this way. In Tertiary Education Union members deregulation at Sydney University. ‘Sex critical’ is a vexing term. By its complex, intersectional experiences scream accessible. ideal, but not our current reality. 2011, the NSW Liberal Government and one Community & Public Services Given the Senate’s powerful role, left Instead, we got someone who’s still very nature it implies something of oppression that many wom*n passed the University Governing Union member will be elected as wing students should not just decry working out whether it’s a good idea negative, and in comparison to ‘sex negotiate, this is problematic. As two Bodies Act. Education Minister Senate fellows. Two progressive others’ actions, but reassess their own or not. Adrian Piccoli, speaking to the bill students would have completed a bloc efforts. In the Senate elections, the in parliament, said that universities that could have stood as a powerful two left-wing candidates, Massarani Whether through scheming or just “are both major public institutions bulwark against any proposed and Osborn, received fewer than 900 sheer luck, University management All of Anonymous’s friends went to student of great strategic significance to the changes to USyd’s fees. votes between them. By contrast, in got exactly what it wanted out of this State and very significant businesses. the recent SRC elections, the two left- election. At all costs politics and all he got was a panic attack. As SRC elections conclude and council “Make sure you shake their hand at want to do something is emotionally I should not need to say that acting in positions for 2015 are being finalised, the beginning of the conversation, so manipulative. a way that makes someone feel guilty it pays to reflect on the campaign they feel obliged to keep talking to if they don’t want to do something is season. you.” “Ask them about themself so My reasons for not being okay with emotionally manipulative. they feel like you really care about manipulative campaign tactics are due My career as a ‘student politician’ them.” “Talk to international students, to my experience in an emotionally- This is in no way a faction-specific began on the 8th of September and they won’t have any idea what’s going abusive relationship. It’s the same problem, nor is it exclusively a ended two and a half weeks reason I was USyd problem. It points to an Alice in Cumberland later at 9:30 in the morning concerned about the ideological standpoint that plagues on the second day of polling, aggression I was student politics—that any group The unlikely story of how the Faculty of Health Sciences became the kingmakers of student in the New Law bathrooms, told to expect during gain to be made is more important having the world’s most campaigning on the than individual comfort or safety. politics. John Gooding reports. unnecessary meltdown. polling days. It’s the The generally accepted approach same reason I said I appears to be: “Fuck your integrity! Student campaigner wasn’t going to do it. This is politics!” Attempts to make For some stupid reason, the Stand Up! candidate Amy Knox 188 Cumberland’. “[The Indies] didn’t particular interest.” tactics are troublingly campaigners feel safe—grievance University of Sydney’s Faculty to 27 at Cumberland, and 104 to 2 pose any competition in 2011,” said manipulative in ways that “It’s okay if you’re officers, embryonic safe space of Health Sciences is not located on the second. The ticket accrued so Isabelle King, a Cumberland native Christians, Engineering students, larger scale campaigns shy, you just have policies—feel hollow when not at Camperdown campus. Rather, many votes and preferences on the who was a candidate at the top of the college kids and the conservative cannot be. Due to limited to get more used underpinned by a serious discussion prospective practitioners of health SRC ballot that three people from ticket both years. “They had more of “silent majority” have all been touted space and time, as well as to approaching about the way campaigns are run, science (who make up around ten per #CumboRepresent were elected to a presence in 2012, but it didn’t really as massive untapped voter bases, just a smaller constituency, it people,” was the about the violence and aggression they cent of the University’s student body) SRC, more than any other ticket in matter because Cumbo people are waiting for a student politician to ride is generally accepted that most common inspire, and about the toxic emotional must instead transport themselves to the election. loyal.” their clamouring support to victory. tactics such as approaching response to these manipulation of voters brought on Lidcombe to complete their studies at To write these groups off completely people in cafes, making repeat vocalisations by the supposed urgency of student the Cumberland campus. “Campaigning at Cumbo was rather This year’s three Cumberland SRC would be unfair; some in these blocs announcements in literally of discomfort—this politics. Rather than say “people easy, I’ll admit,” said Fiona Lieu, a councillors is a bit of a bonanza for do rock up and vote (just look at ‘Up every lecture ever, and the dismissal reached are going to scream insults in your In terms of student politics, the candidate with #CumboRepresent the Indies, and points to a broader the Colleges’ nabbing a councillor ‘walk and talk’—particularly the point where it face, but we’re ‘here for you’”, why campus is a perfect analogue to and SRC councilor-elect. “Cumbo is a trend. If you run a Cumberland local spot this year). But amid the hype, prevalent on polling days was simpler to just not implement rules to stop people Western Sydney, in addition to small campus so everyone knows each against generic campaigners, past the good people of Cumberland stand due to the importance placed do what I was asked screaming? actually being in Western Sydney. other, or has a two-degree separation. trends dictate you get at least one alone as the guaranteed Real Deal. on ‘walking voters over the despite my concerns. Every electoral season, campaigners You pull in a friend, and they’ll pull in councillor and a bevy of presidential line’—are the only way to The correct collective noun for a group of #usydvotes An article such as this feels futile and candidates make the trek out to theirs. You really notice how tight our votes. However, students would be advised engage otherwise largely campaigner is, like crows, a murder. The way these without a concrete model for future convince the people of Cumberland campus is – it’s cute.” to get in quickly or forever hold their disinterested students. campaigns are campaigns, but it is a conversation they have their best interests So how could Labor forget what they political aspirations, as electorate framed—this that absolutely must be had within at heart, before returning to “We heard that campaigning on main once reaped? According to Knox, it boundaries may soon be redrawn. The The problem is not whether or not on.” “Don’t worry about how people high stakes race wherein everything universities and factions. Better use Camperdown, often never to be seen campus was quite aggressive and we wasn’t a memory lapse but a matter of University is considering moving the these campaign tactics work—we know react, most people just want someone is worth it to “change student life can be made of online campaigning, or heard from again. wanted to avoid that at all costs … we principle. “I don’t think that we have faculty to the main campus, where they ‘work’, and that a bulk of votes to chat to while they walk into uni.” forever”—makes dissent impossible. To debates, and forums, to encourage wanted to promote an authentic group ever underestimated Cumberland Health Sciences students would be so are gained in this way. The problem argue against tactics used is to suggest students to participate in the This year Switchroots blitzed the of students for Cumbo, from Cumbo. as a campus,” said Knox. “Stand Up! sufficiently diffused among the local is that they shouldn’t work, and what Voters are not seen as people, but that whatever left wing ideal at conversation, as opposed to being a campus with the Indies/Grassroots That’s what won us the votes.” believes in running candidates who populace that campaigning directly to quasi-political advantage is achieved numbers—numbers whose reactions stake is not worth the trouble, and as (frequently unwilling) listener to it. #CumboRepresent ticket, which are passionate about student issues, them would be fruitless. The proposal through them is not worth the overall to being emotionally fucked with for such people tend to stay silent about The answer to not enough students had specific branding and supported The outpost was not always an and do not run candidates for the sake has not yet been finalised, but it’s psychological impact on both voters two and a half weeks are unimportant their discomfort. This, too, is highly caring about the issues raised in Grassroots candidate for SRC electoral bastion for the Indies; in of winning campaigns. It’s a shame looking likely that Cumberland will and campaigners. when a [1] in a little black box is on manipulative—as is the implication student elections is not: “terrify them President, Kyol Blakeney. On the 2011 and 2012 Labor ran a campus- we didn’t have a Cumberland student cease to be the political promised land the line. I should not need to say that, as ‘walk and talks’ are The Only into walking over the line and ticking first day of voting, Blakeney outpolled specific ticket, ‘Stand Up! for in Stand Up! this year who had this of yore. A selection of advice I was given whilst that acting in a way that makes Way to get votes, campaigners who a box, and give them a token Leave Me campaigning: someone feel guilty if they don’t don’t or can’t do them have little use. Alone sticker”.

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methodology: “I can testify that of Education (Early Childhood) of a Juris Doctor here at USyd. susceptible to peer pressure, and I our schools are an almost total at Queensland University She was homeschooled from age discovered a lot about myself and failure…The other reason for of Technology, and she was 13 to 15, and she also speaks very about the world – things that I homeschooling is the violence in homeschooled from grades 2 to 9. positively about her experience. would not have discovered if I had our schools. Teachers have lost stayed in school. But I also think control of students both in and out “I enjoyed it!” she tell us. “In my case, my mum took a homeschooling can be socially “We’re everywhere” of classrooms.” “Homeschooling suited me because very free-spirited, lax approach. isolating, and although there I was an organised kid who would Although I initially had strict are many faults in conventional Thousands of Australian students are lost in the The HSAQ details the effects do all my ‘schoolwork’ between like timetables that I tried to work to, education, I think the social aspect of its lobbying on its web page: 9-12 and then have the rest of the and syllabus outcomes that I was is fundamental to a young person’s homeschooling system, writes Georgia Kriz. Additional “[Legislators] have just begun to day for whatever I was currently trying to achieve, my mum did not development – even the negative back away from...the insistence into. Ultimately, as the eldest in believe in enforcing routines, and social aspects.” reporting by Andrew Bell. on using the outcomes of the the family I was seeking more gave little direction.” NSW Syllabus in the planning, social interaction with people my *** assessment and reporting of age so I chose to go to school in Her mother’s relaxed approach to educational programs.” Year 10, but I don’t regret being her education helped Carly develop The inquiry will hand down its homeschooled at all.” into a keen independent learner. findings and recommendations In addition there is a questionable in mid-November. It is not “I need you to change my name and homeschooling me they purposely Paul Green, a member of the the current registration processes “conscientious objector” clause When Bridget re-entered the “Instead of studying what my unreasonable to predict that law some identifying details, because stole my right to an education from Christian Democrats Party and the to be burdensome, intrusive, in the regulations, which allows mainstream schooling system, friends at school were, I was reform will be slated; no-one wants I’m on the other side of the fucking me,” she tells us. “My father says chair of the committee, agrees with unsupportive and more focussed parents to “give the Minister 10,000 children living off the world and I’m still scared.” that because he said sorry I should parts of Kaye’s assessment. [sic] on compliance than on written notice that the person grid, and no-one wants things to forgive him and that forgiveness educational quality,” they write. conscientiously objects on religious continue as they are. It seems the “Whatever you need, sure.” means never talking about it to “It is mind boggling that, in this grounds to registration under this multiplicity of cases means that anyone.” There is a pause in our day and age, we don’t know how “The inappropriate policies of the Act.” What is a sufficient trigger for legislators cannot treat every case “You’re going to change my name chat. The typing ellipse appears on many children are being home current system, the inconsistency this exception is unclear both from as alike; freedom is dangerous in right?” the screen. schooled…which says more about of Authorised Persons and the the process being a discouragement distressing registration experiences the Act and the Board of Teaching some cases and crucial in others. “Absolutely, yes.” “Especially not journalists. You are rather than an encouragement,” he of many home educators, has led Educational Standards regulations Part of the solution is increasing going to change my name, aren’t says. to an atmosphere of great anxiety on the matter, which provide that the opportunities for disillusioned “And can you send me a link to the you?” and fear amongst parents as they ‘there must be satisfactory evidence parents to engage with the system. story when it’s done?” He argues the problems associated approach registration.” that the registration would be *** with the lack of registration stem granted if an application had been That should involve opening up “Yes, and you can see it before it is from a system that places onerous A submission from the made’. The decision seems to be opportunities for students to published.” It seems that Jennifer’s sad story requirements on parents who have Homeschooling Registration grounded in ministerial discretion; participate in after-school activities of homeschooling abuse is not an already demonstrated an aptitude Reform Alliance of NSW reads there is little to no transparency without attending school during Jennifer* is a mother of two, in her outlier. In May of this year, the for Home Education. “Many people similarly, arguing the current laws or oversight, and it is almost the day, enriching their education early thirties, with a bachelor’s New South Wales Government are not registering because they’ve assume parental wrongdoing and impossible to ascertain how many and mitigating the possibility of degree. She lives a 13-hour flight established a Legislative Inquiry lost confidence in the authority are unnecessarily restrictive. of these exemptions have been isolation. away from her parents, and has not into homeschooling in reaction to or the school process,” he tells granted. Incentives for registration will communicated with them properly a sharp increase in homeschooling us. He also criticises the lack of “The current heavy-handed NSW certainly aid a substantial segment in years. But she is still utterly, enrolments and an increasing transparency in the administrative homeschooling regulations bring no *** of the homeschooling community. acutely terrified of them. Staunch number of concerns regarding process, arguing that parents benefit to our children, only intense “No schooling context can match However these changes should not fundamentalist Christians, they child welfare in homeschool “should be able to know why [they] scrutiny and repeated demands for that of homeschooling. The amount free misguided or abusive parents homeschooled her in rural New environments. have been rejected.” justification of parent’s educational South Wales for most of her provision by representatives of a of individual attention available to from constraints of accountability school-aged years. She suffered Earlier this year, The Sydney For Green, one of the most state education system that is out a child, the student-centred active by generating a system that has extraordinarily at their hands. Morning Herald reported that, important – if not the most of touch with the realities of home learning, individualised learning – even less oversight and even more between July 2008 and July 2012, important – aims for the inquiry education.” these are really beneficial things, uncertainty. Homeschooling policy “My dad didn’t want me going to there was a 40 per cent increase is facilitating freer homeschooling. pedagogically speaking.” has consistently failed to resolve school and he said it was because in the number of children being He says many parents choose to The Alliance instead argues this tension, yet we hope that the This is Dr Richard Walker, he was afraid that I would tell registered with the Board of homeschool their children because for a reframing of the issues of inquiry will prove to be a step an Associate Professor in the teachers ‘lies’ about what was Studies, Teaching and Education of valid ideological beliefs and homeschooling and abuse, and says towards doing so. Education and Social Work Faculty happening at home and that they’d Standards to be homeschooled in behavioural issues. they should be treated as discrete, see the bruises on me and report NSW. As of December 2013, there unrelated issues. at the University of Sydney. From the other side of the world, him,” she says. We are talking via were 3238 students registered. “The state should empower them He specialises in educational through the little blue Facebook Facebook chat – any other medium to maximise their educational “Tightening homeschooling psychology. He tells us that, chat box, we relay the stories of would be too intimate. However, the Home Education potential.” regulation off the back of misplaced in theory, homeschooling is positive homeschooling experiences Association estimates there are views about child protection has pedagogically ideal. and the details of some of the “He beat us a lot. He called it approximately another 10,000 *** shifted focus away from problems inquiry submissions to Jennifer. spanking but he used electrical children who are unregistered and within the child welfare system “Provided that the parents are Maybe, we propose, homeschooling cords, canes. I remember a cane homeschooled, living and learning The Inquiry has received over itself. The spheres of education highly educated people, who are should be deregulated to an extent, and a wooden slat being broken on off the bureaucratic radar. 300 submissions from parents, and child protection need to be committed to their child’s education to further enable these positive me. We would bleed. When I was lobby groups, teachers’ unions recognised as separate.” and who have the time and energy educational and personal outcomes. ten, he did something to me that I Deputy Chair of the Legislative and government departments. to do a good job, homeschooling is consider rape.” Council Select Committee and NSW Broadly, the submissions from pro- There is, then, consensus that great.” “Homeschooling ought to be illegal. Greens MP, John Kaye, tells us he homeschooling stakeholders have the law as it currently stands is If I hadn’t been homeschooled, Illustration by monica renn The abuse Jennifer suffered also is very concerned by the figures. argued for the deregulation of the deficient. But when we ask for his thoughts I don’t think I would have been went beyond the physical. Her sector, with many complaining the on the potential for deregulation of abused less, but I think that I education was extremely strictly- “Homeschooling is a relatively current enrolment and registration For a start, enforcement of current the sector, he‘s less optimistic. she was pleasantly surprised by reading about social and cultural might have had a chance that it controlled and her access to the high-risk activity. Although there process is unnecessarily opaque, provisions is rare. Bob Osmak, a her knowledge base, skills set and theory, I was listening to music I would have been noticed,” she “That seems very dangerous outside, secular world was limited. are some parents – well educated, complex and inefficient. member of the Home Schooling aptitude for learning. never would have discovered, I was replies. Science was limited to Creationism. loving parents with the time to put Association of Queensland (HSAQ) to me,” he says, slowly and watching things I never would have The “ungodly” texts of Harry Potter into educating their kids – who One such submission, from the who educated his nine children, forcefully. “Educational outcomes “I had stressed myself out before watched. It was a rich experience in “From my experience the and Sesame Street were banned. do quite well, the reality is that Home Education Association (HEA) is the only person to have been need to be monitored and state going to school thinking I’d be many ways.” homeschool parents that aren’t homeschooling carries risks of poor – the peak representative body for prosecuted for homeschooling in curriculums need to be adhered behind, and arrived to find I was abusive are by far the minority. Despite regaining control over her educational outcomes, educational homeschoolers in Australia – paints breach of regulations. He was to. Homeschooling is fine – I don’t nearly a year ahead in workload While she admits she had These parents need oversight. life by moving overseas, creating a neglect and, at worst, abuse,” he homeschooling as a “marginalised, found guilty of not registering his see why it can’t work satisfactorily and was at the top of my class in difficulty readjusting to traditional Almost every homeschooler I family of her own, and learning via says. unsupported and poorly understood 13-year-old daughter, and fined if you have sensible, committed pretty much everything for the rest education and social patterns know – and I know a lot over two TAFE, university and now online educational option in NSW”, $300 along with legal costs. parents – but the reality is that not of schooling.” when she returned to school for different countries – was abused.’” courses, Jennifer says she still “In the unregistered families it is and advocates for a bureaucratic every parent is like that.” Year 10, Carly maintains that her harbours anger and sadness over quite often the case that a child overhaul in the areas of He made a submission to a Bridget graduated Year 12 with homeschooling experience was a “You really know that many abuse Dr Walker is right: in many her homeschooling experience. won’t ever see anyone outside registration and processing. Parliamentary Education and an OP 4, which is equivalent to an positive one. victims?” we ask, incredulous. of their family and their family Innovation Committee in which cases, homeschooling works well ATAR of around 92. “I am still resentful. I feel like by home.” “Many NSW home educators find he outlined the reasons for his for children. Bridget Dennis is “I felt like I developed a stronger “We’re everywhere.” in her third year of a Bachelor Carly Mckenna is in her first year sense of who I was; I became less 8 9 analysis profile

Mary Ward pens a elegy for The desert of the wheel the iPod clickwheel. Kyol: blueprint for change I remember when we first met. never judged me for my choices. sessions; obviously not sharing those folks in the California labs And, with a simple hit of your our penchant for Fall Out Boy and (the ones you kid yourself into It was Christmas morning, 2004. central button I could pinpoint Sandy Thom). But, luckily, you thinking you come from) have Astha Rajvanshi talks to Kyol Blakeney, 87th President of the SRC, about the You were just off the boat from exactly where in Track 12 of the came back to me atop a second different ideas. With their decision China (via California, as you Lizzie McGuire Movie soundtrack I device. to retire the iPod Classic, their September elections, the ‘race card’, and his priorities for 2015. always made sure to remind me) wanted to start dancing around my assault on your kind is nearly and I was a wide-eyed schoolgirl room to. You were a bit smaller (ironic, complete. who had sat on Santa’s knee while given that my thumbs had grown pointing to a billboard. It was truly what dreams are made a bit larger over those past five For now, you’ll continue to exist as to it. At the same time, there were that’s why you’re going get elected’,” of. years), and a bit sleeker, and if I freely as you did two months ago. qualms – about racial polarization, he says. “I don’t want to be sitting “The pink mini, please!” held down some of your buttons Then only on eBay. Then only in about defining his candidacy on his in a room or on a board because I’m You never shamed me for using you were able to take me to new the hands of tech nuts who will ethnicity, and about creating the Aboriginal, I want be sitting in a room Two weeks passed and you arrived. you after eating greasy food, or impression that not voting for the or a board and making suggestions and wondrous places we had never take you and try to put you onto Indigenous candidate would suggest because I have the skills and the with fingers sweaty from a spin been before. You were different, other things, as some sort of retro ignorance or racism. knowledge to actually do that and At first I didn’t understand you. I bike. Hell, you revelled in it. With yes. But you were there. customisation. Then, eventually, make a change.” didn’t know what made you tick. your easy-to-clean surface you not at all. “To an extent I believe that [race] had “How can I make you tick?” I cried. remained perennially a sparkling And, I know what you’re going to some influence over the campaign, but For some, the overwhelming success Then I realised you were covered white. say: you’re still there. This is true. My click wheel. My sweet, sweet if you have heard me speak at previous and skills of Blakeney, an Aboriginal in a clear plastic protective film, campaigns, or read some of the articles man, or D’Souza, as a woman of I know that some might think it is click wheel. I will continue to click I’ve written, you’ll know that I’m not colour, is a reality that is a bit hard to and it all made sense. Eventually you left me in your in bad taste to write a eulogy for you when that blur in the corner of a fan of symbolism or tokenism, and swallow. first incarnation (it wasn’t your someone who isn’t actually dead. my iPod screen has spread across I don’t see it as a central part of the Once we stopped using protection, fault – the stupid screen For someone who is, in fact, the whole display. I will continue campaign,” says Blakeney. “Indigenous representation is always well… that’s when the magic decided to bail still a huge part of to click you when I update my going to be an issue in society. If you happened. on our your life. laptop software and it deletes But ‘symbolism’, ‘tokenism’, or want to talk about race or women’s ‘racial-redemption’ are all ideas used issues coming into the campaign … jam the entire library you helped me to deflect from the fact that within they come into the campaign because Your song wasn’t exactly a tick, But, you to curate. I will continue to click student politics, a veil of political they come into everyday life,” says more of a click. And we clicked, you see, you when Microsoft get their act correctness will often see sweeping, D’Souza. and I. We really did. together and release a music and often racist, generalisations or player that doesn’t look like it was The 2015 presidency of the Sydney end to the Labor stronghold that assumptions sneak past scrutiny. Similarly, Blakeney recalls his experience on the campaign trail: You let me control you unlike I designed by an eight-year-old boy University Students’ Representative has dominated the SRC, which not had ever controlled any user Council (SRC) marks a historic turn only places a considerable amount It’s what allowed campaigners to tell “At multiple points, I had gotten into with no eyes or hands. voters that Blakeney “was a lazy man debates about being Aboriginal in the access point for a portable for the organisation. of pressure to carry on the torch that burns through Labor, but also who just sits around smoking ciggies sense of ‘you get all these bonuses’, music device. I had you I will keep clicking you then. But, Kyol Blakeney will be the first a disbelief suggesting that this is a all day”, and for allegations that his and at the point you turn around and completely under my I fear, I cannot continue to hear Indigenous president in 20 years and one-off – and that next year, Labor will campaign was built on ‘a lie’ that say ‘Mate, have you ever heard of the thumb. Hilary Duff, Nikki your click forever. the first non-Labor president in 14, come back with full force to reclaim played the ‘race card’ to surface and Gap? Do you know why we’re there? Webster, Jamelia – you having won 61 per cent of the vote. the throne. spread like a plague . That’s what I’m trying to fix. So if you want to fix that and you want If student politics operates as a mirror “Obviously, I feel a fair bit of pressure “If I said I didn’t find it frustrating to see equality and you want to see to campus, students provide the right now,” concurs Blakeney, rather or that I was hurt I’d be lying,” says Aboriginal people stop trying to take blueprint for change. This election. matter-of-factly. “I would like to think Blakeney. “For the people that did go your bonuses that you think that we’re and his victor, seem to suggest there that it wouldn’t go back to ‘normal’ by out and call the campaign a lie and taking, vote for somebody that will is a desire, at least within the 2,349 the end of my term, I would like the a sham, I’d ask them to reflect on actually make it happen, don’t vote for undergraduate students who voted movement to keep going.” themselves quite heavily about the someone on the basis of tokenism.’” for Blakeney, to shake the existing types of things that they stand for. It’s structures of student leadership and “Grassroots is about empowering not my job to educate them.” *** representation from the ground up. people and we want to bring that Another World Game? to the SRC. One of the things that *** For now, Blakeney’s name is added Rupert Coy explores the increasing popularity of cricket outside of traditional heartlands. And yet, a day after Blakeney was I would aim to do to ensure that it to the honour roll of presidents past crowned 87th President of the SRC, doesn’t go back to your standard Kyol’s campaign manager Bebe – including High Court judge Michael among the insular bubble of student status-quo is to really promote what D’Souza has confirmed that none Kirby, leading journalist Richard politicians there was an unprecedented the SRC does so that students can of the campaigners were aware of Walsh, international human rights A young Chinese leg-spinner and Thailand, but many of these and women’s cricket tour of and New Zealnd due entirely level of distrust and suspicion cast on actually come down and use the SRC’s Dr Norman’s previous presidency lawyer Geoffrey Robertson, and of course, current Prime Minister Tony created cricketing history last squads are filled with expats. New Zealand, and dual-passport to the development of high- whether he had, in fact, won on fair services.” during the election. “Of course, we grounds. would never want to take away from Abbott. month by taking the first double Wisden reported on a British holders have been banned from quality local cricketers. The new *** the achievements of Dr Norman ... hat-trick in an international T20 student who began his gap year playing in the national team to strength of their domestic cricket Throughout the grueling three- that’s an awful thing. But to call As for Blakeney, his priorities as game. Despite Zhong Wenyi’s teaching in Argentina and ended ensure continued ownership of infrastructure also makes them week election, Blakeney’s campaign “Vote for Kyol, he’ll be the first this a campaign tool is absolutely SRC President for next year extend remarkable performance, South it opening the batting for them cricket among the locals. Ex-pats far more likely to achieve the suggested that he would become Indigenous president!” – this disgusting,” she says. to three broad issues: opposing Korea still won the Asian Games against Guyana. bring invaluable knowledge and continued success that has eluded the first Indigenous SRC president. sentiment echoed the persistent fee deregulation and fighting the reforms to higher education; ensuring match by six runs. On show was experience, but an over-reliance nations overly reliant on émigrés. Contrary to this assertion however, pleas of many Grassroots and Switch At some point, one wonders if exactly 20 years ago Indigenous campaigners during the election. Blakeney’s win actually matters for that the university’s new student the first generation of homegrown The last few years have seen on them stilts homegrown woman Dr Heidi Norman had already The symbolic importance was highly being the first, or second, or even housing project will be affordable players from the unlikeliest of a substantial increase in local development. Outside a dozen devoted nations, conquered this feat by winning the evident: to have Indigenous student third Indigenous presidency. To and accessible; and allowing as many countries. engagement throughout the non- cricket is still viewed as an exotic— 1994 SRC election. representation was rare and precious, most, the fact that since 1929, and students a voice in student issues as cricketing world. T20 cricket— Similarly, Nepal was transformed and British—game by much of but to also be a part of the inaugural indeed the inception of the SRC, there possible, whether through attending stakeholder meetings or using the With its tea breaks, googlies and three one-hour bite-sized games, by its national team’s qualification the world. But for the first time *** campaign was what inspired many to have only been two Indigenous SRC get involved. presidents comes as rude shock at SRC’s services. silly mid-offs, cricket is regarded with fireworks and cheerleaders for the T20 World Cup. Fans in China, Nepal, South Korea and best and something to be expected as an almost comical stereotype funded in part by Bollywood swamped the airport to greet elsewhere, children are growing up Blakeney, a third-year Education and Social Work student, currently And yet, to define Blakeney’s at worst. It does, however, beg the While racial reconciliation is of Britain. Like Monty Python, it billionaires—is capturing returning players, while local with a bat and ball in their hands. resides in St. Andrews College and candidacy by the colour of his skin questions: why do these inequalities something that will go beyond has a quirkiness that is difficult audiences worldwide. It has governments and the ICC are now served as the SRC’s Indigenous Officer presented certain problems and still persist? Why are people of colour just Blakeney’s campaign and his to translate. Until recently, penetrated cultural boundaries injecting money into school cricket In the early 20th Century, sub- this year. Originally from Werris complexities, and not just to those looked at with suspicion, doubt, or presidency, it suggests far from a the suggestion that their victories are stalemate situation. Indeed, to be cricket outside the test playing that test matches never could programs. continental cricketers eschewed Creek in northern NSW, he attended who were on opposing campaigns, who simply couldn’t deny the importance somehow inferior because they played the first or the second Indigenous nations largely consisted of small breach. the colonial way of playing cricket Scots College on a program set up by Aboriginal educator Waverley Stanley of Indigenous student leadership on ‘the race card’, or because of the skin president is irrelevant. What matters, gatherings of expatriates from Previously, Canada and the and devised markedly different that sends indigenous kids from campus. colour they embody? At university, one is that minorities – Indigenous or the cricketing world. The game’s This has been reflected by the USA qualified for the One Day strategies, developing a heavy remote and regional areas to private would expect a higher bar to be set for other – are speaking out and being length and complexity makes it growth of domestic cricket in International World Cup and reliance on spin bowling and wristy boarding schools, before coming to Without a doubt, Kyol’s Indigeneity inquiring minds to be more tolerant heard. and open-minded. particularly difficult for outsiders China. There are now 34 clubs in Champions Trophy respectively batting. Sydney University. mattered to his stature as a If there weren’t a vote to be cast in to understand and appreciate. Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, on the strength of ex-professionals presidential candidate. Without it, he may not have been able to appeal so “The idea that people would call the playing ‘the race card’, it would not be and these are actively encouraging from India and the Caribbean Just maybe, this new expansion His presidential campaign was part of the ‘broad coalition’ of Grassroots strongly to the emotions of hundreds of campaign ‘a lie’ or ‘a sham’ is actually needed. The great shame about the The International Cricket Council’s community participation, such as with dual passports. In stark of cricket will produce another and Switch, an assemblage of left-wing students who were either conscious of quite insulting … for the reason that world of student politics is that this is (ICC) recent expansionism has the inclusion of school teams in contrast, Papua New Guinea revolution. activist and independent students. the racial inequality that still persists those people were basing this entire the prejudiced reality in which we win led to national cricket teams in as their competitions. The Shandong will be competing in next year’s A Grassroots win represents an in areas of university, or are subject campaign on ‘oh you’re Aboriginal and or lose. diverse nations as Uganda, Oman Government sponsored a men’s ODI World Cup in Australia 10 11 photography BY peter walsh and patrick morrow

In the pilot of Ilene Chaiken’s number of lesbians on screen has which Stef and Lena’s sexuality seminal series The L Word, one increased since The L Word. But takes a back seat to just about can view almost every lesbian who are these lesbians? What are everything else in their lives – a stereotype known to woman. their ages, their life situations, much more accurate portrayal Androgynous womaniser Shane their desires? And – importantly – of adult lesbian life than the parties all night on the lesbian what part, if any, of their sexuality sexuality-centric The L Word. Stef scene, sports dyke Dana is is highlighted? and Lena’s lesbianism is not the struggling with coming out to her most interesting thing about them, parents, Alice fends off biphobic High school narratives have and the writers of The Fosters comments from her lesbian friends constituted one trend in lesbian acknowledge it. while navigating her extensive TV portrayals over the past ex-girlfriend baggage and – in decade, including shows South of There remains a serious dearth of questionable taste – long-term Nowhere, Glee, Pretty Little Liars butch lesbians on television, with PM: Peter picked the title, but I think ACCESS - PM), which nets you a of my brain that regulates taste had violently echoing while the server partners Bette and Tina try to and, most recently, Faking It. strong femme identities preferred it morbid and sensational – as is much tasting paddle of four beers, a bowl of been severed. Turns out it just tasted awkwardly asks me to settle my bill. trick a man into an unprotected While the lesbian storylines of the by networks and creators. Butch of what he writes. olives, and a garlic pizza crust. Our like nothing. threesome so Tina can become former three all revolve around dykes transgress normative garlic crust – which is an entire pizza PM: But before Peter cried and settled impregnated with his sperm. the discovery of sexuality in a lines of not just sexuality, but PW: I’m going to ignore that. cooked as if it were crust – erred on PM: After mains, Peter was our bill, we squeezed in (and by this heteronormative environment and also gender, making them a Courtyard’s windows look onto the side of burnt, but I would say approached by a certain immediate point it was a squeeze) a canola and This year marks a decade since The a subsequently difficult coming out, risky – and perhaps genuinely Parramatta Road, which, when you this is a flaw in execution and not in past President of the USU Board who a coffee éclair, with cappuccinos. It’s L Word first debuted on Showtime Faking It is a clear outlier. Set in forgotten – choice for mainstream really look at it, has the same infinite concept. insisted that if he just mentioned standard Union coffee. It mightn’t win in the US. It was a trailblazer a progressive Austin high school broadcast and cable program quality as a cloud. The road might her name at the bar, the bill would prizes, but it’s drinkable. The desserts at the time – although Ellen where the outcasts are the ‘cool characters. Even with this in mind, symbolise possibility, or the new HSC PM: The entree was great so long as be settled for him. With a smile, were rich and sweet, but it tasted Degeneres had come out on her kids’, Amy and Karma pretend to the continual absence of such an English area of study ‘discovery’, or – you don’t expect an orthodox pizza. I’ve she returned to the launch party, like that they had been on a shelf all self-titled show in 1997, and Willow be in a lesbian relationship in order enormous lesbian subculture is when you’re weighed down by gnocchi had the paddle several times since and but absent-mindedly left a full day. Actually, the vanilla cartocci fell for Tara on Buffy in 2000, 2004 to become more popular. However, somewhat remarkable. Teen shows – that too-full kind of sickness you feel the pizza crust was better on each of glass of champagne at our table! I is the pastry in the window I keep marked the first time a show had their plan goes awry when Amy especially steer clear of portraying when potato, cheese, and olives stick to those occasions. tried to correct the mistake but the coming back for, and, at a similar price focused exclusively on lesbians actually falls for Karma. butch lesbians, preferring to give their lesbian characters a your guts. anonymous ex-President was quite point to banana bread, it is – (to the and lesbian relationships. Over a long six seasons, The L Word sporty (Emily on Pretty Little Done with beer and pizza, we agreed sure the champagne was Peter’s. I dismay of my arteries – ) my new go-to Before you protest – yes, it sounds became inextricably embedded terribly clichéd – the show outdoes Liars), headstrong and aggressive In terms of ambience, the restaurant’s on the bruschetta for our starter. It think she was just being kind! This breakfast. in Western lesbian culture; it is its premise, and actually serves as (Santana on Glee) or vaguely all Ikea: white walls and bare was fine; a satisfying light snack with is presumably a courtesy extended to hated and loved, offensive and something as a clever inversion of tomboyish (Amy on Faking It) wooden tables. The product of a a salsa that lacked bite and came with all who visit Courtyard, and not just After paying, I looked at the PW: progressive, terribly written and a regular coming out story. Having persona instead. to those who regularly and violently commercialised imagination, it’s as if slightly soggy bread. I’m not decided window to see my own reflection and, utterly engaging. (Perhaps most already come out as a fake lesbian they want you to draw on everything as to whether it’s fun or inconvenient lambast Union establishments in beneath it, cars speeding past. The notoriously, The L Word’s opening and won the admiration of her Soft butches Shane in The L Word (‘make your own fun’, as it were), but that you get to build it yourself, but student news outlets. image, combined, was of my head theme music is roundly condemned peers, Amy is left scared only of and Sam in the Scottish serial Lip there are no crayons in sight. this is likely how they pass the savings being repeatedly run over. I want to as “the worst of all time”. Think her own feelings and how her most Service are the closest thing we on to students. PW: Courtyard’s prices are reasonable say that Courtyard is a failure of the this is a big call? Listen to it.) trusted friend will react to them. saw to a butch lesbian until Lea PM: While Peter resents this enough that I only mildly regretted imagination – the kind of place you’d Her predicament highlights that DeLaria appeared as Big Boo in cliché (though not his own), the Having flirted with conventional not taking the bribe. I won’t lie; I take your grandparents to die – but Over the ensuing ten years, we’ve coming out to oneself – regardless Orange is the New Black. DeLaria Japandanavian minimalism is clean Italian (I think Courtyard is meant, drank the champagne, but I paid the that would be spiteful. I enjoyed my seen a proliferation of lesbians in of external pressure – is a difficult – a self-proclaimed “big dyke” – and elegant as well as, according to predominantly, to do Italian food? bill in full! You’re unlikely to find a meal here, despite the errant mains. Western television serials. Spencer part of grappling with sexuality has BUTCH tattooed prominently one builder, eye-wateringly expensive. Are Courtyards a big thing in Italy?) three-course meal for two as cheap and Ashley of South of Nowhere as a teenager. (Although Amy’s down her arm and has spoken It’s a high quality finish that speaks to for most of the meal, Peter and I as Courtyard is on ACCESS, which PM: Peter is a wanker. If you want a came to our screens in 2005, we mother is non too pleased at extensively about her identity an outlet trying really hard to be taken strayed into what should have been is a refreshing suggestion that the beautiful place to sit in all weathers, met Santana from Glee in 2009, her daughter’s revelation, her as a butch lesbian in the media. seriously. It is light, spacious and just bolder territory for the main course. A USU actually cares about students with an impressively affordable, if 2010 brought both Lip Service and discomfort is used more as a tool However, the mere existence of Big so nice to sit in. While the exterior chicken (ORGANIC! IT’S ORGANIC on a budget. Sidenote on ambience: middling, menu then Courtyard is Emily from Pretty Little Liars. for comedy rather than a genuine Boo can’t be taken as an immediate quickly dissolves into embarrassing CHICKEN! - Menu) and avocado once it turned dark, Courtyard’s brilliant. Pasta of the Day is laughably Then, with 2013 and beyond, interaction with the issue). positive – in some episodes, she The Fosters, Faking It, Orphan benches in bright primary colours, for pizza was sweet and confused, but vibe was affecting, especially when cheap and usually quite good. Failing verges on being sexually predatory Black and Orange is the New – and butch dykes remain a the most part, Courtyard is a beautiful unexciting, while eating the burnt combined with the Radiohead on the that, none of the warm staff members While lesbian high schoolers have Black brought an unprecedented bizarrely underrepresented group. place to be. butter gnocchi was like consuming sound system. It may have overtaken mind if you bring in microwaved meals popped up consistently over the – albeit still small – number of past decade, lesbian families are Clag Paste. the balcony of the Holme Building from home. For all that this place does leading queer female characters to less common. The L Word saw The past decade has seen enormous PW: The entrees are remarkably – it as Sydney University’s number one to cater to the conference crowd (given television. Bette and Tina’s child Angelica – shifts in the way lesbians are place to have an early-life crisis. I can its proximity to The Refectory) it is, hurts to say – good value for $15.00 PW: One mouthful of the pizza and I the result of endless conversations portrayed on TV. Although The L imagine being dumped here, my sobs (better value still, at $12.70 with had a panic attack, thinking the part unfailingly, a student venue. The Gay & Lesbian Alliance about sperm donors, turkey Word remains dear to many lesbian Against Defamation (GLAAD) basters, custody, co-parenting hearts, some of the writing in Where We Are On TV report and every other possible dramatic that show was unforgivable – the provides an annual analysis of the lesbian parenting scenario. In undignified portrayal of trans man representation of LGBT people other shows, lesbian parenting Max Sweeney, for one, and the on television in the US. The 2014 is barely touched. However, the entirety of season six, for another. report shows four per cent of strongest show about a lesbian It was steeped in stereotypes, thick regular characters on US broadcast family currently in production is with unbelievable drama, and television are gay, lesbian or undeniably The Fosters. The soap showcased an array of characters bisexual, with the remaining 96 revolves around lesbian couple who constantly lacked the ability per cent straight. Women – queer Stef Foster and Lena Adams, and to make good decisions. But and straight alike – lose out to men their motley collection of biological, ultimately, The L Word set the when it comes to representation, adopted and foster children. foundation for myriad lesbian with a 60-40 gender split. shows to follow. Unsurprisingly, people of colour The Fosters touches on issues of lose out to white people as well: coming out and homophobia, but Where will the next decade take 27 per cent of regular characters also on race and, in particular, us? Perhaps the best indicators were people of colour, including family identity. In the first episode, lie in Netflix’sOrange is the New 13 per cent black and eight per foster child Callie reacts rudely to Black. In this lauded show, there cent Hispanic. These figures are the discovery her new family has is far less ‘coming out’ than past telling – even predictable – but two mothers: lesbian shows have indulged in, there are obvious issues associated sexuality is expressed both through with quantitative measures of “So you’re dykes,” she says. conversation and physicality, and representation; the portrayal of diverse representations of lesbians a character is manifestly more “They prefer the term people, but abound, including lesbians of important than their existence yeah. They’re gay,” says Stef and colour and a transgender lesbian. alone. Lena’s adopted son, Jesus. If other recent lesbian shows are anything to go by, these trends will As such, there are many aspects Jesus’s offhand response carries continue – each new show less of a of lesbian culture passed over by through to the rest of the show, in trailblazer than the last. GLAAD’s report. We know the

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“STUCCO would be more than This kind of informal, online ensure good living environments of our friends living in one place,” willing to provide for international approach was preferred overall for students.” All homestay said Thomson Ch’ng from the students but we can’t,” STUCCO to more complicated methods families require a background Council of International Students resident Riki said. “The like going through a real estate Criminal Records and Working Australia. government is simply against agent. “As a student, you are in With Children check. “[The international students… there’s a some way forced to rent with the advantage of] using us as a Kei McGrath, from the Illawarra A place to general preference for Australian few companies that easily rent middleman,” Agnes suggests, “[is Committee for International citizens. I guess this is politically to students; although they make that] we can act immediately on a Students, said international motivated – and linked with the things easier, they normally have student’s behalf to mediate”. students “don’t [often] understand mistaken misconception that all higher rental prices,” Fausto said. Australian law” and when they international students are rich.” Going through a real estate agent But there are risks with deal with landlords directly was seen as very difficult, with intermediaries too, with some rather than through agents “International students are eligible some students raising concern scamming international students they face “more opportunity call home for our temporary/emergency about discrimination. “Real for cash. In 2010, a significant for [exploitation].” Research by Josh Krook investigates the international student housing crisis. accommodation service,” STUCCO estate agents asked for too much number of international students Sydney University’s Derrick management told Honi. “The information and [it was] hard to were scammed into putting down Armstrong showed “40 per cent emergency accommodation get pay slips and provide a good deposits and bonds on apartments of [international] students had no protects people who are at risk of rental history,” says Khuyen. in Australia that didn’t even exist. signed tenancy agreement, 18 per In a recent Senate Committee, The reality facing International students who are no casual concession tickets becoming homeless,” Riki said, The “real estate agent is very “In another example,” points out cent had not paid a bond, 17 per Liberal Senator Sean Edwards international commute may save money for international students. “and can be accessed by calling an concerned with our financial a spokesperson from the Redfern cent had not received a receipt repeatedly referred to the majority students on rent but they lose out in International students can only SRC caseworker.” situation, so [it’s] harder for us to Legal Centre, “a student was told for their bond.” When disputes occupancy of international transportation costs. A recent buy 90 day and 365 day concession rent the whole property… if we did she would be sharing a room with did arise with the landlord over students of affordable student International students face a NSW Parliamentary inquiry tickets, at a significant outlay of With STUCCO ruled out, the next rent it, they love to check up on us one female. She [moved] in and conditions “the most frequent path housing as a “rorting” of the much higher cost-burden for their revealed that the cost of transport over $400 and $1500 respectively. cheapest option for international more often,” says Mollie. found out she had paid to reside in for resolution for the student was system. He said that the National degree (sometimes three times was seen as a significant barrier to students is shared housing. a basement with six males.” to leave the residence”. Rental Affordability Scheme what domestic students pay), a international students, affecting The University of Sydney’s However, this requires a network Mollie was unique in those (NRAS), set up by the Rudd very punitive exchange rate, and a their choice of accommodation, Derrick Armstrong cites this of friends already in the country. surveyed in having stayed in a This kind of overcrowding is very The proliferation of “cowboy government, had a significant higher cost for public transport. “with many students seeking “reluctance of… state governments Fausto says that now that he’s homestay, a private home offering common. The Australian Bureau landlords,” as the NSW Parliament “loophole” that allowed, for accommodation within walking to provide travel… concessions settled in Australia, he’s “looking accommodation to paying students, of Statistics suggests one quarter calls them, has led to a series of instance, Monash University to There is a common misconception distance of their institution, to international students” forward to moving to a new during her first year in Sydney. of full-time international students “cramped, illegal boarding houses,” house over 70% international that all international students are because they could not afford as a reason why so many (cheaper) place with a couple of “I was under 18. So my agent are living in “overcrowded” “associated with organized students in its subsidised units. living in apartments bought by to travel”. A Sydney University international students are under friends.” enrolled me in a language school, accommodation. Those I talked crime, including the sex trade their wealthy parents. A survey by survey found 90 per cent of “severe [financial] pressure”. A then the language school [had] to had only heard rumours: “I’ve and immigration rackets.” The Federal Social Services Minister the University of Sydney however, international students chose NSW Parliamentary Inquiry Every international student connection with homestays. So it heard stories where more than Daily Telegraph reported in July Kevin Andrews recently stated revealed that of 1850 international accommodation based on proximity recommended “introducing travel interviewed searched online to was all arranged before I came.” 10 people stay in the same house about “a raft of disgusting and the legislation would be changed students only 7 per cent lived in to the University. concessions for all international find their initial accommodation together… the landlord just chucks illicit rental accommodation, to explicitly state “tenancy “housing owned by their family”. students” – but the state in Sydney. Lily told me that “the There are now a significant beds wherever he or she can to with owners charging vulnerable preferences,” and prioritise More than 40 per cent by contrast, government has largely ignored internet helped a lot. Found this number of intermediaries like squeeze everyone in. But I didn’t students and migrants hundreds of domestic residents to bulwark “reported that their current costs this recommendation. place online and had to apply this, cashing in on Australia’s encounter it myself,” said Lily. dollars a week to share filthy, tiny, MINIMUM UPFRONT against “rorting” by “wealthy for accommodation was not within for it online.” Gumtree was a education export boom. Agnes living quarters.” RENT PER COSTS foreign students”. their budget”. NSW and Victoria remain the favourite. Khuyen said “I got the Ong, Marketing Executive of Riki, STUCCO resident, knew WEEK (FEES/ only states that still do not offer location [Strathfield] in mind Global Experience, a homestay of people sharing a living room Reports of international students DEPOSITS) In response, fearing the move may The majority of international concession cards to international so just searched on Gumtree for and apartment accommodation “split in two by a crude partition living in a shipping container, breach the Racial Discrimination students interviewed for this STUCCO $73 $292 students. information about it… I preferred service that caters to international wall, built by the landlord, just so a minibus and an illegal Act, Edwards asked: “I mean, if article seemed to fit these statistics to live in Strathfield as it’s a traffic students, suggests that the that they could charge double the demountable are the worst cases we don’t subsidise them, is that and said their parents often helped SYDNEY $285 $1340- Seeking junction, really convenient to key advantage of using an rent and use it as two bedrooms.” of this kind of abuse. The worry racism?” them out financially either to meet UNIVERSITY $2165 accomodation catch an express train to the city intermediary is safety. “When we are having Skype is that international students the cost of renting in Sydney or to VILLAGE in 15 minutes.” Shiran said “an conferencing with our family and may be subject to such conditions, The attendant representative of assist them with tuition. Fausto, One of the biggest challenges acquaintance posted a Gumtree Global Experience inspects the our friends in our home country we but unaware of their legal rights the Department of Social Services who has a scholarship with the UNILODGE $339 $730 + 4 facing international students ad for room availability on a uni houses of homestays and meets would not want to show them the to specific standards under replied, “It’s a complex matter”. University said “My parents have WKS RENT is securing adequate (and safe) society Facebook page.” “the potential host families… to background where they have seven Australian law. a budget reserved in any special INTERNATIONAL $367 $1510 accommodation in Sydney, Shiran The Current Scheme occasion.” HOUSE tells me. “When I first came to SANCTA SOPHIA $420 $1600 Australia I had no idea how to find NRAS is a scheme which sees Tuition costs overall were seen as accommodation. The only options government team up with local inhibitive, often three times what put forward by the University developers to offer tenants rent 20 domestic students pay per year. ST JOHN’S $484.50 $3575 related assistance were homestay, per cent below the market rate. Fausto, who studies a Master of which can range from great to It is incredibly popular among Professional Engineering, said WOMEN’S $514 $2970 awful depending on your luck universities who wish to offer he paid around $35, 000 a year. and University housing which is affordable housing options to Mollie, who studies a Bachelor of ridiculously expensive,” he said. ST ANDREW’S $555 $2949 students. It has spread to: ANU, Commerce, said she paid $35, 000 Monash, Deakin, UWA, UTAS, a year. Khuyen paid the lowest In my research, Sydney Uni University of Canberra, Charles out of all international students ST PAUL’S $609 $1560 colleges ranked as the most Darwin University (NT) and Edith interviewed at $11,000 a year for a expensive of all rental-housing Cowan University. Masters of Accounting. options in the local area. The cheapest option was STUCCO at Earlier this year Sydney A second major cost was rent. The commuting students we $73/week. STUCCO, however, University applied for 1,200 new Rental prices around Sydney surveyed paid less rent, but faced is unable to host international residential units under NRAS, to University remain prohibitive to high transportation costs. Shiran students. “Unfortunately we be subsidised $10,000 each. When all students but particularly to in Dulwich Hill pays $200 a week, cannot house international asked by The Australian about the international students, who may Mollie in Chatswood pays $150 a students… because STUCCO number of international students lack the local contacts to enter week and Khuyen in Strathfield is partly owned by the NSW who would be allowed into these share house arrangements. It is pays $210 a week. But the lack Government,” said Steph, from units, the University replied that rare for students living close to of casual international student STUCCO management. “We must it “didn’t yet know the mix.” university to pay below $250 a concession cards means that they adhere to the legislation [on] week. Of those we interviewed, the cannot travel to university as Community Housing Eligibility,” As of the May Budget, applications students living nearby University affordably as domestic students. legislation that only provides for under NRAS have been suspended. paid the highest, with Fausto in Shiran is “about 20-30 minutes Australian citizens and permanent It is unclear if this includes Newtown paying $375 a week and [away] by bus, depending on residents. Sydney University’s bid. Lily in Sydney Uni Village paying traffic,” but cannot make this $270/week. trip on a whim, because there 14 15 IMAGE: DONNIE NUNLEY, CC BY 2.0. Arts & culture src caseworker help Review: Schapelle! The Musical! They’re Picking On Me Andrew Passarello thinks Schapelle! was great (particularly the bits featuring other The University is bound by state Discrimination: “Unlawful The definition of harassment and and federal laws, to protect discrimination is any practice that discrimination is very specific. Journalist #2 and Chev Rolet). you against harassment and makes an unlawful distinction If you are being treated badly in discrimination. But what should between individuals or groups, so another sense perhaps it is more Ever since her capture in 2004, Journalist #2 played by Honi Editor in the audience, with intentional like Law or Arts Revue – but it you do if you feel you are being as to disadvantage some people like bullying or just unprofessional the evolving story of convicted and general BNoC Lane Sainty mispronunciation of “foreign” was as much fun as one could get harassed or discriminated against? and advantage others.” behaviour. This does not mean that drug smuggler Schapelle Corby was also a standout performer. words and names for comedic from a Thursday night at Manning it doesn’t count. It just means that has captivated a nation. From her Indeed it was Rajvanshi and effect. Bar. I’d go see a sequel – Schapelle What is Unlawful What can you do your complaint would be framed in dramatic arrest, to epic court case, Sainty that carried the show is back in Australia by 2017, so different terms to suit a different and finally her parole escapades, through its slightly excessive 60 Run as part of the USU’s Verge they’ll have plenty of new material Harassment? if you feel you are policy. SRC Caseworkers are still the Schapelle saga has something festival, it’s not quite as well to work with. God help us all. a good point of contact. minute runtime. The University’s Harassment and being harassed or for everyone. resourced and slick as something Discrimination Prevention Policy bisexuality and heterosexuality), Special mention discriminated against? and Resolution Procedure defines disability, age, carers’ Who does this protect The announcement of a musical, as well to Darby “Unlawful harassment” as “any responsibility, political belief, Contact an SRCHelp caseworker. themed around Schapelle, seemed Judd, who played a illustration BY from? type of behaviour that: lack of a political belief, lack of a They can gather your information like a logical progression from slurring and wasted mikaela bartels particular political belief (including and act as an advocate for you to Students are protected from other the media frenzy of the past ten Todd Carney, • the other person does not want; trade union activity or lack of it, place a complaint with the Staff students, teachers (permanent, years. Schapelle! The Musical follows replete with a bottle and and student association activity or and Student Equal Opportunity casual and contract), placement Australia’s favourite drug dealer of piss, which was lack of it), religious belief, lack of Unit. supervisors, and other contractors right from that fateful day at Bali sculled on stage • offends, insults, humiliates or a religious belief, and/or lack of a on campus. Airport arrivals, to the infamous to cheers from the intimidates them; and is either particular religious belief; and boozy night with Todd ‘Bubbling’ audience. What if the bad – sexual, or Carney earlier this year. • that, in the circumstances, a treatment you receive To see an SRC Help Caseworker If there is a – targets them because of their reasonable person should have call 9600 5222 to The casting was magnificent. criticism to level race, sex, pregnancy, marital expected would offend, insult, is not technically make an appointment or Victoria Zerbst, rising star of at the show, it’s status, transgender, sexual humiliate, or intimidate.” the enormous USyd performing that everyone was preference or orientation (including harassment or email: [email protected] arts scene, was a compelling and taken down a notch homosexuality, lesbianism, It then goes on to define Unlawful discrimination? convincing Schapelle. From the with the exception “true blue” Queensland drawl, to of the real idiots fake tan, the depiction was spot- (and losers) in the on. Corby saga – the SRC Legal Service SRC CASEWORKER HELP Q&A Australian public. Attention to detail was marvellous as well – the inclusion of Astha Overall the show Rajvanshi (of Former Immediate was pretty tasteful, Past President of the USU fame) though there were a as Chevrolet, the little-known couple of moments WE’VE GOT younger sister of Schapelle and that prompted “You can’t handle the truth about Schapelle!’ Mercedes, was a great move. raised eyebrows YOUR BACK Ask Abe Hello Abe, If You Have A Legal Problem? My friend told me that I can get back the superannuation We Can Help For FREE! payments that my boss made while I was working here. I am going Zizzling words from Žižek home to my country in December. What do I need to do? London correspondent Zoe Barnsley went to a talk with Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. Overseas Money Fines ‘Pop philosopher’, revisionary the surprising youth of the crowd, want to change how things work, impossible. Marxist, director and dissident, (which consisted largely of serious but have no idea how? Hello Overseas Money, Slavoj Žižek is outspoken about looking twenty something guys When people say “We cannot the need for a dramatic restructure in big coats), asked Žižek for his Žižek responded with three points, wait!”, don’t listen. They will Motor vehicle accidents The news on this is great for international students. If you worked of the capitalist socio-economic advice to young people looking the three ideas that he thought say, who cares about Hegel when here your boss could have paid money into a Superannuation system. He also consummately to effect change. The audience were of the most importance for children are dying in Somalia? fund for you. This is meant to be a savings for your retirement, rejects the ability of the “centrist- member took himself as an any revolutionary. He argues this is the logic of the Immigration however, since it is unlikely that you will be here then, you left” to achieve important change, example. He had just graduated ruling ideology. I translate this to can usually have it now. Of course there are conditions like in large part due to their focus from university, and was working The very concept of human mean: let’s do something so that your visa has expired or been cancelled and you have to be out upon cultural, as opposed to in the environmental sector. He rights, he argued, opens a gap we don’t think. Criminal Charges of the country to apply. You’ll need all of the details of your structural, alterations. He likes to had begun to note, with some – even where they only apply to Superannuation fund so keep copies of the statements that they draw heckles. level of desperation, that essential white males of a certain level If you are looking to cause change, send you. Go online to apply – www.ato.gov.au/content/downloads. changes to global environmental of citizenship and birth. This is what Žižek has to say is valuable Debts Normally you will get your money about a month later. 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16 src reports src reports President’s Report Education Officers’ Report Jennifer Light writes about the recent fossil fuel divestment referendum. Eleanor Morley and Ridah Hassan You may have noticed over the last into coal and other combustable run the SRC decide to take a look in Australia. However their On October 2 a bill was rushed By continuing the education Pyne has moved legislation in education system and the Group of couple of weeks that amongst the fuels until it had conducted a at our own investments. As the company statement says they through parliament containing campaign run by the National Parliament to further degrade Eight’s refusal to listen to students mania that was the SRC elections, review of its investment practices. SRC has no income we also don’t are “committed to understanding $430 million in cuts to Higher Union of Students, we can keep the equality in education, but students earn them both fail grades for the there was also another election have any major investments, other and managing the impacts and Education. $290m was lost in pressure on those in parliament. have set it back. Since our protest year 2014. taking place. This was for a Recently the Australian National than with our bank. The SRC dependencies of our business o relocation payments to students The successes of the year so far campaign began opposition to the referendum to vote whether or not University announced its decision banks with the National Australia the environment.” We are hoping moving between cities, and $143m have put student activists in good deregulation of fees has risen from All students are invited to join the the University of Sydney should to divest from seven miners on Bank, and as all four banks invest that our letter will be recognized was slashed by denying student stead to prevent the neoliberal 43% to 70% and it looks as if we NSW Education Action Network in divest from fossil fuels. Now of environmental, and social and in fossil fuels it was decided our by NAB and encourage all others allowances to those going overseas restructure of Australian could defeat this historic attack. delivering Pyne and Spence their course this does not have the power governance grounds. This is after best option would be to encourage to take part in the campaign of for less than six weeks. Universities. report cards for the year, starting the ANU student association to force the university senate or NAB to rethink its investments. putting their banks on notice. As But Pyne and the vice-chancellors, at 1pm outside Fisher Library! conducted a referendum about a investment committee to divest Therefore myself and Clo Schofield the Australian banking industry is Worryingly, this bill was supported The final major action for the particularly at the Group of Eight month ago. A the Financial Review from fossil fuels, however with an (one of the environment offcers) on controlled by four major banks that by the ALP. From this it is clear campaign this year is taking place Universities are tenacious in their If you would like to get in states “ANU is merely starting 80% vote in favor of divesting there behalf of the SRC wrote a letter all have investments in fossil fuel we cannot trust Labor to block this week, on October 16 at Sydney pursuit of a neoliberal, user- touch, contact us at education. what any leading university should is a definite push from the students putting NAB on notice. industries we felt putting our bank all the cuts to higher education University. We will be hearing pays education system. Sydney [email protected] do.” Divestment campaigns are to divest. on notice was the best option – we currently on the table at the hands speeches by Greens Senator Lee University vice-chancellor Michael being run all over the country and NAB has leant nearly $800 million need our money to go somewhere J of Abbott and Pyne. While they Rhiannon, NTEU Sydney Uni Spence has been publicly lobbying The outcome of the referendum hopefully ANU will begin the trend to support coal and gas projects have spoken out in opposition to branch president Michael Thomson to the senate and the media in on the Universities position has of Universities around the country in the Great Barrier Reef world Have a great week and don’t forget the deregulation of University and student activists. Following support of deregulation, despite not yet been clarified but the to DIVEST. heritage area over the past five to be environmentally friendly. fees, students cannot forget it was this, students will be delivering the fact that students have been University previously announced years, as well as loaning $4.4 Labor who just last year attempted end of year report cards to Chris protesting against it all year. that it would not invest further As the divest campaign was being billion to the fossil fuel industry to remove $2.3 billion in higher Pyne and Michael Spence education. Pyne’s horrific plans for the higher General Secretary’s Report James Leeder discusses the recent SRC elections and upcoming Representatives Elect. Global Solidarity Officers’ Report Welcome to the penultimate within the SRC who will use his and Education Officer are all begin their terms on December 1. April Holcombe and Anna Sanders Robinson General Secretary’s report for term to fight fee de-regulation decided at this event, which this 2014. To anyone who’s made it and promote activism on and off year will be held on Wednesday SRC elections are important but The SRC Global Solidarity Officers worldwide action against climate and have already resulted in raids we oppose them. this far, well done; to the rest, I’m campus. 29th October. each year it becomes clear that have been active around a number change. With a government that on people’s homes in the dead not really surprised. The elections reform is needed. Campaigns waste of issues recently. The bombing of doesn’t even believe in climate of night, although no evidence Finally, the issue of the potential are (thankfully) over and Kyol Despite the results of the election, These Office Bearers are elected an enormous amount of paper over Gaza and subsequent massacre of change it is important to stand up of terrorism was found. As it deregulation of university fees Blakeney has been elected as the the composition of next year’s internally by vote of the 33 several weeks and voting remains over 2000 Palestinians attracted against this issue that affects all stands more people die every remains central. The National 87th SRC President. Kyol has SRC remains unclear as most of newly elected councillors. All an unnecessarily confronting crowds of angry protestors to of us. year falling out of bed than they Union of Students has called been the Indigenous Officer for the the Officer Bearers are elected students are welcome to attend experience for some. I hope next Sydney Town Hall (and to similar do from terrorist attacks; in fact various actions around the country last two years and is the second at a later election, known as to hear candidates speak to their year’s SRC further reviews the protests around the country). We The recent attacks on Muslim there has never been a terrorist including a rally on Thursday Indigenous President of the SRC. Representatives Elect or ‘Reps nomination. After Reps Elect, electoral process and works to attended and helped to organise people through the Abbott attack in Australia. These laws October 16th at Fisher Library at He brings experience as an activist Elect’. Positions such as the these Office Bearers, along with increase its accessibility. these rallies, talking to people Government’s new anti-terror laws are Islamophobic, racist, fear 1pm to protest against this attack and as someone already involved General Secretary, Vice President the President and councillors, will about the issue of Palestine and are also extremely concerning. mongering by the government and on university education. The the importance of continuing to These laws are set to increase should definitely be opposed. We protests so far have been huge and fight for Palestinian freedom. ASIO’s powers dramatically have been petitioning on Eastern successful so getting out there and Another important rally we while restricting the freedoms of Avenue against the laws and the telling the government we will not attended was the People’s Climate ordinary people. The laws also Iraq War, talking to students about stand for their policies is even more Autonomous Wom*n of Colour Collective Mobilisation in Glebe, part of a target Muslim people specifically these outrageous attacks and why important than ever! Report Shareeka Helaluddin and Tabitha Prado I am writing this a day after the For me, one of the most significant this is becomingly increasingly capacity!), thank you. I hope you launch of the inaugural Honi Soit successes of the edition, is the tangible as Sydney Uni slowly but continue to fill pages, news feeds Sexual Harassment Officers’ Report edition autonomously compiled centrality of Wom*n of Colour surely comes to understand the and dash boards, with your radiant by those of us who identify as a (WoC) voices, and the sheer insidious (and of course, explicit) presence. For all WoC who take Georgia Carr and Kitty-Jean Laginha Person of Colour, Indigenous, from amount of space that we have bigotry that exists and sustained the time and energy to address an Ethno-Cultural background or taken up in the edition. Not going at this institution. praxis of oppression, know that Hey all. individuals that have faced and Against Racism (ACAR) who activist position within the SRC! otherwise marginalised by White to lie, I shed a tear when I realised you are no less than incredible; fought oppressions and prejudices last Wednesday launched the supremacy. I still feel elated from this, and the symbolic importance Despite the hostility and gross but always remember to take time We hope you’re keeping up with all throughout life. first Honi Soit edition written Lastly, we want to flag that if you the success of it all, and for having of us commanding space and misunderstandings the ACAR for yourself because breaking the craziness of academic studies and edited by ACAR. The launch or anyone you know has either been a part of such an important representation. I am not sure I edition is going to receive (a down hegemonies is an exhausting and extra-curriculars. We’re This month, October, is the month night showcased some incredible experienced sexual assault or - not to mention historically have the capacity to articulate saddening but unsurprising truth, labour. still getting over the whirlwind in which a huge global women’s and diverse talent from wom*n of feels confused or unsure about significant - edition. the power that our voices wield. let’s be real); I actually remain of Radical Sex and Consent Day protest against sexual violence colour; everyone in the audience an unwanted sexual experience For any form of sustainable social hopeful about social progress I look forward to continually last month. It’s great to see the and harassment is held. It is was awestruck. If you didn’t get and would like to speak to It was no less of a privilege to justice, it is imperative to engage here at Sydney Uni, and any confronting and dismantling Union instigating initiatives that called Reclaim the Night. It will a chance to read the edition in someone, please contact RPAH have been a part of this, and with WoC identities, as too often further progress we can instil oppression, expanding political are strongly feminist, sex positive fall on Friday October 31 and will hardcopy, you can view it online! Sexual Assault Service on 9515 to have collaborated with an our experiences are rendered by intercepting as many media practice and tearing at the social and inclusive. Who said the USU speak out against the harrowingly 9040 between 8:30am and 5pm array of people who actively defy invisible. The WoC contributions platforms as possible (Honi, the fabric of this world. couldn’t be radical? This is all disturbing rates of male to This will be our last report as weekdays or 9515 6111 anytime if stereotypes, negotiate oppression to the autonomous edition blogosphere, whatever else!) thanks to those incredible Wom*n female violence that so often goes the Sexual Harassment Officers the sexual assault happened in the and seek social change in varied intrinsically address the lack of However, what has to remain If your identity falls in line, please that pushed for this event and the unreported and unacknowledged. – new officers will be elected this last 7 days. and nuances ways. It lends attention given to our identities, consistent is the politics of non- join us! efforts of the organising collectives This isn’t merely a consciousness- month and will begin their term on subjectivity to our experiences, but also the political potential of us white wom*n, that are inherently (also thank you to those that raising exercise: wom*n are taking December 1. These elections will Stay strong and best wishes for the and our presence radically carving our identities into a place subversive and demand to be Facebook: Usyd WOC Autonomous attended! <3 ) Some highlights to the streets and demanding the be held at Representatives Elect rest of the semester! th questions the White designation like Honi! centred in any discourse about Collective were workshops that broke down fundamental right to be able to on Wednesday 29 October and of University spaces, mainstream social progression. barriers and misconceptions walk the streets at night safely. office bearers will be elected by the media and perhaps even social I sometimes fantasise about our http://womenofcoloursydney. around sexual consent and a panel 33 newly elected SRC councillors. justice movements themselves. very own autonomous edition in For all the wom*n who contributed tumblr.com/ with hilarious, heart-warming We’d also like to do a quick shout Consider nominating if you think the next few years, but perhaps to last week’s edition (in any and inspiring anecdotes from out to the Autonomous Collective you would enjoy and thrive in an

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Honi Soit Opinion Competition and Commemorative Edition Launch Illustration BY Quick Money whitney duan Across Down Come along to the Verge Gallery for free food and booze, to 9 Data processing device (7,8) 1 Totem (4) hear the winners of the 2014 Opinion Contest, AND to pick 10 Downwind (7) 2 Mythical monster (4) up one of the limited copies of the nifty Commemorative 12 Recite at length (4,3) 3 Covert (8) Edition of Honi Soit (compiled by yours truly, the editors 13 Dispersed (9) 4 Aircraft (6) of Honi Soit). Looking back over 85 years of Honi Soit, this 14 Urge (3,2) 5 Time spent in prison in Britain special edition of the paper finds out what Honi got right, 15 Run-of-the-mill (7) (8) 18 Convert into code (7) 6 Each (6) what it fucked up, and generally how it has kicked arse for 21 Lacking enthusiasm (5) 7 Resolutely (8) nearly a century. 23 Barangaroo developer (4,5) 8 Commercial fishing tool (5,3) 25 Drain the cup (5,2) 11 Former prison occupant (2-3) October 22 26 Studio (7) 15 Decreed (8) 29 Bed-heating wired covering 16 Experienced individual (3-5) Civilization: Beyond Earth release (8,7) 17 Path of the sun (8) 19 No through road (3-2-3) The next entry in the Civilization series takes Civ 5’s 20 Out of date (5) core gameplay and takes it to the extra-terrestrial. It’s 22 ...Fanning, actress (6) the closest thing we’re going to get to a modern sequel to 24 Adjacent (6) 27 Jet-black (4) 1999’s Alpha Centauri, and all the buzz around the game is a 28 Memorisation technique (4) guarantee that it will be an absolute masterpiece, just like how Destiny lived up to the hype last month. 2K Games have also thoughtfully decided to release it right before stuvac starts. It’s going to be a long month.

Fronting ICAC October 24 Across Down Visa pathways for International Students 9 In misshapen mishap, a misshapen 1 Talk show perspective (4) Steam Halloween Sale simul for filler tunes (10,5) 2 The Poo a missile? (4) Migration law expert, Professor Mary Crock, will speak about visa pathways for 10 Awkward dawdler is awkward 3 Objectionable sex with non-child Crosswords by Bolton Q uiz Monster Jam international students who would like to begin their career in Australia. Come ambler (7) and mixed grain (8) Start saving now – Steam will be slashing prices storewide. 12 No puzzled expression without work 4 Catch Treebeard MC-ing (6) This is your chance to again pad out your game library with along to learn key information about what to consider before and during the visa and rubbed nose (7) 5 Sky-faller and prior to mix-up titles you’re never going to play and likely won’t even enjoy. application process. 13 This mettle sounds like olden unrest (8) At least Valve’s cut from each sale ~might~ go towards the Date: Wednesday, October 22nd (9) 6 Shopping at Rivers? (6) development of Half-Life 3. 14 Saltpetre with nickel for petals! (5) 7 Idols ate mess alone (8) Time: 1-2pm 15 Photograph can set (7) 8 Conclusive litmus (4,4) October 30 to November 3 18 Applaud Italian through praise (7) 11 Badly imboil evenly for legal Location: Chemistry Lecture Theatre 1 21 Japan heard to be horizontal line? cover (5) Australia vs Pakistan - First Test RSVP: [email protected] (1-4) 15 Alter tux like interwoven 23 Fairly decode alien and reflection for structure! (8) code (9) 16 Dirty oxen trod adjacent (4,4) We’re getting so close to The Summer Of Cricket and Nine’s 25 Rising current to increase 17 Vote Weasley in charge! (8) Wide World Of Sports!!(!) Fire up your illegal stream for recruitment (7) 19 Divers gear a prog rock album this early teaser, live from the United Arab Emirates. Will 26 Ship from the Bile Age? (7) (8) Global Warming eventually make it the Summer of Cricket 29 Famous stony hand built in a very 20 “This is Roy”, shortened! (5) all the time? I hope so. long time (1,5,2,7) 22 Chocolates, i.e. lost intelligence (6) October 22 to October 26 24 Swallow sang as a prank (6) 27 Test former morning (4) MATT DAMON MOVIE NIGHT EXTRAVAGANZA 28 Broke one’s smeller (4) Get this. On Friday night, Channel Seven is playing The Bourne Ultimatum. But SIMULTANEOUSLY, Channel Nine is playing Contagion. Both star Matt Damon, so you I’ve got the skills and experience to effectively manage the finances of could flick channels during the ad breaks and just have Sydney University’s largest society Damon on your TV for a solid two hours. Alternatively, you could get in touch with old mate YIFY and go back to basics with The Bourne Identity.

October 17

The Sun Turns Into A Red Giant And Swallows Us All

5,500,000,000 AD – 7,600,000,000 AD

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20 Unaipon David 6. Knight/Dame Companion, Officer, Member, 5. poetry Romantic 4. Hewson John 3. Stone Sandy Patterson, Les Sir 2. hour one for Chamber the Leave 1. Deregulation Actually Joke About Not A Thing Anymore Politicians William Edwards has aspirations, I wonder what they are. Being A Liberal spokesperson has confirmed the Abbott has since made several attempts Government’s plans to deregulate higher to inform the Australian public of his education fees were actually abandoned several government’s change of heart, but has been Reptiles months ago. The Government’s decision to unable to speak louder than SAlt chants. William Edwards attended the cease its controversial reform was announced Christopher Pyne was even sent to St John’s comedy meeting this week. by Prime Minister Tony Abbott mere days after College to enlist more speakers, and so more March in May. volume, but was unable to converse with Dr Sly Thering, a leading CSIRO biologist, has residents due to yet another protest. warned Canberrans to be cautious of politicians The announcement, which read in part “We basking on hot surfaces. ISIS Has A didn’t know you felt that way” and “We’re When asked by Honey Soy if they were aware genuinely sorry,” was expected to generate of the policy change, an anonymous SAlt “As members of the order squamata are cold- considerable celebration. To the Prime member appeared briefly bewildered before blooded,” the warning reads, “many species Branding Problem Minister’s confusion, however, he was booed asking the interviewer to sign a petition. When therein engage in a practice called basking. off the stage. The audience had been unable to the interviewer pressed the matter they were This entails lying on flat, often dark surfaces Mary Ward on Board 2015. hear him over a Socialist Alternative protest. accused of being “Liberal scum”, prompting to absorb heat from the sun. Ideal surfaces for nearby activists to begin chanting. At press basking include rocks and, more dangerously, On Friday October 10 at 0900 hours, ISIS’s TT: World domination, a humble quest. “I was trying to fix it,” Abbott explained, time the interviewer complained of Socialist roads.” Terrorist Tim met with marketing executive Kyle exasperated, to Honey Soy. “I said they were rhymes being stuck in their head. Sanderson. The following is a transcript of their KS: But, your name – to the extent that we right, my government had made a mistake, but Squamata consists of all snakes, lizards, and conversation. can talk about that catastrophe in the singular they just kept chanting. It was kind of catchy, I elected representatives. The warning explains – doesn’t tell me that. Do you just want an guess, but not really helpful.” that this behaviour, while necessary for KS: You have a branding problem. Islamic State? Do you want Syria? Do you want politicians’ health, places drivers at immense the Levant? (Do you really want the Levant? risk. TT: No we don’t. Everyone freaking loves us. Because there are a bunch of basket case Our brand is great. nations in that strip and I don’t really think Vehicle-politician collisions are largely fatal Lebanon’s worth all of this.) for drivers. Politicians, though battered, are KS: No, no. Your goodwill is solid. It’s brand often able to slither to the safety of parliament clarity that’s the problem. TT: I want all of it! All of it! thereafter, to plot new ways of reducing the Australian population. TT: What do you mean brand clarity? I think KS: Then, tell me that in your brand, John! Sell we’re pretty clear. Beheadings are clear. Not it to me! Let’s brainstorm. Prime Minister Tony Abbott, last seen basking clean, sure. But clear. on a street near the Lodge, was approached TT: What about the IS(IS/IL)? for comment. He was however unable to be KS: It’s not what you do that’s the problem, understood as the approaching reporter did not John. It’s who you are. You. ISIS. Or is it IS? Or KS: You can’t use punctuation marks in speak Parseltongue. ISIL? We need to stop the inconsistent brand hashtags, John. messages being sent out by the media, they’re confusing consumers. TT: Shit.

TT: I still don’t understand. KS: You know who are good at this? The Tamil Tigers. Tigers – ferocious, powerful, bestial. You KS: Let’s consider the Taliban. What do you call need an animalistic quality. An animal that is the Taliban, John? small, but a total bastard. A dirty animal who steals and attacks and doesn’t take no shit from TT: The Taliban. no man.

KS. Exactly. You would never call the Taliban TT: Yeah. What do you suggest? ‘the T’ or ‘Tally’s Bandits’. One name, one fear. KS: I’ve got it! TT: Well, what do you propose we do? TT: What? KS: You rebrand. You need a new name. What is it you want, John? KS: IBIS.

1st Year Apprentice Hairdresser IN OTHER NEWS Justifies Botched Haircut By Joining ISIS Notice of Council Meeting DATE: 15th October Truthers Take Note Of Parody Plumbers Union News: Tapoo Musical’s Success, Commission Discussion in the Pipeline TIME: 6pm Play About 9/11 Creator of bendy ruler sues Apple 86th Students’ Right-Wing Media Reports over iPhone 6 LOCATION: Philosophy Muslims With Ebola Plane 2015 Prez candidate: “USyd’s Hijack Terror Plot Representative first homosapien President” Room S249 (Quadrangle) Government Promises You Can Why Hasn’t Parliament Banned Trust Government Invisibility Cloaks, Huh? Council, University ‘Labor doesn’t care about u’ Paulene Graham: Good Bloke of Sydney Students’ Representative Council, The University of Sydney Phone: 02 9660 5222 | www.src.usyd.edu.au 22 23