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Where Is Miike Snow? I Miss Them Old Dogs and New Tricks Tasia Kuznichenko Is Snowed by the Sounds of This Intercontinental Band Honi Soit WEEK 8, SEMESTER 1, 2021 FIRST PRINTED 1929 Inside Glebe Markets / P 12 Higher education in Where did Miike Student General Meetings: the Sinosphere / P 16 Snow go? / P 14 then and now / P 6 Acknowledgement of Country Letters Former President Puzzled call the police because they don’t efficiency — extra limbs do wonders Honi Soit is published on the Wallumedegal people, we are the of First Nations people is perpetuated to be reflective when we fail to do so. understand mole language, but if for your typing speed. Sydney Uni’s SAUCIEST socialite! sovereign land of the Gadigal People beneficiaries of ongoing colonial and enabled by the government, who We commit to being a counterpoint Dear Honi Soit editors, they did, I would have told them all of the Eora Nation, who were amongst dispossession. The settler-colonial push ahead with the forced removals to mainstream media’s silencing of about your evening racket. There I have recently uncovered some Dear plumptious beauties, the first to resist against and survive project of ‘Australia’ and all its of Aboriginal children from their Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander You bullies should spend more time are laws against this sort of thing GIPA documents which suggest the violence of colonisation. This institutions, including the University, families, their Country, and their people. We remain cognisant that on your crosswords and less time you know! I am not an unreasonable that Stephen Garton is aware of our land was taken without consent and are built on the exclusion of First cultures. Aboriginal peoples are the Honi’s writers and readership are making my life misery. mole person and given some proper plight, and has commissioned Tingling ticket sovereignty was never ceded. We Nations peoples and the devaluation most incarcerated on earth, and there predominantly made up of settlers, limitations, I don’t see why our mole research into “end-uses of pay our respects to Elders past and of Indigenous knowledge systems. have been over 474 documented and aim to platform Indigenous Liam Donohoe colony and your bell tower can’t entomological administration present, and extend that respect to all Beneath the sandstone buildings Indigenous deaths in custody since voices in our paper. co- exist. solutions.” It looks like there are a few more Indigenous students and staff at the of USyd lie thousands of years of the 1991 Royal Commision. There is no justice without Bitchy Baroness prickly panthers ready to pounce University. Aboriginal history. We pledge to actively stand Indigenous justice. Regards, Abe, is uni management trying to on next year’s Honi editorship! As a team of settlers occupying Colonialism is not a one-time event in solidarity with First Nations Dear Honi Soit, breed an underground network of My sex-slaves-turned-spies have Always was and always will be Chester Moleman insectoid admin workers to avoid informed me that Lauren ‘Look the lands of the Gadigal, Dharug, that occurred in the distant past; it is movements towards decolonisation Aboriginal land. Wangal, Biddegal, Kuringgai and an ongoing structure. The genocide through our editorial decisions, and For a paper that has no integrity paying workers and reopening the At Me’ Lancaster and Zara ‘Zaddy’ worth compromising, I sure do Ask Abe student centre? Zadro’s tiny ticket is getting bigger, have a bone to pick with you. As a with Amelia ‘Ravishing’ Raines, Editor-in-Chief: devout monarchist, I am extremely Dear Abe, Grateful your advice. Kisser Khanh Tran, Perky Patrick Alice Trenoweth-Creswell. Editorial offended by the article and pictures McKenzie, Rhea ‘Taskmaster’ you have published in ‘THE BOOT.’ I am an employee of the Student Cheers, Thomas, and Joker Joe Fi(d)dler Editors: Honi Soit editors are insufferable. and Sam’s perpetual cool get us that I dismissed Bob Dylan. Maddy I only took the slander to dear Prince Centre here at the University. After a week of sitting in the depths through many a lay up, mid week Briggs calls her father to discuss the When COVID struck, all staff were Greg Samuels entering their sweaty playpen. For Deaundre Espejo, Samuel Garrett, Phillip lightly because he has passed of the Wentworth Building, on zoom, and crisis meeting. I couldn’t avant-garde on page 17. It reminds required to work from home. As my the sake of this (cum) rag, let’s hope Vivienne Guo, Marlow Hurst, on into the land of our lord and Saturday we relocated to — yet imagine a Sunday without them. God me of long tense discussions with colleagues and I are horrendously they don’t find themselves in some Jeffrey Khoo, Juliette Marchant, saviour Jesus Christ, but what you Insect incident another confined space — Deaundre’s they’re good! my own father about the new Olivia underpaid and overworked, none of dirty drama or elected uncontested Shania O’Brien, Claire Ollivain, Max did last week amounts to blasphemy bedroom. The party raged on outside Rodrigo track or Radio Birdman. I us had a reliable internet connection Hi Greg, like our current Honi sexpests were! Shanahan. This edition celebrates the buildings of the highest order and I hope all of and yet we spent most of our time we’ll mourn and the furry faces we think our parents would get along, so you scabs enjoy burning in hell. at home, so we all began coming into Writers: sitting on the floor with each other — hope to see more of on campus. Leah long as Gary Briggs doesn’t mention Fisher Library to do work. We set up Thanks for your letter. You are as if we don’t already waste the rest of The Gravy Song. On page 16 Tasia shop in a quiet corner of the storage certainly in a sticky situation. As a Useless fucks Maxim Adams, Maddy Briggs, Bruce memorialises Bosch Commons Unkindly, the week circling each other’s orbits. Kuznichenko extols the virtues of stacks. Overburdened by a brutal prominent campus canine, hopefully Matthew Carter, Leah Bruce, on page 10 — home of the first year Miike Snow. I’ve been lucky enough cost-cutting corporate management I can provide some solutions. My Zander Czerwaniw, Harry Gay, Tasia Nevertheless, one of my favourite English lecture and the hungover Beverly Winchester, What’s going on with USyd’s to spend the past four years listening structure, my colleagues and I began advice is to unionise. Unfortunately, Kuznichenko, Lauren Lancaster, parts of editing this paper is holding college student churning out their Baroness of Kent prized and perverted power couple? to her musings on contemporary spending days on end in the library, the CUPUW, NTEU and CPSU are Patrick McKenzie, Isabella Nicoletti, it in my hands on Wednesdays. I flick ENGO1001 essay after a long night I received a tasty tip that in the most pop, so I’m glad she’s finally sharing hunching further and further over all notoriously anthropocentric. Alana Ramshaw, Daanyal Saeed, through its coloured pages and hear at the Sals. I will miss their withering For whom the bell tolls recent Senate meeting, Guzzling Juliette’s dissent. Deaundre’s writing stares as I refill my water bottle them with all of you. And thank you our keyboards as we tried our best However, I am presently in talks Leo Su, Khanh Tran, Casualised, Gabi Stricker-Phallus-Phelps and always reminds me of his insistence one too many times. Maxim Adams to Janina Osinsao for the beautiful Dear University of Sydney, to keep up with the piles of special with a high profile baboon in the Unemployed & Precarious Uni cover. considerations applications, transfer Department of Medicine down near Lubricated-and-Latexed Lachlan that he’s more sincere over text, but infamously drew fantastic animals Finch voted to cut staff budgets and Workers, Tom Walk, Zara Zadro. Shania’s formal complaints to the in Kindergarten we attended. I’m Thank you all for writing in this As I went to go to sleep last night (as requests and ID card printing. Prince Alfred to form a new union representing the uni’s inhuman renew the uni’s ProctorU contract! Artists: grievance officers say otherwise. pleased to confirm all these years edition. I work on Sundays - yes, we exist!) There’s barely a standfirst in this later he still lives up to the hype (page I was interrupted by clanging chime In our dingy windowless dungeon, employees. Woof! Please let me Have our self-pleasuring student Maxim Adams, Chloe Callow, Eleanor paper that hasn’t been conjured up by 7). of your famous bells. You might not the days blended into one under know if you are interested — though reps been getting too snuggly with Next round’s on me. our saggy scrotumed Senate? When Curran, Nandini Dhir, Bonnie Huang, Marlow or a spread that hasn’t been There is also an unprecedented know this, having not lived in the Fisher’s fluorescent lights. One stay away from that old union- Alice Trenoweth-Creswell Ella Kennedy, Grace Pennock. saved by Vivienne. As I sit here in the amount of music-related content. inner west before, but noise travels night, exhausted, I collapsed busting thug, Redfern Cat. As to they asked to have a little peek of into a deep sleep in front of my whether the uni is assembling an the meeting minutes, editors were Cover artist: OB room and write this, Claire and Maybe now my parents will forgive very easily. As a mole person living Max are cackling about [CENSORED]. me for never reading 1001 Songs, or in the sewers under the quad, let desktop.
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