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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. Waking the next morning, army of insectoid admin workers to mercilessly edged and told to wait Janina Osinsao. There really is no soundproofing in for the years of my early childhood me tell you that the noise of those I found myself and my colleagues undercut, outsource and centralise a month. I presume there was too the SRC offices. Jeffrey’s organisation travels very far. Me and my mole transformed into gigantic insects, existing structures, it wouldn’t much moaning to transcribe. family were kept up all night because with shiny brown exoskeletons and surprise me. a profusion of limbs. 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2 3 NEWS NEWS Forum held against 12 week semesters USyd QuAC Student petition for lecturer’s compassionate Claire Ollivain and Vivienne Guo report. tudents and staff held a forum at the themselves on leave. makes the education quality worse,” he speak out exemption successful SRoyal Hotel on 22 April where a panel “The people at the top don’t deal with said. of speakers discussed their concerns the direct consequences of that problem; Wheeler echoed that the change against Jeffrey Khoo reports. about the University’s proposed change it is the people at the coalface who bear would cause problems for international to 12 week semesters. student petition has helped willing to resign, despite the fact that difficult it can be to be separated for a provide for compassionate reasons as a the burden of the consequences of bad students, particularly due to enrolment Aconvince the University of Sydney all her work for the course could be long time with no definite end in sight,” basis for exemption. The forum was moderated by SRC decisions,” Wheeler said, arguing that issues around intensives. “The last thing transphobic to allow a maths lecturer to travel done remotely. said King. The University does not have a Education Officers Madeleine Clark the University’s consultation process has we want to see is student visas jeopardised overseas on compassionate grounds. The University confirmed that Cliff “As many students are given the policy that governs how they decide and Tom Williams, and discussed the been unsatisfactory. because intensives have been moved Dr Emily Cliff, the lecturer for was granted the exemption on Thursday option to study online from overseas, on exemptions to the prohibition. A University’s reasons for the proposal, its forward and the administration getting bill Panelists also refuted the claim that the MATH1002 Linear Algebra, approached morning after reconsidering her case. I find it is unfair that the same option University spokesperson said they are potential impact on staff in the Student proposal would allow more opportunities them ready to start those intensives is not Centre, loss of wages for teaching staff, up to scratch,” he said. Vivienne Guo reports. the School of Mathematics in February, Cliff said she was “grateful” for the is not extended to lecturers … these are “considering requests to work remotely for placements, suggesting that it showed saying she would need to travel to the exemption, but that “the uncertainty exceptional circumstances which call from overseas on a case-by-case basis,” and adverse impacts on international the University’s fundamental disconnect Sanagavarapu said that “the 12 Syd’s Queer Action Collective US for family reasons. has affected my students, my colleagues, for exceptional measures.” saying that various employment, students, STEM students, law from the student experience. week semester proposal betrays such a Ugathered for a speak-out on students, and students with structural However, in March, the University and me.” The University does not allow work- tax and visa laws “pose additional Vice President of Women in fundamental ignorance on the part of Thursday, to stand against a motion disadvantages. University management about what it’s introduced to the Upper House by One denied the School’s request for Cliff will leave the University in July related international travel due to complexities … which can take time.” Engineering and Junior Vice President a compassionate exemption to for “a new employment opportunity.” austerity measures introduced in 2020. Cliff sent requests for further Opening the forum, Clark noted of SUEUA, Bella Anderssen, said that like to be a student in 2021, and what it’s Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts that that the proposal to move to 12 week like to be a member of staff, particularly a seeks to ban the use of gender-neutral the University’s prohibition on Gabrielle King, a student in Cliff’s According to information on the staff information about the University’s students who require placement periods international travel, stating that the course, was motivated to start the intranet, staff seeking an exemption to exemption which were never answered. semesters is situated within a wider will be forced to do them over the summer. casual in 2021”. language at a federal level. The motion context of decades of cuts to staff and was passed last week. COVID-19 situation in the US remained petition, which had garnered over 480 the prohibition need to write a letter to “This may well be because the policies “I think for a student who may be Sanagavarapu noted that the courses in the name of austerity. dangerous. signatures as of Thursday evening. the Vice-Chancellor, including a travel are still being worked out, but the lack supporting themselves financially or just reduction in semester length would Queer Officer Oscar Chaffey The University has said that the impose a ‘trilemma’ on staff, who will be denounced the motion as “transphobic” Cliff told Honi on Wednesday that “As most of my family and my approval form, a risk assessment and an of transparency has been troubling,” need a break, that is disastrous… [the the University initially asked if she was boyfriend lives overseas, I know how airfare quote. The prohibition does not Cliff said. change would create more opportunities University’s] justification that there will forced to choose between maintaining the and “bioessentialist nonsense,” for intensive teaching between semesters be more placements is ridiculous,” she level of assessments, workload and course saying that gender-neutral language, including internships and placements, said. content. Under the proposed 12 week including the use of singular ‘they’ but SRC President Swapnik Sanagavarapu semester calendar, it would be impossible pronouns, has existed in the English Moreover, Anderssen said that for believes that “the fundamental reason at to maintain all three, he argued. language for centuries. STEM students who do labs on a weekly University considers ‘mitigating’ 12 week the end of the day is cost-cutting.” rotation, a 12 week semester would mean “Management believes that they can “This motion says that medical “I’ve pressed University management that “one group has to do their lab in week do these things without increasing the institutions and the government are prepared to go out of their way to fuck semesters with alternative proposal on this a couple of times, and they’ve one when they’ve learnt absolutely no workload of staff and students, not taking conceded to me that there’s no reason content and can’t familiarise themselves, into account the fact that most students over trans people and say that their Claire Ollivain reports. why intensive learning and teaching or that they cut the lab altogether.” these days do not live on campus, they bodies are other and invalid. It will is necessarily mutually exclusive with don’t spend all of their time studying, actively discriminate and exclude trans Sydney University Law Society rofessor Pip Pattison, Deputy Vice the University Executive (where there is consultation with casual staff in the consolidate and integrate learning.” maintaining the current semester most of them work jobs, pay rent and and gender non-conforming people Chancellor (Education) has proposed no student representation).” drafting of the recommendation, which Education Officer Sinem Kirk also echoed P A University spokesperson told Honi length,” he said. have to support themselves.” from seeking medical care and being that the University retain 13 contact would see the exploitation of casuals concerns that the proposal would degrade referred to in a way that validates their “As students and staff have pointed that they “would not expect to see a great Grant Wheeler of the Community “God help you if you’re first in family, weeks a semester, but that Week 13 “exacerbated” while further “degrading learning conditions for students: “Law is lived realities,” said Chaffey. out ad nauseam, the status quo is deal of change” if Option B was adopted, & Public Sector Union NSW (CPSU) or Indigenous or from a working class become a revision week and that non- education opportunities.” very reading intensive — that one extra perfectly acceptable … We are also claiming that “spreading assessment and highlighted how the shift to more background or have a disability or face Ken, a representative from examination assessments be due during week is very important for students to particularly worried about the prospect “It’s a completely unsatisfactory revision across Weeks 13 and 14 affords intensive units would cause “massive catch up on their content,” she said. whatever other structural restraints to Community Action for Rainbow STUVAC. problems” for staff at the Student education that may exist, and God help Rights, pointed out a pattern of that students will now have a diminished response. These three hours of funded more flexibility in use of time by students President of the Sydney University Centre and adversely affect their mental you if you’re a casual,” he said. transphobic bills in Parliament, citing Pattison will recommend to the stuvac, and [will be] forced to spend the professional learning would not be paid for assessment and revision.” Postgraduate Association (SUPRA), Mark Latham’s Education Legislation Academic Board that for the 2022-2026 time reserved for completing exams on at the same rate as teaching a tutorial wellbeing over the Christmas period The proposal will be voted on in the The University has contradicted Minran Liu, highlighted how cuts to Amendment (Parental Rights) Bill 2020 academic calendar, they choose between time-consuming assessments.” or lecture; they would be paid at the when they are unable to take leave. Academic Board on 4 May. Sanagavarapu claims that staff and students were not academic staff and the length of the which seeks to prohibit mentions of the new proposal (Option B) and the 12 administration pay rate which is about Wheeler explained that, because and Liu, who both have seats on the board, Framed as a mitigation in response consulted for the new proposal, stating semester would damage the University’s gender fluidity in schools. week semester one (Option A), which has a third. It would not be compensation at intensives begin as early as 6 January, international reputation and draw in less said that they would voice significant to negative feedback about 12 week that consultation had been “undertaken Ken also spoke about the Religious been met with overwhelming opposition that level.” there is not enough time for Student students. opposition to it. semesters, Pattison has also proposed via the Semester Advisory Group which Centre staff to process results from the Discrimination Bill, saying that 80% of from students and staff. An option to keep “International students pay a large Staff representatives called on that if the Option A 12 week semester “We would still be having to prepare includes the leadership of staff unions year before, causing a “scramble” to seek people are opposed to the Bill. “Activists the existing structure is not included. amount of money for their education and students to protest the “latest in a long proposal is approved, the University the same amount of material in those and student organisations as well as authorisations for earlier enrolments, need to turn majority opinion and the survey has already demonstrated that line of cuts” and join them at the picket SRC President Swapnik Sanagavarapu will offer up to three hours of “relevant, 12 weeks. Where the most exploitation representation from different units often from teaching staff who are line when they go on strike this year. sentiment into mass action,” said Ken. most of them prefer 13 weeks — 12 weeks “That is our key task: people power told Honi that the new proposal was funded professional learning” prior to takes place is in that preparation.” across the University.” “unwarranted and unnecessary,” saying the semester in place of lost classes for hitting the streets.” Moreover, Boncardo said that The spokesperson also said that “the that it did not receive the same level casual academic staff whose income will Mya, a representative from Pride Option B, the 13 week proposal, “shows details will need to be worked out” when of consultation as the initial one. “A be hit by the change. Students slam ‘useless’ Okta Verify rollout in Protest, mentioned the recent something of the level of management’s asked what rate casual staff will be paid proposal of this kind should not be conviction of Derek Chauvin for the Robert Boncardo of the USyd Casuals ignorance of what goes on in the for funded professional learning if the 12 Jeffrey Khoo reports. introduced at the eleventh hour, in a murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Network told Honi that there was no classrooms. We already use week 13 to week semester is adopted. Syd students have criticised incompatible with Apple operating rolling out Okta Verify, including the drawing connections between civil limited number of working groups and at Uthe University’s new two-factor systems older than iOS 13, some students University of Adelaide, the University of rights movements in the United States authentication (2FA) system, Okta Verify, were unable to download the app in the Newcastle and Monash University, who and the moral panic surrounding which was rolled out earlier this year. first place, leaving them without access. implemented 2FA after suffering cyber gender and bathrooms today. attacks. University finances ‘far better’ than expected Some students have reported being One student said that as their iPhone “Starting in the 1960s in the United locked out of critical University systems, was unable to upgrade to iOS 13, they The University said that 2FA was States, the right-wing built moral Deaundre Espejo reports. including Canvas and Sydney Student, were directed to an instructional page a “proactive measure to increase the panic around the desegregation of The University of Sydney’s international cohort to study remotely.” Clark told Honi that the university has hoped for given the challenges we faced after changing phones or keeping an to an alternative authenticator such as University’s resilience to cyber threats”. bathrooms, talking about the violence financial and census results show The results have sparked outrage “more than enough” to keep their staff, last year,” Garton wrote. older phone. Google Verify, which requires calling the Despite students generally supporting of black communities,” said Mya. “We Because Okta Verify does not allow ICT hotline. increased security, several students can see that exact same moral panic that it is performing “far better” than from staff and students, who say that the and the fact that the University “made In light of revenue being higher students to change their second device on “It felt very weird to have to wait on expressed that using 2FA for Canvas was whipped up against trans people management had expected. University’s current financial position above and beyond their projected losses than expected, Garton said that “some which they verify their identity, it means hold for something that should have just “useless” and inconvenient, with the today.” In an all-staff email sent on Thursday, shows there was no need for widespread just reveals how cynical their cuts have of [the University’s] temporary saving Interim Vice-Chancellor Stephen austerity measures. been.” measures will be eased.” This includes a student cannot access their University been a simple matter,” they said. “[It was] option to not “challenge” the user on a Mya also encouraged the gathered Garton confirmed that the University “University management’s “University management has used less restrictions on new recruitment account if their phone is lost, broken or not the first (and definitely not the last) device not working if the user wanted to crowd to continue fighting for queer experienced a net loss of $2.2 million projections of dire losses for this year COVID-19 as an excuse to fire hundreds and funding for research projects, as sold - or simply runs out of battery. example of the uni complicating a simple sign in on their phone. justice. “Despite the fact that we’ve One student told Honi that they could process.” One student described Okta Verify won that fantastic victory [of marriage in 2020 — a much stronger result than and beyond were exaggerated, calculated of staff, cut courses, destroy student well as more spending on “repairs and not submit an assignment due on a long Another student said that as Okta as like “an insecure partner who needs equality], we have to beat back these the $470 million loss forecasted in the as they were against budgets that had to staff ratios and overall degrade our maintenance.” weekend, as the University’s ICT hotline Verify had not whitelisted a particular site affirmation every single time.” attacks and we have to win more.” beginning of the pandemic, and the $184 projected significant revenue growth for quality of education.” However, the University will continue million shortfall still expected after a the next few years,” said NTEU Sydney Garton also confirmed that the to be “cautious” with spending. “[C]osts was unavailable to switch their device. that they needed to access through their More broadly, students criticised how The motion introduced by Senator September reassessment. University Branch President Associate University ended last year with a $106.6 continue to rise and we remain short Another student similarly said they University account, they were unable to 2FA created distractions while studying, Malcolm Roberts was passed in the Additionally, the University forecasts Professor Kurt Iveson. million operating surplus. This was of our pre-COVID ambitions for 2021,” had resorted to carrying their old phone download a letter of offer for a tutoring with some questioning how they could Senate last week, by a majority vote around with them solely to log into position at the University. log into Canvas using their phone if they of 33 to 31, after gaining support from a $202.4 million revenue increase in 2021. “We now find ourselves in a situation attributed to $257 million worth of Garton said. Canvas, while a third said that while A University spokesperson told needed to take a supervised exam. Coalition senators. The motion called This is due to census results showing that where we have a massive influx of “temporary savings measures,” “stronger Restrictions on engaging contractors international and domestic enrolments students, an associated increase in than expected international student and consultants will remain in place, they were “lucky” their old phone hadn’t Honi they were “aware that some of “I need to retrieve [my phone] from on the federal government to “reject been sold, the University-provided our students have reported issues with its hiding place every time I want to log the use of distorted language” and were 20% and 4% higher than expected revenue, and hundreds of staff being paid enrolments,” and other income sources and other discretionary spending will information regarding switching devices signing in,” and that the University would in,” said one student, with another saying reduce the range of language to binary respectively. millions of dollars to walk out the door such as donations, investment earnings “continue to be managed with local was “convoluted”; they ultimately solved be “providing support on a case-by-case that “needing to pull [my phone] out terms such as man and woman, mother Garton attributed enrolment numbers thanks to management’s ill-conceived and research grants. budgetary decisions.” the issue by turning to Reddit for advice. basis,” including a troubleshooting guide. whilst I’m trying to concentrate is really and father. to “the efforts of colleagues across the redundancy program.” “[This] was a better outcome for the In addition, as Okta Verify is Several Australian universities are frustrating.” University, and the willingness of our SRC Education Officer Madeleine 2020 financial year than we could have

4 5 ANALYSIS ANALYSIS Student General Meetings: Then and now Fantastic campus beasts and where to find them Lauren Lancaster examines the role of student unionism in political action. Maxim Adams brings you a field guide to non-human life at the University of Sydney. he wind is well and truly back in campaigns against the government role in cohering and supporting SRC’s constitution in response to trolling down Eastern Avenue, the University is black speck. With thrilling accuracy, they pluck Tthe sails of the student climate and in support of radical socio-political these political campaigns, and many the austerity imposed by the Howard Sabuzz with life. Seagulls assail students for chips insects out of mid-air and chase each other in tight movement. On 28 April, at 4pm, causes. others, throughout the latter half of government. and baguettes, while ibises pilfer the scraps. These spirals. USyd Enviro Collective members and The first SGM at USyd was called in the 20th century to now. This meant, In the wake of the lost fight against are familiar friends, and we welcome them. Yet, if President Swapnik Sanagavarapu will 1971 in response to the Australian tour of course, that they drew the ire of the passage of the VSU bill, Gibson said you look closer, there is so much more to be found Night-time: frogs and frogmouths convene the third Student General by the national rugby team of then- the governments they criticised and that the SGM was the moment in which among the cloisters and courtyards. Over one day, Meeting in USyd’s history and the apartheid South Africa, the Springboks held to account, triggering an ongoing activists turned to “focus on how [VSU] a keen urban biologist could fill a whole notebook first, as Honi reported, to focus on (from which Black South African legislative campaign of austerity to was going to roll out on our campus.” with observations. Here are my highlights. Back in Victoria Park, the pond is now still. The environmental demands. players were explicitly excluded). repress student activism on Australian It represented “a commitment to ducks have nestled among the lilies to sleep, and The notion of a Student General The tour was heavily protested across campuses. mobilising large numbers of students, the water is oily and black. Periodically, a microbat 9 am: waterfowl, eels and turtles Meeting (SGM) goes to the core of Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane and Student unions have been the target encouraging discussion about the huge strikes the surface, managing a quick gulp before student democracy and unionism, Melbourne — led largely by university of both state and federal laws aiming to attack on student organising that had spiralling away. The pond is still, but it’s not and this year it presents a powerful activists. Ahead of the Queensland leg restrict their political functions, usually come from the Howard government” We start in Victoria Park. The mighty Lake silent. Throughout the warmer months, there is an opportunity to fight back against the of the Springboks tour, conservative by choking them of funding (collected and encouraged a “sharpened focus Northam, Camperdown’s drain, supports a delicate omnipresent chorus of Peron’s tree frogs. From the University’s complacency in climate Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen from students through mechanisms on our own administration… [to ecosystem among its discarded trolleys and beer bridge, with bullrush on both sides, their song is destruction. It marries the sometimes announced a month-long state of like SSAF). Prior to 2005, students further cohere] the movement at the cans. I walk straight past the ducks and swamphens, surround-sound, and you can usually find a soloist staid bureaucracy of student unions emergency in response to the fervour were made compulsory members of University.” Gibson emphasised the directly to the eels. As a kid, there was nothing sitting on the handrails. For me, their cackle-like with the very pressing climate of anti-apartheid student organising. their university union upon enrolment principled power of the SGM across better than hand-feeding them with strips of bread, bird of all time. I’d love to do the same for the black call is the true start of Summer, wherever it may catastrophe. A formal motion passed A 3000-strong SGM at the University and paid small annual fees directly to the years as “the highest decision making them lunge for their meal, mouths agape. cockatoos, but they flee before I get the chance. land. at this meeting has the potential to of Queensland (UQ) voted to strike for the union, allowing them to flourish making mechanism available to Sometimes they’d miss. The inside of an eel’s mouth However, in the Sydney birdwatching scene, the achieve the University’s support for the duration of the Queensland tour and bolster student life through well- students, showing real collective is lined with tiny, needle-like teeth, and they make watercooler topic is the southward spread of brush an unconditional student and staff and UQ activists staged a 4500-strong funded activist collectives, leadership power and having the practical benefit light work of a 5-year-old’s fingers. turkeys. A wily enemy, they are advancing on fronts strike on 21 May, for Strike 4 Climate’s sit-in in their Union building. In opportunities and publications like of… binding the SRC.” If I’m lucky, I’ll also glimpse a turtle. In this from Strathfield to Bondi, and our scouts have Global Climate Strike. With students Victoria, 5000 protestors, many Honi Soit. However, the compulsory The parallels with our upcoming fetid urban swamp, there are not only native snake- spotted a beachhead right on campus. Opinions are mobilised by the announcement of the students among them, gathered on the contributions lifeline was cut during climate strike SGM are clear; both are necked turtles, but also a highly invasive Mexican certainly mixed on this mighty beast — something upcoming global action, USyd’s SGM streets of Melbourne to march on the the Howard Government’s ‘war against a fightback against political leaders red-eared slider. Morning is the best time to see about the wrinkled head and dangling throat sack petition from the Enviro Collective game’s venue at Olympic Park. Then- unions’ with the passage of the Higher pursuing specific agendas that would them, when they come out of the water to sun- brings out strong feelings. Personally, I find them has already amassed more than 1000 USyd SRC Vice-President Bernard Education Support Amendment have extreme material effects on the bathe and energise for the day. I sip my iced coffee delightful. Their mounds, splayed across many signatures supporting a campus-wide Coles wrote in Honi in 1971 that “we (Abolition of Compulsory Up-front lives of students into the future, and a and do the same. a walking track, are pillars of defiance against walk-off from classes and a staff strike. should show our strongest political Student Union Fees) Bill 2005, which university latent and uninterested in humankind, symbols of the supremacy of nature. As Only a few weeks ago, this triggered opposition to countries whose corrupt banned university unions from supporting radical protest action. the leaves decompose, the male turkey uses his beak an SRC constitutional provision political system injects a perverted compelling students to pay. as a thermometer, and keeps the nest at a toasty 33- The Coalition continues to push mandating the meeting of the student and blatant form of racism even 35 °C. Entirely unrelatedly, the ideal temperature This triggered the next SGM at their ‘gas-led recovery’, a collection body to discuss the climate crisis. into their sporting activities.” The for a sensory deprivation tank is apparently 34 °C. USyd in 2006. Now-UTS academic of commercially unviable projects to SGM condemned the Springboks and I’ll leave those dots unconnected. To grasp the value of this SGM, Paddy Gibson, known for his roles as expand gas exploration in the Hunter, advocated for a student strike and we must understand from where an organiser of the Stop Indigenous North-West NSW and Queensland. No field guide would be complete without We finish with a favourite, the tawny frogmouth. ongoing protests at USyd in opposition contemporary student unionism and Deaths in Custody and Workers These projects will desecrate the mentioning our glorious insects. Camperdown is A pedant will tell you that they’re not actually owls, to the racist regime they represented. activism emerged in Australia. for Climate Action campaigns, was unceded lands of First Nations peoples, home to many species of bee: blue-banded, masked but rather come from a related sub-family called It was a great success, with the The anti-Vietnam War student involved in the USyd Education Action including that of the Gamilaraay Next and European honey, to name a few. The cricket oval nightjars. That pedant is me: they’re not actually Springboks chased out of Australia by protests and the Freedom Rides for Group’s grassroots campaigning Generation activists in the Pilliga, is actually a well-documented honey bee mating owls, but rather come from a related sub-family student activists, not to return until Indigenous rights of the late 1960s against voluntary student unionism and, if allowed to continue, will emit site. Every spring, without fail, males gather here to called nightjars. If you ever see one take flight, you’ll after the end of apartheid in the early spearheaded the left radicalisation (VSU) from 2003-2007 as an greenhouse gases equivalent to 30 mate with young queens, everting their penis and be struck by the silence of its wings cutting through 1990s. of university campuses across the undergraduate arts student. Gibson new coal-fired power stations. The killing themselves in a final, ecstatic burst. Everyone the air without the slightest rustle. On campus, you country, and proved the potential for Student unions on the campus and the EAG organised a public SGM University of Sydney remains complicit knows that, so let’s instead talk about harlequin can spot them sitting in the crooks of gum trees as students to lead significant political level (like the SRC) played a crucial that was held to pass changes to the in environmental degradation, with bugs! About the size of a ten-cent coin, the males they wait for hapless frogs and rats to cross their continuing capital investments in are a metallic blue, while females range from pure path. Even if you haven’t seen one, you may well coal and gas-fired power, and an yellow to brilliant orange. Right now, it’s their have heard it! Their call is a very rhythmic “woop - unambitious Sustainability Strategy breeding season, and if you check the branches of woop - woop - woop,” a bass forever waiting to drop. failing to prioritise a just and immediate the Illawarra flame trees on Eastern Avenue, you’re Inner Sydney is far from wild. And yet, all these transition to public renewable power sure to find a cluster, shining like expensive jewels. creatures have managed to find a niche in the urban on and off campus. jungle. We owe them a great deal, because in doing Gibson believes the upcoming so, they have transformed mere brick and concrete Enviro SGM is a singular opportunity into something dynamic and alive. to “organise large-scale walkouts from class [on 21 May]... pointing us in the right direction of mass disruptive collective action” that must be taken to force our leaders to listen. “Student Midday: black cockatoos, brush turkeys and activism shouldn’t be a spectator bugs sport,” he reflected, “if we are going to win we need everyone’s brain turned In the full sun, out come the birds. One of on, everyone thinking about the best my favourite things about Sydney is its parrots. strategy going forward and taking Rainbow lorikeets and galahs are classics, but my responsibility for our future.” heart belongs to the black cockatoo. These problem- We should see the SGM as symbolic solving birds are masters of cracking seed pods, and Dusk: microbats of the zeitgeist of student climate from their perch over Parramatta Road, they drop activism. It is an opportunity for us to the husks onto unsuspecting pedestrians. Ah, sunset, the most romantic time of day. Couples come to the Quad laws to watch the sky come together and acknowledge that What I find most remarkable about parrots is turn purple, or to snuggle by the fairy lights in we are fast running out of time to make their close pair bonds, each couple with a unique and Botany Garden. I often stand there, alone, to watch a tangible difference for our future. complex love language. Lorikeets, I’ve discovered, the microbats come out. These guys have earned To sit and let it slide by would be not have specific calls for “hello there,” “come here,” and their name: they would fit comfortably in the palm just disappointing, but irresponsible. “go away!” I even managed to record and play these of your hand! On a good day, the sky around the Sydney University student and anti-apartheid protestor Meredith Burgmann dragged along the ground by police at the Sydney And with that in mind, I’ll see you on from my phone, summoning the most confused Cricket Ground during the 1971 South African Springboks rugby union tour of Australia. Photograph: News Ltd/Newspix Wednesday, 28 April. Great Hall throngs with bats, each a zig-zagging

6 7 ANALYSIS OPINION ‘Healing Country’: It’s time to rethink national parks (Un)civil discourse Deaundre Espejo on the need for First Nations land ownership and management. Casualised, Unemployed & Precarious Uni Workers respond to management accusations of ‘bullying.’ he creation of national parks has often beyond aiming to ‘preserve’ the land, In NSW, only $1.1 billion is currently scientific evidence when considering Tbeen described as the cornerstone of and instead return to what First Nations allocated annually to national parks, land management practices. roy Heffernan and Lynn Bosetti’s is intended to cause harm. Incivility for a study that rests on interviews behavior amusing.) biodiversity conservation in Australia. people had been doing for tens of which is less than a quarter of the NSW Andy says that this is something T‘Incivility: the new type of bullying is behaviour that does not conform to exclusively with university executives Crucially, the civil/uncivil dichotomy Today, the National Parks and Wildlife thousands of years prior. police budget. many communities just can’t provide — in higher education’ in the Cambridge certain norms. and a misunderstanding of what bullying Service manages 870 national parks carries racist baggage that Heffernan “The Australian landscape needs Even less funding goes to Indigenous going to university to conduct research Journal of Education (2021) is an excellent Besides the article’s flawed conceptual is. Even if we accept deans’ claims that and Bosetti seem resistant to address. in NSW alone, covering over 7 million active management, day in day out, year ranger and land management programs. is expensive, and much knowledge is example of bad scholarship. For this self- they have been victims of incivility, it is hectares of protected land. foundation, there are many other Colonial logic rests on the racist round.” “We might get dribs and drabs of small passed down from Elders and must go serving article to have progressed through not the case that employees who disagree Yet, our ecosystems are hanging by a grants and funding opportunities,” Andy through proper cultural protocols. problems. The methodology employed assumption that the ‘uncivilised’ can be Indigenous knowledge says that just peer-review is not just disappointing but is not really a methodology at all. Rather with them are bullies. One also has to denied rights that the ‘civilised’ take for thread. Despite being home to one of the tells me. “But nothing more than $30,000, “Everyone’s sceptical about whether like growing crops, land must not only be dangerous to higher education. More than striving for a representative sample wonder how widespread this ‘crisis’ of granted. Not contained to a grim, distant most diverse range of plants and animals restored or protected from threats, but and that doesn’t take us far.” cultural burning is useful. There’s no in the world, Australia has one of the frustrating is the fact that Anna Patty (the bare minimum for social science incivility really is given the considerable past, this logic still finds expression in actively looked after so it can grow and Paddy believes that we need to start certificate that can show that we can lead of the Sydney Morning Herald provided power that university executives have highest rates of species loss, with over a flourish. This is what Andy White, of the thinking of land management as an this country to a better position.” research), they drew on connections to many modern institutions, including thousand on the verge of extinction. the authors a greater platform than they solicit twenty participants. Bosetti herself over their subordinates’ careers. universities. Bryan Mukandi and Chelsea Bateman’s Bay Aboriginal Land Council, essential service, much like health or Instead, he tells us to look at First While urbanisation, the climate has been doing for over fifteen years on education, and fund it accordingly. deserve by publishing ‘Smart bullies’ is also a dean, one of the many conflicts In the workplace, policing of Bond, in particular, have provided Nations peoples’ proven ability to emerge in universities in new workplace crisis and expansion of industry are Walbunja Country. “Active land management benefits manage the land. of interest ingrained across the article. incivility is a method to redirect workers’ powerful insights into the many ways trend’ on 19 April. amongst the biggest culprits, failures One of Andy’s main jobs is cultural the entire public, and helps protect and Indeed, the authors take the interviewees frustrations into ‘proper’ channels, which (including notions of civilised academic in the way national parks are currently “A lot of our knowledge is gained burning. In drier seasons, his team enhance the values that we all treasure,” from looking at Country and learning. Confusion lies at the heart of at their word, demonstrating an alarming are often bureaucratic cul-de-sacs. discourse) the Australian academy being managed play a large role in ignites cool fires in small, targeted areas, he says. “The demand for it never really Heffernan and Bosetti’s article. The lack of critical distance. Having assisted in Confronted with ‘civilised’ processes that disciplines Black thought and behavior. environmental degradation. And these practices have worked for over which are much less intense than large- goes away.” 70,000 years.” authors open with the false equivalence the dismissal of thousands of university tend to bury complainants’ issues instead ‘Incivility: the new type of bullying Secondly, the current national parks Additionally, the value of the land that ‘incivility is bullying’. Confusingly, workers, deans have something to gain of resolving them, it is unsurprising in higher education’ is not newsworthy model should be replaced in favour of and nature is often understated. Since however, the authors and interviewees by claiming victimhood. that employees become uncivil when and remarkable only for its weakness as community-based models. their inception, national parks have been move on later in the article to discuss Gallingly, the authors fail to confronted with poor working conditions. a piece of scholarship and the troubling Given the pervasiveness of state- recognised primarily as spaces of public bullying and incivility as separate acknowledge the grossly unequal power Incivility might get better results than a managerial attitudes that it highlights. owned parks today, it is easy to forget enjoyment. behaviours. This conceptual confusion structures within universities, placing meeting with HR and line managers. (As The suggestion that incivility and that First Nations people were forcibly The Royal National Park — the first in is never resolved, and the authors’ ‘top down’ bullying at the same level as an aside, anyone who has dealt with HR insubordination in universities must removed from these areas. While people Australia — was established in 1879 as a contention seems to be that bullying and so-called ‘upward’ incivility. In fact, the departments during disputes will find be more strictly policed is troubling for still reside in these areas today, surviving tourist spot, a ‘national domain for rest incivility could be considered the same Heffernan and Bosetti’s recommendation cultural sites remind us of a world before authors suggest upward incivility is worse those with the least power within these and recreation.’ Today, visitor spending because they make recipients feel bad. because it is allegedly more common and that HR departments need to be better institutions. boardwalk trails and public campgrounds. at national parks injects around $40 The key difference is intent. Bullying harder to identify. These are bold claims equipped to detect and police uncivil The Blue Mountains region, billion into the economy per year. for example, was home to Dharug, But Andy tells me that these protected Gundungurra, Wanaruah, Wiradjuri, areas provide more than just social or Darkinjung and Tharawal people. But economic benefits, as the health of the Has Super Rugby started? I hadn’t noticed Farewell, populations declined rapidly with land is deeply connected to the overall colonisation, as many were killed in strength of communities. Tom Wark doesn’t think sports streaming isn’t so super. frontier massacres and forced into “A lot of Indigenous people are getting Bosch reserves. nbeknownst to many, the 2021 Super out of school feeling lost, including Rugby season started on the 19th of Returning ownership to Traditional U Leah Bruce says “bish, bash, Bosch” myself at one point,” he says. But for him February. It’s perfectly reasonable to “The work of managing the landscape scale backburning done by fire services. Owners would be a small reparation for and many others, being able to manage to a USyd classic. is enormous in scale,” Paddy O’Leary, This minimises the risk of large wildfires, not have noticed, considering rugby has ongoing dispossession. their land provides a chance to get back n the first day of semester I wandered Executive Director of Country Needs allowing local plants and animals to moved to streaming service Stan with “It would be unwise to rock up in on Country and utilise their unique skills. to my usual study spot, Bosch People, an organisation which supports regenerate and resulting in a healthier some place assuming you know what only one game a week televised on Nine’s O Indigenous rangers, tells me. and more productive landscape. “Working on Country really does give secondary channel 9Gem. Recently, Commons only to find its lights off, door works, without significant dialogue with us a feeling that we’re a part of something; shut and a sign that read ‘Permanently “Much more work is needed if we “There’s a lot that goes into it,” he rugby’s battle for viewers with perennial local Traditional Owners,” says Paddy, that we’re using our knowledge to do Closed’. I quickly went onto the library want to maintain biodiversity and laughs. recognising that local communities are heavyweights NRL and AFL has been a something good for our Country and for website to try and find its opening hours cultural heritage.” best equipped to make management bit of a struggle, but its move to online Andy also uses traditional tracking our ancestors.” and was sorely disappointed to discover skills to conduct biodiversity surveys decisions about their land. streaming seems an admission of defeat These positive impacts are having nothing: no update, no answers. What and studies, which provides much more Some communities may be able in its ability to compete on television. Towards active land management a ripple effect — Indigenous ranger I did notice was a new library had just accurate information about ecosystems to manage their land autonomously. programs have often resulted in safer Rugby’s recent struggles for relevance Australia’s early national parks, compared to other methods. opened less than 500 meters away: established in the late 19th and 20th In other communities where there communities, improved health outcomes have a lot to do with the waning quality are few people or a severe shortage of the new Susan Wakil Health Building centuries, were influenced by the US Given what they can achieve, he tells and strengthened language in the local of the product. Due to COVID the infrastructure, it might be more viable for Library. This was Bosch’s replacement, Yellowstone model. Central to this model me he’d like to see much more cultural area. competition only has five teams, all practices used across the country. “We’re them to co-manage the land with a local insisting it was okay to support Nick real cost is about $25. Optus Sport is a new, lavish building that boasted was a colonial concept of ‘wilderness,’ As Andy puts it, “land management from Australia, meaning the variety of using knowledge that’s been learned parks agency. Kyrgios again. $15. Sports Flick suggests that theirs ‘state-of-the-art technologies.’ My which had a focus on ‘preserving’ the is about healing Country, healing the opposition has been eradicated. While from Elders and passed down through Regardless of what pathway is taken, will be no more than $10 which seems disappointment turned to hope — maybe natural landscape and minimising community, and healing people’s souls.” this means the Australian teams win a While the move to streaming may or human interference. thousands of years of stories. I’m still the goal would be to provide Indigenous most reasonable until you realise that a Bosch 2.0 was on the horizon. Maybe I We must abandon colonial ideas of the whole lot more often than when forced may not save Australian rugby, it is part could still study until 2am with a table learning myself, and I’m 43 years old.” communities with self-determination other than the Champions League the Accordingly, land management ‘national park’ as untouchable stretches to play teams from New Zealand or of a larger pattern of live sport moving full of bubble tea and muffin crumbs. throughout the past century has been over the land they have long cared for. next best offering on their platform is of wilderness belonging to the state. South Africa, it does diminish the title of online. Since 2016, most international I was gravely disappointed when I sparse, predominantly focused on Replacing the national parks model These landscapes have long been owned probably Indian baseball. “Super Rugby Champions.” football has only been watchable stepped into the Susan Wakil Library, not activities such as eradicating invasive In order to adopt a more active The link between Country and people and cared for by First Nations people; (legally) through Optus Sport. Earlier These micro-deals with smaller weeds and pests, as well as restoring Another big problem, especially because it wasn’t fresher than Bosch, or approach to land management, two There are many challenges in the they must be actively managed, and they this year, relative unknown Sports Flick streaming networks can also impact threatened species. are the lifeblood of local communities. when negotiating a TV rights deal, is that that it wasn’t well equipped, but because things must happen. path towards community-based land launched a AU$60 million takeover of the quality of the sport. For example, Sydney is rugby’s biggest market and it had absolutely none of the charm that However, Paddy believes that Firstly, there would need to be a management. One of these is that Photo Courtesy: Russell Ord the UEFA Champions League rights from Rugby Australia’s last broadcast deal was approaches to management must go NSW’s team, the Waratahs, are abjectly Bosch once held. There’s far too much drastic boost in funding and resources. decision-makers often seek Western next season. Foxtel has launched Kayo worth around $57 million per year. Their terrible. At time of writing, they have airflow in Susan Wakil, too much natural to play the role of an online version of current deal with Stan is worth only failed to win a single game and have light and the carpet isn’t even slightly a standard television subscription to Fox $33 million per year. This means that lost their seven games by an average mouldy. I was also surprised to see much large ‘SOLD’ sign now sits atop the and second-hand book store finds. made better by this homely place. Over Sports. RA is unable to offer larger contracts to of the library is only open 10-5 and is not awning of Cafe Ella. Last Saturday, the years, Peter and Priscilla collected an of 20 points. Ratings suggest that the A For a man who has never drunk a cup This transition to streaming does its players to play domestically so star open on weekends, while Bosch boasted It’s been an 274 Abercrombie Street was sold to the eclectic gang of waiters and waitresses. Waratahs’ first match on 9Gem had only of chai in his life, Peter had mastered have some benefits. The more sports players like Michael Hooper have chased 24 hour service. highest bidder. The building, business, Denise’s warmth and Fred’s quick wit 26,000 Sydney viewers. By contrast, the the recipe. His wife, Priscilla, could that negotiate broadcast deals outside of big bucks in places like Japan. This not Sure, Bosch had its pitfalls. It was and all the furnishings and bric-a-brac pepped up the mornings of Darlington NRL on Foxtel averaged 372,000 viewers Ella-va run be spotted carting tray upon tray of traditional television structures lessens only hurts the domestic competition but often unbearably cold and the constantly inside no longer belong to Peter Borbilas residents. Local sculptor Stella paid her per match on the opening weekend of Sydney’s best carrot cake and traditional the monopoly of large organisations like also the Wallabies due to archaic rules overflowing pile of used hand towels Alice Trenoweth-Creswell will and Priscilla Boswell, ending an era that way through art school there. Peter and the season. Greek desserts from their home down News Corp, who own Foxtel. Of course, about player eligibility. was mildly disgusting, but nevertheless began when they served their first coffee Priscilla’s son, the trombone-playing Now these viewers don’t take into miss Cafe Ella. the road (Nigella Lawson once stopped Stan Sport is owned by Nine-Fairfax so It might be a good thing for I will miss it. It was a place where worlds back in 1996. Hugo, recently joined the Cafe Ella team. account those watching on Stan Sport, by to try the muffins). it is not really fighting the battle for the Sydneysiders to not pay attention to the collided, from college kids in their and frustratingly Stan don’t publicise Cafe Ella was long a staple of the My parents ate at Cafe Ella almost Cafe Ella was no nonsense. It was one little guys. restart of Super Rugby, otherwise they’d pajamas armed with just their laptop Redfern Run. Their homemade boiled of the last genuinely affordable, friendly, how many subscribers they have or every day for the last seven years. They But this is clearly outweighed on an be forced to reflect on how even though and charger, to Stucco residents like bagels and warm atmosphere drew in family-run cafes, that will be missed in how many viewers watch each game. joined the gang of locals perpetually individual level by the financial pressures they’re potentially paying more to watch myself who spent many a late night in crowds of local artists and university an increasingly shallow cafe culture. Stan Sport was advertised relentlessly sitting at street-side tables in the sun. placed on sports fans to subscribe to new rugby, all their best players have left. Bosch using their far superior internet to students. The sounds of Bob Dylan and throughout the summer in an attempt to Cafe Ella offered my family comfort and The cafe shuts its doors at the end of streaming services. Foxtel’s most basic But while both the Waratahs and the illegally download movies. Sometimes, Miles Davis drifted through the cafe, prevent Australian rugby from slipping an excellent cup of coffee through thick May and will reopen under new owners. plan that includes sport is $50/month. Wallabies remain as hopeless as they are, you might even see an actual medical punctuated by footsteps heading up the even further into obscurity. Channel and thin — meals when the money ran Priscilla hopes they’ll be able to boil a Kayo starts at $25. Currently, Stan Sport I can’t see too many people knocking on student. And when all three came creaky wooden stairs. The beige walls Nine’s Australian Open coverage was together, it was truly spectacular. So out, a chai before a deadline day. good bagel. is only available to Stan subscribers Stan’s door for a subscription. were decked with Paul Worsted paintings as memorable for incessant Stan Sport farewell Bosch! You’ll live on forever in But ours were not the only lives Art by Eleanor Curran for an extra $10/month meaning the Photo Courtesy: Getty Images and bookshelves chock full of old records advertising as it was for commentators the heart of my first degree.

8 9 CULTURE CULTURE Historicising ‘Horrible Histories’ Cut With the Kitchen Knife Through the Patriarchy Zander Czerwaniw has been tuning in to the past. Art by Grace Pennock. Isabella Nicoletti explores German artist Hannah Höch’s contributions to Dada. Art by Bonnie Huang. witter recently came together to on their marketability by Scholastic. the iconic host Rattus Rattus, and with the British colonies of Australia ife hasn’t been what you were if Höch was playing Frankenstein. the photomontage form. Though, make headlines. Her exploration of Tcelebrate the 12th anniversary The successful masquerade of Deary’s guided the production on how to happily described the conditions of Lpromised. The people are angry, I distinctly remember seeing being one of the few women within gender fluidity and sexuality were of the iconic CBBC series Horrible books as ‘edgy’ and ‘dangerous’ transform the book’s original art into convict quarters, while only giving the government can’t get a grip, and Höch’s 1919 photomontage ‘Cut with the elite group, Höch was heavily before her time, and are topics that are Histories. Found on ABC 3 in its successfully caught the attention of animation. Indigenous people a passing mention fascism is on the rise. Sound familiar? the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the scrutinised. For a movement that only recently becoming (somewhat) heyday, Horrible Histories originally rebellious children in libraries and Many of the show’s greatest for their killing of labourers. As a It’s Germany in the 1910s. You are not Beer Belly of the Weimar Republic’. aimed to reject tradition in all senses accepted in Western culture. Höch is ran between 2009 and 2014, shaping a scholastic catalogues worldwide. successes came from portraying series that promotes contrarianism a reader of Honi Soit; you are German The photomontage is an explosive of the word, Dada was a fundamentally certainly not the only female artist generation of young Australians’ views Producer Caroline Norris was first history through parody of other media. and radicalism in the presentation of Dada artist Hannah Höch, and you’ve array of symbols, and one of her most sexist movement. Höch recalled in within Dada who has been overlooked of the past. Structured as a variety asked to develop Horrible Histories Segments made fun of prominent history to children, future iterations got one meaty bone to pick with the famous works today; a bold critique an interview that “Most of our male by the history books. We know the show, each week featured a range of into a television series for CBBC with reality TV shows with ‘historical wife should embrace a non-eurocentric Weimar Republic of Germany. on the failings of the Weimar Republic colleagues continued for a long while names Duchamp, Ray, and Ernst; but catchy songs and sketches that covered Dominic Brigstocke in 2007. Over swap’ and aped the mopey lyrics of perspective and casting a more diverse One crisp autumn morning during following the First World War, and to look upon us as charming and gifted Clara Tice, Beatrice Wood and Sophie everything from Henry VIII’s wives range of voices. email Norris told me: “I’d spent 10 Morrisey in a song about Charles my senior years of high school in of the male dominion of Germany’s amateurs, denying us implicitly any Taeuber-Arp are mostly erased from to the Suffragettes. The writing was years in and out of children’s TV at Dickens. Despite its flaws, Horrible Histories 2019, my art teacher (bless them, politics and art. Höch was one of real professional status.” Not only was the Dada chapter. watertight, the jokes were funny, and the BBC and had moved onto adult The show’s run was not without its continues to be a global triumph in they had no idea what they were the pioneers of the photomontage it rare for a woman to be so heavily This is, of course, an issue not its charming cast of comedians like programming, so I was reluctant to go fair share of controversies. The writers government-funded broadcasting, getting me into) introduced me to involved within creating avant-garde limited to the Dada movement. Mathew Baynton (whose portrayal of technique, using it to explore her back... However when I read Terry’s were accused of being anti-British after acting as a catalyst for a generation’s art, but Höch’s bold feminist themes Charles II was a viral fan favourite) and the fantastical, wild world of Hannah ideas on gender, the ‘New Woman’, Throughout the entirety of Art History, books, I knew I couldn’t let anyone else a skit pointed out that all England’s interest in history. The cast and crew Höch. I was hooked. Höch’s work androgyny and politics, the disorderly also made her fellow artists hesitant to women artists have been diminished Martha Howe-Douglas were incredibly get their hands on them!” of the original show, which ended in cultural cornerstones are stolen from wasn’t at all what I was used to — no stylisation expressing her feelings of accept Höch and her practice. and even completely erased, but talented. 2013, have continued to collaborate Wanting to carry over Deary’s tone former colonies. Another episode was striking portraits of wealthy toffs with discontent and frustration. I admire Höch for her perseverance perhaps these artists’ calls for equality Based upon the series of 23 books on a range of projects. “The troupe and humour to the screen, Norris and pulled after it inaccurately represented exquisite flowing silks and gleaming in the art world, even when those in can finally be heard on a larger scale. by British author Terry Deary, Horrible went off and starred together in the Höch’s contributions to the Brigstocke devised the sketch format, Florence Nightingale as racist for jewellery, no striking landscapes of her inner circle would not respect her. Artists such as the Baroque painter Histories explored the details of history putting together a mood reel of “Some comedic effect. Yet, the original all- film Bill and the series Yonderland and Dada movement in its founding deemed too gory or disgusting for the now Ghosts.” As for herself, Norris jagged cliffs or raging storms, each years should not be understated. We can learn a lot from Höch’s art, and Artemisia Gentileschi, who was Python stuff, Do Not Adjust Your white troupe’s portrayal of historical stroke painstakingly placed. Instead, herself; her unapologetic exploration once relatively unknown, have been classroom. Deary always viewed his Set sketches and Blackadder”. The figures of colour can make for an said “Martha has just been a guest She worked alongside Hausmann, there were chaotic arrangements, an is something to be admired. Höch’s rediscovered. There is a lot that these texts as anti-establishment, worried show’s writers’ room was an ensemble awkward, even objectionable watch. in Motherland which I produced and Richter and other key figures of Berlin abundance of clipped images stuffed artistic themes still resonate today, forgotten female artists have to offer, that children would stop reading of Brigstocke and Norris’ favourite While historical moments like the civil several of the gang pop up in Tracey Dada. She collaborated, protested into frames, impossible figures hastily particularly in a political climate and I think we can all learn from their them if they were used as a tool in writers, blending the worlds of BBC’s rights movement were played by a Ullman’s Show.” However, for fans who through art, brought forth new ideas schools. Ironically, for books touted as prime time and children’s comedy. diverse cast, events like the First World want more Rattus Rattus, they will just constructed with mismatched parts, as to Weimar’s public, and developed where hateful ideologies constantly fierce, unyielding calls for equality. a rebellion against the system, Deary Writer/Producer Giles Pilbrow created War are represented as exclusively have to tune back into the original notes that the book topics were chosen the popular ‘Stupid Deaths’ segment, caucasian affairs. A song that dealt Horrible Histories. Sexmission: Impossible Being ‘Hardcore Happy’: in conversation with ‘The Blossom’ Harry Gay reassess the Polish cult classic film. Zara Zadro speaks with Lily Lizotte about their latest EP. exmission is a 1984 Polish science to side with them as the plot moves As speculative fiction, Sci-Fi seems for contemporary abortion laws in he things that move us the most and “the anxiety of just wanting to be sonic vision of someone far more One glimpse at their Instagram Sfiction film directed by Juliusz along. What seems like a satire of primed to tackle an evolving notion Poland. Right now, the government’s Thave duality,” says Lily Lizotte. happy.” The song opens with a warm, experienced — but perhaps that’s not feed also reveals a collage of different Machulski, and starring Olgierd toxic masculinity at first, eventually like gender. Many texts explore the stranglehold on abortion laws is “Lately I’ve been treating joy and pain electro-acoustic soundscape and heavy surprising. After all, the music industry aesthetics, the dominant one right Łukaszewicz and Jerzy Stuhr. Panned becomes an endorsement of their liberation of the human form from being increasingly strained, with as the same thing.” vocal reverb. “All I want, yeah, I want is nothing new for them. Their father, now being high-saturation, a red-and- by critics at the time, the film has behaviour. Women strip nude, with the traditional limitations of the the Constitutional Tribunal in 2020 since garnered a cult following for their naked flesh and genitals are on past, including the binaries of gender. labelling it ‘unconstitutional’ for 97 Blossom, the EP by 23-year- hardcore (hardcore happy),” sings Mark Lizotte, is better known as blue palette, graffiti letters, fairy-floss its satirisation of the Communist full display; delirious, unconscious Robert Heinlein’s All You Zombies women to abort a foetus showing old American-Australian artist Lily Lizotte. Lizotte also doesn’t shy away singer-songwriter Johnny Diesel, and streaks, and formal-wear paired with government. Some have come to and confused women are sexually is a 1950s short story blurring the signs of fetal defects. Female bodily Lizotte affirms just that. Released in from writing about where it hurts: the their uncle is Jimmy Barnes, former street style. This is similarly potent in recognise its more sexist and even assaulted by the two men and it is lines between male and female as autonomy is being policed to greater early April, the EP marries elements song ‘Black Eye’ alludes to violence, frontman of the Australian band Cold the Shapeshifter MV. “[My style] is a transphobic elements over time, treated as either a moment of comedy the protagonist transitions between and greater extremes, and with protests of indie pop, hip-hop and 90s grunge abuse and insecurity. Just after Lizotte Chisel. Diesel actually recorded all the mish-mash of everything, where it’s however. One must wonder, then, or climactic achievement at the end of genders through various time travel by activists being met with brutal, state in a smoky, steel-edged daydream. moved to Los Angeles a year and a half guitar parts in Lizotte’s EP in Australia kind of like this harmonious chaos. I if these issues are endemic of the the film. The populace fawns over the adventures, eventually giving birth to sanctioned violence, it is an inexorably Formerly known as ‘Lila Gold’, Lizotte ago, COVID-19 hit. Lizotte was stuck and sent them over to LA during the have a lot of influence from different film itself, its genre, or perhaps its protagonists, and the men are similarly themself and ensuring the creation of hostile time to be a woman in modern now goes by ‘The Blossom’, an artist in a new city just as borders closed, pandemic, they tell me. “[Dad’s] work subcultures, like skate culture and contextual milieu of contemporary thrown into wild sex driven frenzies at their own life. day Poland. identity they describe as an “genderless and they had to decide whether to life and his career and his music was street culture. I’m really inspired by Poland. the mere sight of a boob. and expansive space.” Their prior return home or stay. “Obviously it symbiotic with our family life.” “I think Japanese street fashion mags or Fruits Feminist Sci-Fi has been especially The state of LGBTQIA+ rights is no singles have amassed praise from was a hard decision to make, because I from three to four, I remember just Magazine… I love a lot of vintage The film follows its two In the climax, the head matriarch popular of late, with television shows better, with Poland, according to ILGA- triple-j, Milk, and i-D, amongst others. missed my family. But it was the best listening to my dad record and write streetwear stuff [too]… brands like protagonists, Albert and Maks, two of the society is revealed to have been such as The Handmaid’s Tale, based on Europe’s 2020 report, ranking as the The Blossom’s six new tracks are lucid decision I made,” they say. During from his home studio… So I really grew Vivienne Westwood and Jean Paul schlubby and arrogant working class a man in disguise, only able to survive Margaret Atwood’s book of the same worst country in the European Union. fragments of introspection, windows 2020, Lizotte wrote songs with various up with it as like, okay, that’s what you Gaultier.” men in the 20th century who abandon by dressing as the opposite gender. name, presenting a dystopian future This is mostly due to the inseparable into the artist which splinter the LA musicians while in lockdown, do. You make music. And then you go So what is next for Lily Lizotte, their families and are placed in One could read this as the reason ruled by an authoritarian patriarchy relationship between the Church and closer you look. “As a POC non-binary eventually developing a friendship on tour, you record in the studio. I was aka The Blossom? Lizotte explains hibernation. Intended to be thawed why the society was so dystopian in where women are subordinate and the State. For a transgender person, person… I definitely struggle with with the group Brockhampton over fortunate enough to see that as a career they have a couple of singles coming out after only three years, the men the first place, as it was run by a man their bodies are merely vessels for birth. attempting to get gender reassignment projection of my insecurities or [the] 2020. In fact, members Kevin Abstract, and a life choice really early on.” In fact, out “here and there”, followed by a are instead woken up fifty years in the and not a woman, but the film treats it Many Sci-Fi texts, however, have not surgery is made nearly impossible by anger that I have,” they say. “I guess Matt Champion, Romil and Jabari when I call them to chat, it is 11:00pm new project collaborating with their future, discovering the Earth has been more as a joke at his expense that he been so concerned with these issues. an obstructive bureaucracy and hostile [the EP] is really an amalgamation of all participated in the creation of 97 in LA, and they have just returned from artist-friends including Brockhampton. ravaged by an apocalyptic WWIII and wore a dress. No attempt is made to The image of the birthing machine, regulations. A proposal to make the all these different facets of my past.” Blossom, and Lizotte has lent a hand a full day in the studio. “Growing up, I They’re also keen to tour if it’s possible, that the world is populated only by try and probe deeper into questions or the artificially created human — a process of transitioning easier was, ‘Shapeshifter’, the third track on 97 in their individual projects (BH’s new used to always play in my dad’s band but right now they’re happy to not women. Seemingly utopian at first, surrounding their gender, and it seems recurring motif in Sci-Fi from Aldous unfortunately, vetoed by President Blossom, begins: “I can be anything, no album, Roadrunner, was recorded and do BVS [backing vocals]... like my have the pressure of preparing for this matriarchy soon reveals itself that in this utopian society driven by Huxley’s Brave New World, to Andrew Andrzej Duda. matter who’s around, the fire burning before Lizotte met them). “We got cousin would be like: ‘All right, it’s your shows. Pushing the envelope for Asian- to be anything but the paradise they women, there are no transgender men. Niccol’s Gattaca, and even Sexmission As it stands, it is difficult to at my feet ain’t burning me out. I can be connected through a common friend,” turn, now get up.’” Apart from their American pop artists is also important imagined, and it’s from this that they At the same time, the climactic — is always presented as a sign of the determine the toxicity that drives they, I can be so gay, I can be anywhere Lizotte explains. “Romil pulled up the family, Lizotte’s sonic and aesthetic to them, as a half-Thai individual. “I hatch a plan to escape. reveal spreads harmful mistruths and dystopian, as if society has moved Sexmission, whether it be the sexist any kind of way.” Lizotte’s sweet, beat and we just like started riding influences are diverse. When I ask who can maybe name three or four Asian From the opening moments of the myths about people using transgender away from a more natural way of tropes that have dominated the Sci-Fi spunky tone rides above muted electric on it. Then they said, ‘we don’t want they’re most inspired by, they mention music artists in the Western industry film, Albert and Maks seem as though identity as a ploy to invade women’s producing life. But if the genre is about genre since its inception or Poland’s guitar and drums, reminiscent of early to pressure you into anything, but we rap/trap artists like Baby Keem, Young that I like, that I guess are revered they are the villains of the piece. spaces. This misinformation is still the liberation of humanity, why is this strict, dogmatic rule over sex and 2000s Avril Lavigne or Hailey Williams. really want to be a part of this.’ And I Thug, and Playboy Carti, as well as on a commercial wider scale.” “I feel Abandoning their wives and children running rampant today, with bathroom not afforded to women? Astronaut gender. This issue, however, runs “That track is definitely about me,” couldn’t say no, because I just felt like Indie-pop, rock, and older bands like really lucky generationally that I with little regard as to how they will laws being a prolonged topic of debate. Dave Bowman can evolve into a giant deeper than one mere genre or country. Lizotte says. “It’s definitely talking that was such a natural connection the Smashing Pumpkins, the Pixies, have a community of younger artists live without them, before waking up I could lie and say that transgender space baby at the end of 2001: A Space There is a deep infection that runs about my gender, my sexuality, about… between us.” Beyond the feat of and the Smiths. “I listen to everything, [like myself]... that we get to just be in this future society dominated by the people were not considered during Odyssey, and Iron Man can survive through the veins of the entire planet, how I feel like I’m always evolving. working with Brockhampton, each but I do listen to certain stuff when ourselves.” opposite gender, only to treat them the filmmaking process. However, it explosive blasts in his metallic suit, but a stronghold that is choking the life out track on 97 Blossom already has well I’m working on my project, because god forbid a woman is relieved of the And sometimes that can be really The Blossom’s new EP 97 Blossom with little respect, ogling them any was there, but only for the purpose of of the world: the patriarchal umbrella over 100,000 plays on Spotify. For an I’m trying to pull those influences and stress, pain and anxiety of childbirth. painful and really uncomfortable.” In is available on Spotify, Apple Music and chance they get —it is hard to believe mockery and defacement. Are these we all live under. If Sexmission truly artist who’s oeuvre last year consisted references out and then re-imagine contrast, ‘Hardcore Happy’ explores iTunes now. that the framing of the film shifts to issues endemic to the film itself or The issues and questions around wanted to imagine a dystopia, it need coming to terms with yearning, desire, of just a few singles, Lizotte has the them and recontextualize [them].” their perspective, and we are meant a product of the genre it inhabits? childbirth are especially prescient only depict our current world as is.

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friend at the market but by the time I you to have a slick operation. It came back, word had got around. The keeps us homespun.” outpouring of love and condolences Because of the ways community Inside Glebe Markets: and really lovely kind words was so markets have evolved, mainstream A feeling of discovery and wonder can beautiful.” brands have filtered in and co-opted still be felt in Glebe today; ensuring As we reach the top of the main stalls from small business owners that the past is not lost as it has been aisle, we come across the tree who sell authentic vintage clothes. History, Community, and the community, a group of stallholders Kara Otter looks like she just stepped in many other pockets of the city. bound together by their prime out of an early Britney Spears music location and love of a good puzzle. video. She’s been attending Glebe It took years of hard work and Markets for over a decade, and sells dedication to get in this prime authentic early 2000s pieces under Inner-West position and now they reap the her brand Karamelon. Kara airs her fairytale starts at Glebe Markets — or I mean, people come and go. There benefits of the steady flow of foot grievances about the mass-produced Alice Trenoweth-Creswell and Shania O’Brien go to Glebe Markets. so legend claims. are people from the very beginning traffic and perpetual shade. Every brands infiltrating community The story starts in the early 90s, that aren’t around anymore. They’ve Saturday morning, Liz Sledge, a markets and selling lesser-quality estled in the inner-city, a amazing ability to be feisty and minted gods. on the corner where the Four Friends moved on or passed away. But loyal member of the tree community, products for cheaper. “It is hard to world away from the polished stand up to people,” David gushes. coffee shop now stands. Bella was there’s just a camaraderie between parks herself under the large, leafy compete with clothes that are sold N “That was the time of a different stallholders. There’s rarely any lawns of suburbia, the early days “She’s incredibly intelligent and generation of people, of those sitting at her stall when she met a tree with the Good Weekend Quiz. for $1,” said Kara. “When something of Glebe Markets were a hubbub of determined.” very flustered Robert, who had been anger or animosity or jealousy Fellow stallholders make their way is so cheap, you can’t help but unburdened by the precarious future or backbiting. It really is just a young adults seeking out the latest On the other side of the coin, we face now. They did not have to tasked with finding a last-minute up to her shop, Sappo Trading, to wonder what sort of profit one could cultural trends. Students roamed the gift for his mother’s birthday. He community of people who are all lend a hand. First, Peter joined from possibly make.” Bob was the strong, silent type. He worry about HECS, or the job market in the same boat,” she said. “While avenues, thriving in an atmosphere happened upon the sweet smell of his t-shirt stall across the aisle. His While other markets have strict was the financial brains behind the or climate change,” David mused. the COVID lockdown was on, there fuelled by dissent and alternative the candles, and the sweet face that knowledge of Oz Rock has become rules for stall holders — stipulating operation. “She’s the vocal one and Though Glebe has since evolved, were a bunch of us that were very culture. Vitality sprung from every sold them, and left with two tealight indispensable to the operation. presentation and the products sold he’s the quieter, more thought- caught up in the flow of a changing in touch and checking in on each corner, and whispered its way holders, a coconut candle, and a William and Chai, renowned for — Glebe keeps its stallholders at through side of things,” said David. world, it has always been a place for other. People seeing if anyone was through the streets. little strip of paper with a phone their cookies and cakes, began to front of mind, giving them a sense “He brings the maths and the people to sit on the grass with their able to get JobKeeper and seeing number. Their child told us the story contribute, and now Karen, purveyor of creative liberty and freedom over In the time immediately after business, and a more peaceful and friends, an alternative metropolis and how everyone was staying afloat. It excitedly before rushing off with her of sugarcane juice, wanders up from how their stall appears and what they its conception, Glebe Markets was gentle energy. I’ve always really escape from suburban mundanity. comforted me to know I had these the young person’s market, the appreciated that about him.” friends, their canvas totes filled with the food aisle to help out. sell. “It allows for a more vibrant way Author and academic Vanessa Berry wonderful wares. people in times of crisis as well.” place to be. “I worked there in my Together, the duo were a force to would religiously catch the train It becomes clear as we talk to of being, and we’ve always been like early twenties, and the culture was So you see, there is a rich history The community at Glebe Markets stall-holders across that market that,” David told Honi. “You can end be reckoned with. “When it came to to Central Station almost every has been a constant pillar in Jess different then,” said owner David dealing with the stallholders they weekend as a teenager and walk up to be unravelled here, if one would that David is a beloved icon within up with exploring and finding a new McCumstie as he sipped his morning only take the time to listen. As Pisanelli’s life. As a loyal customer the community. David bought the thing in every nook and cranny.” were a unified force — you couldn’t the hill to the corner of Glebe Point for many years, she was welcomed coffee. “But it has always belonged we wove through the market, we business from his parents about a From the outside, Glebe Markets lie to them and get away with it,” said Road. “Being in Glebe and absorbing in with open arms when she started to young people. Glebe’s culture has found ourselves at the stall of Jacki decade ago. The sense of community looks almost identical to how it David. “It’s nice to see a husband and the culture surrounding the markets Marlow Vintage about a decade always evolved to fit the whims of Pateman, who has been selling cultivated by Bob and Judy still did in 1992. While the carloads wife team working so well together and the records stores and book ago. “There are some people at the newer generations, and I think that clothes at Glebe Markets since the forges on, with stall-holders praising of anarchists, cult leaders and … that’s what marriage is all about.” shops, I always felt like I was a market that have been there since is spectacular.” very beginning. “I came from the David’s commitment and spirit. punk-rockers blasting Smashing Glebe Markets was more than just part of something,” she said. “My it started, and there are people who Northern Beaches, so to be amongst Every weekend before Christmas, Pumpkins are all long gone, the air David is a tall, chatty man with a business for the McCumsties. “The friends and I would buy petticoats have been there for two years,” she it in Glebe, which was just such a David braves the sweltering heat of vitality and wonder remains; it salt and pepper hair, usually dressed markets are about family, they’re my from the markets and dye them in said. “You get to know their family, happening place at the time. It was and delivers fruit cake to all the lingers in the brickwork, carried head to toe in vintage finds. He sits parents’ legacy,” said David. “Even the backyard. You could buy cheap you get to know when someone gets hugely instrumental in informing permanent stallholders. Multiple on in the chattering voices of the up the back of the market, coffee in before I owned the markets I was clothes and play around with them,” married or has a baby. It does have a who I became as a young adult.” people told Honi that he is the true market-goers. If David (and even hand, watching the passing parade. invested. It was their creation, it was she adds, “discovering what worked really beautiful community.” Gaggles of teenage girls walk by, for you and what didn’t.” Her stall, Jacky LeStrange Vintage, heart of the community. one day, maybe his daughter) has his ours.” When David is out of town, his Jess told Honi that the community clutching bags overflowing with niece manages the markets, fielding If you have ever been to Glebe is a treasure trove of 1950s and “David has let the market evolve way, Glebe Markets will continue to bargains. Young mothers scout for ‘60s lingerie and white cheesecloth doesn’t only share celebrations, they organically,” Jacki said. “Some shape-shift and reflect the culture calls and chatting to stallholders. Markets, you will surely find that mourn together in times of grief. bohemian baby clothes and a group “My daughter jokes about how she the main attraction of community dresses. For Jacki, the 9-to-5 life that markets stipulate you have to have of future generations for decades to of musicians make their way to the most people are content with wasn’t “When my dad passed away, I was excellent presentation. And David come. may own Glebe Markets one day,” he markets is the sense of anticipation away for a few weeks. I only told one grass. David reflects on the trends laughs. “I give her complete freedom — not knowing what you will find. an option. When she was nineteen, encourages it — but doesn’t require of recent years, with the Markets not to, but who knows what the When people go to Portobello Road she sold all of the vintage clothes Art by Nandini Dhir now selling vegan and cruelty-free future will hold.” and The Grand Bazaar, when they go she had gathered out of the boot of products, upcycled and recycled her car. “I had been op-shopping Over the years, the McCumsties op-shopping, they go for the thrill of clothing. Blending bargains that for years at that point,” she said. have watched on as Glebe erupted discovery. Perhaps there is room for you can’t walk away from with “After that, I quit my office job. I with youth and life, bringing new a decorative oil lamp that summons collectables that you could cherish had decided that this was what I was people and new stories to their out a genie, or a rare collectible, forever, Glebe Markets has it all. waiting to be found under a giant going to do for a living, and I have doorstep. In the early 1990s, never looked back.” Glebe Markets was born of a Glebe was populated with, in the pile of clothes. middle-class dream to do more, affectionate words of David, “wild That feeling of discovery and But the thrill of the buy isn’t the started by Bob and Judy McCumstie and crazy people.” Glebe was a hub wonder can be felt in Glebe today; only thing that has kept Jacki in the in 1992. The pair owned a coffee of youth counterculture in Sydney. the stall-holders have made sure of business. “The people around me shop over the road and spent their University students flocked to Badde it, ensuring that the past is not lost have kept me going like nothing else. Saturdays peering across at the Manors for late night coffees and as it has been in many other pockets empty schoolyard. “It was unlike Nirvana played the Phoenician Club of the city. “There was a symbolic anything they’d ever done before,” on the corner of Mountain Street aspect to the place as well,” Vanessa said David. “My mother was a high and Broadway. Twenty-somethings reflects. “It was going somewhere school teacher, my father was an in flannel shirts flooded out of which collected all these interesting agricultural economist and a farmer. overcrowded share houses into the people and objects. It seemed to It was an exciting adventure.” markets every Saturday morning. suggest a lot of possibilities.” Judy could spin a great yarn. In Anarchists drove cars filled to the It’s this air of possibility and a those early days it was her tough brim with punk paraphernalia. They sense of romance that nourishes the exterior and gift of the gab that would tear through the lawn, doing market, more so than the handmade got the markets going. She rallied donuts in the parking lot with no emerald sweaters and butterfly 40 stallholders from the competing care for those in the vicinity. There hairpins. Indeed, for some the Sunday market down the road, was even a time when the market was Markets are a place of love. Sitting chatting to different artisans around overrun by groups of young people at a nearby coffee shop, rumours Art by Janina Osinsao town and encouraging them to who would set up tables and declare swirl about the early days of the pack up their goods and head to themselves a religion, attempting to market, and Bella and Robert, whose Glebe Public School. “She has an convert passers-by to pray to newly-

12 CULTURE CULTURE Where is Miike Snow? I miss them Old dogs and new tricks Tasia Kuznichenko is snowed by the sounds of this intercontinental band. Maddy Briggs explores the impact of the avant-garde. n my final year of high school, a jackrabbit mixed with antelope horns. called my dad today to get his momentum. They take a specific sound in 18 Musicians almost to a T. stirring lyrically. Igood friend of mine started driving I have no idea what it represents but I opinion on some things about element of avant-garde music and Illinoise was undeniably Cage’s original construction me to school. In a year where you potentially it is symbolic of their music. repurpose it; becoming a way to influential — it ranked first in of the prepared piano isn’t quite were inches away from a freedom blend of musical interests, their style Yes, he’s Gary Briggs of Briggsy powerfully reshape genre as it’s Pitchfork’s Top 50 Albums of 2005 - as sensitive as his descendants. that seems so close yet so vastly far, transforming from song to song. I Boys fame; part of the highly lauded recontextualised. Often popular and with it, Sufjan Stevens has earned Required listening here is Sonata V: the fact your friend had their P’s and think those quirks encapsulate the duo that play dim Sutherland Shire genres water down the avant garde himself a throne on the court of indie it sounds like when you accidentally could save you an hour’s bus ride point they’re going for -- Miike Snow pubs and clubs about twice a year. for mass appeal, but nevertheless the folk music. Even his latest release, try to force a second DVD into your was a small venture into so-called focuses on the music above all else; Their setlist is a tapestry of 70s and song is imbued with genre-pushing, Convocations, waves at Brian Eno and DVD player. It’s strangely wonderful adulthood. In the early years of our celebrity status or an intricate brand 80s hits that set the sticky dance floor boundary-shattering potential. Every early computer music. Sufjan owes to hear such harsh sounds from an friendship (pre-Toyota Camry), she image means nothing to them. alight with the wayward legs and arms artist said to revolutionise their genre his debts to the avant-garde for his instrument lauded for mellow clarity would show me new music on our bus Often their songs have no of forty-somethings. One such gem is does so with the tools presented to position as an innovator of the folk - this is the instrument upon which rides. She introduced me to Pandora’s clear meaning. They leave the Stone Temple Pilot’s Plush, which my them by the avant-garde. genre. Claire De Lune was written. With ‘Indie-Pop’ Radio in Year Ten. It was a interpretation in the listener’s hands. dad thinks isn’t popular enough to Exhibit A is Sufjan Stevens. With Avant-garde’s grip is so strong Cage’s innovation, he breaks the gateway to leave behind Top-40 radio I’d listen to one of their best songs,God perform but my uncle likes too much the release of his 2005 album Illinoise, it extends prominently into greater idea of the piano. It becomes its own and explore the sounds of 2000s indie; Help This Divorce when studying for to take off rotation. Uncle Mark is two he revolutionised contemporary folk. pop culture. Remember that massive rhythm section, and produces sounds the Kooks, the Naked and Famous and the HSC. I was transported away from years older so he wins. With wonderfully rich orchestration SNL video, Dear Sister? Where Andy that are utterly unique. Phoenix, to name a few. my economics practice paper into an “What do you think about 4’33? and lyrics about longing that tear at Samberg, Bill Hader and Shia LaBeouf Both of these artists water down One morning as she drove me to expansive, bleak soundscape. The The silence piece?” I’d asked him. your heart, it’s easy to see why. Folk shoot each other in a cutting parody elements of the avant-garde. They school, navigating one of the many song always reminded me of a black John Cage’s 4’33 is a one of avant- has never been heard like this before. of the The O.C? The crux of this video sparingly selected a single way thousands of roundabouts on the and white, old fashioned Western. I garde’s biggest hits - a piece made But minimalism has! falls on the repetition of Imogen of piano preparation so that the Central Coast with a McDonald’s could visualise two figures engaged in entirely of rests, or silence, so that the Sufjan’s complex instrumental Heap’s Hide and Seek, which has original sound of the piano isn’t iced-frappe in hand, my friend played a standoff, their black felt hats tipped everyday sound of the performance layering violently evokes (or cemented its place in comedy history. totally eclipsed. It delicately pushes me a song. It was relatively new at the forward to hide their identities. space form the music made. ‘blatantly rips off’, as users on the time and from the first listen I was It didn’t matter that the song had The answer was unexpected. Progressive Rock Music Forum argue) addicted. It was the kind of song that It’s strangely wonderful to hear such harsh sounds no bearing on my current life as a composer Steve Reich’s 1976 piece would be a crime to not turn up in the ‘Aw, it’s not music. Silence isn’t seventeen-year-old; being neither Music for 18 Musicians — an hour- from an instrument launded for mellow clarity — car as its electronic, synth saturated, music.’ married nor divorced. It was the way long venture where gossamer chords pop sound needed to be played super I was thrown. I panicked. this is the instrument upon which Claire de Lune they were able to create a palpable unfold gradually across time. Yes, loud. Miike Snow, a band I had never I weaponised the only example I sense of melancholia interspersed student it’s a precondition) and the searching for an earthier ground it’s long, but absolutely decadent. was written. heard of before, had managed to could think of on my feet, to make with glimmers of hope that made song they were playing caught my was encapsulated by Wyatt and Across that time, you feel like you’re make a despotic Mongolian Emperor him feel a bit silly. the song so memorable – nostalgia attention. It was the perfect song to Winnberg’s most recent project swimming through the rich textural into the namesake for an upbeat yet for something I didn’t even know I listen to in the winter sun, chilling together with Lykke Li and Bjorn “What do you think about MC tapestry Reich has created for you. Heap takes her cues in digital the boundaries of their respective slightly dark bop – Genghis Khan was understood. Hammer, then?” “Huh?” genres, subtly immersing themselves with an eerie melody; the piano- Yttling. The Swedish based Now, Music for 18 Musicians isn’t vocal harmony from Laurie Anderson well and truly stuck in my head and I within popular music while also After a four year break, the band based house blend has Wyatt’s voice supergroup, liv, injected a psychedelic “Stop.” quite avant-garde itself - it wades in and her unexpected hit, O Superman. wanted to hear more. firing innovation in them with their achieved commercial success in 2016 soaring over the top in Auto-Tune.e. soul into harmonious folk. Their “Wh-“ the water of contemporary classicism Where Andreson felt the track Miike Snow is the amalgamation masterful presentation of the new with the release of their album iii. The descriptor sounds strange if you numerous singles released in 2016 and minimalism. We must make one demanded a ‘greek chorus’, her of a Swedish producing duo; Christian “Hammertime.” sounds. After this, I waited and waited for haven’t heard it, however, that’s and 2017 never eventuated into a full more leap before Sufjan connects vocoder creates harmony that adds a Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg, My dad stuck to his guns. something new from the band. Miike where the beauty in Miike Snow lies album but had a lot of potential as a with real avant-garde. grandeur to her lyrics in contrast to Tori Amos uses prepared piano, and American songwriter, Andrew Snow seemed to have completely — they can blend a range of musical new-age Fleetwood Mac. Earlier in “Well, it’s a pause. The music the simple, solo looped background sampling in hip-hop has roots We’re lucky! Reich does the leap Wyatt. They came together in 2007. disappeared off the radar and this capacities into something you’ve March, Miike Snow tweeted that it was happens around it. It’s not the vocalisation. embedded in Pierre’ Schaeffer’s All successful in their own right, himself. stint between albums is now longer never heard before, yet it still feels still possible for the group of them to music.” Heap uses this harmonising for musique concréte. The whole genre Karlsson and Winnberg had produced Reich’s early work begins with than ever before. There was a period familiar. To dip back into Miike Snow perform - which I would absolutely I’d found here maybe our sole similar effect — the acappella style of lo-fi; where aural imperfections hit-after-hit for many popular artists, tape experimentation. The 1965 piece where I tried searching for their almost felt like the soundtrack to my love to see musical point of contention, besides forges a remarkable rawness as arising from production is vital to such as Kylie Minogue, Madonna and It’s Gonna Rain uses these words older music on Spotify, but it was own movie as cheesy as it sounds. In a not-so-distant past, Miike the ‘offensive’ timing of Radiohead’s the harmonies interplay with her its sound, owes some kind of debt to Sky Ferreira. More notably, they co- played in unison on two seperate tape removed. Whether due to copyright Their music was a constant at a time Snow’s lives were a blur of festival Pyramid Song - the value of the avant- main vocal line. With Anderson’s 4’33. wrote and produced Britney Spears’ recorders. They slip out of sync as a or a personal choice by the musicians of much change. after festival. COVID-19 brought a garde, with a disregard of convention first foray into popular music as an I texted my dad again when I began Toxic in 2003. The pair sampled and result of the imperfections between I’m not sure, but it definitely added to My least favourite memory of further pause for reflection and a in favour of the conceptual. influence, Heap is able to create an to write, to give him a fair hearing pitched up strings from a Bollywood the two machines; in the piece, you the mystique of Miike Snow. listening to the band was on a train political call to action for the band intensely striking piece . Infamously, about 4’33. He clarified he could see movie to create arguably one of the Avant-garde, by nature, is in hear all of the possibilities in the As I researched more for this home from a friend’s bon voyage party during the US election by way of their Jason Derulo’s debut single Whatcha some ‘mindfulness’ value in sitting most unique pop productions of complete opposition to popular music combination between the two tracks piece, their disappearance began to in the Blue Mountains. The Mark Twitter (the only social media they Say samples Heap’s track,connecting and reflecting on the silence, but that the 2000s; a fact I only discovered genres. It thrives on subversion; it before they fall back into unison with make sense. Miike Snow’s tendency Ronson remix of Heart is Full is sultry are ever active on). Last November a singer known for singing his own was it. recently thanks to the wonderful looks at the status quo and ruins it. one another — something known as to vanish from the scene was due to and solemn. It’s a begging appeal from the band also tweeted that they do name with the rich and complex world of TikTok. Wyatt himself has As a result, it’s not widely embraced phasing. I fought back. Looking at just the band member’s other pursuits, one lover to another to be considerate have a bunch of new music coming outside its community. history of the avant-garde. Wild. ‘silence’ overshadowed the essence written and produced songs for Liam Reich translates this into a more seeming to be of greater importance of their love. I self-indulgently and out in 2021, “b/c 2020 was kind of a Laurie Anderson married Lou of 4’33; where everyday noise and Gallagher, Lady Gaga and Lorde and But it doesn’t lack value’ because traditional musical format with than the passion project that has non-ashamedy sobbed to the song in bust… good time to make stuff not Reed, the frontman of 60s art rock chatter is elevated to the status of had a relatively successful music of its limited appeal, as my dad would Clapping Music, which lends its become Miike Snow. the early hours of the morning on the necessarily put stuff out”. band The Velvet Underground - who music. career as a bassist in New York. suggest. His case was that 4’33 is rhythm to the main musical phrase Karlsson still works as one half T3 Bankstown line. Partly due to my With 2021 well and truly here, are also deeply enmeshed in the When the three finally came purposeless, because the sounds in 18 Musicians. Phasing is done In my final wave of assault I called of Galantis, a bubble-gum electronic own impending six-month exchange there has still been no update on the history of the avant-garde. Their together after meeting in a recording would exist whether they are framed texturally here — each chord in this on the very songs he had given to outfit that penned Runaway (U & I), and the long-distance relationship I new music. Miike Snow may very well manager was Andy Warhol, who studio in Sweden, they milked their by a score or not. They’re not music. piece is held for two breath cycles. me in order to make my point. The an annoyingly catchy song that takes was about to enter into (as well as the be on the backburner for Karlsson, joins the avant-garde’s rejection of shadow for all it had – obscuring And he doesn’t like it. The texture shifts and wavers, each laugh in Duran Duran’s Hungry Like me back to awkwardly fist-pumping copious number of Absolut Botanik’s Winnberg and Wyatt. They have said preconceptions about high art. their faces for months in 2009 before However, I’d argue that my dad chord feels alive as different layers the Wolf, the city noises the Pet Shop at school discos. Wyatt continues to I had consumed that evening), the that “Miike Snow [is] this funny, they performed live in New York for is somewhat already an unwitting are drawn in and out of the aural The Velvet Underground Boys spliced into West End Girls. I’m produce for an array of music’s big song seemed to summarise all the strange, slightly awkward UFO that the very first time. The band has fan of avant garde. He loves the space. The elements at play in Reich’s takes John Cage’s concept of the using his own weapons against him. names including Flume, Mark Ronson mixed emotions I was feeling. we all three get on and take a ride always been elusive, hiding behind introductory laugh in The Police’s early tape works remain resolute prepared piano and gives it a unique He began to consider this. and Bruno Mars – a testament to the As much as I’d love new music in, and then we get off it and do our flavour. The piano in their song All the hits they wrote or produced for Roxanne. The laugh isn’t music in his pièce de résistance: the work ‘There’s a Cold Chisel song respect they’ve fostered from peers from the band, it’s made difficult by own things”. In the meantime, a Tomorrow’s Parties is prepared with pop royalty, and still to this day many per-se, but it’s a fundamental part of unravels slowly. We find ourselves in called Saturday Night which has a in the industry. Miike Snow also the fact that its members are scattered rediscovery of their work, personal paperclips so every chord glitters. know little about the band’s own experiencing the song. Without John a new section before we’re really able whole lot of background noise, It’s established a record label along with around the world. From Sweden to and together is still highly satiating. Sufjan also borrows this in his track, music. Cage, we wouldn’t as readily hear to recognise it, pointing at the tape a fundamental part of the song. other Swedish Indie darlings such as Bangkok to Los Angeles, their lives But I can’t deny that I am looking Futile Devices. A short tape-muted Their name, Miike Snow, appears it as musically vital. 4’33 shows us desyncing that gradually transports Whenever I picture that song in my Lykke Li and Peter Bjorn and John (of and music are segmented across the forward to new Miike Snow songs to note from the piano sparks notions to be a moniker for one man and not musicality in the mundane. us to a completely new sonic world. head, all the background noise is in ‘Young Folks’ fame) in 2011. continents. Two of the three are now punctuate my continuing foray into of something not fully realised — it a whole band, and their album covers Artists that create within more Stevens’ Out of Egypt shimmers it.“ I rediscovered Miike Snow in my fathers, so it’s clear that Miike Snow’s the unknown world of adulthood. sounds like a piano but isn’t quite always feature a folkloric, mythical popular fields of music — rock, with the subtle textural shifts behind first year of university. I was sitting priorities have changed. there yet; musically granting him the I think that’s the furthest he’ll creature called a Jackalope, which is a pop, and indie — engage with the its melody. Instruments weave in and outside at Courtyard Café (as a media The importance of family and sense of yearning he’s so famous for budge. Art by Ella Kennedy avant-garde to spur innovation and out of prominence, emulating Reich’s

14 15 CULTURE CULTURE

becoming a museum. Following Over the latter half of their a primary school in 1868. Another benefit of such a policy reforms in 1870, continues to reforms introduced by French existence, Seoul and Kaesong’s Unsurprisingly, the institution was to present Confucianism as play a role in the cultural and colonists towards a European Sungkyunkwan witnessed mixed focused on studying the Chinese an ideological bulwark against educational elite of Tokyo. Today, Confucian education in the Sinosphere university system, all academies fortunes as Korea wrestled Great Books and Classics Christian evangelisation which it acts as a place where students ceased operations, despite partial with political struggles against alongside Confucian ethics accompanied Jesuit and Western can come to pray for luck and pay Khanh Tran looks into the history of higher education in China, Vietnam, Korea, and Japan. efforts at restoration by the French neighbouring Japan and then split and philosophy. In contrast to missions to the country. respect to an imposing statue of School of the Far East. when partition occurred. In 1592, continental East Asia, however, However, two key distinctions Confucius. Even if the classrooms as privately tutored students Nhật hỏa vân yên, bạch đán for instance, Seoul’s Munmyo, a Confucian education in Japan lie between Yushima and its East of Yushima no longer witness from wealthy landed gentries thiêu tàn ngọc thỏ Confucian shrine at the heart of wrestled with additional costs in Asian counterparts: its leadership throngs of scholars reciting the could prepare far more than the the campus, was destroyed during the expense of imported classical was hereditary rather than Analects or Mencius, its edifice is peasantry. The Sun lights aflame, the the Imjin War fought between Chinese texts from either China appointed through merits or a a constant reminder of Confucian Following the collapse of clouds above are smoke, by The two Koreas’ Hideyoshi Toyotomi’s forces or Korea, which, according to streamlined exam system. Thus, influence. the Qing Dynasty after the 1911 day they sear the Moon Rabbit Sungkyunkwan and King Seonjo. Subsequent Tsujimoto, were largely illegible an unbroken chain of Hayashi years saw repeated revivals of Revolution, the Guozijians were asunder. to all but the founding Confucian descendants spanning over 200 *** rendered obsolete. Today, the Sungkyunkwan. Today, Seoul’s North and South Korea’s scholars of Yushima Seido. years, starting with Razan and legacy of Beijing’s Guozijian Sungkyunkwan has survived institutions originated from the By 1797, Yushima came under ending with Gakusai, governed lives on in the form of Peking In response to the Emperor’s through its namesake 3-year The Sinosphere’s Confucian Gukjagam ( ) in modern the endorsement of the Tokugawa the school until the emergence of University, an institution set up boastful comparison of his university – Sungkyunkwan institutions are imperfect, with day Kaesong국자감 during the Goryeo Shogunate. It transformed its the Japanese imperial university by Emperor Zaitian. Its premises kingdom to celestial objects, Mạc University – and its North Korean the majority of them adopting dynasty, which was an integral role from a private Confucian system. The other difference is include former imperial gardens responded: parcel of Kaesong’s royal palace. and buildings of its predecessor. This single institution would Nguyệt cung linh đạn, hoàng go on to experience several Vietnam’s Quốc Tử Giám and hôn xạ lạc kim ô.’ name changes, one of which the literati class was Sungkyunkwan ( ) 성균관 The moon is a bow, the stars are when a dedicated complex was constructed in Seoul in 1398. Established in a similar arrows, by twilight they pierce fashion to China’s Guozijians, the Sun until her fall. Korea’s version of imperial Vietnam’s first Quốc Tử Giám civil service examinations was known as the gwaego. Since there — or the Temple of Literature In recognition of Mạc’s — was founded in modern day was a very strict selection process, prodigy and sharp wit, it was success in passing these tests Hanoi in 1076. The Temple did said that Emperor Külüg Khan who would serve generations of the next; the sovereign is the least not commence formalised, regular entailed automatic employment in bestowed upon Mạc the title state administration. Each round Biyong, the imperial lecture hall in Beijing Guozijian instructions until 1272 following of lưỡng quốc trạng nguyên or Source: The awakening of China by WAP Martin (1907) a royal petition for a substantial of exams were separated by 3 years bilateral zhangyuan, meaning the and limited to 25-30 examinees efore the emergence of higher endowment. In keeping with its highest-ranking scholar across emperors and a literati class that important.” Chinese predecessor, Vietnam’s per session. The government also education in the West, older both kingdoms. As such, its civil examined family history and Binstitutions were already teaching would dominate cultural life. Within the Guozijians’ imperial academies taught the service exam deployed prose and Great Books and Classics alike, ties of successful candidates — across the globe. Amongst them In contrast to the liberal curriculum lies a notoriously poetry to political effect, rather should students’ names or family were the Confucian academies curriculum that emerged in demanding testing system — and utilised a combination of than as mere preparation for Sino-Vietnamese and traditional ties indicate a less prestigious within the Sinosphere, which Europe following the early China’s imperial civil service administrative duties. upbringing, they would likely fail inherited the ideals of China’s modern period, the Guozijians exams. Men from any social class even if they passed the exam. This Guozijian and were scattered revolved around recitation and were eligible to sit in the lowest represented a marked departure across Vietnam, Japan and the two meticulous textual and political tier of exams in their respective from the theoretically meritorious Koreas. These ancient temples of analysis of the four Great Books of province. If they succeeded, nature of neighbouring states’ learning offer both an alternative Confucianism: Analects, Doctrine they were allowed to enter approach. Hence, Sungkyunkwan to Western conceptions of of the Mean, Great Learning and metropolitan rounds in Beijing acted both as a cultivator of the scientific education, and aMencius , amongst a host of other and subsequently, the elusive literati class and a protector of the cautionary tale for meritocratic works. These books, despite imperial paper. The last of these feudal hierarchy. reforms elsewhere. their emphasis on constructing exams were often supervised a harmonious political system, by the Emperor himself. This Sungkyunkwan, however, occasionally provoked heated cultivated a literary elite that could did not wield a monopoly on China’s Guozijian and the controversies. For example, administer local, prefectural and Confucian education due to other Imperial civil service exams institutions known as Seowons ( The Ming Dynasty’s inaugural metropolitan governments. Staff of the Yushima Seido Exposition in Meiji. Source: Yokoyama Matsusaburō monarch attempted to prohibit all ). Unlike its sisters, Seowons Life as an aspiring scholar- 서원 discriminatory policies against Founded in the 12th century use of Mencius, deeming anyone were never founded under the Temple to a state institution that that Yushima and the Shogunate official was arduous. Candidates incarnation is preserved in working-class students and a during the Yuan Dynasty, the who celebrated the philosopher direct auspice of any dynastic trained bureaucrats and diplomats never fully implemented China’s contended with constant pressure Koryo Songgyungwan University punitive examination system. This first Guozijian ( ) in guilty of lese-majeste (an offence powers and were, instead, private for the Shogun. This change civil service exam system. Instead, from their family, and the high- alongside time-worn Confucian system survives today in the form Beijing continues北京國子監 to stand amidst against the state). This ended in neo-Confucian schools. The emerged following the issuance depending on one’s social status, stake exams exerted a price on Gates leading to the Imperial Academy in Hanoi. shrines at both schools. These of China’s notoriously difficult the hustle of city life. Unlike the a compromise, where ministers first Seowon — Sosu Seowon — of the Kansei Edict by Tokugawa men could enter one or two out students’ mental health. Indeed, Source: Vietnam National Museum of History opened in Yeongju in 1593. As institutions no longer offer regular Gaokao (university entrance Western conception of a self- removed a passage that challenged an account by Shang Yanliu, the Ienari, which established neo- of four possible exams. Success Chinese (these institutions instructions in the Chinese and exam). However, they offer a contained campus university, absolute sovereignty of the last tertius (third-ranking scholar) Hanoi’s Quốc Tử Giám went on Confucianism as Japan’s official would reward the successful predated Alexandre de Rhodes’ Confucian classics. glimpse into the political value China’s Guozijians were an government: “The people are in a prestigious round held in to teach until 1779, when Viceroy candidate with a suitable court reform of the Vietnamese language of higher education from a non- apparatus of the state, serving as the most important element; the 1904 Beijing, detailed the tolls the Trịnh Sâm closed the institution towards the Latin alphabet). Western context. This is especially incubators for future bureaucrats spirits of the land and grain are system exerted on students: to prepare for the relocation of Ashikaga’s Ashikaga Gakko and The grueling humanistic important in the English- “In 1891 at the age of twenty, the Vietnamese capital to Hue. Tokyo’s Yushima Seido — Japan training that scholars received speaking world where tensions my brilliant cousin passed the There, degree-granting powers in Vietnam’s academies was not arise between the humanistic, provincial examination and were subsequently transferred to limited to rote recitation, but Unlike royal patronage offered socially-oriented inclinations became a provincial graduate. also the expert use of prose. One to Chinese, Vietnamese and of university education against However, upon his return the example is Mạc Đĩnh Chi, who the Korean institutions, Japan’s the increasing corporatisation following year to Guangzhou, from became a national household Yushima Seido ( ) was of higher education. Other the metropolitan examination in Examination book for forensic expert 湯島聖堂 name after securing the highest a private Confucian academy jurisdictions, such as France, must Peking, he fell ill and died soon from 1796 honours in his imperial exams Source: The National Library established by Hayashi Razan in heed the Guozijians’ cautionary after. My mother said to me, “Too at age 24. This was a rare 1630 in Ueno Park, Tokyo. Since tales of punitive exam systems, much intelligence shortens one’s achievement, given the vast the 19th century, the academy has as the country’s tertiary sector life — better be a bit stupid like majority of scholar-officials per UNESCO’ heritage listing of been located in Yushima, within is hindered by an elitist division y ou .” only passed provincial exams Seowons, there are nine scattered the precincts of Tokyo Medical between the grande ecoles and According to Benjamin A private class delivered by a across South Korea; the majority and Dental University. universities — the latter featuring at a similar age and even then, Vietnamese Confucian scholar Elman, the civil service these early rounds were intensely Source: Nghien Cuu Linh Su located next to rivers, mountains Although an earlier private first-year fail rates averaging 50%. examination system, despite its and other landscapes. Even though The inner courtyard of Tokyo’s Yushima-Seido. Whilst the Sinosphere’s example competitive. During a royal tour academy, Ashikaga Gakko ( Source: Tokyo National Museum brutishness and gruelling nature, Seowons may have partaken in exemplifies an outdated, feudal of Beijing at the behest of Külüg its counterpart in the Forbidden ) (circa 9th century, marked a radical change from civil service exams, they tended 足利学校 model of learning, it is clear that Khan of the Yuan Dynasty, the City. Over the intervening years, refounded 1432), predates state ideology. Such a drastic rank. purely political appointments to be local literati and intellectual higher education is inherently monarch challenged the scholar the Hanoi academy became a high Yushima, its relative isolation from measure, Peter Nosco argues, Yushima Seido, despite towards a more meritocratic social hubs for the administration and political and indivisible from with a poetry challenge, writing: school, and was later declared Tokyo and the fall of its namesake was triggered by social problems having lost its authority to teach Imperial service exam cells surrounding Jiangnan’s Guozijian order. But, despite its aims, this enrichment of non-metropolitan a state’s view of the human a monument historique under Ashikaga clan resulted in terminal exacerbated by poor crops, Confucianism and Classical Source: Charles Poolton system entrenched class inequality cities. condition. the French protectorate, thus decline until it was converted into famine and natural disasters. Chinese after Meiji Restoration

16 17 REVIEW REVIEW Review: The Symphony Orchestra Ghost Species: In Conversation with James Bradley Matthew Carter goes to the orchestra. Leo Su talks to writer James Bradley about his writing process and the power of speculation in storytelling. he Sydney Conservatorium of Music of the Conservatorium’s highly coveted Ma literally dancing off her stool frayed, trumpets called and drums he resurrection of the extinct gives then I kind of floated through the everything in our lives and culture. feel and look as if you know what TSymphony Orchestra returned to Faziolis, the Orchestra prepared itself with interjections of col legno from pounded as the concert drew to a TJames Bradley’s latest novel Ghost next couple of years. I was doing the It seems to me more like a condition you’re doing. You want to get yourself the concert hall this year in full force. for Chopin’s 2nd Piano Concerto in the strings. Her performance, in its dramatic close. Principal Horn Simon Species its title. An introspective tale editing for it while the bushfires were such as modernity—it’s something to a point where in a sense you don’t 85 aspiring musicians assembled to F minor. Soloist Annie Ma, winner of astounding virtuosity, was met with two Jones remarked after the concert that of connection and loss, the novel burning through the east coast and that is everywhere. have to show your working. You do perform to a sold-out and tangibly the 2020 Piano Department concerto curtain calls and back-to-back standing he “got to the last movement and was ruminates on man’s relationship with the city filled with smoke and then my the research so that it’s there in the excited Verbrugghen Hall. Clarinettist competition, took to the stage for the ovations. like, fucking go for it.” Evidently, they And it seems to me that all nature after scientist Kate Larkin is mum died just as it came out. I mean, fiction now is kind of climate fiction background and you know you have Olivia Hans-Rosenbaum remarked on highlight of the night. Ma navigated The orchestra returned in force after fucking went for it. caught up in a covert project to bring it was very much framed by that because it’s part of our world, it’s the it under control but you don’t want “how exciting it is to finally play to a the supreme technical challenges of intermission with Brahm’s rapturous As far as opening concerts go, back the Neanderthals in the midst of kind of personal loss and hastening inescapable fact that’s going to shape it on the page, you don’t want to be full house.” A powerful brass fanfare the concerto with elegance and an second symphony. Having taken a back the SCM Symphony Orchestra’s first heralded the opening of Mendelssohn’s astounding musicality. With every climate catastrophe. environmental disaster. our lives over the next century. Some throwing it at people or showing off seat in the Chopin, the orchestra more program of 2021 was a huge success. all the detail all the time. Ruy Blas Overture. Even from the back gesture, she directed the ensemble, than made up for any lost spotlight The combination of a sold-out hall and James Bradley is an award-winning It’s very difficult to think about work is more explicitly engaged with of the hall, the audience could feel the working in tandem with the conductor, with this powerful performance. a stage overflowing with musicians author and critic. An Honorary climate change; it’s some kind of it than others, but the climate crisis In a weird way, it’s slightly the energy on stage as the orchestra, from Roger Benedict, to command every The symphony concluded with an conjured memories from a pre-COVID Associate of the Sydney Environment overwhelming environmental crisis touches everything. In a weird kind opposite process to non-fiction where first desk to last, weaved through the moment of rubato in perfect unison extraordinarily powerful ending. D era. This energy fed the orchestra as Institute, he is also a prominent you can’t get your head around. of way, even not writing about it is a you really want to depend on knowing many themes melded together in this with the orchestra. The final movement, Major rang out through the hall as all 85 they spared no effort in creating what voice in our current climate change One the things I think fiction does way of writing about it since you’re everything accurately and being very highly descriptive work. a show piece that highlighted the musicians gave absolutely everything will be remembered as one of the most discourse, having written various effectively is that it gives us those obscuring it. clear and methodical. Moving back to create room for one composer’s Polish heritage, began they had in the final phrases, bow hairs exciting concerts of the year. non-fiction articles and essays about frameworks, it gives us a way of LS: Speaking of the climate, LS: You’re appearing on two with a delightful rondo which saw the issue. imagining our way into that kind of you’ve written very-well informed events at this year’s Sydney Writers’ I had the pleasure of speaking with loss by exploring it at a human scale. essays like ‘Unearthed: Last Days Festival including one where you’ll Review: PoC Revue James ahead of his two appearances LS: On that note, speculative of the Anthropocene’ but you’ve be speaking in conversation with at the Sydney Writers’ Festival on 29 fiction is very broad as a genre but mentioned in the past that Kim Stanley Robinson. How are Daanyal Saeed sees some comedy. April and 1 May. obviously there’s been a developing you consider yourself to be an you feeling? ith COVID having robbed us of ripped off skits from our collective For LS: What was your experience body of work which is specifically “educated layman” as opposed to JB: I’m really excited about WPoC Revue in 2020, and coming You Pages, and recycling of the same like writing Ghost Species? How did engaged with questions about our an expert. What’s your approach it. I think Stan is one of the most off the back of an outstanding show in jokes about “diverse” casting that you first conceptualise the novel? current environmental crisis. What with translating science and important writers working today. He’s 2019, my expectations were high for we’ve heard for years. At times, the are your thoughts on the term technical information in your JB: When I first came up with the someone who has spent particularly this year’s production. Opening the show didn’t trust its audience, having ‘climate fiction’ or ‘cli-fi’? novels? How much research do idea, I’d been thinking a lot about a the last 10 or 15 years thinking really season this year, excitement has built to take a moment to babysit them by JB: I think one interesting thing they involve? deeply about questions of climate for almost two years without student explaining jokes or social critiques series of questions about climate and that’s very exciting over the last five JB: When I’m writing fiction, I crisis and the connections between revues with the crowds to sustain the it made, many of which weren’t all collapse and our kind of inability to years is watching more and more kind take a fairly free and easy attitude to capitalism and the future. Seymour Centre. COVID-19 challenges that novel. One particular skit about visualise or imagine disaster, that of fiction that’s explicitly engaged science in regards to what I want it have had wide-ranging impacts on PoC Scarlett Johansson playing a black trans sense that we find it very hard to think But yeah, I’m really excited for Revue that will likely be replicated man grated despite its relevance, and a forward into worlds that are radically with climate change coming out. to do for the book rather than to be the Festival. It was very sad when last across this year’s season; programs reference at the beginning of the show unlike our own. I’m not particularly convinced by accurate. But certainly in all of my year’s got cancelled so I think there’s books, I do a lot of research. In fiction, weren’t distributed, promotion of to Ariana Grande’s capacity as a social I began writing Ghost Species just the idea of climate fiction as a genre. a real hunger for people to get out and you want to do enough research to this year’s show was altogether more chameleon served only to remind me about the time my dad died. And I mean, the climate crisis touches engage with each other again. muted compared to previous years, of how brilliantly produced the musical and the enforced break has resulted numbers were in previous productions. This is not to say that the show was well-written as well, and Marie-Jo in a significant exodus of experienced The performance was often in bereft of quality — there were brightt Orbase’s commitment to the bit was a talent. An almost entirely new cast and stark contrast to the theme of the sparks that served as the highlight breath of fresh air in a production that Review: Schapelle, Schapelle production team have stepped into production. A skit with Captain America of the show and demonstrated for the most part, was present but not new roles this year, with Madhullika seemed at odds with the supposed the potential in this new guard of all there. Alana Ramshaw reviews the musical saga from the Sydney Comedy Festival. Singh and Areebah Mirza directing, anti-colonial position of the show; creatives. Niranjanan Sriganeshwaran’s The challenges of having to cast, eemingly against all odds, Bar, which was also the home of family - the sex-pest brother, the diva means. There is delight to be and only Ping-Hui Ho returning from being upset that the United States confidence shone through along with write, produce and rehearse a show Schapelle Corby remains one of the Schapelle! The Musical’s three-night sister, the settled, divorced parents, found in watching the squabbles the planned 2020 Executive team as S President isn’t a decolonial king didn’t Alina Haque in their whitewashed within the span of just over a month most enduring and polarising cultural run in 2014, starring Vic Zerbst, Lane and Schapelle. The eponymous and blundering incompetence choreographer. caricature of a Bollywood lover’s fight. exactly demonstrate an extraordinary shouldn’t be lost on anyone, and that icons of Australian history. Schapelle, Sainty, and Alisha Aitken-Radburn. character, played by Kelsi Boyden, of the Channel 19 journalists. A 2020’s compressed cultural space understanding of modern imperialism. Haque herself is a highlight, returning the PoC Revue team have managed to Schapelle takes audiences back to an The notion of a musical about a was perhaps the subject of the least hallucinatory sequence involving has resulted in a dire lack of new Other skits involving a confusing and periodically through the show as ‘Kupi put together a show that almost sold out early 2000s Australia in which Mark Queensland-born beauty school caricature and mockery. The show’s Julia Gillard and Lindy Chamberlain content in this year’s PoC Revue. Over painfully long collective skateboarder Raur,’ running with the now-popular through its run should be commended. Latham was still a Labor minister, dropout imprisoned in Bali on drug comedic treatment of the Corbys providing an incarcerated Schapelle the course of two hours, a packed climax, or a strangely framed scene parodies of Rupi Kaur’s Milk and Honey, That said, I wish they had more time Missy Higgins topped charts, and I trafficking charges sounds like it has rarely extends beyond jabs punching with emotional support is as hilarious Reginald Theatre bore witness to parodying the online game Among Us, and personifying them. A skit riffing off together — PoC Revue is one of the was watching the Wiggles. infinite comedic potential. In spite down at a working class family, their as it is absurd. musical numbers taken straight from were as absurd as they were gratifying the cutesy and absurd player characters highlights of the creative calendar, and of this potential, I wondered at times working class-ness often forming the TikTok’s trending songs, cheaply to see the back of. in Animal Crossing was particularly it deserves more than it got in 2021. Whether or not Corby knowingly On the whole, to take Schapelle, committed the crime for which she if Schapelle, Schapelle was chasing a butt and entirety of the joke. Schapelle too seriously is to do oneself spent nine years in Kerobokan prison comedic concept it didn’t know how In spite of its occasionally a disservice. It is lively, self-aware in Review: SUDS’ All Things Must Pass remains a point of contention within to deliver. The show exists within a repetitive and one-tone satirical its low-brow, hip-thrusting humour, public discourse. Schapelle, Schapelle duality of pointing the finger at the style, Schapelle, Schapelle, is not and a thoroughly enjoyable affair if Patrick McKenzie is listening to The Beatles. does not take a position on the media for their handling of the Corby an unfunny production by any you choose to embrace it as such. n preparation for (and while writing) death in 1980. The production oscillates between the Led by music directors Matthew question of Corby’s guilt, and focuses family, while simultaneously relying Ithis review of SUDS’ All Things Must At the outset of the story, we meet rosy, Beatle-maniacal past, and the Forbes and Jim Bradshaw (who also instead on the public perspective on on an oft-uncharitable representation Pass, I listened to George Harrison’s a downtrodden Paul McCartney (Ewan dour present, as they come ever closer doubles as the band’s hilariously- the story. of the family for laughs. solo album of the same name; a grand together. The smoothness of these gentlemanlike manager Brian Peddley), George Harrison (Alex Through its fictionalised ‘Channel A three-foot wall of XXXX Gold artistic statement from one of the constant transitions is both a credit to Epstein), the ensemble of musicians Bryant), and Ringo Starr (Max Danta), 19’ news outlet, the show casts cans lined the Manning Bar stage, lesser-celebrated Beatles, featuring Paris’ direction as well as the work of provides a near-constant backdrop congregating following Lennon’s the Australian news media as its with the band set up behind. transcendent highs and plaintive murder after many years apart. The the production team, whose craft fluid to the action. Among some great lows. All Things Must Pass (the play), sound, set, and lighting design allows original atmospheric compositions are antagonists, placing heavy emphasis The set was filled with humorous personality clashes that led to the on their invasive treatment and nods to the story including a weed staged with some slight alterations infighting which first tore them apart the space to flourish as recording fantastic rearrangements of classics dehumanising representations of throne (yeah, a weed throne), and to its original 2012 script by SUDS inevitably remain: Paul’s ego, George’s studio, home, bathroom, and more like ‘Eleanor Rigby,’ ‘All You Need Is the Corby family. In between sharp an abundance of boogie boards. The alumnus David Potter, runs with this smug superiority, and Ringo’s butt- with plenty of mid-century flair – Love,’ and ‘Yesterday,’ all employed one-liners comparing the ABC to musical numbers were delivered same spirit of ambition and assorted off-all-jokes status. At first, they’re especially impressive considering for punchy thematic effect. intrigue. Striking an effective balance unsure of how to grieve the death of the production’s mere five-week While its ending felt somewhat the Kremlin and musical numbers through impressive performances between historical reverence and their band’s spiritual core, but, when turnaround. Of the performances, emotionally overwrought, All Things likening journalistic success to a by the cast and band. Schapelle, creativity, it chronicles true highlights the lighting changes and a swaggering, Bryant and Danta are particular Must Pass is deeply enjoyable, Faustian bargain, Schapelle, Schapelle Schapelle, in its strong technical and of the awesome foursome’s madcap tinted-glasses-clad Lennon (Liv highlights, serving the play’s most and delivers some fresh takes and makes a statement about the lack of musical execution, is not a production decade as the biggest band on Earth, Baume) walks in, the setting suddenly moving and humorous moments thoughtful ruminations on the nature journalistic integrity with which the which leaves punters boogie bored. interspersing them with a fictional morphs to 1964, where the band respectively. of celebrity. A significant feat for case was met. The first half ofSchapelle, Schapelle exploration of the band members’ begins exchanging gleeful repartee Equally as important as The a band whose fifty year record was The concept of a Schapelle Corby paints, with very broad strokes, the struggles following John Lennon’s while preparing for a TV appearance. Beatles’ personalities is their music. broken only this week. musical is one familiar to Manning Corbys as an archetypal ocker ‘bogan’

18 19 SRC REPORTS SRC CASEWORKER HELP President Swapnik Sanagavarapu Ask Abe HOUSE RULES: Oftentimes, being in this job to find new supervisors. The ostensible continue their research, but these have been a change from the current 13 desensitises you to the ways in which justification for this decision has been to been repeatedly ignored. These students week semester to a “12+1 model” which SRC caseworker help Q&A students at this University are treated protect students from a “toxic workplace have been disrespected, condescended to, will cut teaching in Week 13 and allow Occupancy Principles for as commodities, and staff are treated culture” in the School. In many cases, and treated as pawns of disgruntled staff assessments to be due halfway through as utterly disposable. This week was a management have told students that their members. I’m going to continue standing STUVAC (as opposed to not having any cold reminder of that reality. As ever, supervisors are directly responsible for in solidarity with them and organising to assessments). Our forum discussed both Centrelink: Dropping a Subject Borders and Lodgers the SRC and I were there to advocate for this culture. Since this initial exclusion, achieve a just resolution to this issue. the original 12 week proposal and the new Taken from the Tenants Union NSW information sheet the interests of students and to stand in the NTEU has been able to establish that This week, we also held our Staff and 12+1 model, concluding that the status solidarity with staff. these claims of a toxic workplace culture Students Forum for 12 Week Semesters at quo is ultimately preferable. Many thanks As was reported in the Honi Soit article have been unfounded, or at the very least the Royal. Our panel, consisting of yours to everyone who attended and to all the based on a scant number of testimonies. panelists. entitled “Honours students to be relocated truly, Grant Wheeler of the CPSU, Sinem If your landlord (or their agent) you should not be charge $150. after security incident”, Honours students School management has attempted to use Kirk of SULS, Bella Anderssen of SUEUA, As always, you can contact me about Dear Abe, you drop after that. This is even in the School of Medical Science have these WHS protocols to prosecute their Minran Liu of SUPRA and moderated by any pressing issues via my email or if dropping the subject does not lives in your home, it is likely that Be aware that running an electric been arbitrarily and cruelly excluded from agenda against dissenting members of the SRC’s Education Officers. through the SRC Facebook page. I dropped a subject before the you are considered a boarder or fan or bar heater uses a lot more the Medical Foundation Building since the staff. I’ve been working with a group of Census date, but Centrelink did not change you to a part time student. brave students affected by this issue over I’m sure you’re sick of hearing about 12 lodger. There are some “principles” electricity than an oil or gas heater. 15th of April. These students have been week sems at this point, but the proposal have that in their record and now In fact, you need to tell them about intimidated and forced to abandon their the past week. The SRC has repeatedly Until next time, that outline your rights and attempted to convey the wishes of does not appear to be going away. The they are saying I should have told lots of things, like if you get a new 8. Payment of security deposit research projects and have been forced newest iteration of this proposal has Swapnik housemate, or you move house, responsibilities. students to stay in their building and them and I owe them some money. The landlord can ask for a security or you change bank accounts, or 1. State of premises Are they allowed to do that? deposit, sometimes called a bond, of you are going overseas (not really Your home should be clean, in good not more than the equivalent of two Education Officers likely to happen right now though). repair, and be reasonably secure. weeks occupancy fee (rent). Make I Want to Drop Centrelink To deal with the “overpayment”, Maddie Clark and Tom Williams sure you get a written receipt, even book an appointment with an SRC 2. Rules if you paid by bank transfer. When This fortnight we’ve been focusing on For students it also means more stress, a We also talked to NTEU staff members Apart from education organizing we’ve Caseworker so you can make an the “No to 12 week semester” campaign. higher rate of drop outs and a decrease organised in the Casuals Network who are been involved in supporting the actions of There may be rule, e.g., how much you move out they must return this After the SRC survey showed how many in student uni satisfaction. Importantly, highly active and keen to organise going other collectives. Students are affected appeal. Dear I Want to Drop Centrelink, notice you have to give to move deposit, minus the cost of repairing students (out of 400 surveyed, 93%) it is one step closer to the neoliberal in to strikes next semester. They said they by social justice issues and it’s important As general good practice, always were against it we decided that it had trimester model that is notoriously bad. would support our actions and we are that we engage the student body in a Centrelink are an incredibly out, when you can have visitors, any damage you or your guests ask them for receipt numbers for enough groundswell to organise a rally. To build awareness for the 12 week issue, working with them to organise a student whole swathe of activism. There’s lots to frustrating institution to deal with. or how noisy you’re allowed to be. caused, within 14 days. To avoid Turning our semester to 12 weeks will we helped organise and moderate a forum and staff rally in Week 10. We’ve also been organise around and we’ll be having our any conversations that you have You should not need to tell them You should know what the rules are paying for someone else’s damage, be detrimental for the students and about this issue. This forum had a wide organizing a zine about strikes that will be next collective meeting in Week 9. over the phone or in person. staff. It represents a massive pay cut for range of panelists from across the uni and published next week which will hopefully about subjects you drop before the before you move in. Consider these make sure that you take photos of staff and will mean more stress as they was really well attended. build support for strikes well before they Census date, but you definitely carefully when you decide if you any damage present when you move adapt content to a reduced time period. happen. need to tell them any subjects Abe. want to live there. in, and lots of photos of the room in good repair when you move out. Women’s Officers 3. Penalties prohibited You cannot be fined for breaching 9. Information about termination Kimberley Dibben and Amelia Mertha Did you know you can get FREE Dine & the rules of the house. This does You should know how much notice This week we have shared our criticism trivialised sexual violence. Trivialising In preparation for Radical Sex and Generation, which continues through not mean you do not have to pay to they need to give you to ask you to on the Liberal government’s ridiculous and censoring these conversations only Consent Week, the Women’s Collective the racist foster care system and the Discover vouchers valued at $100? See: attempt at consent education called the further stigmatises sexual violence and will be working on a zine inspired by the criminalisation of First Nations children. repair something you have broken. move out. They must also give you Good Society. The main videos under survivors sealed section ‘Dolly Doctor’ that we all Kids belong on Country with community! a reason to leave. scrutiny were three which aimed to cover used to read in secret from our mum. It service.nsw.gov.au/campaign/ 4. Quiet enjoyment of the the topics of consent, STI prevention, Once again, we see how crucial Radical will include information on lesbian sex, To help write our sexy zine, organise premises 10. Notice of eviction and sexual violence. Notably, no explicit Sex and Consent Week is when students do whether virginity is real, sex toy reviews, Radical Sex and Consent Week, or to get dine-discover-nsw mention of these terms was to be heard. not get proper sex and consent education what to do if you need an abortion, and involved in our other feminist activist STUDENTS’ REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL, UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY The landlord cannot stop you from The landlord cannot evict you Instead, these videos were heavily from experienced, informed and well- more. projects: join the Women’s Collective! resourced teachers. Look out for us early Just join the Facebook group USYD WOCO occupying and “enjoying” your without “reasonable” notice, in censored, using confusing examples room, or using the common areas and silly euphemisms that failed to next semester for actually nuanced and Next month, we have a rally for 2021 and answer the few questions. writing. Reasonable notice can be clearly explain the topics at hand and interesting conversations about sex, ‘Sorry Day’ with Grandmothers Against of the house as long as you do not different amounts of time depending sexuality, consent, gender, and more! Removals to fight for the end of the Stolen interfere with the same rights of on why you are being evicted. For others. This does not mean that example, if you are a threat to the Ethno-Cultural Officers others in the house cannot make wellbeing of the other residents noise. you might only get a couple of Aziza Mumin, Bonnie Huang and Kritika Rathore days notice, but if you are being 5. Inspections and repairs ACAR has been busy and in the anti-racism. It was created to serve as a years since the royal commission made international students to work towards an evicted because the landlord wants process of putting together our annual basic guide to what these themes mean recommendations regarding Aboriginal anti-racism campaign. We aim to bring The landlord has to maintain to renovate your room, that notice autonomous edition of ACAR Honi which and create a platform for communication, deaths in custody. more awareness to the increase of racism will be out in Week 12 of this semester. knowledge-sharing and dissemination. and discrimination faced by international the home in good repair, which period should be much longer. We are still looking for people who want ACAR is excited to work on more zines students due to the pandemic, and avenues includes being able to inspect your 11. Use of alternative dispute to contribute content which can be art, throughout the year with fresh content, to On Friday of Week 7, we had an inter- available for them to report cases. room. This can only happen at a written pieces, multimedia pieces, or all create a sense of community-building for resolution uni lunch meetup in collaboration with We will continue holding regular “reasonable” time. For example, of the above. Please get in contact with our members. the UTS Ethnocultural Collective in the conveners to learn more about how meetings and events throughout the they cannot clean your room at 3am. If you have a dispute with your In the meantime, our members have Chinatown. This was organised to discuss semester and welcome any person of you can contribute. We look forward to anti-Asian racism and rhetoric, and how However, if the landlord thought landlord you both should use a producing an amazing publication, and attended the Stop Black Deaths in Custody colour to join us. If you would like to rally on the 10th of April. There have we could build together -- keeping in get involved or keep up to date with the your room might be on fire, e.g., “reasonable” dispute resolution can’t wait to see what our contributors mind the rising xenophobia and covid- come up with! been more than 440 Indigenous deaths collective, you can find us on Facebook, they could see smoke or feel heat, mechanism, e.g., a Community in custody since the royal commission, based racism against Asian businesses. We Twitter, and Instagram. Alternatively, During our cross-collective film with 13,000 Indigenous people in prison express solidarity with and support Asian you can get in touch via email at ethno. the landlord can enter your room Justice Centre or the NSW Civil screening of ‘In My Blood It Runs’, we on any given night - the highest rate businesses, especially those who have [email protected] without notice. and Administrative Tribunal. handed out our zine that follows the of incarceration of any group of people been hit hard by the pandemic. Do you need help themes of abolition, decolonisation and on the planet. This rally marked 30 We are also keen to connect with more 6. Notice of increase of occupancy 12. Written receipts with CENTRELINK? fee The landlord must give you written The landlord can increase the cost receipts for any money you pay, Global Solidarity Officers Ask the SRC! of your room if they give you at least including occupancy fees (rent),

Kigen Mera, Haoran Zhao, Alex Whitehead and Sophie Haslam The SRC has qualified caseworkers who can assist four weeks’ notice. security deposit (bond), or bills. Sydney University undergraduates with Centrelink Get this in addition to any record The Global Solidarity office has been students pronouns and mention the to bolster their forces so we need to be aparthied and oppression in Palestine, 7. Utility charges busy recently due to the immense number existence of LGBT people in classrooms, equally prepared. Make sure to come but also is a symbol of resistance for questions and issues, including: your income, you get from your bank for of campaigns happening at the moment. amongst other right-wing measures. The along to the next protest on June 5th! many Palestinians. Students for Palestine parents’ income, qualifying as independent, Most recently, I helped mobilise and protest mobilise a few hundred attendees will be holding a number of events soon, relationships, over-payments and more. The landlord can charge you for electronic bank transfers. Take a built for Community Action for Rainbow and really demonstrated that ordinary In addition, I’ve been heavily including film screenings, stalls and utilities (electricity, gas, water photo of each receipt and email it to involved with Students for Palestine on Check out the Centelink articles on our website Rights protest against Mark Latham’s people are willing to stand in solidarity forums, so make sure to get involved and or book an appointment if you need more help. and oil), if you were told when yourself, so you always have a copy. transphobic bill. This bill would make it with the oppressed and fight back. The campus. I’ll be attending and promoting come along to Sydney’s Nakba solidarity the Nakba protest on May 15th. The you moved in that you would be illegal for teachers to respect their trans far-right are trying to use transphobia protest on May 15th. srcusyd.net.au/src-help If you have any questions about Nakba commemorates the beginning of charged, and the charge is based on your rights and responsibilities as the actual cost with a “reasonable” a boarder/lodger or tenant, please Students’ Representative Council, University of Sydney /usydsrc approximation of your share of the Interfaith Officers Level 1, Wentworth Building (G01), p: 02 9660 5222 contact an SRC Caseworker by @src_usyd bill. For example, if the bill for your University of Sydney NSW 2006 e: [email protected] emailing [email protected]. Jayfel Tulabing-Lee, Khanh Tran, Jieyi (KiKi) Yan and Ibrahim Taha did not submit a report. PO Box 794 Broadway NSW 2007 w: srcusyd.net.au @src_sydneyuni four person apartment was $200,

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1 Wildebeest Marlow Hurst is crawling through a sewer tunnel. 2 Part of the status quo 64 See 6 Across (2) 23 A disorderly retreat of defeated Thrown graduation caps interrupt 3 Pakistani language Across 65 __ you like it (2) troops (4) The Australian Federal Police 10 mounted divison members) used migratory birds / p 38 4 Up oneself 67 Wiggle room (6) 25 Othello was this ethnicity (4) 1 My kingdom for this! (6) 69 What Hamlet does in Act V (4) 27 Another way to say nay (2) raided seven campus cafes over thermal charges to detonate the 6A, 20A, 55A, 27A, 64A, 41A That is 70 What a piece of work is this! (3) 28 Past tense of tread (2) the weekend, after they declined to reinforced doors. the question (2) 71 An unfortunate King (4) 31 Hotel (3) 73 You can do this lyrical (3) 32 Thy name is woman! (7) bake ANZAC biscuits. Academic board reclassifies the Sudoku 8 Cereal goes in here (4) A number of Courtyard staff fled 12 First-person shot (3) 74 The creature that eats you when 33 To thine own self be this (4) Great Hall as the Good Hall / p 48 15 Storehouse (5) you die (4) 36 Flying mode of transport (9) “We recieved intel that unpatriotic the scene holding bags of oats and 16 Danish physicist who developed 75 Note, often in an office setting (4) 37 Outdoor storage structures (5) elements had siezed control of the flour, as well as multiple bottles of the model of the atom (4) 76 Common fabric for a bed cover (5) 38 Conveying a secret meaning (5) 18 Stylish (4) 78 Pseudonym used by an actor (5, 4) 40 Some men do this for sport, others the University of Sydney’s campus golden syrup. Fisher Coffee Cart shut down after 20 See 6 Across (2) 81 Indefinite article (2) for food (4) cafes and acted swiftly to prevent 21 An appropriate time for a night’s 82 Mark Antony wants to be lent these 41 Applications that perform (4) repetitive tasks (4) further damage to national unity” Honi spoke to a member of campus investigators discover it doesn’t dream (9) Temporary Deputy Vice Under cafe staff on the condition of 24 Being broadcast (5) 84 Things you may take against a sea 43 Type of tea (3) have wheels / p. 25 25 Not yours (4) of troubles (4) 44 Title of Gregor Clegane (3) Chief Assistant Commissioner anonymity. 26 Spheres (4) 85 Opposite of ingest (5) 46 Mother (2) Jeremiah Pastizi told Honi through 27 See 6 Across (3) 87 A lion lives in this (3) 47 Nonsense (2) 29 Eight in Italian (4) 88 Cleopatra’s lover after Julius (4) 48 Woody perennial plant (4) a hedge. “It’s not a political thing, we Law students shocked when out 30 Uno in English (3) 89 Steven Marshall is Premier of this 50 Formal and dignified (6) just really hate making AZNAC 31 Liquids containing dyes or state (2) 53 Had knowledge of (4) A special taskforce dedicated to biscuits...they’re a war time of faculty students introduce pigments (4) 90 Jail (6) 56 Resolution, for short (3) 32 Shakespeare often broke this wall 58 Not stereo (4) investigating and disrupting anti- desperation bake — they aren’t themselves with their pronouns, (6) 59 Shakespeare wrote this sort of Australian sentiment breached the supposed to taste good.” 34 Symbol for tin (2) poem too (6) kitchen of Courtyard Cafe at 05:00 not their ATAR / p 88 35 Not bad (2) Down 61 It was said by Shakespeare (4) 36 Princess Karenina’s first name (4) 63 March star sign (5) on Sunday morning. A group of 25 The AFP are currently tracking the 37 Liam Donohoe was elected 1 Much of this about nothing (3) 64 What you might do to a shrew (4) 2 Not she (2) elite AFP officers (accompanied by fugitive Courtyard staff through the president of this organisation (3) 66 A 777km long river in France (5) four heavy armoured vehicles and local bushland using bloodhounds. Tina Lee discovered wearing a fake 39 Shylock presumably read this book 3 State one’s opinion (5) 68 Cutting-edge technology? (2) (5) 4 Travelled on 1 Across (4) 69 A set of unquestionable principles moustache and glasses at society 41 See 6 Across (2) 5 Mary MacKillop’s title (2) established by an authority (5) 6 Enclosures for the dead (5) 42 Originally named (2) 70 Images or texts propagated AGM / p 0 43 Disorder (5) 7 Units of resistance (5) throughout the internet with 45 The type of wheat in pasta (5) 9 Orange County (2) humourous variation (5) 47 More of these licence plates are 10 Which or what person? (3) 72 A stack of papers (4) University pivots to a needed in the gift shop (4) 11 Common kitchen floor covering (4) 74 Armed conflicts between nations 5 students hospitalised after 49 Beware this day in March! (3, 4) 13 Death notices (5) (4) 14 Where the scene of Romeo and Visit honisoit.com for 51 Mountain in Sicily (4) 75 These guys visited Jesus on philosophy tutorial punch up / p $%& 52 Deliverer of babies (5) Juliet is laid (6) Christmas (4) hospitality revenue model: 54 A controversial lever-action 16 Islamic garment (5) 77 American gun lobbying association answers to these puzzles shotgun (5) 17 Concerning (2) (3) 55 See 6 Across (2) 19 Many of Shakespeare’s plays have 79 Thank you (2) Dilapidated inner-west terrace (and the meaning of life) 57 1986 Stephen King horror novel (2) this quality (9) 80 Boring ABC news program shown “coffee does better than 60 Used up (5) 21 Small mammal farmed for its fur in schools (3) immediately transformed by $15 62 Syphilis is an example of this (3) (4) 83 Senior abbreviation (2) 22 Type of poem that Shakespeare 63 Sir __ Guinness, 20th Century 85 Hesitation (2) education” / p 666 worth of fairy lights / p 999 Shakespearean actor (4) wrote 154 of (6) 86 To such an extent (2)

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