HONI SOIT Students respond to the Kemp Protest 4 In Too Deep: Student Unions in Myanmar 6 Interrogating the Chancellor 10 We Called Psychic TV So You Don’t Have To 17 The editors of Honi Soit and the SRC acknowledge the traditional owners of this land, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. Honi Soit is written, printed, and distributed on Aboriginal land. If you are reading this, you are standing on Aboriginal land. Please recognise and respect this. We acknowledge both our privilege and our obligation to redress the situation as best we can: to remember the mistakes of the past, act on the problems of today, and build a future for everyone who calls this place home, striving always for practical and meaningful reconciliation. Contents 4-5: News & Analysis 8-9: Perspective 14-15: Feature Fahad Ali, Elias Visontay and Clare Fester on the Leigh Nicholson on a transgender DC comics character. Andy Mason, Dom Bowes and Evelyn Corr on Kemp Protest. Cameron Gooley attends his first Mardi Gras. Indigenous rights and land management. Max Hall and Timothy Scriven provide an Julia Clark on student literature. update on SSAF negotiations. Adam Chalmers attends a fan fiction party. 16-19: Flotsam Samantha Jonscher on the International Max Hall explores the koala’s battle with Student’s Welcome. 10-11: Profile chlamydia. Christina White interrogates the Chancellor. Sam Langford on Grafitti Tunnel’s ‘artist’. 6: In Too Deep Samantha Jonscher on clubbing in China. Naaman Zhou calls up Psychic TV. Bebe D’Souza on Myanmar’s student activism. Aidan Molins revisits the bible of his pubescence. 12-13: Arts & Culture Mary Ward on SALt’s branding mishap. 7: Ongoing Joel Hillman on the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Anonymous, Alex Fitton, Shuning Sun and Alexandros Tsathas on Billy Idol. 24: Puzzles Wanyi Xin on University profiteering. Astha Rajvanshi reviews Lego Pompeii. Dominic Ellis reviews City Skyline. 25-27: The Garter Press Editorial he beginning of this semester has the ongoing struggle to prevent the forced This is so much more than losing the can only begin to explore. But on pages 14 been marked for me by visits to the closures of remote Aboriginal communities. opportunity for a white man to inform and 15 this week, Honi attempts to look RedfernT Tent Embassy, and hearing stories It highlights the contradictory attitudes of Indigenous groups that the land is into some specific issues to do with land from friends who travelled on the 50th state and federal governments to native traditionally theirs. Indeed, it’s hard to management and Indigenous communities Anniversary Freedom Ride. With first title. It raises serious concerns regarding sum up in an editorial what Indigenous to investigate this topic further. hand perspectives and experiences giving the ability for a group to retain their peoples will lose if their communities are myself and others a greater understanding ongoing, inherent connection to the land. closed. The deep and damaging loss of an A white property owner would rarely, if of Indigenous land issues and the And it limits a group’s capacity to observe essential connection to their land, and ever, be told they are not allowed to live on constant disadvantages these groups face the same traditional laws as they always the resulting practices and belief systems the land they own. Indigenous Australians at the hands of our government, it was have. that will be wiped with these closures, is shouldn’t be stripped of theirs either. infuriating to hear Tony Abbott recently traumatising. But this is something that say that Indigenous Australians were In other words, closing these communities won’t just happen from this alone; it’s been Sophie Gallagher making “lifestyle choices” to live in remote severely limits these traditional and happening since white Australians arrived. communities. intrinsic practices, and hence the ability Racism is the lifestyle choice here. for an Indigenous group to achieve native This ill-conceived statement underscores title. This is an issue that my white privilege Credits Editor-in-Chief: Sophie Gallagher Contributors: Fahad Ali, Dom Bowes, Adam Chalmers, Cover art: Smith and Gardiner’s Map of Sydney, 1855. Julia Clark, Evelyn Corr, Bebe D’Souza, Claire Fester, Editors: Tim Asimakis, Joanna Connolly, Alex Downie, Cameron Gooley, Max Hall, Joel Hillman, Sam Langford, Artists/Illustrators: Stephanie Barahona, Angela Collins, Dominic Ellis, Samantha Jonscher, Patrick Morrow, Alexi Andy Mason, Aidan Molins, Leigh Nicholson, Astha Max Hall, Justine Landis-Hanley, Monica Renn. Polden, Peter Walsh, Rebecca Wong. Rajvanshi, Max Schintler, Alexandros Tsathas, Elias Visontay, Mary Ward, Christina White, Naaman Zhou. Puzzles: Bolton, Ben Sullivan. Proofreaders: Alexandra Banks and Lachlan Deacon. Disclaimer: Honi Soit is published by the Students’ Representative Council, University of Sydney, Level 1 Wentworth Building, City Road, University of Sydney NSW 2006. The SRC’s operation costs, space and administrative support are financed by the University of Sydney. Honi Soit is printed under the auspices of the SRC’s directors of student publications: Christopher Warren, Serena May, James Rusiti, Ilya Klauzner, Charlie O’Grady, and Alison Xiao. All expressions are published on the basis that they are not to be regarded as the opinions of the SRC unless specifically stated. The Council accepts no responsibility for the accuracy of any of the opinions or information contained within this newspaper, nor does it endorse any of the advertisements and insertions. 2 letters beating. Between then and 1975, almost When Harry Welsh says that filmmakers had reached a dead end in a long time ago. Words forty safe houses had opened across the have “long ignored the problems within But that wasn’t a racist dead end, it was a UK for survivors of domestic violence, their instruments” he seems to be blaming technical dead end. from Jocelyn a British MP named Mr Moonman the calibration of light meters for had asked the Prime Minister for a underexposing black people, instead of the Barry Slade Dear Honi, royal commission into the “problem of technical limitations of the film emulsion. battered wives and battered families”, and The calibration of this tool can only reflect I was one of the subjects of your the Matrimonial Causes Act in the US the abilities of the film emulsion that it is You Had feature article on domestic violence. I’d allowed a woman to seek a divorce from serving. Mainly, its non-abilty to render a like to sincerely thank Astha for her an abusive husband. In fact, wife beating dynamic range beyond its limits. Better Be Shaw compassionate and considered exploration was already illegal in every American state of this issue, not just in the writing of the thirty years before Astha’s 1975-cutoff. He states that it was the “tense climate Dear J Shaw, article, but in her process of interviewing of racism and equality at the time that as well. But suppose Astha didn’t mean the resulted in technologies that favoured In response to your letter last week calling discussion of violence itself, but the term the fairer skin.” A universal collective of my critique of a scientific paper “armchair I have been anxiously awaiting the “domestic violence”? Wrong again. It chemists ceased to try to improve their drivel”, I would like to clear some things publication of this story every week. I appears on record for the first time in UK product because they all had a racist up. expected to feel an immense sadness on Hansard in 1973, out the mouth of one agenda? That is a slur on an honourable reading it. I thought I might even burst Mr Jack Ashley, who called it “a subject science! First, I’ll just start by correcting you on into tears on campus. But after reading the cocooned in prejudice and buried in fear”. assuming I am an undergraduate non- article I sighed in relief. That’s my story How right he was. The movement to In fact there was a huge commercial science student. I am currently in my right there. My version. My truth. And liberate women from violence is a long and imperative to produce better and better third year of my PhD in cell biology. I someone believed me and didn’t blame me tortured one, and it owes many of its early film emulsions. Faster, finer grained, and would suggest that immediately assuming for what happened. That means more to triumphs to the emergence of feminism with better dynamic range. That was someone who is critiquing science is not a me than you could possibly know. and universal rights in political and the sole imperative behind the furiously scientist, does more of a disservice to our philosophical thought. Those movements competitive science of film’s development. mutual field than you think. To my fellow subjects, I hope the article each existed—at least in their embryonic In this the chemists’ were devoted to and had a similar cathartic effect. states—long before 1975. Facts matter limited by hard science—and a rascist I already laid out my thoughts on the here. Let’s get them right. social agenda, if they had one at all, paper in my original article, so instead To the men who may have felt couldn’t have been less relevant to their I’ll focus on what you seem to be holding uncomfortable in reading the article, who Sincerely, professional efforts. as a personal criticism against scientific may have felt as if all men were being Eleanor Gordon-Smith methodology. As an undergrad science painted with the marred brush of a few, If a way had been found to expand films’ student yourself, I will give you a bit of I understand that this may be frustrating.