Week 11 - Week 12, Semester 2, 2014 First Published 1953 Volume 60, No. 13 University of NSW’s Independent Student Newspaper 2 EDITORIAL Editors’ Letter Hey Folks, Another semester drawing to a close, another Tharunka full of good stuff. Enjoy Issue 13! It's packed to the brim of the usual great news articles, reviews, satire, sports, and zero SRC election coverage (sorry - some red tape means we can't report on the elections this year.) Goodluck this week. xoxo Ammy and Freya, with Tina. Editors: Ammy Singh, Freya King Tharunka acknowledges the Be- team, unless expressly stated. Arc Acting Editor: Tina Giannoulis degal and Gadigal people, the tra- accepts no responsibility for the ac- Copy Editor: Araz Eleyasian ditional custodians of the land on curacy of any of the opinions or in- Design: Chere De Koh which the University stands. formation contained in this issue of Comic illustrations: Dom Foffani, Tharunka is published periodically Paden Hunter Tharunka. Any complaints should by Arc @ UNSW. The views ex- be made in writing to the Market- Contact: pressed herein are not necessarily ing & Publications Coordinator. [email protected] the views of Arc, the Representative PO Box 173, Kingsford, NSW, 2032 Council or the Tharunka editing EDITORIAL 3 Calendar Tuesday 14 October: Volunteer Expo + SRC BBQ Main Library Walkway from 11am to 2pm What happens in caucus, stays in caucus… Been thinking about giving back? Keen to get experience with some of the best volunteer pro- grams out? Unsure where to start? Then stop in on your way to a study sesh for all the info you except in Labor Left could want as well as a barbeque to keep you going! Who is leaking unredacted minutes from UNSW Labor Left Stu- Anti-Poverty Week Trivia Night dents’ (LLS) caucus meetings to their traditional rivals over in UNSW Beer Garden, Roundhouse at 5pm Labor Right, a.k.a. Student Unity? Think you’ve got the know how on social justice and poverty? Get a team together and join this Airtight secrecy surrounding internal caucus operations has year’s Anti-Poverty Week Trivia Night! worked for centuries to sustain the existence of political caucuses, and until recently was adhered to strictly by Labor Left at UNSW. How- Wednesday 15th October: ever, the new status quo has seen the Left open the once-hermetically sealed floodgates to leak confidential caucus information to the Right, UNSW Feminist Free Talk #5 - Emily Chandler in a move that could well compromise the standing of several mem- The Squarehouse, Room 206 from 5:00pm to 6:30pm bers of the Left. Feminist Free Talks meets fortnightly to learn about and discuss feminist issues. Facilitated by As a Labor Right source amusedly put it, a leak such as this would PhD students, this week’s talk is their second last and will be run by Emily Chandler. Her talk have been impossible as little as a year ago. will look at representations of girlhood and gender in animation and children’s media, particu- We’d love to tell you who the leak is, but thanks to electoral regula- larly that of Disney’s Recess. Cupcakes, snacks and drinks are always provided, just bring your tions prohibiting us from naming SRC candidates in the lead-up to the interest and critical-thinking cap. For full details check the Facebook site (www.facebook.com/ election, we’d have to censor it. UNSWFFT) However, for any other factions interested in leaking names and Bake Sale for Tigger’s Honeypot Centre details of their caucus meetings, hit Tharunka up with an email or Main Library Walkway from 10am to 1pm carrier pigeon. Because the times, they are a-changin’. Support on campus child care by buying some baked goods! Morrison and Egan elected as undergraduate Thursday 16th October reps on the Academic Board “Eat Local, Feed Global” Pizza stall Main Library Walkway from 11am to 3pm Tom Morrison and Cara Egan have been elected into the student po- Run by Oxfam UNSW, this event combines social justice and delicious pizza - what more could sitions of the UNSW Academic Board. Morrison is a particularly active you want? student on campus and currently holds numerous positions of power VGen Workshop on Child Labour at UNSW – serving on the Arc Board as Chair of the Nominations and Matthews Building, Room 309 at 1pm Remuneration Subcommittee. Morrison has been House President of VGen UNSW are holding a Q&A session on Child Labour. The session will include an informa- Baxter College for the past two years. He previously presided over the tive introduction to the present issue of Child Labour, some intriguing documentaries from New South Wales Inter-Residential Council. Congratulations to both World Vision Bangladesh and, of course, a talk from Shabira Nupur! Tom and Cara. UNSoc Anti-Poverty Model UN Old Main Building, Room 229 at 6:30pm Explore the fun side of diplomacy and international relations by checking out UNSoc’s Anti-Po- UNSW Disability Officer Co-Option erty Model UN. If you’re a fan of public speaking and critical thinking on social issues, this not The SRC is accepting applications for Disability Officer for the re- one to be missed! mainder of the 2014 term. This position requires applicants to be reg- Friday 17th October: istered with SEADU. To apply, submit a CV and 100 word expression of International Anti-Poverty day film screening interest to [email protected]. Applications close 31 October. Catch the screening of Oaktree’s documentary ‘Within Our Reach’ which tells the stories of indi- viduals and communities fighting to see the end of poverty. With screenings happening across SRC International Officer steps down Australia to celebrate Anti-Poverty day, this is the chance to get in amongst the action! The position of SRC International Officer has been vacated. This year’s officer, Emily Yichen Liu, stepped down from her position as of the 30th September in order to accept a graduate position in China. Applications have now closed and we await the news of Liu’s succes- sor. Arc Constitution change voted down at EGM The Arc EGM was held at the Roundhouse on the 24th September. A motion from the ARC board of directors to repeal and replace the Arc Constitution was voted down. The changes the board proposed included removing any reference of the Student Development Committee from the constitution – mov- Dear Agony Ibis, ing control and governance of the SDC from a student elected position I’m really looking forward to this year’s student elections, but am hard pressed to find to being directly governed by the board. A sub-committee would be any information on the tickets bar what they’ve been releasing on their own Facebook responsible for maintaining and fostering this service. pages - what’s the deal with the lack of coverage in your pages? I expected better of you. The motion to increase diversity on board, specifically Affirmative Yours, Action to increase the number of women elected to the board was tied Out Of The Loop into this motion and was voted down with it, much to the dismay of attendees who moved to separate it from the procession. Some stu- Dear Out Of The Loop, dents on campus expressed their disappointment on social media [REDACTED] that a number of diverse changes were proposed in the one motion. Best, Agony Ibis 4 NEWS Margo Kingston talks citizen journalism at UNSW choose not to run something, nothing “So I went on Twitter and I said, ‘Un- happens. If they choose to go hard on like Gillard, Abbott has a case to answer something, that becomes a story. regarding his slush fund’,” referring to “So the big business media and big the one he financed against Pauline Han- politics, they have enormous power over son. the journo.” “I decided to write an article, but the The University of Queensland gradu- ABC wouldn’t publish it. Independent ate said she terminated her contract with Australia published it, and I went to bed. the Sydney Morning Herald in search of “The next day I had hundreds of fol- accountability, fairness and genuine lowers…I was absolutely enthralled at democratic behaviour. this thing called Twitter…and I just fell in “Collaboration between mainstream love with it.” media journalists and citizen journalists Her subsequent project, crowdfunded and citizens can empower us as people, website No Fibs, was created “for peo- even against the organisations that the ple who are sick to death of the pathetic journalists work for,” she said. sham that our democracy is today.” Kingston, who has worked as a solici- Attributing this partially to a lack of tor, took a seven-year hiatus from jour- journalistic ethics enforcement, No Fibs nalism before returning to the industry is bound by the Media Entertainment as a “complete accident” in 2012. and Arts Alliance Journalists’ Code of She said watching then Opposition Ethics. Leader Tony Abbott call former Prime “The job of journalism is to bring the Minister Julia Gillard a “criminal” over concern of the people to the powerful, the AWU slush fund was a motivating and hold the powerful accountable on By Shannen Carnemolla mainstream political blog at the Sydney factor. behalf of the people. Morning Herald, spoke of the “enormous” “Abbott had gone outside Parliament “When I was in the mainstream me- power that businesses and politics have and said that Gillard was a criminal and dia, I’d come to realise that the future of Former Fairfax employee Margo over journalists. she went well okay, prove it,” said King- professional journalism was a collabo- Kingston says collaboration should be “Our dominant media voices are very, ston.