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Honi Soit is published on the stolen land of the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation. For over 230 years, First Nations people in this country have suffered from ...What? Wham, bam, the destructive effects of invasion. The editors of this paper recognise that, as a team of settlers occupying the lands of the Bidjigal, Darug, Gadigal, Wangal and Wallumedegal people, we are beneficiaries of these reverberations that followed European settlement. As we strive throughout the year to offer a platform to the voices Back in the old normal days of the Now in the new normal days of thank you mainstream media ignores, we cannot meet this goal without providing a space for First Nations people to share their experiences and perspectives. A student paper which sensible conservative patriarchal The Coronavirus Covid 19 Virus, the does not acknowledge historical and ongoing colonisation and the white supremacy embedded within Australian society can never adequately represent the students religious world, prior to 2020, abnormal mental illness psychology Pam of the institution in which it operates. We seek to resist colonial violence and the racist power structures that serve to oppress those who are Indigenous to this land. people who practised social of the old world before 2020 has be- Sovereignty was never ceded. Always was and always will be Aboriginal land. distancing, who practised lots of come the normal psychology of the - Jane Mary hand washing, who practised 14 sensible conservative patriarchal re- Wallace consecutive days of social isolation, ligious world. Obsessive and Com- (in the same who wore face masks every day to pulsive Mental Illness disorder has email) Contents Editorial avoid germs, who feared catching become the normal sensible way of deadly diseases from breathing and life. The old “abnormal people” have In light of community concerns In light of this, Honi Soit would like to mixing with the community , who become the “normal people” . surrounding the spread of COVID-19 reiterate that we do not believe in liberal stocked up supermarket items for 14 The abnormal mentally ill people Positive feedback What’s on / 2 Editor in Chief: Lei Yao and reduced numbers of students and notions of balance and objectivity. staff on campuses, we are reducing our Instead, we explicitly support the consecutive rainy days, who found it are now the normal sensible people Editors: Nina Dillon Britton, print run for week 5 of semester to 500 demands issued by multiple unions hard to find toilet paper, who didn’t of common sense, emotional intelli- Hi Honi, students. Gossip / 3 Matthew Forbes, Zhiquan Gan, copies per week, distributed to stands at and grassroots organisations across the use toilet paper after excretion, who gence, mental intelligence, and gen- More attention need to be put on Robbie Mason, Angad Roy, Lara Fisher, JFR and outside the Students’ country. didn’t want to socialise at pubs, clubs eral responsibility. I really liked your article Class Act USYDs failure to support low SES Representative Council (SRC). Some of these demands include: an Sonnenschein, Ranuka Tandan, and churches, who were too afraid The new Political, Religious, from Jenae Madden. Thanks for students. News / 4 Thereafter, and for the foreseeable immediate rent freeze by landlords, a to go outside their residence, who Moral, social and Economic Leaders Chuyi Wang, Madeline Ward, future, there will only be 100 copies repayment amnesty from banks and covering stuff that’s both important hoarded supermarket items, and who talk about social distancing, social Lei Yao printed per week. mortgage holders, a moratorium on and immediately relevant to USYD - Zac Calvin Analysis / 6 We will continue to report on the rental evictions and an increase to wouldn’t eat salads, were considered isolation, incessant hand washing, Contributors: Liam Armstrong- COVID-19 crisis as it affects students welfare benefits. to have the abnormal mental illness hoarding, fears, anxieties, terrors, Opinion / 9 Carrigan, Liam Donohoe, and the wider community. We have We also support the calls to the of obsessions and compulsions phobias, rituals, and all the old world To Aiden Magro, with love Deaundre Espejo, Jeffrey Khoo, also begun a live blog which we will be University of Sydney to cease the disorder! topics normally associated with the Finola Laughren, Juliette updating frequently. austerity measures it has introduced These abnormal mentally ill old time abnormal mentally ill peo- What an absolute delight to read goal with the book was to concentrate COVID-19 immediately affects the without adequate staff consultation people were sent to psychologists, ple who were fit for drugs,therapies, your article that featured my book, on women whose stories are largely Feature / 11 Marchant, Shania O’Brien, most vulnerable in our community. and without respecting the nature of psychiatrists, student counsellors, mental hospitals,and mental health Fag Hags, Divas and Moms. It’s hard unknown. Everyone’s heard of Sophia Perez, Daany Saeed, Indigenous people, disabled people, an increasingly casualised tertiary Lachlan Redman, Will Solomon, alternative medicine practitioners, professionals. The new Political, Re- to know how far a book can reach, Elizabeth Taylor and how important Perspective / 14 the homeless and the elderly are those education workforce. but now I can say all the way to she was to the AIDS community. It’s Victor Zhou, Noa Zulman. that will be most severely affected Though we are living through anxiety clinics ,depression clinics ligious, Moral, social and Economic by the spread of the virus. They are uncertain times, we have hope. Mutual and mental hospitals. They also re- Leaders are the old world mentally ill Australia. That it has reached the women like Nora who deserve Culture / 16 Artists: Claire Ollivain, Sophia also those most impacted by the vein aid groups have been set up across ceived psychotherapy, mental illness people college students means even more the spotlight. Perez, Karen Tengan Okuda. of neoliberalism that receives near Sydney as those with time, age, or drugs, anti psychotic drugs, anxiety The new March 2020 Political, to me. They’ve only known HIV/ Again, many thanks for sharing bipartisan support within the Federal health on their side help strangers. It is tranquillisers, prozac, mind altering Religious, Moral and Economic AIDS as a chronic disease, not as my book and the women in it who Creative / 19 Government. this spirit of collectivism and solidarity drugs, electroconvulsive therapy, Leaders talk exactly like the old time the terrifying pandemic of the early have made such a difference. Cover artist: Alex Mcleay The economic effects of our current which will get us through this crisis, and Benzodiazepines drugs, sickness abnormal mentally ill people always days. I know your article will help SRC / 20 situation spell a future of uncertainty this spirit which will help us in building them understand what a strange and - Victoria Noe Back cover artist: for many. The loss of work will hit a more just world. benefits, invalid pensions, disability did before 2020 . Emily Thompson Australia’s casual workforce, many of support pensions, age pensions, va- Do the political, religious, moral, frightening time it was - not unlike Comedy / 23 whom are students, particularly hard. lium, lithium drugs, and social and economic leaders get clas- the present. I’m particularly pleased These are the same people who, living mental illness labelling.Political sified as abnormal mentally ill nuts? that you focused on Nora Burns. My paycheck to paycheck, are unable to Yours, Leaders talk about these abnormal Do they need mental health profes- prepare for extended periods of social Honi Soit mentally ill people as nuts, and need sionals? distancing. mental health professionals. Nudes, declarations of affection and hate mail may be Yours Maternally, 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 - Jane Mary Wallace sent to: [email protected] 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: Maia Edge, Peiqing Fan, Nina Mountford, Roisin Murphy, Mikaela Pappou and Maxim Vishney. 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. Please direct all advertising inquiries to [email protected]. What’s on this week Weekly For those not watching livestreamed DJ sets! Machiavellian Mike Apologies to those with a bad getting very cosy before they were What’s not on this week case of FOMO - it seems we might forced to bid adieu to one another. Those of us who were around in have missed a pretty stellar event One USyd Rants post claimed that Write, create Being incredibly irritating on social media Day of Action for Workers’ Livelihoods Day of the Unborn Child 2018 will remember the ill-fated in our last What’s On section. A there had been a lock-in drinking (exactly 100 votes) USU Board source has informed us that around night before the closure, and Paul’s When: For the foreseeable future When: 27th March When: Never campaign of one Mike Mao. 45 people attended a ‘CoronaFest’ boys were released back to the rest Where: All social media platforms and produce Where: Everywhere Where: Nowhere People may also remember that he party last weekend, which was of the uni population. Lucky us! Price: Free Price: Free Price: Nothing goes by Magic Mike Mao…That’s hosted by 3rd year Med students. right, he thinks he can dance like Those who attended were told Congratulations, you played for Honi Soit Channing Tatum (he can’t) and he to dress as if they were sick or in yourselves Wow! Are you working from home? And social May 1st Movement has called for (an appropriately Fear not, brethren! Abortion is not the almighty gave himself his own alliterative quarantine. The drink of choice for Interested in reporting or distanced) day of action. Why? Because working distancing? How fun for you! I am really enjoying evil we thought it to be. It is in fact God’s will, nickname. We don’t think it’s the night was - and you’ll never guess Our good friends over at the people are being thoroughly fucked over by our making art for Australia’s your constant instagram updates. No really, you his almighty means of protecting the innocent particularly fitting though, and so it - Corona. Nice to know we have Catholic Society have issued a should post more. Maybe even something on government’s response to COVID-19. Take a unborn from COVID-19. Rejoice, and be we bestow “Machiavellian Mike” an influx of medical practitioners statement condemning us for being only remaining weekly Twitter! hard-earned break from virtue signalling your self- thankful. upon him after it was brought to our who will refer to themselves as “the “anti-Semitic,” over an image student newspaper? Email isolation routine and support those on the front- attention that he had been selling fun doctor” coming in a few years’ which actually made fun of anti- us at [email protected] lines of the pandemic. protective masks at a huge mark time. Semitism. The irony? In doing so, or message us over on our up price. Whilst he has since taken they messed up their syntax and down the post, one ghost of stupol Release the hounds seemingly endorsed the actually Facebook, Twitter or Instagram past told Who? Weekly that they anti-Semitic fiction that the Jews pages. think the masks were being sold for Another source let us know did kill Jesus. The direct quote from something like $10 per mask, and that Pauls boys have been using their statement is below: “This that he had a minimum quantity per their time productively before their image falsely suggests that the transaction. college was once more #cancelled. Sydney University Catholic Society We’ve heard rumours of last minute advocates for the attack on the Our future doctors “hazing” targeting first years and Jewish community for killing Jesus, raucous drinking with the boys our absolute boy.”

2 3 NEWS COVID-19 public health alert issued for event held at USyd investigating lecturer after racist rant Angad Roy reports. USYD In a recording uploaded to Facebook about the supposed administrative issues rant, saying that “these comments wildlife alone.” Lara Sonnenschein reports. page “USyd Rants 2.0,” Phill Horne, regarding the University-wide ceasing not only hurt Chinese students in When asked about the matter, a a lecturer in ‘Project Scope, Time of face-to-face classes, Mr. Horne’s rant the immediate University of Sydney University spokesperson said, “we are A New South Wales public health alert coronavirus at an event at a Sydney considered a close contact and must Queensland (UQ) rugby teams. and Cost Management,’ a civil went on a peculiar tangent. community, but also perpetuate aware of the video and are investigating. has been issued for an event held on University Football Ground function immediately self isolate for 14 days. It is unclear whether the person engineering subject, is heard engaging He said that the consumption of problematic right-wing talking points, campus on Saturday 14 March. room from 7.30pm to 10.30pm, The event included the University diagnosed is a USyd student. The health and welfare of our staff, in a Sinophobic rant about the current “wild Indigenous animals [such as] a which blames ordinary Chinese people students and community remains our Due to a confirmed case of the everyone who attended the event is of Sydney (USyd) and University of COVID-19 situation and its origins. tiger, hippopotamus, rhinoceros, cat of for this crisis.” highest priority. If any of our students Horne said, “we’re all going to get any form or sort, pandolin or a bat” had Horne also commented briefly on the paid but you know, we’re not going to no scientific benefits for sexual prowess. genetics of penis size, suggesting “if you have been affected by this video, we University to suspend face-to-face teaching achieve our deliverables. So who knows This claim had no relevance to the have a small penis, that’s what you got. urge them to call our helpline on 1900 what’s gonna happen. So interesting content of Mr. Horne’s class. Accept it. You’re either born with one, 793 457.” Lara Sonnenschein and Robbie Mason report. times ahead.” After voicing his concerns The SRC condemned Mr. Horne’s or you’re not. Tough luck. Leave our In the wake of a University of Sydney In an email to staff, Vice-Chancellor staff to support them in dealing with the to Michael Spence calling on the (USyd) student being diagnosed with Michael Spence reports: “For units impacts of COVID-19.” University to close has almost 5000 COVID-19 and rising concerns about of study with labs, studios and other Facilities, including libraries, signatures. the coronavirus across New South practical course components, online computer labs, research and study This week has already seen the Wales, USyd is set to cease face-to-face or remote arrangements will be put in spaces will remain open to students and Students’ Representative Council 大学就一位教师的种族歧视言论展开调查 teaching on campus on Monday 23 place or will be suspended to later in staff while increased cleaning protocols (SRC) cease in person appointments, March. the semester, or the year.” But “some continue. the University of Sydney Union (USU) Angad Roy 报道/ Zhiquan Gan 翻译 With many USyd classes already clinical placements and workshops will The decision follows weeks of cancel revues, and the unprecedented online, the Crisis Management go ahead.” As of yet, it is unclear which uncertainty regarding campus and shift to an online election in May for Committee at the University has placements and workshops these are. the coronavirus, alongside increased new Student Directors. 在一份最新被上传到“USyd Rants 2.0” 尼大学停止面授课程以及相关行政问 SRC谴责了Horne的言论，并评论 霉呢。不要妄想通过食用野生动物达 officially announced that the university The email continues: “in addition student pressure on the University to Facebook的录音中，土木工程学科 “ 题的忧虑后，Horne的抱怨转向了奇 道：“这些评论不仅伤害了悉尼大学里 到壮阳的目的。” will accelerate this move with this fixed to normal leave entitlements up to 10 shut down. At the time of publishing, 项目范围，时间和成本管理” 的讲师 怪的方面。 的中国学生，而且其展现了其根生蒂 当被问及此事时，大学的一位发言 date. days special leave will be available to a student petition to Vice-Chancellor Phill Horne被指控为发表了对于近期 他说，食用“野生土著动物（例如 固的右翼观点，这将普通的中国人归 人说：“我们注意到了该视频并正在调 新型冠状病毒起源的涉华侮辱性言 老虎，河马，犀牛，任何形种类的 咎于这场危机的起因。” 查。我们的员工，学生和乃至整个大 论。Horne说：“我们都将付出代价， 猫，以及穿山甲或蝙蝠”）对性能力的 Horne还从遗传学的角度对阴茎大 学社区的健康和尊严仍然是我们的重 但你知道，我们将不会实现我们的目 提升没有任何科学层面上的帮助。该 小作了简短评论，并指出“如果你的阴 中之重。如果我们中的任何学生受到 USU moves elections online, cancels revues citing 标成就。所以谁知道会发生什么。这 言论被认为与Horne先生的课程内容 茎很小，那就是你命中注定的。这是 此视频的冒犯，我们敦促他们致电我 COVID-19 将非常有趣。”在就他表达了对整个悉 没有关联。 天生的，你必须接受现状。谁叫你倒 们的求助热线 1900 793 457。” Matthew Forbes reports. The University of Sydney Union (USU) USU’s campus food and drink outlets. is “communicating with Club Execs to Engo Grill, Mallett St Cafe and Deck SRC 回应针对新型冠状病毒的忧虑 has shared its official response regarding Staff at these outlets will be expected discourage gatherings.” Cafe will be closed from March 23. the COVID-19 pandemic and what has to stay on, coming in contact with Other cancellations include those Additionally, Fisher Kiosk will shutter Robbie Mason 报道/ Lei Yao 翻译 been affected in its wake. potentially large numbers of persons in made to the Easters and Australs its doors on weekends. In a statement made by President their work. Debating tournaments and their trials, The USU has promised to keep the Connor Wherrett, the USU has declared The USU has also announced that as well as the SSAF-funded Know Your Queer, Ethno-Cultural and Wom*n’s 在今天早上与工作人员举行会议之 为此提供了支持。允许刷卡访问的人 少或者不被支付假期工资，无论是由 状病毒。本周有几个团体将会议移动 it will “scale down our face to face casual staff will be allowed paid sick leave Rights and Racism Sux campaigns and Rooms open, as well as the Incubate 后，学生代表理事会（SRC）主席 员，包括学生办公人员，Honi Soit 编 于轮班减少，队列减少/班级减少， 到了线上。 campus operations as far as possible, if they are required to self-isolate or are the 2020 Palladian Cup. Hub, which will operate ‘remotely’. Liam Donohoe 宣布，由于COVID-19 辑和执行人员，将被允许进入大楼， 隔离，以后的停机，还是介于两者之 Donohoe 已经组建了COVID-19响 while endeavouring to deliver as many diagnosed with COVID-19, though this Numerous USU-associated locations Wherrett’s statement stated the 疫情的威胁，SRC将暂时关闭。悉尼 但前门将不继续对公众开放。 间的任何事情。” 应小组，并计划在周五对情况进行正 of our services online as is feasible in will be capped at 10 working days. But across campus will shut their doors in USU will use the coming months as 大学已有学生感染COVID-19，第一 Donohoe 发誓要“加入美国国家 作为学生行动主义和抗议准备活动 式审查。 the short term.” that cap could leave many staff without the coming days, including tomorrow’s “an opportunity to rebuild, refocus 例病例已被证实。 高等教育联盟（National Terrary 的中心，围绕基层抗议组织的可行性 由于对冠状病毒的担忧，SRC于今 An online voting system is coverage if they are diagnosed. The closure of the International Student and reimagine what we provide to the 学生与案例研究人员或法律人员之 Education Union）的USYD分支，要 仍然存在一些问题。 SRC召集的反对 年初短暂关闭。 “reluctantly” planned to be implemented World Health Organisation estimates Lounge (ISL). student community.” 间的亲临访问和咨询将暂时中止，但 求包括雇主大学和悉尼大学联盟在内 种族主义自治集体组织取消了针对印 还有更多新闻将在之后披露。 for the union’s 2020 Board Elections, it to take 2 weeks to recover from mild Furthermore, the ISL Student Info Similarly, the university asked for all 可以通过电话或Skype与员工联系。强 的所有雇主确保所有员工（包括临时 度法西斯主义的抗议活动，该抗议活 which must take place in May as per the variants of the virus, but 3-6 weeks to Hub in Wentworth and Manning House SSAF contestable projects, including 烈鼓励所有SRC员工在家中工作，并 工）都不会因COVID-19爆发工资减 动原定于上周日举行，原因是担心冠 USU Constitution. recover from more serious cases. Student Info Hub will also be closed the Know your Rights and Racism Sux The decision is controversial given it Aside from its internal operations, from tomorrow, effectively wiping campaigns, to be put on hold. Whilst was made without a vote by the USU the USU’s course of action in response out all opportunities for face-to-face the SRC responded that they were Board. Previous online elections at to this outbreak will see a devastating assistance from the USU. “certainly disappointed with this freeze, USyd have resulted in allegations of blow to campus culture and student life. Both Manning Bar and Hermann’s and shocked by the abruptness of the 悉尼大学学联（USU）因新型冠状病毒，将进行 election breaches and cheating, and One of the most significant measures Bar will cease day trade and gigs from decision”, President Liam Donohoe stacking of votes. the USU has taken is the cancellation next Monday. The USYD Store at Jane emphasised that their financial situation A trial period for working from home of all 2020 revues. This presumably Foss Russell Building will remain open, was stable, meaning that all staff, office 线上换届选举，并取消戏剧节 arrangements for some of the Union’s includes faculty revues, which are while the store in Holme Building will bearer stipends, and department funding staff will start tomorrow (March 17), traditionally held in August. be shut. should remain unaffected. Matthew Forbes 报道/ Zhiquan Gan 翻译 and is likely to become the “dominant Furthermore, the Union has asked While USU food outlets such as Nonetheless, with the University mode of work” for staff from next that all events hosted by Clubs and Courtyard Restaurant & Bar and preparing for the possibility of a Monday (March 23). Societies be cancelled, echoing the Carslaw Kitchen, as well as the temporary campus closure, it is clear 悉尼大学学联（USU）发布了了有关 但是重要的是，这将不包括在USU 括每个学院的戏剧节，从往年传统上 Hermann’s Bar 将停止日间营运和演 Importantly however, this will not sentiments of Vice-Chancellor Michael food courts in Manning House and that student life this semester will not COVID-19大流行及其影响的官方回 校园食品和饮料商店雇用的临时人 来说是在八月举行。 出。Jane Foss Russell Building 中的悉 include casual staff employed at the Spence in an email sent last Friday, and Wentworth Building, will remain open, operate as usual. 应。 员。预计这些工作点的员工会留下 此外，学联要求取消俱乐部和社团 尼大学纪念品商店将继续营业，而其 在USU主席Connor Wherrett的声明 来，并与潜在的大量相关工作人员接 组织的所有活动，同时在上周五发送 在 Holme Building 的店面将关闭。 中，USU宣布“将尽可能缩小线下校园 触。 的电子邮件中回应了副校长 Michael 虽然学联的餐厅，如 Courtyard 运营的规模，同时尽最大努力在短期 USU还宣布，如果临时员工要求 Spence 的观点，并与社团理事们进行 Restaurant＆Bar 和 Carslaw Kitchen SRC responds to COVID-19 fears 内提供尽可能多的线上服务”。 自我隔离或被诊断出患有新型冠状 沟通以阻止聚会。 以及 Manning House 和 Wentworth 像往年一样，根据悉尼大学学联章 病毒，则将为其提供带薪休假，尽管 其他取消的校园活动包括复活节和 Building 将保持开放，但 Engo Robbie Mason reports. 程，在5月为了学联2020年董事会选 此休假时长被限制在10个工作日内。 澳大利亚辩论锦标赛，以及由每个学 Grill，Mallett St Cafe 和 Deck Cafe 将 Following a meeting with staff this but staff will be accessible via phone or Education Union in demanding that all grassroots organisation of protests. The 举，一个线上投票系统将被“不情愿” 但是，如果员工不幸被诊断出新型冠 生缴纳的服务和设施费（SSAF）所资 从3月23日起关闭。此外，Fisher 图书 morning, Students’ Representative Skype. All SRC staff have been strongly employers, including the University and SRC-convened Autonomous Collective 的提出并付实践。 状病毒，许多员工的休假时长将超过 助的“Know Your Rights”和 “Racism 馆的售货亭将在周末关闭。 Council (SRC) President Liam encouraged to work from home, for University of Sydney Union, ensure Against Racism cancelled a protest 鉴于该决定是由学联理事会未经 10个工作日，他们将无法获得带薪休 Sux” 活动以及2020年帕拉第奥杯。 学联承诺将保持 Queer，Ethno- Donohoe announced that the SRC will which support has been provided. that no employee (including casuals) against fascism in India, scheduled for 表决而作出的，因此具有一定的争议 假。世界卫生组织估计，从较轻度病 在未来几天，校园内与学联有关的 Cultural 和 Wom * n 的房间以及 temporarily close due to the threat of Those with swipe card access, including ends up with less pay or leave due to the last Sunday, over coronavirus fears. 性。此前在悉尼大学进行的线上选举 毒中恢复需要2周，而从较严重的病 许多地点都将关闭，包括在明天关闭 Incubate Hub 的开放状态，该中心将“ COVID-19 outbreaks. The first case student office bearers, Honi Soit editors COVID-19 outbreak, whether as a result Several collectives have moved meetings 中已经有候选人因违反选举章程以及 毒中恢复则需要3-6周。 国际学生休息室（ISL）。 远程”运营。 of a University of Sydney student and members of the Executive, will be of less shifts, smaller cohorts / less online this week. 作弊刷票而被指控。 除了内部运作之外，USU为应对这 此外，Wentworth 的 ISL 学生信息 Wherrett声明说，学联将视接下来 contracting COVID-19 was confirmed allowed to enter the building, but the classes, quarantining, future shutdowns, Donohoe has formed a COVID-19 为学联一些工作人员而安排的在家 次疫情而采取的行动方案还将给校园 中心和 Manning House 学生信息中心 的几个月中为“重建，聚焦和重新构想 yesterday. front door will be locked to the general or anything in between.” response team, with a formal review of 工作的试用期将于明天（3月17日） 文化和学生生活带来毁灭性的影响。 也将从明天起关闭，取消了所有USU 我们为学生社区提供服务的机会。” In-person visits and consultations public. As a hub for student activism and the situation also planned for Friday. between students and casework or legal Donohoe has vowed to “join the protest preparations, some questions The SRC closed briefly earlier this 开始，很可能从下周一（3月23日） USU采取的最重要措施之一是取消 提供面对面援助的机会。 staff will be temporarily suspended, USyd branch of the National Tertiary remain surrounding the feasibility of the year over coronavirus fears. 开始成为工作人员的主要工作方式。 所有2020年的校园戏剧节。这大概囊 从下周一开始，Manning Bar 和

4 5 ANALYSIS ANALYSIS A numbers game: What university rankings don’t tell Bullshit: Truth under assault Juliette Marchant tries to sort the facts from the crap. you about the student experience Human beings are storytelling animals. and to sense that authority is now, more the early hours of the 16th of March. click and share material. It is the content Jeffrey Khoo We attempt to make sense of the world than ever, built on the foundations of From a self-isolated studio, 78 year- that gets billions of hits and millions of on what university rankings conceal about campus life. around us, and our place within it, by charisma and blind persuasion. But old talk-back radio host Alan Jones retweets because we share it in the hope A couple of weeks ago, the University and prevent academics from voting for towards “graduate employability” at of universities substantially shifting out subconsciously constructing narratives what is most deeply disturbing (not stated that “We now seem to be facing that others will confirm our fury. At a that are cogent with our own beliefs and to mention profoundly dangerous) is the health version of global warming. time when people are literally divided, of Sydney proudly announced that 31 of their own university. However, crit- universities is pushed by employers, not resources towards research, awards and biases. However, this process, wherein that in the wake of the global spread of Exaggeration in almost everything. we find unity in our common opinions, its subjects were ranked in the top 50 ics argue that QS and THE assign too students, reflecting a growing and divi- income-generation, which is acceptable we form our own version of ‘the truth’ COVID-19, bullshit narratives appear Certainly in description, and certainly and those common opinions are usually in the world. According to the QS 2020 much importance on an essentially sub- sive trend of corporatisation at univer- in itself, though not at the expense of from the assortment of discourse that to hold as much currency as a 12-pack in behaviour.” It is timely to note that rooted in revulsion. Subject Rankings, USyd placed 4th in jective measure of sentiment within the sities. teaching. surrounds us, often ends up revealing of toilet rolls. the famed climate change denialist, We have been told time and time the world for sport and physical therapy, academic community. Secondly, subjective measures such So how can we fully capture students’ more about the person that constructed In his address to the United States along with almost half of his listeners, again to seek the advice and opinions 13th for law and 1st in Australia (and in Recent citations, a proxy for an in- as teaching reputation surveys, espe- experiences or improve existing meth- the story, than the event or issue that concerning COVID-19, and much of are in the age category most at risk of of medical professionals, but the reality the top 20 globally) for performing arts. stitution’s research impact, make up cially from the providers and not the odologies? The most obvious answer is they intended to detail. But in times of his recent Twitter content, President death from COVID-19. is that our updates on COVID-19 are University rankings are closely 30% of THE and 20% of QS rank- recipients of such teaching, are likely to include concrete graduate outcomes global turmoil and crisis, wherein over Donald Trump blatantly ignored the These three men are no strangers being fed to us second-hand through watched by the media and the tertiary ings. QS also includes research income biased towards larger and more estab- and direct surveys of the student body, 7.7 billion people are attempting to wills of the World Health Organisation, to bullshit. Trump has produced more the mouths of politicians, radio jockeys, education sector. They condense the from grants and industry (8.5% in to- lished universities, as their work is more weighting these components heavily. narrativise the present in simultaneity, denoting the pandemic as the ‘Chinese alternative than real facts since entering journalists, television presenters and vague notion of a university’s quality tal), while ARWU evaluates how many visible, meaning that smaller universi- Student surveys will still be subjective there is a singular narrative that Virus.’ This linguistic choice has served the White House in 2017, Morrison is celebrities on social media. Although we into a nice, neat, comparable number. highly-cited staff (20%) and papers ties producing quality output can find it to an extent, but considering the large inevitably prevails; bullshit. as a justification for countless narratives still coming to terms with the reality would like to assume that people with a And a good rank is an attractive selling published in high-profile journals Na- hard to get recognised. Citations - with sample size and the critical financial In 1986, Princeton philosopher of hate, centred around xenophobic of travel bans preventing his ability to platform at this time are well informed, point to employers, students and poten- ture and Science (20%) a university has, all the vagaries and uncertainties of pub- stake students have in universities, they Harry Frankfurt published an academic racial profiling that inextricably attaches flee this crisis and go to Hawaii, and we are still storytelling animals, and paper titled ‘On Bullshit’, wherein the lethal virus to its place of origin, and Jones, the so-called ‘controversial in view of this, we embellish, and tial sources of research funding. in addition to general citations (20%). lishing in journals - can also be similarly must be taken seriously to encourage he outlined the quiddity of a term Asian identity more broadly. However, conservative,’ has been so overtly racist, sometimes even avoid the truth, to However, a closer look at leading uni- This is the starkest illustration of these biased. In particular, ARWU includes universities to invest in quality teach- that is so ubiquitous in contemporary when faced with facts concerning sexist and ignorant on radio that the only attract clicks, likes and shares. versity rankings reveals that they tend rankings’ research-heavy focus. as criteria the number of alumni (10%) ing, facilities and resources, and make discourse that we tend to ignore its a spike in racially-targeted violence thing that is consistently conservative Thus, although we have been quick to ignore criteria which are most rele- Unfortunately for students, none and staff (20%) with Nobel Prizes or policy decisions in the best interests of substance. His theory, centred around following his use of the alternative title, in his arguments is the supply of facts to assign the title of the ‘post-truth age’ vant and pressing to students, such as of the main rankings involve student Fields Medals, resulting in a ranking students. a simple dichotomy, separated liars Trump claimed that his continued use to substantiate them. As such, we have to this present era of communicative teaching quality, overall student experi- surveys. They include, as proxies for which focuses on prestige at the top of The Commonwealth Government from bullshitters by noting that “the of the term was ‘not racist, not at all, grown used to taking many of their abundance, what is in jeopardy at this ence and graduate outcomes. teaching, staff-to-student ratios, inter- the bell curve and which does not neces- recently released the results of the Stu- liar cares about the truth and attempts [the virus] comes from China, that’s comments with a grain of salt, because time is not the existence of truth, but The three most high-profile univer- national staff and student numbers and sarily translate into positive results for dent Experience Survey for 2019, reveal- to hide it; [whilst] the bullshitter doesn’t why.’ Mere days later, our own Prime whilst genuinely meaningless discourse trust. sity rankings are the QS World Uni- staff with PhDs. the vast majority of students who do not ing that USyd students were the sec- care if what they say is true or false, but Minister, Scott Morrison, responded to may be frustrating, it usually isn’t taken Frankfurt did not propose the versity Rankings (QS), Times Higher These flawed methodologies lead receive instruction or supervision from ond-least satisfied in Australia (behind rather only cares whether their listener the current Australian supermarket crisis seriously for all that long. Why then, in theory of bullshit merely because Education World University Rank- to four main problems for students. these laureates. UNSW, largely due to their unpopular is persuaded”. Thus, the most definitive by taking on the strategy of a primary- the midst of one of the most significant of a vocational bent to provide a ings (THE) and Academic Ranking of Firstly, they essentially ignore issues of Thirdly, even if rankings are ex- trimester system). And rankings such attribute of bullshit, Frankfurt decides, school teacher with a nationalist bent; global health crises in recent history, philosophical essence to that which is World Universities (ARWU). Each sys- student satisfaction with teaching and plicitly research-focused, the problem as the THE University Impact Rank- is a complete disregard for the truth. convincing the population that sharing does this attitude change? unimportant. The theory of bullshit is tem also publishes separate lists for sub- overall campus experience, and substi- arises when they are so high-profile and ings, which measure universities’ re- In view of this, it would not be a is caring by painting the act of hoarding Now is a period defined by two forged on the foundations of the need stretch to propose that Frankfurt’s as ‘ridiculous’, and perhaps more significant forces; great uncertainty to question ideas that are posed to us, ject areas and geographical regions, as tute easily ascertainable data on labour used simplistically by media and uni- search priorities and impact against the theory seems almost proleptically importantly, ‘un-Australian.’ and media noise. Both are parasitic and what better time is there to ask well as more tailored measures regard- market outcomes of graduates - such versities alike to compare institutions UN Sustainable Development Goals, respondent to our current political But perhaps the most insidious organisms that not only feed off each questions than now? ing, for example, graduate employability as employment rates, income or pro- and, critically, attract students. Most might more accurately reflect a univer- climate. One need only look as far bullshit that has emerged from the other, but are sustained by a sense of or young universities. Their methodol- motions per profession or industry - students at most universities are un- sity’s contribution to social progress and as the White House to see a political Corona crisis so far, is that which anxiety and hysteria. This is where ogies suffer from two main misidentifi- with subjective employer surveys. QS’ dergraduate coursework students, for global issues that students care about. model hinged on the capital of bullshit, penetrated the Australian airwaves in bullshit comes in. Bullshit is the perfect cation problems: firstly, an unbalanced Graduate Employability Rankings (un- whom the research function of their The headline numbers tell a differ- emphasis on research; and secondly, an der which USyd ranked 5th globally in university is largely unseen and bears ent story to what is happening on the over-reliance on subjective metrics. 2019) consider employer surveys (30%), little personal relevance to the content ground, in classrooms and on campus, 40% of a university’s QS ranking is prevalence of high-profile alumni (25%), they learn, the skills they acquire and leaving student voices ignored and un- based on a university’s reputation among industry partnerships in placements and the quality of education they receive. accounted for. Ultimately, regardless This stimulus fails students academics. Academics are surveyed an- research (25%) and frequency of em- For a recent high-school leaver tossing of whether a university is research- or Finola Laughren argues Morrison’s stimulus fails to recognise that most students are workers. nually on which institutions they be- ployer visits to universities, framed as up their options, these rankings are teaching-focused, students are the main lieve represent the best in teaching and “employer-student connections” (10%), ill-suited to judge whether their future source of revenue for the sector - and As I sit at home studying during the deny students economic security in university fees remain unchanged and How does(n’t) the stimulus research in their field. THE, similarly, with only 10% allocated to graduate course — the educational environment are impacted the hardest by ill-thought- coronavirus crisis because I can’t go this period of radical uncertainty. it is once again students who are at a affect students? gives teaching and research surveys a employment rates. Not only is this an and the concrete value of the skills and out decisions. They should be front and into university, I hear Scott Morrison’s Students who are on Youth loss. combined weight of 34.5%. Granted, imprecise assessment of how well a par- qualifications gained — is one of the centre in this public forum. voice. His latest announcement is that Allowance (excluding those on The potential impacts of this Coronavirus Supplement select welfare recipients will be given Youth Allowance for Job Seekers), crisis on student welfare are hard these surveys encompass a fair amount ticular degree prepares students for the best in the world. And finally, focusing Students on Youth Allowance an additional $550 per fortnight for Austudy or ABStudy will not receive to overstate. The instability of the of academics across locations and fields, real world, it indicates that the move too intently on rankings runs the danger won’t receive the “Coronavirus the next 6 months, bringing the total the additional payment support. The coronavirus inherently generates Supplement” that will temporarily fortnightly payment per recipient to very term ‘student’ has been used anxiety about the future. Add to double the JobSeeker (formerly above $1,000. With industry grinding to obscure the fact that, except for a this a government that refuses to NewStart payments). to a halt and the economic burden minority who receive private financial provide security and you are left with already being felt most viciously support, students are workers who students who are feeling physically Some students might be able to by precarious workers (who make study. and mentally exhausted, and unable transfer onto JobSeeker instead, up a staggering 40% of Australia’s Let’s think about what exclusion to focus on their studies. but the supplement won’t start for workforce) my initial reaction is from this stimulus package means What students need now more more than a month (27 April) and relief. A closer look at this second for most students. Students are much than ever is security. The government will have to comply with rigorous stimulus package, however, reveals more likely to work in insecure, casual should take this opportunity to job seeking requirements to more of the same pro-capital agenda jobs, due to the competing demands of provide us with assurance that we are keep the payment. that the Federal Government has study, and a lack of qualifications. If, valued, and that our education still been peddling since their first day because of this crisis, a student is let matters. The most obvious way to do One-off stimulus in parliament, and it’s not good for go from their insecure employment, this would be to double its woefully Students on Youth Allowance students. they will not receive any government low student payment schemes. will be eligible for the $750 one- I could wax lyrical about the support. The government has not They could also offer free university off supplement, to be paid out billions of dollars the government ensured that employers of students throughout this period or significantly on 31 March. Another payment is directly and indirectly handing have any responsibility to support decrease student fees, but they have will be paid out in July, but over to the big banks (who by all them either. This means that the chosen not to. only if you haven’t received the accounts should still be reeling from most that students like me will have In the absence of student support “Coronavirus Supplement.” reputational damage caused by the left to survive on is $300 (including from the government, the same banking royal commission) to prop the rental assistance payment) per old message is loud and clear – if HECS up the financial system, but I won’t. week. This is before rent, which at we cannot afford to study without The government hasn’t What I want to focus on is the unjust a conservative estimate costs Sydney working then we are not deserving of announced any changes to fees binary the government has drawn students at least $200 per week. In the ‘privilege’ of tertiary education. or payment of HECS debts. New South Wales universities ranked according to the student experience. Data from the 2019 Student Experience Survey. between students and workers, and the context of a necessary transition the way this has been deployed to from face-to-face to online learning,

6 7 OPINION OPINION Christchurch changed nothing We need more law student activists Daanyal Saeed reflects on the material impacts of last year’s tragedy. Deaundre Espejo thinks law students need to get involved in social movements. We amble our way through the world, change; that it would be different now. people — built upon (an obviously from our faith. Any public response to Social movements have been instrumen- doctrinal mindset. We spend most of Hill Walk Off - and a subsequent string homelessness in Aboriginal populations life punctured with world events that Why then, are my Twitter mentions problematic) notion that this nation the contrary invites a revocation of your tal in shaping our legal landscape. Yet our degree focusing on vocational skills, of legislative reform. The judgement in altogether. have meaning to us. I’m Victorian, filled with neo-Nazis, more emboldened was settled in a similar vein to America, right to Australian identity, even if it it seems that the word “activism” has learning to extract legal principles from the Tasmania Dam case, which enabled Secondly, there is only so much we so my life’s progress is measured, like than ever? Why is it that we have seen an with the aim of freedom of religious is so mild as to simply reject the basis become a dirty word in the law student court decisions and applying them to the Federal Parliament to give effect can do by simply changing the law. It a metronome, by AFL Grand Finals uptick in Islamophobic hate crimes, even pursuit. Therefore, the idea that we for Western neo-imperialism, or one’s community. For those in the legal field, hypothetical scenarios, leaving very to Australia’s international treaties, is not possible to achieve structural and Boxing Day Tests. I also grew up after Christchurch made it unpalatable can be so explicitly Islamophobic relation to fundamentalists on the other activism is often perceived to be an un- little room to meaningfully discuss was handed down after a blockade by change through a top-down mandate, Muslim in the West at the turn of the for even One Nation to go on the attack (as if White Australia didn’t prohibit side of the world. To be with us was productive pursuit, with community policy considerations or normative environmental activists and the Hawke as entrenched practices do not easily century — and this has a very particular against Muslim communities? How Muslim immigration) is at odds with to be progressive, and to be against us and pro bono work or law reform con- arguments. In other words, we examine government promising to stop the lend themselves to codification and meaning to diaspora Muslims; even is it that neo-Nazism is alive and well our idealistic construction of Australian was not. Such a fundamentally flawed sidered the primary means of change. what the law is, but rarely what the construction of the Franklin Dam. statutory restrictions. Instead, it requires more so to those who are visibly Muslim. on campus, an arena that supposedly identity. It is an ideological dance we binary model of identity results in what I think that we need to reconsider this law should be. While this equips What, then, should we do as aspiring concerted and consistent efforts by It means our lives are punctuated by suffocates free speech with the vice- are forced into with every Breivik or we saw a year ago on Channel Ten — rigid view of the relationship between students with practical and technical lawyers to meaningfully contribute citizens, government and corporations altogether more sombre events and grip of the do-gooder left? Why am I Tarrant or Jones in this country, and the Prime Minister, presented with a law, politics, and activism. Ultimately, skills, it restricts us from asking critical to social change? Pro bono and to transform our political culture and we live in constant anticipation of the still on edge, waiting for the next brown it is rooted in the imperialism Western decade of Islamophobic behaviour in next, bracing ourselves for the deluge of terrorist to shatter this façade of calm? governments so gleefully engage in. his ranks, sought not to address it but more law students and lawyers should questions about how the law interacts community legal work are an important effectuate such change. Recent efforts hatred that accompanies it. For those of It is because even in the face of We so deeply and so quickly politicised to run. He had little choice; commit be standing on the front lines of our so- with broader structures of gender, race, means of assisting people experiencing to ensure genuine compliance with us that are visibly marginalised, by way death, we never actually confronted the role that Muslims have to play in the grave political sin of throwing his cial movements. and class, and results in an arbitrary disadvantage and the organisations that existing environmental legislation, for of hijab or complexion, we have come Brenton Tarrant’s ideology as a nation. the West since the turn of the century colleagues under the bus in favour of While it is not within the scope of distinction between legal problems and support them. Further, participating in example, have all been obstructed by to terms with the idea that we don’t get When the Prime Minister was taken to that it became partisan — indeed, the bolstering his own leadership credentials this article to give a detailed account societal problems. law reform campaigns will allow you a lack of public and political will to jobs like white people, or that we date task on national television last year for Opposition opposed the decision to to a substantial portion of “moderate” of what activism means, I will address Further, the social and political to play a critical role in shaping the prioritise climate action. differently, or that we make less money. suggesting in 2011 that shadow Cabinet enter Iraq, and the government had no Australia, or otherwise admit that there two common misconceptions. Firstly, forces that have impacted legal development of law in Australia, and is This is not to undermine the Many of us in a millennial context have leverage anti-Muslim sentiment in majority in the Senate. There is little is a tension between acknowledging that activism consists only of public developments are invisible within the vital to ensuring that legislative changes importance of community legal work made our peace with that. We never the community, the Prime Minister question of how the War on Terror the humanity of Muslims and efficient demonstrations or civil disobedience. law school. We are cautioned against are backed by consultation and sound and law reform, but rather to say that make peace with the loathing; with our explicitly rejected addressing any fed off, encouraged and exacerbated conservative leadership in this country. While these do play an important excessive politicisation of the courts research. Many people choose to draw service, politics, and activism should categorisation as lesser-than. It is a point issue of historic Islamophobia in the Islamophobia in the West — this When we shove political issues into role, activism also encompasses acts and judicial activism, and are instructed the line here; indeed, there is a growing not be compartmentalised. Positioning of incandescent rage in the Muslim Government or his Party, and spoke much is clear and uncontroversial, partisan boxes, we devalue them. In of self-education, lifestyle choices, to read pages upon pages of landmark ideology within the legal community lawyers, judges, or legislators as the community that we never reconcile — instead at length about his personal whether it was propagated by Bush, devaluing the Muslim community in and conversation, all with a mind to court judgements completely devoid that favours such “practical” forms of primary agents of change ignores why won’t it just fucking stop? reputation in the western suburbs. While Blair or Howard. With unilateral action the War on Terror to a partisan “issue”, improving the system. Essentially, it’s of their historical contexts. This skews action over activism. However, I would valuable opportunities for movement March 15, 2019. Christchurch. ASIO warned of right wing extremism being taken in Australia to follow the we have failed them. We forfeited our about building a movement of people our collective perspective on the value argue the natural next step is activism building, tends to disempower 51 dead, and an outpouring of grief and white supremacy as the most United States into Iraq, there was little ability to substantively address the that care about a particular cause. of activism, leading many to believe for two reasons. affected communities, and makes any and support from voices I’d never heard, significant emerging threat to security opportunity for any degree of cross- Islamophobia we perpetuated for the Secondly, that activism exists in binary; that social movements have little to do Firstly, while community legal prospect of successful collective action unlike anything I’d ever known. Perhaps in Australia, we saw the responsible chamber or public resistance. Putting sake of neo-colonialist wars on the other you either devote all your time to it or with the law. On the contrary, many work can effectively solve individual impossible. it was the closeness, compounded Minister focusing on a confected aside that the rationales for Iraq were side of the world. When I ask myself you don’t do anything at all. Such a way doctrines that now define the Australian problems, one must go deeper in order Law students should aspire to be by the fact it was an Australian who threat of “left wing Islamist groups”; entirely confected of themselves, our why nothing feels any different since perpetuated it. There was no shock consistent with his turn away from the course of action in 2003 laid the path Christchurch, perhaps it’s because it is of thinking is prohibitive and makes legal system were responses to social to address broader systemic issues that more than neutral service providers. in the Muslim community — hatred specific demonization of Muslims he for the War to become a partisan issue, no longer possible to think differently, getting involved seem insurmountable. movements. produce such individual problems in the As gatekeepers of complex legal of us is well-documented. It has been engaged in pre-Christchurch, in favour and by extension the role that Muslims not as long as the War on Terror rages You can support and promote action The Mabo decision, which first place. This is precisely what activism knowledge, as future lawmakers and encouraged by our elected officials in of his newfound position as a culture have to play in this country, and in the on. on social issues while going about your overturned the long-standing legal purports to do. A pro bono lawyer will as administrators of justice, we hold the name of the fabled marketplace of warrior. War. day. fiction of terra nullius, was a pivotal be able to help an Aboriginal person important institutional power that can ideas, as long as I have known. After the It seems an uncomfortable We were forced into perpetual Law students’ aversion to activism moment in the Aboriginal land rights secure housing, whereas an Indigenous radically shape the outcomes of our attack, we were told the narrative would reconciliation for Australians; for white apologia, or otherwise, a distancing largely stems from the way we are movement. It came after decades of rights activist will be able to raise society. We should use that power to taught. Because of how curriculums protests by Aboriginal and Torres Strait public awareness about discrimination strengthen our social movements, and are structured, we tend to view the law Islander peoples beginning in the 60s - Aboriginal tenants face in the rental proactively fight for a more just society with an instrumental, technocratic and the Yirrkala Bark Petitions, the Wave market; the starting point for reducing alongside our fellow activists. Accessibility for everyone: COVID-19 and the power of moral imagination Noa Zulman reflects on the ways in which universities fail disabled students, and all students. When I first started university, as a concerning accessible education. debilitating social anxiety flares up just built to cater to the most vulnerable bright-eyed, bushy-tailed Arts student There were lecturers who refused to isn’t worth the suffering it would entail. amongst us. No longer is accessibility back in 2016, I did so with hopes that record lectures out of fear that their Of course, Disability Services exists to a fringe concern for a small number of my tertiary education would be a far intellectual property would be stolen, support disabled students in navigating students, but an urgent principle that more accessible experience than my course convenors who believed that this woefully inaccessible system. But we must enact if we wish to survive high school one had been. Gone were uploading class materials to Canvas what happens when everyone runs the coming months with minimal the stringencies of the HSC, with its would encourage laziness amongst the risk of falling ill? How are our interruptions to our education. archaic Special Provisions system and the cohort, and tutors who enforced educational institutions meant to cope I believe that the coronavirus rigid assessment methods that hadn’t mandatory attendance with an iron fist with widespread disease and panic, pandemic presents us with an changed since the 1950s. I imagined and very little clemency for those too ill when they can’t even cater to students opportunity to exercise our moral university to be a disabled student’s or too busy to attend. with on-going, well-documented imaginations — to cultivate empathy utopia: the freedom to choose my own For the most part, I bore the brunt medical conditions? for those of us who do not share courses (favouring those without exams, of these ableist policies alone, learning Such is the position we find the privileges of good health and of course!), design my own timetable, the precise words to include within a ourselves in with the recent outbreak of economic stability. To demand that our and adequate resources to support my Special Considerations application so COVID-19. As the University scrambles universities do better in redesigning learning needs. And yet, when I arrived that your chronic illness doesn’t cost to find online solutions to the novel their institutional policies, rather than on campus, I soon found that academic you a cool 25% of your grade when you challenges wrought by the coronavirus, simply slapping a band-aid on a wound life for disabled students was not as rosy happen to submit that English essay the cracks in its institutional design that has been weeping for decades. And as I had been led to believe by the shiny a few days late, mastering the art of become glaringly obvious. While we to envision what a truly just educational pamphlets distributed by my school’s sounding forceful – but not too forceful might laugh at the lag times on Zoom experience — one that caters to all career counsellor. – when you request that your Monday classrooms and the absurd alternatives students — looks like and to begin to What I discovered over the course morning, 8am psychology lecture is to assessments that some academics fight for it. After all, our lives might just of my four years at the University recorded, and occasionally cutting your have proposed, I believe that this crisis depend on it. of Sydney was a hodgepodge of losses and copping that Absent Fail exposes something far more pernicious contradictory policies and procedures because showing up to class when your about the Ivory Tower: that it was never

8 9 OPINION FEATURE Contain the virus and support the vulnerable Liam Donohoe, SRC President, on how we should respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Yesterday, the Reserve Bank of make no sense when there’s no captive and obvious than ever before. * Immediately commencing Australia announced that it would audience willing to spend on and With some estimating that up to construction of new hospitals and commence Quantitative Easing (QE), provide a return to investments. And, 60 percent of the population might be expanding existing hospital areas. an unconventional monetary policy in general, the failure of trickle down affected by the COVID-19 outbreak, the * Providing free flu shots to all. which hopes to stimulate the economy mechanisms is so well-established that I impact on hospital resources could well * Establish distribution centres by printing money and purchasing won’t bother canvassing them. prove catastrophic. We simply don’t across the country which provide free government bonds. Putting aside Stimulus payments to households have the space in our Intensive Care food, sanitary items, etc. technicalities, the commencement of also leave a lot to be desired. Putting Units, or beds in our wards, to deal with * Require and subsidise paid QE — which was first pioneered by aside the obvious problem — that a the estimated 5% of those cases which special leave for all workers in all America’s Federal Reserve in response $750 payment to Newstart recipients would be critical. We don’t have the industries. to the GFC (to questionable effect) already living under the poverty line ventilators to deal with the thousands of * Immediately relax eligibility — seems a significant indication that simply isn’t enough — the one-off people who will be choking on their last criteria for Youth Allowance so part- the government, or at least the wonks stimulus payments also aren’t going to breath in waiting rooms. We don’t have time and deferred students are eligible. running the bureaucracy, are scared find their way to many of those who the staff to manage the chaos. We can * Significantly increase all about the economic implications of the really need it. While the usual Liberal talk about flattening the curve as much welfare payments, including Newstart, COVID-19 outbreak. favourites — pensioners and veterans — as we want, but we’re going to have to Youth Allowance, and Rent Assist They have every reason to be worried. get a handout, students and casual shift turn the curve into a pancake if we want payments, and devise other strategies The past few months have already workers have been totally overlooked. to keep it within our present capacities, for ensuring casuals and other brought about significant economic The Commonwealth has not announced an outcome which seems impossible economically precarious people have decline, with the outbreak seriously a single policy so far for those on now that (as of yesterday) NSW is access to an income, can pay rent / affecting production and consumption Youth Allowance, and, even if they do, experiencing exponential contagion. secure accommodation, and acquire in the People’s Republic of China eligibility is already so constrained that Of course, it didn’t have to be this essential goods and services. and, thanks to globalisation, the entire only full-time, domestic students would way. Activists have protested and * Undertake urgent reforms world. Alongside declining demand for stand to benefit anyway. The strict bemoaned every cent cut from health to the National Disability Insurance products and a corresponding decrease eligibility criteria means that very few funding, but the government and their Scheme so that people with disabilities in trade, supply decreases have increased students even receive Youth Allowance monied supporters simply didn’t care. have assurances of care and medical costs, particularly of goods essential to to begin with, and the inherently Doctors warned the government that supplies. global supply chains, which has created invasive, bureaucratic, and slow process our system was already in crisis, that * Immediately increase funding a vicious feedback loop where demand means it’s unlikely payments will be we already were failing the sick and to tertiary education institutions so and net output have declined in turn. increased or updated in time to make vulnerable, but they simply did not they have the liquidity to bear any Australia is about to experience a similar up for decreases in shifts and projected listen. And smart economists, not costs incurred while responding dent in production and consumption, income. And, as if all that weren’t taken in by the ideological tricks of comprehensively to biological with workplaces and shops preparing to enough, students considering dropping neoliberalism, told them that they concerns, compensating students for close down indefinitely, and an end to to part-time study, or dropping out could increase investments in essential displacement, and securing learning our 28 years of uninterrupted economic altogether, will lose this vital income services and still have plenty left over quality and staff conditions. growth seems certain. stream, forcing them to decide between to sustain a generous social security * Extend / remove the Census But as bad as general economic an income or being a guinea pig in an system for all who needed it, but they date for semester 1 2020, and waive malaise may be, words like output and overpriced online learning trial. simply choose to do otherwise so HECS fees for any students who cancel statistics like Gross Domestic Product In sum, the government’s “stimulus” they could prioritise their economic semester 1 enrollment. don’t really mean anything. Indeed, provides a lifeline to business owners agenda and class interests. Indeed, the * Freeze all rent increases and what’s bad is not the scoreboard, but and pensioners but absolutely nothing government certainly has the capacity put a moratorium on rental evictions. what it reflects about the lives caught for people whose income is at serious for a comprehensive and sufficient * Abandon their commitment up in the system it tallies. And there are threat. Even without the price increases response to this emergency, for instance to a budget surplus in the next 2-3 countless people who are now staring and supply shocks we’re likely to see, by printing money to pay off debts years, and undertake significant money down the barrel of a chaotic recession this spells serious trouble for many. which funds these schemes (or QE, but printing and borrowing so they can fund which may well bring about permanent While the impacts this has on study directed to programs which help people, significant stimulus and subsistence and fatal deteriorations in our quality of and willingness to undertake higher rather than shareholders). strategies. life. education may seem distant, an inability We still have a chance to reverse * Reallocate all staff and I think, in particular, of people who to purchase essential goods and services this legacy and secure our material resources in private hospitals to the work in demand-driven industries, is an obvious and immediate threat. and biological interests for the next public system, including by opening whose entire business models depend How are shift-less retail workers going few months. The University of Sydney access to wards and bed-space in private Chinese attitudes on willing consumers participating to get groceries? How are sex workers Students’ Representative Council has hospitals. in commercial exchanges. I think, in going to pay rent? How the fuck are started a petition which demands the * Deploy significant staff and particular, of casual workers, employed people who work pay cheque to pay government implement a number resources to enable home nursing care, by businesses with no reason to roster cheque going to look their children in of essential policies and programs; and ensure rural areas, Indigenous them on and with neither the savings the eye to tell them there’s no money anything short of those policies and communities, and nursing homes have nor selflessness to compensate them left? programs will lead to either a large capacity to help the most vulnerable. towards marriage: for lost shifts. I think, in particular, of Without pressure, future stimulus outbreak or significant economic * Institute social distancing as people who do sex work, who work measures won’t make much of a decline or both. These demands implore much as possible, including by closing in retail, or hospitality, or who tutor difference either. If we’re lucky, the the government to: schools and government workplaces, people in-person from time-to-time. keepers of the purse might throw some * Drastically increase funding but without utilising the military, police, I think, therefore, of students, who scraps our way; a one-off payment to for hospitals and medical response, or authoritarian / punitive responses in Past and present overwhelmingly work demand-driven, Youth Allowance recipients would including by: so doing. casual jobs, and who are likely to be at least show that they have about the * Significantly increasing our without income for an indefinite period same contempt for students as they do supply of essential resources like I urge all students to sign the petition and of time. for the elderly and unemployed. But in ventilators, testing kits, and antiviral join our broader campaign to achieve Stimulus measures announced so reality, the Liberal government — like medications. these health and economic responses. far do little to reassure or provide every Labor government since Hawke * Underwriting all staff expenses The fate of countless people depends on for these students and workers. Sure, — cannot move past fallacious neo- at hospitals (including significant us defeating the right-wing belief that “support for business investment” and liberal economic assumptions, making overtime for doctors, nurses, etc.), so people are expendable and that money is Words by Lei Yao, Zhiquan Gan and Nina Dillon Britton “cash flow assistance for businesses” a genuine response unfathomable. The that doctors / hospital directors do a scarce, sacred entity to which only the might theoretically trickle down, but, economic and biological crisis didn’t not feel constrained by costs and can powerful should have access. This is not a new fact, and this is not a new challenge, Cover art by Ash Duncan aside from measures to maintain the start today, or last week, or even in respond as effectively as possible. but it has never been more stark or critical employment and wages of apprentices, January; it started decades ago, when * Establishing make-shift testing than now. Rising to this challenge will there is nothing in the specific policies the Right won (an element of) the centres in public areas. not only secure our immediate future, which seem all that helpful to those culture war and successfully structured * Establishing distribution but our entire lives, bringing about hit hardest by this crisis. Grants to the economy around an obsessive focus centres for medicines, masks, soaps, the paradigm shift needed to solve the businesses will help their owners stay on minimising government spending. sanitiser, etc. myriad existential threats faced by our afloat, but there’s nothing requiring We have long suffered the consequences * Developing plans to repurpose generation. We don’t just have a world to them to use the extra money to pay of this broken system, but sadly it seems hotels and other centres as quarantine win, we have a world to save. workers’ wages. Incentives to invest that suffering is about to be more acute and hospital beds.

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In 2019, China reported its lowest rate of marriage heavily involved in match-making for their children. ability to think independently,” an undergraduate ever, indicating increasing numbers of young In her hometown “after graduation, [many young studying in Australia tells us. More broadly, it’s Chinese people are choosing to delay marriage, or people] will marry through the arrangement of increasingly common for children to leave the home not get married at all. That change is more broadly parents or a blind date,” she says. One study before getting married, and gaining independence indicative of the important social transformations indicates that, though arranged marriages have in doing so. in contemporary Chinese society: growing decreased over the past several decades, they remain Many of the young people we spoke also financial insecurity, acceptance of non-marital relatively common, particular in rural areas. highlighted the importance of an equal power sex and increased independence of young people, But as such arrangements become increasingly balance in heterosexual marriage. “Only by feeling especially young women, from their parents. uncommon for Chinese young people, their equal can you respect yourself and the other person Views of marriage have changed drastically over experiences of marriage become more different peacefully,” Yin advised us. “A strong power the last few decades, and many of today’s young from their parents’. imbalance will gradually erode a relationship.” people see marriage as far less important than “My grandparents lived in an environment “In my parent’s marriage, men and women their parents’ generation. We interviewed young where marriage between members of the proletariat are also equal. They disagree with the traditional Chinese young people from diverse socio-economic was distributed by the state and the couple would gender roles that suggest ‘men are outside working, and geographical backgrounds, and found that the only know each other after marriage,” Zhi tells us. females are inside raising children.’” concept of marriage differs from person to person. “I think this new era will be a lot more free, and Everyone we spoke to emphasised the importance most people choose their partners based on their of knowing and loving their partners deeply before “The Right Age” feelings.” considering marriage. “Marriage requires a deep Having parents that had an arranged marriage understanding of the other party before marrying,” For the young people we spoke to, about half said was a common experience for the people we talked one male student told us. “Go out and travel there was no “right age” to get married, and the to. “My parents were arranged to marry since they together, live together for a year!” other half said less than 25 years old. The average Art by Alex Mcleay were born,” Ying says. “The first time they met “Love is a necessary premise for marriage,” age of marriage has increased as more young recent high profile cases of sexual assault, [such as each other was on their wedding day. My father a different student told us. “It is impossible to people prioritise their careers. Over the past decade, that of Liu Jingyao] have caused many to discuss sold a pig, and then married my mother as a gift. imagine living with a person who one does not love Chinese media has increasingly talked about the this shaming.” My mother felt like she was being sold.” Her for a long period of time.” “problem” of “leftover women” ( ), provoking own marriage feels very different to her mothers, But many people also emphasised that marriage 剩女 Many of the young people we spoke to condemned increased anxieties over women who marry late, or the shaming. “Many people use the term ‘slut’ echoing Zhi’s sentiment that the era has “a lot more was a serious material transaction. “The issue of choose not to marry at all. But many women face to humiliate and attack women,” a young male freedom.” property needs to be taken into consideration,” Zhi the “double burden” of meeting the expectation of Commerce student tells us, “but I hope these voices “I feel that my current marriage is very happy. tells us. “From a historical perspective, marriage getting married by a certain age and succeeding in will become less and less prominent.” My mother often tells me to be content and cherish itself is a model of legally effective property their careers. For some young men, getting married “It is contemptible to use the word “slut” to my current marriage.” protection.” earlier was seen as a career benefit: “Getting humiliate women, and it is a personal humiliation,” Despite Shanghai’s Marriage Market (where married early may be better for an individual to another male student told us. For some, sexual parents advertise their unwed children on umbrellas What does getting married mean problem has only grown in recent years. Since from rural areas and from cities report having sex at focus on his future career but early marriage is just experience implied a woman was straying in People’s Park) attracting recurring exposés in the 2008 financial crisis, increasing numbers of similar rates (about 20% from each group described today? a personal choice,” a male undergraduate tells us. from traditional Chinese values. “If a girl takes Western media, the young people we spoke to Chinese people have begun to perceive their jobs as themselves as “sexually experienced), but young In Ying Yue’s small hometown, there was a contraceptive pills, the first impression is that indicated their parents were less involved in their Young Chinese people navigate complex precarious, and therefore feel unequipped to start people in rural areas can feel the judgement of small significant pressure to get married in your twenties. the girl’s mind is more westernised, that she’s love lives than in the past. Though some of the social trends of increasing financial insecurity, a family. But many Chinese young people try to towns much more harshly. “In a relatively small “If you miss the best age for marriage, it will not psychologically lacking in love or is more lonely.” people we spoke to mentioned parental involvement independence of women, sexual liberation and meet those expectations in novel ways: increasing city like Wenzhou, everyone’s thinking is more be easy to find a husband to marry. I have an elder Several people surveyed described casual sex in match-making and pressure, none told us that less involvement of their parents in their love lifes. numbers of young people, for example, have traditional,” Ying Yue*, a 23 year old mother, says. sister who is not married and is in her thirties. In as “westernised” forms of relationships, carrying their parents had arranged for them to meet their Marriage remains highly valued as important to “naked marriages” ( ) where they get married “Few people now blame girls for having a private the end, she can only choose those who are going 裸婚 particular stigmas. “I feel Western dating culture is current partners. Instead, unmarried people in family and community, with young people and with the “four nos” — no house, no ring, no car sexual life, especially in big cities. But here, if a to have their second marriage, or a less attractive too casual for me,” Feng Mian, a second-year Arts relationships had largely met their partners alone especially women often facing rigid expectations and no ceremony — in order to save on costs and girl has many boyfriends, or she has a lot of sexual partner.” student, tells us. “Men are attacked because of their and had begun honest conversations with their about the appropriate times to marry. But many wed earlier. experience, this may still be discussed behind the Getting married in this age range is more strongly lack of sexual experience, and women are attacked partners about their futures together. young people are rejecting, or at leasting questioning, Yet, many of the young people we spoke to scenes.” expected of women, particularly in poorer areas. because they have too much sexual experience, “I already have a boyfriend and we want to get the social expectations and redefining marriage as a rejected the expectation completely. “My family “The topic of sex is a very grey area,” Zhi agrees. One study indicates that most surveyed mothers reflecting the inequality between men and women.” married and have a future together,” second-year celebration of individual agency, maturity and love is a remarried family, which has experienced both “It is not necessarily true that the backward places prioritised having their daughters marry early over Despite hope that views are changing, most of Arts student Feng Mian* tells us. “Marriage can of your partner. As one respondent put it, “Most fragmentation and happiness,” Nian Zhen* tells are more conservative, but you will face greater them having successful careers. the young people we spoke to believed a woman’s only be based on the fact that we like each other so people haven’t grown up and don’t know how to be us. “In my experience, a late marriage will be more public pressure in these places and, therefore, But the burden of a needing a wedding before value remained dictated by her sexual experience. much.” a mature and responsible person. Only when one stable because it has a certain material basis.” you may not be able to accept open marriages or you’re 25 doesn’t only fall on women. For young “Boys will use the good-looking girls they have had Young people have increasing independence has the ability to love and understands the art of Many of the women we spoke to also expressed relationships.” people of any gender, particularly those living in as a display of capital, just like how many people from their parents in making decisions about their love can one truly love.” that they weren’t sure if they wanted to get married “Slut-shaming remains deeply embedded in competitive larger cities, getting married at the show off their game rankings,” an IT Masters partners, particularly those studying overseas away at all, and they were fine with that. “Even if I do Chinese culture,” Jingjing Zhang, who runs the “right age” clashes with expectations of getting student tells us. from home. “The acceptance of sex education is *All names have been changed. not marry, it will not have a negative impact on my Chinese feminist Wo Men Podcast, argues. “But married when you’re financially secure. That That sad fact is particularly important for young increasing, and more and more people have the personal values,” a woman undergraduate told us. women looking to get married. “At the age of Changing sexual relationships marriage,” a different male student tells us, “men are more likely to choose long-term partners with more traditional values, and will look down on Increasing acceptance of sexual relationships girls who are ‘slutty’ or sexually attractive.” outside of marriage has also changed marriage A wife who is a virgin remains highly prized trends. “China is not as conservative as it used to be, by many people. “The Chinese are still very especially in China’s big cities, such as Guangzhou traditional,” Zhi concurrs. “They will hope to have and Shanghai, where the sexual cultures are very a partner with less sexual experience, and even a open,” Zhi Ruo,* a recent high school graduate virgin complex.” “I think the virgin complex is tells us. Almost all the young people we spoke to really sick,” Feng agrees. said they approved of sex before marriage. “Eastern and Western cultures are gradually approaching each other,” one male student told us. “It is more Family Expectations and more acceptable to have sexual relationships Much of the social pressure around marriage or physical contact outside of serious romantic relates to ensuring your family is supported. “There relationships.” Several people suggested that this is still a social pressure that requires the care of the change has been particularly significant for women: elderly,” Zhi tells us, “and that means you need to “More Chinese women are abandoning their sexual find another person to share the pressure of this preconceptions and feel free to have sex outside a care, as well as provide for the psychological needs relationship,” a different male student says. of parents.” Several respondents also referred to But acceptance is not universal, differing along marriage as a “social responsibility.” Though generational and geographic lines. As Zhi notes, arranged marriages have been banned since the “China is a very large country, the degree of Communist Party passed the Marriage Law of 1950 tolerance and openness to sexual behavior varies (a progressive piece of legislation that also legalised by region.” One study indicates that young people divorce), Yin tells us that many parents were still A young Chinese couple. Photo: Sherry Wang and Leo

12 13 CULTURE My magnum opus In conversation with Jeremy Neale Shania O’Brien has something to say about the concept of great works. Madeline Ward chats with the Velociraptor frontman.

I am full of so many wants. Too many recently that the gravity of it is almost nised. My second thought was: who am pass. The only questions I ask myself In the 8 years since Velociraptor re- past few years, and that’s entered its way that felt as good as the Toploader song sense of peace in just doing what you to prioritise; and so they all feel des- lost. I see people tweeting about a Tik- I to decide you can do better? during this are: is it better? Is it worth leased their first album, frontman Jer- in, and that’s what the title track of the Dancing in the Moonlight. want to do. But that takes ages — that perate. Most of all, I always thought Tok being their magnum opus, post- My creative process is a strange one. it? Is this the best you can do? Idea after emy Neale has been busy — and not album is heavily influenced by. took me ages too, because I really I wanted to write. But that wasn’t ing about a loaf of baked bread being The pressure to create is ever-present, idea came to me, begging, blossoming, just with music. Beyond his two solo MW: The latter half seems to be strongly MW: Something I find really interesting wanted for a long time to just be a enough; I wanted everything I wrote to their magnum opus, boasting about a clinging to me like acrylic paint on a beseeching. I have abandoned hun- albums, Neale has also found time to influenced by a lot of the sounds we’d about the album is that it seems to very musician. But then I found a much nicer be better than the last. I wanted it to be 3D-printed frog being their magnum white t-shirt. But writing is never as easy dreds of stories because I thought of write a comic book (T-Rax: the dinosaur associate with the 1980’s, particularly much be engaging with the nature of balance by having a day job and then more intellectual, more engaging, more opus. My first thought was: who are as finding something I am interested in something better, hundreds of concepts DJ who is also a billionaire) and an an- Still Want You Around Me. What I find the music industry and making music doing exactly what I want to do. The professional. These expectations were a you to decide this is your great work? I and putting it on paper; I have to obsess, I didn’t bother enough to develop be- ti-capitalist musical. With the release of really interesting about this is that the in Australia. With so many Australian highs are still there, but the lows aren’t given, because what is the point of do- cause I saw something slightly similar, ing anything if I know I have created hundreds of drawings left unfinished his latest album, We Were Trying to Make album is also dealing with a lot of the success stories we tend to focus on what so low, because you have that balance. something better in the past? That, of because I couldn’t get the perspective It Out, we sat down to chat synths, so- personal effects of living in a capitalist it’s like to Make It, rather than how hard It’s like having these spheres in your life, course, is the worst thought I have ever right. cialism and Bernie Sanders. society, which is something that a lot it can be as a band or a musician trying and you have lots of them being full, so had. It stifled my growth, prevented me There are more things we create than of the music of the 80’s was engaging to forge a career — how important was if one’s not particularly working at that from writing for months, kept me from art. Forming relationships with other --- with as well. Is lyrical depth something it for you to engage with this? time it’s okay, because you still have a doing something I believed I enjoyed so people, and building a healthy one that you’re more interested in exploring great time playing tennis at the tennis much because there was no chance of it with myself will always be the thing I Madeline Ward: You wrote this album these days? JN: In a broad sense, I think I’ve been court. You love your reality TV and that being perfect. am most proud of. There are so many in Brisbane and New York — as such an sphere’s always there for you. The concept of the magnum opus, nuances of creation, of bringing things important figure of the Brisbane music the masterpiece, dates back to the sev- into existence, and most of them have scene, was it nice to get out and write MW: We Were Trying to Make it Out enteenth century. It is considered to nothing to do with museum displays music in another city? engages with mental health, particularly be a creative’s greatest work, the best and bestseller lists. the strains that working people are thing they will ever produce. This sta- My magnum opus will never be Jeremy Neale: Yeah, I think so. It was under. Was it important to you in tus is bestowed upon said piece of work something I write, or draw, or paint, be- like — when you’re in your life, you’re writing that you linked the personal based on critical acclaim and appeal to cause neither of those things is the best very reactive, and you’re reacting to effects of the political? the masses. There are many archetypal I have to offer. I am not, nor will I ever things as they’re coming at you and masterpieces: Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s be, the sum of art I produce to enter- making decisions based on that. So then JN: I think it’s an important thing to Ecstasy of Saint Teresa, Sandro Botti- tain other people. The concept of being celli’s The Birth of Venus, George Eli- worth what you can offer is a neoliberal when you’re getting away you get an touch on. I think the main thing that I ot’s Middlemarch. idea that shouldn’t have any place in the objective bird’s eye perspective on your wanted to say is that the record isn’t me In a way, those artists are immortal- world of art. The only reason I write, own life. So it was like — oh this is what having a whinge, It’s me trying to say that ised in their respective great works, de- the only reason I am able to write is be- I’ve been doing for the last 10 years, now if this is how you’re feeling, someone fined forever in relation to a sculpture, cause of the people around me. I need I can see what its been in a story context else is feeling it too. It’s supposed to a painting, a novel. In alchemy, the ul- to let go of my magnum opus, and come and what the trials have been of that. be an empathetic warm hug. The main timate goal is known as the magnum to terms with the fact that truly great Getting away led to writing a record message, and why I made the title of the opus. It is the process of using prima ma- things aren’t quantifiable. I don’t need to that was encapsulating a large period of album We Were Trying to Make It Out, is teria to create the philosopher’s stone, be prodigious, better, more. I don’t need time in a lot of ways, because of having that I thought that best encapsulated self the elixir of life. The concept is used as a to concede agency over my work and let that bird’s eye perspective on it. kindness, which is that if things don’t model for the individuation process and other people decide what is most valua- work out, just still find a way to be kind as a device in art and literature. The aim ble. The relationships I have chosen are MW: The first half ofWe Were Trying to yourself. Because self talk is the most is to attain self-realization, communion just accepted that it was commonplace find out everything anyone could ever the best of me. to Make it Out reminds me very much important thing. If you can control that, with divinity, and spiritual immortality. to have someone else determine what know about it, fill at least three pages of of the jangly guitar driven indie rock you can at least have a chance against Or, better verbalised by Donna Tartt in the best thing I ever do will be. I was so my creative journal with possible points Art by Claire Ollivain. that had a moment in the early 2010’s, the rest of it. That and cardio. The Secret History, to live forever. focused on ticking off imaginary boxes, a future me would make, wait for a sign bands like Hungry Kids of Hungary, The term has been misused so often waiting to be seen, wanting to be recog- from the universe. Days, weeks, months Last Dinosaurs, Ball Park Music and MW: By bringing these themes of (obviously) Velociraptor — to what anticapitalism together with catchy degree would you say this period of melodies and anthemic, danceable Review: Room 2 Radio’s online nightclub music/these bands are an influence on JN: It takes a lot to be comfortable to say really lucky with the opportunities tunes, do you feel like you’re helping Chuyi Wang thinks you should probably listen to your Soundcloud playlist instead. the music you’re currently making? what you want to say, I think in some I’ve had with many different facets of make them accessible to people that ways in music as well. These issues have Australian music. I have nothing to otherwise wouldn’t engage with them Propelled to a kind of frenzied hype was to ‘bring the club to you,’ it seems - featuring underrated, exhilarating all, Room 2 Radio seems to have totally JN: It’s hard to escape — it gets always been a thing for me, because it’s complain about in that regard, but I that much? by the novelty of self-isolation, Room they only succeeded in bringing the left classics as... ‘Barbara Streisand’ mixed misunderstood the point of framing embedded in your DNA. I just can’t get my life and my day to day, and these think in the bigger picture what we do 2 Radio’s virtual nightclub experience half - throughout the broadcast, audio into ‘Sandstorm’ mixed into ‘Rhythm their event as a contactless nightclub in premiered last Friday on Twitch.tv from the right channel was mysteriously of the Night.’ response to COVID-19. Their live video away from guitar music, as much as I are the true boundaries in music. I see is a survivor’s bias. We hear about JN: I hope so — but then I do wonder to an audience of supposedly 11,000 missing, leaving headphoned attendees But maybe the music isn’t the point. feed showed a room crammed full of no appreciate listening to other types. I just always thought that acknowledging that the same artists all the time and they’ve what value things are enjoyed at as well. unique viewers. Proudly claiming in like myself feeling quite disappointed. Maybe we don’t go to nightclubs to less than six or seven at any given time, naturally write on guitar and then I write there’s a lot of struggle in doing music made it from nothing, or perceived Whether there are lines that people grab their Facebook description to be ‘Syd- The funny bugs didn’t stop there though hear fresh DnB bangers all the time. drinking and talking in close proximity from those influences. It was always the wouldn’t be received particularly well, nothing, and therefore it’s achievable on to, or if there’s an overarching theme. ney’s first online nightclub,’ the event - the volume of the MCing was bizarrely Sometimes, it’s just fun to go out and with one another. The impression this same things which underpinned my like I should keep it light? But then I for everybody — it’s not. If it’s like (laughs) “ah great, finally. A was meant to provide a digital space to loud compared to the music, which meet new people... right? Room 2 Radio gives the viewer is not only that the relax and socialise with other passion- would have been somewhat tolerable proves that the people you meet at the organisers are a little tone-deaf when core, which is that I love The Ramones, thought nah — this is real! It’s very hard record for the working class.” ate party-goers in the wake of the coro- had there not been a shirtless host club are only capable of making exactly it comes to self-isolation, but also that I love 60’s pop melodies. I guess that to do music if you’re in the working What is achievable is pleasing yourself, navirus crisis. Indeed, in such troubled shouting ‘let’s go’ like a Travis Scott the same jokes as one another. The you’re simply looking onto a house music did have its time, but for me it’s class and its very hard to exist in the which I’ve found is the one thing you MW: An indie-pop record for the times, what could be better than a spot hype-man directly into the microphone Twitch chatroom, scrolling with several party in an expensive inner-west rental like an all-time songwriting kind of working class, because there’s not a lot can do in music: making things for you working class. of dance music? every few seconds. messages a second, was full of upcoming property that you - stupid, lonely, stay- thing, with what constitutes a good of time left for you — and everything and hoping other people will find it. In Yet, it was immediately obvious at comedians claiming they had lost their at-home loser - were never invited to. song. So that’s what I end up doing, and is really fucking expensive (laughs). I terms of the grand scheme of things, I JN: Endorsed by Bernie Sanders! around 8:15pm, mere minutes after phones, wanting to order a drink, asking The next time I want to watch mostly the virtual doors had opened, that about cover costs, or cracking absolutely white strangers dancing to boring music, then I grab a few more influences as I just thought there was nothing more think maybe why you see people fading something was very wrong in God’s hilarious coronavirus puns I’ll go on the Boiler Room Youtube go along. I had a lot of static influences, important that I could write about in out or away is that I don’t think that CDJ kingdom. Marred by technical Yet, perhaps most frustratingly of channel instead. but then I had a few things enter that this record. it’s common knowledge how expensive We Were Trying To Make It Out is now issues that were never resolved, flooded DNA in the last few years. They end music is to do. It’s been devalued, in a available on all major streaming platforms. by one of the most cringeworthy up being bands that have been from I didn’t really think about those two way, because it’s always there, it’s on With the advent of COVID-19, Jeremy chatrooms I’ve ever been a part of, and The music selection was also topped off by generic setlists that could questionable at best. Consisting of what decades gone anyway (laughs) so it things — about the sonics of that time in the supermarket when you do your Neale has cancelled his upcoming tour only rival those of SASS balls, last I can only imagine were the top results on doesn’t add anything ground-breaking matching up with the intention behind shopping and it’s free. dates. He’s been live streaming shows on Friday night congealed all the lamest Google upon searching ‘best DJ songs,’ to the sound, but I find these bands like the record. Still Want You Around Me As an artist it’s not until you change his Facebook page in the meantime, and parts of Sydney club culture into one the atmosphere evoked by the playlist Prefab Sprout, which is this 80’s band is an interesting one because the catalyst your expectations, or decide what you his record is available for purchase from embarassing and heady cybertrip. was not one of tense celebration and I’ve become totally obsessed with in the for that was that I wanted something want from music, that you can find a Bandcamp. If Room 2 Radio’s goal for the night release, but rather a Year 6 line dance

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how Canberra is different, the music scene is really small which I love. It’s very The Underground: Sydney much ‘the more the merrier’. People want more DJs playing, more parties to go to, more people making music. Robbie Mason claims Sydney is more than lockout laws and empty clubs. Where is Australia’s best Unlike other major cities, it’s artists themselves, rather than aloof club-owners and booking agents, who shape the nightlife. It’s a largely DIY scene. “No one I Julia – a DJ (Guilia), artist and party curator (Tactic) along with D-Grade – sits on know has a booking agent, most people are part of a collective of some kind,” a white chair. Behind her graffiti and rusty sports equipment populate the space. Blanket says. We are within the skeleton of an abandoned stadium in Sydney’s south-west – an nightlife? When I tell people back in Sydney that the best club in Australia might just be occasional rave location – recording a film interview, guerrilla style. The interview in Canberra, I’m met with disbelief and accusations of being facetious. But take is part of a documentary on Sydney’s DIY rave scene. When I ask her if Sydney The Obvious Choice: Melbourne induced disruption and devastation. the 4 fourhour bus down, and you might just be surprised. A vibrant arts scene is is stereotyped too often as being dead, she answers quickly and emphatically: “In I’m not worried because I believe in our community — if the underground scene flourishing there, like blue-green algae in Lake Burley Griffin. short, yes.” Liam Armstrong-Carrigan argues Melbourne is the place for sesh lovers. can survive the recent spate of traumatic venue closures we can keep the lights “Every time I went back and visited Sydney while I was living in Melbourne on through a world war. Because really, it doesn’t matter what city you’re in. You I would have an incredible experience. A lot of what I was experiencing at these Writing an impassioned argument for the supremacy of Melbourne nightlife can have the best night in the world in a small town bar with the right friends. The Unexpected: Brisbane [underground] parties were reasons why I moved back to Sydney… Sydney is during this extremely unclear time of social distinacing has taken me on a very Melbourne does make having a good time easier, but the reason it passes the vibe definitely thriving. There are multiple events every weekend that I have the choice dark journey. Although, I suppose being confronted with the reality that the best check is because of the people that I’ve shared these perfect nights with, little slices Lachlan Redman loves Brisbane’s diversity. to go to. I often want to go to 2 or 3 things in a single night. To be perfectly honest, nights of my life are on hold whilst we try to avoid pandemic-induced collapse can of time that felt so perfect I felt nostalgic about them as I lived them. we are spoilt for choice. A lot of people don’t realise that.” also be seen as further proof of my case. Not sleepy, definitely not hollow. Brisbane’s nightlife is best described as vibrant, In New South Wales, lockout laws, red tape legislation, sky-rocketing policing So whilst the clubs are closing, raves are being rescheduled and the house parties diverse and evolving. On the surface, it’s easy to assume it’s second rate compared fees for festivals, invasive strip searching, excessive enforcement of noise complaints are being placed in the freezer, I’ll take a moment to spell it out for you all: if you to the neighbouring nightlife mecca of the Gold Coast. This might have been true and an atmosphere of uncertainty have smothered the entertainment industry like a like to sesh this is the place to do it in Australia. a decade ago, but Brisbane has been going through a period of unseen growth for fire blanket, extinguishing numerous music festivals including Defqon and Psyfari. I’m well positioned to compare notes as a member of what my crew in Melbourne quite some time now. There has been a plethora of new, innovative and original The flight of creatives from Sydney to Melbourne is well documented. Stories like ironically and problematically call the Sydney diaspora. I started going out exactly bars open up around the CBD, often in places that require neighbouring businesses Julia’s rarely reach the media spotlight. But those artists who have stayed in Sydney a year before the lockouts hit. I developed my drinking problem in the heterosexual to pick up their game too. or returned are definitely proud of Sydney’s nightlife. horror shows of Bar Century and SOHO in the Cross, burst out of the closet with Split across a very compact CBD, Brisbane has a few main nightlife districts When I interview Thorsten (aka Thick Owens) – one of the founders of Okra, TBD hookups on the sticky floors of Arq and thankfully eventually graduated to in places like Fortitude Valley, Eagle Street Pier, South Brisbane and the inner Haus of the Rising Sün, Soft Centre and record and fashion label Ultravirus – the much more #truetome turns of the Inner West scene. city. While these districts all have their own unique feel, you won’t ever feel like I ask him the same question. His response: “I think Sydney has one of the best Whilst I don’t think it was a misspent youth, the rising statism and inability to you don’t fit the mould; people aren’t arrogant about where they go, it’s open and underground dance scenes in the world, and I lived in Amsterdam for 6 months.” get a drink on a weekend anywhere bar the Star Casino past midnight (the dogs friendly. Because Brisbane is so compact compared to major cities like Sydney Promoters in Sydney’s underground scene regularly echo these sentiments – both once didn’t let me in after Grassroots class of 2017 got an Uber XL from the Royal and Melbourne, you don’t ever feel like it’s a mission to get between these spots. on and off record. Often they are simply repeating the words of international DJs on a Tuesday) took me regularly to the Sunken Place. Every good night seemed The temperate climate in Brisbane is another major bonus for its nightlife scene who have performed in Sydney’s illegal “venues.” to involve a very STRESSFUL pattern of the ticketed event taking you to 3:30am - it allows for confidence when you’re going out. At its coldest, Brisbane is still While Kings Cross has become a yuppie-filled wasteland, bogged in a mire of gymnasiums and bougie cafes, drenched by the torrent of Sydney clubs which latest, before you had to endure an hour in the deadzone. If you’re a Sydney completely t-shirt friendly and at its hottest, I think you appreciate ice-cold have closed since the introduction of the Liquor Amendment Act (2014), Sydney’s clubhead of my generation you know what I’m talking about — the Witching Hour refreshments even more. of 4am to 5am during which our options consisted of a brief kick ons or chaining nightlife has not so much died as relocated. From rooftop bars in the CBD to If you’re chasing the dance music scene then Fortitude Valley, “The Valley” heaving pubs in Newtown, queer venues in Erskineville and raves under motorways cigs in a park over a hidden goon sack before we could finally burst into Club 77 for as it is known as by the locals, is the way to go. With some trap caves and dance and within the ramshackle remains of old World War Two bunkers, Sydney has it the morning shift from 5am onwards. clubs like Prohibition open past the normal 3am lockout time, regardless of where good. By the time I’d finished one half of a double degree I’d had enough of dark you started, chances are you’ll end up here. Brisbane does relaxed bars really well Sydney certainly does not possess a better bar or club culture than Melbourne. fascist bouncers refusing me entry when I was barely lit and regularly passing out Photo: Orbit at Mr Wolf, Canberra. too; South Brisbane neighbourhoods are a hotspot for microbreweries and locally- However, with lockout laws (only recently repealed) and severely underfunded on the B1 Bus back to Narrabeen. I bought a one-way ticket to Melbourne even owned bars, all with their own gimmicks. Inner-city Brisbane is your best bet for creative industries, young Sydneysiders have self-mobilised to rescue the city’s though my initial accommodation was a bone-chilling 12 person hostel room. At The Underdog: Canberra a night out if rooftop bars, back alley dive bars, and whiskey bars all tickle your nightlife. The punk, rave and experimental art scenes especially have embraced first, the main thing I noticed was that irrespective of my smaller social circle, my fancy. Eagle Street runs along the river offering up dressy cocktail bars and more alternative events spaces. Warehouse raves, squat parties and free park gigs have Facebook events were quickly more diverse and varied than it ever was in Sydney Nina Dillon Britton thinks Canberra has the best club in Australia. multicultural venues that are all treated to the city view. sustained Sydney’s culture. The frequency and scales of these illegal events far, far — even more so when I started connecting with Melburnians. People here have You might be wondering what’s not so hot about Brisbane, it can’t be perfect? exceeds those in any other Australian city. less of the attitude that when you go out you stick like superglue to your mates. I There’s a lot not to love about Canberra nightlife: the city’s population is largely Well, it’s not, and in a funny twist most of the biggest pros end up being the biggest According to Thorsten, these alternative clubbing cultures are “a stepping can attest to this — I made my best friends at a 24-hour rave at the incomparable divided between public servants (many of whom have to report illegal drug taking cons. The fact is most venues have a single type of target audience or vibe, so stone” for early career artists, musicians and party curators as well as “a pedestal in Hugs&Kisses when we witnessed a GHB head fall three stories onto the pavement to their employers) and newly arrived 18-year-old ANU college kids, whose idea of you have to keep moving in order to keep the night fresh. Going out in Brisbane some way” because they are also “the ultimate destination” for any performer. “I at 6am. No one said being a club rat was all roses! a good night out is fingering someone in the bathrooms of Mooseheads. really relies on keeping an open mind and following what’s in sight. The new couldn’t imagine a better gig than playing at a packed warehouse. Sure, you can go If I had to pick one reason why this is the city that’s such a playground for But somehow, a small, dedicated and incredibly welcoming nightlife scene has infrastructure that’s promoting this surge of growth has come in the form of to the next level and play at a big bush festival in Australia or even go the European adult children it wouldn’t be the relaxed attitude — I regularly key ketamine in flourished in a city largely known for its roundabouts. “In most capital cities with redeveloped alleys, arcades, and former hotspots, and while I’m not complaining festival circuit. But it doesn’t have the same level of consistency or encouragement front of bouncers — or how the longer trading hours mean the team doesn’t have huge nightlifes, you can stumble from party to club to rave in a constant search that this is finally happening , it’s still very much in progress. It’s not uncommon to for radical experimentation.” to head out till 2am and still have a club to turn in if the riot police shut down the Throwing illegal, outdoor raves and warehouse parties with little pre-existing for something better,” a friend, relocated from Sydney to Canberra tells me. “But find your favourite hangout change hands and be replaced by something completely illegal park party. It’s the fact the music scene is so superb it easily holds its own infrastructure has forced organisers to build and curate spaces literally from the in Canberra, there’s one really good event on every weekend night, and that’s just different without any announcements. worldwide, from Paris to Berlin, in every disco I’ve been in. When I asked a veteran If you can look past the “Under Construction” sign that Brisbane currently has ground up. Promoters have increasingly moved towards multi-disciplinary events party queen why, she provided a pretty compelling reason: in Europe, DJs can where everyone is.” involving performance art, video, décor and more – a skill and mindset Thorsten hanging around its neck, you’ll find more than just a fine night out, you’ll have a fly from city to city in often under an hour. Every weekend one can pretty much At the moment, that party’s to be found at 1-year-old SideWay (now closed due now uses for more legal adventures, such as the experimental music and art festival collection of experiences. Or in the case of a really good night, possibly none at all. expect someone decent to be playing. In isolated Australia, we aren’t so lucky, so to COVID-19 but which just launched a new Club Virtual online). “I would say Soft Centre, which has fast developed a cult following. Melbourne developed arguably the best DIY scene in the world. The creativity, that [it’s] the most intentional club space I have ever been in in my whole life,” artist Julia explains that when people visit Sydney and she takes them along to hard work and passion that has gone into creating such a vibrant self sustaining and DJ Julia Harris says. Owners Fin and Tim are DJ’s themselves, and the bar has underground raves, they are “blown away” and “taken aback”. However, due to scene is something we should fight for harder then ever in the time of corona- quickly become central to the Canberra underground DJ scene. the illegality embedded in many events and the lack of health and safety, Sydney’s But the smallness of the scene means the bar hosts everything from underground rave scene is not easily visible to an untrained eye. “If you don’t know someone DJ collectives and experimental live electronic music, to drum and bass or disco who engages in them you’re never going to know about them.” nights. Music subcultures that might be siloed off from one another in bigger cities Just as the design and curation of underground parties are creative and boundary- begin to merge. “The audience for each and every event is supportive and open to pushing, so too the music. If Sydney has a distinctive sound, it’s its diversity. a diverse pallet of sound, which creates a very inclusive environment within the Julia tells me: “Sydney is generally a lot freer musically… I do compare my city,” Jesse Odom, organiser of perhaps Canberra’s hottest party, Box Cutter, tells experiences in Sydney to my experiences when I was living in Melbourne. Generally me. “There’s intense cross-pollination between scenes here,” Canberra based DJ, in Sydney there is a trend where you can play whatever genre you want weaved into Blanket, says. a set. It’s making things really exciting. I think that artists in Sydney feel like they That smallness, in a scene filled with awful people, could quickly become can push boundaries a little bit more than they can in more regimented spaces or claustrophobic and incestuous. Sydney bars attracting a clique of just-graduated cities that are really well-known for one genre.” Eastern Suburbs or North Shore private school kids are the third circle of hell. But “A lot of the underground DJs are pushing harder and faster sounds. It’s exciting instead, it’s incredibly welcoming. One night out with strangers (I ended up there especially for someone like me. My introduction to this scene was very much house with a friend’s ex that I’d met once, three years ago), involved being introduced to music and 4/4 techno. It is rare that I actually hear that anymore.” every new arrival at the club, strangers buying rounds and passing around bumps Thorsten, meanwhile, describes the resurgence of hard dance and the burgeoning IDM and glitch scene, while still niche, as “a retaliation and protest against the — a world away from Sydney nights out, where you stick to a ring of friends, huge saturation of vanilla-boom-clap club music that dominates Australia.” anonymous, in a club crowd. So yes, if you want the best clubs and tech-house, go to Melbourne. But Sydney’s Perhaps more importantly, that creates a supportive space for artists in what can nightlife scene is Australia’s worst kept secret. Whole communities only step inside be a cut-throat industry. “It’s so encouraging!” Canberra-based artist, DJ Genie, a licenced venue for a dance once every six months, but go out once, if not twice, tells me. “When I’m DJing it feels like I’m playing for my best friends. We all every weekend to dance and connect. music share, music critique and you usually know at least 50 - 70% of people on the In Sydney we go harder, faster, grittier and weirder in our music, and you don’t dance floor.” Vessel Collective (organised by Blanket, Niamh McCool, dot mason need to worry about noise restrictions or security guards constantly hovering over and Steph David), for example, provides a supportive space for women, people of your shoulder. Alternative clubbing cultures are entering the mainstream. Just be colour and queer students to learn how to DJ and hone their skills. Though barriers Warehouse rave in Sydney, 2018. Photo by Chris McClymont. prepared to get your shoes a little dirty. Hugs and Kisses, Melbourne. Photo: Alan Weedon for LNYW. to artists outside the scene remain, there’s an openness that’s unique. “In terms of

16 17 CREATIVE How to fall in love with an image Uber Driving in the Time of COVID-19 Victor Zhou asks: how do we love an image? By becoming-image. Words by Will Solomon Digital photographs are now used for into an image. pixels does not look like your flesh, If we want to look like our online He opens the door and says my name. destination. I take every chance that I good lung.” and yet it’s become a stock conversation attracting others. Taken at dizzying but this is normal. The machine of personas, Facetuned images, fashion It’s louder than a marching band. I ask, can to look at him. I can’t let him go, “He’ll be okay.” – like the weather, speeds, the heap of images keep piling Step 2: Create your own image the camera is not supposed to capture models, Instagram Bratz filters, Kim “you’re heading to Surry Hills?” He are there any detours I can take? I try “She really loves him, I reckon. unimportant to most, but to higher and higher, contributing to, and material flesh. Instead, as Rosalind Kardashian, or K-POP idols, we can nods. I am looking at him in the rear- to imagine the face under the mask. If Won’t acknowledge it, though.” farmers and those with one good lung, fuelling the fiery cores of social media Just like how a peacock performs a Krauss argues, the lens mediates and do so with technology and cosmetic view mirror. He wears a forget-me-not he had stubble, would it scratch? I lock “You think?” everything. Fuck. What was his name? and dating apps. Entombed in these courtship display, we too must ruffle usurps, it reflects and refracts reality. It surgery. Cut incisions, where you please, surgical mask, which forms the bottom eyes with him again and smile. This “I think she loves him so much she’d I never checked his name. I’ll go back images are the flesh of bodies, which and flaunt our feathers for the lens of is of you, but not you. Repeat as many and slide silicone or fat into the holes. half of a frame around his eyes – the time his stare lingers. want him to infect her, so that they through my trips when I’m done. have been flattened and then expunged the camera. Start the photographic times as you want. Curate the best The flesh-silicone cyborg body develops upper part composed of his hair, dark “Thanks dude, have a good night.” could be sick together.” It’s raining heavily by the early into the digital and virtual realm. courtship ritual by sourcing the best images for your digital persona. a semi-holographic patina which acts as and falling softly in two curtains. The Oh, I’ve stopped the car. And he is gone. I interrupt their conversation, morning when I pick up Grace, who Donna Haraway would be pleased to kinds of lighting, perhaps during the Step 3: Woo the Image a magical projector to externalise our eyes themselves are quite unique, large I confirm another trip and pick them wishing I didn’t have to, “We’re here.” gets into the car with a man. As soon know that the body does not end at desired image. Our flesh is becoming- with disproportionately small irises. up on Oxford St. A pair of women in They thank me. I confirm another as the door closes and the light goes the skin anymore: identities, bodies, image, we are made image-flesh. They’re damp too, like his clothes. It’s their mid-thirties stumble into the back. trip and whistle Young Americans to off, she places her hand on his knee. and personas spill out and beyond good to feel the rain again, two weeks He whispers something in her ear and the skin of the body, intertwining and Step 6: Make an Image-Baby in isolation will make any person mad. she laughs quietly. They’re sopping wet, overlapping in psychic, digital spaces, I pull away from the curb and set off which almost masks the smell of what such as our fantasies, or Tinder. Flicking Go to http://www.morphthing.com/. toward the city, glancing once again at they’ve been drinking. As they begin to left, flicking right, we reveal layers upon At the top of the website it asks, “What the man sitting in the back. Why did he kiss, I look away. I know better than to layers of digital body-images that never will my baby look like with a celebrity seem to end or die, and as Hito Steyerl parent?”. The website answers their choose the back? watch. I’ll listen. has noted, this digital wreckage piles own question by telling us to use their He is glancing into his phone, raising There’s the distinct sound of denim sky-high. But as we flick and scroll, software to find out. However, if you his eyes every-now-and-then to check rubbing on denim and then a frustrated we come across that one Image. Our have a beloved Image that you care how far we’ve come. The glint of the “No.” They stay quiet until I drop them eyes slowly trace its beautiful form, we about, then you should reproduce with screen is reflecting in his eyes and I am off. increasingly become infatuated by its them. trying, failing, to see what lies inside I think about that denim sound and allure. How then do we approach this Once you have gotten to that point in them. Ashfield Park. squeeze some Dettol onto my hand, the beautiful Image, let alone fall in love? I the relationship, merge your image with He takes the phone to his ear and I smell of wetness and alcohol I rub into offer a step-by-step guide. the Image you love. You will be able look away to listen closely. “10:30… No. my jeans between the thighs. I wonder if to reproduce an image-baby with your I’m not on the train… Yes… You can’t he’s somewhere drunk and wet. Step 1: Preparation beloved. be too careful…” Surely, that’s why he I pick up Andrew, whose destination sat in the back. He’s scared of the virus. is close to home. Perfect, I’m getting The Image currently exists within the Last step: Becoming-Image He’s got nothing to fear from me. I lock tired. He, like Grace and that man, is phone screen as code, energy, and light. eyes with him as he hangs up, I couldn’t soaked from head to toe. As we are now just flesh and blood, we rare Golden Hour, and then pose and Now that we are Images, we should try This step-by-step guide is circular. It help but look. His small pupils dart out We drive in silence for a time. He cannot talk to the Image, they cannot mould your body into a form. Maybe tilt and make contact with the Image you is a continuous process of becoming- the window and mine drift out the back coughs into his elbow and I offer him a even see us. If we were to approach the your head down and at an angle. And have a crush on. Log on via Tinder, image. Becoming-image is a gerund, the windscreen. The Empire Hotel. tissue, which he takes, smiling gratefully, Image, as we are now, we would destroy then take the picture. As the camera Instagram, or whatever, and touch the noun form of the verb, “to become an “It’s pretty crazy, huh?” I need to and uses. The university. The Empire our own phones. The glass of the screen shutters, the traces of this performance keys on the phone, woo the Image with image.” Becoming-image, therefore, has hear him speak again. Hotel. Ashfield Park. Quarantined or would shatter, and our flesh would will be frozen in time and then flattened your way with words. no end — it is a continuous process of “Oh, the coronavirus? Yeah, it’s not, I am still indentured. become bruised. So, the very first step is into pixels. Edit, Facetune, or use filters. curation, transformation, manipulation, crazy. My uhh, manager’s sister has it. I begin to imagine again. I imagine to open the camera on our phone. With Carefully trim, cultivate, and care for Step 4: Have Sex with the Image hallucination, but becoming-real You can’t be too careful…” him back in my car. He’s in the front this, we can begin our transformation your image. Sometimes the mass of nonetheless. “Well, I just got out of two weeks in seat, his mask off. I imagine him not Risqué and sexy images, or nudes, are isolation,” I laugh, “you’ve got nothing wanting our trip to end. I imagine him perceived as sexualised flesh and body, Art by Karen Okuda. to fear from me.” inviting me into his home, he promises rather than light and pixels behind the He’s looking out the window again. me a tip if I come. I turn and see that material screen. Roland Barthes said that It’s a lovely voice. Low, like a baritone, I’m parked somewhere I recognise. love erases the weight and the material of the image. But now, so too do nudes. but he inflects his vowels with a climb “Thanks dude, twice in one night, The nude is not a body, but in the age toward the end of sentences. The huh? Crazy how that happens.” I see his of sexting and internet pornography, university. slick wet hair fall in front of those eyes, the image has a heart-pink and soft-mist I’m getting greedy. He’s stuck to his his baritone echoing in me. Where had lustre that glows intoxicatingly. When phone, leaning into the corner as if he I drift back to the moment he first said carry me there. his mask gone? Fuck. No. He shuts the exposed to this hallucinatory succubus doesn’t want me to see. In the reflection my name. After a few minutes lived “Eugene?” door. cloud, the nude image is perceived as in his eyes I see the colour of flesh. Are in his life, I tune into the conversation “Yes. Aiden? Going to Pyrmont?” I drive the long five minutes home no longer material, but pure sexual those breasts or freshly turned bowls of behind me. The trips continue as they always do and and park. Frantically, I search the back body and energy. It is a real spectre. The clay? “Do you think she has coronavirus?” I get lucky with several around the CBD. of the car for some remnant of him. I nude image continues to live on within His curtains part as he looks upward. “No, she swears she was only in I speak to Aiden about music. I speak find the tissue crumpled shyly behind psychic and digital realms, floating in I turn away before he catches me. Did southern Italy and they quarantined the to Isabella about wine, Tasha about the passenger seat. the mind or caged into the phone, until he see me looking? I imagine what north.” WestConnex. Many of the passengers I take the tissue into my mouth and it is of use. would have occurred if he did catch me, “Isn’t Palermo in the north?” are silent. Some sit in the front, others suck on it until it turns to pulp. Words So, consensually, receive a nude if he caught me and liked it. I imagine “No.” in the back. Some wear masks, others from earlier rebound: “I think she loves image from your beloved Image, and what would have happened if he sat in “What about her boyfriend? He’s don’t. I want to kiss the forget-me-not him so much she’d want him to infect then send your own nude back to them. the passenger seat instead of the back. staying for the month, isn’t he?” mask, feel its pleated centre folds under her, so that they could be sick together.” He coughs into his mask quietly. Prince “Yeah, and she’s worried about him. my tongue. Step 5: Becoming Image-Flesh Alfred Park. One of his lungs collapsed when he was Of those that do speak, the As you continue to fall in love with My phone reminds me I don’t in high school, so if he catches it, his conversations always breach that one the Image, we should alter our bodies have much time. Two minutes to his chances won’t be good, only having one topic. The virus is causing mass panic, Art by Sophia Calvo y Perez. to become our digital image selves.

18 19 SRC REPORTS COVID-19

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Unsurprisingly, there’s little The University of Sydney, in contrast, injustice that is rapidly emerging in the statement and set of demands on the join these efforts, please let me know love for students in the new stimulus package: no announcements have has only just announced a belated chaos of the outbreak. We have created matter, and look forward to working at [email protected]. With and partial suspension of in-person a petition making a number of demands with them and student unions across any luck these short-term measures will been made that Youth Allowance will be raised. In addition to this, the activity, with tutorials and lectures of the government, designed a number the country to build a campaign which help contain the immediate harms of assets test and waiting period has been waived (also from 27 April) finally cancelled but some medical of posters (featuring QR codes linking brings the issues students are facing to the the crisis, while our broader political placements and small-scale interactions to those petitions), and undertaken late- forefront of the national conversation. advocacy will help create the thorough, — but income tests still apply. Apply even if your shifts have been cut, still permitted. Amidst the stillness night postering of key destinations in the Moreover, we will continue to pressure long-term response needed to ensure rather than totally lost: casuals earnings less than $1075 a fortnight are of an almost-entirely but nonetheless inner west. In addition, we have played the University to provide appropriate the basic survival of our economy, our still eligible to receive the full supplement. Make sure you’re signed up unofficially abandoned campus, I an active (and perhaps even leading) course fee discounts, grants to affected instutitions, and the vulnerable. attended the University’s Student Life role in the response of the National students, and total, unconditional before 31 March to get the $750 stimulus package, that’s also available and Student Consultative Committee Union of Students and student unions support for all staff, even if that requires if you’re on Youth Allowance. meetings on Wednesday and Thursday, across the country, helping to motivate a increased borrowing and liquidation of respectively. While these are ordinarily coordinated student response which has assets. Casuals who have lost more than 20% of their income will be eligible more exciting meetings, which invite the cohered the movement around radical Beyond this political advocacy, the for early access of up to $10,000 from their superannuation, tax free. possibility to discuss forward-thinking economic demands. SRC hopes to play a leading role in initiatives and improvements to the These radical economic demands mutual aid and community solidarity You can apply through an online application with a declaration to the student experience, the COVID-19 ensure that people will be able to efforts. We are looking into how our tax office. outbreak dominated all discussion. access essential resources and housing. resources, space, and labour power can All future initiatives and funding Without rental amnesties, expansions be used to respond to the specific needs opportunities have either been halted of welfare policies, and paid special and requests of the most vulnerable in Vice Presidents The Addi Road Food Pantry in Marrickville remains open for its usual Charlotte Bullock and Felix Faber hours; Tuesday: 2pm – 5pm, Wednesday: 10am – 2pm, Thursday: 2pm In the wake of the rapidly escalating issues such as how this semester will be hoping to work with other organisations faculty society presidents to share Covid-19 pandemic, we’ve been presented on our transcripts and whether to deliver staple goods to students and information and ensure a coordinated – 7pm and Friday: 12pm – 3pm. The Pantry has seen a 35% increase working hard to ensure that students are it will be included in our WAM, given vulnerable members of the community. response from all student representatives. in reliance on its services due to coronavirus insecurity, so if you’ve adequately supported in an obviously that we, as well as staff, are adapting Further, we have been developing a These are trying times, but we stocked up on fruit and veg in panic you can donate to the pantry and trying time. In meetings with the to new forms of assessment. We also set of demands on the government, hope that as a community we can University, we have voiced our concerns raised the possibility of a compulsory to ensure that every sector of society, work together to care for each other. to the vulnerable people who need it most (see their website for their that students are particularly vulnerable reading week for all students prior to the not just students, is supported during We encourage you to be responsible, wishlist of high demand items). during this crisis as so many of us transition proper. this time. In conjunction with student practise social distancing as much as support ourselves from casual jobs in The SRC has set up a Covid-19 representatives from campuses across possible, and support those who are Multiple mutual aid groups are being created across the greater Sydney industries which are on the brink of Response Group with a number of the country, we’ve worked to translate bearing the brunt of this crisis. In times region. Email the Inner West group at covid19innerwestsydney@gmail. collapse, and many students are now office bearers. While it is still very early these demands to a national campaign, like this, compassion and solidarity are com to request assistance or volunteer your time. facing the prospect of unemployment, days, and the government’s approach run by the National Union of Students, not merely luxuries - they are necessities. leading to housing issues and struggling is rapidly changing, we are hoping to which we are also actively participating to source day to day supplies while organise on a number of levels through in. hoarding increases. Further, we raised this group. On a local level, we are Finally, we’ve been working with

General Secretaries Liam Thomas and Abbey Shi did not submit a report this week. They are paid a combined stipend of $27, 820 per year.

Welfare Officers Though the government has hinted at measures being taken to protect Charlotte Ainsworth, Yilun Ma and Madeleine Clarke did not submit a report this week. renters, nothing concrete has been announced (as of publication). New announcements are being made every day, so it’s important to keep an eye out for what will affect your situation. If you aren’t able to make Refugee Rights rent, your landlord can’t evict you immediately. In NSW, they can only Alex Mcleay and Cooper Forsyth did not submit a report this week. evict when you are two weeks behind on rent. In the meantime, affected renters can contact the Tenants Union of NSW for advice. Their advice line is staffed on Mondays from 10am - 1pm, and can be reached at Residential College 1800 251 101. Charlotte Ainsworth, Winny Li, Joseph Yang and Kiran Gupta did not submit a report this week.

Words by Madeline Ward, graphics by Ellie Wilson.

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STUDENTS’ REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL, UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY SRC Services Still Available to Students

The SRC! has suspended all face to face Academic matters interactions to protect the health of all As usual we can give advice on Show Good students and staff. However, almost all of Cause, appealing a grade, applying for DCs, our services are still available to you. academic honesty, enrolments, and any other academic issues. The threat of COVID-19 Tenancy has brought a lot of uncertainty around We know that this is a very difficult time academic matters, including, the online for students, especially whose income is delivery of classes, particularly ones with a affected by COVID-19. We are currently practical component; the possible extension Do you need help campaigning together with other community of the DC deadline; and how exams groups, to stop evictions during this time. will be conducted. The SRC is in regular with CENTRELINK? There are a few other measures that we contact with various decision makers at the might be able to take, if you find yourself University and will continue to advocate at risk of homelessness. We are, of course, for the rights of the student body. SRC Ask the SRC! still answering any other tenancy and Caseworkers will also continue to provide The SRC has qualified caseworkers who can assist Sydney accommodation questions that you might advice to students on any academic matters. University undergraduates with Centrelink questions and issues, including: your income, parents’ income, qualifying as have. independent, relationships, over-payments and more. SRC Caseworkers

Check out the Centelink articles on our website or book an Centrelink The SRC’s caseworkers are independent of appointment if you need more help. Caseworkers can advise on Centrelink the University, and provide a professional,

srcusyd.net.au/src-help/ payments, including Youth Allowance, free, and confidential service to Usyd Austudy, Abstudy, NewStart, and the undergraduates. Postgraduates should Disability Support Pension. Remember to contact SUPRA for a similar service. Students’ Representative Council, University of Sydney keep a record of any receipt numbers from Level 1, Wentworth Building (G01), p: 02 9660 5222 /usydsrc University of Sydney NSW 2006 e: [email protected] conversations with Centrelink, and do not Contact PO Box 794 Broadway NSW 2007 w: srcusyd.net.au/src-help @src_usyd ignore their correspondence. You can call, Skype, or email Caseworkers to get advice about your situation. If you Visa would like a phone or Skype appointment STUDENTS’ REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL LEGAL SERVICE The SRC Legal Service can offer advice call 9660 5222 during office hours, Monday about visas. Call for an appointment to speak to Friday, 9am to 5pm. Alternatively send to our migration solicitor. your question together with any supporting documents to [email protected]. Ask Abe SRC caseworker help Q&A

Ask Abe – COVID 19 fear

Dear Abe, If you can keep up with your studies, that I’m really stressed. I don’t really know what’s might help to keep your mind busy. Email happening, and I am getting some conflict- your subject coordinator about what arrange- ing information from the Uni. The threat of ments have been made for your subjects, es- covid is big enough for the uni to change to pecially if there are practical components. online classes only, but nobody from the gov- If you feel too distressed to maintain your ernment is stopping us from going out. I’ve studies talk to an SRC Caseworker about it seen lots of conflicting articles on Facebook, by emailing [email protected]. and frankly I don’t know what to do to pro- tect myself. Please help. Take the time to have online meetings with friends. You could meet on Skype or zoom Fearful or messenger, and you could have a meal, watch a movie (e.g., Netflix Party), or do a Did you know Sydney Uni virtual tour of a zoo or museum. If you are undergraduate students* can Dear Fearful, feeling distressed, and don’t find it helpful to talk to a friend, try talking to a counsellor. get FREE advice from our I am sorry to hear that you are stressed; it is There are plenty available through the tele- completely understandable. There is always phone (Lifeline 131 114) or online (Head- registered Migration Agent? going to be conflicting information in social space). media and even on the news. It is probably Ask the SRC Legal Service! best to listen to “trusted sources”, like the Most of all look after yourself and your NSW Health Department, and ABC News. friends. They have clear information on how to do *USyd undergraduates only. SUPRA offers assistance to USyd postgraduate students *SUPRA offers assistance to USyd postgraduate students “social distancing”, and what to do if you Abe. feel unwell. SRC Legal Service Level 1, Wentworth Building (G01), p: 02 9660 5222 int: 12871 /usydsrc University of Sydney NSW 2006 e: [email protected] PO Box 794 Broadway NSW 2007 w: srcusyd.net.au @src_usyd Contact an SRC Caseworker on 02 9660 5222 or email [email protected]

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How you, an Australian, can keep being Australian during In this issue: a pandemic Your wealthy vegan aunt: Matthew Forbes, Throw Another Shrimp On the Barbie “Maybe we’re the virus”/p. 72 Editor A B C Prime Minister and noted crisis-handling expert Scott Morrison graced us with his divine wisdom last week regarding coronavirus PERSPECTIVE: At least and its effects on the day-to-day lives of the Australian public. the lockout laws got lifted, In a live address, Morrison assured viewers: “So long as right? / p. 34 Australians keep being Australians, we’ll get through this together.” You might think this is a hollow attempt at comforting a nation Gal Gadot enlists at the brink of mass hysteria, but patriotism might just be that celebrities to sing Death last spark of hope to guide you through the long, awful-smelling Grip’s ‘Guillotine’ line-by- tunnel that is 2020. line / p. 24 Here’s the Rodent’s top tips for staying Australian during the ongoing coronavirus outbreak! Where are they now? The • Watch the footy! Rodent catches up with E G H • Shield yourself in a fort made of Australian flags! the SRC Vice Presidents, • Make the leap from casual racism to full-time racism! months after anyone has • Keep watching the footy! seen them! / p.19 Note: ? denotes a cryptic clue • Go to the beach! Find the connection • Blast Packed to the Rafters: The Soundtrack Volume 2 as ACROSS DOWN What word unites these six images? you stand half-naked on your balcony, but also wear a face You won’t believe what’s 24 Across for whom Picture A ask our 2 Indian language (5) mask! on page 12! / p. 12 sympathy (3,5) 3 Twenty-four hours (3) • Tell your son that he coughs like a girl! 6 ? Like firm Mother Superior with 4 Holiday (8) • Drink yourself into a state of total numbness to erase any Bible story (10) 5 Rapunzel, rocket, or romaine (7) anxiety you had about the societal collapse the virus has An apology for the Peter 13 Useful (5) 6 Inexpensive (5) Dutton colonoscopy 14 Church overseen by a bishop (9) 7 Frequency at which people die already initiated! 15 Picture A as a group, or what each (9,4) • Get into a fist-fight with someone about the footy! photos on page 12 / p. 13 member does (5) 8 Type of key (5) • Or just sit back and relax with an ice cold Coron – sorry, 16 Picture B plus four of his brothers 9 Making (a story) shorter (9) VB (7) 10 ? Laugh about California native (5) 18 Impromptu, disorganised (9) 11 Young lady whom Picture E 19 Dunny (3) implore to try once more like she 20 Matter (5) 12 did before (10) World Vision announces Dr Chris Brown to 22 Remarkably fat (5) Amazes (8) THE FESTIVAL 24 Demon (3) 17 ? May screw the arse (7) “sponsor a World Vision put down everyone 26 ? Playwright arranged bins 21 Namesake of London’s 14 Across around stage right (5) (5,4) intern” campaign who went to Bondi OF ACTUALLY 28 Bin chickens (6) 23 ? Deserve a vase apparently (4) Nina Dillon Britton, Whoops!! Editor 29 Girl to whom Picture C say ‘hey 25 Origami equipment (5) on Friday there!’ (6) 27 Archipelago in which Picture E DANGEROUS IDEAS 31 Rats with wings (7) worked (9) Matthew Forbes, Woof Editor 32 ? Unfit tart has fit fit (10) 30 Relating to the natural world (13) Target Thousands of beachgoers are to be ‘put Following the cancellation of this 34 Sponges with wings (5,5) 33 Pulsate (5) to sleep’ after flocking to Bondi last Friday, 10 words: This year’s foremost event for middle aged 38 Burma, alternatively (7) 35 Winces at awkwardness (7) ignoring calls for social distancing amid the 40 Thief (of a lost ark, perhaps) (6) 36 Unintended consequence (4,6) 20 words: That conservatives pretending to be open current COVID-19 outbreak. 41 Nobleman whom Picture D asks 37 Surname of Picture D (4) 30 words: The Other minded, we’re proud to announce the aller, venir (6) 38 ? Greek character sits atop pig with Dr Chris Brown is set to take some time program for a new event, celebrating S T N off from wandering aimlessly around the 43 Permitted by Islam (5) angry prophet (8) actually dangerous ideas. 44 Friend of Picture B (3) 39 Hometown of Picture C (9) Network Ten studio to help provide mass 45 Soft tablet (5) 42 Relating to time (8) euthanasia as part of a live 48-hour telethon 9AM: cough on old people 47 First word in the title of a song by 46 Disloyal lover to whom Picture F edition of Bondi Vet. Picture A or Picture E (5) cries ‘why, why, why?’ (7) Boris Johnson on the fun, dangerous E O “I’m pretty used to handling filthy, 48 ? Face attack (3) 49 Proverbially well-fitting garment H and new policy at the centre of the UK’s 50 Alert, competent (2,3,4) (5) slobbering animals, both on Bondi Vet and coronavirus response. Fuck ‘em they’re 53 Go away (4,3) 51 ? Disney princess swaps neglected I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here, so this old! 55 Love, to Picture D, for example (5) crown for royal diadem (5) is just a typical day at the office for me.” 56 Trader of paintings and sculptures 52 Regions (5) Despite initial concerns wide-scale 11AM: ride a bicycle without a helmet M I G World Vision has announced a campaign to fight underpayment (3,6) 54 Possessor (5) force would have to be employed to round In this lecture, Academy Award winning 57 ? Robe sounds like a song (5) 57 Forename of Picture F (3) of its own staff, following revelations it had reported itself to up the beachgoers, almost all of them have scientist, Professor Streep, argues 58 Carrots, capsicums, cucumbers, the Fair Work Ombudsman. willingly turned themselves in, excited at they’re ugly and fuck with your hair. etc (10) “For just one dollar a day, you can double what we’re 59 Brand of greeting cards (8) the prospects of getting to be on TV. currently paying interns,” one new campaign ad reads. “I’ve always wanted to die on the telly. 12pm: give alcohol to babies As part of the campaign, donors can exchange letters with Was hoping it’d be getting shot in a home Have you ever seen a drunk baby? This Week 4 Edition Solutions an intern. invasion on Gogglebox, but this’ll do.” panel discussion argues it’s funny as Target: Hypnotism Stephanie, a barely-paid intern who’d started in as an unpaid fuck. intern, told The Rodent that she’d found the letter process Sudoku Quick This Way That Way strange. 1pm: it’s time to respect religion “Lots of people have asked for progress reports of how I’m The Taliban calls for a return to civility Puzzles by doing, or got angry when I wasn’t ‘sufficiently adoring. There and respect for religion in our public Tournesol were lots of requests for feet pics too.” discourse. The campaign is considered a breakthrough in the non- 3pm: how to fuck a pengalin and a bat Solutions next profit sector which largely relies on unpaid or underpaid staff. “We aim by 2050 for 50% of our staff to be able to pay for This talk reveals all, including why week. 10% of their rent on the salaries we provide,” a World Vision protection isn’t needed. spokesperson said.

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