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SRC President Jacky He has and shouted at her campaign- While the urban public they have no future. Walk- censored a live blog post made ers. It was confirmed by sources argue with each other over the ing through these places is by Honi Soit regarding his on the ground that He had been finer points of tax cuts and like something out of a horror actions towards rival campaign- involved in particularly negative gearing, rural NSW movie - boarded up shops, tum- ers during the final day of the aggressive contestations is really hurting. Years of bleweeds and dust devils blow- USU Board election. At roughly and had raised his voice to drought and mismanagement ing by, run-down weatherboard 10 am on the final day of the USU drown out Ma’s campaigners. of the Murray-Darling river houses baking in a summer election, Board candidate Ruolin system have left entire towns sun so hot it melts the asphalt. (Irene) Ma contacted Honi and without drinking water, and alleged that He had harassed Full story on page 4 >>> many residents feeling that Read more on page 9 >>> LETTERS Acknowledgement of Country When a fresh-faced politician is sworn in as Prime Minister, they are told they have the mandate of the nation to push for progress. They are to represent their people, and guide them STATEMENT FROM THE EDITORS through whatever tough times may arise during their term. During their swearing-in ceremony, an acknowledgement of country is made to the First Nations people of Australia, as is done at the opening of many official events, emblematic of how our public servants will aspire to advocate for all Australians, how they will aspire to close the gap. These acknowledgements are an insult. For 231 years, leaders of this settler-colonial state have managed to destroy, erode or erase the peoples and cultures they invaded and the country they now occupy. Only this week, it was revealed that the Queensland Government locks up droves of First Nations children as young as 10 in watch houses, meters from adult offenders. In their cells, these kids are subjected to verbal and physical abuse from the police assigned to ‘care’ for them. This weekend, a Coalition government was reelected on a mandate of mining Aboriginal land in Far This week, a section ofHoni Soit’s annual not reach that bar. We should have power afforded by his office to control the expansion of censorship powers North Queensland, with no solid promise of constitutional recognition or treaty. They will likely continue the active occupation of communities in the Northern Territory. USU Election live-blog was censored by disclosed the source of the allegations in the narrative around his own behaviour over Honi’s election coverage. Not There has never been a more stark reminder that the government which takes our taxes, provides our services and fills our newspapers is a fundamentally illegitimate one. When we acknowledge the country we meet and live on, in our case the land of the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation, we should never let that be some vague liberal platitude. Occupation SRC President Jacky He. The censored the post and extended the opportunity is one that is disturbing and dangerous. only are such powers grossly at odds has and continues to destroy the lives of many. There will never be a time where it is not appropriate to centre decolonisation in our thoughts and actions. content, posted in a live blog during to He to comment on them. However, He’s function in relation toHoni Soit is to with the democratic ideals that the This always was and always will be Aboriginal land. the USU election, implied He had this shortcoming did not warrant an check the paper for defamatory content, SRC leadership purports to stand engaged in aggressive behaviour during egregious overreach of executive power. and nothing more. for, He and Luo also attempted to campaigning. Honi witnessed behaviour There were reasonable steps that The value of Honi Soit lies in its pass them in breach of regulations Contents Editorial by He that suggested the content of He could have taken before deciding ability to chronicle the actions of those — two simultaneous motions were these allegations was grounded in truth. to censor the Honi Soit live blog. He who go on to yield an enormous amount attempted without consulting the 4 NEWS Editors This is not what l expected to write. of the university community as being He instructed the Publications could have provided comment to Honi of power in the Australian political Standing Legal Committee minutes. Baopu He, Pranay Jha, Karishma I expected this edition to be the first useful and vital to its identity, from the Managers of the SRC to remove the post in his defence against the allegations landscape. On its pages, the conduct of We are often left to deal with Luthria, Jessica Syed, Liam Thorne, under a Labor Prime Minister since administrators to the librarians, the 6 USU ANALYSIS without consulting any of the editors. or requested an amendment to the Australian prime ministers and High student leaders who are ineffective Nell O’Grady, Carrie Wen, Joseph 2013. I expected this editorial to likely lecturers to the students — all people 7 MULTILINGUAL Verity, Annie Zhang & Alan Zheng be a self-righteous jab at Labor — that are made to feel unimportant in the When asked about his decision to do so, post. However, all of these steps were Court judges alike has been held to and unresponsive. We persist through something about being happy for their neoliberal university. He stated, “If I haven’t done something, bypassed so that He could regulate and account. No student politician should this because we love the paper. We 8 ANALYSIS win while still holding my fists tight, I believe this edition to chronicle I haven’t done it and I don’t think it is remove content portraying him in a be able to strike their own faults from will not stand idly by while the same Writers nervous about whether good was similar anxieties facing the modern right to report rumors [sic] before they negative light. the record. paper is desecrated in order to serve 9 PHOTO ESSAY Peter Burrel-Sander, Victoria Cooper, actually to come. student. CloudRunner, Peter Dougherty, Of course, this weekend’s result Students and unionists alike fight to are even confirmed.” Censorship is no doubt symptomatic He’s most recent actions have the short term interests of career 12 SRC REGULATIONS Austin Fong, Matthew Forbes, Grace should in many ways be of no surprise. protect Aboriginal communities along Honi always strives for the highest of a corroding democracy, even one not occurred in isolation. They exist politicians. 14 FEATURE Johnson, Albert Jagger, Catherine Labor presented a lukewarm attempt the Murray Darling Basin, left thirsty but standards of accuracy in its reporting confined to a university microcosm. in a context where, along with Vice Ku, Alex MacIntyre, Andy Mason, at a progrsssive vision — they failed to greedy politicians. Andy Mason records but is not afraid to admit when it does That the SRC President would use the President Dane Luo, he has supported Honi Soit 2019 16 PERSPECTIVE Robbie Mason, James Monaro & motivate many parts of this country, and the recent efforts of activists mobilising Ellie Stephenson. we as young people are now left waiting to resurrect Government failure. Undersigned are 17 COMIC for an end to the peddling of centrist, Students feel atomised and Third-Way, unsuccessful bullshit. anonymised by their university when previous editors of Honi Soit: 18 HISTORY Artists No, instead I am tasked with their tutor reduces them to their Alex Downie (2015) Kishor Napier-Rahman (2017) Olivia Allanson, Matthew Fisher, digesting and responding to a truly racial background — Catherine Ku 20 CREATIVE Chris McClymont, Ludmilla Nunell, terrible event, objectively incomparable communicates how students are left as Alexi Polden (2015) Justine Landis-Hanley (2017) Brown Town to its alternative — and as the brilliant atoms in a well-oiled degree factory. Sophie Gallagher (2015) Maani Truu (2017) 21 CULTURE Matthew Fisher’s cover depicts — a Students are left to the whims of 23 OPINION Cover Artist: Matthew Fisher source of immeasurable terror. We will the conservative institutions around Rebecca Wong (2015) Aidan Molins (2017) continue to grow up under a leader them; the all powerful Catholic Church, Peter Walsh (2015) Lamya Rahman (2018) 24 SRC with no real compassion for those as Peter Dougherty thoughtfully born into poverty, war-torn lands, or explores, or student unions with Patrick Morrow (2015) Andrew Rickert (2018) 26 PUZZLES settler-colonial occupation. Funding increasingly powerful conservative and Dominic Ellis (2015) Liam Donohoe (2018) for independent tertiary education will authoritarian tendencies, as our news Tim Asimakis (2015) Lena Wang (2018) 27 COMEDY remain precarious. section reflects. I will not attempt to analyse current From Raewyn Connell, I take the Subeta Vimalarajah (2016) Millie Roberts (2018) events any further — there are many lesson that in a moment as existentially Natalie Buckett (2016) Janek Drevikovsky (2018) far wiser and more affected who will dire as this, we students still have power. do this. All I hope for this edition is to Whether it be discussions across a beer Naaman Zhou (2016) Zoe Stojanovic-Hill (2018) be an historical imprint of the severe at the Royal, scientific advancements in Max Hall (2016) Alison Xiao (2018) Disclaimer: Honi Soit is published by the Students’ Representative Council, University of Sydney, Level 1 anxiety inherent to being a young the management-besieged Anderson Sam Langford (2016) Nick Harriot (2018) Wentworth Building, City Road, University of Sydney NSW 2006. The SRC’s operation costs, space and person in May 2019. 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Please direct all advertising inquiries to [email protected]. and genuine intellectual curiosity — policy that sees him do everything he drama right now is on WECHAT. SRC the way from Ireland, we might give can to avoid having to write a weekly president Jacky He was recently caught this one to the God-King. We at Burn This paper was also censored by the Jacky He administration. a desire to do good for society. In it, Connell strives to empower all members Liam Thorne presidential report. Ok, that’s only in an argument with newly minted Book are loving these subtle digs! half true - Jacky is off representing Labor member Decheng Sun (formerly While we are never one for subtlety, USyd at the World University Advance R.I.P) about international you know what they say - “all war is Network in Dublin, checking in $400 student participation. Jacky made a deception.” in reimbursement to partially cover post that read something along the his flight costs. Like fair enough, we lines of how international students Press f to pay respects THE FORECAST: at the Burn Book would also rather be who are “too political” do it just for drinking Guinness while looking at personal gain instead of thinking of In a sad but also not all too unexpected some spectacular natural landscapes the interest of other international turn of events, both USyd candidates PRESENTED BY than writing some boring summary students. OOoooOOooO. who ran for the Federal election lost. Away with the fairies! on what I’ve done this week. But In retaliation, Decheng posted a Mitchell Shakespeare and Connor alas, unlike Jacky, we actually have to picture of him and Jacky campaigning Parissis, both Greens candidates, NINE SUCCESSIVE Our very own president Jacky “Four work! Top of the mornin’ to you, dear for Labor, captioned “Is this too unfortunately could not hold back the Leaf Clover” He has landed in the leader! political?” OOOoOOOOoooOOOOO! inexorable resurgence of the Liberal pot of gold at the end of the rainbow Things are heating up! Given Jacky’s party. Oh well. As the results of the COALITION and made his way to fair Ireland! WeChat DRAMA stellar record of fighting for the rights election are coming out, perhaps they The God-King is visiting Emerald of international students, a passion can take consolation in how they GOVERNMENTS Isles as a part of a self fulfilled Forget Twitter, the hottest internet that burns so bright it reaches us all won’t be the only ones disappointed. 3 NEWS NEWS Swastika Graffiti Found at SRC President USyd set to deliver 2019 student Camperdown Park censors Honi experience strategy

Pranay Jha Joseph Verity Alan Zheng SRC President Jacky He has He told Honi, “If I haven’t done The University of Sydney (USyd) Overall educational social isolation, limited access from consistently low student SULS received $20,163 in Content warning: Nazism, Facism, Racism censored a live blog post something, I haven’t done it and finalised its student experience experience remained even to social sport, ad hoc peer experience outcomes. faculty funding in 2017, and made by Honi Soit regarding I don’t think it is right to report strategy paper last Friday after lower for Indigenous students, mentoring programs, and the The recent incorporation $9,500 in 2018, according to his actions towards rival rumors [sic] before they are a period of consultation and students with disabilities, lack of identification with the of Sydney University Sport financials from last year. A swastika was graffitied onto a an argument ensued between campaigners during the final even confirmed.” staff feedback dating back students with lower socio- University community. and Fitness (SUSF) will see Although the strategy also mural of the Aboriginal Flag in the two groups, as the people day of the USU Board election. Ma refused to provide formal to November in the wake of economic status, and culturally Independent student the University’s faculties play makes mention of the notorious Camperdown Park last Friday, of colour accused Damonic At 10am on Wednesday comment but asserted the declining student experience and linguistically diverse organisations as well as clubs a larger role in its strategic ‘double barrier’ to student the 18th of May. of being a fascist and a Nazi. May 18, Board candidate Ruolin veracity of her allegations. The outcomes in 2018.. students. and societies have traditionally direction. involvement on campus — The graffiti was first noticed It appeared that following (Irene) Ma contacted Honi and incident occurred the day after The strategy — a university- Students from these been responsible for extra- “It will clearly be important the price of an ACCESS card at approximately 9 pm by the argument, members of alleged that He had harassed Honi reported other campaign wide initiative aimed at backgrounds more often curricular aspects of student life, to work with student and the compulsory Student a group of young people of Damonic’s own group of and shouted at her campaigners. altercations involving He. On creating a “meaningful and reported considering dropping a role they have played without organisations to promote a less Services and Amenities Fee colour at the park. While some friends began chastising him It was confirmed by sources Tuesday, the SRC President diverse student life that out of their degrees for health, significant university oversight fragmented, more inclusive and which plagued the University of them obtained supplies and calling him a “Nazi punk.” on the ground that He had engaged in heated contestation encourages connections and workload, and financial reasons. or regulation historically. accessible student community, of Sydney Union (USU) in to remove the graffiti, others The group successfully been involved in particularly with a Ma campaigner and USU a sense of belonging” — is The SES, conducted through “Clubs and societies and remove, as far as possible, recent years — free universal noticed two police officers cleaned off the graffiti before aggressive contestations and Board Director Decheng Sun. expected to have wide-reaching Quality Indicators for Learning bring together students with financial, social and cultural membership was introduced walk past the swastika and do eventually walking away from had raised his voice to drown Both accused each other of implications for student and Teaching (QILT) with shared interests and provide barriers to participation,” the by the University of Sydney “nothing about it.”As the young the mural. Approximately out Ma’s campaigners. Honi physically touching one another experiences with education as government funding, found an important means of strategy admits. Union (USU) in January after people of colour approached the ten minutes later, four police then reported in its live blog and the conflict concluded with well as their interactions and that USyd undergraduates establishing the routinised The strategy highlights the University contributed $1 mural, they noticed a group of officers were witnessed leaving that these allegations had been He shouting “Don’t touch me!” campus participation over the remained amongst the worst forms of proximity in which two possible solutions. First, million to aid in the roll-out. more than ten people standing the scene. received, but failed to identify at Sun. next three years. off in the country when it came students can encounter and targeted support for societies The presidents of the USU, near the fascist graffiti. When In a statement to Honi, an the source of the allegations. The last time He redacted The 2018 Student Experience to perceptions of their entire reencounter one another in that emphasise course interests Sydney University Postgraduate asked if they knew anything anonymous member of the At 11:32 am, Honi was Honi was in March when he Survey (SES), released last educational experience. identified areas of shared and include all students, Representative Association about it, a member of the group, group stated “we have to take advised by the Publications falsely claimed in his own month, examines student In 2018, USyd was ranked interest,” the strategy reads, regardless of social and cultural (SUPRA) and SRC sit on the who identified themselves as this seriously and confront Managers of the SRC that He President’s report that the outcomes in skills development, 39th out of 41 universities, far before expressing concern backgrounds, like the Sydney University's Student Experience Damonic, confessed to being people in our communities - had instructed them to redact SRC provides mental health learner engagement, teaching below the national average and over “clique-like groups” which University Business Society. Advisory Group, the peak body the perpetrator. not just actions as blatantly the post. Publications Managers counselling services. quality, student support, and the lowest of any Group of complicate social connections Second, the restructure behind the Student Experience Damonic asserted they were jarring as this but also are bound to follow the He’s censorship comes a access to learning resources. Eight university. In 2017, USyd in clubs and societies. of sporting opportunities Program. Indigenous and were simply microaggressions” instructions of the President. He week after SRC regulations The 2018 SES found that was ranked 38th. But the norm of on campus through an The new Student Experience “intended to make a thought- This incident has occurred did not request an amendment expanding the power of the university students continue Beyond education, several independent student clubs and annual inter-school sporting Strategy will be delivered under provoking statement.” He was within months of other notable or seek to clarify the allegations Electoral Officer to indefinitely to rate their tertiary education “pain points” persist in the societies looks set to change competition. the leadership of the Advisory described by one of the people appearances of fascist graffiti in before taking this step. No suspend Honi Editors failed to experience lower than students current student experience, with the University adopting Faculty societies like Sydney Group's Chair, Deputy Vice- of colour present at the incident Sydney including racist slogans attempts to consult with Honi pass Council. The regulations in the United States and the according to the strategy, a more interventionist stance University Law Society (SULS) Chancellor (Education) Pip as “drunk and distraught.” found in Epping and the Editors were made. are expected to pass at the next United Kingdom. including familiar challenges of in student life after pressure already receive faculty funding. Pattison. Following his admission, University of Sydney Campus. After ordering the redaction, meeting. Low turnout at ISJA march emphasises Sydney’s lack SUSF removes Vice-President St Paul's shuts bar of engagament with Indigenous incarceration and declares election after hazing ritual James Monaro Pranay Jha and Alan Zheng Baopu He and Alan Zheng For the past two weeks the be imprisoned than non- minimal. Attendance for the Employment Projects. audience at the silent march Indigenous Social Justice Indigenous people. Today they silent march against deaths in According to the Human Rights that if he manages to sleep at Sydney University Sports and In an email sent to the President James Flynn, who St Paul’s College has temporarily by a resident in the St Paul’s Association (ISJA), a Sydney- are 13 times more likely to be custody on May 12 was better, Law Centre, the subsequent all, he dreams about his son. Fitness (SUSF) has removed management committee, Senate is close to Fernon, voiced closed the college's Salisbury students’ Facebook group based activist and solidarity incarcerated. This partially but still just the usual faces. Intervention in the Northern The hardest thing, however, Vice President Ed Fernon and -appointed representative and disapproval over the decision Bar to all residents after reports received widespread media group for Aboriginal and explains why more than 400 The problem is that Territory violated “the right of is trying to explain to his declared the position vacant the University’s Director of to remove Fernon. of a hazing ritual involving attention in 2017. Torres Strait Islander issues, Indigenous Australians have continuing violence towards Indigenous self-determination grandson — who reminds him ahead of the organisation’s Financial Control and Treasury, “It was only last week the student “platoons” and excessive A spokesperson told Honi has congregated around died since the Commission, First Nations Australian’s through measures including so much of Tane — that his dad upcoming annual general David Wright, said the apologies membership of SUSF voted alcohol consumption surfaced that students will be asked “to Town Hall. ISJA aim to raise but it does not explain why no reflects not just apathy the compulsory acquisition isn’t coming back. meeting on the 30th of May. were of “no consequence” in to adopt a higher standard of earlier this month. reflect on the place of alcohol in awareness of the ongoing individual or institution has or ignorance but public of land [and] the suspension After another unsurprising Honi understands that determining whether Fernon’s governance - one week later I The Salisbury — marketed their lives.” incarceration, killing and been held responsible. Besides complicity in a settler regime, and direction of representative defeat for the ostensible Fernon was removed after failing position could be vacated. find members of Management as “a traditional centre for the “This has necessitated devastation of Indigenous the obvious failures of the where agitation against community councils... The bulwark against Australian to attend three consecutive Complicating matters Committee have silently convivialities of campus life” on the closure of the College people by the Australian state, establishment, the continued institutionalised oppression legislation was passed without conservatism, the Left have a meetings in March, April and further, Fernon’s removal assassinated a Vice President the college website — has been Bar for a period of time,” the which continues to thwart negligence of most settlers, is largely ignored, and adequate consultation with good opportunity for consulting May. According to section was not made through any without due process,” Flynn closed before but rarely with spokesperson said. their concerted attempts at self- including many activists, to where reform is consistently Indigenous communities” and the chalkboard. Honest 81 of SUSF’s constitution, formal resolution passed by said. explicit disciplinary intentions Honi understands the government. provide meaningful solidarity frustrated. partially suspended “operation reflection should reveal that a the position of members of the management committee. Fernon, one of four Vice and at a scale affecting the investigation into the hazing ISJA’s activities coincided for First Nations struggles is At the time of the Bringing of the Racial Discrimination “better outcome” would have the management committee Rather, that decision appears Presidents of SUSF, reportedly entire College. incident is ongoing. The College with the Head On Photo crucial. Them Home report in 1997, Act.” After Labor gave its posed no threat to Parliament’s who aren’t appointed by the to have been made unilaterally raised concerns over SUSF’s In 2017, the Sub-Warden would not confirm whether Festival, where a photograph The exhibition at the Aboriginal and Torres Strait imprimatur with the ‘Stronger overarching control of First University Senate may become by senior members of the rental agreement with former banned first year residents students involved had been of corrections officers Head On Festival provided an Islander children — who with Futures’ legislation in 2012, Nations communities; a vacant if they are “absent management committee president Bruce Ross multiple from a Wednesday Night Party expelled or suspended for violently assaulting 26-year- opportunity to centre public their parents and relatives we should not be surprised capacity regularly flexed, given from three (3) consecutive including Wright, without times, according to an ICAC after a string of incidents in participating in hazing. old Indigenous man David discussion on preventing constitute 3% of the population to discover that Indigenous the nature of the system. This meetings of the Management Fernon being informed of complaint lodged last month. which intoxicated residents The 2018 Broderick Review Dungay — causing him to go Indigenous deaths in custody, — represented 20% of children children now constitute 36 per arrangement makes any tenable Committee without leave of the the vacancy and without any broke down their room doors recommended a professional into irreversible cardiac arrest where ISJA dedicates much living in out-of-home care cent of those living in OOHC. notion of justice, “climate” or Management Committee.” formal resignation. after losing their keys. commercial provider oversee — was displayed outside Queen of its resources. Yet there (OOHC). Steps were taken, Self-determination is otherwise, either absurd or SUSF’s constitution does News of Fernon’s removal “All freshmen are the Salisbury to allow the Victoria Building. Another was no media coverage of the including increased support for not possible when family unobtainable. not define what “leave from became more widely known banned from the Sals Bar College to retain a right to close installation was showcased at installation, despite the fact OOHC services instituted and and community bonds are ISJA and Fighting In the management” committee after an email sent to club, staff this Wednesday night due the Bar at any time. Paddington Town Hall. that it is the size of a shipping managed by Indigenous people continuously severed. Electoral Resistance Equally are two specifically entails. Whilst and management committee to unacceptable collective The embattled College In 1991, when the Royal container and stationed directly themselves. In 2007, the Howard squabbling has little impact local organisations dedicated Fernon did submit apologies members, declared an election behaviour last weekend,” said is expected to release a Commission into Aboriginal outside the QVB. Turnout for Government moved decisively on the offending institutions, to Indigenous struggle. Both which were accepted at the for the position of vice the Sub-Warden in an email. report outlining its progress Deaths in Custody was the Election Day protest against to dismantle these programs, which continue to devastate. organisations are on Facebook meetings, it appears he did not president. Honi understands the in adopting the Broderick finalised, Indigenous people the apathy of most politicians including by wholly abolishing Colin Chatfield, who lost his and hold regular meetings open specifically request leave in In an email to the A photo of Ed Fernon (fromer SUSF Salisbury was closed again Review’s recommendations by were 8 times more likely to to Indigenous rights was also Community Development son Tane in 2017, told the to any that want to help. advance of the meetings. management committee, SUSF VP). after sexist comments made the end of June.

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Six new Board Directors have been with Shen’s pushed Brown to sixth place with the rollout of universal Access the new Directors’ terms, the Board 六位新董事会成员当选为悉尼大学 三偏好票数都流向Forbutt和Wang，这 与率激增。 候选人。 elected to the 2019 University of Sydney over Stephenson, who was then also membership, a fact which may have will comprise of almost 50 per cent of USU董事会成员。 他们分别是Benny 使得Forbutt和Wang都超过指标并且当 ABS新投票站的推出证明对于国 今晚学生工会董事会选举的结果可 Union (USU) Board. They are: Yinfeng excluded. encouraged more voters to turn out, international students, only three years Yinfeng Shen（独立），Zizheng Oscar 选。 际学生候选人来说是有利的。Shen以 能对接下来的执行理事选举（Board Benny Shen (Independent), Zizheng Forbutt and Wang were both despite the fact that Access was not a after the election of the first international Bai（独立），Nick Forbutt（NLS） 由于Forbutt当选，这意味着现在有 365票领居首位，其次是Bai，获得331 Executive election）产生决定性因 Oscar Bai (Independent), Nick Forbutt elected in count five after preferences prerequisite to voting in previous years. student to Board in 2016, Yifan (Koko) ，Di Eve wang（panda），Irene Ma（ 三名男性候选人当选。 这引发了USU 票。Wang以330票的优势紧随其后。 素。 目前有传言说，由Decheng Sun和 (NLS), Di Eve Wang (Panda), Ruolin were redistributed. In the same round, The presence of three international Kong.This year is the first year that three 独立）和Cady Brown （mod-lib）。 的肯定行动(Affirmative action)。此规 他们在国际学生中心(International Connor Wherrett领导的两个队伍正在形 (Irene) Ma (Independent), and Caitlin Manousaridis was excluded by the student-oriented candidates may have international students have been elected 新当选的董事将加入以下老 定要求在每个奇数年，就像今年，六名 Students’ Lounge) 的拉票中同样表现良 成。Wherrett的队伍是由Lachlan Finch (Cady) Brown (Mod Lib). USU’s Affirmative Action policy, also contributed to the spike in voter to the Board. 成员：Maya Eswaran（Switch） 董事成员中的三个必须是女性身份。 好。 和Zimeng Ye组成的。 Shen, Bai和Wang The newly-elected Directors will which requires at least three wom*n- participation given the historically This election also marks the third ，Lachlan Finch（Mod Lib） 尽管Tom Manousaridis（Unity）是下一 在新董事任期开始后，董事会将由 在竞选期间都得到了Ye的支持，暗示 join current board directors Maya identifying candidates to be elected in high number of votes received by year in a row that a member of the ，Decheng Sun（Advance），Connor 个最高的民意调查候选人，不过由于此 近50％的国际学生组成。仅在2016年 未来可能支持Wherrett的队伍。 Brown Eswaran (Switch), Lachlan Finch (Mod odd-numbered years. international student candidates. Liberal Party has been elected to the Wherrett（Labor Right/Unity）和Zizng 规定，他被排除在外。 国际学生入选Yifan（Koko）Kong后三 也得到了Finch的支持。 如果所有投票 Lib), Decheng Sun (Advance), Connor The two remaining spots then went The introduction of a new polling Board. Jacob Masina, Lachlan Finch, Ye（Panda）。 Ma和Brown获得了最后两个位置。 年， Shen，Bai和Wang将加入现任国际 都相应的话，Wherrett的队伍将脱颖而 Wherrett (Labor Right/Unity), and to Ma and Brown. booth at the Abercrombie Business and Caitlin (Cady) Brown have all been 在第一次统计中，Shen和Bai 都 在今年的USU董事会选举中投票的 留学生董事Decheng Sun和Zimeng Ye。 出并成功选举主席职务。 Zimeng Ye (Panda). A record number of students voted in School (ABS) proved beneficial for elected through the tactical use of a 打破了923票的指标(Quota) ，占总票 学生人数达到了创纪录水平，相比2017 这是第一年三个国际留学生被选上学生 主席职位将自2016年选举Alisha Shen and Bai were both elected this year’s USU Board Elections, almost international student candidates. Shen “Libdependent” strategy — purporting 数的14.3％， 并直接当选。Shen得到 年和2018年的投票率几乎翻了一倍。在 董事会， Aitken-Radburn以来首次回归 in the first count after breaking the double the turnouts of 2018 and 2017. won the booth with 365 votes, followed to be Independent despite their party 984个第一选择票(first preference)，而 为期三天的投票期间，6454票被投出。 此次选举结果也标志着自由党成员 Unity（Labor Right)。 quota of 923 votes. Shen received 6454 votes were cast over a three-day by Bai with 331 votes and Wang with affiliation. Bai收到950个第一选择票。Christina 比较2018年的3555票和2017年的3454票- 连续三年入选董事会。 Jacob Masina, 2019年的竞选活动也因校园工党的 984 first preferences and Bai received polling period, compared to 3555 votes 330 votes. These three candidates Brown was also elected in a similar Lee（独立）以最低票数139票被排除在 2017年是七年来的最低投票率。 Lachlan Finch, 和 Cady Brown都使用 两个不同派别NLS（工党左）和Student 950. Christina Lee (Independent) was cast in 2018, and 3454 in 2017. 2017 was also received the most votes at the fashion to Finch, relying heavily on 外。Lee 和shen的第二个偏好被重新分 今年的高投票率可能和免费ACCESS 声称“lipdependent”的战术参加选举 Unity （工党右）之间的敌意而受到严 excluded after having polled the least also the lowest turnout in seven years. International Students’ Lounge pre-poll. favourable preference deals to finish 配给Brown，使得Brown排到第六名， 打折卡的推出有关系，尽管ACCESS不 （lipdependent指尽管参与自由党却假 重破坏。 据说 Student Unity一直在在 at 139 votes. Her preferences combined This year’s high turnout coincided Following the commencement of ahead of other candidates. 并领先于Stephenson（Switch）。由 是前几年投票的先决条件。鉴于国际学 装自己是独立候选人）。Brown也与 破坏NLS的Nick Forbutt的投票，并希 此，Stephenson 被排除. 生候选人获得的普遍票数极高，四名国 Finch以类似的方式当选 - 严重依靠着 望在最后一天超过他。新当选的董事 Zizheng Oscar Bai Nick Forbutt 因为Stephenson被排除, 她的第二第 际学生候选人的出席也可能导致选民参 和其他竞选人签偏好协议而领先于其他 们将在下个月正式入职。 14.7% 14% 950 votes 901 votes Booth-by-booth breakdown

Zizheng Oscar Bai Christina Lee Yinfeng Benny Shen Caitlin (Cady) Brown Ruolin Irene Ma Ellie Stephenson Di Eve Wang Nick Forbutt Tom Manousaridis Di Eve Wang Yinfeng Benny Shen 13.7% 329 884 votes 285 312 15.2% 365 248 331 330 984 votes 210 221 203 188 241 161 169 165 141 116 118 102 129 73 83 111 71 46 22 13 Christina Lee Ruolin Irene Ma Eastern Avenue Manning Abercrombie Business School 2.2% 9.6% 38 139 votes 619 votes 91 198 76 76 181 64 26 Ellie Stephenson 60 57 59 144 9.3% Caitlin (Cady) Brown 597 votes 91 Tom Manousaridis 8.9% 11 12 26 9 9 7 12.5% 575 votes 35 38 6 11 25 13 805 votes 12 1 Jane Foss Russell International Students’ Lounge Pre-Polling Manning Pre-Polling Despite a prevailing rumour that the Ma would support Sun’s bid, as both Wherrett, when they could otherwise Indeed, the 2019 campaign trail was USU presidency would be contested by harbour connections to Advance. use the current makeup of the board to marred by a notable animosity between 30 two tickets headed by Connor Wherrett Yinfeng (Benny) Shen and Di (Eve) Wang their own advantage. rival campus Labor factions, NLS (Labor 13 (Unity) and Decheng Sun (Advance) would likely vote in the same way as At this point, Ye could very well form Left) and Student Unity (Labor Right). 12 35 respectively, the political affiliations of Ye (Panda). Caitlin (Cady) Brown (Mod- her own ticket, supported by herself, Unity were heard to have been making the incoming directors may result in an Lib) would no doubt mirror the vote of Shen, and Wang, and potentially Finch efforts to spoil the votes of Nick Forbutt 20 entirely different lay of the land. her political counterpart Lachlan Finch and Brown, thus handing over a swing of NLS, hoping to exceed his vote count 22 23 In a Wherrett-Sun contestation, (Mod-Lib). vote to Wherrett. If the odds aren’t in his on the last day. 16 16 16 Zimeng Ye (Panda) would likely hold That Tom Manousaridis (Unity) has favour in that coalition, Wherrett could The newly elected directors will be 12 5 the swing vote. In light of Panda, Unity, not been elected to the board throws find luck in striking up a broad Labor officially inducted in the coming month, 11 and the Liberals being on relatively cosy a veritable spanner into the works, grouping. Sun, who is a member of the and despite any and all speculation, the 3 3 9 9 9 6 8 8 2 terms with each other, Ye’s vote would rendering Wherrett’s presidential bid less Labor party, may team up with Wherrett fate of the new executive is ever up in 2 4 likely swing in Wherrett’s direction in likely. It appears improbable that Finch to garner the support of Nick Forbutt the air. 3 1 that situation. – tipped as Wherrett’s Vice President – of NLS. The likeliness of this hangs in Tickets form and tickets fail within 0 As it stands, it’s probable that alongside Ye, Brown, Shen and Wang, the balance; there were no Labor deals the shortest of timespans — we’ll have Conservatorium Mallet St Zizheng (Oscar) Bai and Ruolin (Irene) would simply gift a presidency to involved in Forbutt’s campaign. to wait to find out the truth. Sydney College of the Arts

6 7 ANALYSIS Why don’t you just speak up? Catherine Ku considers the case against class participation marks. to illustrate the deep-rooted cultural But the issue of tutors still not ethos of respect embedded in East Asian understanding international students cultures. This manifests in the way that may exist to some extent in presentations. students of East Asian cultures tend not Thus another method which could be to talk over, interrupt or talk before other implemented either as an alternative students do, although some of these or in conjunction is the facilitation of qualities may be necessary to thrive in discussion threads on canvas which the participation mark system. Thus, require students to present their those who find it difficult to talk without thoughts before and/or after the tutorial. driving being prompted or putting their hand A similar method was used in a 1st year up tend to perform worse than other Sociology course where students were students who seem confident jumping required to post their answers to the in to talk. ‘question of the week’ using the given Li and Jia’s study also observes that material and sources. This method could East Asian students seem to have high ensure students are given a designated water to anxiety levels about simply talking in space to demonstrate their knowledge class, which inhibits their participation. and allow for them to spend as much time Although it is difficult to pinpoint a as they need in drafting their response,

Art by BrownTown specific, tangible cause, it is true that whilst also minimising the pressure of East Asian students are generally afraid speaking in a limited time that unfairly of making mistakes. Thus, we tend to not impacts international students. collarenebri ask questions and try to solve problems Changes must be made to ensure ourselves, even when we could ask for that all students’ contributions are being help because for some reason we are fairly acknowledged in the current “White bodies are comfortable as they refuse to challenge the boundaries afraid of being wrong in front of others class participation system. Some simple inhabit spaces that extend their shape” of their own cultural comfort zone. and thus want to make sure our answer improvements would involve making - Sara Ahmed, A Phenomenology of Somehow, the multitude of white is right before we say it. Many of those student name cards in class, releasing Whiteness students with common white names in interviewed affirmed a reticence to participation marks in all subjects so that Class participation mark systems, a class are clearly etched into the minds contribute to class discussion unless students can raise enquiries if something used in a range of USyd subjects, allow of those marking class participation. they were certain of their answers. This seems wrong, and implementing a more tutors to assess the performance of The problem of course can’t be is a trend that may stem from important accessible way of reporting issues such students in general class discussions. reduced to individual incidents. Rather, cultural ethos and is supported by the as an anonymous online form so that Generally, they are considered to be individual incidents collectively fact that some students have the social concerns may be raised without the effective in assessing the effort a student demonstrate how institutions more confidence to speak up whilst others difficulties of having to email and chase has put into learning the week’s content. broadly affirm some peoples’ ways don’t - these ‘others’ tending to be down multiple people. The student However, what often isn’t considered of being over that of others. Without students of colour. mentioned at the beginning of this is the ways in which class participation generalising or engaging in some sort of These trends, of course, are article has not received any meaningful unduly disadvantages students of colour. victimisation, it’s important to highlight exacerbated for international students response regarding the incident that Class participation marks are just one that there may be several reasons as to who may already be self-conscious occurred, and sothus it is unclear that way in which university systems extend why students of East Asian backgrounds and shy about their English. Many any action will be taken despite the sheer and accommodate whiteness at the cost may be structurally disadvantaged in tutors dismiss the contributions of unprofessionalism and racist behaviour of students of colour. This is particularly the participation marks system. These international students in their classes by that occurred. the case for students of an East Asian observations have been detailed and nodding and pretending to understand Given the fact that so many similar background, who may face structural affirmed by Li and Jia’s research on East what they are saying even when they incidents go unreported or are not acted barriers in the tutorial setting. Asian student’s participation patterns in don’t. But it is difficult, because on the upon, it’s obvious that we need to have There are many examples of their study ‘Why Don’t You Speak Up?’, other hand having a tutor interrupt to better discussions on these issues. Both teachers who cannot tell students of and several interviews with different ask ‘can you repeat what you said?’ may to validate the experiences of students colour apart. In one recent, particular USyd students. be necessary for them to clarify and of colour, and to make sure something instance, a student of colour received East Asian cultures place immense allocate an appropriate mark, but can is actually done. As students of colour lower participation marks than they emphasis on principles of respecting be so off-putting for somebody who we shouldn’t self-doubt and self-blame had expected in their “on call week”, and one’s elders and not questioning their is already nervous about speaking in but rather realise and point out that this as a result contacted their tutor. It was authority, acknowledging that they have a language that isn’t their first. This is is a problem in the university system, then revealed the tutor had mixed up more wisdom and knowledge. These especially true given the expectation to external of ourselves. That will make all their marks with another Asian student values shape the general classroom speak fluently in such a short time - if the difference. words: andy mason who was also “on call” that week. Had structure of East Asian schools, which the tutor asks a question, students have they not contacted their tutor, the error focus more on the teacher’s knowledge to contribute immediately, otherwise someone else will speak up first. photography: katrina pascuttino Most importantly, however, East There are many examples of teachers who cannot Asian students will be more willing and able to participate in class when the tell students of colour apart. context makes them feel comfortable to do so as Li and Jia explain. In my opinion, a better way to conduct class participation would have gone unnoticed. Even in and authority in educating students would be assessing presentations, rather this specific course alone, this incident rather than engaging in a discussion than general discussions. Presentations was not anomalous. Just a week later, a where the teacher and students may be involve an equal amount of preparation different tutor confused two students of viewed as equals. In Li and Jia’s study, and effort, but actually, guarantee a colour who were “on call” in their class. many international East Asian students designated time for all students where How can one’s contributions be fairly stated that they were not used to the they can demonstrate their knowledge. hile the urban public argue with each other over in a summer sun so hot it melts the asphalt. Local Aboriginal valued and marked when their tutor can’t class participation in American classes In particular, it facilitates a greater the finer points of tax cuts and negative gearing, people face a bleak reality in which they do not have water on even recognise them? The experience of because ‘what they expected was to be level of confidence, especially for rural NSW is really hurting. Years of drought and students of colour is a frustrating one: good listeners in class and learn as much international students, because they can their own country, and grapple with what it means to culturally as hours of studying feel as if they have as they could.’ practice what they are going to say. The mismanagement of the Murray-Darling river system well as materially depend on a land which is being destroyed. But gone to waste merely because they The respect for elders is also visual element of a presentation aids Whave left entire towns without drinking water, and many residents these communities are also extraordinarily resilient, and you find remain invisible to the white structures translated into the value of showing a tutor’s understanding of a student’s feeling that they have no future. Walking through these places is like inspiring characters and powerful stories of hope as often as you in Australia. Naturally, the cost students politeness and respect to other students. knowledge without cutting them off or something out of a horror movie - boarded up shops, tumbleweeds find anxiety. This is a small story about one community effort to of colour bear, works to the advantage of This is not to say that other students do interrupting them for clarification, or at Art by Annie Zhang and dust devils blowing by, run-down weatherboard houses baking their white counterparts as tutors not also respect fellow peers, but rather worst dismissing their contributions. respond to this crisis.

8 9 water in Sydney using donated funds. The cargo was the water quality issues in both that town and nearby aspects of wellbeing. Rivers offer a crucial space to cool then driven to affected communities in volunteers’ cars. Collarenebri, claiming that the water is generally safe off, socialise, fish, and transmit cultural knowledge for Since then, the effort has evolved into a larger to drink. This has been contradicted by water testing local Aboriginal communities. Droughts are associated operation in collaboration with other community organised by Dharriwaa Elders group in Walgett, which with declining mental wellbeing and higher rates of groups such as Dignity Water and Menindee Water found that the bore water in the town has three times youth crime, especially in the punishing summer heat. Run. Water is purchased in bulk, sometimes including the safe level of salt. This is especially problematic for a This has led some local Aboriginal people to argue donations from supermarkets, and delivered by truck to community where salt exposure is already high because that the dominant water policy is essentially a form of communities where they are distributed by locals and of the town’s reliance on cheap, salty preserved foods. cultural genocide, and underpins real fears about the FIRE volunteers. It is these methods that have allowed And yet, the Bourke Shire Council inadvertently future of these communities. FIRE to deliver over 100,000L of water since January admitted the following: “We all grew up along the river and lived off of it to affected communities. Donations have come from “NSW Health has given advice to doctors about — yellowbelly cod, yabbies, mussels, you name it,” says all over NSW, including Goulburn, the Illawarra via the patients who may need special attention because of the Uncle Larry Flick. “With that river dry, I really worry for local Aboriginal Medical Service, and from Canberra. extra sodium in the drinking water. These are pregnant my grandchildren and great-grandkids. Without that Local organisations such as Dharriwaa elders group women, and people with advanced kidney disease, river us Murris are nothing.” and the Walgett Local Aboriginal Land Council have poorly controlled high blood pressure, diagnosed heart “It’s very simple,” says Uncle Larry. “If there were 20 also been involved in distributing donated water along failure and others who are on a low salt diet. Council million of us and 1 million of you, we wouldn’t treat with local volunteers. appreciates that some people are concerned about you like this.” During the summer, disastrous water quality levels the taste of the water. Chilling your drinking water While the installation of water filters provides a lead to the death of over a million fish at Menindee. can help reduce the salty taste. You could also add medium-term solution for Collarenebri residents, the In the aftermath, Menindee Water Run facilitated the flavouring such as mint, a slice of fruit, a splash of fruit water crisis remains an ongoing issue. The health of the installation of water filters for the entire community. juice or low-sugar cordial or make a flavoured brewed river system shows no sign of improving under current This medium-term solution allowed people to use tea, which may improve the taste.” government policy. The efforts of community activists the local town water, free from fear of adverse health Water quality information for Collarenebri is not — unionists and students hand in hand — reflect a impacts. Following this model, FIRE has decided to currently available, although previous alerts have been notable instance of solidarity. Yet, they also speak to provide water filters for Collarenebri, another town issued instructing residents to boil the town’s water the deeply broken nature of Australia’s government. reliant on stagnant weir water which could be filtered supply to ensure it does not contain harmful microbes. Many other communities are reliant on bore water, to an acceptable standard. Sydney University students FIRE is organising water quality testing for Collarenebri which contains unsafe levels of salt. This water is not from the Environment Collective managed to raise and will publicise the results when available. suitable for filtration by household systems and these $5,000 to contribute to this effort. The State Government has been largely silent on the communities will continue to depend on bottled water The sad state of the rivers reflects the lack of rain issue, despite significant political upset in the Far West, until local infrastructure is improved. throughout NSW for the last couple of years, but it is culminating in a state election victory for the Shooters In two weeks, FIRE will again be collaborating with also a fundamentally political issue. Cotton irrigators and Fishers Party, elected to the seat of Barwon largely Dignity Water to deliver 66,000L of clean water to the have a stranglehold on water policy in the upper on the basis of widespread outrage about the water town of Bourke. Murray-Darling basin. Scientists have argued that the crisis. over-allocation of water licenses to irrigators is indeed The Federal Government has simply suggested that If you would like to help, you can send money the primary instigator for the low levels of water in the the situation is a result of the drought, remaining silent Barwon, rather than being a product of the drought in response to requests for community assistance, and to FIRE: alone. There have been enough rain events further up investment in more reliable water infrastructure for Bendigo Bank SAWC Sydney the catchment with the potential to provide relief for these communities. Federal Environment Minister BSB: 633 000 towns such as Walgett and Collarenebri, but the water Melissa Price has continually refused to meet with ACC: 150 758 621 was intercepted by irrigators before it got there. community members about the water issue. In all levels of government have been some Water is not only fundamentally important for Write 'water gift' in the description. combination of ignorant, apathetic or negligent on this sustaining the health of these communities. The Dignity Water’s fundraiser link: ctivists from Sydney-based Aboriginal oxygen and has high levels of sediment and algae, with issue. The local Walgett shire refuses to acknowledge livelihood of the rivers is deeply implicated in other https://www.gofundme.com/water2drywest rights group FIRE (Fighting in Resistance residents complaining of the water’s foul taste and Equally), including a number of students numerous negative health impacts. “If our elders from Sydney Uni, have delivered water “You can’t even drink the water at home,'' says local Afilters to the town of Collarenebri this weekend as part resident and Gomeroi woman Louise Sims. “You get of an ongoing community response to the water crisis kidney infections, bladder infections, you’ll start to get in Western New South Wales (NSW). lumps on your skin.” can't drink the Collarenebri, located 750 kilometres North-West The majority of residents avoid drinking the water of Sydney, is a majority-Aboriginal community in the and rely on bottled water, either donated by community lands of the Gamilaraay/Gomeroi people. The town groups or purchased themselves. Bottled water is water and feel has been on Level Five water restrictions for a number several times more expensive in these remote areas of months because of the declining water levels in the than in Sydney, and residents in Collarenebri are often Barwon River, from which the town’s water is supplied. required to travel over 100 kilometres to supermarkets The Barwon River has not flowed for over nine in neighboring towns in order to purchase it. The like they’re months, and now consists only of a series of stagnant water’s foul taste has led to problems with dehydration pools including the one behind the dam at Collarenebri. as residents either avoid drinking or substitute water This has been a common prospect for many of the two with soft drinks. Given the town frequently ‘enjoys’ million people who live in NSW’s Murray Darling summer temperatures topping 45 degrees, this presents dying inside, Basin. a serious problem. Local Gomeroi elder Uncle Larry Flick has Matthew, a local nurse in the community says that been coordinating the delivery of donated water to the past summer saw record levels of admissions to the Collarenebri, and organised the distribution of water local clinic for cases of dehydration, especially among then it’s a filters throughout the community He’s lived in the older people. Another resident, Gomeroi woman community for 64 years and while there have been Alison Hinch, is deeply concerned about the health periods of drought before, Larry says the river has never impact of the water on older people in a community flow on effect been this dry before. Mr Flick was born in 1954 and where Aboriginal people already have a very low life aside from a few years of moving around, he has lived expectancy. “If our elders can't drink the water and in Collarenebri his whole life. Larry has 4 children, 22 feel like they’re dying inside, then it’s a flow on effect grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren. He is a big throughout the community, it goes right down,” she throughout the family man who aspires to be just like his inspiration says. in life – his grandfather. Larry has always respected Aboriginal men in Western NSW live on average 58 and maintained the voice of Aboriginal People within years, compared to over 78 years for the wider NSW his community and since becoming the chairperson for population. Uncle Larry is 64 and is the third oldest community, Collarenebri’s community working party, he wants to Aboriginal man in the town. Poverty, chronic stress and be a voice for his region. Larry is also a member of the poor-quality diets in an environment where fresh food Land Council. is very expensive are the main reasons for this. “That ‘65 drought was supposed to be a once-in-a- Since January 2019, FIRE has been fundraising to it goes right lifetime drought. But now that period is getting shorter deliver drinkable water to Aboriginal communities and it happens every 10 years”. in north-west NSW affected by this crisis. The efforts The water in the weir contains very low levels of originally began through the purchasing of bottled down.”

10 11 ANALYSIS ANALYSIS

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n light of a distinct lack of consultation between all factions represented on the 90th Council, Honi surveyed members of factions as to their views on the proposed regulations changes, which in part seek to remove satellite campus booths, estab- lish a new booth in the Abercrombie Business School (ABS), and permit circum- Istantial censorship of this paper during SRC elections. Overall, the regulations in their current form are not backed by those comprising Jazz Breen (Grassroots) the broad left of the 90th SRC. NLS decry in particular the lack of consultation in their drafting and passage. The main face in support of the new regulations appears to be SRC Vice President Prudence Wilkins-Wheat (Switch) Dane Luo, who supported the passing of the regulations at the last SRC meeting which were in breach of the regulations themselves. Luo has framed the regulations changes as a means of “providing greater clarity” and modernising the elections. It is certainly Removal and establishment of specific voting booths true that the regulations are clearer following Luo’s rewording. Problematically, as members of Advance, Switchroots and SAlt allege, that clarity is Here we see the continued right-wing preference for some degrees over others, and Dane Luo (Shake Up) used for a far more sinister end. For example, Luo claims the new regulations on Honi therefore a preference of some voting sections of the USyd population. Opening a booth are simply a more clearly worded version of earlier regulations which basically vested at ABS while closing booths at the Conservatorium and SCA is a poorly disguised at- the same powers in the Electoral Officer (EO). tempt to swing elections in their favour. He rather tactically leaves out the expanded time-frame during which these regs While it is argued that satellite campuses will be closed eventually, this change is The proposed reforms to the Regulations relate to the annual SRC elections and refer- changes would apply, which move from the “election edition” of Honi Soit to the entirety years away, meaning that people could potentially go through entire degrees without enda. The overarching principle that these proposals seek to achieve is to increase voter of coverage during the election period. the opportunity to vote on their campus. turnout and participation, implement the recommendations of the Electoral Officer and Additionally, Luo’s claim that closing down certain booths is justified due to dwin- The proposed change to remove booths from satellite campuses goes directly against ensure that elections can be conducted efficiently. dling number numbers of voters appears to adopt what is (at best) a disingenuous un- the proposed reason of establishing more booths on main campus ‘to reach more stu- The new Regulations are now coherently presented, clear and structured into divi- derstanding of the purpose of voting booths. In no other election are booths determined dents’. The proposed swap to postal ballots for these campuses is unrealistic, as those sions. Previous issues, incorrect references and omissions have now been addressed. on the basis of what can only be described as some sort of perverse key performance trying to implement these changes are well aware. The location and opening hours of election polling booths have been changed to indicator. Their function is to facilitate all voters exercising their democratic rights, re- It should also be mentioned that while the right boast that ABS has greater wheel- reflect the rapid redevelopment of the University campus spaces and respond to where gardless of how many people choose to take that right up. chair accessibility, the SRC disabilities officer has argued that this is untrue, due to an student populations will ‘centre’, reflecting the recommendations of the independent Luo’s reasoning seems to be similarly adopted by the Moderate Liberals, as is made incline. This further affirms the choice to move the booths is not motivated by a care for Electoral Officer. New wheelchair-accessible polling booths will be established at Ab- clear by the statement provided by James Ardouin (Mod-Lib), who in his own reason- students, but by a political motive. ercrombie Business School and Charles Perkins Centre to reflect these changes, includ- ing in favour of the regulations also refers to changing enrolment patterns. As for Honi ing when the Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery opens. Satellite campus being subject to censorship during electoral periods, Ardouin claims that the reforms Electoral officers power of Honi Soit polling booths will remain open and some have extended opening hours. However, seek to prevent defamation, though the same end may be achieved through, indeed, the where booths have historically recorded a very small number of votes, there will be existing defamation law of New South Wales. Under the proposed changes the EO has the discretion to suspend editors if they are a significant get-out-to-vote postal vote drive to promote efficiency. The location and Crystal Xu of Panda told Honi that, she will vote independently even if other Panda found to have ‘electoral bias’. Grassroots argues that this will be inherently subject to opening hours of the SRC’s polling booths must be sensitive and responsive to these councillors vote in favour of them. Her current view of the regulations is positive with the political leaning of both the EO and the Honi Soit editors, and could in no way be ongoing changes, if the organisation is to maximise participation in its elections. regard to the establishing of new booths, but cynical as to censorship powers over Honi implemented without any kind of bias from the Electoral Officer. Campaigners will now be prohibited from making defamatory statements. Defenc- Soit. Overall, this is a fairly obvious and undemocratic attempt to skew elections. These es will be available, including truth, honest opinion and comments made in the public This may make for an interesting vote on the regulations – Honi understands that proposed changes would change the way elections are run at USYD, they are undemo- interest. This is a more appropriate measure of acceptable communication in political Panda does not bind its members, leaving nothing absolutely certain. Neither Socialist cratic, under-researched and seek to electorally benefit those who are trying to imple- contexts. Furthermore, anti-discrimination provisions are placed in a standalone sub- Alternative nor Student Unity provided comment in time for publication. ment them. section to emphasise its importance to the SRC’s inclusive and all-welcoming organi- sation. The election of delegates to the NUS will be integrated into the electoral Regulations to reflect the Council’s longstanding position to be affiliated with the National Union of Students. Campaigning in another language will now be permitted both online and in print James Newbold (NLS) provided that a candidate will need to provide an accurate translation. With regards to Honi Soit during elections, the Electoral Officer is empowered to Abbey Shi (Advance) ensure that election commentary is not defamatory, breach the electoral Regulations or endorse a particular candidate. This is a pre-existing power that is already contained in This proposal would change how our elections work. That has long-term, severe, and It is understood that SRC constitutional changes are proposed to simplify the Regula- part 8 section 9(g) of the Regulations. The Electoral Officer — an independent, impartial often unforeseen effects on democracy and representation. Doing that without lengthy, Crystal Xu (Panda) tion, increase the accessibility of the election and promote voter engagement according official – is better placed to make these decisions than DSPs or the President as they robust, and collaborative consultation is careless and dangerous. to the SRC meeting agenda of 08 May 2019. However, it shows on contradictory terms are often candidates in the election themselves. As the official journal of the SRC that When electoral reforms were done in 2017, representatives from most political that the reform committee is imposing changes to cancel satellite campus voting booths is funded by the SC, Honi Soit is already required under existing Regulations to declare groups on campus met over many weeks to draft and debate them together, consulting Establishment and disestablishment of voting booths for ‘economic consideration’. conflicts of interest, exclude a conflicted Editor or reporter from commenting on the their members between meetings. It was slow and difficult but it achieved a genuine elections and state those conflicts in a reasonable sized font. These Regulations do not I agree with the establishment of new voting booths at ABS because increasing the It has long shown in the past elections that engagement in satellite campus are consensus and the reforms passed. The SRC was better for it. cut down on editorial independence. Instead, they reword pre-existing provisions and number of voting booths could improve student engagements in the school elections. far lower than the main Camperdown and Darlington campus, cancellation due to No attempt at consultation like that was ever made by the authors of these changes. codify historical practices. However, I don’t get the logic behind the proposal of disestablishing voting booths at a ‘economic consideration’ would only subduct their democratic interests in engaging the NLS believes many of the changes would damage the SRC and undermine its ability to I thank the many students who have contacted me with suggestions and ideas. This satellite campus. I believe voters from all campuses should be treated equally; the dis- election — they should be given the equal means to cast their vote. represent students while recognising that some would be positive. So we can’t support will result in amendments to improve the proposed Regulations, in particular to protect the whole proposal in its current form. establishment is slightly discriminatory to those voters at a satellite campus. It is also questionable how effective the promotion on replacement method of voting would be, in addition to the cancellation which is already quite a discouragement to free speech and water down some provisions. I welcome any feedback and am happy to provide detailed briefings on these Regulations — please email to vice.president@ Editorial independence and EO’s power the voter base. It is also quite disappointing to see no proposed changes on allowing src.usyd.edu.au. campaign in language other than English. In building a multicultural campus eliminating The freedom of political speech is implied by the Commonwealth Constitution, the discrimination on English as second language speaking students, the council should Lange Principle provides a guarantee of free speech with regards to any political mat- consider following Australian Federal Election electoral rules to allow other language James Ardouin (Mod-Lib) ters. Nevertheless, freedom is subject to other laws, e.g. defamation law. Editors should in SRC campaign. This is to encourage voter engagement, convey effective messages not make a baseless accusation or invade the privacy of candidates. Therefore, I think and initiate more communication in the election. editors should be mindful about this. The proposed changes on authorising EO to suspend anHoni Editor upon on egre- The Moderate Liberals have been closely working with students, councillors and SRC However, I don’t think it is appropriate to unreasonably expand the EO’s power in gious breaches also raises consideration on free press and over-empowerment of elec- executives to ensure these reforms to the electoral regulations benefit all students. order to address this issue. Because EO may not be entirely politically neutral or be- toral officer. EO should focus their duty on electoral matters, but not to censor press or These reforms seek to increase access to student democracy to reflect changing enrol- come in favour of certain factions during the elections (this is definitely not a sugges- carry any external duty during election time. ment patterns: whether it be through new booths or through foreign language provi- tion that the EO in the last SRC has been unfair or unneutral, but merely an illustration It is noted in section 51 of the SRC Constitution that the electoral officer is ap- sions. These reforms also seek to prevent defamation while striking the right balance of a likely situation). Honi editors and EO should be accountable for each other to pro- pointed by the Council. The reform committee should consider if the proposed changes with preserving free expression. Free speech is at the heart of democracy. We respect mote the integrity of the school elections. is extending the power of the Council to interrupt freedom of press in the succeeding the autonomy of Honi editors and oppose any unnecessary muzzling of publications. election. We have had SRC president Jacky He censoring content in the last USU elec- tion, the Council shall be aware that such mechanism would formalise censorship.

12 13 FEATURE FEATURE

Opus Dei’s anti-communist rhetoric was lauded. In the most reform-inclined and popular pope since John progressive issues — “care for the vulnerable” — while 1982, Opus Dei was made a ‘personal prelature’ by John XXIII, Pope Francis, isn’t able to sway this institutional emphasising the importance of strict social tenets What cross does the Paul and encouraged to increase its presence in Latin bureaucracy. With a reformist Pope in power, many in is not isolated to the electoral arena. The progressive America. the Vatican hierarchy are forced to reimagine themselves Jesuit high school I attended placed great significance Given the sheer size and global reach of the Church, as conservative dissenters. The institutional strength on producing “men for others” who would strive for the existence of a diverse political spectrum is not of the conservative Vatican wing, however, allows social justice. Progressive teachings were incorporated Catholic Church bear? surprising. However, the differing treatment of various dissenters to be influential and decisive. Any reform throughout the syllabus and community service ideologies by the Church begs justification. The instinct to conservative dogma, even by the Pontiff himself, was expected of all students. And yet, despite this Peter Dougherty maps the ideological hierarchies of the Catholic Church. for self-preservation explains the Church’s concern over is subject to review and criticism. Francis’ decision to commendable focus, the external hierarchy saw to strains of communism that are staunchly anti-religious. allow Communion to divorced and remarried Catholics it that conservative social tenets were present. The However, these concerns do not provide a basis for is criticised as heretical. After stating that atheists may school mandated that only female partners could be n the morning of 6 August 1945, Pedro Arrupe yet its logic is perplexing. the “option for the poor” — a principle which stressed fundamentally associating Catholic beliefs with enter heaven, the Vatican later clarifies that the Pope brought to school formals. It distributed the Sydney is surprised by a blinding light that floods his giving priority to those in the most marginalised politically conservative positions, nor for dismissing only intended to state that God’s grace was available Archdiocese’s pamphlets advocating against marriage Oroom. Opening his door, the young Jesuit faces * * * positions. Accordingly, its proponents posited that the theologies centred on social justice. to all. While in the secular sense of the word, Francis’ equality during the plebiscite. It warned students of the a deafening explosion. The walls of his home crumble best translation of salvation in their repressive contexts The local seeds of the modern association between sinful perils of masturbation. and blanket him as he is violently thrown to the floor. n 7 August 1981, paralysed by a stroke, was liberation — liberation from poverty and repressive Catholicism and conservatism in Australia are found These teachings reveal a disconnect between the As he rises to his feet, a destroyed city lies before him. Arrupe resigns as Jesuit Superior General. His governments. Adopting the class struggle dialectic, in the political migration of Catholic Australians institutional hierarchy of the Catholic Church and A group of young women painted in blood and blisters reformative stances and social activism see him many of liberation theology’s manifestations were during the second half of the 20th century. Historically, By shifting the focus of self-identifying Catholics. More than 70 per cent of O Australian Catholics believe abortion should be left drag themselves up his street. A steady procession retire as one of the most popular, albeit controversial, unapologetically Marxist. In Nicaragua, Jesuits featured the membership of the Australian Labor Party and Catholic doctrine towards of 150,000 injured Japanese civilians fleeing their Catholic figures in the world. Nonetheless, in an in the revolutionary Sandinista government. They Australian Liberal Party were divided along sectarian controversial social tenets, the to individual women and their doctors. The majority destroyed city would pass Arrupe. Using his medical unexpected turn of events, Pope John Paul II rejects even held ministerial positions in Government. In El lines. Working class Australians of Irish Catholic of Australian Catholics do not adhere to or agree with background, he helps those he can. On that day alone, Arrupe’s choice of interim leader and personally installs Salvador, Jesuits advocated for a negotiated settlement backgrounds found their natural home in the Labor Church continually falls short the Church’s teachings on premarital sex, contraceptive more than 70,000 Hiroshima residents would die. By Paul Dezza as Jesuit Superior General. Described as a between the government and guerrilla organisations. Party while British Protestants populated the Liberal of its mission to engage with use or civil divorce. By shifting the focus of Catholic the end of 1945, that number would nearly double. “papal smackdown” and a personal affront to Arrupe Six were murdered by government forces for their Party. However, during the 1950s, Bob Santamaria led doctrine towards controversial social tenets, the The witnessing of this scene of horror and mass and the Order, John Paul enrages many progressive efforts. the staunchly anti-communist Catholic wing of the pertinent economic and social Church continually falls short of its mission to engage slaughter marks Arrupe for the rest of his life. Later Jesuits. One Jesuit contends that John Paul’s actions During this period, John Paul accused the Jesuits Labor Party into a new party: The Democratic Labor justice issues. with pertinent economic and social justice issues. This spurred by the reformative potential of the Second are fuelled by the fear of a possible strengthening of of “causing confusion among the Christian people and Party. This fracture, coupled with the decision of the allows the Catholic Church’s most vocal teachings to Vatican Council, he heralds a socially progressive anxieties to the Church and also personally to the Pope.” Liberal Government to fund private Catholic schools, mirror conservative positions, as only conservative Catholicism focussed on serving the poor and Priests of various denominations promoting liberation paved the way for a great migration of disaffected progressivism may seem mild, his attempted reforms social tenets are thoroughly addressed. marginalised. He becomes Superior General of the theology were suspended. The doctrinal czar in this Catholic voters to turn to the Liberal Party. Demographic stand in stark contrast to the Church’s fierce past of Throughout all this, certain progressive teachings Jesuits, a historically conservative religious order Accordingly, its proponents Vatican crackdown was Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, a changes in the form of higher incomes and changing political conservatism. in the Catholic Church remain consistent. However, within the Catholic Church tied to establishment posited that the best translation theologically conservative ally of John Paul. Dubbing class interests only facilitated the flocking of Catholics This conservative institutional dominance isn’t the perceived synonymity between Catholic and power throughout the West. Many of his admirers of salvation in their repressive liberation theology a “singular heresy”, Ratzinger and into the Liberal Party. confined to the walls of the Vatican. Its doctrines politically conservative beliefs is furthered by would go on to lead activist campaigns and join radical the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith zealously And yet, as already suggested, the roots underpinning extend and influence how local Dioceses express prominent Catholics in the electoral arena who avoid leftist organisations. In him, they saw a progressive contexts was liberation — silenced proponents of liberation theology. Following the relationship between Catholicism and political themselves, especially in the electoral arena. No implementing legislation consistent with progressive Catholic leader capable of spearheading social change. liberation from poverty and John Paul’s accusations that the Jesuit Society was conservatism should not be surprising — they are clearer example is the Catholic Bishops’ Conference’s Catholic teachings. Nowhere is this more apparent engaging in “secularising tendencies”, Arrupe attempted found in a Vatican hierarchy that stifles progressive support for the Coalition for Marriage in the same-sex than in the offshore processing or refugees in Australia. repressive governments. to stem the tide of papal criticism. He limited the way Catholic movements. In reaction to liberation theology, marriage plebiscite. In the recent Federal election, the Catholic institutions have unanimously advocated * * * in which Jesuits could adopt Marxist analysis, allowing the Church silenced many of its most vocal proponents, Archdiocese of Sydney released a federal election guide for more humane processing or refugee applicants only for the adoption of methodological insights. rejecting any theological relationship with Marxist surveying the policies of various parties on four issues: in Australia. However, despite each of Tony Abbott, n stark contrast, Catholic doctrines in Australia Arrupe’s legacy. Another commentator labels John This attempt was ultimately unsuccessful. Ratzinger analysis. Historically, the Vatican adopted some of Life and Family; Education; Care for the Vulnerable; Malcolm Turnbull and Joe Hockey consulting with today are most closely associated with conservative Paul’s intervention an act of martial law. continued to view liberation theology as a threat to liberation theology’s terminology, such as the “option for and Religious Freedom. The issues canvassed a Jesuit priests during the 2009 Liberal leadership spill, Ipositions. For those who know the Catholic Church John Paul insists that Dezza, an 80-year-old orthodox Catholicism as it moved doctrinal focus away the poor.” Critically, however, it refused to import any broad range of progressive and conservative topics none followed the Church’s teachings on the issue. In as a propagator of homophobia and sexism, helmed conservative Jesuit, is the necessary “delegate who will from the sacraments and towards social justice. of the political significance of these concepts, therefore including Catholic school funding, offshore detention, 2013, when asked what Jesus would do in relation to by stern old white men, the two ideologies verge represent me more closely in the Society.” Writing to disabling any meaningful progressive implications. environmental issues and housing affordability. And asylum seekers, Abbott reminded viewers of Q&A on synonymity. There are good reasons for this. An the paralysed and now mute Arrupe, John Paul II cites * * * Modern priests who varied too far doctrinally faced yet, in an opinion piece accompanying the election that “Jesus drove the traders from the temple,” and increasingly senescent institutional hierarchy continues the necessity for a “more thorough preparation of the similar consequences from conservative members guide, the Director of Public Affairs for the Archdiocese that “Jesus didn’t say yes to everyone.” It appears that to strangulate progressive Catholic movements. As Society” before an election for Superior General takes of the hierarchy. The Jesuit Thomas Reese was forced conservative Catholics may themselves chose when uriously, Catholic groups of different political of Sydney claimed that the issue of primary concern a majority of Western Catholics move away from the place, effectively cementing temporary control over the to resign as editor of the America magazine for his the Vatican is incorrect. and ‘secular’ persuasions worldwide did not was religious freedom. The Director stated that this was rigidity of Church doctrines, a calcified Vatican further Jesuit Society. More than a year later, in preparation openness in discussing nettlesome issues such as the face similar treatment, despite themselves being fundamental to resisting “attempts to teach LGBTIQ sex entrenches strict social tenets on marriage, abortion, for the election of a new Jesuit Superior General, C Church’s relations with Islam and same-sex marriage. and gender education” in Catholic schools and allowing seemingly more problematic. The alleged ties between * * * and euthanasia. Catholic leaders in the electoral arena Dezza suggests the Jesuits should elect a conservative Today, a senescent hierarchy within the various conservative and fascist governments Catholic hospitals to refuse to “provide abortions, continue to push conservative agendas. And yet, successor and implies that Arrupe had committed Catholic Church continues to prosecute a and Opus Dei, a notoriously secretive IVF and surrogacy, gender reassignment surgery or n 2005, John Paul was afforded the luxury he banished to the margins of the Catholic institutional errors in his leadership. culture war which fixates on issues and ultra-conservative Catholic euthanasia.” The Director concluded by highlighting the expressly denied Arrupe: having a successor who core reside a significant number of progressive Catholic The seeds of John Paul’s resentment towards Arrupe such as abortion, same- institution, were ignored potential of minor parties in the Upper House, warning would further his own legacy. John Paul’s confidant individuals and institutions. Their relegation is the and the Jesuits were rooted in the latter’s controversially sex marriage and against a future where the Greens hold the balance of I by the papacy. If and fellow conservative, Joseph Ratzinger, was elected result of a bizarre fusion of political and theological progressive and reformist endeavours. The most euthanasia. anything, power and lauding the potential of another Australian as Pope Benedict XVI. Ironically, Benedict would be conservatisms. famous of these endeavours was found in liberation E v e n Conservative Senator to join Cory Bernardi in upholding Modern political conservatism is defined by an theology, a theology which emerged in a Latin America followed by a reformist Jesuit. religious freedoms in education and expression. For Perhaps the supreme irony, however, is that economic conservatism, underpinned by notions characterised by conservative military dictatorships as the Director, these were apparently more pressing of individualism and self-reliance, and a social a synthesis of Marxist analysis and Catholicism. while a reformed-minded Pope is unable to shift the concerns than offshore detention, education institutional hierarchy of the Vatican, the hierarchy conservatism, focussed on preserving traditional It sought to aid the poor and oppressed funding, housing affordability or institutions. Conservatism’s inherent relationship through political participation itself is proving to be increasingly irrelevant. Indeed, First Nations representation. Australian Catholics continue to vote with their feet with the institutional Church is certainly ambivalent. and social activism. At its The trend of Catholic notions of collective responsibility militate core was Arrupe’s as empty churches attest to Australia’s disillusionment promoting with Catholic institutional conservatism. against economic conservatism while many Catholic principle socially social teachings support social conservatism. Yet o f despite this ambivalence, the Catholic presence in Australia remains largely aligned with political conservatism. This phenomenon is not isolated to Art by Annie Zhang the modern Australian experience, and

14 15 PERSPECTIVE PERSPECTIVE Content Warning: Mental Illness Meditation: An antidote to our woes?

Alex Macintryre

For the uninitiated, which is the rendered consumable for capitalist similarities. Some of the central tenets of cynics, thus, would agree that meditation overwhelming global majority, the idea society. On one view, severing faith Buddhism (which meditation is supposed is an antidote to our woes — an antidote of taking a few minutes out of their from meditation and imbuing it with a to conduce) are the renunciation of which addresses the symptoms, rather busy lives to “do nothing” at all seems rational, scientific basis, is a necessary ego, greed and desire. Mindfulness than the systemic causes, of the problem. like an uneconomical use of time, if not step towards universalising the practice abandoned these religious virtues: So, should we accept these critiques utterly pointless. For its burgeoning so that its benefits are more widely the void filled by capitalist antipodes, wholeheartedly, or is there something disciples, however — those who prefer accessible. To the cynic, however, the egotism and individualism. Instead of positive that meditation can offer us? to start their day with their back upright mindfulness movement is little more encouraging the participant to transcend In my opinion, strongly influenced against a chair, eyes closed, merely than a fad, amounting to “white- the self, and furnishing them with the by my own experience of meditating paying attention to their thoughts and consistently over the past year, there sensations — “doing nothing” is an absolutely are. indispensable exercise. That is not to say that there is not an It is not difficult to explain why element of truth to the cynics’ claims, meditation has only recently begun but to acknowledge that they do to amass a following in the West. not represent the complete Since emerging in India around truth. For one thing, they are 400 B.C.E and promptly cynics, defined as such for spreading to China, the their proclivity to take practice of meditation has contrarian stances. remained substantially Indeed, some of the confined to the religious staunchest opponents and demographic of mindfulness, like context from which it notorious Slovenian sprung. After being Philosopher treated to intellectual Slavoj Zizek, are flirtation during well known for the Enlightenment, dismissing most kindled by Western facets of modern intrigue in the 1960s, culture (Zizek’s the phenomenon has favourite target is exploded in the last political correctness) decade. as malignant This surging creatures of popularity has been capitalism. generated and seized But the fact upon by a motley is, not all those crew of individuals and who meditate are organisations keen to reap rapacious capitalists its therapeutic and financial looking to enhance their benefits. In the first camp are work ethic. Many, myself those seduced by meditation’s included, are simply looking practical utility: lifestyle addicts, to find a way of coping with sufferers of anxiety and depression, anxiety, or achieving the mental companies trying to combat stress levels clarity necessary to be better to others. I in the workplace. Schools, government do not doubt that if the cynics took some organisations and even the military, washing” and cultural virtues to create a better world, time out of their brooding to properly are recent additions. In the second, the appropropriation. mindfulness functions as a temporary attempt meditation, they too would “meditation industry”: paid courses, app Perhaps the most scathing critics antidote to the pressures of everyday profit. While some courses, particularly developers and anyone else making a are those wielding the commodification life. Like the self-help industry, it is those offered by big corporations to profit from selling a meditation related argument. Here, the assertion is the perfect compliment to capitalism, their employees, emphasise productivity, product or service. According to a report not just that Eastern culture has anaesthetising workers to the stress and some emphasise compassion. For in 2015 by IBISWorld, the American been conveniently repackaged and banality of wage-labour so that they’re example, my go-to-app (and one of the meditation industry (excluding yoga remarketed to forward the bottom line able to work longer, more efficiently most popular), “Waking up with Sam and pilates) is worth around USD $1b. of meditation companies. Rather, they and without complaint. Headspace even Harris”, incorporates a Buddhist practice Apps providing guided meditation claim meditation has, under the guise contains a course of guided meditations called Mettā, which involves deliberately courses also attract a huge and growing of rationalism, been wrenched from its under the label of “productivity”, hardly wishing goodwill upon others. consumer-base. ‘Headspace’, one of the ethical and religious backbone and fully a notion that could be squared with Meditation is not, and nor does it most well-known, soared from 20.5m to co-opted by capitalism. In Buddhism, profound spiritual enlightenment. promise to be, the antidote to society’s ills. 40m downloads in 2018 and boasts over the practice of meditation itself is What’s more, the evidence seems to Only critical thought and political action 1m paid subscribers. similar to that of modern “mindfulness”, suggest that if work-output is what can rectify capitalistic machinations. But Although westernised forms of both in terms of purpose and method. you’re looking for, meditation is the if we can harness meditation’s benefits, meditation, such as yoga and mindfulness, The basic premise is that, by paying close practice for you. American entrepreneur while remaining vigilant of capitalism’s are derivatives of Hindu and Buddhist attention to thoughts and sensations as and investor, Tim Ferriss (a pretty well invidious hand, we will be all the better practices, they are far removed from they arise in consciousness, the subject rounded capitalist himself), interviewed for it. their rich religious and cultural roots; develops a sense of awareness and peace. 140 industry leaders and found that the Pawson Mackie Oliver by Art stripped down and secularised to be And yet, this is arguably the extent of the vast majority of them meditated. The Art by Olivia Allanson

16 HISTORY HISTORY

Labour songs: Hardcore Will An oral tradition of struggle Never Die?

Peter Burrell-Sander looks for musical inspiration in the history of the labour movement. The recent death of Australian ex-PM With the IWW outlawed by the was better than some of their contem- derstanding their value. These are words Robbie Mason waits for Bob Hawke serves remarkably well as Unlawful Associations Act 1917 under poraries, most will be familiar with the people could quite literally put their a launching point to consider how we Hughes and Labor and crushed in the enduring racism and misogyny that has voices behind. remember the struggles of the past. A United States, few would question the always been a part of the labour move- They combine the political urgency Sydney’s Gabber great many people are currently wres- fact that the IWW’s influence was at ment. By and large, these songs tell the of the protest chant with something of tling with Hawke’s legacy, the long-term best a thin shadow of what it once was. stories of white men, most of them set- an idea that when all ye workers gath- Renaissance. effects of the Accords and financial de- Yet, in their prime,the IWW had one tler-colonists. As always with history, er round, we can go beyond airing our regulation, of the broader internation- hammer in their toolbox that relatively we are required to take a position of “no grievances. Not only can we work to- al climate at the time and the fates met few groups can boast. Known as the “the gods, no heroes”; to recognise that while wards realising our common goals, we by organised labour elsewhere. Without singing union”, they chronicled their aspects of the past are appealing, there can celebrate and understand what it From the mid 90s, New South Wales was the hands. If you negotiate, you can do it. In the words of another local DJ: “The ney’s warehouse rave scene, but that it passing judgement on Hawke, perhaps trials and tribulations in musical form. are also myriad ways in which some means to be of the working class. home to an abrasive, globally-respected The results can be good. It’s not enough pioneers at the fringes with darker and is particularly suited to these night-time we can consider the general lack of pop- Before Chairman Mao’s little red book, things have improved. These songs offer us ghosts of the- fu network of hardcore techno producers to tell someone “this music will be really harder music no longer linger in clubs environments. ular understandings of labour history at there was the IWW’s little red songbook, The little red songbook may lack the tures that could have been. While they with a cult following. In Newcastle, Aus- good in this setting, trust me.” You have or licensed venues... The soul of Sydney Calmness amid chaos and yanking all. first assembled in 1909. Here was an perspectives brought to the table by a call from a century past, they show a tralia, Mark Newlands founded the label to give them something they know and is still truly alive, although people may people from their comfort zones is the How can we begin to ask people to accessible, convenient text that put longform editorial on the history of la- labour movement that overflows with Bloody Fist Records with two fortnight- love already. You get them comfortable, need to venture out from the city or inner goal: “With my fourth event, the night weigh the effects of any changes within theory, history and praxis in the hands bour relations, alongside the finesse of a hope and faith, which can truly see the ly dole payments. Cornered by smoke then you take them into that next space – west to find the leaders of innovation.” grew and grew and grew in intensity. It our political system when so many are of the average worker all in the one studio album, but they’re worth a listen realisation of its goals as possible. stacks, barbed wire, steelworks oper- whether mentally and physically.” With rave organisers such as Hex Yel- finished with Tim Gollan playing a hard nonetheless. They are, as the first release was sub- ations and concrete, the label became The prohibitively high costs of- li low rushing to plug the gaping hole in trance, gabber set. I’ve never seen peo- These songs are labour history made titled, Songs to Fan the Flames of Discon- a production line of its own for a pin- cenced venues for small communities Sydney nightlife for the darker, harder ple leave a warehouse party so orderly. by and for workers. Their very unpol- tent. ball machine of eclectic hardcore beats. such as the breakcore scene mean that end of the techno spectrum, Ivan touch- Everyone was so tired and exhausted Before Chairman Mao’s little red book, ished nature, in this sense, is key to un Meanwhile, Geoff Wainwright, aka Geoff some promoters and DJs are happy for es on a sense of possibility in our con- and satisfied.” Later, Ivan told me, “Sure, Da Chef, aka The Hardcore Fiend, pio- the parties to remain underground. Uti- versation – the possibility that we may house and disco is great during the day there was the IWW’s little red songbook, neered Blown Records, which released lising alternative spaces, such as ware- be entering a post-rave renaissance for but putting it in an industrial space de- similarly in-your-face tracks. houses and bushland, is vital. Recent gabber, as ownership over techno prolif- signed for a rave at midnight does not at first assembled in 1909. With titles like Shitbeater, Fuck Anna police clampdowns and exorbitant fines erates. Techno’s rising popularity means all serve its purpose. What is the function Woods and Cunt Face, these early hard- – under the guise of health and safety that long-time techno heads are “trying of what you’re doing? What is the logic?” completely unaware of the past, of how package. The success is plain to see in core tracks pin you down and forcefully and fire code violations – threaten Syd- to find new outlets that feel private and There is hope that Sydney will em- many of the struggles we face today are that much of the body of work survives inject post-punk angst with a steamroll- ney’s artistic growth. personal. Gabber is one of them. Ex- brace more experimental and darker the same old conflicts with a thin digital to this day, in some form or another. ing dose of tall-poppy syndrome — all music. The success of Soft Centre —a veneer? The phrase “pie in the sky”, meaning while telling you to lighten up. Bloody festival in western Sydney combining Going beyond a mere lack of acquain- an outlandish, utopian desire which Fist Records’ releases lurch between experimental electronic music, perfor- tance with specific events and dates, we could be granted only in some heavenly hip-hop, terrorcore, gabber and scratch- mance art and light installations — is must look more closely at how we un- afterlife, hearkens back to an IWW ing with exhilarating speed. The music just one example. derstand history. History is most com- classic – the Preacher and the Slave: earned the nicknames “amigacore” and As Ivan explained: “There is so much monly understood through a teleological “cheapcore” because producers (proud- pent-up energy because there are not perspective, one that views history as “You will eat, bye and bye ly) used archaic Amiga 600 computers. enough night-time options. When things something of a “march of progress”, often / In that glorious land above the sky Traces of this DIY, cut-and-paste men- go right in Sydney, the party can end up seen through the lens of technological / Work and pray, live on hay tality can be found in the production of being one of the best parties you’ve been advancements. The minor yet essentially / You’ll get pie in the sky when you die” later Australian breakcore artists, such as to. That’s on an international scale… With revolutionary act of imagining any alter- Passenger of Shit and Melt Unit. What the current political and social climate, nate future is not so much condemned While many who have attended a Australia’s east coast possessed was there is more of a punk attitude in those as it is beyond our capacities. We are left union rally or similar event may have something distinctively Australian, and a that didn’t necessarily have it before. with a hollow belief that we can make heard the chorus of the classic labour group of producers and DJs unafraid to More extreme music is permissible and mock the nation’s cultural cringe. negotiable.” In Sydney today, however, there are There is also hope that as the dance While they call from a century past, almost no spaces in clubs or in the under- music community reclaims hardcore

ground rave scene dedicated to hardcore. by Chris McClymont Photography techno, fans, promoters and DJs can rid they show a labour movement that Certain rave organisers caress the edges the genre of its past, toxic masculinity. of the hardcore spectrum with their son- As the Sydneysider behind Melt Unit treme noise and power electronics is an- Women such as Jemma Cole and Alice overflows with hope and faith ic brands and support hardcore artists, explained when I reached out, “I ran an other one.” Joel — part of the quartet behind Soft improvements, but lack real faith that anthem originally written for the IWW, while promoters like Gabber Central, event called Death Rave for many years, Part of this movement includes re- Centre — have played a vital role in the change truly is possible, that Fukuyama “Solidarity Forever”, being belted out, Noize Disorder and Nightvisions host giving a platform for underground pro- claiming gabber from its deformed cous- local hard dance revival and fostering di- was wrong, and history has not ended. few outside of the Trade Union Choir occasional club nights. A devout group ducers making experimental electronic in, hardstyle — a genre that has discard- versity within it, while on a global scale The Industrial Workers of the World are familiar with anything beyond that. of fans keep the scene alive but there is music. There was breakcore, chiptune, ed the relentless drive of hardcore for female producers like Vtss and Helena (IWW) were a potent political force Regardless of any personal stagnation in the quantity of events, and acid, and all the perversions and combi- radio-friendly drops, cheesy samples and Hauff have become figureheads for a -ra in the early ages of the 20th century. preferences, it does not seem likely that there have been more logistical and fi- nations within that spectrum. Knowing nursery-rhyme treble. In 2011, the Italian zor sharp, retro sound. Though they were by no means the mass public singing is about to make nancial obstacles after the momentum of it was a small audience for it, there was DJ Gabber Eleganza began to document Croy Broodfood, who has released first union, neither in the United States any sort of comeback. As far as labour the 90s and 00s. never a possibility of doing it in a ven- and archive gabber’s positive, early histo- music through Bloody Fist under He- where they originated, nor in Australia songs being actively sung by the many, While hardstyle artists are always a ue that actually wanted to make money, ry on tumblr. In homage to a man who donist and Template, notes in an e-mail — best known for being opposed to “Solidarity Forever” and “The Red Flag” safe booking for big music festivals like so we found our home in other people’s has pushed forward this revival, Hex to me that, while there is not much of a conscription — the influence they had (notably maintained as the UK Labour Midnight Mafia and Defqon. 1, it is often warehouse venues… we didn’t have to Yellow has brought Gabber Eleganza to hardcore scene in Australia, he has had a upon organised labour can still be seen Party anthem) are about all we’re likely risky for promoters to book an interna- worry about making it a viable business… Sydney for a show in June. few more gig opportunities lately: “there today. Here, that included helping create to hear in the foreseeable future. That tional artist whose repertoire focuses on Often whole sets were in-jokes, and we While Australian hardcore artists seems to be a renewed interest in those a mandate for an organisation like the doesn’t mean that we should forget the authentic hardcore, speedcore or break- revelled in our own little secret language. including Geoff Da Chef and Hedonist early or classic hardcore/gabber records ACTU. Familiarity with their work, rest of the canon. Yes, they’re sometimes core. The promoter behind Hex Yellow, There were gabber and speedcore acts still produce and tour (mainly in Europe or people making music in that vein.” however, is usually left to the arcane flawed, and often archaic in expression. Ivan, highlighted the difficulties in push- that were included in our parties, and where their cult following resides), they Many Sydney punters, tiring of tech- considerations of labour historians, Of importance, though, is their role as ing boundaries when I sat down with there was a big crossover between the fly under the radar at home. Ivan rallies no that no longer feels revolutionary, whose efforts, while worthwhile, historical artefacts. him: “You need to dangle a carrot in front two scenes. As our scene was so small against the binary images of dance music want to be challenged both mentally and are not exactly within the everyday It must be noted that these works of heads. The Sydney dance scene is very we had to crossover to survive, though fans in Australia. He asserts that hard- physically. Maybe, just maybe, gabber considerations of most. are far from perfect. While the IWW rigid. You really need to take people by that was never an intentional goal.” core not only deserves a place in Syd- will return in force.

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didn’t notice my parents being racially lighter hair. any ethnic experience. But it is rarely different — at that age I had no concept There is a definite exoticism attached explored in popular culture. of it. My home was a blend of Chinese to the idea of ‘mixed race.’ From a 2015 Many mixed-race people find redwood tables and leather couches American survey of multiracial adults, themselves living between cultures, kitchenby Victoria Cooper sink dramas from Harvey Norman, an oil painting 58% of the white-Asian group found not fully identifying with any side of East in of the Australian outback next to a that having a racial background more their heritage. It’s supposed that we are I Chinese calendar with the character than one race largely benefitted them heading into a post-race era, where most for ‘good luck,’ porcelain dolls and jade and 37% found it made no difference. people will be mixed, and the concept West plants. I accepted my home as my home, Out of all the groups, 19% described of race will eventually disappear. But Ten years of plummeting self-esteem and patchy sprigs of chest hair had left Jason and my parents as my parents. positive benefits and 4% had felt until then, how we are perceived often irritable and mushy. In his daily self-evaluation he slotted himself into three identi- It wasn’t until I visited family disadvantaged. Most reported they had has much to do with what race we ties: tired, unfit and uninspired. Today he cursed Moccona, his twenty-four-dollar, in China that I began to realise the experienced discrimination on varying are, and the external assumptions tied five-hundred-gram jar of deception. “Knock, knock. Who’s there? Not the hot Ital- Grace Johnson's differences between my parents. levels, whether being subject to racial to that race. This can be confusing to ian lady from the ad, just a cup of ‘Dark Roast’ that never truly dissolves in hot wa- First night in Shanghai: my mother slurs or treated unfairly by an employer, developing our own sense of identity, ter, and bitter, clag-like clumps of coffee on your teeth.” After testing his material musings on the racially blended in, speaking easily despite again tied to racial perceptions. apart from our cultural upbringing. on three mates, Jason posted his ‘Moccona roast’ to Facebook, got four thumbs-ups, being brought up speaking the Sichuan Since Samuel Morton’s hierarchy Perhaps because I observed my and a comment from his mum. Success. in-between. dialect (she only began to speak in the of racial superiority, there has been father inundate himself with Chinese standard Beijing dialect after meeting extensive investigation into the language and culture, and my mother my father). My father was treated scientific basis of race. In 2000, Craig choose to embrace her newfound II with great respect at having mastered Venter, a pioneer of DNA sequencing, Australian identity, my experiences Mandarin to such a high level in said at a ceremony at the White House: of being mixed were not so clearly reading, writing, and speaking. They “The concept of race has no genetic or defined. There were transatlantic Jason ate the final ‘Uncle Ben’s Savoury Chicken’ for lunch, and now pushing a lead- marveled at him and enjoyed when he scientific basis.” Yet race affects us still, crossings, if you like, within both of my erless trolley, he damned his 12pm appetite. Immediately disturbed by the happy picked their hometown just from the because we are continuously perceived parents. My father had spent several plastic sound of Coles’ overhead advertising, he swallowed his shivers and perse- way they spoke. according to the race we appear to most years living in China and a few years Art by Nell O’Grady vered. Confronting ambiguously titled aisles he put the dog food back on the shelf But there was not as much need for ‘belong’ to. after I was born, my mother became and, with no dents in his confidence, replaced it with a tin of baked beans. “Tinned hospitality and politeness when at a As I increasingly noticed differences an Australian citizen. She adopted food: what a joke.” distance. My parents, walking together in thinking and cultural background the relaxed parenting approach that I on Nanjing Road, were regarded in a between my parents, I began to realise noticed of my Western friends’ parents’, Stocked with white bread, frozen vegetables and three litres of milk set to expire way that was at once both appalled it within myself. The schools I went to while my father maintained the strict tomorrow, he challenged the fifteen-cent tax incurred for forgetting reusable bags and intrigued. I was stared at and some were generally divided between white attitude to study that my Asian friends’ by referring to the customer service representative by her nametag (“Listen here people stopped to take photographs of and Asian groups, which I awkwardly parents’ had. This meant there was no Art by Matthew Fisher Kate, I already pay my taxes”) — before becoming utterly dispirited by the way me. “Don’t worry darling. They think straddled. Any academic success was clear approach, as I saw it, to either his triceps jiggled as he wrestled his trolley on the uneven car park asphalt. Livid, you’re pretty,” my mother told me. “They automatically attributed to being sides of my heritage. But this is a Jason left his empty trolley in the vacant car space next to him and charged home. Offering to pay for her portion, Jason joked that it was 2019 and probably about I was born to an Australian father, like the ‘mixed’ look here.” And indeed, part Chinese. Apart from that, I was good thing, not defining, and therefore time she paid her own way in the world with feminism and everything, and left a translator of Asian languages, and blown up to gigantic proportions in fetishised because of my mixed heritage: restricting, any race or culture. Perhaps the waitstaff a tip he thought to be generous. Leaving the Hogs’ Breath Café, Jason a Chinese mother, who eventually the department stores were images I was ‘other’ enough to be exotic but not this means we are able to decide our III knew it was time to seal the deal: “Your place or mine?” The distant clacks of her trained to become a nurse. Both parents of Chinese women with Westernised too far from whiteness. There are worse own context instead, how we choose high heels left a five-foot-four-blonde bruise on his heart. spoke mostly Chinese to me in my features. The countertops were covered things I could recount, but most of my to amalgamate our cultural knowledge early years, so I didn’t speak English in products that promised to give you experiences are no better or worse than and experiences, however disparate, He introduced himself — with a little too much emphasis on the ‘jay’ in ‘Jason’ –— until I started going to preschool. I double eyelids, a slimmer nose, and other mixed-race experiences, let alone with the experiences of today. and shook her hand with a force he hoped improved his chances. Jason charmed IV her by asking for the wine menu and sweeping his serviette out to the side before laying it on his lap. The fact that it was made of paper didn’t matter, it was all about How an album predicted a post-9/11 world the intention. As the light outside folded into darkness, he watched as she swept up Now, 7pm Jason took to his gratitude journal. He revised the entries of the last two Matthew Forbes the final leaves of her salad and traced her finger along the rim of her empty glass. days:

“Nice joint,” he chuckled, drawing her attention to all the places on the map of the 15.05.19 In early 2001, Chicago-based rock band There are a number of these chaotic the context it was released in, it’s a tragic the racism directed towards Muslim, U.S. that he recognised. That’s it Jason, reel her in. 1. Beer Wilco finished recording their fourth passages throughout the album. ‘Poor reminder of the thousands of lives lost Sikh, Hindu, Arab and South-Asians by 2. Beer studio album, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. places’ builds into a particularly noisy that day, and plays into the singer’s the American government ever since 3. Beer After being dropped from their record ending, as waves of feedback and assertion that in these unpredictable the attacks. label, the band eventually decided to radio-like static overpower the serene times, “our love is all we have.” Some say a lot of these connections 16.05.19 stream the album on their website, instrumentation. During the track’s ‘Ashes of American Flags’ is one of are a stretch, but, Tweedy himself noted 1. Beer on 18 September. Eerily enough, it final 90 seconds, a muffled female voice the album’s most musically melancholic the “eerie echoes of 9/11” he heard 2. Beer was originally intended to be released is heard repeating the album’s title. songs, and the lyrics contain some on the album. Each component of the 3. Beer exactly a week before. The words ‘Yankee’, ‘Hotel’ and of its most blatant foreshadowing.“I songs on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot had their Yankee Hotel Foxtrot would have ‘Foxtrot’ are all part of the NATO wonder why we listen to poets when own meaning well before the post-9/11 He refrained from his usual wittiness today. been emerged into a world of chaos and phonetic alphabet, which is used for nobody gives a fuck” Tweedy sings, world came to be. But the unintentional unbearable grief. Millions mourned numerous contexts involving radio commenting on the futility of the artist’s predictions scattered throughout the 17.05.19 their losses while simultaneously communication ­— one of which, abstract attempts to rationalise the album cannot be ignored. Sentiments 1. My home brew skills trying to come to terms with the reality and aptly in this case, being in-flight. world around them when rationality of loss and confusion that make up so 2. My soft heart — it doesn’t just beat, you know of an unprecedented and unexpected Even with that haunting connection has vanished from the world. Though much of the album also define much of 3. My sense of humour loss of life. as well as the shattering disregarded, so many disturbing one of the closing lines, “I would like the attitudes and emotions that ceded of their sense of safety in America. themes are captured in this finale –— to salute / The ashes of American the attacks and that shaped society as Pausing momentarily, he stared at his words and grappled with the idea that a legit- Listening to the album now, it is impending destruction, the decay of a flags”, was probably intended to be read we know it today. imate gratitude journal entry could poke a gaping hole in his manhood. Deciding to inexplicable how many of the songs sense of self, feelings of uselessness — as praise of flag burnings as forms of “own it”, he smashed a Corona and reclined in front of I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of on the album accurately capture these all of which are characteristic not just concrete expression, its meaning would Here, forgetting to call his Mum for the fourth day in a row. reactions. the few years that followed the 9/11 have vastly shifted upon release. The record’s opener, ‘I am trying to attacks, but of the world as we now Elsewhere on the album are break your heart’ is a subdued piano- know it. The nihilistic outlook of it all smaller yet just as sure instances of V led track for the most part, but it gets is perhaps depicted even more precisely prescience. The title of ‘War on War’, increasingly off-putting as it progresses. through the bleak and fatidic lyric: “it which is repeated throughout the song, At a melodic level, a sense of disorder makes no difference to me / how they in a post 9/11 world can be tied to the Tequila shots shrouded his Friday night pub crawl in a pungent cloud of nostalgia. arises throughout the song, specifically cried all over overseas.” justifications for the U.S. led invasion Jason knew he was not eighteen anymore. One indicator was the way the elastic of through the odd embellishments Lyrically, there are several other of Iraq in 2003. ‘Pot his chinos functioned less and less like a design feature, now interrupting the blood that clash with the mostly placid prophetic moments throughout the kettle black’ calls out the flow to his feet. But, despite the increasingly heavy burden of dissatisfaction, Jason instrumentals such as the scraping album. ‘Jesus, etc’ contains front man double standard that knew that little had changed. He and his friends would still gawk at twenty-two- of piano strings, that ultimately leads Jeff Tweedy’s eeriest prophecy on the belies ones critiques year-old blondes who were way out of their league, and crown whoever spewed to an anarchic ending. The unruly album: “Tall buildings shake / Voices of other people. This first as a ‘bloody loose cannon’. So, he sucked in the spirited air, slurred through atmosphere of this nearly musically escape, singing sad sad songs”. When I draws parallels to the ‘Working Class Boy’ in three pubs, became reliant on his mates for structural sup- incoherent section is overwhelming, first heard this album in 2017, this line hypocrisy of post- port and woke up the next morning with a headache unparalleled to that of his much like the globally-felt confusion didn’t seem like it could be referring to 9/11 patriotism and youth. ‘I’d do it again, but’. that grew out of the 9/11 attacks. anything other than the 9/11 attacks. In ‘togetherness’, given Art by Ludmilla Nunell 20 21 CULTURE OPINION Music whilst studying: Are you losing your WAM? How the right twists our perceptions of academics Austin Fong questions the playlists behind our study. The leftist agenda in academia is not as real as you think, writesEllie Stephenson

avoided music whilst studying, students one of their skills-based workshops. Lastly, three interviewees revealed A common cry of the bloodthirsty right and a communist, but they would both left-leaning work; and they overstate the denialism. “Music is enough for a lifetime, but who listened for motivation, and But for some, silence is not golden. that listening to music was a “gateway” wing in the culture wars is that academia likely identify as ‘left-wing’. Given that, existence of radicalism in academia in The claims of bias play another a lifetime is not enough for music.” students who listened for inspiration. Seven interviewees identified music as to inspiration. As Jayden explained, has a secret, corrosive Marxist agenda, it’s dubious that a biased agenda or leftist the first place. Why do they persist? purpose: they feed into an ideological More than half the interviewees motivating them to study. In contrast “listening to instrumental music gives indoctrinating the youth with leftism ‘groupthink’ really permeates academic Promoting distrust of academia serves distaste for access to tertiary education. Rachmaninoff’s words float into my said they never listened to music whilst to the non-listeners, music and the a rhythm to my work and helps me do and producing irredeemably biased thought. right-wing populists well. For one, social The ‘Left’ has been the source of historical head whenever I am on the train in a studying, completely abandoning it physical presence of earphones reduced my creative writing and structure my research. This claim is used to damage On top of that, any education about liberalism is correlated with higher levels pushes for opening up universities to thick sea of earbuds and headphones. on everything from simpler tasks like distractions, preparing them for a study internal monologue”. the credibility of academia generally, left-wing thought is seen to be biased, of education, making it decidedly in the working class students, fighting to make An otherwise monotonous commute is making notes to more complex cognitive mindset. As one student said, “listening “Different songs make me feel undermining its perceived authority and while centrist and neoliberal takes are interests of conservatives to suggest that university free and opposing moves to sporadically broken by music leaking processes like research. Their reasons for to Satie reduces my anger when studying different emotions and I can use those framing the right as under attack from usually viewed as inherently apolitical. academics, who are by nature highly deregulate fees. from them.The train is not the only place avoiding music were diverse, including law [which is a trek]. If I didn’t listen to emotions to enhance what I’m trying to elitist socialist academics. It’s worth Where a neoliberal economics subject educated and often educators, are not But this threatens universities’ place passionate music lovers thrive. USyd’s that music is sleep-inducing, and deep- him, I wouldn’t study law”. The musical write,” Jayden said. examining this pervasive claim, why it’s seems neutral, a Marxist political credible. By arguing that experts cannot as a home for wealthy young people to libraries are full of bon vivants listening rooted habits towards silent study. range was not just limited to classical Another student, Jared, said that so popular, and what purpose it serves. economy unit referentially becomes be trusted, their political positions — entrench their privilege and for the upper whilst studying or even whilst watching However, what unified all 13 responses music. Other interviewees listened to music helped him time his study blocks. The most puzzling aspect of politically charged. Pro-Western Liberal however internally justified and well- classes to dominate research, public lecture recordings. For most students, a was a common belief that music is a lo-fi, Kpop and Western pop music, “Often piano sonatas are usually 20-30 accusations of left-wing bias in academia Democracy standpoints are seen as researched — are made suspect. thought, and the media. Presenting good Spotify playlist is a must-have for distraction, a claim grounded in current reflecting individual preferences. Music minutes in length so I can use my music is the implication of conspiracy. The default; anything else is radical. This Pertinently in Australia, where beliefs universities as overly radical and study. But is studying whilst listening to academic literature. A 2014 Cardiff preferences plays a big part in elevating to keep track of time”. The University of presence of lefties of various shades in makes it easy for conservative pundits to about climate change are anomalously untrustworthy suggests that academia’s music a WAM killer? Metropolitan University study found mood as discovered by Nantais and Windsor study hinted at this dimension universities is often framed as resulting overstate the presence of bias within our polarised, and denial is an established current work is value-less: simply look at The first answer is perhaps that listening to lyrical or instrumental Schellenberg’s 1999 study on how music where “knowledgeable music users knew in discrimination against conservatives, educations. Moreover, the concern that conservative political position, it’s also rhetoric about jobless arts students being unsurprising: Yes, music is distracting music whilst answering questions affects mood. Testing a sample size of with certainty which music enhanced the propagation of biased viewpoints, academics are biased to the left implies helpful for the right to erode faith in fed with a left-wing agenda. In doing and therefore a detriment to your produced a poorer performance than 84, they found “exposure to happy music their work”. A “significant” correlation and the pushing of particular political that their progressive slant is unjustified. science. While right-wingers would so, it becomes easier — if not actively primary task of studying. But this completing the questions in silence. [music that listeners liked] also results was then found between curiosity and agendas. If a majority of academics Perhaps it is reasonable for academics have us think they are the purveyors of popular — to cut funding and other position is far from clear. A deeper With a sample group of 30 students, in faster speed and greater persistence positive mood suggesting that listening lean left, it’s unclear why that should in particular fields to overwhelmingly facts and logic, evangelical Christianity forms of support to universities’ work. examination reveals that music can be a they identified that background music on various [perceptual, cognitive and to music helps align a student with be construed as being organised or reject conservatism or neo-liberalism if and fossil fuels interests combine to Anti-academic rhetoric is a harmful motivator and overall net benefit rather “impaired seriation (serial recall or motor] tasks”. In saying that, the study optimum creativity. collusive. Instead, it seems plausible that their work leads them to that conclusion. incentivise opposition to scientific tool of right-wing populism, used to than an interference. With a divisive mental arithmetic) and semantic only used classical music however it Your WAM is the product of a — as with any profession — particular Claims of bias in education, then, consensus. When universities are taken shut down opposition and demonise academic literature, the answer might processing (reading comprehension)”. remains feasible that these effects could combination of psychological factors like types of people tend to work as academics are unconvincing on a number of to be ivory tower hotbeds of Marxist expertise. Despite being unfounded, require examining student opinions on For students, listening to music apply to lyrical music. Those findings wconcentration, ability and motivation. and have their own personal beliefs that levels: they assume that some statistical sentiment, it’s far easier to present the allegations of left-wing bias in academia an individual level. may lower performance when were reaffirmed in a 2005 study by the As it stands, music can improve your remain largely separate from their work. tendency to the left constitutes an climate crisis as a progressive talking are regrettably effective in undermining I interviewed 23 undergraduate combined with study tasks like note- University of Windsor which found creativity and motivation whilst also These worries also foolishly conflate a agenda or movement; they unreasonably point rather than as empirical reality. academics work. This is not by accident, university students of varying ages and taking or understanding textbook that “music could be a reliable cathartic potentially hindering your concentration whole spectrum of left-wing and liberal homogenise the left, seeking to This is then used to paint climate science but motivated by a disregard for degrees to understand why students content. Likewise, Sydney University’s outlet” and improved quality of work and memory. Given the right use, music thought. There is little in common substantiate accusations of groupthink; as oppositional to the average, common- research, critique, and democratic access listen to music whilst studying. Their Counselling and Psychological Services and productivity when IT workers can be a force for good. Our WAMs may between a socially progressive centrist they refuse to give merit to justifiably sense person, thereby legitimising to education. responses were then categorised into have advised that music whilst studying were allowed to listen to music whilst well be grateful for our carefully crafted three common answers: students who is a distraction in “One day at a time”, working. study playlists. Phreaking out: a history of phone hacking

Albert Jagger ponders the fading art of landline phone hacker.

When people talk about hacking, it’s took advantage of their free calls, calling Phreakers took privacy invasion to be referring to jailbreaking or rooting a more often than not associated with the people from all over the world whenever new levels when it came to answering mobile phone’s operating system. Hardly internet. Throughout the later half of the they liked. Some phreaks also turned machines though. One feature that many anyone uses payphones anymore, and 20th century however, long before the a profit through red boxing. Using a answering machines had was remote many systems have received upgrades internet rose to worldwide dominance, red box, they would intentionally call administration, meaning you could that made previous attacks obsolete or the hackers of the time caused mischief a disconnected number, before calling call from another number and check if much harder to perform. It is unlikely in other ways. “Phreaks”, as they were the operator to ask for a refund. Usually anyone had left you any messages. If you that you will find a payphone in the called (a combination of “phone” and the phone company would offer to wanted to do this you’d have to enter States that you can redbox. In recent “freak”), used to manipulate telephone mail a cheque for the coins that were a password, though most users didn’t years many people are opting to not networks into performing actions that (apparently) deposited. bother. A lot of answering machine have a landline phone, making beige were not intended. boxing a thing of the past too. As we Most phreaking took place in the transition into the future, it’s likely that United States and one of the more opportunistic hacking like redboxing famous techniques used was known Long before the internet rose to dominance, will become a thing of hacker nostalgia. as red boxing, a practice that involved hackers caused mischief in other ways. tricking payphones into thinking that a coin had been inserted without actually FAMOUS PHREAKS inserting anything. Phreakers would A much riskier variant of red brands had default passwords, meaning play a “red box tone” into the phone — boxing also existed. It was called “beige all phreakers needed was a copy of STEVE WOZNIAK: Cofounder of Apple a sound that imitated the actual sound boxing”, which, in essence, consisted the user’s manual to access people’s generated when a coin was inserted — of wiretapping a landline telephone. messages remotely. Answering machine to trick the phone into thinking it had Phreakers would find the telephone passwords were often very short and JULIAN ASSANGE: Founder of Wikileaks received a quarter. Phreakers would network interface — typically a beige could only consist of numbers. Using a play a multi-frequency tone operating at box — on the side of a house, insert a variety of tricks, phreakers could usually 1700 Hz and 2200 Hz simultaneously 5 couple of their own wires, and all of guess a password after a few minutes of JOYBUBBLES: A famous phreak who was times for 33ms each with 33ms pause in a sudden have the ability to answer inputting numbers. Through use of the blind and could whistle the blue box tone between each tone using a modified tone and call on others’ behalf. Because De Bruijn sequence — a method that dialler, otherwise known as a red box — telephones operate on analogue signals, allows for every possible combination of a term rumoured to have been conceived it’s both extremely simple and dangerous numbers to be inputted — a three digit JOHN DRAPER: Also known as Captain after the first person to use the technique to make your own beige box with a password could be cracked in just over Crunch, John Draper discovered that a toy coloured their tone dialler red. landline phone. As beige boxing involves 1000 key presses. whistle from a cereal box could be used to In the era before cheap phone plans, meddling with wiring, any phreaker Phreaking as it was in the past is dead. make a bluebox tone long distance and overseas calls could doing so when the phone rings could be A lot of the time when people talk about cost up to $15USD to even dial. Phreaks in store for a nasty shock. “phone hacking” nowadays, they tend to

22 23 SRC REPORTS SRC CASEWORK HELP

Note: These pages typically belong to the Office Bearers of the SRC. President In the absence of reports this week, Honi reminds readers of the cost of the university's student leaders. Tenancy: When can Jacky He the global temperature increasing by decrease the amount of carbon dioxide SRC Breakfast class and the SRC has saved them from your landlord enter Call for Actions on Climate Change approximately 1.9 Farenheit ever since that we release into the atmosphere, the On Friday 17th of May, the University of feeling hungry during lectures. A few 1880, and the ice sheets melting at a Earth will eventually be inhabitable as Sydney Student Representative Council students also stayed around to speak The recent federal election has seen rate of 413 Gigatonnes every year, this sea levels rise to engulf the lands, and held its second SRC breakfast event on our SRC office-bearers to get to know your rental property an increasing importance amongst the means that more infrared radiation is temperature rises to beyond what is Eastern Avenue. The event has attracted about the SRC and the services we public on the topic of climate change. trapped in our upper atmosphere and bearable by human. We are facing an around 100 students in total who came provide. Climate change is a pivotal issue that will the greenhouse effect would lead to an urgent situation, and I would call upon by to pick up their free breakfast along If you are a tenant on a lease (a premises they can only do that 4 times in have a severe impact upon the future of ever-increasing global temperature. the University to take initiatives to the way going to their morning class. ‘Residential Tenancy Agreement’) then any 12-month period and need to give 7 the young people of nowadays – that is, Climate change is not an issue to counteract climate change, and to lobby We received many positive feedbacks our generation. With the concentration be doubted about, climate change for more actions against climate change and accolades from the students, many you are ‘entitled to quiet enjoyment days notice each time. For necessary, but of Carbon Monoxide increasing at is REAL. If the society doesn’t take from the government. of whom expressed that they have not of the residential premises without non-urgent repairs they need to give 2 411 parts per million per year, and actions to mitigate climate change, to yet had breakfast due to early morning interruption by the landlord.’ This means days notice. For properties that become when you rent a house or apartment for sale, they cannot take photos of your your landlord should not interfere private property, e.g., your bed, your with your ‘reasonable peace, comfort or couch, your clothes that are stored in the Wom*n's Officers privacy’. It is not limited to the amount built in wardrobe; and can only show Gabi Stricker-Phelps and Crystal Xu of noise in your home. For the period of prospective buyers through 2 times in a ENID Platform: ensure we populate ENID with content the case that this student has not got regarding the history of the service, If you have any comments or want the lease, the landlord and their agents week and giving 14 days notice for the that is relevant and relatable. ambulance cover and is recommended funding allocation for the service, and to discuss women’s safety on campus should leave you alone, other than for first showing, or as agreed, and and 48 As indicated in our project plan, we to go to hospital via an ambulance. new ways to offer this service rather contact us. specified reasons. They should not drop hours notice each time after that. intend to make a number of videos Campus Security and Walk Service than just through qualified security to promote our ENID platform, SRC Update: The other major issue raised was guards to ensure people feel safe on in unannounced, give notice of visits and services and women’s services on regarding the fact the Security Walking campus particularly at night. We will Facebook: USYDWomen2019 seek your consent to come into the house the landlord and campus. Video focus topics intend In the meeting on Tuesday May Service at USYD is no longer available. continue to consult CIS to ensure we Email: [email protected]. or apartment. to reflect the diversity of feminist 7th, we discussed Consent Matters Campus Infrastructure Services (CIS) set up a similar service. au their agents should values and activism on camps, fashion Progress report, student group when asked prior has responded that Visit Us: TUESDAY( 1-2:30pm) or via A landlord or their agent must also interests, female entrepreneurship and updates and matters arising, student there were concerns regarding the fact Also did you know that USYD offers a appointment ‘take all reasonable steps to ensure that career development etc. The detailed communications feedback and an that the service may attract predators free shuttle bus service around campus the landlord’s other neighbouring tenants leave you alone plan for the first episode will be update from CIS- Security. We raised to the area. We have asked for a and to central transport hubs. If you are discussed in next week USYD Women points regarding ambulance cover for more thorough justification as to the interested look at for the posters around do not interfere with the reasonable There are a couple of reasons they meeting. If you want to become “ENID international students and whether the removal of this service. The outcome campus or visit this website: https:// peace, comfort or privacy of the tenant can enter without consent or notice. Famous” we want YOU - incredibly university would consider covering the of the meeting on 7 May was that CIS sydney.edu.au/campus-life/getting-to- in using the residential premises’ (NSW For example, the landlord (or sometimes talented USYD women- so that we can cost of an ambulance for a student in will investigate the current situation campus/campus-bus.html Residential Tenancies Act 2010). For a tradesperson working for them) can example, if there are noise problems in enter your residence without consent your block of apartments you can ask or notice; in an emergency, to do urgent Education Officers them to action through the block’s Body repairs, or if they have an Order from the Corporate. It is unclear as to whether NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal Jessy Xu and James Newbold a building site nearby is considered (NCAT). Even in these cases there are a breach, or whether this applies to some limits on entry without consent. Xu and Newbold have submitted There is no Education Officers’ You can contact the Education neighbours that do not share your If your privacy and ‘quiet enjoyment’ 1/6 reports this semester. report this week. Xu and Officers by email at: education. landlord. is constantly disrupted, you can apply to Newbold are each paid a total of [email protected] What ‘reasonable peace, comfort or the NCAT for an order for the landlord to $12,945.60 and superannuation privacy’ means may vary depending stop, for you to change the locks or break totalling $2,459.66. on the circumstances. There are a set of the lease without penalty. Seek advice rules about them seeking consent and from an SRC caseworker. providing notice for them to come into Indigenous Officers your place. If they come to inspect the Akala Newman and Thomas Harrington SRC caseworker help Q&A The Indigenous Officers are There is no Indigenous officers' You can contact the Indigenous unpaid office bearers of the SRC. report this week. Newman and Officers by email at: indigenous. Harrington have submitted [email protected] Ask Abe 0/4 reports this semester. Renting: Ending a Lease Dear Abe, halfway through your lease, or 6 weeks if you are less than halfway through. International Students Officers I just found a great new house with my Jahanzaib Lashary, Yilan Wu, Ken Leung, and Janet Lin 2 best friends. We move in two weeks An alternative to consider is transferring time. However, I still have 2 months left your tenancy to someone else with your The International Students Officers There is no International Students You can contact the on my lease. How do I tell my landlord? landlord’s consent. are unpaid office bearers of the SRC. Officers' report this week. Lashary, International Students Officers Can I get into any trouble if I just stop Wu, Leung, and Lin have submitted by email at: international. paying rent? “Rent strikes” are not considered a 0/3 reports this semester. [email protected] legitimate course of action, regardless Moving On of the circumstances. If you stop paying When does your rent you will probably not get a refund for your bond, and you can be taken International Students Officers student visa run out? Dear Moving On, to the tribunal and ordered to pay any It is your responsibility to ensure that you comply with all your student visa additional amount that you owe. It may Hayley (Luoyu) Zhang, Flora Zhao, James Ardouin, and Annabel de Mestre conditions, especially the length of stay allowed under your visa entitlement. A lease is essentially a contract that you also lead to you being placed on a rental You can find out about all the applicable visa conditions and your visa expiry date using the make with your landlord. You can ask blacklist, so please think carefully about The Residential College Officers are Zhang, Zhao, Ardouin, and de You can contact the Residential online service (Visa Entitlement Verification Online – “VEVO”) on the Department of Immigration your landlord if you can terminate your whether this is something you want to unpaid office bearers of the SRC. Mestre have only submitted College Officers by email at: and Border Protection website. Use this URL: https://online.immi.gov.au/evo/firstParty lease early. A standard fee for breaking risk. 2 of 3 reports this semester. [email protected] When accessing this online service, you will need your passport number and other the lease early (i.e., moving out before identification details which can be found on the visa grant email sent by the Department. your end of lease date) is the equivalent Abe If you are not sure how to use VEVO or have trouble with this online service, you of 4 weeks rent, if you are more than can get FREE help from the SRC registered migration agent by contacting 9660 5222. Stipend figures are sourced from the 2018 SRC Budget*. All stipends are funded Make sure you put the visa expiry date in your calendar and remember to NOT overstay your visa! 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