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illustration by aimy nguyen Uni failing Indigenous students opinion The road to hell is indeed paved with ‘good’ intentions, write Laura Webster and Kyol Blakeney.

In its various attempts to range of Aboriginal and Torres together.” Perhaps Houston much to be desired. Typically, strengthen and grow its Aboriginal Strait Islander student support actually meant, ‘We’ve found consultation only occurs after and Torres Strait Islander services and structures, including ways of sitting down and moving strategies and policies have community, the University of cultural advisory councils, elders forward in the direction that I already been approved and Sydney has obliterated it. in residence, and 24-hour access to want.’ implemented by the university - safe spaces where support staff are and that’s if it occurs at all. In 2011, USyd appointed Professor permanently located. Such services To date, Houston has moved Shane Houston as Deputy are non-existent at USyd, which student support staff from their Houston can hardly claim to be Vice-Chancellor of Indigenous compounds the loss of our only accessible location in the Koori ignorant of our wishes. He has Strategies and Services, an support network, the Koori Centre. Centre to a fifth-floor office been presented with several important step for the University across campus. He has stopped petitions, he has attended students developing Indigenous culture on Since his appointment Houston Indigenous Tutorial Assistance meetings to hear our grievances, campus. At the time, it seemed as has consistently undermined Scheme (ITAS) sessions from and he had witnessed the mass though Indigenous students and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait being held within the computer rally held at the end of 2012 staff finally would finally have a Islander community that USyd lab. He has consistently ignored protesting his changes to the Koori person in upper level management students and staff have worked input from Indigenous students, Centre. we could rely on to act in our best decades to create. The University’s making them feel disrespected and interests. In 2014, we can now say website features a staff profile disempowered. for certain that we were wrong. where Houston explains that, continued “We used to march in the street, Students within the Koori Centre on page 7 Universities such as UNSW, but now we’ve found ways of have stated that Houston’s method UTS, and UWS have a wide sitting down and moving forward of student consultation leaves

v i s i t o u r w e b s i t e a t honisoit.com 3 Letters 14 The trials of the majestic ibis letters 4-5 News 15 Review: Nymphomaniac 6 The Manning Files 16 YIMBY: Housing & Holme Watch. We cannot, and we must not, of publishing this story. Mooting the workplace Catholics people 6 University rankings 17 SRC Help Palestine o’clock overlook these crimes. We must not questions are regularly adapted from deserve the same protections Contents 7 Using sexuality to get ahead 18-19 SRC Reports shy away from them, lest we become old questions or real cases, although against discrimination as genuine It is time to talk about Palestine. complicit in our silence. they are usually attributed to the marginalised groups, that is not 8 Flies are getting it on 20 Puzzles and quizzes original source. While the ‘author’ the case for Honi Soit. Debating or honi soit The late Palestinian poet and It has been almost 70 years since probably should have mentioned it mocking religious beliefs in public 9 A whitewash of coaches in the EPL 21 What’s On national hero, Mahmoud Darwish, issue #5 the Nakbah (‘the Catastrophe’) of was taken from a textbook, this is not discourse at a university is not spoke of “a time to test the teachings: 10 Crushing the candy 22-23 Honey Soy 1948, in which more than 700,000 even the best scandal involving SULS unusual or wrong. can helicopters be turned into Profile: Paul Griffiths Another NDA adve- oh, wait, that was last Palestinans fled their homes, marking and dishonest conduct to come out 11 24 ploughshares?” If we are to see that Considering the crusades, inquisitions, week. Art! the beginning of an ongoging program of Sydney Law School in the last six Journalists in peril time come, we must not turn a blind slaughter of Native Americans, witch 12 of ethnic cleansing that has largely months. gone unnoticed in the West. This eye to the plight of the Palestinians. hunts, the film Noah starring Russell Even if we were to agree that the Crowe, helping spread AIDS in Africa, may be a controversial positon Fahad Ali ‘author’ acted reprehensibly, he’s just collaboration with Fascists in Spain, (indeed, any criticism of the State of BMedSc/MBBS III Israel is controversial, and allegedly some guy. There is no suggestion that telling people they will go to hell for We acknowledge that Honi Soit’s office is located on the traditional lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. We would like to acknowledge anti-Semitic) but it is not without anybody on the SULS executive had sodomy, institutional child abuse and the Traditional Owners of the land on which we work and pay our respects to the Elders past and present. support. Richard Falk, the UN Special Mariana can’t stop a clue that anything was amiss. So of course believing the world goes Rapporteur on occupied Palestine, why bother using Honi’s significant around because of magic, making fun found that Israeli policies are coloured and she won’t stop circulation (50,000 according to of a silly hat the Pope used to wear is by “unacceptable characteristics of Wikipedia, although I could have letting Catholics off lightly. Dearest darling editors, sworn it’s actually 4,000) to embarrass colonialism, apartheid and ethnic Regards, him? cleansing.” Listen you fuckers, I don’t know what Editorial Tom Raue The crimes of Israel often pass into aniseed-laced koala shit they’ve got Anyway, the real question here is you smoking in that editorial dungeon, why so many people were consulting Last Tuesday, two water buffaloes charged of water buffalo: domestic Asian water buffalo There are 172 million water buffaloes on this the realm of the unimaginable. For instance, in the 2008 assault on the but enough is enough. Hall’s Principles of International Law. For fuck’s sake, down King Street after escaping from a film set (Bubalus Bubalis) and the wild water buffalo planet and they contribute more than 70 It’s certainly no Brownlie’s Principles Gaza Strip, Israeli politicans contrived Letters to the editor(s) are an in Sydney Park. (Bubalis arnee). These large bovids evolved million tonnes of milk annually to the world a starvation policy that limited of International Law. talk about Donut from Bulbasaur and thrive on a diet of reeds, food stocks. This makes them experts on important tradition which keeps the humanitarian aid into the region. spirit of interaction between readers Hoping for some better go$$ this week, The national news coverage was superb. One water hyacinth and marsh grasses. dairy issues, and it was rumoured that they King for once, not While health officials determined that and editors alive. eyewitness told the ABC “they were just on the articulated strong theoretical opposition to 170 truckloads of food were required Hannah Ryan that guy above streets, just running”. SMH put their MH370 The temperament of a water buffalo in its King Street’s frozen yoghurt craze. each day, the policy only permitted It is where paid student politicians Arts/Law VII Hypothetical Route Graphic Consultants back natural environment is best encapsulated the entry of 67. In the words of can discuss pressing issues such as Hello Honi Soit. Dov Weisglass, chief-of-staff under their favourite building on campus, to work making a stunning little map with by a photo titled ‘Water buffalo wallowing One buffalo grunted “Seriously? They turn I am a long time reader of, and Ariel Sharon, “The idea is to put the and where everyone who isn’t a law Putin wants a pen a bold red line along King Street to indicate in mud’ about a fifth of the way down the our milk into this filthy textureless crap?” to writer to, this venerable publication. Palestinians on a diet, but not to make student can make fun of law students. where the animals travelled, along King Street. Wikipedia entry for water buffalo. Nowhere which the other replied “Yeah, it tastes like pal My love of this magazine has them die of hunger.” on this authoritative source is there any plutonium and apparently it’s super bad for Therefore, a read receipt is not too been carefully cultured over 7 years Dear editors, However, one flaw in the media’s efforts was indication that water buffalos are naturally them too.” In February, Amnesty International much to ask for. All I want is a simple of study at USyd. I applaud your the complete lack of explanation as to proper disposed to aggressive charges up metropolitan released a report finding that the reply - of any length - notifying me of With the recent bully tactics employed efforts, noted in the most recent the fact that my letter to the editors buffalo identification. How were the buffaloes thoroughfares like King Street. USyd students There are also Wild African buffaloes, but we Israeli Defence Force had “displayed by Russia, I thought you might invite issue’s editorial, to “ recount facts, a callous disregard for human life by has been received. Yes, simply a describe perspectives, and [to] try identified as hydrophilic buffalo as opposed to wouldn’t want to tackle too many of life’s big your readers to pen a message to Mr deserve answers. killing dozens of Palestinian civilians, “received” would suffice. to make sense of unfolding events.” their hydrophobic kin? questions in one week’s editorial. Putin. I just found a website enabling including children, in the occupied anyone to directly send a letter. Nevertheless, I believe that your After confusing WowCow with a preschool- The last two letters I sent, although West Bank over the past three years they were published, received no reply. mission statement needs a re-think. Honi Soit warns its readers that it gets even nightclub establishment, the buffaloes Have a great week kids! with near total impunity.” The IDF The site is the Russian Kremlin and it An ounce of consideration is not too The bickering that goes on in the USU more complicated. Within the aquatic family condemned the backlit neon chain for its awful doesn’t seem to have heeded this has a form allowing you to send him a much to ask for. Clearly you have the and SRC is boring, and irrelevant to Honi Soit Editors criticism. Only last week, B’Tselem, an message. This is the link: http://eng. alone, there are in fact, two separate species speciesism. time to photoshop surrealist art onto the majority of students. I suggest Israeli human rights NGO, reported news.kremlin.ru/ covers of terrible news publications that the people who find those issues on the extrajudicial execution of a for your satire section, but what about On the top menu there is a link “Send exciting would be a minority. 14-year-old boy by live fire. Yusef me? It isn’t fair. a letter”. It needs to be written in a-Shawamreh was not guilty of any Russian script, but there are internet A devil’s advocate appears. “Hey guy, crime, nor did he possess a threat to I hate that song. Now look what you’ve sites enabling you to do just that by if you don’t like it then ignore it and Israel or its citizens. He was simply done. copying & pasting, eg: http://translate. flick the pages so you can read that HOW TO RUN FOR USU BOARD crossing through a breach in the This is a very important concern google.com.au awesome jury service piece by Lane Separation Barrier (deemed illegal and I would appreciate prompt Sainty!” 1. Fabricate story about having no friends in first year. Contact friends under international law by the It must be addressed: To the President compensation for grief caused, so that International Court of Justice in 2004) of Russia and not be more than 2000 Usually I’d agree with that sentiment from first year, ask them how their mother is, wait while response is I may finally escape this overwhelming into farmland owned by his family to characters. I just forwarded a piece but I have a problem with that given, ask for t-shirt size. sense of rejection. pick edible plants. For this crime he and realized many more people might attitude here. First, I believe that like to send something. giving attention to present bickering 2. Buy cute dog. Harden its political resolve. was shot at and killed. Enough is enough. Put down the koala shit pipe, I implore you. encourages future bickering. That is I do not have the space here to Cheers, undesirable for the reasons stated 3. Join the execs of multiple societies. Subsequently discover what their detail all of the crimes that Israel In solidarity, Pete above. Second, I have reason to believe has committed against the people of that the bickering is distracting the acronyms stand for. Mariana Podesta-Diverio Palestine, but I will make one thing USU from their more practical duties. Arts (Sociology Hons.) V [sic] 4. Watch House of Cards. Emulate. very clear: opposition to these crimes Think of the against humanity does not entail Case in point: I sent the USU an email oppositon to the existance of the State Catholics? the other day DEMANDING that 5. Take photos with former USU presidents, dance with of Israel, nor does it involve hatred of Donut King be returned to its rightful place in the Wentworth Building. your opponents at underattended 90s party, endure USU the Jewish people. This is reflected I write in reply to Alessandro Cowley’s Newer students might be unaware coffee as political stunt. Remember: you now fucking love in the existance of Jewish groups like letter from last week’s edition, in that a deal used to be available on the Union. B’Tselem, Matzpen, and Jewish Voice which he outlines how offended he campus, where one could get a large “I’m one gelato ass muthafucka” for Peace, among others, which are is by Honi Soit mocking the Pope. coffee AND two delicious, fresh committed to exposing and combating Alessandro draws comparisons to cinnamon donuts for about $4, with Israel’s egrigious human rights racism, classism and ableism. The your seventh coffee being a free one! violations. difference is that a person can’t choose Moot schmoot PLUS, the friendly staff knew your to be black and there is nothing wrong I find it dumbfounding that we are so name, they didn’t yell at you, and they with it anyway. One does choose quick to condemn human rights abuses Dear Honi, had a system that worked dammit. whether to be part of a religion and in Russia, for example, but tiptoe The Union ignored my plea for the I write in response to the segment they should bear some responsibility Credits around the question of Israel for fear of last week’s Manning Files titled return of that beloved puffy pastry for its crimes and quirks. of causing offense. ‘Shaking in Your Moots’, and its franchise. Probably because they were The Catholic Church is one of the too busy bickering over pointless shit Editor-in-chief: Christina White. masthead illustration: Helen Xue. contributors: Kyol Blakeney, Jielu Cai, Nerine The greatest affront we can commit extended online version ‘SULS red- Corbett, Laura Webster. richest, most powerful institutions in that no-one cares about. is not to the sensitivities of Zionists, faced after moot plagiarism’, which Editors: Georgia Behrens, Felix Donovan, John reporters: Bernadette Anvia, Issy Comber, Nick revealed that the problem question the world. Complaining about people Gooding, Georgia Kriz, Andrew Passarello, Justin Pen, Gowland, Max Hall, Joshua Krook, Ed McMahon, Luca artists/photographers: Mikaela but to the very ideals of humanity. So let’s limit the conversation about for SULS’ international law moot had mocking the Pope in a student paper is Astha Rajvanshi, Michael Rees, Lane Sainty. Moretti, Sam Murray, Felicity Nelson, Jonathon Parker, Bartels, Alex Mildenhall, Mackenzie Nix, Aimy Nguyen, The facts stand, and they have been this “Tom Raue” character and focus like me complaining about “misandry”. Nick Rowbotham, Peter Walsh, Mary Ward, Steph White, Laura Precup, Monica Renn. repeatedly reaffirmed over decades by been lifted from a textbook. instead on more practical matters. Throughout most of its history the creative director: Judy Zhu. Will Xi, Ezreena Yahya. groups like Amnesty International, the Like Donut King. While I applaud any coverage of my Church has been the oppressor, not puzzles/quizzes: Zplig United Nations, and Human Rights very niche hobby, I question the ethics the oppressed. Critiquing the powerful Good day, is not discrimination. It is integral to DISCLAIMER Honi Soit is published by the Students’ Representative Council, University of Sydney, Level 1 Wentworth Building, City Road, University of Sydney NSW 2006. 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Opinions should start discussions, if you have an opinion NDA not dampened by rain, police or ponies about an opinion Let’s talk aboutUSU $ex, consults baby Lynchpleaseletter! send ustrial a drags on Christina White and Georgia Behrens report on the National Day of Action protests. photo by alisha aitken-radburn Isabelle Comber isn’t sure if it’s okay to use sexual currency in the workplace. members to improve University of Sydney students to the Coalition’s policies. until April gathered to protest the Coalition QualmsNick Rowbotham and anxieties about reports on thesneakily progress hang of out Jake at the same won’t quit”, I have considered the I was a CEO I’d defi nitely prefer government’s higher education “There has already been a massive employment are about as rife watering hole as our potential meritorganisational of this argument extensively. to hire the coffee boy who wanted policies in the National Union of amount of opposition to the Abbott atLynch’s this university trial. as lattes at a employers, or none of this and just My sexuality may be none of your to give me a daily head job (“I’ll Students’ ‘National Day of Action’ last Government in the six months since he Monday morning lecture. The fuck the boss. business, but it should rightfully take a double with extra froth, Wednesday. was elected, and actions such as this A racial discrimination action taken expression; academic freedom, and transparency truth is we all fear that after be a part of mine – if I so choose. thanks”). The expectation is just continue to demonstrate that people, against Sydney University academic work”. Around the country, more than in particular students, won’t take Jakewe’ve Lynch done continuedour time inwithin the Federal these The term sexual currency can TheLane issue Sainty gets complicated is translucent, atnot best. as restrictive. If a man engages 1000 protesters voiced opposition these attacks lying down,” she said. Courtinstitution’s last Tuesday. walls (and paid our Andrewcover a Hamilton,plethora of Shurat styles HaDin’s of sexual because sexuality can be bribery in sexual relations with a higher Opinions flew but tempers did not which is presently not allowed, was to $2.3 billion of tertiary education debts), there might not be a power lawyer,interaction argued exercised that the instatement return forof in its own right. If I wanted to employer or client, there is little fray in the University of Sydney another topic of much discussion. cuts announced by the government The protest was largely uneventful, Associatesuit, annual Professor leave Lynchand tidy – who little claimresources was sufficient,and other andgratifi that cation; general engage in bribery, then I would stigma attached – a man could Union’s Transparency Members Somewhat remarkably, the level of in December last year, as well as but some USyd students expressed issalary the director waiting of forUSyd’s us at Centre the end for of referencesanything fromto the intercourse BDS movement or oral in also be tempted to use my sexual never be perceived as a slut, whore Forum, held last Wednesday in the detail and rapidity of dissemination of potential legislative reforms including concern at the “laughable” presence of Peace and Conflict Studies (CPACS) thesex, claim to simply were importantwearing revealingbecause it. currency.Holme B uilding.The problem is I’m not orthe gold minutes digger from as Bman’soard meetings sexuality also the privatisation of HECS and the mounted police at the rally. – was taken to court by Israeli legal “everythingclothing or [Lynch]being fl hasirtatious. done is sure this would bring me respect is inherent, not an agenda. Their abolition of the Student Services and provoked enthusiastic contributions. groupI know Shurat when HaDin I fi nish in upOctober at the last because of his support for BDS.” or authority. actions do not set a standard Amenities Fee. “The police presence was completely year after he refused to endorse a Facilitated by Board Directors Tara end of next year, I’ll fi nd myself Many liberal feminists theorise Waniganayaka and Bebe D’Souza, orUSU identity President trait Hannah of their Morris entire over the top. A couple of dozen police fellowship application for Hebrew Hazan submitted that Shurat HaDin’s at the bottom of the career ladder, that sexuality is similar to any Whilstthe forum I’m wastossing held this as part choice of a acknowledged the forum was not At the University of Sydney, students accompanied a completely peaceful University academic Dan Avnon, attempt to establish a breach of gender, as it does for women. Cue other attribute someone might current review into the accountability a catch-all solution, but labelled expressed concern at a recent Group protest. I’m sure they could be put Police devastated to find all copies of citinglooking a CPACS’ up. I want policy to in enter support the of the Act by linking Lynch to the around, some women have no a deep sigh into my power suit. mechanisms and level of transparency it a valuable way of hearing from of Eight proposal to deregulate fees for to better use,” said prominent USyd “The Anarchist’s Cookbook” out on loan themusic global industry, Boycott, an Divestment arena already and internationaluse to make BthemselvesDS movement more was “an option but to utilise their sexuality within the USU. Approximately 60 members. “There are still many more in-demand courses such as Commerce activist Tom Raue. Sanctionsfraught with (BDS) gender campaign. expectation. overreach.”successful in a workplace. Ever in a professional context – or have So it appears sexual currency is and Law, and at proposed reforms to A Sydney musical booking agency since Gloria Steinem, some thatstudents sexuality attended forced the upon forum, them. the thriving,avenues throughwhether which we like the Bitoard or not. majority hailing from various campus could enhance our communication the University Library system. The NDA has become a regular feature said she believed that protests, such “Through their own action at owner recently said to me, “I just Referencesthinkers have to the argued refusals that of Meg there is Many women are hired on the But should we be investing in our political factions and student media with members, and there is a lot of on student activists’ calendars in as the NDA, had informed the Labor protests, students turned education “References to the Ryan,little wayDustin to Hoffman,differentiate Elvis between Costello, would never consider hiring a basisoutlets. of their sexual wiles and sexualityroom for improvement,” to invest in our Morris futures? said. Attendance at the USyd rally was the past few years, with organisers Opposition’s decision to reject its own into an election issue and made the Santana and Snoop Dogg to travel woman over 30, it’s just too much the use of attributes such as femininity alone. If sexuality is This“But wannabethis forum mogul’s and the twodiscussions cents substantially lower than at the 2013 insisting that rallies continue to proposed tertiary education cuts in the cuts unpopular among the general refusal of Snoop Dog to Israel in recent years prompted of a risk”. Groovy. charisma or fl irtation, and other beingForum used participants as an appeal largely point expressed for iswe thus; are havingno individual now are ashould step in be the NDA, but USyd Education Officer and play an important role in shaping Senate late last year. population.” laughter in the courtroom. “What are to travel to Israel characteristics such as confi dence clients,a desire then for more how transparencydo we know withinif it judgedright direction.” for what they choose to do NDA organiser Eleanor Morley said governments’ legislative agendas. the primary facts that link them and So what will we do to put ourselves and friendliness that aren’t isthe being USU, used with as a alengthy prerequisite discussion for in the sexual domain, but if you’re she believed the rally had served as a “The education campaign last year prompted laughter in pin them to the respondent?” Hazan about the extent to which Board The forum ran for the allocated two clear indication of students’ opposition USyd Education Officer Ridah Hasson proved that protests work,” she said. ahead of the rest of our cohort asked.labelled as sexual currency. employment? going to commoditise your body to whenthe courtroom.”we’re exiled from the safety Directors are permitted to speak out reachhours, the with top, several then unaddressed you’ll probably about Board decisions. Several people agenda points to be discussed at a of the sandstone? Perhaps we JusticeAs a curvaceous Alan Robertson, lady whowho ishas It is important to mention that have to deal with the fact that expressed the view that directors future meeting. Waniganayaka said Shuratattempt HaDin to acquire alleged knowledge that Lynch’s of presidingmore than over once the been case, eloquentlycommented men are also capable of using your sexuality got you there, not should be able to say when they have this second forum will “attempt to actionsoffi ce administration violated sections software, 9, 13, 16 and thatdescribed there hadas having been “far “an too ass much that sexuality to get ahead. I mean, if any other points of merit. dissented from a decision and speak provide more of a Q&A style setting 17 of the Racial Discrimination Act. by the way of socio-political slogans” in a personal capacity about aspects in response to member feedback from Board rebuffs USU Old habits die hard in the case. “One needs to start with of the USU they disagree with. the first forum.” BDS promotes an end to the Israeli simpler facts,” he said. illustration by mikaela bartels occupation of Palestinian territories, This issue is particularly pertinent as Once the consultation process— communications plan equalityCONTINUED under the law for FROM Palestinian PAGE Professor 1 Avnon is now at the USU members wait to find out if Vice- involving the forum, online citizens of Israel, and the right of University, having managed to Justin Pen attended a bored meeting to deliver this report. President Tom Raue will be removed submissions and discussions return of Palestinian refugees to their secure his fellowship without Lynch’s for alleged misconduct. Raue’s initial with relevant stakeholders— has homeland. signature. He told The Australian last censure in 2012 was due to comments been completed, D’Souza and Last Friday’s USU Board meeting saw return the plan to marketing and month he had no interest in being he made online and in Honi Soit Waniganayaka will compile a report, the rejection of a new communications communications for alteration. At Tuesday’s hearing, Lynch’s lawyer involved in the case. denouncing the USU LifeChoice club which will include recommendations strategy, which promoted the Union to Yves Hazan sought to have much Houston, we’ve gotand Interfaith Week. a problemfor the Board to consider on the the University of Sydney student body. The Board also approved a request of the substance of Shurat HaDin’s There was additional debate in the matters of transparency and for additional capital expenditure statementCurrently, of Houston’s claim struck pet out project due to courtthe ISS about department Shurat HaDin’s is doing capacity the and funding, which all seems to have been relocated to the Arts The issue of naming USU staff during accountability. The proposed plan was panned for its intended for the further development ais lack the ofWingara specific Muaraallegations – Bunga against toopposite; pay Lynch’s it is legaldestroying costs in the the sense be due to the lack of concern that and Education faculties across the the live-tweeting of Board meetings, emphasis on brand promotion, and of the Laneway Café, which is slated to ProfessorBarrabugu Lynch strategy. that could The constitute strategy eventof community that he wins and the belonging case. Hazan that Wingara Muara has for current road. its failure to create a dialogue with replace the newsagency on the second alooks breach good of theon Racialpaper, Discrimination with a contendedonce existed that in Hamilton the now-crumbling had not students. students. floor of the Wentworth Building later Actpurported. focus on increasing providedKoori Centre. sufficient evidence that his While some may see this as a win, this year. student engagement in tertiary Australian assets could cover Lynch’s In fact, Indigenous enrolment and we say it is nothing more than Concerns about the plan were first “The applicants need to tell us what costs. Hamilton will have a chance to education. However, it is Houston is quick to boast the retention rates have dropped as a token gesture. It merely gives raised by Vice-President Tom Raue, Several recommendations to amend the material facts are,” he told the respond when the court sits again on who argued it could potentially the constitution were also raised by court.undercut by the total absence of AprilISS department 24. receives several a proportion of total enrolment the appearance the University discourage students from expressing Board Director Kade Denton, which implementation and action plans. Commonwealth grants, which from one per cent in 2010 to 0.82 is listening to its discontented legitimate concerns with USU were unanimously assented to by Shurat HaDin said Lynch’s refusal to *Note:provided These more legal than proceedings $60 million will in per cent in 2012. Is this decline students. After all, it was Houston operations. Board in anticipation of the Union’s sponsorThe Indigenous Avnon’s fellowship Strategies application and be2013. unaffected Current by students, recently proposed however, a product of Wingara Muara or who moved support staff in the Annual General Meeting on 28 May. impingedServices (ISS)on his Department“rights to education; is quick amendmentshave yet to see to section how these 18C offunds the the losses to accessible student fi rst place. Deb Reid, Senior “We shouldn’t be selling the Union freedomto remind of association;us that similar freedom plans of Racialhave benefi Discrimination tted them Act directly.. support?challenge It’s diffi to cult the to say.USU: We match thisManager paper of Trust’s transparency and Engagement to students, we should be the voice of Noteworthy among the proposals have been deployed at various at the ISS, has stated that changes students,” he said. was a recommendation to replace universities around the world. But, “will not happen overnight”. every instance of “women” with while they appear to be working Raue also raised concerns about “women-identifying” within the USU well on these campuses, at USyd, “The Indigenous Strategies and She further asserts the ISS the sponsorship of USU events and constitution, in an attempt to increase department is working hard to programs by Sydney businesses, inclusivity within the Union. they are failing. We believe this Services Department is destroying arguing that excessive corporate USydis because the Centre researchers for Cultural seek to define ‘normality’create a functioning and inclusive Competence (which is highly space for Aboriginal and Torres sponsorship had eroded the Board’s Discussion of sales and marketing Stephanie White wants to knowthe if she’s sense normal*. of community that once ability to communicate and promote report also revealed that, though focussed on research) is replacing Strait Islander students and events to its students. revenue from ACCESS cards had theScientists student around support the worldhub the will Koori that of the general healthy population. such as body measurements, balance, thatfor clinicians it’s engaging to be able in discussions to measure declined, the total amount of card sales existed in the Koori Centre.” Centresoon have once access provided. to a database that strength, power, coordination and withnorms faculties so they can to improveassess health on their and Board Directors Robby Magyar had risen. This follows the drop in catalogues what is ‘normal’ across Researchers hope that the project will movement. accessibilityfunction.” for Aboriginal and and Bebe D’Souza agreed with membership cost, from $99 to $75, in Suchthe human action population, is particularly thanks to Decemberimprove the 2013 scientific alone community’s saw the can say however, that as members Torres Strait Islander students. Raue. The pair pointed towards the 2014. disappointingthe efforts of researchers for a University from the departmentunderstanding receive of the range$15 million of normal ofThe the 1000 Koori Norms Centre Project who database have seen Summarising the purpose of the recent Members’ Forum on USU thatUniversity states, of “WeSydney. believe in invariation Commonwealth between healthy grants, individuals. a will be shared internationally by Itinitiative, seems, McKayhowever, stated that that Wingara Transparency, where similar concerns The meeting was Raue’s first since he fi rsthand the changes Houston has Jennifer Baldwin, one of two primary the University of Sydney via a free, “knowledge of healthy human were raised by members of the student was suspended from Board following Aboriginal and Torres Strait portion of which is aimed at implemented, we’re not optimistic Muara is more concerned with The ground-breaking 1000 Norms researchers for the project explained secure online portal for clinicians and variation is essential for clinicians to body. recent legal action between the Vice- Islander participation at every establishing an engagement plan about our future. pushing for a high volume of Project is working on cataloguing that the database “will transform our researchers. make a diagnosis and evaluate the President and the Board Executive. level of our study, work and to entice Indigenous youth to enrolments at the expense of both normality and variation among understanding of the boundaries of effect of treatment.” D’Souza cited concerns raised at the research”. One of the key tenets of attend the University of Sydney. Koori Centre students have been providing quality support and healthy Australians from the ages of health and disease and influence how While she recognises that ‘normal’ is Forum that student leaders should not Two hours of the meeting were a culturally safe space that Wingarathree to 100. Muara This datais purportedly will be used its to Thesewe define fi gures healthy are aging.”startling to the informeda loaded term, that Marnee student McKay, support the necessarily be “brand ambassadors”. conducted in-camera, during which focushelp clinicians on recognising better diagnose Indigenous disease Indigenous students who had staffsecond have primary been researcher allocated for a part-the welcomes current Aboriginal and members and staff were temporarily Students’by comparing “rights, patients’ opportunity condition to enrolledThe initiative prior will to catalogue2014. They statistics are timeproject offi stated ce in thatthe “itOld is Teachersimportant Torres*Ed’s note: Strait She’s Islander not students. The Board unanimously agreed to vacated and forced to wait in the and capability”. But in reality, being left behind both in support College, and that academic staff hallway. 4 75 the manning files & investigation opinion

Opinions should start discussions, if you have an opinion about an opinion Let’s talk about $ex, baby please send us a letter! Isabelle Comber isn’t sure if it’s okay to use sexual currency in the PRAISE BE TO THE staff cuts and malignant exploitation “We’ll pick our faves to be part of Last week they dined with Scott workplace. MARKET of international students. our upcoming USU photoshoot,” the Morrison, who didn’t reply to us Union stated from their Facebook saying he refused to comment on Qualms and anxieties about sneakily hang out at the same won’t quit”, I have considered the I was a CEO I’d definitely prefer In a solid win for the invisible hand, The White House welcomed the account. “water and wanker matters”. credit rating agency Moody’s has increase in the debt ceiling, but stated employment are about as rife watering hole as our potential merit of this argument extensively. to hire the coffee boy who wanted given the University an Aa1 rating. that you “cannot predict the future”. Notable entrants include aforemen- Seeking forgiveness (jokes), the Libs at this university as lattes at a employers, or none of this and just My sexuality may be none of your to give me a daily head job (“I’ll tioned VP-for-now-at-time-of-print, managed to catch Cardinal Pell in Monday morning lecture. The fuck the boss. business, but it should rightfully take a double with extra froth, This will make it easier for USyd THE USU’S NEXT TOP and scorching hottie, Tom Raue. the zero seconds between testifying at truth is we all fear that after be a part of mine – if I so choose. thanks”). The expectation is just to borrow money for the next few MODEL the child abuse royal commission and The term sexual currency can decades before you start paying off DINING WITH DICKHEADS jetting off to the Vatican. we’ve done our time within these The issue gets complicated not as restrictive. If a man engages your HECS. Amid discussions of organizational institution’s walls (and paid our cover a plethora of styles of sexual because sexuality can be bribery in sexual relations with a higher transparency and the prospect of The Sydney University Liberal Club Mitt Romney is set to host the next debts), there might not be a power interaction exercised in return for in its own right. If I wanted to employer or client, there is little The Moody’s report talked about expelling its Vice-President, the USU has been out-Libbing themselves this soiree. Rumour has it Reagan will be suit, annual leave and tidy little resources and other gratification; engage in bribery, then I would stigma attached – a man could “healthy” financial performance has decided it is the opportune time semester. resurrected for the event. salary waiting for us at the end of anything from intercourse or oral also be tempted to use my sexual never be perceived as a slut, whore thanks to USyd’s medical history of to launch a #usumodelcallout on Instragram. it. sex, to simply wearing revealing currency. The problem is I’m not or gold digger as man’s sexuality clothing or being flirtatious. sure this would bring me respect is inherent, not an agenda. Their I know when I finish up at the or authority. actions do not set a standard #USUMODELCALLOUT MAKES SUPERMODEL CAREERS WHO ARE THE LIBS HAVING DINNER WITH TONIGHT? end of next year, I’ll find myself Many liberal feminists theorise or identity trait of their entire at the bottom of the career ladder, that sexuality is similar to any Whilst I’m tossing this choice gender, as it does for women. Cue looking up. I want to enter the other attribute someone might around, some women have no a deep sigh into my power suit. music industry, an arena already use to make themselves more option but to utilise their sexuality fraught with gender expectation. successful in a workplace. Ever in a professional context – or have So it appears sexual currency is A Sydney musical booking agency since Gloria Steinem, some that sexuality forced upon them. thriving, whether we like it or not. owner recently said to me, “I just thinkers have argued that there is Many women are hired on the But should we be investing in our would never consider hiring a little way to differentiate between basis of their sexual wiles and sexuality to invest in our futures? woman over 30, it’s just too much the use of attributes such as femininity alone. If sexuality is This wannabe mogul’s two cents of a risk”. Groovy. charisma or flirtation, and other being used as an appeal point for is thus; no individual should be characteristics such as confidence clients, then how do we know if it judged for what they choose to do So what will we do to put ourselves and friendliness that aren’t is being used as a prerequisite for in the sexual domain, but if you’re ahead of the rest of our cohort labelled as sexual currency. employment? going to commoditise your body to Spanking the rankings when we’re exiled from the safety reach the top, then you’ll probably Max Hall investigates flaws in University ranking systems. illustration by laura precup of the sandstone? Perhaps we As a curvaceous lady who has It is important to mention that have to deal with the fact that attempt to acquire knowledge of more than once been eloquently men are also capable of using your sexuality got you there, not office administration software, described as having “an ass that sexuality to get ahead. I mean, if any other points of merit. Rankings are easy to love. We turn at the university. This system also in tandem with a marketing approach public relations operations of our to the guidance of music charts, grants 50 percent weight to research that heavily emphasises expanded institutions remain significant Buzzfeed’s “Ten greatest crazes of output in the final aggregate. research, particularly in medical barriers to a better discussion the nineties”, and all manner of other science. about the needs and priorities of lists to reduce entire subject areas From the perspective of an enrolling universities. As universities continue continued FROM PAge 1 into an easily digestible format. high school student, these criteria The extent to which consideration of to face financial strain in light of $2.3 This appeal is not lost in the world reveal nothing about the quality rankings has influenced this expansion billion of government cuts to tertiary of tertiary education, where yearly of undergraduate education they is unclear, but the university education it is crucial that the pursuit rankings have come to dominate the are likely to receive. The research undoubtedly recognises the usefulness of a better place in global ranking discourse surrounding the quality of conducted by a lecturer has little to do of global lists as a marketing tool. not take place at the expense of the our universities. with their ability to teach a class, just Press releases celebrating ranking average university student. Houston, we’ve got a problem as the likelihood of mere undergrads gains have been published an average Since the first global list was published being allowed anywhere near well of three times a year over the Currently, Houston’s pet project the ISS department is doing the and funding, which all seems to have been relocated to the Arts in 2003, the number of rankings remunerated Nobel Laureates is last five years, is the Wingara Muara – Bunga opposite; it is destroying the sense be due to the lack of concern that and Education faculties across the devised by media and consultancy effectively zero. legitimising lists Barrabugu strategy. The strategy of community and belonging that Wingara Muara has for current road. groups eager to claim their share of as indicators of looks good on paper, with a once existed in the now-crumbling students. the growing industry has grown to Such inconsistencies abound among the quality. purported focus on increasing Koori Centre. While some may see this as a win, fifteen widely recognised lists by 2013. other popular lists. The Times Higher student engagement in tertiary In fact, Indigenous enrolment and we say it is nothing more than Education rankings gauge “teaching Both the Houston is quick to boast the retention rates have dropped as a token gesture. It merely gives A report by the European Universities quality” using nothing more than the methodology of education. However, it is Association found that “rankings ratio of students to faculty members, rankings and undercut by the total absence of ISS department receives several a proportion of total enrolment the appearance the University enjoy a high level of acceptance once again heavily biasing results the way they implementation and action plans. Commonwealth grants, which from one per cent in 2010 to 0.82 is listening to its discontented among stakeholders and the wider towards smaller, research focused are seized provided more than $60 million in per cent in 2012. Is this decline students. After all, it was Houston public” largely due to “their simplicity universities. Other factors including upon by The Indigenous Strategies and 2013. Current students, however, a product of Wingara Muara or who moved support staff in the and consumer-type information”. the number of PhDs awarded in the the Services (ISS) Department is quick have yet to see how these funds the losses to accessible student first place. Deb Reid, Senior Academics and consumer groups have past year, and an obscure survey to remind us that similar plans have benefitted them directly. support? It’s difficult to say. We Manager of Trust and Engagement only recently begun to raise concerns of “faculty reputation” conducted have been deployed at various at the ISS, has stated that changes that the popularity of published amongst “experienced scholars” at universities around the world. But, “will not happen overnight”. rankings may disproportionately other universities bear heavily on the while they appear to be working influence choices made by high school final list. “The Indigenous Strategies and students, affecting the management well on these campuses, at USyd, She further asserts the ISS decisions of universities without The fatal flaw of current rankings is they are failing. We believe this Services Department is destroying department is working hard to regard for the problems inherent to simple: so long as ranking criterion is because the Centre for Cultural create a functioning and inclusive current ranking systems. and the weight assigned to them Competence (which is highly the sense of community that once space for Aboriginal and Torres are purely arbitrary, the subjective focussed on research) is replacing Strait Islander students and Little information about the methods interests of groups compiling lists will the student support hub the Koori that it’s engaging in discussions used to compare universities is continue to masquerade as an objective Centre once provided. existed in the Koori Centre.” with faculties to improve on their provided publicly, calling into question assessment of merit. accessibility for Aboriginal and the transparency of results. The data Such action is particularly December 2013 alone saw the can say however, that as members Torres Strait Islander students. used is often given on a voluntary The most disturbing outcome of this, disappointing for a University department receive $15 million of the Koori Centre who have seen basis by the tertiary institutions perhaps, is recent evidence that It seems, however, that Wingara themselves. Indeed, the details that rankings now form a key part of the that states, “We believe in in Commonwealth grants, a firsthand the changes Houston has are available indicate a worrying management of universities, where Aboriginal and Torres Strait portion of which is aimed at implemented, we’re not optimistic Muara is more concerned with disconnect between the frequently they are used to justify funding, Islander participation at every establishing an engagement plan about our future. pushing for a high volume of changing methodologies used and the dictate enrolment strategies, and level of our study, work and to entice Indigenous youth to enrolments at the expense of outcomes they claim to measure. determine the bonuses of executives. research”. One of the key tenets of attend the University of Sydney. Koori Centre students have been providing quality support and This inevitably leads to a focus on Wingara Muara is purportedly its These figures are startling to the informed that student support a culturally safe space that For instance, the Academic Ranking those areas most likely to improve focus on recognising Indigenous Indigenous students who had staff have been allocated a part- welcomes current Aboriginal and of World Universities assesses the rankings, namely research. At USyd, Students’ “rights, opportunity enrolled prior to 2014. They are time office in the Old Teachers Torres Strait Islander students. “quality of faculty” by counting the the number of research graduates has and capability”. But in reality, being left behind both in support College, and that academic staff number of Nobel Laureates employed risen steadily over the last five years 6 7 analysis analysis

Flyndr: feeling flycurious Old white boys football club Our family Felicity Nelson tries out a new match-making service for flies. illustration by monica renn Black footballers are missing out on coaching opportunities, writes Will Xi. Scientists have combined lasers a tool that sparks all circuitry in challenge lay in making particular cells in culture, which then began is dying and genetics to encourage mice to one location, whilst drugs act too neurons in animal brains light to express the protein in their Last month, Chris Hughton was coaching staff, these problems counterparts are “imaginative”, run in circles, form false memories slowly to be useful in studying sensitive. cell walls. When light was shone appointed manager of English aren’t on the same level as those “creative”, or “a genius”. young of fearful experiences in flies, and brain activity in real time. To best onto the cells the proteins would football team Norwich City. With their counterpart Italian or Attention is consistently given to stop worms from wiggling through crack the secrets of the brain, we It was only in 2004 that research immediately activate the neurons. this appointment, he became the Russian leagues have discovered, black players’ physical attributes, Anonymous describes the light-stimulation techniques. Now, need a way of controlling one cell teams working in two separate With a lot of hard work and a bit only black manager of any of the in which there have been rather than the mental human impact of indigenous the use of lasers in neuroscience type at a time. fields realized, by a brilliant of genius thrown in, scientists had 92 teams in English football’s multiple incidents of monkey capabilities they would regularly has even led scientists to control stroke of luck, that they could made a huge leap in developing a top four divisions. Currently, chants and targeted heckling of need to exercise in order to life expectancy statistics. flirting in flies. The idea of using light to stimulate combine their research to solve technique that could help decode approximately 25 per cent of players of colour. succeed in the intricately tactical individual neurons originated with this problem. One research team the human brain. players in those divisions are and complex game. Another of my uncles died last A new Fly Mind-Altering Device But the boardrooms that hire black, and black players from week. I received a text from my (FlyMAD) uses tracking technology Using this technique, scientists and fire coaches of all levels Moreover, there are few black England and overseas have made mum while I was in a lecture to let to pass an infrared light through can now evoke behavioural are overwhelmingly white. And club captains or vice-captains. significant impacts on the game me know. When I asked how she exoskeletons of genetically responses in freely moving animals whilst those decisions are rarely Vincent Kompany of Manchester for the past 30 to 40 years. The was, she replied, “All my family is modified flies to control their by remotely activating these light- made with race as a conscious City is currently the only black dearth of black football coaches, dying.” behaviour. sensitive neurons with lasers. therefore, doesn’t seem to be factor, there seems to be a EPL captain. Such positions Researchers believe these methods the result of problems with the cultural problem within the inner of responsibility are generally I suppose that’s true. It is hoped that this field of can be used to discover what quality, prestige, or quantity of circles of football management awarded to players seen to be optogenetics will offer a biological neurons control decision-making prospective black coaches. But, and decision-making. Michael mature, tactically sound, and I was eight or nine when I went to explanation of how the human in animals, and eventually unravel as Hughton recently said, there Johnson, a decorated, highly to have strong management my first funeral. It was for someone brain works, eventually mapping the mysteries of the mammalian is still a “massive imbalance in experienced black player skills. It seems that, while a I’d called ‘uncle’ my whole life, neurological disorders involved mind. Optogenetics has already those from a playing capacity was outspoken on the issue, black player may be well thought though he wasn’t strictly related to in depression, schizophrenia and shed light on the neurological going through to management.” suggesting that the boardroom of as a player, he may not be seen either of my parents. The church Alzheimer’s. processes in Parkinson’s disease, Why? may not be “thinking that a to have the strategic or tactical was hot, the service was long, autism and drug abuse. black player is educated enough prowess needed in positions of and the drive to the cemetery was The human brain is a dense Football itself is generally to go upstairs in a boardroom authority. mundane. The reception was muted network of interwoven cells, Should we be worried about the relatively meritocratic— it is, capacity.” and we left early. controlled by intricately timed dangers posed by an army of mind- after all, a results business. All this, combined with an electrical signals and biochemical controlled mice in the near future? the famous DNA decoder Francis isolated the genetic sequence for a Coaches will pick the best players This is, perhaps, epitomised “old boys” mentality amongst I’ve been to enough funerals now messengers. The greatest obstacle Probably. Should we be excited Crick in the 80s. He suggested that light-sensitive protein from green for their side when their jobs in media characterisations of managers and players in that they’ve begun to feel the same. to understanding it is our inability about finally understanding how light could be the key to targeting algae, whilst another transferred depend on it, and academies talented black players. Star leadership positions sees a self- The churches blur into one hall of to break down its complexity. our minds work? Definitely. specific brain cells. However, the the genetic sequence into animal scour the world looking for the Ivorian Coast striker Didier perpetuating cycle of successful wooden pews, and though we’ve Electrical stimulation is too crude best young talent. While English Drogba and countryman Yaya white players being offered buried our dead in cemeteries up football does have problems with Toure are described as “beasts” coaching positions often at the and down the coast, they coalesce racism from supporters and and “powerful”, while their white expense of equally, if not more into a single stretch of land — decorated, black colleagues. mountains pressing in from one side, and a single-lane highway Into the whiteness And with very few pundits with encroaching greenery pressing Hard laws aren’t enough to provoke meaningful cultural change, argues Ezreena Yahya. in mainstream and online in from another. commentary nominating Attorney-General George diversity beyond symbolic so differently – it is of great value hard laws is a holistic mechanism black players for coaching and I’m writing this in Sydney while the Brandis’s proposal to repeal provisions is a coordinated, for all, not only to comprehend the which harnesses positive civic managerial positions, black rest of my family is in mourning in sections 18C and 18D of the Racial federal-state education strategy tragedies and injustice but the values such as self-respect, respect players simply aren’t even in the the Far North of the country. When Discrimination Act have attracted which attaches equal importance achievements and contributions for others, and their cultures. conversation. they were laying my uncle to rest a flurry of backlash in the past to the histories of Aboriginal and of Aboriginal people, and gives Treating Aboriginal Studies and in my hometown, I was sitting in week. Currently, the former Torres Strait Islanders and other insight into the diverse realities of Languages to be just as important Elsewhere, American Football a cool lecture theatre — learning makes it unlawful to “offend, racial minorities. our contemporary society.” as English, Mathematics, and had faced a similar issue with some essential aspect of our insult, humiliate or intimidate” a Science is one way of instilling a lack of diversity in coaching colonialist legal system no doubt. person or group because of their In New South Wales, Aboriginal Dr Towers also highlights those values. positions, leading to the “race, colour or national or ethnic Studies and Aboriginal Languages the importance of developing introduction of what’s known as At its most general, the Indigenous origin”, while the latter contains are not mandatory courses in the the knowledge, skills, and Supporters of Brandis’s proposed the Rooney Rule, which requires life expectancy gap means more exemptions which protect freedom state K-12 syllabus. To achieve understanding of all teachers changes can masquerade as that at least one black person be deaths and more funerals. The of speech. Critics have argued the improvements in education about Aboriginal people, their vigilantes guarding the sancitity of interviewed for each position of way this plays out in individual proposed changes are too weak to outcomes, Aboriginal education histories, cultures, and experience libertarianism and the freedom of authority in the league. It’s been lives and specific communities will meaningfully protect the rights of should be made integral to the in Australia. “It’s not just speech— and lay quiet on the issue relatively successful, too; there vary. Lately, for me, it plays out racial minorities. But then again, curriculum for all students. A about intentions, it’s also about of systemic racism. are now eight black coaches in in the funerals I keep missing— are statutory provisions enough to more comprehensive, in-depth having well-trained teachers the NFL. three or four in the last 18 months redress systemic racism? syllabus which engages with and staff with a sophisticated Currently, section 18C works alone— and the shame of not being Aboriginal perspectives across the understanding of the world in like gauze used to dress the Cyrus Mehri, the civil rights there each time. For my mum, a Hard laws, though welcome curriculum should be formulated which they live, with knowledge wounds of racial offense and lawyer that headed the campaign woman in her 60s, all four of her measures of deterrence, are – one that highlights the vitality of diverse Aboriginal histories, humiliation. The onus is on the for the Rooney Rule, has recently brothers are dead, and deaths in inadequate to stimulate cultural of Aboriginal cultures beyond the cultures, perspectives, and who government to display a serious become the face of a fresh our extended family mean she change. Minority groups should exoticising lens, which plays on have the skills and awareness commitment to reconciliation campaign to institute similar travels back home once or twice a not feel secure in Australia’s public myths and stereotypes that further to effectively engage in learning by working in partnership with changes to the EPL and its lower year now. spaces solely due to statutory fuel racial prejudice. partnerships with their Aboriginal Aboriginal communities and divisions. It seems that, at last, provisions. They should feel secure students and local Aboriginal further cultivating the cultural the English may have realised Our family is dying young, as the because people would not say The wider Australian society communities,” she says. competency of all teachers. It is that something needs to change. statistics suggested they might, but racially offensive or hateful things has a lot to benefit from learning and will undoubtedly continue to however incisive the statistics, they After all, Chris Hughton won’t in the first place. about Indigenous experiences. On “The knowledge and skills be a work in progress. However, can’t convey the minutia of death— Aboriginal history, Dr Lorraine that make effective teachers of only after we have policies and stick around forever. how mundane the pain has began Indigenous education is one Towers, an expert on educational Aboriginal students, make them practices which include all to feel, how familiar, how expected. policy area which needs history from the Faculty of effective teachers of all students.” members of Australia’s vibrant progressive reform to enhance Education and Social Work at the demographic in our education our understanding of Indigenous University of Sydney says, “It’s When formulating policies to curricula can we prevent or culture and stamp out racial not about guilt. Aboriginal history uproot racism from its very core, ameliorate the diseases of prejudice. What is needed to is part of our common history it is not enough to police and intolerance and bigotry from garner societal support for that is ‘shared’ but experienced silence. What should complement eating away our society.

8 9 analysis profile Taking candy from a baby Understanding obesity: Some video games are not just addictive, they’re exploitative, writes Joshua Krook. the $1.2 million dollar man My first game ofCandy Crush in revenue. While the approximate Jonathon Parker meets Charles Perkins Obesity Centre academic Paul Griffiths. reminded me of my first experience cost per user is only $3.84, the with a slot machine. Both offered game’s one hundred million the same enticements: escapism, players are not necessary frequent a bit of fun, and crudely simple users. Indeed, the majority of Professor Paul Griffiths is a Australians to be obese. In light gameplay. It is a puzzle-based Candy Crush’s revenue comes philosopher of science and an of this, the centre’s name feels game that requires players to in particular reinforces ‘correct on our emotional well-being. from these ‘whales’, who fork out administrative head in a scientific suddenly more apt. Charles align candies, three-in-a-row. But behaviour’, playing the game, by It is these tangible effects on hundreds or even thousands of research centre. The conjunction Perkins, an Indigenous Australian behind the veneer of charm and initiating audio cues— “sweet” the brain that make games like dollars a year. of such roles reads either as an rights activist, international juvenile ‘fun’, Candy Crush, like or “delicious”— whenever a Candy Crush so ‘rewarding’ and oxymoron, or as an entry in the athlete, and the first Indigenous its forebear the slot machine, has particularly successful move is consequently addictive. The game’s developer Palm CV of a Platonic philosopher king. Australian to graduate from a manipulative, psychological pull: made. laments that the traditional Griffiths is, however, both real and Sydney University, fought for the sweet sugar of addiction. As soon as the player is trapped video game “consumes a lot of the Associate Academic Director an end to discrimination against Such positive reinforcement, into this addictive pattern of mental bandwidth… you binge for Humanities and Social Sciences Indigenous Australians. Perhaps Traditional academia once viewed along with the quick acquisition reinforcement and reward, the and eventually you stop playing.” at the Charles Perkins Centre, the a centre operating in his name addiction as exclusively limited of new levels, makes you feel game strikes. At some point, you’ll Candy Crush represents the University of Sydney’s newest and will help to better understand to drugs and alcohol. Yet most like you have accomplished a fail to complete a level, and the worst of video game stereotypes, most innovative research Centre. why Indigenous Australians are modern researchers agree that great deal in a very short space game will prompt the player with providing mindless button- so disproportionally affected by behavioural addictions also exist. of time. The game’s “incremental the option of spending “$0.99” to mashing instead of meaningful “I study scientific method. So I’m obesity-related illness. Regardless of the activity, Gaming reward structures”— which “finish off the remaining candies!” or provocative stimulation. Palm interested in what scientists do Psychologist Mark Griffiths of lauds 544 levels of fun— Conversely, choosing “end game” designed the game so that it can and how their doing of those things “There’s an argument to be made Nottingham Trent University provides an especially prolonged triggers negative music which be played one-handed, while succeeds in generating knowledge. that one very effective way to deal concludes that “all addictions [are] experience; one that enhances the suggests that you’ve subsequently multitasking, and offline. Of I’m actually studying what people with the obesity crisis is to reduce essentially about constant rewards “achievement” felt when you reach made the ‘wrong choice’, and course, most addict recovery do in the Charles Perkins Centre, inequality, and ensure people have and reinforcements”. Once we have the final level. The development should have committed to paying programs have ‘time away’ as an rather than contributing [to the enough control over their own lives a trigger, and an activity we enjoy, company, Palm, creates new levels instead. Bad consumer. essential feature to break the cycle scientific research itself].” to be able to make healthy choices. rewards and reinforcements help every fortnight, meaning that the of addiction. Frighteningly, Candy If you’re over-worked and highly- cement that behaviour into our game literally will never end. Though the game markets itself Crush can be played whenever a Though the centre does not stressed, you have very little officially open till June, Griffiths day to day lives. as ‘free to play’, many fall victim phone is nearby. Griffiths is a humble, yet how much protein, fat and so forth capacity to make healthy choices.” has already begun using Research shows that, much like to its moneymaking tactics. The knowledgeable, figure. He views enters.” his previous experience as a These are the issues which the Candy Crush and slot machines drug and alcohol dependency, worst victims, known as ‘whales’ The final condemnation I can make his personal role, as opposed to his philosopher of science to assist in Centre is trying to investigate. both proffer ‘rewards’, which are “rewards” in video games impact by the industry, make up for those of Candy Crush is that, like slot administrative role, in the Centre However, in keeping with the the early stages of its development. What are the widespread causes given in the form of trophies, upon our epinephrine, dopamine who pay nothing at all by paying machines, it is mind-numbingly as “really quite marginal”. In Centre’s aim to ascertain a of obesity? What are the best high scores, stars, and access and serotonin levels. In effect, literally thousands of dollars boring. Though, Palm knows spite of this, he is well acquainted “massive, multi-component, When you think about the means to combat it? This is where to new content. Common to some of our base chemical just to get their fix.Candy Crush squeezing money from an addict is with the specifics of the research systems-level understanding of the objectives of the centre, a ‘philosopher of science’ can both are what Griffith terms gratifications are met by video is currently valued at $8.5bn. like taking candy from a baby. projects to be conducted by the whole nutritional environment” understanding the philosophy crystallise the best approach to “aural and visual rewards for games. It is these hormonal Estimates indicate the game Charles Perkins Centre, as he is in Australia, Griffiths stresses of science seems a rather logical a comprehensive examination of a winning move”. Candy Crush changes that have tangible effects grosses one million dollars a day overseeing the research performed the importance of non-biological ambition. The Charles Perkins the causes and effects of obesity- by individual faculties. factors in contributing to obesity. Centre aims to alleviate the health related diseases. Griffiths noted and social burdens of obesity, He is no stranger to the biology Obesity in Australia continues to that groups from the School diabetes and cardiovascular of non-communicable disease. rise. Over five million Australians of Business and the School of disease. Rather than merely Griffiths recently received a $1.2 are currently obese; indeed, obesity Media and Communications are perceiving these diseases as million grant from the Templeton is overtaking smoking as the preparing to take on projects medical conditions, the centre Down to Business World Charity Foundation to be leading cause of preventable death. alongside the Centre. However, he will incorporate research from put towards personal research, Consequently, Griffiths believes confirmed that “nobody actually a myriad of faculties to gain a Jielu Cai asks whether the vocational opportunities offered by the Business School are really based on the core concepts that responsibility for redressing works for the CPC apart from the holistic understanding of their of biology and the study of burgeoning obesity lies in multiple administrative staff”. available to growing number of international students. causes and effects. The Centre information-processing in gene areas of society – from agriculture intends to understand the Despite the range of faculties regulatory networks. and the food production system, to We all had some sort of know that the Business School is an international student. You That does not, however, mean that complexities of obesity-related involved in the Charles Perkins expectations of what university working on it. The Abercrombie eye an opportunity that reads the Business School is justified the government, and beyond. diseases by investigating the role In relation to the Centre itself, Centre, many of its research would be like before we came here. precinct will be up and running for something like: ‘We are looking in attracting more and more of human psychology, education projects remain unconfirmed. For We may have imagined what the future business students soon. for someone who understands international students by saying Griffiths has emphasized the “Obviously the government and agriculture in expediting importance of research into has a large role to play in the example, Aboriginal and Torres lectures might be like, how hard global content’, or ‘Interested in that they provide a career-focused obesity. Strait Islander health is one of the exams would be, or even how I also imagined that I would be International Business?’ At this program, when international the biology of diabetes and issue of food labelling, but so cardiovascular disease amongst does the Australian Food and the five research themes at the many times a week it would be having lunches in suits and would point, you’re thinking, “Isn’t that students are excluded from Griffiths had been writing about insects and animals. He strongly Grocery Council. So do Coles and Centre, but Griffiths said “we are acceptable to get drunk and skip need another phone to facilitate just me? It’s perfect!” 80 per cent of internship opportunities and evolutionary genetics and human believes in the need to study Woolworths. There’s the Federal still trying to appoint a Senior next morning’s lecture. For many the business communications of the time, however, after you scroll events like career fairs. The School nature prior to assuming a role biological and nutritional trends and State Governments, and the Researcher” to lead research in of us, however, one question was an incredibly demanding work down with full excitement, you see ought to acknowledge the difficulty at the Charles Perkins Centre, in animal eating habits before State Government is very active that area. most prominent: “Where will life. I don’t think that I am an two words: ‘residency required’. experienced by international yet his role in the Centre is studying them in humans. in this area, but then there is also university lead me?” over-ambitious and career- Okay, now you realize that they students in pursuing a career, predominantly administrative. Paul Griffiths and his scientifically conspicuous person who loses are not in fact looking for someone but it’s doubtful that it’s doing the private sector, and things like “One of the things that is really Diabetes Australia, who will be philosophising companions are I myself had a rather delusive the ability to judge herself. from the other side of the globe. anything to improve it. “I’m convening a big conference central to research going on here working with the Charles Perkins not about to lead Plato’s utopia. imagination. My first lofty hope Just look around the Business later in the semester called ‘Who’s is noticing, right across a range of Centre.” Their multi-disciplinary approach was that the Business School School— there’s no shortage This is understandable. The Bear in mind that international Afraid of the Nanny State?’, which experimental animals from insects may, however, help to alleviate the would have glamorous lecture of career fairs, advertisements market is saturated, especially in students are paying more than will involve political theorists, to mice to ultimately volunteer In the US and Australia, rates of enormous healthcare, economic rooms. That dream was shattered and success testimonies. They areas like accounting and finance. four times the university fees of lawyers, public health researchers humans, that animals are not obesity continue to rise in poorer and social burdens of one of as soon as I had my first lecture are always advertised on the When Australia is having difficulty domestic students. The Business and politicians arguing about trying to control the number communities far more quickly than Australia’s leading causes of in Merewether. I struggled to sit Business School’s website, on accommodating its own needs, of School knows its business. Indeed, whether there is anything wrong of calories they consume. The in wealthy areas. In Australia, for preventable illness. If, as Marty through an hour-long spiel with notice boards, and even on the course domestic students will be it is a shame to think that while with the government interfering molecular biology inside them example, Aboriginal and Torres Rubin suggested, “Philosophers no air-conditioning on a 34-degree doors of bathrooms. Life seems so prioritised. Often, getting a job in we are contributing directly to the in our lives to make us healthier; contains a bunch of mechanisms Strait Islander Australians have console themselves with day as the trucks and cars driving promising. a foreign country has a lot to do Business School, and indirectly to when is it wrong, and when that are [only] trying to control the fourth highest rate of Type 2 explanations,” let us hope that past the building totally deafened with local policies and regulations. the nation’s GDP, there is hardly is it justifiable. This isn’t part what kinds of food they eat, in diabetes in the world, and nearly they can find some consolation. me. Never mind— at least I now However, life is very different for This is very fair and reasonable. anything in it for us. of my research; it’s part of my particular it’s trying to control twice as likely as non-indigenous administrative role.” 10 11 featurefeature featurefeature

journey the group was handcuffed translator, of security and being prosecutor’s office in Mahalla a believed she had been arrested in and the three “witnesses” were responsible for ransom demands or group of supporters had amassed Syria and emailed to ask, “Should allowed to taunt them. One, an loss of life is no longer something and were able to pass through you get a connection, could you 11-year-old child, motioned slitting many media bodies feel they are food, the first they had had in tweet about your detention?”. Alwi’s throat, another told Austin in a position to do. Rather than nearly 30 hours. Lawyers arrived, Such reports are unsurprising in The peril of “urkab ala moot” which literally send a staff writer to whom they and though Austin had no chance a media culture that continues to translates as “ride to death”. owe wardship, why not rely on to actually confer, his lawyer was devalue journalist safety in favour Nerine Corbett investigates journalists stories from freelance writers able to argue that the witness of profits and shareholders. The real interrogation began in and stringers who must shoulder stories were inconsistent, that behind bars. the Ministry of Interior where, the risk and cost themselves? “If there had been a pattern of Asking Austin about the pressure 12 hours into his captivity, the you’re prepared to risk your life xenophobic witch-hunts in the to conform seems to hit home. the pen police realised that Austin was “More people are competing for the for chump change, you can see recent months. Spirits rose. When my uncle called in April Though barely able to see a path army. “In the old days cameramen rights abuses, that gave us in the country on a long-expired your name in print,” Austin tells same few outlets, plus the lack of 2011 to say that my cousin, through the bodies slamming and journalists were embedded due process and democratic visa. Austin said that it was here me in a worryingly matter-of-fact It was not long until Elfyoumi and job security forces people to look freelance journalist Austin against the car, the four followed with troops. There was a protocol protection, they are being eroded. he began to lose his composure, tone. He goes on to tell me that Zakaria were released. Austin, for an editorial line that won’t Mackell, had been arrested in the police to the station where so that they knew the dangers; The increased vulnerability of angry at the injustice of being many media corporations and Alwi and Ludovici, however, were upset the editors because they can Egypt, was being detained in an they were invited inside for they were made more aware of journalists goes along with the held, at injustices perpetrated all editors take advantage of the lure taken underground and left in always find someone else, it’s hard unknown location, and was facing “protection”. the danger of being in the line of increased vulnerability of aid over Egypt, all over the world by of the “big break” for new and cells that reverberated with the to see what power a freelance has a five to seven year jail sentence, I fire. Now they are in a position of workers, activists and people in those with power against those inexperienced journalists. “It can screams of other inmates. in the modern media industry.” was stunned. Risk and danger are, The police took their remaining greater personal risk,” he says. general.” without it. He was also fearful for be very immoral at times, the way Reports become flatter in such after all, hard to understand, to identification, asked a few The protection, firepower, medical himself and even more so for Alwi people desperate to get into the Staff from the Australian embassy a climate, colder. Who can risk really weigh up. Although Austin questions and led them to a side and tactical support of the armed * * * and Zakaria, the former for her industry are being exploited. It’s eventually reached them, bringing shocking or challenging in this had worked in the Middle East room to wait. Elfayoumi came forces was always on hand if gender and both for their Egyptian a bit like the Hollywood casting some basic comforts, toilet paper, situation? Journalists pressured for years and I understood that he to see what had happened to required. That is not the case For Austin, Alwi, Ludovici, nationality. The interrogations couch gone wrong. It can be very blankets and pillows – small into being biased and safe in their was always at risk in an abstract the group. Although they were today. Zakaria and Elfayoumi the game began. Austin was pressed seedy.” comforts that, for Austin and reportage has contributed to the sense, it was never real to me. repeatedly told that they would of hide and seek now began. about his work and intimidated. Ludovici, allowed them the first changed perception of press in It was always a risk written in be able to leave shortly, the Austin tells me the shift to They were moved first to another Alwi was interrogated far more Australia seems to be falling chance to sleep in days. Both the field. Difficult and dangerous colourful pixels on my TV screen or ‘protection’ stretched on. By this interclass, civil conflicts rather police station, then the Ministry viciously and was asked about her behind global standards in this believed Alwi had been released conditions now undermine the in the neat words of my Saturday point it was clear they were being than interstate conflicts is also of Interior building, then once personal life. Zakaria was beaten. respect, for as soon as I speak to though this was not the case. quality of stories reporters are able morning paper. detained. a big contributor. “The conflicts again to a military intelligence Dieter Herrmann he is quick to tell When awoken they gathered these to tell. It seems a vicious cycle in are not between two competing facility in Cairo. Any belief that * * * me that Australian journalists are few things, sure they were to be which those who seek to suppress On that day in April, the war, A witness appeared claiming armies each of whom would the police were keeping them for in a very different, less privileged, moved once more; in fact, pressure freedom of information make the the conflicts, and the terror that they had seen the group inciting have journalists safely on their protection had long dispersed. Australian media organisations position than their colleagues in from the Australian embassy only gains. Austin had been reporting on way violence on the streets. Austin and side reporting their narrative. Alwi frantically tweeted their seem to provide little support for Europe and Britain. He explains lawyers and activists saw them across the globe splintered my his colleagues had stood accused The conflicts are in societies, so movements, lucky to get word out their staff working in war zones. European and British media finally released. * * * relatively safe Australian life. The of the false claim that they had journalists are much more in the before their phones and laptops Stanton suggests the modern corporations refuse to buy stories dangerous world of war journalism handed out money to have rocks mix. So much social upheaval were seized, while Austin tried to “resource allocation problems” – a from anyone who has not done * * * Free from confinement though became real to me and my family thrown at the police station. The is happening at the moment, tell a journalist outside the police chronic issue for the media of the specific training on how to work in with a travel ban in place, Austin’s just as it has become real to Peter nightmare had just begun. street fighting is happening and station that the charges were 21st century – means footing the hostile areas, removing the lure of Stanton suggests that situations face had been circulated as that Greste’s family, and to those who journalists are on the line in a way unfounded. For the third cost of insurance of a war zone journalism for rookies. like Austin’s are happening more of a Western spy and he spent knew and loved the 450 journalists * * * they wouldn’t have been [before].” leg of the The training concentrates on frequently as a result of technology weeks moving from couch to couch, imprisoned, 125 kidnapped, and Within such contexts, danger dealing with dangerous situations and the “immediacy of access”. unable to return to his home 144 killed in the last two years in With 1052 journalists killed since zones are much more dynamic. The such as hostage and kidnapping “A soldier with a weapon is also because it had been raided. It war zones all over the planet. 1992, it is clear the position of front line is on all sides, the battle events. Moreover, purchasing a soldier with a mobile phone, so would take six months of slow and the press in conflict zones has is in the streets and the enemy is stories from journalists travelling information is being received a lot confounded bureaucracy for the * * * shifted dramatically. I meet with no longer clearly signposted. Such alone is disallowed, so in order faster,” he says. Such increasing charges to be dropped and him to Dieter Herrmann, Vice President conditions leave journalists much to sell your story to European or competition in the marketplace be able to leave Egypt. It was routine work for Austin of the Foreign Correspondent’s more exposed. It is the reality now British outlets one must travel also means the selling price for that day, heading out to Mahalla Association, who tells me he knows that the best and often only way in the safety of a pair, at least. stories has fallen. Outlets do Austin’s story is nowhere near from Cairo to hold an interview, of around 20 more deaths, those of to report is from alongside rebel Herrmann condemns the situation not need to pay one journalist the most worrying or terrible out accompanied by his Egyptian internal Afghan journalists, which forces, which are not in a position in Australia as “irresponsible’”. $100 for a story when another is there; it’s almost tempting to say translator Aliya Alwi and have not made the statistics. to offer the traditional safety “It’s totally different here in waiting in line ready to sell for he got off lightly. We need only American postgraduate student Distressing changes to both the measures afforded to journalists. Australia, if you are a journalist much less. The monthly pay scale take one look at the haunting Derek Ludovici. But April 11 culture of war and the culture and you want to go… you can do of journalists is only a quarter images of a shackled Peter Greste marked the anniversary of of media seem to be putting Stanton also explains that the that, no problem and if you’re now of what it was thirty years staring, lost, from behind bars Mubarak’s fall and Egypt was journalists at increasing risk. blue flak jacket of the press pack killed, you’re killed.” ago, Herrmann states. Many during his trial to understand how under military rule; safety could is no longer sufficient protection. freelancers report they cannot much worse things could have not be assumed. They were set to “Nobody cares anymore. Nobody Not so long ago, simply being a * * * afford insurance, which can been. But Austin and my family’s meet Kamal Elfayoumi, a union cares if it is a journalist you are visibly accredited journalist was a cost $1000 a month, let alone a experience stands testimony to the leader and political activist from killing or somebody else as long shield; it granted immunity. “The After a cold and hungry night translator or personal security impunity with which militants, the area, to interview him for a as the person is dead. Being a role of the press is less respected of being left to struggle to sleep with these pay grades, and are government, anyone with power, story about the role of workers’ journalist or not a journalist, there on either side for the reporting in their chairs, each in separate left with no alternative but to can now treat journalists. strikes in Egypt’s explosive is no difference when the bullet of conflict. Either side in an interrogation rooms, the run- work perilously exposed to the uprising. comes, so we need protection to do engagement has less belief in the around resumed. A few hours increasingly dangerous conditions. Austin says he shares my horrified our work,” Herrmann says. sanctity and the preservation of of driving in the back of a police amazement at the little interest Austin would later describe the the press, and as an independent truck returned the group to the Others feel pushed to take extra Peter Greste’s case has generated events of the next days as his Dr Richard Stanton is a senior player in that overall structure,” second station at which they had risks for the chance at a scoop. in the Australian media, given “nightmare”. lecturer in the School of Letters, he says. “[Journalists and camera been held, only to leave again “There is a journalist I knew he has been held in solitary Arts and Media at the University operators] are now seen as being minutes later. Activists from the working in Syria who was asked confinement for months and his Within minutes of meeting of Sydney, and specialist in nearly as dangerous as the ‘No to Military Trials’ group had to do things which put her and trial is being held in a language Elfayoumi, the group was mobbed. the politics of war journalism. combatants themselves.” discovered their whereabouts and her sources in danger by an he does not speak. “Australia’s Desperate and angry, the crowd I ask him if he thinks there is gathered outside. Despite the editor back in the safety of New relative acquiescence is absolutely accused the three of working to something special about the Austin agrees, explaining authorities’ best efforts to York, pressured because she was terrifying. It leaves journalists in destroy Egypt, working to tear way war is fought today that that journalists used to be shuffle the group around new and young,” Austin says. a really nasty place.” It is time apart the livelihoods of the very endangers journalists. He tells considered untouchable, and avoid such aid Similarly, Francesca Borri, an to recognise just what it takes to people whose story they had come me that decreased structure and but are now free game. the word was out to Italian journalist, lamented last bring us news, to tell the stories to share. Pressed upon by the support means many journalists “Those liberal values activists, journalists year to Columbia Journalism of distress and destruction and screaming crowd, the three split and reporters do not have the that protected and lawyers. By Review that the first direct contact look at what needs to be done to with Elfayoumi and returned to instruction needed to protect journalists the time the five she had from her editor in over a protect those doing so. In 2014, their taxi, where their driver, themselves. Stanton states that and other were moved year (“during which I contracted journalists should no longer be Zakaria, told them his license historically war correspondents people from to the typhoid fever and was shot in the brutalised, maimed or killed in had been taken by a police officer. had a close relationship with one human knee”) was when he mistakenly pursuit of the truth.

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background and Game of Tropes illustration by alexandra mildenhall Spoilers are coming, warns Sam Murray. Review: Stannis Baratheon is in many not be surprising in isolation. He rapidly worsening odds reveals Game of Thrones isn’t just a ways a traditional fantasy hero. was barely out of his teens, leading the way that narrative focus good show because it has a large He is the rightful heir to the an entire country and military can assign roles to. Daenerys budget, solid acting, great pacing kingdom, forced into flight by the coalition. Targaryen is another “hero” and an excellent screenplay. Nymphomaniac usurpation of the throne by an because we follow her as well, Its value comes from the way it evil, incestuous family. He has a That the chickens came home to and she is the rightful heir to the challenges what we expect from Peter Walsh didn’t see a severed clitoris this time. stalwart and loyal adviser from roost for this young warrior king throne. Jaime Lannister is the fantasy, and instead comments a lowborn family, and wields a shocked us to our very core. We “bad guy” because he chucked on the ideological premises that magic sword that he pulled from a ignored the lessons of history a kid out a window. But the we take for granted. As the show “Lord suffering fuck I can’t believe Gainsbourg’s third collaboration parades and makes light of his burning fire. that tell us that young, absolute brilliance of Game of Thrones is returns this year to its fourth there are assholes here trying with the director. grim nihilism. The effect is a rulers rarely perform well. We did how it takes our expectations and season, we eagerly await to see quantify this cumstain as art. It’s tonally jarring work, nine-tenths But then his entire army is burnt this because we saw Robb as a turns them on our heads, all the what other basic tropes of fiction not. It drags the whole human The film opens in rain, with a comedy, leaving the one-tenth alive at sea. Just like that, the HeroTM , who was on the Path of while showing how our initial Game of Thrones indulges in, race down into the sewer. Western the camera’s passage into dark tragedy to misfire. A scene in which HBO show Game of Thrones Righteous RevengeTM, who would assumptions were so wrong. Yes, explores and ultimately throws civilization starting shitting blood spaces suggesting movement she reviews her partners’ genitals, reveals the deft, and yet, incredibly bring justice to the evil Lannisters Daenerys is on a path to reclaim in our face. And even if they kill the day this p.o.s. was released and into an orifice. The protagonist, while mug-penis-shots flash across obvious way it plays with both and kill that little shit Joffrey. He the throne of her father, but off all my favourite characters, I now it’s going to die of ass cancer. Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg), is the screen, is hilarious. And when perception and our ingrained sense couldn’t fail in our minds because that path leads her to consort wouldn’t have it any other way. If you enjoy this movie it’s because passed out, covered in bruises. the director swaps to black and of the ideas and patterns that our rudimentary knowledge of how with barbarian raiders, traitors you’re so fucken broken inside that I’m suspicious of the man who white for the “seriousness” of Joe’s make up traditional fantasy— fantasy works tells us he can’t. and slavers, and leaves war and shock and horror are the only things saves her. The film’s marketing father’s death, I can’t help but and then brutally subverts and burning cities in her wake. left to you. You’re already dead on emphasised that sex and seediness laugh at the obvious Von Trier-ism. deconstructs them. The assumption of Robb’s the inside so why not complete the would be everywhere, with one inevitable triumph in package and kill yourself.” press release even describing the While it’s undeniable that Von The fact that Robb Stark had such the face of process by which Von Trier digitally Trier puts Joe through all the a brutal end at the Red Wedding, The above review of imposed porn star genitalia on his tests his (female) protagonists slaughtered by a petty man he Nymphomaniac (2014), posted on actors to increase their size. must undergo, there’s warmth in had grievously insulted, should The Pirate Bay by AlienRapist2, Volume II that’s absent from his coolly raises the question of The quiet of the opening segues previous films. In the first volume, left feeling what art should be. And there’s dramatically into Rammstein’s Seligman acts as Von Trier’s proxy, sorry for a tendency— amongst Russian ‘Führe Mich’, which is basically the sympathetic ear for Joe’s her, but as novelists and strawmen I construct what I expected from the director torment. In Volume II, he seems an acolyte to refute— to say art must be of Antichrist (2009). Indeed, having to reverse the roles. After all, Joe’s of Lars’ own moral. But the mature age student seen Gainsbourg sever her clitoris complaints about “society’s morality philosophy, Ibis intrigue in you asks, “Why?”, “Whose at the climax of that film, I was police… eras[ing] my obscenity… there are morals?”, and “In my experience...”. bracing myself for something awful. so the bourgeoisie won’t feel sick,” limits to how Ed McMahon on the majestic birds that now call Sydney University home. Danish filmmaker Lars Von Trier After all, Antichrist started with can only remind us of a certain much we can has made a career of contradicting silence, symphony, and slow-motion maligned Danish filmmaker. like her. The Australian White Ibis, Here it has claimed its place in environment. It may be that the Yet the philosophical popular morality and his latest to lull us before introducing the However, it’s questionable otherwise known as Threskiornis the urban landscape, charming present population is large because and moral foundations film, Nymphomaniac, might be tragic image of a baby falling from how much we sympathise with But has the film molucca or “that fucking white us with its idiosyncratic of continuing migration. But are remain unclear. As the his most confrontational. In two a balcony while his parents had Lars, even when embodied in resolved this bird,” prompts impassioned personality, commitment to waste new, urban generations surviving self-proclaimed masters of volumes, eight chapters, and four sex. In Nymphomaniac, Von Trier Gainsbourg. After Joe-cum-Lars issue of whether seems to cut the foreplay. But what reactions from even the most minimisation, and no-fucks-given in sufficient numbers? The the planet, we should have and half hours (five if you’ve got the invokes a racial epithet, using the art can be evil? follows is, incongruously, a sexually Not especially. It’s apathetic student. attitude. Yet some have responded evidence is not yet in. settled these foundations uncensored version), Von Trier was n-word with derision in reference to follow the life and experiences of charged The Princess Bride (1987). to a failed threesome, it’s Seligman a disappointing film, with moral panic. “It stinks,” a while ago. Instead, we a sex addict. Joe coalesces in bed, drinks— is who chastises her, suggesting so much so that I don’t even Overwhelmingly, these reactions say some. “It threatens aircraft Earlier this month, a number of continue to pursue unbridled that tea?— and civilly recounts that political correctness comes want to defend it. However, you reflect a deep fear and/or loathing. safety,” say others. While elements respected Australian conservation material growth in the As a director, Von Trier is her story to Seligman (Stellan from a democratic interest in the can’t slam Von Trier without a Yet for those of us who are also a of truth may be conceded in such biologists called on governments to midst of our own population fascinating partially because of the Skarsgård). She recalls “discovering powerless. It’s clear we’re meant sideways glance at free speech. If little different and a little dirty, claims, many other baseless and pursue a new conservation policy. explosion. Are we just another elaborate mythology he entertains. her cunt” at age two, spoken to side with Joe, but Seligman’s his words at Cannes constituted the plight of the ibis feels familiar. outrageous assertions like “it Observing global extinction rates animal who will, by nature, He’s deathly afraid of flying, so over a close-up of a naked baby the persuasive one. Don’t worry, hate speech, is his oeuvre composed For the most part, we just accept creeps me out,” or “it tried to steal approaching unprecedented levels, dominate and destroy all others? travels by boat, or not at all. He’s looking down, and I admit feeling keep watching, Von Trier punishes of hate art? And should we attack that the haters gon’ hate as we live the scientists declared a need to my lunch,” abound. Or is our destruction gratuitous been banned from Cannes due to distressed here. Seligman for being so sympathetic. this kind of art with the same and let live. For the ibis, though, focus on protecting particular and unjustified? an interview he gave comparing impunity? To be called an artwork things are not so simple. So it has come to pass that species from extinction, while himself to a Nazi. His production Yet Volume I is distinguished If I sound indecisive, I am. My implies an engaging quality, and systemic anti-ibis programs letting others complete their These are not questions that can house, Zentropa, was the first not by its horror but rather feelings of ambivalence are made does this suggest that hateful art Like most residents of this city, have been instituted, which decline to eternal nothingness. be answered here, but they are mainstream company to produce by its absurd comedy. Each worse by the film’s conclusion. is prejudice at its most insidious? the ibis is a recent migrant. Its have included tactics such as the questions that come to mind hardcore pornography, which he chapter juxtaposes Joe’s heartfelt After years of being described You could now ask, slightly great migration began in the destroying eggs and nests in a It would seem that as humanity in the case of the ibis. Perhaps created for female audiences. His recollections with Seligman’s a misogynist, Nymphomaniac differently, “how might one enjoy 1970s, when the destruction of its bid to curb population growth. continues to build its new world on they will be the questions that will films disproportionately deal with banal interruptions, comparing ends with Lars, now Seligman, problematic things?” The answer native wetlands began in earnest. These programs have been the ashes of destroyed ecosystems, enter lunchtime conversations on the female experience, though it’s her apparent sexual indiscretions describing Joe as a resistance here is “mindfully”. To engage with As human beings have continued pursued without any real attempt our perceived capacity to ‘save’ all the front lawns if ibis numbers the female experience qua Von to fishing, mountaineering, or the figure, claiming that her it intellectually allows us to skim to build roads, suburbs, and mines to scientifically understand ibis endangered species is a delusion. dwindle. Perhaps we will better Trier, and he’s been accused of Western Church. Not to be outdone, indiscretions would be anything off a work’s interesting dimensions, across the geographic area that populations. In particular, its It would seem that the time has define our moral duty to the ibis degrading them. After Dancer in Joe introduces meta-metaphors but had they been acted by a man. and let the vile sediment sink. we have arbitrarily named New populations are consistently come to choose what lives and of Sydney University. Or perhaps, the Dark (2000), Björk refused for his metaphors. The screen is I wonder whether this coda justifies Nymphomaniac errs on the side of South Wales, the destruction reduced without any proper what dies. as seems more likely, haters will to make another film, saying, divided into thirds, comparing the hours of torture that preceded sediment, and while it’s interesting has compounded. Forced from its research into its survival, continue to hate and our project of “he needs a female to provide his Joe’s memories to Seligman’s it. The indeterminacy of Von Trier’s insofar as it reflects Von Trier’s home, the ibis has turned to the growth and fertility rates in Clearly, such decisions would ecocide will continue. work soul, and he envies them interruptions, to Joe’s own depiction of Joe is, however, a own developing sensibility, I’m big smoke to for a new start. its comparatively new urban require scientific foundations. and hates them for it, so he has to interpretations. possible triumph— each damning suspicious of its quality and destroy them.” He’s been known to action is counterbalanced by a ambivalent about its evil. There’s photography by lane sainty smash chairs in his female actors’ The overriding sense of Volume redemptive one. She leaves her undoubtedly something of a dressing rooms, or strip naked I is of Von Trier aggressively kid, but supports him financially. redemptive moral in the film, but while directing to unsettle them. undermining our expectations She tries to kill someone, but Von Trier makes you share his Nymphomaniac marks Charlotte by giving us a film that both subconsciously stops herself. We’re masochism to get to it.

15 yes, in my backyard src help Uprooted in Chippendale Special Consideration Tom Joyner is looking for a new place to live. This morning I awoke to find an money around their study in temporary hidey-holes. Share housing in the inner-west is hard Ask enormous billboard that read “For order to pay for a lifestyle that is houses have been punctuated fought for by students who simply Sale”, hastily strung overnight to far from stable if they are unable by hostel dorms and friends’ can’t compete with the latte- my neighbour’s fence, advertising to qualify for scholarships or couches, sometimes as far away as sipping, dual-income, no-kids the sale of eight terraced houses on government assistance. Wollongong. regiment of Sydney’s middle-class. What if I am Abe my street – including my own. This cohort, squashed awkwardly For a period in my second year For every ad on Gumtree that Hello Abe, My guts churning, I hastily called between the haves and the have- I lived in a halfway house of offers a “bright sun-lit room” sick for an the number listed. Brett from nots of the student population, sorts, where, with unnerving with “cool twenty-something Even though it’s still really early in Colliers International answered are underrepresented on campus. predictability, I was greeted every housemates”, there are fifty- assessment or the semester I still feel that I’m heaps the phone with the bored tone of Aside from a smattering of morning by the muffled banging something other frustrated someone simultaneously browsing societies aimed at fostering and rasping breath of the elderly students, whose flood of examination? Is behind. 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See your doctor (or if Dear Busy, telemarketers. soon,” Brett said quickly, “but I’ll independent experience without whom the move to Sydney without YOU SHOULD NOT GET A FAIL – assuming yours is not available, any doctor) and get your you have documented why you could not attend/ let you know when”. the social and financial costs of support is daunting enough, the Professional Practitioner’s Certificate (PPC) This is the time of the semester when “I’m still here you know.” complete each assessment and successfully college, it remains limited. Sydney challenge of accessible, affordable completed. This needs to be on the same day many students start to feel the pressure of I sat on the edge of my bed feeling University offers the unique and secure housing is ongoing. applied for Special Consideration, as outlined assignments being due. Deal with each of Coming from outside of Sydney to that you are sick and should not be backdated. defeated, and slowly began to inconvenience of being situated in the policy. those aspects one step at a time. Talk to study at university, the options If your doctor is not available you will need to go over my options. For the last in the heart of the city’s trendiest (PS. I’m still looking for a place if your tutor now to see if you can arrange an for a place to live are limited. see another doctor. If you are too sick to go to three years, my living situation pocket of real estate. Access to anyone has a spare room.) What is the policy? extension. Talk to someone at Counselling Students must rely on earning in Sydney has been a series of the doctor, find a doctor that will do a house and Psychological Services (Level 5, Jane call. There are a few available – you can find If they reschedule your exam and assessments, Foss Russell Building) or the University’s them through google. Your doctor should also but you are too sick (for example) to attend any Health Service (Level 3, Wentworth give a brief description of the things that you again, and you apply for special consideration Building). are unable to do, eg, attend university, leave each time and your applications are approved bed, sit up for longer than 10 minutes, etc. The each time, you should not receive a “fail”. doctor will also have to assess the severity of The Learning Centre runs free courses for SEALS Instead you should be awarded a DNF grade. time management. This can help you get Holme-coming your condition. If you are not severely effected your uni work under control while still by your illness you might find it difficult to get A DNF is a Discontinued, Not Fail. Compared Shaun Ch’ng discusses the having a social life. Check out their website Mariana Podesta-Diverio explores the Holme building special consideration. to a Fail (or Absent Fail or Discontinued Fail), South East Asian Law Society at: usyd.edu.au/stuserv/learning_centre. redevelopment. a DNF is good for your transcript and good for If you have a valid PPC, and the doctor has Go to Student Resources then Module Being an international student isn’t easy. your Annual Average Mark and good for your It’s easy to lose track of the latest would cater to vegans and people with celiac assessed that you are severely affected or worse 10. This is an online resource for you to Embracing a whole new culture and making Weighted Average Mark (WAM). infrastructural changes on campus, disease, and that it would boast “competitive you should almost certainly be granted special work through in your own time. It’s all new friends from different backgrounds is a particularly in first semester, when prices”. However, he could not confirm what consideration. Be aware that you do not have to really commonsense stuff but makes a real daunting task. However, the law school has SO if you can’t do any of the assessments summer’s dust has barely started to settle the name of the establishment would be. provide more details about you condition if you difference when you follow it. helped me a lot in adapting to my environment in a subject this semester, or in the future, and the February heat makes everything a would prefer to keep that confidential. and you have successfully applied for special and making me feel at home. There are a Look at the CAPS website. Workshops little blurrier than it should be. In any case, Although many Union Board candidates consideration EACH TIME, then check that number of societies around the law school coming up soon are listed at: sydney.edu. if you’ve been anywhere near Science Road promise to change or introduce certain Remember that Special Consideration is your mark is recorded as a DNF. You should catering to a multi-cultural community of au/current_students/counselling/workshops/ in the past few months you’ve probably features to the union-operated buildings for a temporary illness, misadventure or also apply to have a refund or recrediting of students. list-of-workshops/index.shtml You can also noticed that the Holme Building, operated (Wentworth, Manning, and Holme) in their exacerbation of a long term illness. It is not for your fees. Ask at the faculty office or the SRC by the University of Sydney Union, is election platforms, the redevelopment is long term illnesses per se. That should be dealt make an appointment with a counsellor to SULS is the largest society for law students for the appropriate forms. undertaking a decidedly committed facelift. not the direct result of any one director’s with through the Disabilities Unit. get individualised advice or thoughts on and one of the most active on campus. Though election promises. specific strategies. personally I have not been very involved with Contact SRC Help The redevelopment, with a projected What if I am sick for the supplementary SULS. Perhaps it was the intimidating thought 9660 5222 | [email protected] completion date of July 2014, has begun to “It is not the result of an individual examination or every assessment in a subject? If you’ve done all of these things and still of not being able to fit in, or the reluctance and yield some visible changes. The renovations director’s policy or vision for the Union,” can’t cope with your workload you might fear of needing to mould myself to fit the social have thus far seen the replacement of the said Board director Robby Magyar, “but a like to talk to an SRC caseworker about the norm. old student lounge with a large memorabilia collective approach towards ensuring the possibility of withdrawing from a subject. gift store. You may remember the lounge as sustainability and relevance of the Union for This may attract an academic penalty, but Luckily, the establishment of other law Get your housing a number of extremely comfortable years to come.” you can at least check out what your options societies has helped fill the void for students and extremely expensive beanbags, which are. If you are on a Centrelink payment tell uncomfortable with joining a large group like will presumably be relocated to the new The inclusion of a lift in the building your caseworker as this might alter how you SULS. One such society is the South East Asian highest student lounge. is also notable, which will improve textbooks reduce your workload. Law Society (SEALS). accessibility to areas that were previously cashback “The USU is committed to providing as inaccessible to some students. “[This] is a A final word of caution, when students Joining SEALS has helped me considerably much space for students as possible, and welcome improvement for students facing rate on feel pressured they can sometimes be less during my time at the University. There are ensuring student space is not only retained accessibility issues wishing to visit the vigilant about referencing and proper many international students in the law school, campus but expanded where possible has been queer space in particular.” said Magyar. paraphrasing when they write essays. If but most fly under the radar. In a society like taken into the highest consideration during CHEAP! Get 40% not 30% you know that you are cutting corners it is SEALS, I can meet people from home to connect the planning for this redevelopment” said The Queer Space, which had previously don’t pay full price for textbooks... best to get help before handing your essays with and to provide me with invaluable advice Hannah Morris, USU President. been accessible only via a staircase, is being buy them secondhand at SRC books. in. Talk to a lecturer, the Learning Centre, on making it through my degree away from temporarily housed in a different part of the counsellor or SRC caseworker and ask for home. help. This is better than putting in an essay Other new facilities will include a Holme building. Search for text books online at: SRC Books Level 4, Wentworth Bldg restaurant, new bathrooms, and a newly www.src.usyd.edu.au/src-books (next to the international Lounge) you know is not up to your usual standard Societies like SEALS may target a smaller landscaped courtyard. The correct pronunciation of the building’s call 02 9660 4756 to check Hours: mondays to Fridays 9am - 4.30pm and then being found guilty of plagiarism. audience than a catchall society like SULS, name (‘Houlm’ or ‘Home’) remains an elusive availability and reserve a book. p: (02) 9660 4756 e: [email protected] but they can still succeed in making university Andrew Woodward, USU CEO, promised mystery for students and staff alike. Abe easier for all students. that the Mediterranean-inspired restaurant 16 src reports src reports

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about the problems international students along the way to UTS to join action was a complete success, around Dames of the Order of Australia. Now the real issues facing Australian’s Education” campaign went National students face at universities, stating the main demonstration. Hundreds the country and here in Sydney despite I know that Tony Abbott has his loved were yet again forgotten about. as students across the countries’ main pretty sharply that “international of students from Macquarie, UNSW the miserable weather. views of the monarchy and lets face it Dastyari captured the irrelevance cities marched to save high quality, students are not ATMs for the and UTS were waiting there for us, for what was once an energetic republican and disappointment of Tony Abbott’s affordable and accessible education. government!”. Hear hear. another lively rally and march into the EAG activist Chloe Rafferty was movement is not center stage at the announcement in a nutshell. The Sydney’s march went on despite the city. quoted on the ABC declaring that moment, but seriously what was Tony story has taken off through all media rain and gathered quite a good crowd. We then moved to the Quad, where “They’re carving up TAFE. They’re Abbott thinking!!! avenues, maybe because Australian’s we took to the precious grass to let Across the country hundreds more making the biggest cuts to university are finally seeing the outdated, out However the news was still very our infamous VC know what we students took part in the day, sending funding we’ve seen in 18 years...It’s What was most hilarious about the of touch and uncaring actions of the pre-occupied by Abbotts return of think of him and the decision of the a strong message to the government protests like this and mass actions like whole situation is that he decided he Abbott Government. “Barking Mad: Knights and Dames announcement. Group of Eight universities to propose that we won’t tolerate further the March in March that we need to would keep his announcement as a the Abbott nobility” writes Mark Too bad Abbott doesn’t spend the same full fee places for Law, Accounting funding cuts to universities, we won’t challenge, not only this government, surprise to his colleagues. Particularly Carlton, “The Queens Guard” writes amount of time trying to improve the Last week was the national day of and Commerce. We also heard from tolerate attacks on welfare, and but the rotting system that brings Joe Hockey and Malcolm Turnbull who Sophie Morris, this is an issue so Education and Healthcare systems in action for education! Despite the rain SUPRA Education Officer Tim Scriven we won’t tolerate the undermining about these corporate universities. are both republicans and played major comical that the Media won’t even side this country, as he does sucking up to over 200 Sydney Uni students rallied and SRC Enviro Officer Amelie while of staff wages and conditions. The Here Ye Here Ye, the phrase that roles in the movement during the 1999 with Abbott. the Queen. outside Fisher Library to oppose students chalked ‘education is a fight against Abbott and Pyne is just Hear hear. The anger and defiance captured a nation this week as referendum. Abbott and Pyne’s cuts to higher process not a commodity’ in solidarity beginning though. Just last week that marked the protests put us in Senator Sam Dastyari pointed Last Wednesday was finally the All the best with your week and I’ll education. There we heard from a with the Sydney Uni student facing the Liberals pledged themselves to good stead to fight the Liberals the out the ridiculousness of our dear While this story was taking the day of the National Day of Action, check in again same place, same time library staff member on the proposed suspension for chalking the same implementing the conversion of Start- rest of their term. Prime Minister’s announcement of front page of newspapers this week, the “Abbott and Pyne, Hands of our next week. restructuring and what it could message at the strikes last year. up Scholarships into loans when the reintroducing the honor of Knights and mean for the workers in the library, take control of the Senate in July. and Sherry one of the International After that, we marched down Eastern General Secretary’s Report Student Officers in the SRC who spoke Avenue pretty loudly, drawing in All in all, the first national day of James Leeder thinks we should have more discussions, both positive and critical, around SSAF.

in the Student Services and Amenities For instance, much of SSAF regarding the Union and its use of Fee (SSAF), which is a fee levied on all remains tied up in inaccessible or SSAF. As first years will soon discover, Wom*n’s Officers’ Report students each semester. prohibitively expensive ventures a typical union board campaign is such as scholarships and gyms. The awash with impossible promises Georgia Cranko, Julia Readett and Phoebe Moloney. Many of you who read this paper implementation of SSAF is also a very and quickly becomes focused on the regularly will be familiar with SSAF nebulous process. Aside from colourful number of new bars each candidate and the controversy surrounding it, Excel pie graphs on the university’s proposes, or on which new exciting Service. This panel will address Law Seminar on Thursday April 9040 between 8.30-5pm weekdays or particularly the division between website, it is difficult to find out how frozen dessert store might open a sexual assault and violence against 3rd. (02) 9515 6111 anytime if the sexual student organisations. It should be the money is actually being used. shop on campus. Rather than false wom*n, including topics of defining assault happened in the last 7 days. noted that despite the difficulties The SRC rectifies this by voting on promises, I hope this year we see sexual assault, rates, intersectionality, Please be aware that the panel we have at USyd, we have been the the budget annually; any student elections that are not solely focused effective advocacy, unpacking victim- discussion will be addressing a variety We hope this event can impart consistent winner of NUS’ surveys is able to attend the budget council on food and drink, but on how we can blaming and dismantling rape culture. of issues surrounding violence against essential information about the RPA This past Wednesday marked the regarding student life and SSAF meeting and learn about how their make our student organisations more We want to acknowledge what sexual wom*n. We realise that discussion Sexual Assault Service and start a National Day of Action (NDA) against implementation, and compared with money is being used. Further, at the accessible. assault is, what the issues are and may bring up traumatic experiences, campus dialogue, and in the world at higher education cuts, organised other universities who are reluctant last council meeting the SRC passed a brainstorm how we can work towards discomfort and/ or distress for some large, about the widespread issue of by the National Union of Students to give students control of their money motion with regards to how it believes As we reflect on the NDA, further a violence-free future. individuals. We would like to extend sexual assault, particularly in regards (NUS). It also marked one of the rare Sydney is doing well. the SSAF should be used. It argued actions and upcoming elections, I hope Readers are advised our report will support to those individuals. Leaving to men’s violence against wom*n. moments of collaboration between the that the SSAF should be accessible, we can engage in more discussion talk about sexual assault and other Joining us on the panel will be Rachel the room, tuning out or doing anything SRC and the University of Sydney However, as Sydney is the national accountable, and with a core focus on around how we see SSAF being used forms of violence. Moss, Program Manager and Sexual to make yourself feel more comfortable We’d also like to give a big shout-out Union (USU), with a clubs carnival standard we should seek to show student welfare. now, in the future, and how we can Assault Counsellor at Royal Prince is entirely welcomed and will not be to the wonderful organisers of Critical being organised before the rally. The other universities how SSAF can make sure student money is controlled Hi everyone! In our latest adventure, Alfred Hospital’s Sexual Assault drawn attention to. If you or someone Race Discussion Group. They’ll be USU and SRC came together because be best utilised and to do that we As this year’s Union Board elections by students. we are hosting a panel discussion to Service; Moo Baulch, Project Manager you know has either experienced another discussion group that focuses both organisations rely on and believe should redress current problems. approach, I hope we hear more mark the launch of a poster campaign at Domestic Violence NSW; and a sexual assault or feels confused/ on travelling, tourism and Diaspora designed to raise awareness about the representative from People with a unsure about an unwanted sexual in Physics Lecture Room 4, Monday at indispensable services of the Royal Disability, Wirringa Baiya and the experience and would like to speak 6pm – we are really looking forward to Prince Alfred Hospital Sexual Assault NSW Women’s Legal Service. The with someone, please contact RPAH attending and encourage everyone to Vice Presidents’ Report Panel will be held at 6pm, in New Sexual Assault Service on (02) 9515 come! Vice Presidents Laura Webster and Max Hall tell you why they “Stand with Raue”. you should too. accountable for the violent acts Sexual Harassment Officers’ Report Tom is an anomaly in student politics. committed by the NSW police on the Show your support and keep updated He actually cares about students as picket lines have been met with a at facebook.com/standwithraue. Georgia Carr and Kitty-Jean Laginha. opposed to building his résumé. USU motion proposed by USU Executive executive would have you believe to remove him from his position intimidation or assault. And while as affecting onlookers who witness RPA Hospital Sexual Assault Service. that Tom has committed a heinous as Vice President, citing severe women are the most common victims the harassment.In opposing sexual Panellists currently include Rachel crime and released a confidential misconduct. Go back and check your Notice of Council Meeting of sexual harassment, it can and does harassment, we must ALWAYS keep Moss from the RPA Sexual Assault report; however we would argue that duty statements because you’ve got it happen to people of all sexes, genders, in mind that the victim is NEVER, Service, Moo Baulch from Domestic Tom has done nothing but fulfill his wrong. sexualities and cultural identities. not even partially, responsible for the Violence NSW, Carolyn Jones from obligation to the safety and welfare 86th Students’ crime committed against them, despite Women’s Legal Services NSW and Mel of students by releasing one line of a Disappointment is not a strong enough Considering the myriad contexts what media and popular culture Harrison from People with Disability. report detailing police and University word to encapsulate our feelings Representative in which sexual harassment is propagate.In the coming year, we see If you would like to know more about cooperation during the violent toward the USU Executive, Hannah experienced - workplaces, uni, online, education-based and consciousness- the services available to those who It cannot have escaped your notice 2013 strikes. May 14 has become Morris, Sophie Stanton and John Council, University on the street, in the home – it appears raising campaigns as essential in have experienced sexual assault then that a certain Vice President is faced synonymous with abuse, trauma, lies Harding-Easson. there are very few truly safe spaces fighting sexual harassment both on come along to learn how we can work with the likely possibility of being from the University and blatant police of Sydney where men and women can freely and and off campus. We will be looking to towards a violence-free future. removed from Board. No, it’s not us. brutality. USU Executive, we do not support ‘Sexual harassment’ is a term that autonomously go about their lives work alongside the Wom*n’s Collective It’s Tom Raue. If last’s weeks edition you. We do not trust you. You do not many people have come to associate without being at risk of facing verbal, to provide informational resources, There are also free autonomous self- of Honi Soit is any indication, we are We can’t help but question the represent our wishes. If a motion to with women, and associate with emotional, mental and physical sexual help and advice to others interested defence classes and accompanying not the only ones who support Tom integrity and motivation of anyone remove Raue from Board is passed, we Date: 9th April unwanted physical attention of a assault. in working towards a culture of zero feminist discussion workshops for and strongly oppose any motion which who suggests that documents proving have completely lost faith in you and sexual nature. In reality, sexual tolerance towards sexual harassment. wom*n-identifying people held from would have him removed from the direct cooperation between the you will have proven that the USU time: 6pm - 8pm harassment is ANY unwanted Sexual harassment is appallingly 5-7pm every Friday from Weeks 3-12 University of Sydney Union Board of st University and the NSW Police Force only function on campus is to host behaviour of a sexual nature, including prevalent even into the 21 century, The Wom*n’s Collective will be holding at USyd. For details of location, follow Directors. The events that have lead rd should not be made public at the time mediocre parties and the occasions Location: Professorial (but not limited to) verbal harassment and calling out harassment is an a panel discussion on Thursday 3 facebook.com/womnsselfdefenceusyd. to this has already been thoroughly of discovery. Tom made a judgment more concerned with placating the such as sexist jokes and catcalling, and active, useful way of challenging April at 6pm to address sexual assault documented in this fine publication in Board Room (Quadrangle) call and we stand by him. Tom’s University and it’s numerous corporate physical harassment such as physical discrimination, as it assertively and violence against wom*n, with the great detail, so we instead will tell you attempts to protect students and sponsors than listening to what its confronts the perpetrator as well aim of raising awareness about the why we stand with Raue…and why his attempts to hold the University students want. Students’ Representative Council, The University of Sydney 18 Phone: 02 9660 5222 | www.src.usyd.edu.au 19 puzzles & quizzes what’s on puzzles by Zplig to his arrival in Sydney, served There was a time when it would quick: for those who understand synonyms at US embassies in Afghanistan, have been impossible to hold a Honduras, Spain and Argentina. position of power as an openly queer across down person in Australia. Thankfully, those days are now over, and some Tuesday 1st April, 3pm @ 1 Exhaused (5) 1 Creator of America’s Next Top of our country’s most powerful United States Studies Centre 4 Comedian with a show named after Model (4,5) and influential figures are queer- Boardroom, $5 ACCESS/$15 him (4,5) 2 Foremost (7) identifying. 9 Feeling of deep and bitter anger (7) 3 Twosome (3) concession. 10 Kind of coffee tree (7) 4 Overcooked (5) At this panel, NSW Labor MLC 11 State of extreme happiness (5) 5 Grassland (3) Penny Sharpe, NSW Greens MP 13 Things that are to be completed (2-3) 6 Kind (5) Celebrating Alex Greenwich, and former ACON 15 Electrically charged particle (3) 7 The act of killing yourself (7) 100 Years of the President Bruce Meagher will 16 Bother with trivialities (3) 8 Long (for) (5) discuss how they came to be leaders 17 Copper + Zinc (5) 12 Expensive fur (5) Honi’s favourite gifs* University of Sydney in their professional fields and in 19 Horse for war (5) 14 Popular 1970s music (5) Women’s Union the queer community at large. In 21 Shade of gray (5) 18 Belittle (5) particular, they will discuss the 23 Without anyone else (5) 19 Candy (5) This time 100 years ago, women challenges they faced and barriers 24 Sebastian’s home? (3) 20 Member of the Supremes (5,4) were invited to take part in campus they overcame as queer leaders, and 25 Like roses (3) 22 Heard (7) life for the first time. Given the how young queer people today can incredible contribution women make 26 Shoe material (5) 24 Genuine (7) do the same. to all aspects of life at USyd in 2014, 28 Polynesian island (5) 25 Mad (5) we (and the Women of the USU Thursday 3rd April, 1pm @ USyd 29 He lost to Clinton (3,4) 26 Indifferent to emotions (5) Program) think this is a pretty good Holme Reading Room, free. 31 White-haired tv host (3,4) 27 Have benefit from (5) occasion for a celebration. Head over 33 Host of American Who’s Line is it 30 Listener (3) to Hermann’s to join in the party; Anyway (4,5) 32 Agreement (3) Ed’s note: this section is a pilot, it might not translate to print very well. it’s black and white themed, and the Newtown Hotel Cider 34 Glasses (5) food, drink, and cake are all free! Fair state dinners, and schmoozing. Tuesday 1st April, 7pm @ USyd If you like your cider a bit more Politics Society If this seems like an accurate Hermann’s Bar, free. boutique than the house brew at description of your own career presents: Diplomatic Hermann’s, the Newtown Hotel for those of you with very little going on in your life aspirations, or if you’re simply cryptic: Cider Fair is set to provide you Dialogue with US interested in diplomacy, the Politics ‘How I Became panacea. across down Consul General Society’s first “Diplomatic Dialogue” event of the year is a great way to A Leader’: Queer 1 Beyond a dinner option (5) 1 Prisons go wild in a medical prediction Saturday 5th April, 1pm @ 4 Invaluable diamonds - 50 - stashed in (9) The University of Sydney is home spend your Tuesday evening. This Portfolio Speaker Newtown Hotel. the print media (9) 2 Leaders of private unions returned in to many an aspiring diplomat, eyes week’s guest is United States Consul 9 Crush the overpowered force (7) kind with quiet aid (7) set firmly on a life of foreign travel, General Hugo Llorens, who, prior Panel 10 Saint initially enters part of prison as 3 Monkey suit part doesn’t have lineal a custodian (7) ends (3) 11 Not a single human moved eastward 4 Suggest after I go in!? (5) past midday (2,3) 5 Common contraction of VD is 13 Drunk regurgitated saliva - “WHY!?” reversible (3) (5) 6 Other side of music mag is audible (5) 15 Brit slicks back his hair? (3) 7 Fairly large after past wife, e.g. (7) 16 Give a value to performance (3) 8 This city’s end was after wrathful 17 Participated in compensating? (3,2) doom! (5) 19 Moved slowly like a light thin fabric 12 New lease found in art holder? (5) model dropping the last piece of cake (5) 14 Jury in Japan election... 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20 Year 4 LEAKED: GEORGE BRANDIS’ attends PROPOSED BILL OF RIGHTS Luca Moretti is a bigot. the Model It came as something of a surprise last week Previously only a common law right that that noted anti-Bill of Rights advocate and Fed- was crystallised in Members of the SCG v eral Minister for Privileged Minorities (Encom- Anonymous Pleb (1933) 5 NSWLR 217. United passing the previous portfolios of Arts and the Attorney-General) George Brandis has abjured 5. The right to tax deductions on hobby and now supports the enshrinement of certain farms/the right to yacht moorings on Nations crucial rights in a charter. Honey Soy has man- certain feast days. aged to obtain a draft copy: 6. The right to publish poetry without By Mary Ward (4B). 1. The right to be a Bigot - The origins of this criticism (believed to be intended to allow People Who Are right can be found in the lesser known for the publication of Senator Brandis’ own Much Wow Very Border On Saturday morning at 7:30am Katie Minor Carta of 1215, which Senator magnum opus “A Sonnet for Mrs Thatcher: Afraid Of Houses S (4A) Laura P (4B) and I arrived at Brandis’ office assures us was signed at She Walked in Duty on the Right”). Bernadette Anvia is much wow very writer. school to get onto a bus and go to the Pymble (just below the Pacific Highway, Sovereign Model United Nations. We were all super now the fourth hole of the local golf club). The Bill is expected to come before the Parlia- ment in the next month. Outspoken ALP Sena- Fight To Reclaim excited!!!! 2. The right to taxpayer funded bookshelves tor Doug Cameron has said “only middle class people could vote for it”. The rest of the ALP “Homeophobe” Model UN is a game where different (may be extended to other forms of is expected to vote with the government, with teams pretend to be different countries in cabinetry, the Minister has his eye on a Nick Gowland quite likes Tasmanian Oak commode). the NSW branch of the party arguing that the Federation-era cottages. the United Nations, which is a big group inadmissibility of evidence from ICAC inquiries of countries that make laws about things 3. The right to wear a polo shirt with the in criminal cases should be extended as a right that affect them all. There are some prizes The Australian Homeophobe Support Group collar popped for ‘extra zing’ (in the to anything said or done in the ALP party room, at the end, but the real winner is our today launched a movement designed to Minister’s words). or Sussex St offices. education. educate the public about the difference 4. The right to drink full strength beer in between discriminatory attitudes to We were representing France, which is the members area at the SCG/MCG – homosexuality, and people who are afraid of a country in Europe with a population houses. of 65.7 million people. Their flag is blue, white and red and their capital city is “Ever since the first Neanderthal decided called Paris, also known as “The City of to sleep in a cave, there have been other Love”. It is a very romantic country, and is Neanderthals cowering outside at the shown in lots of adult movies. Abbott Declares Poor sheer domesticity of it all,” said AHSG director Michael Travis at the launch of the When we arrived we had registration. “Homeophobes not Homophobes” campaign. Australians ‘Peasants’ Our registration bag came with a lanyard, “We only have the utmost respect and an ad for a tutoring company, a discount support for the struggle of our LGBT friends. Ed McMahon has a pen full of pig shit. voucher for The Economist, a pen, and a However, for too long homeophobes have Sydney University undergraduate guide. had to conceal their identity for fear of being It was so cool. Prime Minister Tony Abbott last week they are to be afforded a new level of disdain labelled bigots. This is about ending that announced measures designed to clarify from knights, dames, and the political fear.” The Abbott government has today announced the launch that “we’re confident that the Then we went to our seats in the UN contemporary Australian demographics. aristocracy. Honey Soy understands that the the launch of a new national media campaign universal appeal of the doge meme will carry General Assembly and listened to some Speaking from Government House, Abbott Prime Minister’s office is drafting a decree Mr Travis told reporters that the campaign to promote its asylum seeker policy, “Operation through to ‘Operation Sovereign Borders’, and kids read out their papers. announced that so-called “Australians from low outlining the obligations of peasants. Peasants will also break down the stigma against those Sovereign Borders.” that we’ll see our approval ratings sky rocket!” socioeconomic backgrounds” would be assigned will likely be required to grovel to their natural who are uncomfortable with households. Then it was time for our team to speak. a new classification. “The new system will superiors, and throw their bodies to the ground “Homeophobia is a lifelong journey, but with At the official launch party held earlier today, Prime Minister Abbott was also prolific in his Katie read out our paper and she did assign the destitute to the membership of the to form a bridge when a Dame wishes to routine therapy and relaxation exercises, Prime Minister Abbott and Immigration praise of the posters, stating that he was a “big an incredible job. She had awesome eye peasantry,” Abbott said. “The people of Her traverse a muddy puddle. most of us learn to function healthily in Minister Scott Morrison unveiled a series of fan” of the “simple statements like ‘bad boat contact. Majesty’s Australian realm are sick and tired of tents, palaces, hotels, and even particularly posters greatly influenced by 2013 internet people’ and ‘many stop boats,’” adding that he Labor’s lies about equality. Some people are just The announcement garnered mixed reactions. charmless houses,” he said, before fleeing in meme superstar, Doge. The posters, which was “particularly proud” of his own “creative Then it was my favourite part: lunch!!!!!! better than others.” Abbott refused to answer Terrowin, an urchin student from Forrest terror after mistaking a gust of wind for the feature the same discourse employed addition” to the poster, the statement “no no I had a peanut butter sandwich, a muesli questions after the announcement, stating that Lodge said, “I reckon milords have made the crackling fire in a cosy Federation cottage. by Doge memes and the same comic sans text, no”. bar and an apple juice popper. Katie also journalists should know their place, before right call. Tony will make an Australia where will be rolled out next week and will feature had an apple juice popper but Laura just riding away in his new gold-trimmed, horse- a white male like meself can graduate from The “Homeophobes not Homophobes” in various bus stops, train stations and public Summing up his thoughts on the matter, Prime had water. It was really yummy. drawn government buggy. the Newserf allowance to knighthood within movement has met with staunch support billboards around the nation. Minister Abbott delightedly exclaimed: “Many decades.” Ysmay, a checkout attendant from the powerful Hummerphobe lobby, happiness! Very wow! So me! Much Sovereign We then went back to the General Abbott rejected Opposition Leader Bill from Marrickville disagreed which objects to large military utility Immigration Minister Scott Morrison stated at Borders!” Assembly and listened to some more Shorten’s suggestion that the measures saying, “I got three hungry vehicles, as well as the countless thousands countries read out their statements. are anachronistic. “This government mouths to feed and a pen full of of anti-naturopathy Homeophobes. The acknowledges the diversity of modern pig shit to cart to Petersham. campaign has also found unlikely backers in There were also these adults who were Australia by distinguishing between I just don’t think this those who are terrified of the Simpson family playing Model UN. Some of them were the hopelessly wretched and their announcement helps patriarch and/or author of The Odyssey. At with A Car About older than 20. That’s older than Laura’s various betters,” he said. Shorten me do that.” the time of printing it was unclear whether to Fishtail Into neighbour! was prevented from asking a follow- the historically unstable alliance of Jewish Oncoming Traffic. up question when the Speaker, and Muslim hamophobes would put aside When I grow up, I want make a difference Dame Bronwyn Bishop, fired an Dear A Car About to Fishtail Into Oncoming Traffic, Dear Craig, their differences and throw their considerable to disadvantaged people in our world by arrow into the Opposition weight behind the campaign. being in the Model UN just like them. My girlfriend of three months is starting to spend I’ve told you kids to stop hitting each other and I Despatch Box. They were very inspirational and pretty. more and more of her time on Facebook and Twitter swear to God I will not tolerate it one more time! Not However, the movement has not met a strong when we’re hanging out together - sometimes on her one more! Jim! Keep your HANDS on YOUR SIDE Peasants are backlash from an autonomous collective of laptop but mostly on her phone. It’s like they’re joined of the car. Jesus, this fuck- this foxing road is wet. Then it was time to get back on the bus to be treated at the wrist or something! Anyway, should I take this No, Ally, I said foxing. I said FOXING. No, Ally. No I individuals who identify as terrified of words and go home. in much the as a sign that she’s not interested in me? How can I didn’t. NO. Because of ALL THE FOXES. Oh, Jesus, that are spelt differently but sound the same. same way talk to her about this? the TRUCK — A spokesperson for the collective, which We didn’t win any of the prizes, but we as they describe themselves as “homophonophobes”, Thanks, Craig still had a lot of fun and did our best. presently wished to clarify that they’re “not afraid of are by gay people’s telephones,” but maintained Thank you to Mrs. Smith and Mr. Jones Centrelink. that they could only ever see themselves for taking us to Model United Nations. We However, endorsing the word “houseophobes”. had the most fun EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 22 23 illustration by mackenzie nix