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Drew Pavlou and Women’s oral traditions The problem with the Right / p. 6 in North India / p. 9 Aus Rock / p. 17 LETTERS Acknowledgement of Country Letters

Honi Soit is published on the stolen land of the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation. For over 230 years, First Nations people in this country have suffered from the destructive effects of invasion. The editors of this paper recognise that, as a team of settlers occupying the lands of the Bidjigal, Darug, Gadigal, Wangal and A letter from AUJS SSAF strike!!!1!!1 Wallumedegal people, we are beneficiaries of these reverberations that followed European settlement. As we strive throughout the year to offer a platform to the voices mainstream media ignores, we cannot meet this goal without providing a space for First Nations people to share their experiences and perspectives. A student paper which In the February 2020 ‘Welcome Week’ placed on her letter by the Honi editors. this image has unfortunately helped to Dear editors, does not acknowledge historical and ongoing colonisation and the white supremacy embedded within Australian society can never adequately represent the students edition of Honi Soit, there was an insert The editors of Honi say they were seeking perpetuate it. of the institution in which it operates. We seek to resist colonial violence and the racist power structures that serve to oppress those who are Indigenous to this land. purporting to be from the University of to satirise and discredit the Catholic Society, More than that, the abuse directed I’ve been mulling over the students Sovereignty was never ceded. Always was and always will be Aboriginal land. Sydney Union. On page 3, located next mocking them by associating them with the against a prominent Jewish student leader amenities fee and where my contribution is to the headline “Friday: Catholic Society anti-Jewish trope. One of many problems on campus (and in the wider community) – going, what use is it to a campus that had presents Life Day”, an image was published with that contention is that the Catholic merely for having the temerity to question been shut for almost the entirety of the of a placard bearing the words “Should we Society has never had even the slightest Honi – is entirely unjustifiable. This is get the Jews back for what they did to our association with anti-Jewish bigotry and in especially so given the cartoon’s publication academic year? Considering the universities’ Contents Editorial absolute boy? Yes or No?”. Next to the fact enjoys excellent relations with Jewish in Welcome Week – a time when all new cuts to the humanities faculties and their students. students should feel a sense of belonging on extreme profit margins, I thought to myself, I’m not saying that you should (p.6) considers Pavlou’s relationship placard in the image was a “Yes” jar and a “No” jar. The image depicted a student Decades ago, the Catholic Church itself campus, not a time when Jewish students, or why pay it? And I didn’t. Until today when Who? Weekly / 3 Editor in Chief: brick the stained glass window of a with the sinophobic right, and placing a vote in the “Yes” jar which was disavowed the myth that “the Jews” are indeed any student, should be made to feel I was blocked from re-enrolling, despite Madeline Ward certain unnamed band in a certain Dona Sirimanne’s exploration of full. The “No” jar was shown as almost collectively responsible for the death of Jesus. marginalised and vilified. having a HECS debt of over $6,000 already unnamed pub in a certain inner-city sex and orientalism (p.9) is a deep empty. In the declaration of the Second Vatican Of greater concern is the presumption to my name. I could not access my Semester This image was apparently intended to Council in 1965 entitled Nostra Aetate, by the editors that they understand better News / 4 Editors: Nina Dillon Britton, location, but I’m also not not saying dive into western perceptions of sex 1 results to flaunt to my parents. I’d like to Matthew Forbes, Zhiquan Gan, refer to the antisemitic trope that “the Jews and in subsequent official documents, than Jewish students what is, or what is not, investigate- where possible- the purpose, the it either, you know? In any case, it and gender in Asia and the Middle killed Jesus”. This historical falsehood, the Catholic Church has acknowledged objectively antisemitic. We doubt the editors Robbie Mason, Angad Roy, Lara results- of my $154 fee to the University. Analysis / 6 Sonnenschein, Ranuka Tandan, seems a little foolish to memorialise East. I am grateful to each and every implying that all Jews, for all time, are the unique link that binds it to the Jewish of Honi would presume to tell indigenous or Australia’s shittest reggae band in one of them, and all of our other collectively responsible for Deicide, was for people; recognised that the gifts of God are Muslim students that the latter are inferior Chuyi Wang, Madeline Ward, centuries used as a pretext for committing irrevocable, and that the covenant made by judges of what constitutes prejudice against Kindly, Perspective / 10 Lei Yao stained glass and expect it to remain artists and reporters, for making this unspeakable barbarities, including mass God with the Jews therefore still stands; their communities. A student who’s shifts were reduced over brick-free. I guess there are better, edition a particularly good one. murder, against Jewish communities all over and condemned and deplored displays of We would like to put this regrettable saga COVID-19, Feature / 13 Contributors: Joshua Brennan, more important things to be bricked, I must also make special mention Europe and elsewhere. antisemitism at any time from any source. behind us, and have asked the Honi editors Nathalie Dexter Duckett, Himath The Catholic Society had nothing to So, regardless of the claimed intentions to give an unqualified apology for the hurt but I imagine it would feel pretty of Ash Duncan, our talented Siriniwasa, Dona Sirimanne, do with the image. In fact, it subsequently of the Honi editors, the publication smeared and offence caused by publication of the Culture / 16 Shania O’Brien, Christian good to lob one straight through cover artist, who patiently and complained publicly about having been the Catholic Society, and made light of an image and the subsequent letter. They have Holman, Deaundre Espejo, the visage of a group of individuals enthusiastically draws even our misrepresented and vilified in Honi. Nor antisemitic trope which has an appalling, sadly found themselves unable to do so. Our Self-defence did the insert come from the University of blood-soaked history. If the newspaper had view is very simple: antisemitism is no joke. Perspective / 18 Jeffrey Khoo, Rhea Thomas, that represent the very worst of most outlandish ideas. Dear editors, Felix Faber, Marlow Hurst, Sydney Union. It was a sham created by the published an anti-indigenous or anti-Muslim Australia’s music scene. Lastly, I must commend the editors of Honi, who say it was published as canard, intending to satirise it when it was in Roisin Murphy, Angelina This is all hypothetical, of course. current crop of SRC student I came back to campus this semester Writing Comp /20 Nguyen, Seamus Pragnell, an attempt to satirise the Catholic Society, fact attributing it falsely to an innocent party, AUJS I wouldn’t dream of suggesting activists valiantly fighting against and presumably also the University of would we even be having a debate about and was shocked at your graphic Mahmoud Al Rifa, Libby Sydney Union. whether they should apologise? Would it depiction our education minister, Dan, Newton otherwise! It’s not even about the the ongoing threat of the Liberal Creative / 22 Gabi Stricker-Phelps, the NSW Political have been published it in the first place? Nudes, declarations of in a precarious situation. How would aforementioned unnamed talentless government to our education. I Affairs Officer of the Australian Union of The reality is that despite the fact that you like it if the Sydney Tory drew your SRC / 24 Artists: Nishta Gupta, Isla (and litigious!) assholes. It’s implore those reading this to donate Jewish Students, wrote to the editors of all the major Christian denominations have affection and hate mail hero, Senator Bernard Sanders, in a Mowbray, Janina Osinsao, about the broader scene that these to the fund set up to pay the fines of Honi, asking them to clarify who they meant long repudiated the “Christ-killer” myth and similarly precarious and VIOLENT by “absolute boy”. Her letter was published condemned antisemitism, one cannot expect may be sent to: Sophia Calvo y Perez, Lily dickheads are able to operate in. activists in attendance at last week’s predicament?! Comedy / 27 Aggio, Bella Henderson in the next edition of Honi under the heading nearly 2000 years of anti-Jewish prejudice to [email protected] Roisin Murphy’s analysis of this National Day of Action, and to “It’s Jesus you fucking fool”. She too lodged disappear overnight. The prejudice lingers scene (p.19) is a must read. So too attend any future actions. Donate a complaint with the University about the in our culture and language, and is still Please respond soon, Cover artist: Ash Duncan Jill Wefferies is Shania O’Brien’s exploration of here: https://gf.me/u/yur4tg. antisemitic nature of the image in question, frequently part of antisemitic abuse directed as well as the personally abusive heading at Jews around the world. Publication of women’s oral traditions in India (p.9), and Marlow Hurst’s longing for male video game characters to In Solidarity, lust over (p.16). Joshua Brannon’s vigorous critique of Drew Pavlou Madeline Ward Weekly Disclaimer: Honi Soit is published by the Students’ Representative Council, University of Sydney, Level 1 Wentworth Building, City Road, University of Sydney NSW 2006. The SRC’s operation costs, space and administrative support are financed by the University of Sydney.Honi Soit is printed under the auspices of the SRC’s Directors of Student Publications: Finally, a contested election! ;P and being this year’s SRC President, alongside his A succulent $10 steak! Maia Edge, Peiqing Fan, Nina Mountford, Roisin Murphy, Mikaela Pappou and Maxim Vishney. All expressions are published on the basis that they are not to be regarded as the opinions recent successful deal-making with other factions, of the SRC unless specifically stated. The Council accepts no responsibility for the accuracy of any of the opinions or information contained within this newspaper, nor does it endorse any With the presidential elections normally fiercely he could be the one to beat. Whomst amongst us can resist the whiff of a $10 of the advertisements and insertions. Please direct all advertising inquiries to [email protected]. contested, news of the automatic election of Royal steak? Certainly not Dr Michael Spence, Swapnik Sanagavarapu left stupol tragics bored Former SASS President and USU Vice-President who was accosted by a group of angry students There’s no way I’m going to not sound didn’t fit in with either sporty or nerdy /lit/ too – the literature board – and wanting more. Yet, there seems to be a bit of Lachlan Finch (Mod-Lib) is also rumoured to be outside that very pub on Friday after the education like a NEET delivering this take, but kids, certain 4chan boards provide exposed to me to such memed classics a reversal this year, with the usually comparably running for the postgrad position - we thought we’d National Day of Action. The staff (scabs!) locked CANCELLED I think 4chan gets a bad rap overall. some innocent escape from the as Deleuze & Guattari’s A Thousand uninteresting Senate elections shaping up to be seen the last of him! all the doors bar one, leaving patrons no choice but Don’t get me wrong, there’s obviously tedium of everyday life – and in my Plateaus way too early, sending me on more of a treat. Last week we reported that WoCo to yell at Slimy Spence — serves the bastard right. a ton of depraved and disgusting case, pretty much ignited the hobbies a spiral through continental literature enemy, Gabi Stricker-Phelps and college kid and Make the news break the news CORNER content that gets pushed to the website that I now place far too much self- and becoming that insufferable prick day after day that I utterly condemn worth into. far younger than I could even begin Enviro Collective member Cole Scott-Curwood Chuyi Wang goes straight to gaol, does on every level. However, I think it I think back incredibly fondly on the reaping theorybro clout from my are both seeking the undergraduate student We last saw Christian Holman in a desperate last not pass go, does not collect $200. would be wrong to completely dismiss hours upon hours I spent refreshing peers. representative spot on the uni Senate. This week we minute scheme to poach no less than 5 members of the website as only a degenerate /mu/ – the music board that was a But even beyond these largely can reveal two new names considering a bid for the the aforementioned Bloom for Honi, before being hangout spot for alt-right freaks and precursor to the now massive Patrician positive, instructive experiences (I’d same top job: Miss Courtney Leanne Daley (NLS) talked down into the highly esteemed position of incels. Rather, I think there can be a Music Chartposting and r/indieheads like to think I’m fairly well-adjusted), and Dictator Doon (Liam Donohoe, Grassroots) campaign “manager.” With Bloom now elected great deal of education, community groups – discovering incredible artist there’s just a certain rush and thrill himself. unopposed, Holman has set his sights on the 2021 and discovery to be gained if used in after incredible artist. I remember in visiting 4chan as a kid that I’ve race, along with his fellow failed running mates the right way, and with an appropriate waiting in keen anticipation for the struggled to find elsewhere. Not to Courtney was briefly involved with Christian Roisin Murphy and Ellie Stephenson. level of detachment. weekly threads where hundreds of get all gross and libertarian, but the Holman’s Honi ticket before it collapsed, and he Now, it’s not without shame for me anonymous users would shit on the fiercely anonymous and free approach moved over to “manage” Bloom. Rumour has it The eternally esteemed Pulp Media is set to receive to admit that I once was a frequenter scores that Pitchfork had dished out to information on the website – which, that she was asked to leave because she had set her our sloppy seconds, with Holman considering a of the website as an impressionable 14 that week. I was there when Anthony I admit, more often than not is used for sights elsewhere… on the Senate of course! Whilst go at the most prestigious editorship on campus. year-old teenager. I even jailbroke my Fantano gave Swans’ To Be Kind a 10, horrible things – can make for some Dictator Doon has not yet made up his mind about Always the bridesmaid and never the bride, Daany iPhone so I could download a 4chan one of the only perfect NeedleDrop seriously engrossing conversations a run, he’s certainly entertaining thoughts. With Saaed (formerly of NLS) also has his eyes on the app to browse the threads in recess reviews at that point, and I don’t think with absolute strangers that no other and lunch breaks. But when you’re I’ve experienced a more hilarious and digital space can provide. a stacked resumé, including editing this foul rag (corporate rag) prize. an alienated loser in high school who intense meme cycle in my life.

2 3 NEWS Police used protester’s previous sexual assault report to Sanagavarapu and Bloom elected in uncontested embarrass her during NDA rally arrest presidental and Honi elections Nina Dillon Britton reports. Lara Sonnenschein and Matthew Forbes report. A police officer brought up records of Policy acknowledges that members of which she had been live streaming the “I was just really shocked. I froze. I Swapnik Sanagavarapu (Grassroots) been elected for the second year in a Ollivain, Jeffrey Khoo, Deaundre Espejo, executive and managed the campaign a woman’s reported sexual assault in the public have the right to record police arrests. wish I’d said something.” has been provisionally elected as r ow. Marlow Hurst, Juliette Marchant, Max for Pop for SULS last year. Deaundre an effort to embarrass her after she was officers in public spaces. Officers who Maddy was left with bruises on her the President of the 93rd Students’ Sanagavarapu told Honi: “I’m Shanahan, Alice Trenoweth-Cresswell Espejo and Max Vishney are both apprehended at Friday’s National Day physically attempt to stop people from arm where officers had grabbed her. “I’m still so shaken up about it,” Representative Council and Bloom for extremely honoured to be provisionally and Will Solomon. All are current currently on the executive, serving as of Action protest. filming may be prosecuted for assault. “They dragged me away from the she says. “I can still picture his smirk Honi have been provisionally elected as elected as the President of the 93rd SRC. Honi reporters. The ticket was set to Vice President (Social Justice) and Maddy, 27, had attended the protest Maddy says that after the rally other protesters,” she says. “All the when he told me that he knew about my Editors of Honi Soit. This year has been a time of terrible be managed by Christian Holman, Equity Officer respectively. in solidarity with students facing higher commenced, and police began to other arrests had witnesses, but no one sexual assault.” As per SRC regulations, if the crisis and austerity. But as Thomas who was previously looking to contest Bloom told Honi: “We’re all buzzing degree fees and withdrawn HECS apprehend protestors, the same police had even realised that I’d disappeared. I Maddy was ultimately not charged, Electoral Officer has drawn up the Sankara says, we must invent the future. Bloom, and Max Vishney. for the year ahead of us! Thank you funding if they fail classes. officer approached her saying “I told was so scared.” and was released by police with a $1000 ballot paper and the number of validly Therefore, I promise that I will spend Whilst Claire Ollivain (Grassroots) to our managers Max Vishney and “I know how difficult university is you that if I saw you in this area again The officers then began questioning fine for failing to comply with Public nominated candidates contesting my tenure standing up for the rights of is the only current member of a faction Christian Holman; though our time when you’re dealing with mental health I’d apprehend you.”At this point, she her, asking her whether she’d had Health Order No 4. a ballot is equal to the number of students and trying to invent a future in on the ticket, Bloom is quite clearly together was brief, we have valued your issues. You’re not thinking about the was on Eastern Avenue with other previous dealings with the police. Honi reported that at least 10 vacancies, such candidates will be duly which education is accessible, equitable a progressive ticket. Vivienne Guo commitment and input, and wish you withdrawal date so you don’t fail, you’re protesters, as well as students and staff Maddy had never been apprehended by attendees had been issued with similar elected. and universal.” (ex-Grassroots) currently serves as co- the best of luck in future endeavours. thinking about how you can get help. I making their way to classes. police before, and told them no. fines. Sanagavarapu is a current Councillor The announcement represents a Women’s Officer, and manager Max Our condolences to our non-existent feel terrible that a lot of my friends are “I was not really aware of my “The officer conducted a check on A GoFundMe page created yesterday and General Executive Member, and marked shift in what are often fiercely Vishney was previously a Switch for opponents, we couldn’t have done going to be facing this policy.” surroundings because I was distracted me, he was speaking with someone over fundraising for the fines issued at served as Ethnocultural Officer last contested elections at the University SRC candidate. this without you. We’re keen to meet Maddy says that prior to the rally’s by [my friend] getting arrested,” Maddy the radio about it. Then said to me in a Friday’s protest has already raised more year. He was supported in his bid for of Sydney. It’s possibly the first time The Sydney University Law Society our writers, seek out new voices, and commence, she had been filming the riot says. really smug way: ‘You have dealt with than $12,000. the presidency by Switchroots, National that both the Presidential and Honi Soit (SULS) has played something of a role continue the long, radical history of squad arriving on campus. One police “I saw him approaching me and I the police as a sexual assault victim.’” A NSW Police spokesperson Labor Students, Panda, Phoenix and editor elections have gone uncontested. in the ticket as well. Jeffrey Khoo, who Honi Soit.” officer approached her and told her that started to run away. Two cops ended “He said it with this kind of smile, confirmed that several protesters had Socialist Alternative. This is the first The Bloom for Honi ticket includes: managed Fit for Honi’s campaign last if he saw her in the area breaching the up getting me and grabbed me with like he had caught me in a lie.” been issued with fines, but would not time that a Grassroots President has Shania O’Brien, Vivienne Guo, Claire year, previously served as a society Public Health Order again he would such force that I dropped my phone and “I had come to the police years ago comment further on the matter. NSW issue a fine. “I just pretended I couldn’t other belongings.” with my story, and they had never Police declined to comment when hear him,” she says. Police did not give her a chance to helped me. Nothing ever came from it. I asked whether any policies provided Far-right Filming police officers in NSW is not collect her belongings. A friend was didn’t even know there would be records guidelines to officers about sensitive USU Board votes for transparency review, a crime. The NSW Police’s own Media lucky enough to find her phone, from of it.” treatment of sexual assault survivors. fossil fuel divestment activist films Nina Dillon Britton reports. NDA shut down by police, several fines issued The University of Sydney Union Wheat (Grassroots), provided Honi Soit The Board also voted unanimously BLM forum Chuyi Wang reports. Board have voted unanimously to hold with comment about her motion only to endorse Prudence Wilkins-Wheat’s Robbie Mason reports. a review into the transparency of its after requesting permission from Ma. motion to declare a climate emergency, At a BLM forum, Padraic Gibson was Over seventy police, including a large used by police to shut down a similar collectives. “While we were aware of plans for a meetings, and to call on the University The motion on transparency is also commit to reducing the USU’s carbon speaking on the continuing oppression number of police horses and riot police, education rally late last month. David Brophy, a history lecturer at protest on campus, we did not try to to divest from fossil fuels. the Board’s first public admission that footprint, call on the University to of Indigenous communities when have shut down the National Day Police then began clearing the outside USyd, stated: “Yesterday I had 20+ prevent it from taking place.” Vice President Nick Forbutt (NLS) in-camera motions have been used to divest from fossil fuel and companies far-right activist Chris De Bruyne of Action rally called in conjunction of Fisher Library, as well as pushing a students in a room for a tutorial. But “This year, we’ve engaged with our moved the transparency review motion, avoid the public embarrassment of contributing to climate change, and by several education activist groups, contingent made up of Solidarity faction today, Michael Spence call[ed] the riot student representatives to support the gatecrashed to live stream the event. which also calls for the Board to Directors, and are often not in line with to publicly support School Strike 4 He initially refused to leave when including the University of Sydney members towards the library from the squad onto campus to shut down a rally development of COVID safe plans minimise the use of closed meetings the Board’s policy that limits their use Climate’s upcoming action. SRC, the UNSW Education Collective F23 Administration Building. During against fee hikes, on the grounds that for events in line with NSW Health approached by students and campus and to publicly provide reasons as to to confidential matters (e.g. staff pay, “The University of Sydney Union security and stayed for 20 minutes. and Macquarie Uni Students Against this time, Jack Mansell, one of the SRC it exceeded the 20 person limit. “Let’s advice. We’ve also emphasised the why privacy is needed when doing so. commercially sensitive information). (USU) has demonstrated lately its Uni Cuts. Education Officers, was apprehended pick ’em off one by one” was what I current 20-person limit on public De Bruyne has attended Sydney’s However as pointed out by former “Whilst some in-camera decisions commitment to sustainability and eco- BLM protests with fellow far-right The rally was called in response to and fined. heard one of the cops say.” outdoor gatherings, under the NSW Board Director Kade Denton — and pertain to confidential information friendly practices on-campus. However, a number of cuts by both the Morrison Others who were peacefully protesting At around 1:20pm, riot police arrived government’s COVID-19 public health figures Bayden Mottee, Reg (Jaiden) author of the Board’s current closed which cannot be revealed (such as staff it is our belief that more can be done government and various University and chanting were also indiscriminately alongside several police horses. The orders.” Penney and George Jameson (ex-Party meetings policy — during Honi’s live salaries and commercially sensitive to tackle climate change on a systemic administrations to staff jobs and the apprehended and given a fine. Vinil horses were employed to disperse the “The event was publicly promoted, For Freedom) and live streamed himself coverage of the meeting, this does not information), often decisions have level,” the motion reads. quality of Australian tertiary education. Kumar, SRC Mature Age Officer, was remaining protesters onto Parramatta and NSW Police makes its own decisions guarding the Captain Cook statue in The rally was planned for 1pm seized almost a minute after delivering Road through the Footbridge entrance. under the Public Health Order.” change the Board’s current policy. been held in-camera without alignment In 2019, the Board voted to support Hyde Park. outside Fisher Library. However, in a speech. SRC Environment Officer SRC President Liam Donohoe told As for why classes exceeding 20 Nevertheless, it appeared an effective or reference to the USU’s in camera the Climate Strike and reduce staffing He has recently founded an the hour prior, several police vehicles Sofie Nicolson was also apprehended Honi: “The SRC condemns the police people can gather indoors and not reminder that the Board had to publicly policy,” the motion reads. capacity to allow staff to attend. organisation to garner support for his had already arrived outside the library, whilst trying to walk away from police. brutality at today’s intended National an outdoor protest, the spokesperson justify its decision to move in-camera. In the special meeting of the Wilkins-Wheat tells Honi that the political actions and the All Lives Matter and at least twenty police officers were Around 10 attendees in total have been Day of Action. We express solidarity said: “The University is considered an In most Board meetings this year, Board earlier this year, for example, it USU needed to move beyond current movement and has run as a candidate standing along the length of Eastern issued fines. to all attendees, particularly those still essential service alongside many others observers have been unceremoniously appeared that Board Directors had used initiatives that sought to reduce waste for the Liberal Democratic Party. De Avenue. Honi understands that no formal detained and dealing with fines. The such as schools and supermarkets and shunted to a Zoom Breakout Room the cover of in-camera to raise concerns or the organisation’s carbon footprint. Bruyne live streams leftist rallies to lure At 1pm, before the rally could arrests were made. However, police SRC will contribute to bails and fines is generally exempt from the 4 square with no explanation as to what would that two Board Directors had acted “The climate crisis transcends protestors into rash reactions. begin, police issued a formal move-on officers were heard telling those that however we can. We won’t be deterred metre requirements, however we’re be discussed when the Board decided to inappropriately by publicly supporting individual action and relies on He has publicly posted on his order, determining that protesters had they apprehended that they were being by police actions, and we fully intend to continuing to encourage physical move to a closed meeting. the “Defend Our Education” campaign systematic change to fight the Facebook expressing appreciation for gathered in a group larger than twenty ‘placed under arrest.’ It was also heard continue protesting regardless of how distancing wherever possible.” In today’s meeting, USU President opposing university cuts. devastating impacts of mining, drilling the Kenosha terrorist who shot multiple “for a common purpose.” They also that police were targeting a specific list violent and brutal they are.” Irene Ma gave a brief explanation Maya Eswaran, a now-former Board and fracking. For this reason I believe it BLM protestors in Wisconsin last week, threatened all attendees with fines up of people, including organisers from Honi reached out to a USyd that the Board would be discussing Director at the centre of the discussion, is the responsibility of the Union to call killing two. In this post, he criticised to $1000. This echoed the justification various political factions and activist spokesperson for comment, who said: Photos by Aman Kapoor. “commercially sensitive information” stated that she had moved a motion to on large institutions to fight for and not Anthony Huber, an unarmed protester and possibly issues related to staff wages make the discussion public after it was against climate justice,” she says. who tried to disarm the shooter, as before the Board moved in-camera. inappropriately raised in the closed In the meeting, Wilkins-Wheat having a “long criminal record,” The motion does not discuss, portion of the meeting. She stated that thanked the work of the SRC’s suggesting his death was warranted. however, when and if Board Directors Board Directors who had been happy to Environment Collective on the issue, Despite his presence, students other than the President can give public make criticisms when the meeting was but clarified toHoni that the motion was continued and finished their meeting comment. Though Board Directors closed were suddenly quiet when the not written on behalf of the collective. before taking a photo expressing are expected to promote the USU’s meeting was made public. She notes that collective member Cole solidarity with the Chatfield family as activities in public, and several are also Perhaps ironically, the fact that Scott-Curwood had helped with fact the inquest into Tane Chatfield’s death publicly politically active outside of both motions passed unanimously finding and was the impetus for the in custody was drawing to a close. the USU, the current understanding is with no discussion indicates that they motion originally. Soon after De Bruyne departed, that only the President can represent had already been subject to behind the The USU Board has called for police arrived, concerned that the small the USU. In meetings’ question time, scenes negotiations. another — likely closed — meeting to gathering was breaching COVID-19 observers may only direct questions to At last month’s Board meeting, the be held next Tuesday to discuss its scale restrictions, despite students and staff the President, and Board Directors have majority of the Board stalled discussion of business operations for this semester. using university facilities and libraries largely avoided responding to questions of Forbutt’s transparency motion. Following staff cuts, USU food outlets for on-campus tutorials and meetings. from Honi about their activities. When Forbutt raised the fact that it was are opened for shortened hours this This comes after police have When asked to provide comment on due for discussion, Ma suddenly raised semester. specifically targeted and shut down the motion, Forbutt referred Honi Soit that she needed to leave and other Board leftist and antifascist protests around to President Ma. Prudence Wilkins- Directors then said the same. Sydney in recent months. 4 5 ANALYSIS Maintaining the high ground: What Drew Pavlou can Grim New Deal: A communist critique Himath Sirinwasa and Dexter Duckett interrogate the left’s infatuation with the Green New Deal. tell us about Australia’s attitudes to the CCP Since March, in the global tumult housing, reparations for the colonial Joshua Brannon dissects controversial UQ student Drew Pavlou’s behaviour in the context of rising Sinophobia induced by the COVID-19 pandemic, dispossession endured by First central banks in advanced capitalist Nations peoples, an industrial relations Chinese Communist Party (CCP) least the 1960’s – the apogee of anti-war disease, he is invoking the colonial on China, with the ABC reporting that economies adopted expansionary framework which substantially increases influence in Australian universities demonstrations in Australia – expulsion legacy of a “Yellow Peril” -- the West’s Chinese Australian’s increasingly feel monetary policies to save private the minimum wages. has been a recurrent news item for the has been a political expedient for fear of an Asiatic-other. Indeed, in an as though they are being targeted as a enterprise. The transparency with However, the deficit-financing past year. Indeed, as a narrative, it is tertiary institutions to silence dissenting interview with the Washington Post, consequence of escalating antipathy which these cornucopias of billions and of a more utopian approach to the neatly situated beside fears of insidious opinion. And Pavlou, ostensibly the medical anthropologist Monica Schoch- towards the Chinese Communist Party. trillions in cheap credit were offered GND would soon trigger spiralling Chinese technology and mounting victim of such a draconian practice was Spana notes that “fixing blame [for] a More than anything, this reflects to businesses on a platter have not inflation and the devaluation of the concern with Xi Jingping’s despotic provided with the perfect platform to contagious disease on outsiders” is a growing racial anxiety and a gone unnoticed and have been widely Australian dollar. It’s also an approach approach to Chinese domestic policy. shine a spotlight on this enduring form recurring motif in the West. One that reawakening of an uncomfortable perceived as thinly-veiled corporate to the GND which fiercely clashes The cumulative effect of which is a of institutional suppression. Alas, he is demonstrative of a history of racial history of anti-Asian discrimination. bailouts. with MMT itself, since this ensemble news cycle that positions China, and squandered his opportunity. essentialism and colonialism, wherein It is alt-right and conservative groups, Many leftists have recognised these of policy reforms would inevitably by unfortunate extension, Chinese Whereas Financial Review the negative attributes of disease, and their preoccupation with white bailouts as evidence of the state’s Janus- curb productivity growth in the private people, as a clear and present danger to correspondent, Aaron Patrick may uncleanliness and squalor are conferred replacement and the primacy of faced macroeconomic policy regime, sector and stimulate an excessive surge Australia. This is a problem. optimistically declare that Mr Pavlou to denigrate a non-white ‘Other’. western civilisation, where this which proselytises ‘sound finance’ for in aggregate demand. GND proponents Of course, it would be egregious has, “unified the conservative media Drew Pavlou defended his behaviour, anxiety is most apparent. Thus, it is the lowly proles and easy money for counter that inflation could be regulated the ‘too-big-to-fail’ rich. This double by significantly increasing tax rates. to suggest that the CCP’s efforts to and human rights establishment”, arguing – in a line that was parroted by hardly surprising that Drew Pavlou, standard, along with many others which Nonetheless, these tax rate increases undermine Hong Kong’s autonomy the latter’s objectionable tactics have Murdoch rag, The Australian – that he despite his fulminations, would find have been exposed by the coronacrisis, would have to be targeted at the new or the systemic persecution of China’s alienated him from many potential was referring to the ‘virus’ of Chinese affirmation in the right-wing political have many activists, academics and source of this increasing aggregate ethnic Uyghur population were the sources of solidarity. Instead, he has influence in Australian universities. sphere. His firebrand approach to politicians on the left calling to abandon demand: the working class. So how fabrications of a paranoid Australian endeared himself to the intolerant right. However, even this language is leaden demonstrating and willingness to enact the deficit-hawk mentality. much would they be taxed? At a rate by media. Rather, they represent grave A testament to which is Pavlou’s recent with racialist overtones. orientalist stereotypes position him as a It’s understandable that there is a which their purchasing power does not threats to human rights and are wholly appearance alongside former 2GB Unfortunately for Mr Pavlou, his perfect candidate for co-option by the popular drive to rejig the conventional exceed the rate of profit. Considering deserving of international opprobrium. shock jock and unrepentant racist, Alan cheap piece of incendiary political right. He is an ideal conduit through wisdom around budgetary spending that the growth rate of real national However, if we are to contribute Jones. A man whose interest in free theatre is denuded of the nuance which these groups can sublimate and high public deficits. The current incomes has already outstripped meaningfully to combat the human speech only extends insofar as his ability necessary to simultaneously critique their more blatantly racist ideologies, wave of expansionary monetary policy aggregate productivity growth in rights abuses of the CCP, we must to use racial pejoratives at will. Sadly, a government while sparing a people while they continue their pernicious implicitly presents a silver bullet solution Australia since the mid-2000s, it’s also interrogate our own methods of for Drew Pavlou, his willingness to flirt from racial abuse. Instead, it both machinations beneath Drew’s anti- to the problems of poverty, inequality, unlikely many reforms could be enacted protest – ensuring that they are neither with racism deprives his expulsion of reflects what is perhaps an unconscious CCP banner. Finally, and perhaps most exploitation and ecological devastation which improve workers’ purchasing prejudiced nor smokescreens beneath moral weight. He transformed the bi- eagerness to racialise our methods of ignominiously for Drew Pavlou, unless endemic to capitalist growth. Instead of power before it bites into the profit rate which hate groups validate their anti- partisan issue of human rights and free protest and explains Drew’s popularity he reevaluates his methods of protest, spurting out financial aid to maintain and jumpstarts inflation. Asian agendas. speech into the deeply partisan matter in conservative circles. he risks becoming a ‘useful idiot’ to a the buoyancy of capital, it’s increasingly If many countries seriously initiate Enter Drew Pavlou – erstwhile of anti-political correctness. Now, I fear To understand this relationship, it is movement with little regard for the suggested that the purpose of a GND-style transition to renewable University of Queensland Senator, his passion for the liberation of Hong first imperative to understand its history. human rights he so admirably defends. macroeconomic policy can be inverted energy, then it could spawn a mining philosophy student, and arguably Kong may be wasted, dog-whistling In Professor David Walker’s seminal Hopefully, Pavlou will realise that to save the oppressed and the planet. boom in Australia because of the costs and the abolition of mining market, those choosing to work under Australia’s most notable anti-CCP into the abyss of impotent conservative 1991 book, Anxious Nation, he argued he has been complicit in promoting the Enter ‘Modern Monetary Theory’ external demand for minerals needed to company profits altogether. This hostile the JG would inevitably be denied work activist. In July 2019, Mr Pavlou anger. that Australia’s relationship with Asia same deadly zero-sum thinking that (MMT), the new shiny thing that manufacture green technologies. This commercial environment will provoke in the mining industry. attracted widespread media coverage While organising protests against had been typified by immense anxiety underpins attacks on Asian-Australian’s the more wonkish types have latched would lead to the vast multiplication of private capital investment in mining to Well, how about the manufacturing due to his vociferous attacks on the undue CCP interference and due to Australia’s geographical isolation, due to fear of the Chinese Communist on to. MMT proponents claim that large-scale mineral extraction projects plummet and mineral resources will of wind turbines, solar panels, lithium- Chinese Communist Party and their Chinese human rights abuses is both comparatively small population and an Party, or coronavirus concerns. The sovereign fiat currency can be printed across Australia and would provide an become greatly overvalued on world ion batteries, as well as the steel, close association to the university commendable, and indeed essential unstable national identity. In Chapter same inimical non-logic that has by the government in any desired opening for progressive fiscal policies. markets, eliminating an essential source smelted copper and aluminium needed through the campus Confucius Institute. to a robust campus ecosystem of 9, Walker addresses the ‘invasion rationalised the most heinous policies quantity until the level of money However, this scenario traps the left of tax revenue needed for progressive to produce them? Other countries Since then, he has been involved in an political engagement and social justice. narrative’, a Victorian-era literary genre throughout history -- from the White supply circulating within the economy in a Catch-22 between i) financing a reforms. It would also deprive Aboriginal like China, South Korea, Japan acrimonious feud with the University However, the self-described “left-wing” wherein untrustworthy and seditious Australia Policy to the internment of fosters full employment. Any residual handful of piecemeal reforms through communities of those mining profits and Germany are far more likely to of Queensland, one that has culminated Pavlou resorted to weaponising deeply ‘Asian hordes’ are depicted as posing an Japanese Americans during World inflationary effects engendered by the a prodigious intensification of mining too. Instead, the global renewable monopolise on the global production of in his expulsion, in a move that Pavlou troubling orientalist tropes in his censure existential threat to the ‘racial-integrity’ War Two, or the systemic persecution excess in aggregate demand caused and ii) solidarity with the Aboriginal energy transition under capitalism more green technological infrastructure due alleges to be politically motivated. of the University of Queensland’s of Australia. Importantly, the invasion of Muslims engendered by the War on by an expanded money supply are to movement for self-determination over likely will incite competitive scrambles to their highly-skilled or cheap labour Disappointingly, Pavlou’s particular relationship with China. When, in narratives described by Walker -- like Terror. So, if we are to maintain the be regulated by increasing taxation or traditional lands and resources. to set up mines cheaply, entailing the markets and their extant domestic brand of protest has denied students March of this year, Mr Pavlou posted a Mr Pavlou’s ill-conceived coronavirus high road in our struggle against the contracting public expenditure. MMT The shift from a fossil fuels energy cutting of regulatory corners, wanton overcapacity of fixed capital assets in what could have been a watershed picture to social media of himself inside stunt -- do not delineate between Asian CCP – a deeply precarious position is frequently associated with proposals regime to a renewable energy base will disregard for Traditional Owners and those manufacturing industries. the unabashed destruction of the local Within much of the GND’s moment for free speech on campus. the Universities Confucius Institute -- people and their respective governments. due to our own history of imperialism like the Job Guarantee (JG), which aims inevitably require some form of rare- ecosystems. popular appeal lies another failure: it After all, the university has long been a wearing a hazmat suit and warning that Rather, they ascribe to a contemptible and genocide, we cannot afford to ally to realise the goal of full employment. earth mineral extraction. However, There are also many uncertainties is fundamentally backward looking, training ground for the nation’s nascent the site was a “biohazard risk”. degree of essentialism to vilify Asian ourselves, or otherwise endorse the These proposals tend to stipulate under capitalist production this type regarding the hopes for a JG in waxing nostalgic over the postwar intelligentsia to mobilise against the Here, through the tacit association people en masse. A trend which is eerily tactics of the basest elements of the that rather than unemployed people of extraction is subsumed into the Australia, and how that will tie in social compromise in advanced maladies of the time. However, since at Pavlou establishes between Asia and analogous to the extant media discourse ideological sphere. receiving meagre social assistance transnational circuits of flowing money payments, they can instead opt to work and capital, energised by the exigencies with the implementation of a GND. capitalist economies whilst ignoring for the public sector at the minimum that capital imposes on production — Its proponents argue that the necessity the material constraints of the post- wage. profitability, productivity, cheap raw of new green jobs will lead to a 1970s capitalist order. The historical MMT has been increasingly materials, individualised consumer drastic drop in un(der)employment, conditions which would have increased incorporated into the ‘eco-socialist’ goods. To meet the demands of the addressing (a) the prevalence of un(der) the possibility of a return to capitalism’s utopias envisioned by a coalition of capitalist market and the GND, more employment following the capitalist ‘golden age’ are long gone: high labour environmental NGOs, social democratic mines will have to disfigure the face of restructuring of the domestic labour demand in the manufacturing sector, politicians and progressive academics the Earth at a velocity determined by the market since the 1970s, and (b) the rise soaring international demand for under the umbrella of a Green New pursuit for mushrooming profit rates. in unemployment following a phase out consumer durables in standardised Deal (GND). Currently, the GND acts Given that major renewable-energy of carbon intensive industries, like coal- product markets, accelerating rates as a flexible matrix of policy proposals supply chains go through large swathes fired power stations. However, a JG will of productivity growth, burgeoning that this woke coalition of technocratic of Indigenous lands in Australia, Bolivia, fail to remedy these problems. profit rates, the original Bretton Woods strata justify with MMT. That is Canada and Chile, how can our notions For starters, the fastest growing sector system of fixed exchange rates, and because there is a folk understanding of of Indigenous justice be made coherent in Australia during the global renewable high-density, militant unions. MMT as ‘money printer go brrr’, and with the imposition of thousands of energy transition will be mining. A new New Deal is neither possible the institutionalised left would need death villages on these communities? However, mining in Australia today is nor desirable. The only deal that that money printer operating at warp GND proponents in Australia have a highly-computerised, capital-intensive workers will get from the GND is a speed to fund a GND. As a Stanford opined that the profits from all these industry and the extra jobs created by raw one. To paraphrase Marx, the University study released in December mining projects will be controlled by the energy transition will barely plug (renewables) revolution of the 21st revealed, the estimated upfront cost of a Aboriginal communities and that these the un(der)employment hole. Further, century cannot take its poetry from the GND for Australia would be US$820bn, communities can veto any proposed the mining industry in Australia pays past but only from the future. It must or around AU$1.12tn. mine. Nevertheless, they also exhibit the highest level of remuneration to strip away its superstitions for the past The study doesn’t even factor in the a pollyannaish disposition concerning non-managerial workers out of all other — the fantastical longing for a worker- cost of other progressive reforms that how they understand the hard limits industries, at around $2000 per week. friendly bourgeois state — and we must leftists have included in their GND of capitalism. If politically possible Since a JG can only employ workers let the dead bury their dead. wishlist, such as free university, the at all, these caveats will occasion both at the minimum wage in order to avoid distorting the private sector labour Art by Isla Mowbray. Art by Chuyi Wang. universal availability of free public an exorbitant rise in mining overhead

6 7 ANALYSIS Colonised intimacy: Love and sex in Asia and the Women and folklore in rural North India Middle East Shania O’Brien considers the way women share stories and solidarity through oral traditions. The tradition of the spoken word of becoming estranged and othered circumstances she is in anymore. British academics and Dona Sirimanne explores the problematic conceptions of the erotic that exist in the West. has existed across aeons with the re- from their family, of being known as There is no solitary female anthropologists were selective in telling of stories of creation myths a pariah, and of having to put their Hackneyed cultural stereotypes of his experience as an Arab man perspective recorded in folklore, or their recording, only tending to and talking animals, of great dynas- permeate the world of love and sex. receiving questions from Western However, what many fail to understand is husband’s family above their own. in real-world praxis. The solidarities analyse and collect information As attitudes about intimacy progress women like “have you got another ties and god-killers, of star-crossed This custom has also been critiqued formed by women are negotiated about people living in cities and away from heteronormative, patriarchal wife in Egypt?”, despite being in a that European colonisation of the Middle lovers and poisoned goblets. Indian by married women, challenging and equivocal because of the unique those who have higher standings structures, Western perceptions of love monogamous relationship with his East and Asia brought ideas of the folklore talks of the bards recounting patrilineal ideals that dictate circumstances they face. Women’s in society. The songs and stories I and sex in Asia and the Middle East wife. A google search of ‘Arab men in epics like the Mahabharata and the they are to be placed below their songs are constructed with careful speak of today are tainted because remain prejudiced. a relationship’ reveals headlines such as patriarchy, abstinence and homophobia Ramayana, of the romantic verses husband’s family no matter what. emphases on gender and power, of the people who resigned them For this article, a survey was ‘6 ‘cute’ things Arab boyfriends do that that were not otherwise present. of the ghazal. These stories and While women orating as sisters in voices that clash on themes like to text, and it is a possibility that conducted to determine the are actually super controlling’ or ‘what more have been immortalised in the belittle the marital bond, women loyalty and autonomy. many of their meanings were lost pervasiveness of these attitudes among should Western women be aware of is Eurocentric. However, what many when the British arrived and saw a verses by Sufi poets like Amīr Khus- orating as wives place emphasis But there is little academic in translation or edited for the universwity-aged students in what is, for when dating Arab men?’. The profiling fail to understand is that European temple of Hijras for the first time, rau Dehlavī, who was a spiritual on the dominance of the conjugal discourse on the subject. American purposes of convenience. While the most part, a multicultural Sydney. In of Arab men as dominating polygamists colonisation of the Middle East and they experienced what Jessica Hinchy disciple of Nizamuddin Auliya of bond above the familial one. These cultural anthropologist Sherry going through William Crooke’s response to the question, “what are your is prolific. Arab women fare no better. A Asia brought ideas of the patriarchy, describes as ‘Hijra panic’. The colonial Delhi, and classical Sanskrit author contradictory aims give rise to Ortner has pointed out that translations, I found multiple words perceptions of love and sex in Asia and report through the Middle East Institute abstinence and homophobia that were concern with Hijras was that their academic researchers tend to focus and phrases that simply did not fit the Middle East?”, respondents stated: shows stereotyping of these women as not otherwise present. Therefore, ‘deviant’ behaviours would threaten the There is no solitary female perspective on popular cultural forms like or were translated incorrectly. Due “Generally more conservative than “inexperienced, opportunistic, weak, or although colonisation is not the conservative British social and political songs and proverbs, not going so to the nature of oral tradition, and Western countries. The notion of dependent”. only factor that informs many of the order. As a result, the Criminal Tribes recorded in folklore, or in real-world far as analysing these artefacts and the colonisation of India by the transgender people and homosexual Western women travelling to the aforementioned stereotypes, it certainly Act was implemented which outlawed praxis. The solidarities formed by women simply relegate them to footnotes. British Empire, there is much of my relationships are generally looked down Indian sub-continent are warned to stakes a large influence. Hijras and forced them into the fringes Cultural traditions that come out cultural history that has been lost. upon or ostracised”. refrain from ‘friendliness’ in the event *** of South Asian society. are negotiated and equivocal because of rural areas are ignored because A myriad of the sources I consulted “Arranged marriages and relations that men from the region mis-interpret The Perfumed Garden of Sensual *** of the false widespread notion of for this article are attributed to are built only on a practical basis this as flirting. Further, rape culture is Delight, a 15th century Arabic erotic text In 17th century Japan, daughters of of the unique circumstances they face. uniformity in these communities -- men with British names whose (family, kids and status) as opposed to posited by the media as a largely South was written to encourage intimacy for the Samurai class were gifted Shunga and many times academics go as far occupations mean little more than love relationships”. Asian problem. However, this year the pleasure. The text is divided into male on their wedding night. Kukhee Choo Kālidāsa. These stories have been divergent voices that, at the same as reducing them to the derogatory ‘settler’ and ‘self-declared expert.’ and female segments so as to place equal describes Shunga as a sex education “Sex is taboo, women aren’t free to United States issued a security alert told in Arabic, Brajbhasha, Persian, time, resist the authority placed on term ‘peasant.’ But as has been There are countless rural women weight on enjoyment for both genders. manual that was also purchased by be sexually expressive”. for Spain in response to rising sexual and Awadhi -- and there are still ech- men and resist the conventions of explored, the experiences of rural whose struggles I may mirror but A.L writes of 13th and 14th century couples for entertainment purposes as it Ostensibly, Western perceptions of assaults in the country. Yet this hasn’t oes of these tales in local legends, the patriarchy. women and the way in which they will never know, women whose love and sex in Asia and the Middle altered the perception of Spanish men male poets Rumi and Hafiz who lived depicted sexual activity in all its forms. printed on Kashmiri rugs, etched on A Sangeet is a North Indian pre- communicate them are diverse. songs captured the spirit of their age East are that of oppression and as ‘swoon-worthy’, in the same way it in what is now Iran. They both wrote The explicitness of the Shunga reflects the surfaces of battle shields and the wedding event. It consists of singing They challenge academic and with abundance. unprogressiveness. However, these has for their South Asian counterparts. homoerotic verses, as did Abu Nuwas, a the sexual liberation of 17th – 19th hilts of swords. and dancing, and is a celebration cultural assumptions of them; but Stories have more value than respondents are not alone in their A google search of, ‘Spanish men in a Baghdadi poet. century Japan known as the Edo period. But there is so much more of the couple’s upcoming life musings. In the West, there exists socially relationship’ generates results such as To learn more, I spoke to Dr Lucia However, in the mid-19th century to Indian folklore than simply together. Baithne ke geet, or ‘sitting and culturally constructed stereotypes ‘11 reasons why you should fall in love Sorbera, Chair of the Arabic Studies Japan opened its market to the Western The songs and stories I speak of today recounting epic stories of gods and songs’ are sung during breaks in the about the intimacy behaviours of people with a Spaniard’. South Asian women Department here at the University of world and Shunga was banned as it are tainted because of the people from Asia and the Middle East. are characterised as being “caught Sydney. Dr Sorbera explains: was deemed inappropriate by Western wars. At a time where the written performances. In a popular one, also For example, Khaled Diab writes between tradition and modernity”, “In pre-modern Arab literature, standards. This new period was known word was not prevalent, or not as recorded in Crooke’s anthology, the who resigned them to text, and it is a sexuality was defined mostly in relation as the Meiji period. England was in the easily accessible, oral tradition was poetic persona of the wife sings: It is ironic that Western media now to the act, more than the identity of the midst of the Victorian age and sexual the primary means through which suno suno he sakhī merā janam possibility that many of their meanings individual”. frigidity was heightened. Consequently, people passed on culture, values, hī dukhī is ghar men / mujhe lar were lost in translation or edited for the colours the Middle East and Asia as frigid She goes on to highlight: Shunga slowly disappeared from the experience. Women in North Indian bhīr kheto bhejen / juān tutā hai and sexually unprogressive when it is “In pre-modern Arabic (and also mainstream. rural areas spoke critically of their batāve bail buddha hai batāve / purposes of convenience. Turkish and Farsi) texts, gender was *** place in society, of the traditions mujhe kharī hai rulāve he dolon pe colonisation that disrupted their liberal not necessarily narrated according to It is ironic that Western media now enforced upon them because it was (translation: listen, listen, friend, my the only contexts in which they exist what is assigned to them. They are the binary male and female. This would colours the Middle East and Asia as custom, of the oppression they life itself is sorrowful in this house / are produced by agents of British specks of memory preserved in the notions in the first instance. suggest that pre-modern Arab societies frigid and sexually unprogressive when endured at the hands of patrilineal they quarrel with me and send me to colonialism. spoken word, negotiations with the running away from an apparent were open to a plurality of options”. it is colonisation that disrupted their kinship: all of which they still the fields / they tell me that the yoke material world sung in lyrical verse, inevitability of arranged marriage. Attitude changes in the Middle liberal notions in the first instance. experience in the present. Kali ki is broken, they tell me that the oxen desperate wishes of communities Chinese American Andrew Kung East can be attributed to penal codes Sexual liberalism has existed in these riti yahi (translation: this custom are old / they make me cry as I stand expressing their truest parts. There writes that he internalised Western introduced by the British that punished areas for centuries. of a degenerate age) is a song by on the boundary of the fields). The are, in fact, demons in the wood -- but stereotypes that painted him as homosexual behaviour. France I asked Dr Sorbera why she thinks North Indian women, written down song goes on for three more verses, these monsters are manifestations “passive, emasculated … lacking sex introduced similar laws. Further, John there is a lack of knowledge in the West and recorded by British orientalist wherein members of the wife’s of injustices against people. appeal and a voice”. He goes on to list Colville reminds us that texts like The about sexual liberalism in the East. She William Crooke in 1910. The song sasural continue to belittle her Folklore passes on other adjectives about himself such Perfumed Garden were mistranslated says: speaks of the difficulties women efforts at integration: they from generation to as “effeminate” and “weak”. On the when discovered by French colonialists, “A hegemonic, monolinguist, Anglo- experience as they move from their insult her cooking, they quash generation, and with flip-side Asian-Australian Jessie Tu and shaped European views of Arab centric culture dominates the West. This mayaka (parents’ home) to their her efforts at getting a tertiary it, as do the traumas describes her experience with what she men as lustful and their women as doesn’t allow for representations of the sasural (husband’s home). A central education, they feed her we bear the burden objectified. nuances of other cultures and the spirit describes as “yellow fever”, that is, aspect of a North Indian rural lies about her mayaka by of. *** of other cultures, there is an ignorance predominately white men viewing her woman’s experience is the physical saying her mother is Between 400 BCE and 200 CE, a third that we perpetuate about sexuality in as submissive and accommodating, or shift from her mayaka to her sasural dead and her sister has sex is mentioned in ancient Hindu texts, other cultures... This reflects the taboos as she puts it “sweet in the kitchen, tiger — this has been consistently run away. Multiple in the bedroom”. the Mahabharata and the Kama Sutra. that are still with us in the West, which capitalised on by male writers and other songs in the *** These people were known as Hijras. are as complex and profound as all directors — and the shift in the genre are similar This year, an international dating site Annalysse Mason describes Hijras as studies of sexuality and culture are”. power dynamics from her role as a in nature, each identified the world’s most attractive a dominant transgender population in It is important to dismantle these daughter and sister, to that of a wife nationalities. Swedish men achieved India, generally people assigned male colonialist narratives about the Middle one chronicling first place and ladies from Norway at birth who identify as women. As East and Asia. It is also necessary to and daughter-in-law. the story of a topped the women’s charts. The top 10 Hijras do not conform to essentialist critically evaluate the narratives we This experience, though wife who is for each gender category hailed from ideas of gender and sexuality, in early receive about the rest of the world, important, is understood differently miserable Europe and South America. This infers India they were considered divine particularly about intimacy, in a by women of separate castes and at and cannot that perhaps there lies a dominant view beings or nirwaan, meaning closer to Western culture that can barely speak varying stages of life. In Pahansu exist in the that safe, successful, satisfying intimacy the gods. However, in the 18th century about 50 Shades of Grey above a whisper. and Hathchhoya, unmarried women sing of the future burden Art by Nishta Gupta. 8 9 PERSPECTIVE

Christian - “The hardest part was mum. How do you tell the one who sees telling my mum.” you as the best little boy in the world Unheard on campus: Stories from students who have that you’re failing out of law school, let I was new to Sydney. It was meant alone what had happened? failed subjects to be a fresh start. I didn’t know anyone I never ended up sitting my final in my classes. One day, I woke up early exams. Deaundre Espejo, Jeffrey Khoo and Christian Holman spoke to students who almost fell through the cracks. Saturday morning in Camperdown When I heard what they were Park not remembering much of the thinking of introducing for students, it Earlier this month, university students was the word I think he used, but he If they had booted me out, I don’t in the 60s, I think. I have a very strong night beforehand. I don’t know, maybe I brought me right back to that place of were hit with the announcement that told me it wasn’t black-and-white sexual know what I would’ve done. I really feeling that no one will take me and that hadn’t eaten that much at dinner. shame. I had been so scared of saying they could lose access to the HECS harassment in terms of university policy. don’t know. There was no way I could’ve I won’t be able to get into the program I honestly didn’t think anything of it it out loud, not because I was afraid scheme if they fail more than half their He told me to just try and get through afforded it. that I wanted. - that was until I got home. My heart of what would come out but of what I subjects in a year. the class. He was trying his best, but I I’m doing much better now. It’s been After that, the university told me they froze. I looked down and saw so much would hear back. Education Minister Dan Tehan think staff need to be supported to know up and down, because, shockingly, wouldn’t be renewing my scholarship blood in that toilet. Everything flies around your head — argued that the proposal was designed how to respond. six sessions of therapy did not fix me. since I didn’t meet the conditions. It I was scared. I was confused. I didn’t the nurse urging me to wear a condom to prevent students repeatedly failing It put me in a headspace where it Therapy is expensive, and work right wasn’t a lot of money, but I needed know what this would mean for my next time I ‘did that again’, my partner courses and accumulating debt to was incredibly difficult to concentrate. now doesn’t lend itself to consistency. that for textbooks. I was lucky that my relationship with my boyfriend, with asking if I’d cheated on him, the email taxpayers in the process. But this I could show up, I could practice, but But there are so many things that family provided some money. my body, with myself. placing me on academic probation. obscures the reasons why students fail. I couldn’t do any work. Everything help. Sometimes, when things are a We don’t get to choose where my I remember sitting in a windowless I lacked so much belief in myself to Most students aren’t failing a bunch required so much more thought and little crazy, the first step is trying to placements are. They put me in a but I couldn’t get what they wanted. that’s how the uni made me feel. So I room at the Sexual Health Clinic and keep going. In some ways I still do. It of courses because they’re ‘serial failers’. energy than normal. clean and control parts of your space. forensic nursing hospital. I’m expecting The wellbeing system that they have is stopped going to classes and stopped asking the psychologist to steer clear of took me so long to accept that failing It’s often because of disadvantage or Sometimes I couldn’t go in to uni Playing music, with people who I felt to see a lot of assault victims and I am incredibly backwards. attending work, and then pretty quickly any definitive words in documentation isn’t an indicator of character, but of devastating situations that are beyond because I was worried about seeing him. comfortable with, made me feel very terrified of how I’m going to react to it became more like getting zeros. excusing me from the tutorial I was crisis. their control. And when faced with I almost failed an assessment because safe. And, particularly when it first that environment. *** I think it’s really telling that I got missing. And what are you even meant I honestly don’t know what I would these problems, they aren’t offered the when I woke up that morning, I thought happened, friends were incredibly On top of everything, I recently split an HD in the only subject I passed, to say to your tutor about something have done with one more voice telling support they need from their universities I wouldn’t cope if I had to present in important. Oftentimes you’re just lying up with my boyfriend because of issues Alex - “All they did was send emails because I had a tutor who followed up you don’t remember? “Hey, I think I me that that moment defined me, that or the Government. front of him. to yourself when you don’t talk to stemming from my situation. I just feel that made me too scared to ask for sup- with me and a course coordinator who was raped but I’m really not quite sure.” maybe I didn’t deserve the things I had We’ve chronicled real stories from I felt like it was such a small thing to anyone, when it endlessly makes you like my whole life is now not going to port.” really cared about making it an open I waited so anxiously for my blood once before. In times where your world students who have failed subjects due to lose a lot of progress over; that it was feel better when you do. plan, and the uni is not helping; in fact, space with information about special results. What if I had gotten something? is so shaken, students need support not hardship, and who would be impacted my fault I let myself get so affected. I They didn’t get to cut me out of the it’s making me incredibly anxious about When I started uni last year, my consideration and support for people’s By the time they eventually arrived sanction. by Tehan’s proposal. didn’t want to deal with the fact that I system. I’m still here.” everything. inability to focus really started to cause personal lives. I honestly think that if I’d fallen far behind on my readings. hadn’t dealt with it in the first place. It problems. The change in learning style the entire university structure was like Honestly, I was barely making it to class *** had taken a lot to stop thinking like that. The tutor never followed up, which I was huge. I found it really distressing that, then I and so many others wouldn’t let alone out of bed. I ended up absent failing a history thought was odd. If someone came up that I couldn’t keep up with my have failed. The hardest part was telling my *Names have been anonymised. Hannah - “I couldn’t go in to uni subject and another subject. I considered classmates, even though I felt like I was I met up with an academic advisor because I was worried about seeing appealing them, but felt too ashamed to to me saying they had been assaulted, able to understand the work just as well who was really supportive and set him.” do anything. as them. me up with a plan, but there’s only I had a good experience with CAPS, I would be doing everything I could to I started failing subjects pretty quickly. so much those meetings can do. In “One afternoon in semester 2 of luckily. My counsellor had done trauma follow up with them and make sure they I failed all but one of my subjects in first reality, the uni needs to assist you to first year, I left class with a friend and work before, which was a miracle; another guy in our tutorial. We were otherwise, it would’ve been a lot harder were okay. waiting for a light, and the guy spent the to admit, “I can’t say exactly what I’m I hadn’t received any support from the whole time staring directly at my boobs. thinking, but I need you to fix me.” Sam - “No one bothered to check in No one really is going to care enough Direct eye contact, not even trying to be I was pissed when I first heard about with me” to listen. They’re going to tell me that uni or my tutors. All that I’d gotten subtle about it. the government’s proposal. I think that’s where I’m going and to suck it up. It feels stupid that it affected me the Libs either don’t have the lived I was assaulted in the middle of a I’ve fallen through the cracks, and it’s from the uni was fear mongering, to be the way that it did. It usually wouldn’t experience to understand what it would trimester last year. I had a quiz due that not fair. I didn’t choose what happened honest. The only thing they did for me even register, but I slipped back into old do, or the empathy to understand what was worth 35%, but I completely missed to me. coping mechanisms, due to a similar but it could do. it because I was in bed, locking myself Earlier in the year, I came back was send me emails that made me too more serious incident. It’s cruel. You’re going to cut out away from everyone. from a cruise, so I had to get tested scared to ask for support. I spent the next couple of weeks people who have the most trouble I emailed my tutor about what for coronavirus. I missed a mandatory super panicked. I’d leave during breaks adjusting to university life, who have an happened. He seemed to be really practical, to which I emailed them, and and try to get away from campus for a incredible amount to offer, but haven’t supportive in class, so I thought he said, “I have to isolate until the results,” year, and got an email a few weeks after make appointments with people like second. One day, I was sitting up the had the opportunity to do so. That’s would understand; but all he said was which back in March took over a week. semester finished saying that if I didn’t counsellors, because it wasn’t until this back, and caught him turning around the expectation they’re trying to set up that he was sorry it happened, and that They were incredibly understanding, get my act together I’d be kicked out. month that I finally cracked into getting and staring at me again. I left and puked — that if you can’t survive first year I needed a medical certificate or police and even had someone from their Neither of my parents have university the support that I need. in a bathroom. perfectly intact, then you shouldn’t be at report for the quiz back up. I could tell wellbeing office follow up with me 3 degrees, so they weren’t really across It was an 8 month process of battling I talked to one of my tutors. “Weird” uni at all. that the email was a generic copy paste. days afterwards, which just absolutely how to assist me with adjusting from through various administrative issues of I ended up failing that unit, and there astounded me. high school to uni successfully and trying to get support for myself, while was absolutely no option to appeal it. I got assaulted, and I told someone, easily. I struggled with study a lot in also trying to not get kicked out of uni. Missing this quiz made me even more and missed class, and failed a unit, and high school, but felt like I got away with It has been an incredibly isolating and miserable. no one bothered to check in with me. it because of natural ability. lonely experience. The tutor never followed up, which I But I got tested for coronavirus, and I hadn’t received any support from I think that when a student fails the thought was odd. If someone came up then they bothered to check up on me? It the uni or my tutors. All that I’d gotten uni has to ask why, rather than just to me saying they had been assaulted, doesn’t really make sense. It absolutely from the uni was fear mongering, to be telling them to stop failing. There is I would be doing everything I could to blows my mind that they wouldn’t do honest. The only thing they did for me always a reason beyond laziness. follow up with them and make sure they that for a student who’s been through a was send me emails that made me too I’m feeling really good now. I finally were okay. I ended up calling Deakin’s very traumatic experience, and who has scared to ask for support. have the support that I need - my GP wellbeing services a few days after, good reason to miss class. I think that if the email I received at is totally across all my issues, I have a but they were fully booked out for two I don’t know if my tutor didn’t believe the end of semester 1 in first year had really good therapist and a really good months. me, so didn’t escalate it; or whether he asked whether I was doing alright and psychiatrist. Before this, my WAM was at around did escalate, but they thought I was offered support, then I wouldn’t have But I had to figure all of that out for 94. I had set myself up well for a very lying. I felt really unsupported; like kept failing. myself. I wish someone had explained competitive grad year given my results they weren’t taking me seriously. I I think I took such a hit to my ego to me how to get there. and my appraisals on my clinical don’t know if they thought I was being that I had a lot of anxiety around even placements. Now that’s all gone down lazy, or that I wouldn’t bother going starting assignments. I was so ashamed the drain, and my WAM is somewhere to the police or a doctor - which I did, by my lack of ability to focus, because

10 11 PERSPECTIVE Children of Lebanon: Trauma, pain and optimism Mahmoud Al Rifai on what it means to watch the Beirut explosion from 14,000 kilometres away. have protested against in the past year. inside and outside the diaspora adopt in Developing such a vernacular يذلا ليجلل دالوألا رفغي له :With an unemployment rate of 25%, a flawed oversimplification. Consider the is difficult; but the Lebanese are Alex Patsavas and Chop Shop باهذلا بيترتو ىفنملاو برحلا ليخ هتكد . third of its population living below the petition that advocated Lebanon being extraordinary, vibrant and possess -ناطقز ناسغ poverty line, a sectarian kleptocracy put under French Control. The narrative remarkable intellect. Beirut was a Will the children forgive the generation and a health care system ravaged by the is: if corruption was so ingrained in space filled with peaked visor wearing, that’s trampled by horses of war, COVID-19 pandemic, one would think the Lebanese social fabric, perhaps a tobacco smoking individuals debating by exile and preparation for departure? it would be impossible for Lebanon to foreign nation, a leader like Macron, and discussing Marxism, socialism, - Ghassan Zaqtan suffer more than it has. The blasts were would be Lebanon’s only hope given capitalism and complex socio-political The Sounds of Growing Up a further dagger of trauma and the tears, the flawed albeit common assumption issues pertaining to the political Much like the grand Arab poetry that cries and lamenting of a populace who that it cannot govern itself on its own development of a region battling is born in the midst of war and despair, epitomise hospitality and resilience terms. When such narratives stem from imperialism and a lack of unity. It Ghassan Zaqtan’s opening stanza rocked the globe. the diaspora, it is rooted in helplessness welcomed Arabs of all nationalities and The tsunami of videos, breaking and shock. When they come from religions, each driven to understand (نوقدصيس له) of Will They Believe incorporates an amalgamation of news headlines and bloodied videos those who see the Middle East as a hub how to better a Middle East that Words by Rhea Thomas immensely powerful emotions. There is reach the Australian diaspora. Their of barbarous, chaotic social groups, was set on fire by colonialism, rapid the trauma of war and death, the pain collective voice cracks, tears swell in it suggests the Lebanese are innately industrialization and a lack of political Art by Ranuka Tandan of exile and departure and as with all their eyes and they are once again, by inferior to the West’s institutions, which capital on the world stage. Our language rhetorical questions, an optimism that virtue of their incredible empathy and we all know are just as susceptible to should reflect such immense capability, the answer is one that does not differ compassion, in pain. As a child of that the collapse the Lebanese government not a lack of it. to that the questioner expects. Poetry diaspora, anguish was an experience epitomizes. Coupled with the common In such amazing heritage and is a remarkably appropriate impression I grew up with as I witnessed the racist rhetoric towards Arabs and other modern struggle, lies an optimism. As of the experiences of the Lebanese and devastation brought about by civil minorities, the diaspora struggles on two Khalil Girban, the legendary Lebanese Arab diaspora. The tragic Beirut Blast wars, foreign invasions and military fronts. The manner in which the West poet and one of the architects of the drew my attention to Ghassan Zaqtan’s occupation. praised the visit of French President Arabic Renaissance, opined: “braving poem, who like myself, is a Levantine — The Lebanese are a beautiful, Emmanuel Macron unknowingly obstacles and hardships is nobler than a son of Beirut, Damascus, Jerusalem, resilient constituency within the forwards the all too common narrative. retreat to tranquility. The butterfly that Bethlehem and Amman. Why? Trauma, Australian Arab diaspora who suffered To paint Macron as a saviour of the hovers around the lamp until it dies pain and optimism is an all too familiar the pain of colonialism, corruption and French colony suggests the Lebanese is more admirable than the mole that triune. geopolitical tug of wars. The grievances cannot govern themselves, that their lives in the dark tunnel.” The English On 4 August 2020, a nonchalant that inspired the revolution of 2019, political system needs a foreign force of translation will never do justice to father, covered with sweat, is fixated which brought about short-lasting hope, stability and that they are incapable of Arabic’s beautiful form. But there is on a laptop screen powered by Beirut’s were thought to exemplify a state that taking their country in a new direction. an optimism that Beirut will reclaim intermittent power supply. To his left, could not get any worse. The blasts, The Western diaspora rejects such its place as a prosperous hub, paying his tired son rests on the living room however, dragged the country from a assumptions.Corruption is not inherent homage to the vitality, colour and faith sofa. The first explosion, induced by dystopia to a living hell, a hell tinged to the Lebanese identity, it is a product of its people. Perhaps Lebanon may a fire in Warehouse 12 of Beirut’s with an orange smoke caused by the of a political oligarchy that represents have the chance to truly redeem itself. port, ignites a dazzling pillar of smoke nitrogen dioxide of the ammonium a massive disjuncture between the The nation never truly lived up to the harbouring radiant sparks of fireworks. nitrate explosion. The externality which Lebanese people and the ruling class. beauty of its inhabitants after 1990. The abnormal spectacle and roaring thrust the country from rock bottom to An externality like Macron would only However, a nation that produces a blaze alarm the young boy, who six feet under the ground was a trauma further such disjuncture and disrespect people as bright, cultured, hospitable immediately seeks refuge in his father’s that could not allow my aunties to the Lebanese struggle, and the diaspora and resilient as the Lebanese has more arms. Intuitively, the father, despite contain their tears as they so often do in in the West would never disrespect the than enough capability to combat all being troubled by the explosion of their immense strength. Lebanese intentionally. that is inhibitive, corrupt and vulgar. cheap firecrackers, assures his son that In their tears lies the guilt and pain Now, I do not doubt the truth that Perhaps, in our hope and solidarity, the the blaze is a passable affair. I so often feel when I witness a Middle Macron’s presence may be comforting children Zaqtan refers to may in fact Forty seconds later, at 3:08 pm, a Eastern nation on fire. Here I am, 15,000 in a country where the political class forgive us. second blast fractures the windows kilometres away from people alike in has completely failed them, especially Or maybe they will choose not to. and a wave of grit and dirt consumes every way except owning the capital to to the French citizens residing in the However, the fact that we weep with the room. The father, turning to God, do what our parents did: leave. There is city. However, the mainstream focus, them, we feel their trauma and their prays and protects his son. In a moment a sense of betrayal in not being able to praise and attention afforded to Macron pain, and we fight to reclaim a language of admirable rationality among the suffer side by side with them. Perhaps, incorporates very little of the detail, the of protest that honours them signals chaos, the father ushers the son under with our relatively greater luxury and passion of political life and the diversity an optimistic desire to win not only the dining room table upon which the wealth, we could have done more. By of intellect the Lebanese truly possess their forgiveness, but to ensure in our laptop, now covered in dry grime, sits. ignoring the plagued political class, the to better their condition. The irony that wealth and luxury that we do not forget Nothing but trauma has ensued. manner in which the capital we sent it was France, just after World War I, them. In return, we hope they do not Much like the father, the citizens home facilitated the country’s deficit, that decided that sectarianism would forget our solidarity. As of the city are aghast and 300,000 are the Palestinian and Syrian refugees who be a defining feature of the country’s Gibran surmises, “You now left homeless. They, like the father, go hungry tonight and the exploitative leadership cannot be overlooked. As a may forget with whom return to the vestiges of purity left in the practise of the kfala system, perhaps we result, the children of the diaspora face you laughed, but you midst of all this corruption: their prayers failed those who needed the support of the pressure of developing a vernacular will never forget with and their faith. In the span of a minute, the diaspora more than ever. that condemns corruption but does not whom you wept.” Beirut’s physical appearance mirrored It is not only that guilt that increasingly prime the imperialist ambitions and the the corruption which has crippled it. pressurises the diaspora, it is also the saviour complex of states like France. The city’s beautiful features could no discourse that ensues after a Middle As citizens of the West, and children of longer hide the dystopia its people Eastern tragedy that contributes to the the Middle East, we know far too well narratives which perpetuate where that leads. orientalist, colonial attitudes. It is a common language many

12 FEATURE

If you, like me, frequently use past few years. Specifically,works of artists that create mood was most probably influenced You’ and Bruce Springsteen’s cultural substance of one another. Club, then Flo Rida with Cold and reviewed by publications the Spotify Private Session films such as Jonathan Levine’s and feeling that strictly exist by its iconic rural Washington ‘Hungry Heart’. Ordinarily Patsavas presents a curious case War Kids. The result ends more like Pitchfork, The Atlantic and feature to go and listen to corny Warm Bodies (2013), and iconic in those few minutes. Patsavas state setting. It could have just associated with the heavy against this. Cleverly accenting all as a mishmash, people-pleasing Rolling Stone, artists like Feist, movie soundtracks in fear that television dramas like Gossip Girl has made a name for herself as easily been titled as a ‘Sounds rotation of the Smooth FM the comedic beats of the film, it’s playlist that feels all too common The National and Vampire your Spotify friends will cancel (2007-2012) have soundtracks over these past few films as a of Isolation’ compilation album sound, the music functions for a impressive to be able to integrate at primary school discos. Yet, Weekend have become defining your music recommendations which introduced a blend of new tastemaker of the indie genre fit with a pine tree album cover different and more meaningful indie artists like Bon Iver and The Patsavas makes these songs work figures of 21st century indie and and taste – well, then I’m glad indie artists to a more commercial that’s guided more by the sounds – not an uncommon thought, it purpose here. A growing sense National alongside more timeless in the context of the show; as alt-rock that carry way beyond I’m not alone. In the culture of ground. Without placing too seems. The connection between of nostalgia is achieved in its acts without a jarring contrast. viewers we quickly realise that the late 2000s into the late 2010s. surveillance and the merging of much credit on the shoulders of indie music and the foggy, use in Warm Bodies, drawing The case for Gossip Girl, is, the presence of pop music only Patsavas’ curation wrapped public and private digital space, any of the said narratives and mossy setting of Seattle is one viewers into the record-playing, again, quite different. Thisexists to frame the superficial smaller indie bands into we open up small nooks of plots, the aforementioned that’s been discussed by many knick-knack-collecting, generally time, the supervision dictates personalities presented in certain commercially-consumable anxiety-inducing indulgence and films demonstrate the true music geography scholars and endearing zombie character of the relationships between the characters. The more honest packages of narrative, plot and shame for “guilty” pleasures. art of music supervision journalists – why is it so difficult R, who in the opening scene characters, balancing themes substance of ‘reality’ that carries sprinkled them with renown and Whilst I believe that no one and curation; a craft to separate gentle folk music and reminisces about the human of fame, glamour and prestige. the actual story is instead, timeless musical works from should feel guilty for any pleasure that can be credited garage rock from this particular lives of zombies lingering at the Gossip Girl is, for the most part, humbly complemented by the past decades. If anything, it’s they feel – perhaps this can’t be a to those who seem region of the United States? airport to Jimmy Cliff’s ‘Sitting In a teen-drama that preys on the unique originality of indie artists a clear example of the ‘golden universal claim – the subjectivity to be able to dissect, Discussed by Thomas Bell Limbo’. In an iconic scene from spectacle of New York City and songs. mean’ of musical and production of music and why we love certain describe and prescribe in his article ‘Why Seattle? An the film, R is broken-hearted and celebrity culture and elitism that With this in mind, it’s easier intentions in films and television. music is a question that remains the perfect soundtrack Examination of Alternative being consoled by his friend M seemingly resides in four Upper to understand why music from The emerging beauty of film, difficult to answer and hard to to the right moments. Rock Culture Hearth’, he (I promise that most characters East Side families, narrating my teenage years seems to have television, streaming and admit. Initially booking pulls apart the idea of the in this film have a name longer their Met Museum yogurt-and- a timeless quality that settles into independent production lies in the As the Bill Clinton Swag bands to play at the “Seattle sound”: An “element than a letter) who encourages granola morning routines and a sticky nostalgia. This could growing avenues for rising artists Meme continued to trend during University of Illinois, congealing the Seattle groups him to pursue his romance and equally pretentious high school partially be due to the fact that to reach audiences – “That’s the the period of self-isolation and then later working into a scene if really a sound, also indicates towards a growing concerns. While this explains the young adulthood is a time where new way with the digital age” quarantine, I felt a growing knot as music supervisor is the musical ‘honesty’”. The emotional change among the prevalence of more poppy club we ‘come to our senses’ and says Patsavas. Without judging in my stomach as I struggled to for producer Roger whole idea of musical ‘honesty’ zombies; they’re becoming more tracks, that also admittedly sound begin to develop likes, dislikes the quality of a soundtrack based find the perfect curation of four Corman, Alexandra seems to be exactly what’s human. As R asks for their help ten times worse retrospectively, and learn. A romanticised notion merely on the critique of the critically-acclaimed albums that Patsavas seems to amplified through highlight reaching Julie, the scene cuts to the indie features seem to draw that’s only affirmed in the fact overall film, there’s something to I could credit for polishing off have been part of the tracks featured on Twilight: the group of zombies against a from the hipster, Brooklyn that a lot of the tracks from Chop be celebrated in a good playlist, my outstanding and in all ways, Midwest American ‘Decode’ by Paramore, ‘Eyes morbid backdrop of destruction, upbringing of character Dan Shop Supervision still hold a sense even away from the screen. What elite (sophisticated, superior, indie scene before on Fire’ by Blue Foundation, shuffling determinedly alongHumphrey, who seems to be of first-time listenability. Anyone becomes apparent is that despite better than you, etc.) sense of I knew it existed. ‘Supermassive Black Hole’ by to the hilariously juxtaposing, tormented and taunted for his who has watched a teen flick in the mediocre critical reception music. However, there was only Since founding Muse. Grant Alden and Jeff searing guitar solo in Scorpion’s apparently “inferior”, off-the- the past five years may struggle of Twilight, Warm Bodies, one album I could think of that Chop Shop Music Gilbert say, “Seattle is not Los ‘Rock You Like a Hurricane’. island upbringing for the full six to find the same success (though Gossip Girl and most other would encapsulate what music Supervision in 1998, Angeles or New York. It’s not a A general focus on overall seasons. Unsurprisingly, Patsavas some more recent exceptions works supervised by Chop Shop, has significantly impacted and she and her team have place where things happen and cohesion is the element of prime found the perfect playlist. may include Beautiful Boy (2018), the legacy of the featured music shaped my music taste, albeit a accumulated quite the world notices. It’s at the far importance when stringing songs Though, unlike Twilight and Eighth Grade (2018), Booksmart has forged a kind of subliminal social sacrifice that I was hoping the impressive resumé, edge of an enormous country together, and you would think Warm Bodies, upon relistening (2019)). Though perhaps, it has connection to these fictions ­– in would bring all my followers working not only on said hemmed on all sides by mountains that this is more easily done by to the ‘Gossip Girl Soundtrack more to do with the reputations turn, the fictions to the music – to their senses to realise its soundtracks, but also on Mad and water. It’s beautiful, remote picking songs from a similar Season 1-6’, it becomes almost of the bands since their features that’s eternally romanticised in goodness and influence.The Men, Grey’s Anatomy, The O.C., that aren’t heard than those that and claustrophobic”. A sense of era, complementing and leaning painful pairing JAY-Z back-to- in these films and television Generation Z teenhood. Twilight Original Motion Picture and 2010s films,The Perks of are. An observer of filmic needs, isolation is consistently amplified on the musical similarities and back with Washington Social series’. Now critically-acclaimed Art by Ranuka Tandan. Soundtrack (2008), despite the Being A Wallflower and The Hunger her selections give movies the throughout the tracks on the actual film’s commercial success Games: Catching Fire. oomph necessary to push that soundtrack, utilising recording but underwhelming critical and For those less familiar with the mile ahead, channelling the techniques of heavy reverb, quiet cultural legacy, has miraculously soundtracks of each of these films intimacy required for Twilight, whispering and humble guitar stood the test of time and can be and series’, an easy explanation humour for Warm Bodies, and plucking that echoes the danger credited as a breakthrough for a would be that Chop Shop Music mix of Manhattan-Brooklyn that the film’s setting of Forks, number of successful 2000s and Supervision is the name behind hipness to makes you recall Washington, presents. Though 2010s indie and alt-rock bands. your music taste and the songs tracks like Peter Bjorn and John’s the exclusion of perhaps the It would be ignorant to say that you associate with growing up ‘Young Folks’ when meeting it- most well-known Seattle band, every teen movie has a flawless – the reason you probably listen girl, Serena van der Woodsen in Nirvana, seems to be a curious and perfectly curated soundtrack, to Death Cab for Cutie or Iron & Gossip Girl’s pilot episode. In an choice that indicates a greater though a few stand out over the Wine. A certain timelessness is interview with Fast Company, creative intention to stick towards discovered in her work and that Patsavas stated, “Of course you smaller artists; artists on the impressively showcases artists think of a cohesive album, but outskirts of mainstream culture, like Radiohead alongside none of that works unless the lurking and waiting for someone Paramore, and then John songs tell the story… The first daring enough to step forward Waite alongside the Black time the audience experiences and curate them into the perfect Keys; a number of these the track, it’s in the context of the compilation. soundtracks marry artists movie”. In the case of Warm Bodies, genres apart and push It’s interesting that Patsavas’ the music curation exists with the cinematic image and breakout supervision was for a generic function rather than narrative forward. Twilight, a film notoriously (love) geographic – probably out of Unlike the more hated by film buffs, purged by necessity for a Romeo-and- commonly discussed old fans and even ridiculed by Juliet, zombie-rom-com. The art of scoring films, its own star, Robert Pattinson. soundtrack consists of a heavier music supervising Though, it is exactly that hatred ‘80s sound, focusing specifically involves the collaging that makes the soundtrack even on romance and acoustics, of various pre-existing better in comparison and maybe, undoubtedly to contrast against musical works. Less the only agreeably ‘redeemable’ the otherwise more depressing guided by conventional quality of the film. Uponpost-apocalyptic setting. Notable tropes, music curation examining the soundtrack, it’s mentions of this genre curation dabbles in individual clear to see how the selection include John Waites’ ‘Missing

15 CULTURE Cuddly creatures and cultural cringe Like Japanese prank shows? Thank tort law! Felix Faber on the social value of Alvin and the Chipmunks. Nina Dillon Britton wants to remind you that she does law. No work of art, history, academia, or abroad, economic collapse at home, from an unloving parent. This form of who are looking for more substantive Anyone who has gone too far down a NSW Workers Compensation of which are likely settled out of court. do not press for the emotional pains of public storytelling could better capture and a rapidly deteriorating political movie mascot, that comedian Conner content can find it elsewhere. But still, YouTube rabbit hole of Japanese reality Commission ruling found that the Such expenses discourage companies the victim too strongly, and because of the deep vacuum of public life in the consensus. The idea of what it meant to O’Malley describes as “irresistible to watching David Cross flatly talk to show clips might have found themselves reality show House Rules must pay from insuring such shows, meaning that their understanding of this type of 2000s than Alvin and the Chipmunks be American changed, and their national toddlers, to want to watch and hold CGI chipmunks, one can’t help but staring into an abyss of human suffering. compensation to a contestant who had many cannot go ahead at all. pain diminishes, as a result the amount (2007). The anodyne tale of Alvin, confidence was brought into doubt. This and put in their mouth” was created hope for something a little more daring, In one prank show, unsuspecting victims suffered depression after being framed Though in Japan such actions exist in non-economic losses cases has stayed Simon, and Theodore, crisply contained nationwide ennui, fused with the market with Alvin and the Chipmunks, but something a little less profit-minded. are ushered into an elevator only for the as the show’s villain. In the US, so many in theory, the potential payouts are l ow.” to a tight ninety-minute timeframe, logic of neoliberalism, led to a fairly perfected by Despicable Me’s Minions. But sadly, a reprieve from the market floor to give way, with victims falling people sought to claim damages in tort often prohibitively low for claimants. Ultimately, a system that privileges managed to turn a $60 million budget straightforward formula for commercial Soft, cuddly, visually distinctive, and dominance of the soft cuddly mascots down a slide as a studio audience howls — a legal action against another person Compared to Australia or the US, judges the mental or emotional well-being of into a healthy $360 million box office success in film: provide people some endlessly marketable, Minions carried does not seem near. with laughter. Victims’ screaming faces for damages done to your body, income in Japan have a far wider discretion in individuals is simply incompatible with take - the 14th highest in the world for respite from the world they live in, set the cuddly mascot banner into the While the 2000s brought American as they plunge to (what they believe or emotional well-being — have forced ordering payouts for damages in tort. good prank shows. Does this mean 2007. Its three squeakuels have only up a merchandising line, and keep it 2010s. While Alvin’s star has begun to self-confidence into doubt, the successive will be) their deaths are shown in slow shows such as Jackass off air. Indeed, Payouts generally are much lower, we should rehaul our tort law regime? grown the pie - 2011, the year of Alvin G-rated. Meaning, joy, and humour, fall (the most recent film,The Road Chip, traumas of 2020 have shaken far as law students will know, the founding with claims for defamation — which Probably not. Should we nevertheless be motion for the audience’s delight. In and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked’s release, all became secondary to creating as released in 2015, saw a box-office take deeper, foundational assumptions about case for the action wilful infliction of frequently sees damages orders of thankful that there are still safe havens another clip, a woman dressed as a saw the franchise take in $300 million inoffensive a cinematic experience as of only $234 million - the lowest yet), American society. As the traditional nervous shock (the only available action hundreds of thousands of dollars in for extreme pranking, made accessible on merchandise alone. The numbers possible. Moviegoers could trust that the Despicable Me franchise has only film release-to-lunchbox decoration yūrei slowly emerges from the ceiling for emotional harm in Australia, where other jurisdictions — averaging at in the internet’s ether? Definitely expose the brilliance of the Chipmunks their ticket at the box office would buy risen in popularity. Minions, the spin- pipeline grows less and less profitable as men shower. Hilarity ensues. In a you must prove psychiatric injury) around $1 million JPY ($13,000 AUD). grift. Alvin and his brothers’ on-screen them an hour and a half of scorching off film that dispatches entirely with due to a contracting economy and social third, victims walking down the street involves a prank gone awry.** Given generally lower damages, and *** antics exist, functionally, as a ninety- nothingness, leaving them untroubled, any semblance of character, cracked $1 distancing restrictions, the ongoing suddenly find themselves in the middle Assuming they are real then,*** wide discretion from judges, lawyers * Not directly relevant to this minute advertisement for the Alvin and and with a burning desire to purchase billion at the box office alone. viability of the formula grows less and of two armed gangs charging towards Japanese prank shows are something of are discouraged from pursuing claims article, but always worth mentioning, the Chipmunks brand. But the Chipmunk Alvin and the Chipmunks merchandise With a sequel to Minions slated for a less certain. A shift to new media as one another, and again must face the a novelty. Whereas most participants in for emotional distress. With less claims is also Orgasm Wars, where gay porn juggernaut did not come from nowhere; for their friends and family. 2021 release, and the recently-spawned source for entertainment seems on the reality of their (perceived) impending reality shows will be asked to sign forms being brought, there is less clarity on performers are challenged to make it exists as a symptom of the 2000s What made Alvin and the Chipmunks Trolls franchise setting several streaming horizon; perhaps it won’t be long before death.* releasing the show from liability in the the standards that must be met to prove consenting straight porn performers cultural cringe. such a trailblazer in this field was its records with its second film this year, it we see Minion TikToks, or an Alvin Of course, that observation is not case of injury, the premise of a prank such claims, placing heavy burdens on ejaculate within 40 minutes. The cultural cringe of the noughties advent of soft, cuddly heroes. The looks like the legacy of sterile, joyless, Netflix series. However far we may limited to reality television shows show is that the victim doesn’t know lawyers to prove them. This creates a ** Wilkinson v Downton involved a was a chiefly American phenomenon. character design of the CGI chipmunks children’s toy film franchises is set to move - culturally and technologically - hailing from Japan. As a genre, reality what’s coming. The show, therefore, has “vicious cycle” of low damages orders man pranking a woman by telling her Americans were promised the end of is seemingly made for their future continue. Of course, there are worse from the 2000s, we can be sure that the shows trade in the small grotesqueries less opportunity to protect themselves. for emotional distress, economist that her husband was lying in the street history, and the dominance of their franchising as soft toys. Theodore, in things to happen. There’s nothing cultural cringe is far from over. of human life: mean girls, humiliating In some jurisdictions — like the US Osamu Saito argues. “[B]ecause judges with his legs broken. The facts of the nation and ideology on the world stage. particular, has little to offer to the film particularly offensive or off-putting challenges, and unhinged judges living — claimants would have an action for can freely determine the amount lawyers case state her hair turned white, she Instead, they were given the national than a huggable-ness suited to a future about these films - I actually quite out sadistic fantasies as they sample intentionally inflicted emotional distress. do not know if their request is going to vomited, and she went into “nervous trauma of 9/11, seemingly endless wars as a cheap stocking-stuffer present enjoy Despicable Me - and even those participants’ Hollandaise sauce. Indeed, the decline of American pranks be granted even if they advocate for it, shock”. Some chicks just can’t take a And those cruelties have given rise shows like Scare Tactics and Punk’d and even if their request is granted the joke! to a not insignificant body of case law appears in large part due to the costs of amount is usually low and the burden on *** If they are not this entire article is In pursuit of naked Spiderman in some countries. In 2019, a landmark prank victims bringing lawsuits, many the lawyer is very heavy, therefore, they pointless and wrong. Marlow Hurst is horny for better video game representation. Sexualised men in video games have like many industries, produce content and this frequently creates a dissonance. process of coming to grips with the always been a rarity. An exotic treat intended to appeal to heterosexual men. For games that offer player choice, RPG diversity of its player base. 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Authorised by G.Field, 2020 Electoral Officer, Students’ Representative Council, University of Sydney p: 02 9660 5222 | w: srcusyd.net.au CULTURE An extended version of this In conversation with Gareth Liddiard interview is available online. The problem with Aus rock Madeline Ward interviews the Tropical Fuck Storm frontman. Roisin Murphy wants girls to the front of Australian rock and roll. Tropical Fuck Storm (TFS) have been protest laws and the heightening of conscious, and she’s really talented, GL: No, they hate it, ‘cause the guy Live music, for many women and non- shown out of context accompanied by busy. They’ve released three songs since police powers country wide. Is this but at the same time she’s been lucky came in with a semi-automatic one day cis male people, is a fiercely love-hate one-sided statements.” It’s hard to see hope in all of this, but May, including a cover of an Australian something you were considering when enough to be born at a time when she and shot the place up – but he was such relationship. This culture of unaccountability punk-rock classic with Amy Taylor of you decided to cover this track? can do that without giving much of a an idiot he didn’t hit anyone, luckily – it’s there. It’s in classrooms full of girls It’s the rush of your favourite band, flows right into the way women are Amyl and the Sniffers. We had a chat GL: It would be both. It still sounds fuck, you know? Doing that 20 years and demanded to see the basement. with band member Gareth Liddiard really fresh – their first two albums were ago would have been hard, and doing This “torture basement”, where they the feeling of your sweaty mate crashing treated at gigs. studying music, it’s in conversations at after the release of their latest single, just so energised, and it’s freaky that they that 40 years ago would have been twice did all this paedophile stuff. They’re into you, the camaraderie of being in I spoke to Maisie from Melbourne pubs between women building solidarity ‘Legal Ghost’. were doing that in isolation in England as hard. She’s just born for this time; she just like, “Dude, we don’t have a fuckin a room full of people all there for the bands Clamm and The Belair Lip and New York. It was definitely the was made for this time. She’s just this basement”. But he said that classic same reason. Bombs about mansplaining, toxic and strength, and it’s starting to be in Madeline Ward: You’ve likened ‘Bjelke’ thing that put a rock up their weird punk rock Dolly Parton machine. conspiracy thing where he sort of said, It’s also the hurt of knowing you’re masculinity and her experience of being the industry. Tropical Fuck Storm to your pre-Drones arse. But it’s great, people like Amy MW: That’s a great way to describe “Well, prove you don’t.” “Youse had to often not included in the lawless white a young woman in the live music scene. project, Bong Odyssey, in terms of how and her band. She’s like 22, I’m fuckin her: “punk rock Dolly Parton machine.” prove you did something, now you have boys club that controls it. That’s why “I’ve been mansplained to a lot at Triple J, the longer women will feel and strength, and it’s starting to be in out there they both are or were. Would 44, but she’s the first Australian that That’s fantastic. to prove you haven’t done it.” Which is there’s been a strong conversation gigs, by punters in the crowd or even unsafe and unwelcome. the industry. you say that TFS has allowed you to get has been good for fuckin 20 years, you GL: From Mullumbimby. impossible. in touch with a more unhinged side of know what I mean? Like, she’s fuckin MW: From Mullumbimby, of MW: Is that why you guys entertain brewing about toxic masculinity in venue workers… one time at a gig I was Dune Rats are a Queensland band When Will Wagner’s behaviour your creativity that you had reined in amazing, she just goes berserk. We’re all places. So, In an interview with these kinds of ideas in a lyrical sense? Australia’s live music industry. having trouble hooking up my bass to with thick accents and masculinity became public, The Beths and Sweater after the Bong Odyssey days? all a bit older, but she’s definitely… well NME you said the the concept behind Because they’re so ridiculous that it’s Over the last few weeks I’ve brought the DI box and I asked the sound guy to show for it. They are one of many Curse, who were supposed to be opening Gareth Liddiard: Sure, I mean, she’s just freaked out about it all. Like, Suburbophobia - questioning whether almost as though they don’t really need up this article with a lot of women I for some help. He got kinda passive young all male groups who confuse for the Smith Street Band on their tour, with the Bong Odyssey stuff, we moved shit, I mean all the Black Lives Matter these suicide cults where onto something to be debunked, it’s more fun to just know. The first words to come out of aggressive at me and said “I feel like nostalgia and Australianism with announced they were pulling out. from Perth to Melbourne, and we had stuff, and the cops, and the madness was “timely not ’cause of the cult thing make fun of them in that way? most of their mouths were stories about I’m your teacher”... After we’d played abusive behaviour. Blokes being blokes. “We don’t want to stand with the to sell all of our mad gear, ‘cause we that’s ensuing. So it made sense, ‘cause but because it’s probably a good time GL: Yeah, it’s like old-school stuff being treated like shit at gigs. The next the set he came up to me all sheepish In 2014 they posted a status to abuser and we stand with the victims had all sorts of wacky synths and drum she just came up to hang while we were to leave the planet.” I was wondering like Dead Kennedys, where they would machines and stuff. The sort of stuff recording and it kind of made sense just if this is in some sense in dialogue with just mock, rather than being serious. ones were: and was like “hey you’re really good, Facebook and Twitter which read “do involved,” The Beths said in a statement. that costs a lot of money now; it’s all to throw her the mic and get her out for King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard’s If you were railing against everything you guys want to make a Dune Rats It’s going to take a long time for vintage now so it costs heaps, but back that, ‘cause she’s totally energised. eco-thrash Mars for the Rich? “Mars for in a really earnest, serious way all the The longer men live in a lawless Tinder and just gang bang chicks.” It has women to stop being pushed around then it was all seen as crap so we could MW: I think she’s pretty incredible the Privileged, Earth for the Poor” time, you’d end up shooting yourself, thousands of likes, and is still online. in crowds, but moves like that make it buy it at Cash Converters for $50. But just in terms of bringing Australian GL: It’s like a zeitgeist thing, I you’d be so depressed. So laughing at kingdom where they can abuse women Two years later, in 2016, one of their seem more possible. then we had to ditch all that stuff, and punk back up into the mainstream. guess. Which is cool, ‘cause zeitgeists it, while kicking it away, is probably the and minorities and still get played on band members was accused of sexual Maisie spoke to me about this, saying when we got to Melbourne, we only had Like, she’s done campaigns for Gucci only come around every 20 or 30 years. survivable way of railing against it. assault online. They responded with she thinks “the Melbourne scene at least guitars, and the only pub that would and shit, which is pretty fucking huge. So they’re on the same wavelength. MW: ‘Legal Ghost’ and its B-Side, supposedly progressive stations like a laughing eyes emoji. The same year, is progressing really well in terms of have us was the Tote, so we kind of GL: Yeah, worldwide. Their “Mars for the Rich” thing is Heaven, are both songs [that are] quite became a ‘guitar band’ by default, but MW: Yeah, it’s massive. about dudes like Elon Musk, that sort concerned with mortality –you wrote Triple J, the longer women will feel they dedicated a song at the Tivoli “to gender equality in music and it’s great. we were never really that. I mean, we GL: But she’s really smart. She’s not of privilege. What we’re doing is more, Legal Ghost in the 90’s, and Heaven all the sexy ugly chicks.” There’s heaps more female led bands could do it, but we were kind of always stupid, and she is what she seems like you know, QAnon and all that weird is a Talking Heads song from ’79. Do unsafe and unwelcome. In 2017, Triple J described Dune and musicians popping up and playing weirder. It was like fucking 15 years of she is, which is hilarious. She’s kind of online cult conspiracy stuff. Everybody you feel that re-recording both of these Rats as a “a super-fun, mega-hot mess, gigs and getting the recognition they being a sort of… what I kind of think ‘Mullumbimby bogan’, you know what just believes shit that is not founded in songs in a time where we are constantly Oh God, talk about Sticky Fingers. did you study music or something?” He and we wouldn’t have it any other way.” deserve, and having bad experiences of as a normal ‘guitar band’, so the TFS I mean? She’s not pretending. But then, reality at all, and everyone’s just ready confronted with death and dying, both In December 2016, the Sydney had treated my male band mates with In 2019 they successfully toured at gigs is generally pretty few and far thing has been great, ‘cause we can just she’s super sharp when it comes to the to hoover up bullshit, carte blanche. due to coronavirus and the American Morning Herald reported that Dylan respect from the very start. Little things Australia. between - for me anyway.” do whatever we want. We just go silly. ‘biz’ side of stuff. She’s awesome. So rather than getting up there with a imperial war machine – that Talking Frost, the band’s frontman, had racially like that that are hardly even memorable It’s hard to see hope in all of this, but Change will take time to translate MW: You’ve covered the Saint’s MW: I found it super interesting song and say “that’s bad’, it gives us a Heads song was released in a time of song ‘This Perfect Day’ with Amy because I really admire what Amyl and laugh to go “Well, why don’t we say it’s pretty huge political upheaval, and abused Indigenous singer-songwriter and are so subtle, but they can wear you it’s there. It’s in classrooms full of girls from classrooms to gigs, but if we keep Taylor — I can’t help but feel there’s a the Sniffers do based on – I hate to revert good?” They’re dead and gone, they’re now we’re experiencing that again – do Thelma Plum. Allegedly, he was verbally down a lot of the time.” studying music, it’s in conversations at pushing to the front of crowds, we’ll get parallel between the music of the Saints, to identity politics in this way – having a probably wrong, but maybe they were you feel like that maybe changed their abusive and spat on her in an event in This culture of mansplaining is no pubs between women building solidarity there. recorded under the Bjelke Peterson female-fronted punk band. On its own, right. The Jonestown suicides: maybe meaning in a way? which Plum described she had “never surprise when women occupy a slither regime in the 70’s in Queensland, and it’s really fucking cool. But then beyond they all did go and land on the beautiful GL: It certainly did with the Talking felt so unsafe.” He was later accused of of sound technician and production punk under our current that fact, she’s so unafraid to just get on planet out there in the universe, and Heads one, because that’s like: “Heaven further racial taunts against Indigenous positions. political climate, with stage and howl and scream live happily ever after. Who knows? It’s is a place where nothing ever happens.” band Dispossessed, in response to them “On a weird flip side sometimes I the introduction and growl. highly unlikely, but I don’t know, it just MW: It’s a pretty fuckin’ depressing of anti- GL: That’s seemed like a more subversive way to song. speaking about the Don Dale Youth have been overly praised for my set. The what I think write about what’s going on than just GL: It really is, but before all this Detention Centre on stage. whole, you’re so good for a girl concept too. She’s condemning it. COVID stuff; before the whole world The most telling part about Sticky is still very much alive and that is not self- MW: I think there’s a lot of public ground to a halt… [David Byrne] Fingers and their fall out is not just something I want to see squashed, I just discourse where a lot of Australian was, the way I see it, kind of saying: the incidents themselves; it’s Frost’s wanna see men and women as equal in influencers and celebrities are starting “If you want a utopia or a heaven, it’s response. He never apologised for being the music scene and both treated with to jump aboard this conspiracy theory just gonna be dull.” Heaven is a place racist, denied that the Dispossessed the same amount of genuine respect.” trend. You have Pete Evans coming where nothing happens, so it’s better event occured, and blamed bad It’s starting to look like that’s out about like every conspiracy theory to be dissatisfied than bored out of under the sun, because he’s a fruit loop. your mind. But then, with the COVID behaviour on mental health issues. happening. But then you’ve also got people like thing, suddenly nothing’s happened He had the opportunity to set a According to Triple J Hack’s annual Ziggy Alberts, who was, until recently, – or something is actually happening, precedent for apology and self growth, report into the representation of women quite an acclaimed musician, releasing there’s an unprecedented worldwide yet instead he deflected. However, he’s in Australian music, women and non- anti-vax beliefs -- my original question crisis, and now I sort of wish nothing not the only one. Sticky Fingers are only binary people now study music in high was: “is this a theme that the band will was happening, that we’d just go back to a symptom of the pattern: abuse, get school at the same rate as men. And continue to pursue?” But I think you’ve boring old normal, because that would called out, deflect, move on. due to strong conversations about the answered that, it sounds like you’re be better. It’s almost like the meaning of Sticky Fingers are still given airplay, lack of gender-parity in festival lineups, going to. the song reversed itself completely, 180 GL: Yeah, it’s just around. All degrees. Legal Ghost, as well – that’s and in March this year featured on festivals like Groovin the Moo and that shit’s around. I tend to just write written about a couple of people I knew Triple J’s hottest 100 of the decade. Falls are starting to listen, with 43% about what’s out there, and so does who we lived with who died. They were In February 2019 Smith Street Band of Groovin acts having at least one Fi, and so does Erica. This shit is just never gonna get far, they were just drug lead singer, Will Wagner, was publicly woman and Falls closing its gender gap everywhere. You can’t get away from addicts, and even before they were dead accused of emotional abuse by his completely in 2018. it. You can’t pick up your phone you could tell. No matter how much ex-girlfriend, Camp Cope lead singer Of course, however, fairness is not without [seeing] more weird QAnon you try, there was nothing anyone could Georgia McDonald. McDonald aired trickle-down, and there’s a lot of work shit; more Trump stuff. We actually do. It’s a song about ‘the walking dead’, played at the venue – the one where or something like that. For some reason, a number of text messages and emails to be done in the space between diverse Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and I just thought… playing with the girls, detailing manipulative abuse from acts and safe gigs. Oprah were meant to have a paedophile with their great singing and shit like Wagner. Some of his threats included The longer men live in a lawless ring at, that pizza joint. It’s called that, I just thought, “fuck, these guys killing both himself and her. kingdom where they can abuse women ‘Comet Ping Pong’. could kill this if I let them have a go at In Wagner’s public response, he said and minorities and still get played on MW: Do they lean into their it.” the texts and emails had been “selectively supposedly progressive stations like conspiracy theory? Art by Janina Osinsao. Art by Sophia Calvo y Perez. 18 19 DISRU PTION Billie (circa 2010-2020) Editors’ Choice Libby Newton || Editors’ choice fiction The editors of this humble rag have chosen their favourite fiction and non-fiction entries from I. violated, trapped, truly goddamn grounding for five bed those that didn’t place in this year’s Honi Soit Writing Competition. Congratulations to all awful, you’ve no idea, the fuckery of bigger picture for the first time, orders a double- winners and shortlisted writers! 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This has slavery and oppression, is critical thriving from the horrors of the built. UR’s use of Afrofuturist torsos cluster at the door and she’s you cannot be trusted to sit in the Billie can be found doing sneaky as it is, long walks distract her never been more important than to the formation of Afrofuturism, trans-Atlantic slave trade explicitly themes further develops how thrust into shadow schoolyard with everyone else, remove push-ups, jumping jacks, squats in the from the food sitting in her stomach, now. as Afrofuturist artists, writers, and attacks colonial structures. The sound and culture can be utilised her name is said (the one she the cling film from the sandwiches and bathroom stalls, taking herself off for which doesn’t cause her nearly as It’s in this maelstrom that theorists often seek to reclaim new race of Drexciyans disrupt as a means to directly fight against doesn’t go by), birth date, admission convey them, crusts and all – that’s it, walks around the block between checks much distress as it used to but feels Detroit Techno (DT) and its the past and find optimism for the functions of colonialism and attack colonial structures, as time, a smattering of numbers, letters, take a bite, no, a proper bite, stop that gulping down cup after cup of water insidious – half-digested muesli sprouts utilisation of Afrofuturist imagery the future. Afrofuturism uses and slavery by adapting and metaphorically explored by the R1 acronyms: braddy-cardy-ya, it sounds nibbling, for god’s sake! – to your on weigh days, breathing – for the gains arms and legs, kicks, hits, punches, tears at and themes is profoundly relevant science-fictional depictionsovercoming the immense gene. like, or brat-tea-car-dee-ah (she’d mouth instead of the bin – through the nausea her insides, killing her from the inside out – google it but they took her phone) by providing us with a radical of technologically advanced hardship faced, establishing their By exploring the mythos cue the twice-daily walk of shame cheating the system when she can nonetheless pens click, feet tap in front of her year group, which stakes get away with it in hospital, there was a girl who and timely exploration of racial African diasporas to critique own society, which is not only surrounding the work of both wait, is this bed 3? out the front entrance of all places and (increasingly) even when she refused water, kept it up for days, brain oppression, colonialism and the White cultural depiction of technologically sophisticated, but Drexciya and UR, through the bed 3 discharged last night, this is bed 4 during breaks can’t steadily shrinking before the seizures imagined futures. ‘primitive’ Black peoples, and is outside of the colonial gaze, a use of Afrofuturist imagery and yes up the steps, two at a time began DT is the genesis of all other instead imagines a future that is society which is unknown and fictions, I have aimed to explore anorexia nervosa navy plaid I V. one in the elevator, two in the group forms of Techno, with its origins founded in “cosmic liberation”: therefore unable to be colonised. how we can understand and view footsteps thud-squeak-squeak-thud doctor’s orders room, one (spectacular) in the dining beginning in the mid-1980s a reality where technological The anti-colonial thematic DT as directly attacking colonial away and the light floods back in no one is looking at you Billie sits in the clinic waiting room, room, in front of all the staff and underground electronic dance possibilities have enabled Black concerns are also prevalent history and its own mutation into occupying one seat in an otherwise patients from the mood disorders and music scene of Detroit, Michigan empowerment and the destruction within Underground Resistance’s the modern world as systemic and a tearful exchange with her father III. empty row of eight drug and alcohol units (who, all things – a city with a vibrant culture and of race-based colonial structures. (UR) 1998 release ‘Interstellar institutionalised racism. when he comes to visit it’s January (fuck, how is it already considered, probably enjoyed the they don’t know what else to call they talk about lack January?) and at this time of year, in excitement) before she was transferred long history of Black resistance. In this imagining of the future, Fugitives’, where in its sleeve notes There are significant links it, he says, meaning, show proof to the sometimes excess but mostly lack this hemisphere, people prefer beach to a different facility The genre’s emergence is generally Afrofuturism is not merely a they conceptualise a future “in between the anti-colonial and contrary five years between them and from holidays to hospital admissions, even – Billie thinks about this sometimes understood as beginning with Juan triangulation of Black culture which colonialism is recasts in… Afrofuturist sentiments held well, whatever it is, it’s not that, she opposite ends of Sydney, but Court or especially – the mentally ill and the drought Atkins’ releases under the Model with science fiction, but a creative cosmic proportions”. It is in this in DT and the various Black snaps, but softly; not yet accustomed to is someone whose illness has left the meanwhile and how scarcity drives people mad 500 name. Atkins’ early DT work exploration of the possible futures mythos where UR use a fictional Lives Matter (BLM) movements her own churlishness same gaping holes Billie tries to align cold-numb was primarily influenced by the that challenge the oppression report by the ‘Intergalactic Bureau occurring across the world. I eat, you’ve seen me eat, I eat all the lack of educational sneaker-clad feet exactly with the electronic instrumentation used faced by Black people, including of Investigation’ to conceptualise Critical to the BLM movement time, I don’t not eat, I’m not that (every attainment patterns of tessellating polygons in the VI. by German Avant-Garde group the systematic exploitation and DT as a mutant gene called is a critique of the police and neighbourhood has one, a psychologist lack of driving-a-car carpet, willing the air-con to sputter Kraftwerk, the funk rhythms of injustice perpetrated by the police R1, which has been spread their role in maintaining colonial will say to her years later, half-smiling, experience and die so the room feels less like a she labours over a conclusion George Clinton’s Parliament- and prison systems. through ‘sonic parasites’, by the structures that directly exploit and perhaps you’re yours) sad stick figure, lack of drunk-hook- refrigerator and she less conspicuously for an essay she’s written but is too militant mannequin, carving the same ups-and-late-nights-and-intimacy hypothermic (get some meat on your afraid to finish, let alone submit Funkadelic and the futurist The links between Afrofuturism ‘rhythm-machine’ of Detroit. and attack Black individuals route through the streets day in, day experience bones, someone screams in the distance) chews her lip concepts of writer Alvin Toffler. and DT is important for UR develop this concept further and communities, as well as the out, all sinew and bone, angular, things they’d forfeited in a rush to on the TV above the receptionist’s writes: These influences of Atkins led understanding the ability for by acknowledging that this R1 recognition of the ways that gawky, cadaverous get nowhere desk, a man with an orange face and to DT being founded by the use music to be a tool for liberation. gene has mutated from its cousin systemic racism is encoded not bird without feathers, without things they berate themselves for too much money is the newly-elected like a premier women’s magazine, of ethereal synthesisers, steadily The futuristic imagery, ethos and gene, rhythm, which “was created only in both American, Australian wings, without breasts – what’s left? on nights spent sitting at the leader of the free world, and his mouth the multidisciplinary ED treatment pushed forward by the rhythms album themes of many early during a period of time ranging and colonial culture but in our she doesn’t nurses’ station, crocheting, filling in is exactly what Billie thinks of when team churns out glossy messages of of drum machines, notably the DT artists invoke Afrofuturist from the 1400s to the late 1800s economy, our institutions and in she’s not crosswords or folding paper cranes, she hears the word piehole empowerment, touts self-acceptance, Roland 808. The establishment themes. There is a constant in colonized areas throughout every-day life. It is in this context memorising the lyrics to ice ice baby by god’s grace it’s set to mute, so the self-care, self-compassion; in the of a prominent Techno scene motif of futuristic artist names the world and especially in the where DT becomes important and II. – amusements in which they are now piehole opens and shuts noiselessly, same breath, it reminds us that we do fierce ( , the nurses write in their in Detroit began with Atkins’ and album titles in the DT scene, new world of the Americas”. profoundly relevant, as it imagines manic comically not know our own brains, bodies or school gates open to steps leading notes) experts dummy sans ventriloquist appetites, that we do not know how to collaborations with fellow young like the artists “Model 500” The framing of R1 as a ‘parasite’ alternative futures that exist away down to bitumen sloping into gullet of in the level 2 courtyard, soaking up anyway, that’s a differenttake care of ourselves, that we need to Detroit producers Derrick May and “Drexciya”, as well as the as written by the Intergalactic from the continuing colonial gaze deputy principal’s office a carcinogenic blend of UV rays and hemisphere heal, to nourish ourselves (with such and Kevin Saunderson. Critical album “Interstellar Fugitives” by Bureau of Investigation, seeks to and exploitative structures such Billie enters, fresh and full (moon- cigarette smoke, mingling with patients and such a product, with such and such to the emergence of DT was Underground Resistance. These directly critique modern colonial as the police. Just as the BLM faced), keenly aware that there’s more from other wards, Billie and Court (not that we can hide from it here) a caloric intake), go plant-based (or up the context of a post-industrial artists all used explicitly science structures such as the police, with movement articulates an agenda of her to look at now, more of her to keep their diagnoses to themselves, the meat and dairy), drink more/less Detroit, where the prominent fiction and futurist inspired names R1 being viewed as disruptive to of change by defunding police look at and wonder where she’s been not pinned to their lapels like certain we are each of us, she thinks but water (it artificiallysatiates! ), pause and automobile industry had been alongside representation of robots, colonial powers due to its ability and redirecting resources towards since term 2, why she’s only back now, others do – which is fine too, don’t get doesn’t say meditate, retrain our brains, rewire (get gutted and Motown Records aliens and interstellar civilisations, to invoke liberation from and more constructive policies and the day of the school captain elections me wrong, you do you, no judgment, that afternoon, feeling the blood- those neurons firing), breathe in the had left for Los Angeles. Writer as an attempt to occupy and revolt against the Intergalactic programs, DT music and culture in which she isn’t featuring as a no judgment at all, they coo pressure cuff inflate and tighten around good, breathe out the bad, submit to candidate fear of a name, Hermione says in the her arm, falter, deflate with a hiss the process, entrust our bodies and our Cristoph Schaub argued that reclaim the future for the African colonialism prevalent within creates its own reimagining first (second?) film,only increases fear watching the nurse turn to record busy little minds to the experts who’ll the move of Motown Records diaspora. this future. It is here where UR of the future where colonial five minutes to the morning bell and of the thing itself (‘cept in the book, it’s the numbers on a chart, humph when nip and tuck and perform the necessary “symbolically confirmed the city’s Emblematic of the prevalence directly explore thematic and structures are dismantled and Billie heads toward B-block, steps onto Dumbledore speaking) the pen doesn’t work adjustments, do this [mindfulness/ cultural decline”, providing a of Afrofuturism in DT is the conceptual possibility for music Black empowerment is promoted. the veranda where she finds Ellie and either way it’s probably true, she wrapped in devil’s ivy body-sculpting/ self-soothing] exercise context in which the originators of mythos of DT group Drexciya, to be a means of liberation, as DT has even been played at BLM Ash awaiting her big (massive, she’d thinks, the less you talk about it, the three times daily – download the app DT were compelled to disrupt and with their formation of the race well as how the police act on the protests in Detroit as rhythmic fuel warned them) return more it festers, EDs thrive in silence V. for easier access and optimal results! explore new sonic avenues. of ‘Drexciyans’, as developed basis of maintaining colonial against colonial oppression. DT is the new growths on her chest at least that’s what they say the scripts, the micro-aggressions, Foundational to DT’s origins in the sleeve notes to their 1997 structures and directly attacking not merely dance music, but, as demand attention and Ellie goes to in group I mostly keep to myself, Billie writes the bottom lines are the same is Afrofuturism, a broad cultural album ‘The Quest’, an underwater Black individuals and their the theorist Kodwo Eshun put it, state the obvious before back-peddling along with in the about me section of her rental you, young lady, cannot be trusted at the sight of Billie’s expression, and philosophical movement that civilisation of an aquatic human culture, through surveillance, “Techno becomes an immersion in application, we know what’s best for you smiling instead and saying something surf the urge which is true and a virtue in these help us explores distant futures, alternate species who descended “from threats and violence. UR explore insurrection, music to riot with.” about getting used to them radical acceptance times help you realities and technological ‘pregnant America-bound African the thread from African rhythms which sets Billie off anyway opposite actions she gets the room, pays the bond, help yourself development founded in the slaves’ thrown overboard ‘by to DT with the trans-Atlantic which isn’t surprising, everything action with intent packs the car and moves up and in sets her off these days, she feels recovery goals for the first time, sleeps in a double CREATIVE Coming around Stone cairns Words by Angelina Nguyen| Art by Lilly Aggio Words by Robbie Mason | Art by Bella Henderson I - From the Start That blasted green light. How it compels me to reach for it, how it mocks me as my grasp is left unfilled. Joey’s burly right arm hangs out are indecipherable now. Others the forest top and rescue us from the eons by wind. On the cliff’s edge, II - To and Fro of the window, sizzling like a chop stand out in bold: ‘Gondwana’, creeping cool of the afternoon. Joey they stand resolute. I hover over the The hands of time are in mine now. They She craved coffee left on the barbie to blacken. The ‘untainted’, ‘wilderness’. But all walks ahead, machete poised like it’s cairn, scared, for some reason, to puncture into my skin like nails, leaving pierced and made it every evening from leftover packets, steering wheel is comically small in those word vomits I did as a kid a pirate cutlass. The sheath hangs touch it. marks, curved voids... poorly poured, with an overshot double shot the grip of his left palm. after returning from holidays in the from his Reebok bum bag. The head ‘Probably some hiker’, Joey but the agony is momentary. You were never lost and overflowing foam but When the car hits Emu Plains, Mountains are incomplete. There of a hatchet pokes out from the mutters. to those hands, no no. You will come around, it was the perfect cup that granted her the sky falls open and the horizon was always something sad about side pocket of his backpack. Sticks I swear I hear voices. Whispering. come right back. You will soon see that this is the power to hover somewhere fizzes blue. Heat reverberates across the Australian bush as if the trees splinter under my boots. Everywhere and nowhere. not some past, some five years ago, some passing between before and now. the land. The Big Smoke dissipates were frowning at you. I never could As the sun sets, shadows jump at ‘Gimme a minute. I wanna get chapter. This is an epic of destined mistakes, Before, she made haste. behind us. capture that nuance. me. Leaves rustle in the wind but this on paper.’ tangled in a web of heroic accidents, Now, she clung to the taste for as long as she could. Before, she longed for sweetness. III - We Kept Circling Joey is the type of cunt liable to Joey doesn’t have family I otherwise hear only silence, as if Joey looks over his shoulder. to be continued. Now, simply bitter would do. When did it stop being about finding answers and about tell you he’s related to Ned fucking reminding each other that we were inescapable? Kelly, and then pull a doctored *** You and I will never be over. The waters will continue to wash to the shoreline Her tongue vacuumed family portrait out of his ass. So and the coast is not out of sight. every stray drop up. She would not allow any of it Though far apart, we continued to orbit, to collapse in when he told me I couldn’t be a true Allowed space to breathe around the to be the thoughts of those days. How our arms have been revolutionary until I’d learned a campfire, I joke half-heartedly: ‘I’m abandoned in ed in waiting for each other once more. How could we forget few survival skills, I listened. ‘DIY bloody glad you got that machete.’ before she could even swim, the way our hands let go for the last time—so certain, so culture mate’. Something about Joey agrees. ‘Nothing like a filled to the brim with a thickened, sure? How could we forget how they plummeted to our praxis and too many communist sword under your pillow to help now sickening froth. sides, for the first time—so uncertain, so unsure? Our LARPs in Australia. Etcetera you sleep at night.’ certainties opposed one another. We told ourselves this etcetera. See, the nights sound different This was the kind of drink that kept her up at night, was the end. Joey’s voice fills the space inside out here. I thought for hours that the kind that pulled her towards before, the beat-up Jeep, pressing me into someone was following us along the kind that pushed her away from now, And yet we convinced ourselves that this was an IV - Back and Forth intermission, and our final act was yet to come. We the side door, bending my neck. that track. He still returns to that empty concert hall the kind she could not live without. ‘Pass us a dart, would ya?’ Joey is rambling now. Globs of clasped onto the echoes of our departure and stored it in where there is no more music our hand lines. ‘Thought you’d quit?’ saliva exit his mouth. He pauses to but each visit meant that the silence became ‘Fucking hell cunt, I’m on take swigs from a cup of Bourbon normality, that the vanity of the search holiday.’ and Coke. ‘I built my own family… had a reason that belonged only to him. ‘I promise I won’t be your mum Practically built my own home He had none of the answers, none of the V - Until the End all trip.’ too. You know I used to live in a symphonies, I often wonder if it could have been any different. Had I let my words turn into an irresistible chocolate, had Joey’s cig extinguishes itself as squat right? When I ran away from none of the words he had been waiting to hear... I tightened my grip until my fingers broke off, had I only surrendered it all. all the air evacuates the vehicle. The home… That’s where I got all the vacuum pushes me into the folds in tattoos and piercings… I wanted my but he did feel something— When I find myself lapsed into the memory of that day, something never fails to reel me in and back to reality. the seat. I sink into myself. foster parents to be scared of me if his own movement, growing I remember these words someone once told me. they ever saw me again... I wanted not in the struggle, the unfinished melodies, *** to see another person in the mirror.’ but in the light, You only achieve closure when you accept you may never. Joey stares deep into the fire as if in the release, Cruel it may seem but truer, it was, than any other answer I had received. This gorgeous paradox was As we pass through the lower Blue trying to find a reflection of himself and in the final unfolding of his palms. It was right there in the crevices, conceived, delivered in a single breath. It was not rotating and spinning like I had been for months on end. It Mountains, I flick through my in the embers and flames. He was still, clear and coloured in truth. mental photo album, hovering over recedes into his fold-out chair, his tucked and hidden, but there, childhood holiday shots. cup slanted at a precarious angle, pulsing, swirling back and forth. This was how I stopped running around and how I finally began coming around. When I found closure, it The mangled chestnut tree in leaking grog and swimming in a was far from the end. It was a new chapter, a new five years ahead, a new future. It was the first of countless Grandma’s garden leans over into whirlpool of memories, fighting nights of sleep. It was meeting halfway, leaving without that desire to turn around. It was rediscovering my the neighbour’s backyard, bending against the tides. He was the conductor the entire time. body, mind and spirit all at once. It was the beginning, ending, ending, beginning and every other opening and the white picket fence, spying. There is no magic word I can closing possible. It was realising that I no longer needed to run, that I could stand in the centre and let those Silhouetted against an orange offer. All I can do is present a pair concentric circles revolve around me. It was learning to venture into the unknown, and embrace my greater dusk sky, the ruins of Eurama Castle of ears. fear—of the unknowable. The answer was the question, the silence was the symphony. Estate look like the remnants of a Joey is still throwing words at Medieval fairy tale. me. I look at the pencil sketch in I am in front of a shed holding my hand. I’d sat down to capture IV - Onwards and Upwards a freshly-chopped log like a prize the view from that cliff top as if I Right in his hands was what he was searching for, barramundi. had some preordained duty as an what he yearned for, Mum holds me, a mere baby, at memories. Not with his bloodline the land has swallowed everything art school student. But I spent more what he had all along. The weight of a promise Echo Point. Behind her the land anyway. up and left it bare. Every turn in the time swatting flies than sketching. falls away and eucalyptus trees track, every tree, looks the same. We I gave up before I even finished the that only he could keep and hold. bristle like the coat of an echidna, *** could be retracing our steps for all I fucking thing. I scrunch the paper III - They Kept Moving their emerald leaves shimmering in know. I crack open a tinnie as I walk. into a ball and peg it in the fire. Together, they decided to make their own universe. the breeze. We’ve been walking for two hours The track narrows and suddenly Among the photos are scribbles, and already my forehead is clammy the trees disappear and we are *** jottings in the column, clunky with sweat. My pack weighs striding atop cliff ramparts. There II - Coming and Going poetry. I used to endlessly heavy. Through the thick foliage, is a stone cairn in front of us, When I crawl into my sleeping bag She inspected the basket for a moment fantasise about these ancient perpendicular rock faces rise like protruding. The stones are smooth and go to sleep, I’m haunted by before dumping the remaining espresso. mountains as a child. Some words battlements. Bars of sunlight pierce as if caressed and moulded across dreams of stone cairns. There was now room for her to prop up a whole line of chamomile tea bags.

I - To the Start I mustered up all the courage I had and walked away.

22 23 SRC REPORTS SRCSRC CASEWORKER STUDENT HELP HELP President Note: These pages belong to the Office Bearers of the SRC. They are not altered, edited or changed in any way by the editors of Honi Soit. Liam Donohoe Amid the backdrop of the government’s attacks bears specific mention in this report. The SRC grievances repressed by their success. writing a lengthy 8-page appeal to the Electoral on students and the slow strangulation of the demands immediate repercussions for the cretins But while they may have succeeded in Legal Arbiter regarding the Nominations fee, and Student Income Bank (SIB): higher education sector, the return to semester responsible, and will be relaying this story, and repressing our protest this time around, the assisting staff with logistical questions or requests. has proven both historic and eventful. Beyond others, to USyd management as we demand that police’s aggression will not deter future actions. The COVID period has certainly presented its fair the remarkable, and potentially risky, return to in- they keep the police off our campus to protect If anything, Friday’s activities have emboldened share of challenges for staff and students involved Earning Money while on Centrelink person classes, the first week of semester two also student safety and free expression. us: Channel 9’s coverage of the fracas is the first in the elections, but I am confident we will be featured elections, protests, and even arrests. In the end, 10 students were each issued mainstream coverage our fightback has received able to successfully facilitate this essential aspect The week reached its dramatic apotheosis on $1,000 fines for breaking a public health order yet. We won’t stop fighting until education is free, of our organisational structure. To that end, at Friday when the police comprehensively repressed by gathering in a group of over 20 people with no matter how much they repress us. Wednesday’s meeting the Executive voted to our attempted protest outside Fisher Library. an unapproved common intent. While the SRC Aside from Friday’s protests, the week also saw recommend that the Council move to an online Despite receiving no prior communication or and Education Action Group have almost raised the first General Assembly of the National Higher election, in accordance with the new regulations The Student Income Bank (SIB) is like While your payment will not be PARTNERS INCOME: Different rules apply if your partner warning from them beforehand, organisers and the funds needed to pay off these fines, their fact Education Action Network, an online event at passed by the 92nd Council on July 31. THE PARTNERED INCOME TEST is receiving a social security or service attendees at Friday’s National Day of Action they were issued in the first place is seriously which I briefly spoke. I am incredibly excited Finally, it would be remiss not to mention an imaginary bank account of income affected, your SIB balance will be were greeted by at least a half dozen riot squad disturbing. There were no unique or extraordinary by this new non-sectarian, grassroots campaign arguably the most historic events of the week— test credit. Centrelink understands reduced by the amount your income If you have a partner (either married pension (e.g., Age Pension). 4WDs, more than a dozen patrol cars, and even harms posed by the protests—masks and hand of staff and academic education activists, and the provisional election of Swapnik Sanagavarapu many students work more during is greater than $437. E.g., Chris earns or de facto), you will be subjected to a substantial mounted patrol, a display of size sanitiser were mandatory and distributed encouraged by their commitment to organising as 92nd President of the SRC and Bloom for Honi holidays and the SIB is designed $500 in a fortnight, and her SIB balance the Partner Income Test each fortnight, Do they have to look at your partner’s and strength campus hasn’t seen in many years. widely, and the small crowd could easily sprawl strike action. Any serious attempt at defending to the 2020 editorship of Honi Soit. My sincere to average out the impact of your is $1,000. Chris’s income minus $437 is regardless of whether you share money income? Though they held off from repressing a smaller throughout the Quad Lawns, Eastern Avenue, or improving our Universities requires industrial congratulations are extended to both provisional or not. Your Youth Allowance or Whether you are in a defacto or prior action outside the F23 building, at 1pm a and Fisher entrance. Many of the students who action, and NHEAN’s activities are the most elects, who were automatically elected after earnings. $500 – $437 =$63. Centrelink will not cavalry of police descended on Fisher library to were fined had attended in-person classes at the promising step towards that so far. I look forward no other nominations were received for their reduce her payment, but will reduce her Austudy payment is reduced by 60c for marriage like relationship is an open issue a public move-on order to the hundred plus Uni in the preceding week, an activity which to participating in more of their organising efforts, positions. While I will be around for a while yet, INCREASES TO YOUR SIB SIB balance by $63, meaning her new every dollar that your partner’s gross question, particularly if you have lived students and staff gathered near the Coffee cart. involves sitting indoors in groups of more than and to build student solidarity actions around it is reassuring to know that my successor cares as Each fortnight your SIB goes up by SIB balance is $937. income in a fortnight goes over: with your partner for under 12 months From there, all hell broke loose, with the police 20 without mandatory mask wearing and which NHEAN’s events. much about students and the SRC as I do. the amount your income is below $1,234 – if they are getting Austudy or and/or do not consider this to be a arresting students at random while the crowd we—and they—consider less safe, and certainly Aside from activism, I also tended to most of All in all, it was a historic and eventful week, Youth Allowance as a full-time student. permanent arrangement. See the SRC confronted them with “cops off campus” chants. less essential, than protest. To specifically target the other classic Presidential duties. I participated but one which is now pretty standard for these $437, e.g., if you have no income, your Your payment will be reduced if your At one stage I was briefly arrested, only to be let this activity, rather than others which are riskier, in the SRC staff committee meeting and continued strange, historic times. While I’m sure that future SIB increases by $437; if you earn income is over $437 and you do not That number is the point at which your leaflet Relationships & Centrelink for off—arbitrarily—with a warning and a move-on suggests health is not the primary concern. to deal with internal HR matters. I helped finalise weeks will bring many more novelties, one thing $300 your SIB increases by $137. The have enough SIB balance to offset this. partner would not be payable for their more information about how your request. And even if there was a small risk posed by our details before Tuesday’s inaugural SRC Informs will remain unwavering: the SRC’s willingness to maximum your SIB can accumulate Centrelink payment. relationship may affect your payment. During the fracas the police brutalised a gathering, the police seriously exacerbated that seminar. And I also sat on a few committees, at fight for students no matter what, even in the face to is $10,900. Your SIB is not reset 1. If your income minus your SIB is student and attempted to embarrass her by risk by provoking anger and causing crowding which the 12-week semester was discussed and of malevolence and violence. If your partner is not getting Austudy or THE PARENTAL INCOME TEST weaponising her experience with sexual assault. during their arrests and brutality. Ultimately, time limits on student suspensions removed. each semester or year – it rolls over so between $437 and $524: While a separate article in this edition covers safety and hygiene were compromised by the I also spent a considerable amount of time you can keep your credit as you study. Reduction = (gross income – SIB Youth Allowance as a full-time student If you are on Austudy or YA this in more depth, this disgraceful incident police’s aggression, and our legitimate political preparing for the upcoming election, including However, if you cease being a full-time balance – $437) x $0.50 then your payment is reduced by 60c independent (e.g., over 22 years), you do student you lose any credit and start E.g., Anna earns $660 in a fortnight for every dollar that your partner’s gross not need to worry about your Parental Education Officers from $0 again when you return to full and has a $200 SIB balance. Her income in a fortnight goes over: Income. Jazzlyn Breen & Jack Mansell time study. income minus her SIB balance is $994 – if they are 22 or older, or $944 – if they are under 22 years old. If you are on ‘dependent’ Youth We’ve had a busy while! Education is under million over the last 6 years, and potentially the the charges, which the two activists are pursuing and stand in solidarity with organisers and $460. This is $13 more than $437 serious assault. A couple of weeks ago it was total figure exceeds $30 million for that period. alongside those targeted at Black Lives Matter attendees targeted by police. We also extend our DECREASES TO YOUR SIB (the personal income test threshold). These numbers are the points at which Allowance, Centrelink looks at your announced that the government is pursuing very The Casuals Network have launched a campaign rallies earlier. On August 28 further appalling full solidarity to the incredible uprising in Belarus If you earn more than $437 in a Centrelink will apply a reduction rate they would not be payable for the Parental Income annually. Your punitive restrictions on HECS-HELP loans. to recover these stolen wages. We have organised repression was levelled by NSW Police, with against the 26-year long Lukashenko dictatorship, fortnight, Centrelink will look at your of 50 cents in the dollar to this $13. relevant Centrelink payment as a job payment will not vary each fortnight These will disproportionately hit disadvantaged and participated in a series of Friday actions in 10 students and staff fined a combined amount that has seen 8 of the 10 biggest factories in the SIB before reducing your payment. Anna’s payment reduction: seeker [Youth Allowance (Jobseeker) because of your parent/s income. students and are an attack on even the semblance the lead up to the August 28 action. This included over $10,000. Again, community support has country on strike, and hundreds of thousands and Newstart Allowance (Partnered)], See the SRC leaflet How Parental of accessibility in education. There have been an action at Sydney Uni that was repressed, as been strong with the money raised in less than take to the streets in a sustained movement. Join Your payment is reduced only if your = ($660 – $200 – $437) x $0.50 a series of job cuts announced at campuses well as subsequent actions designed to resist 48 hours. We will continue to find avenues to us at our forum on fighting cuts on campus this SIB is $0. If you have credit left in your = $11.50 x $0.50 whether they get those payments or Income Affects Youth Allowance for across australia, cumulatively numbering in the this repression. As mentioned earlier, our action resist these encroachments on the fundamental Tuesday at 6pm! Details on the Sydney University SIB, then your SIB will be reduced by = $5.75 not. Your partner might be working, more information. thousands. At Sydney Uni, this has begun with on July 31 was repressed by police with two democratic rights that workers, students and the Education Action Group Facebook page. the amount your income is over $437 or a student and not on a payment, but a push for voluntary redundancies which we activists arrested. We managed to raise $2,200 oppressed need to organise resistance to capitalist that fortnight, e.g., if you earn $600 2. If your income minus your SIB is Centrelink still use those numbers. For any Centrelink information stood against on July 31. Sydney Uni has been in less than 48 hours to cover their legal costs barbarism. We continue to stand with Black Lives make an appointment with an SRC revealed to have underpaid staff by at least $9 if so required. Solidarity with their case against Matter and Stop Black Deaths In Custody actions, your SIB credit goes down by $163 over $524: without your payment being reduced. Reduction = [(Gross income – SIB Caseworker by calling 9660 5222. Wom*n’s Officers Your SIB cannot go below zero. balance – $524) x $0.60] + $43.50 Once your SIB hits zero the amount E.g., Rakesh earns $1,000 in a fortnight Vivienne Guo & Ellie Wilson of income left over that fortnight is & has an SIB balance of $300. His WoCo has consistently supported actions fighting No Cuts rally, which was shut down by a heavy sity and therefore are disproportionately affected no room for cops: there is no feminist liberation subject to the Personal Income Test and income minus SIB balance is $700, against attacks on tertiary education. Over the last police presence. Police outnumbered protesters, by recently announced changes to the HECS sys- without police and prison abolition. couple of months, we have seen units for Semester activists were targeted, arrested and fined, and tem that students have been fighting back against. WoCo unequivocally stands with staff and the Partnered Income Test, and your which is over the personal income Ask Abe 2 cut by university management as staff face police used one protester’s previous police report This behaviour also shows us yet again that cops students against the cuts and fee hikes. We con- payment will be reduced. test threshold of $437 & over the $524 SRC caseworker help Q&A insecure employment and are made to work an about their experience of sexual assault to humili- are not to be trusted when it comes to fighting for demn the brutal policing of student rallies and we threshold where the higher rate of untold number of unpaid hours. This is shameful ate them. This behaviour is horrifying; police have justice in the face of sexual violence. Cops can- continue to support the right of students to attend You must always report income reduction applies (60c in the dollar, Ask Abe about - staff are the lifeblood of tertiary education. continued to use COVID-19 as an excuse to shut not even be trusted to respect our confidentiality protests and fight for their futures. as opposed to 50c). A 60c in the Meanwhile, Vice Chancellor Michael Spence has down protests while they push protesters into con- as victim-survivors. People who report their sto- WoCo will be resuming weekly meetings for changes to Centrelink even if you dollar reduction rate is applied to the Flatmate who doesn’t pay rent taken no pay cuts and remains one of the highest fined spaces, and use brute force to intimidate ac- ries of sexual violence to the police should never Semester 2 on Wednesdays at 3:00pm. Meetings earn under $437 per fortnight, paid Vice Chancellors in the country. tivists and organisers. Victim-survivors of sexual have to worry that the police will weaponise this will be in person with an option to call in via because it will change your SIB amount over $524, on top of the 50c WoCo attended the recent August 28 student assault are also more likely to struggle with univer- trauma against them. This is why feminism has Zoom. Stay tuned via our Facebook group! balance. Not doing so may result in the reduction rate applied to the $87 in a penalty or overpayment. between $437 & $524 ($43.50). Disabilities & Carers Officers Rakesh’s payment reduction Dear Abe, people that are legally responsible for Margot Beavon-Collin, Charlotte Lim, & Stedd Lenasars = [($1,000 – $300 – $524) x $0.60] + paying the rent. They are responsible The Disability Collective is busy preparing for our we might have room for a couple of longer pieces You don’t have to pitch, and it is fine to submit with you, and makes it more likely that it will be CALCULATING PAYMENT $43.50 I live in a sharehouse with 3 other as individuals and as a group. This is autonomous edition of Honi Soit this semester. (up to 1200 words) as well. Please attach written completed submissions, though we do encourage published. If you’d like your piece to be published REDUCTIONS = ($176x $0.60) + $43.50 people. Mostly it’s ok, but one of my regardless of whether someone is not This year, we have decided to theme our issue submissions in .doc, .docx, or .rtf form. pitching first. Completed submissions should be anonymously or under a pen name, that’s totally If you know your SIB balance and your = $105.60 + $43.50 housemates is always late paying their paying their share or not. If you are on “SOLIDARITY NOT CHARITY”. Work doesn’t Visual submissions should be 300 dpi in .tif or sent to [email protected]. We fine, just let us know. fortnightly gross (before tax) income, = $149.10 rent. We’re all students, so we don’t the lease and the housemate who is pay- need to be themed (although it is great if it is), and .png form. Either full colour (RGB) or greyscale is accept previously published work, but please The OBs hope everyone is taking care of you can work out if your payment will want to hassle him, but none of us ing late is not, I would suggest asking you can interpret the theme as flexibly as you like. fine. Page size is approx A3 but most visual pieces specify if this is the case. themselves and each other. The pandemic isn’t We’re looking for feature articles, opinion pieces, should be aiming for around A5/A4. Our deadline for pitches is MONDAY, over, and staff and students are struggling right be reduced and by how much. Here are You receive no payment if: can afford to pay his share, or even them to leave, and replacing them with short fiction, poetry, art, and anything else that we If you’d like to pitch an article, if you’re SEPTEMBER 21ST. now with classes, mounting work, and overzealous some scenarios. make him a loan for his share, and we someone who will pay on time. If you can put into a copy of the University of Sydney’s interested in illustrating specific pieces in the Our deadline for submissions is MONDAY, cops running amok on our campus. If your SIB balance is zero, you will not definitely don’t want to get kicked out. are not on the lease, you could encour- weekly student newspaper. issue, or if you’re interested in helping lay up the SEPTEMBER 28TH. Your payment will not be reduced if: receive a student payment in a fortnight What should we do? age the lease holders to take that action, Written submissions should be approximately issue, please fill out this Google Form: https:// We recommend pitching and submitting as if your income in that fortnight is: or you could consider moving to an- 500 - 800 words, but shorter pieces are fine and forms.gle/Mawi7UY9V4uQqcbr5. early as you can. This gives us more time to work 1. Your gross income is less than $437 $966.84 per fortnight, Living at home, Share House other house. Of course, there are going in the fortnight. single, no dependents to be lots of other things to consider as Ethnocultural Officers Your SIB balance will increase by the $1,234 per fortnight, living away from well, so if you’d like to discuss all of the Altay Hagrebet, Kedar Maddali, Virginia Meng, & Anie Kandya amount your income is under $437. home, single, no dependents (slightly Dear Share House, details of your situation please talk to a Since our last report, ACAR has been increas- that social distancing and public health protocol with local community organisations around ACAR Honi which will be launching in week 6! E.g., Xiang earns $380 in a fortnight. higher if you are eligible for Rent caseworker by calling 9660 5222. ingly involved in aiding the organisation of Indig- was met adequately to aid COVID safety, whilst ongoing issues, particularly those relating to ACAR will be meeting regularly throughout His payment will not be reduced and Assistance) Share houses can be really tricky places enous-led Bla(c)k Lives Matter actions, the most protesting for an extremely important cause. Indigenous activism. Additionally, ACAR has Semester 2. If you are interested in anti-racist his SIB balance will be increased $57. to live. The first thing to remember Abe. successful of which was a vigil and rally in mem- ACAR is planning for the campaigns that we been continually fundraising for community activism and identify as Indigenous and/or a Also, if the amount of your payment is that the people on the lease are the ory of David Dungay Jr. and George Floyd, held will be focusing on as a collective this semester. causes. person of colour, feel free to join us or keep up on June 6th. The action was reported to have gar- This includes continuing the tradition of helping As of right now, ACAR is in the process of with our work by following us on Facebook (fb. 2. Your SIB balance is greater than the reduction exceeds your maximum payable amount left over when you take $437 amount of Youth Allowance or Austudy nered thousands of attendees, despite some push- put together USyd’s annual Radical Education putting together our annual autonomous edition com/usydacar) and Instagram (@usydacar)! Contact an SRC Caseworker on 02 9660 5222 or email [email protected] back from NSW Police. We managed to ensure Week, as well as continuing to organise closely of Honi Soit, so make sure to keep an eye out for away from your income. you will get no payment that fortnight.

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The best reveals from The Masked Singer Student celebrates Matthew Forbes, Jim Carey's "The Mask" Editor Ever since The Masked Singer made its way out of since his disappearance over 50 years ago. campus return for a the bizzaro hellscape from whence it came and into Australian TV sets, fans have eagerly awaited the All Seven Victims of the Backpacker Murders more public poo weekly reveals of which C-list celebrities can kind of It’s easy to forget how much room there is in those Broadway Scribe, Bodily Fluids Junior Editor Across sing while trapped in a nightmarish suit that is equal Masked Singer suits, but the unmasking of the ghosts parts childlike and depraved. Here are some of our of all seven victims of Ivan Milat’s “backpacker Kyle Trickle, who has waited out quarantine in his 3 Second most irrelevant publication on campus favorite ‘unmaskings’ from the show! murders”, who had all fit into one suit to perform parent’s Eastern Suburbs mansion, hasn’t been able to 4 Retire bitch as “The Skeleton”, was certainly a much-needed take a shit since campus closed 4 months ago. 9 Takes criticism really well Fraser Anning reminder. Who could forget the nation-wide chills “I’ve tried,” says the 2nd year Commerce/Law 10 Definitely resigned and wasn't fired We probably should have seen this coming after his that occurred during the 7 spectres’ post-unmasking student. “I really have. I sit on the loo with the 11 Whoa, is that Elon Musk second performance, in which he started furiously performance, in which they replaced the lyrics of Ylvis’ refreshing winter sea breeze and the sounds of gulls 13 Page 6 denouncing immigration over the instrumental The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?) with a monotonous soaring through the blue sky. It just makes me want 14 Redacted to Maroon 5’s Moves Like Jagger. Still, seeing his chant: “We are the undead. We are vengeance. We to gag.” shiny balding head emerge from his shinier panda cursed Ivan Milat with stomach cancer.” COVID-19 has forced Trickle away from his Down costume was certainly a joyous, babushka doll-esque preferred crapping spot — the most-used toilet in the surprise. We send our sincere thanks to Channel 10 for Wendall, the Cactus-Human Hybrid (R.I.P.) Carslaw bathrooms. “There is just something about 1 Twink Factory reminding us: hey, racists can sing too! Unfortunately, not all the reveals on this show have putting your buttocks on the porcelain seat. I’m 2 Retire bitch, again been met with an ecstatic response. After numerous not sure if it’s the warmth left by the previous user, 3 Who? Harold Holt weeks performing under the identity of “the Sexy or the echoes of your neighbour grunting through 5 Most irrelevant publication on campus Despite numerous hints towards his identity, including Cactus”, Wendall’s head was removed live on air by his constipation next door. All I know is that it’s a 6 National Loser Students his masked identity being “The Lochness Monster”, no the now-convicted Osher Günsberg, who thought satisfying experience.” 7 Should have been contested one could have predicted that former Prime Minister there would be a human underneath. Australia was Trickle attended the Fisher library toilets after the 8 Hot and cool Harold Holt would A) be alive, and B) have the voice horrified as it quickly became apparent that Osher uni reopened, however, he said it wasn’t the same, 12 TAX COLLECTORS HATE HER! of an angel! We were positively giddy with joy when had just decapitated poor Wendall, a Cactus-Human citing the lack of wee on the tiles or the odour of his mask was taken off after a performance of Ween’s Hybrid created as a result of a toxic waste dump in the excrement. *Sorry! Ocean Man to reveal the wrinkled and thoroughly Royal Botanic Gardens. Though he may be gone, the He found the lavatories on campus “uncomfortable” soggy PM, who had apparently grown a pair of gills prickly fellow shall remain in our hearts forever. and felt unable to do a one or a two without another student in the vicinity. Target “One of my biggest fears,” says Harriott Shatt, a Amazing! professor in sociology, “is that students will not get to experience pooping in our facilities for a long time”. This psychic "Having to experience a clogged toilet should be the privilege of all students, not just a select few. It connects them to a rich cultural history of taking little girl a dump, absolutely emptying ya guts next to your fellow man. In today’s atomised capitalist society, just drew a it’s a positive way to foster community, whether it’s E U C sharing an uncomfortable glance looking at the dude photorealistic next to you, or the modern ritual of women attending bathrooms in small hordes.” picture “It brings all our students, no matter who you are to the hallowed seats and the roaring flushing fountains.” of your “The university’s public toilets bring students together.” D H O With students beginning to attend the campus shrivelled incrementally it is only a matter of time before University’s cloakrooms return to their normal grubby dick selves. But for Trickle returning to campus couldn’t come See it, you sick fuck, on page 5 soon enough. E R T 27 Disgusted by cops arresting students for protesting? So are we. Make a formal complaint by adding your name and mail this page to: Newtown Police Station 222 Australia St Newtown NSW 2042 Or email it to: [email protected].