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Alex Karpovsky from Girls p 15 again DISCONTENTS CUMBO Let Honi write about 5 RIPPED OFF Max Chalmers the SRC elections HOW TO FIX THE 8 WALLABIES Between having your lectures invaded As concerned as we all** may be about * A person overly involved in student Tim Whelan and people “chat” to you while you’re bias in an editorial ticket, we have not politics eating lunch (see Daniel Swain’s hilari- yet received any accusations of favou- ** I say all, but realistically it’s just the ous reflections on page 9), it is probably ratism from the Presidential Debate last twenty-five people that read this edito- GATED COM- a rare soul that has asked: “why can’t I Tuesday and hope not to for the Honi rial 10 MUNITIES read more about SRC elections in Honi Soit debate today. Similarly, Honi already *** Actually just continued silence Felix Donovan and Soit this week?” But ask you should. provides relatively balanced coverage of Michael Rees Union Board candidates. So let us write The reason there has not been any cov- about the elections, and also let us put EXILE ART IN CHINA erage of SRC news over the last two the candidate lists online, because that 13 weeks is that Honi Soit is prohibited by is truly a waste of paper, ink, and time. Samantha Jonscher the SRC constitution from publishing any commentary on the elections be- What is however, in this edition is an BEING A USYD tween the publication of the Election update on the SUPRA President’s res- 14 Edition and the close of the polls. The ignation,*** leaked information on po- WESTIE result is that all of the policies, all the lice and University cooperation at the Avani Dias sneaky antics, and the occassional accu- strikes, and a study of fear and exclusion sation of cheating are hidden on cam- in Australia’s gated communities. We’ve REVUE REVIEWS pus hack* Facebook posts until it’s all also got interviews with Alex Karpovsky 16 too late. The decision to prevent Honi from Girls, NSW’s Senator-elect David Various intervening in its own and SRC elec- Leyonhjelm, and the much-hyped Kirin tions might have made sense when the J. Callinan. Nina Ubaldi Bull was a weekly (or even daily) publi- Editor-in-chief THE SOIN cation. But now the need for some, if Enjoy the edition! 21 imperfect, reporting seems necessary.

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likely subconscious level, then hope- ogy to their own and how capitalism SOUND& The media is dicking with your fully you’ll now be able to do some- and being queer were incompatible. self-esteem thing that I usually can’t – you might What I found most disappointing fury Let’s face it, there are few things be able to remember that fame and was its condemnation of gays in the that dick around with our self-esteem wealth aren’t the measure of some- Liberal Party or the army such as “we Unsafe on campus more than the mass media. I know one’s value. should be booing the shit out of the Dear student campaigners, what you’re thinking – “Oh here we floats that get all excited about gays in the Liberal Party, or gays in the army. I I want to wish you luck with your go, poor diddums, suck it up prin- Sam Henderson, Engineering/Science don’t want fucking liberals or the fuck- campaigns. The SRC and Honi Soit are cess. Stop passing the buck champ.” III ing army being celebrated, no matter vital components of campus life here I totally get all that. While at some what for… These groups deserve our at USYD, and I commend you all for point people have to sack up and take God Save the Queen longest fingers shoved up at them, not the time and energy you are spending responsibility for themselves (unlike Dear Honi, our cheers of support.” in your campaigns. I think it’s great some of our portly cousins across the that you want to add to USYD’s his- Pacific who have tried suing McDon- It’s very good of Ms Laurel Parker I applaud these men and women not tory of student involvement. How- ald’s for making them fat), I think the to point out how difficult it must have only for those that represent our soci- ever, there is one campaign ‘tactic’ that media’s toxic claw is so far reaching, been for Queen Marie Antoinette to ety in war and in politics but by being I wish to talk to you about. This par- and its governance over our self-image reign as such an intelligent and pro- a part of institutions and being able to ticular tactic involves the campaigner so brutal, that it is still certainly worthy active queen in the male-dominated feel confident that they can stand up in getting alongside a student who is of mention. culture of 18th century France. what are considered to be more con- walking across campus and following The commercial networks in Austra- As King Louis XVI was severely servative aspects of our society and them as they walk. THIS MAKES ME lia have realised that they don’t really neglected as a child (Ms Parker of admit they are gay. FEEL INCREDIBLY UNSAFE. have to investigate to find the news. course knows this already, but for the The actions of the far left within What they report is the news. For rest of us) the King and Queen ruled the queer community at USYD and One day, when I was 15, I was walk- almost as equals, and she had a con- ing alone along a busy road down to instance, I refuse to believe that the abroad are what discourage queers media storm that erupted when One siderable hand in appointing and dis- that are not politically aligned or more my local beach. It was a Wednesday missing both Jacques Necker and the afternoon, around 4pm, broad sum- Direction came to Sydney was in any centrist from becoming involved. It way representative of Australia’s actual Baron de Laune as Comptroller-Gen- creates a situation where conservatives mer daylight. Two men approached eral (we’re on the same page, right?). It me from the opposite direction. They interest. But by reporting prolific or even moderates look at a group of infatuation, they engendered interest might even be that the French Revolu- people who position themselves as the started talking at me and walked along- tionaries – the progressive, egalitarian, side me as I continued down the road. from the public. The collective con- voice of the queer community and are sciousness of Australia was flagrantly atheistic, ‘Enlightened’ ancestors of not willing to join the cause. One of them was obviously drunk. our modern hard-left crowd – might I didn’t answer back to them and I coerced into being fascinated by a boy Did Indigenous and women’s rights band because the news networks told have been slighted by this powerful, started walking as fast as I could. As dynamic woman wielding so much come about as a result of vitriolic and we passed a side-street one of the men us that we already were. They created hate speech? No. It came about as a the news by reporting it. power... So they butchered her, the roughly grabbed my arm, slurred “will King, and jailed their son, who died of result of a change of sentiment and you have sex with us?” and tried to I mention all this because this narrow- illness and neglect at the age of 10. For culture within a wider community that pull me down the side-street. I froze minded, naive “news” is coming at an progress. And stuff. was not achieved through bullying or with panic and fear. The other man enormous social price. They’ve cre- shaming. My only hope is that our dear leftist said “stop, she’s underage” (as if it ated a culture that deifies the famous, I hope that the editors of Queer Honi would have been okay if I were older?) that perceives utterly vacuous pursuits friends will take some time to consider what sort of hardships Her Majesty and other people who share their and they started fighting. My arm was such as fame, beauty, and wealth as the views learn that you change the world released and I ran all the way down high watermark of all human achieve- Queen Elizabeth II must have endured thus far in her 60 years on the Throne. more with love and discussion rather to the beach. (This is a very popu- ment. We have seen the values of the than hatred and marginalisation. lar beach in Sydney, I thought that I Enlightenment be steadily rolled back. From WWII to the modern day, she would be safer than running home We have seen important news topics has fought to represent her people in where I would be alone for the next subjugated for hollow celebrity-based the 16 nations of which she is Head Josh Sprake, Arts III few hours). narratives, and ignorance about global of State, and has balanced so carefully issues has ensued. her ancient duties and the needs of Sexy evil I remember sitting on the sand at the the modern world. Before dismissing beach for hours. I can’t remember how What is perhaps worst of all is that her and the Royal Family as posh and Dear Honi, I got home. this gross fabrication of what con- pampered parasites, consider how dif- The advertising campaigns that have Street harassment is a part of the stitutes a life well lived makes engi- ficult these 60 years must have been emerged this week for the new Honi lived experience of being a woman. neering students and carpenters and as a Queen in our international patri- editors have failed dismally in their It is unfortunately all too common. bankers and waiters, nurses, painters, archy. Who knows, you might even desired result. plumbers and bartenders all feel as And though you are campaigning in a come to admire and respect your own Our choice is to vote for either Sex brightly coloured shirt, you are still a though they are not enough. Ironically Monarch! we are implicitly coerced into think- or Evil! I’m trying to decide which one stranger to me. You are talking at me is less undesirable. when I clearly do not want to be talked ing that the sparkling glamour of fame to. Your intentions, though good, can- offers a way out of our mediocre lives, God Save the Queen, Sex is great, don’t get me wrong but not be separated from the effects – my when it is this twisted, perverted ver- Michael W. Davis, Arts I the magazine that first comes to mind heart races, my muscles tense, and I sion of the news which makes us feel when using the campaign slogan ‘Sex want to vomit. bad in the first place. It is the poison for (insert name)’ is Playboy. Forgive and feigns to be the antidote. Being too left is just not right me if I don’t feel inspired to read a By all means, hand out fliers. Try I am a gay man. I am normally very Playboy Honi. to talk to students about important While I think that the commercial networks bear some responsibility to proud of the queer community. But And call me old fashioned but I will campaign issues. But please, please, the 2013 Queer Honi edition was dis- do NOT follow me and quicken your confess how they’ve hoodwinked us, at never vote for evil. the end of the day, they are ultimately gusting. I have never seen a more mar- No one likes King Joffrey. pace as I quicken mine to get away ginalising paper in my life. from you. You must bring a gender- doing this because it sells papers and The choice in advertising was poor, I aware, trauma-informed outlook to gets ratings. Evidently people are more For an edition that spends a lot of feel uninspired to vote in the election your campaigns. There are other ways interested in Nicki Minaj’s jubblies time on preaching how it represents a this year. of getting students involved in elec- than nuclear proliferation or Afghani- more inclusive way of life it sure does tions that do not require harassment. stan or any other hugely consequential a fair amount of time of [sic] hating issue. on people who have a different ideol- Sadly, But if the media is dicking with your Emily, Arts IV Anonymous self-esteem at a conscious, or more

This week’s ticker tape: haikus in honour of Sydney Uni 3 HONI NEWS FREE Week Nine Edition “DOLLAR DOLLAR BILLS, Y’ALL” New evidence indicates University collaborated with police at strikes Xiaoran Shi and an SRC candidate investigate the continued controversy over police on campus Honi Soit has acquired information previously reported on evidence that not at liberty to discuss such matters. clashes with police at strike picket lines, confirming the University’s collabora- allegedly points to the University’s col- NSW Police Force was considerably including one student who had his leg tion with police in relation to police lusion with police, including the NSW more forthcoming when approached broken and another who was taken in presence and conduct on at least one Public Order and Riot Squad, in break- for comment. A statement issued by a stranglehold for several minutes by a occasion of protest action undertaken ing up picket lines. Superintendent Simon Hardman, Com- police officer. by students and staff on campus. During the National Tertiary Educa- mander at Newtown Police denied for- Despite such instances of police bru- This new information directly contra- tion Union- and Community and Public mal collaboration with the University, tality, Superintendent Hardman makes dicts previous statements rejecting any Sector Union-led strike on June 5, the noting that “the response is my decision “no apology for … interjecting when coordination between police and Uni- University’s Security/Traffic Opera- alone and not made in concert with the protesters break the law”, and affirms versity management. tions Controller, Colin Bowman, was University management.” that such “action … will continue.” A confidential report prepared by equipped with an all-day visitor’s pass He also repudiated the idea that “some Furthermore, a University spokes- the University of Sydney Union (USU) to Newtown Police Station and allowed would believe that we are in collusion person reiterated the stance of non- contains information stating that, dur- to visit students who had been arrested with the University to break the strikes!” collaboration with police that the ing protest action taken at Open Day while they were in custody. (punctuation his own). Vice-Chancellor’s office has maintained on August 31, a police officer advised One student who was arrested at the Hardman justified the necessity of all year, stating that “the University does a USU staff member that police were June 5 strike described Bowman’s pres- police presence on campus by noting not guide or influence police opera- “not in a position to do anything but fol- ence as thus: “he was allowed into cells that police “do not require any invita- tions”. low them (protestors), unless instructed at the station to give people banning tion from the University management Nonetheless, the spokesperson made otherwise by the University”. notices before we were allowed to meet to enter the grounds and conduct police no effort to explicitly address the infor- USU Vice-President, Tom Raue, dis- with legal representation.” operations”. He also emphasised the mation provided in the confidential closed information to Honi Soit against Bowman could not be reached for liaison between strike organisers and report. the wishes of the other executive mem- comment, but when Duane Ledford, police, as pursuant to Summary Offences bers of the USU Board, citing its impor- another member of the University’s Act 1988 (NSW) which governs the @XiaoranShi tance to “the public interest”. Campus Security team, was asked to right to protest. Throughout the series of on campus respond to the information contained in However, a number of students have @honi_soit strikes and rallies this year, Honi Soit has the USU report, he stated that he was sustained injuries as a result of violent Zoe’s Law: a woman’s choice NEWS A group of NSW parliamentarians are fighting a bill they believe will erode a woman’s right to choose, writes Lucia Osborne-Crowley Earlier this year, Reverend Fred Nile would allow harsher penalties to be given the parliamentary debate on Zoe’s Law. gists, and Family Planning Australia, MLC proposed the Crimes Amendment to perpetrators such as the negligent “This is inappropriate and gravely con- along with many women’s rights activ- (Zoe’s Law) Bill 2012 in the Legislative driver in the Donegan case, the justice cerning as it not only impacts on wom- ist groups who are campaigning to cre- Council. Nile’s proposed amendment it precludes may outweigh that which it en’s reproductive health but sets us on a ate widespread trepidation about the to the Crimes Act 1900 changes the legal faciliates. Changing the legal status of slippery slope to undermining women’s impacts of the bill. status of a baby in utero, according the a foetus is a very dangerous change to rights to choose.” In Parliament, Faruqi’s strong opposi- foetus full personhood under the law. a legal structure whose foundations of Faruqi believes that the passing of the tion to the bill will be seconded by MP It was a response to a criminal case protection of a woman’s right to control law would signal that in 2013, Australia Robyn Parker and Health Minister Jill brought against the driver of a car who her own body are already shaky at best. is heading in precisely the wrong direc- Skinner. Ann Brassil, Chief Executive of hit Brodie Donegan, causing her injury This is the view held by Dr Mehreen tion. “In NSW, we need to be working Family Planning NSW, and Karen Wil- and leading to the death of her unborn Faruqi, a Greens member who opposed towards removing abortion from the lis, the CEO of the Rape and Domestic child. The driver was charged with the Bill in its parliamentary debate on Crimes Act and hence removing any Violence Services Australia, have also grievous bodily harm, but Donegan, Thursday. Faruqi told Honi that she, legal doubt from the fact that a woman expressed strong opposition to the bill. Fred Nile and other supporters of the with unequivocal support from the controls her body, not anyone else.” In Nationals MPs such as Troy Grant reform believed the penalty should have party, opposed the Bill because the com- no uncertain terms, Faruqi told Honi: and Chris Spence are in full support of been heavier, which would be afforded prehensive nature of the current Crimes “this bill is unnecessary and undermines the bill. Fred Nile has also voiced his by changing the legal status of the foe- Act renders it entirely unnecessary if women’s rights. These are clearly ideo- support for the bill, and will campaign tus. However, the law failed to pass in not for the purpose of repealing wom- logically driven tactics for restricting in support of the bill should it reach the Legislative Council, and worries en’s reproductive rights and prepare the women’s access to sexual and repro- the Upper House. It was decided that about the implications of legally sepa- ground for an anti-abortion Australia. ductive health services and have to be the bill would go to a conscience vote rating an unborn child from its mother “As it stands, the status of abortion opposed and defeated.” following its debate in Parliament on in terms of personhood were temporar- in NSW is on shaky ground. This law, The Greens are joined in their opposi- Thursday, which again signals that what ily assuaged. if passed, has the potential of adding tion to the Bill by the NSW Bar Associa- is at stake in this debate is far more than A new version of the law is before another layer of criminality to what tion, the Australian Medical Association, a minor amendment to the Crimes Act. the NSW Parliament. While it may be should be essentially be a human right.” the Royal Australian and New Zealand true that the introduction of Zoe’s Law Faruqi told Honi immediately prior to College of Obstetricians and Gynecolo-

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Live and let die Ignoring the University’s Cumber- land campus and its 4000-strong stu- Cumberland students dent body has always been easy, but it’s All the rumours, hearsay, and downright slander from about to get a whole lot easier. The Gate lose out on SSAF the world of student politics and culture can confirm that the University is plan- SUPRA no longer so super ning to scrap the campus (with 2018 Students feel they are being short-changed, reports Max Chalmers rumoured to be a likely date), though it HONI NEWS No explanation has been given as to is keeping tight-lipped about the process Students studying in the Health Sci- from the study side of things,” she said. why Angelus Morningstar stepped down FREE Week Nine Edition “DOLLAR DOLLAR BILLS, Y’ALL” and what will happen to the Health Sci- ences Faculty at the University’s Cum- The Guild received just $605 000 from as SUPRA President several months on. ences students it currently hides there. berland campus appear to be receiving Given that SUPRA is funded by SSAF this year’s $12.2 million SSAF pool, a Multiple sources confirmed that the disproportionately low returns on their 16.5% drop on last year’s figure. Honi money, a level of transparency is to be Student Services and Amenities Fee expected from the organisation. Vice-Chancellor had privately discussed Soit understands it will receive a further the move for some time and suggested (SSAF), according to figures compiled $70 000 over two years, drawn from the The meeting where Morningstar’s the Faculty be relocated to the Camp- by Honi Soit. The figures indicate the $4 million Sinking Fund (itself derived resignation was discussed was held in erdown campus. Some students are Cumberland Student Guild, the campus’ from SSAF money). By contrast, the camera, meaning that none of the coun- convinced the grounds will be sold to largest student organisation, is receiving USU received closer to $4 million, while cillors present can discuss the matter. the University of Western Sydney. One less from the SSAF pool than its mem- Sydney University Sports and Fitness Current President, Joanne Gad, was source within Campus Infrastructure bers are contributing. claimed around $4.5 million. This means uncontactable for comment. In April, and Services, responsible for University’s When the Labor government imple- that although students in the Health Sci- Morningstar told the Gate that his res- “built environment”, said its Director mented the SSAF in 2011 to raise money ences Faculty are forecast to contribute ignation was prompted by his breach of Greg Robinson had indicated that the for struggling student organisations, the 9.5% of the total SSAF raised this year, financial regulations, but did not pro- campus would not be slowly run down Guild hoped to use some of the money just 5.2% of it will be returned to the vide specific details. When contacted but closed overnight, and that until then to expand its services. But instead of Guild. last week, Morningstar declined to com- it would keep operating as normal. increasing the Guild’s historical funding ment on the matter. But these figures do not tell the whole The Gate suggests that Rookwood levels, the introduction of SSAF actually story as some first year Health Sciences saw them decrease as University funding Hell Yeah, Alistair! Cemetery, which lies adjacent to the students study at Camperdown where neglected campus, look into purchasing to the body was substituted, not supple- they have access to other SSAF-funded The USU has appointed Alistair Ste- the land, given the site already has an mented. The Guild found itself in a programs. In addition to this, both the phenson and John Fennel as next year’s established history as the place student bind, having already scrapped its $200 SSAF-funded Student Support Ser- O-Week Directors. Stephenson’s last culture goes to die. membership fee in anticipation. vices and SRC have a minor presence at major role with the USU was as its Vice- “Students were already paying to be Cumberland. However, given the Guild President in 2011 when he was gra- Heart and SULS members so we didn’t think it was ethi- remains the overwhelmingly dominant ciously booted off for obliterating the cally right to charge them on top of organisation on the campus – providing spending cap during the 2010 elections. The yearly Sydney University Law Society elections are notorious for being that,” Guild President David Grech said. all food services for example, and sup- In 2010, Honi reported that Stephenson port for social events – it seems the gen- more than tripled the $700 limit. the only society on campus to need cam- With less money to play with, the paigners, stalls, spending caps, and shirts. Guild cut back its membership pack- eral dissatisfaction on the campus with The Gate is confident there won’t be Unlike last year’s election, in which a age and shelved ambitious expan- the SSAF’s allocation is justifiable. forged receipts in the lead-up to O-Week single ticket ran uncontested, the Gate sions. Grech warned that if the current When the initial SSAF allocations though. John Fennel was SHADES’ res- can confirm two tickets: one headed arrangement continued, the Guild may were announced in 2012, angry Cum- ident money man in 2011-12, and kept by third-year James Higgins, the other have to cut back its popular but expen- berland students undertook a letter the books well-balanced during his term by second-year Matt Yeldham. Two sive Unigames and Orientation Camp writing campaign to he Vice-Chancellor. (although the Gate will note that his suc- SEX for Honi candidates are running programs and even re-examine the role The decision not to increase historical cessor was Ben Tang, fellow 2010 spend- on opposite sides for the position of of its full-time General Manager. funding is partially explained by the Uni- ing cap breacher, so perhaps SHADES’ Publications Officer. In Higgins’ corner, versity’s belt-tightening and its desire to standards aren’t all that high). The Gate Occupational Therapy student Tas Justin Pen, and in Yeldham’s, Designer- Howlander said that although Cumber- spend funds previously granted to stu- also sincerely doubts that O-Week direc- in-Chief, Judy Zhu. Yeldham is also run- dent organisations elsewhere. But the tors are allowed near the money anyway. land had a friendly high school atmo- ning with Sam Murray of Refresh for sphere – “this feels like Degrassi High” Guild’s suffering may also be a symptom Following a successful festival where SRC, while Higgins has called dibs on of a decision not to invest in the Lid- all KPIs are met, festival directors are – the absence of social spaces and a newly hired O-Week Director John Fen- campus bar detracted from campus cul- combe campus and, eventually offload awarded a $5000 stipend – more money nel. the whole site. For more, see this week’s than non-Executive Board Directors. ture. “It’s not about a space to get drunk, Due to the blanket ban on campaign- it’s just a space where you can withdraw edition of UniGate. NEWS SRC sucks, as always ing until October 1, neither ticket could comment specifically on their platforms. Cartoon by Emily Woods The September SRC Council meet- Higgins told the Gate that he wanted law ing was due to take place in the first students to engage with the faculty more, week of campaigning, on September 11. to explore a diverse range of careers, and However, the Gate can exclusively reveal to enjoy cheaper social events. Yeldham that Council is typically made up of self- was fairly secretive, only admitting that interested hacks, quorum was not met he and his team had a “new vision” for for this meeting, presumably because the society. Loose lips sink clerkships. many councillors were too tired from The Gate wishes both teams the best of campaigning to engage in debate about luck and perhaps even another notch for the issues of the day. their LinkedIn profile. NTEU steps up campaign with 3 day strike Lucy Hughes Jones reports on the latest developments in enterprise bargaining between University staff and management After the last strike on Open Day, wage cut of 0.5% a year, and was unrea- $46.3 million, and the surplus does not dent load by 2188 students without the National Tertiary Education Union sonable given increased staff workloads, represent money that can be spent on putting on any extra staff, blowing out (NTEU) is escalating its industrial the University’s recent revenue boost salaries. “It is made up of tied funds teacher/student ratios. However the action in second semester by announc- and data from the Department of Edu- such as unspent research funds, phil- unions claim that student load increased ing its first three-day strike for October cation, Employment and Workplace anthropic funds allocated by donors to by more than 5% in 2012 alone, yet staff 8-10. NTEU Sydney President Michael Relations that shows national system specific purposes, and funds that must numbers have remained unchanged. Thomson says since agreements on public sector employees, such as uni- be spent on specific capital investment Last week, around 150 students and working conditions have been reached, versity staff, receive an average wage projects,” said Sarah Stock, media and NTEU members marched on Vice- the dispute has centred on wages. increase of 3.9% p.a. “The University PR advisor to the Vice-Chancellor’s Chancellor Michael Spence’s office to The unions are asking for a salary is a $1.6 billion business, the amount of office. “A 4% pay increase would cost an rally for fair conditions for staff. increase of 4% per annum, while Uni- money they had in surplus last year was additional $118.2 million in expenditure $137 million, and the difference between to 2016 – more than twice the Univer- 2013 is the first year there has been versity management is offering 2.9% p.a. strike action on campus in a decade, with The amount offered will not be back- our wage positions was $6.6 million this sity’s underlying deficit in 2012.” year,” said Thomson. negotiations for a new Enterprise Bar- paid, despite staff not having had a pay To make up this funding shortfall, gaining Agreement continuing between increase since January 2012. University management contends that management said in 2016 it would have the University’s management and staff Thomson said the pay offer is a real it has an underlying operating deficit of to increase the equivalent full-time stu- for over 12 months.

Institute Building: “Ivory tower / Richer than a cream frosting / Propped by Raytheon” 5 news @honi_soit Keeping us in the dark OPINION The Coalition’s decision to scrap the Minister for Science and the Climate Change Com- mission has worried one Nobel Laureate. It should worry you too, writes Felicity Nelson You can tell something isn’t right tion in our society because it is engaged spillover of their ideology to all aspects when a new Prime Minister starts their in the rigorous and painstaking task of of science is surprising and deeply term by showing scientists the door. It producing objective knowledge based troubling. Nobel Laureate and astro- demonstrates an alarming shift in pri- physicist, Brian Schmidt, described orities and a fundamental misunder- Despite the consensus the lack of a Minister for Science as standing of the importance of science “disconcerting” and, like many other in a democracy. of climate experts on the scientists, is worried that a fragmented Let’s do a stock take of the damage. urgency of action, Abbott government structure will fail to As of last week there will be no Minister has spent the last six years deliver the policy changes required to support long-term research projects. for Science in Cabinet for the first time blocking any meaningful in 82 years. The Climate Change Com- When planning scientific enterprises, mission, an independent body designed climate change policy researchers require stability. They need to promote climate change science, will to be confident that funding will not be be closed. The Climate Change Author- pulled halfway through the project or at ity, responsible for managing emissions on hard evidence. It is easy to see why the end of a three-year election cycle. reduction schemes, will be shut down Abbott might find this activity a threat Procuring equipment, establishing Getting rid of Science portfolios and as soon as possible and there will, of to his agenda. Despite the consensus international partnerships, and plan- commissions gives Brian the Schmidts course, be no minister responsible for of climate experts on the urgency of ning complicated technical procedures action, Abbott has spent the last six can only be done if financial support government bodies associated with cli- climate change. The Clean Energy mate change will keep the government Finance Corporation, set up to direct years blocking any meaningful climate is guaranteed. The lack of a dedicated change policy. He clearly intends to body to manage future research and and the public in the dark about cru- $10 billion worth of investment into cial issues affecting the future of this renewable energy technology, will be free himself from independent scru- effectively react to issues is indeed a tiny by smashing the structures set up loss to the scientific community. country. It is as if Abbott has simply scrapped. Meanwhile the responsibil- dismissed the central role of science in ities of these groups will be simply to promote the voice of scientists in For a self-confessed hardcore conser- decision making. human progress as well as the power of neglected or absorbed into the Minis- vative, Abbott is doing his best to shake using scientific research to inform gov- tries for Environment and Industry. The Abbott Government harbours things up in Canberra. The omission of ernment decisions. Science has attained an elevated posi- many climate change sceptics but the a Science Minister and the collapse of

RESEARCH REPORT Cartoon: Beck Kim Nullifying terra nullius NEWS IN REVUE Xiaoran Shi transcribed this week’s news Jackson Wherrett looks at the research that is changing the way we view native title When the High Court of Australia case of R v Ballard or Barrett. But courts handed down the Mabo decision in 1992, eventually drifted away from this prem- twenty weeks is all it takes from significant public outcry ensued. Much ise and the terra nullius fiction prevailed. fertilisation to of this criticism centred on the percep- Years later the British Privy Council, the personhood tion that the Court, in recognising the highest court of appeal for Australian concept of native title for the first time cases at the time, found that NSW was one child stillborn cries out in Australia, had usurped the law-mak- a “tract of territory practically unoccu- for a radical amendment ing function of Parliament. At the time, pied, without settled inhabitants or set- capitalising on grief the Chief Justice, Sir Anthony Mason, tled law,” a completely opposite finding asserted in an article in The Australian to that of many early Australian courts. to legislate a woman’s body out of her hands that the court had merely performed the These decisions were not available to after all, women belong in binders, function it always had. the High Court when it decided Mabo. in chains, but not in cabinet But recent research, particularly by Would it have made a difference to the Emeritus Professor Bruce Kercher of outcome? Probably not, although it nay, that is the bloodground of men: Macquarie University, has uncovered would have provided more cover for two greying crones bicker over who that the High Court in Mabo may not the court in recognising the concept have been as radical as its critics sug- of native title. But Professor Cameron will play devil’s advocate for another day gested. Records of decisions of the Stewart, Pro-Dean of Sydney Law NSW Supreme Court from as far back School, has another concern. in international newspaper editorials as the early 19th century have been dis- “It hasn’t had the impact it deserves the cold war resurfaces in another decade covered, revealing that some judges rec- on the teaching of native title in Austra- as two greying crones bicker once more ognised that Indigenous Australians had lia,” said Professor Stewart. “We cover it property rights to the land and control in the Sydney Law School introductory double, double toil and trouble over their own laws. property subject, but the research does the wicked witch of indi is dead In 1841, Justice Willis held in R v Bon- not seem to have penetrated into some and the death toll climbs to 36 in fairfax jon that “the native inhabitants of any of the leading textbooks in this area. It land, have an incontrovertible right to shows we have a far longer and more meanwhile in a nairobi mall their own soil; it is a plain and sacred interesting relationship with Aboriginal pools of blood darken the floor of a right which seems not to have been land rights than previously thought.” children’s shoe shop understood.” The assumption that This research is ongoing, but now Indigenous Australians had land rights, many of these older cases are freely which over a century later the High available on the internet. Now we just Court would find conclusively in Mabo, need people to read them. also underpinned decisions like the 1829

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OPINION It’s not just Abbott Everywhere around the nation, women are underrepre- sented in Coalition Governments, writes Dom Bowes It has been suggested that an Abbott- over talent is the exact practice Liberals led government would lead Australia might decry in a teachers’ union or on back into the 1950s on issues of gender. the wharves. A look at Coalition governments nation- wide shows this would make Abbott unfortunately unexceptional. Former PM Julia Gillard asked us to imagine “a man in a blue tie – who goes on holidays to be replaced by a man in a blue tie, who delivers a budget wearing a blue tie, to be supported by a Finance Minister who wears a blue tie.” When that vision became a reality last week, the response of most conservatives around the nation to the under-repre- sentation of women on the front bench was the oft-repeated cry: ‘Meritocracy says: “No.”’ Yet a system that guarantees the Dep- On the question of female represen- tation, though, it is more problematic There are now six Coalition if conservatives believe selections are governments across Australia meritocratic. There are now six Coali- tion governments across Australia and and women make up slightly women make up slightly less than one in less than one in six positions six positions on the front bench. NSW leads the way with just over a quarter, on the front bench while the NT, QLD, and WA are doing twice as well as their federal counter- uty Prime Ministership to the Nationals parts with two female ministers apiece. and attempts to balance cabinet posi- Digging deeper still we find the tions across the states and territories is women who made it to the front bench not, even on its face, merit-based. were not trusted with senior portfolios. Even Abbott’s selections between mid- Across the six governments there are dle-aged men put the meritocratic claim no female leaders, treasurers or finance to bed. In promoting someone to “cut ministers, Attorneys-General, or Plan- the waste” in Finance, Abbott over- ning Ministers. To the extent women are looked experienced former Howard in senior Cabinet they are likely to be in advisor Arthur Sinodinos to instil charge of portfolios that provide caring Mathias Corman, who had being both services, like health or education. a West Australian and in the Upper That is equally true of the minor House in his favour. You would be hard portfolios where women are in charge pressed to find a member of the Liberal of early childhood issues, the foster Party or Treasury who actually thinks care system, mental health and, oddly, Hockey is more qualified than Turnbull tourism. Tracy Davis, the most senior to run the economy. Indeed, Abbott’s woman in the Queensland Government decision to favour seniority and stability acts as the Minister for Communities, Children Safety, and Disability Services, while Helen Morton in WA is in charge of, mental health, disability services, and children. The exceptions, like NSW Transport Minister Gladys Berejiklian, are few and far between. The ALP fares somewhat better. In their dwindling governments around the nation, women make up a third of all Cabinet positions. Women in both the ACT and Tasmania lead the party, as they have done in NSW, Queensland and, of course, federally. Coalition governments have swept back to power across much of the country since 2007 promising to ‘get the house back in order’. These houses, it would seem, have charged men with the finances and women, at most, with portfolios of care. It is an outcome that is deeply anti-meritocratic, profoundly sexist, or both. Pictured: a Liberal Cabinet

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Liberty and Vita Weets: David Leyonhjelm PROFILE Nina Ubaldi interviewed the Liberal Democratic Senator-elect for NSW When David Leyonhjelm ran in John to send him to Vietnam. He saw a cer- just five years, and shortly thereafter Howard’s seat of Bennelong in 2007 tain “logic” to socialism, reading Marx, defied party elder John Tingle to run the he won just 89 of the 92 700 votes cast Lenin and Mao. However travelling to Outdoor Recreation Party at the federal in the seat. Expressed as a percentage, the socialist economies of the Soviet level. around 0.1%, it’s startlingly close to Union and Tanzania in the late 1970s Increasingly concerned by the social zero. Just six years later he is set to take shifted his politics. “They were poorer, conservatism of the Shooters Party, a NSW Senate seat and his party will the people were more miserable,” com- Leyonhjelm left to work with the Lib- receive well over $900 000 in electoral pared to the relative wealth of South eral Democratic Party, a small libertarian funding sometime this week. Africa. “I found apartheid abhorrent,” party registered in the ACT. Although I met NSW’s Senator-elect in the recalled Leyonhjelm, “but even though the party was first registered in 2001, Drummoyne office of Leyonhjelm’s they couldn’t vote, the black people in Leyonhjelm only became involved in small agribusiness consulting firm. A South Africa were economically far bet- the lead up to the 2007 elections, tak- disused shopfront shelters the business ter off than… where they could vote ing control from a group of people from the Lyons Road traffic. Entering but had a socialist government.” who were “losing steam” – “they were through an unmarked side gate, I find “It did not compute,” was Leyon- youngsters and not as well organised as Leyonhjelm making an afternoon snack hjelm’s hyper-logical response. “The I am at getting things done.” of Vita Weets and hummus. “Did you logic [of socialism] doesn’t work. That’s find us easily?” he asked. the problem.” NSW Senator-elect David Leyonhjelm. “That’s the reality of the Leyonhjelm will take his seat as a Lib- *** Photo: Supplied eral Democratic Senator in July next Leyonhjelm’s reaction to apartheid consistency, it’s more damning than it preferencing system year. Perhaps unusually for an elected South Africa is an insight into how he sounds. According to LDP President, in the Senate. I don’t representative, he has always distrusted views the relationship between ‘free- Peter Whelan, Leyonhjelm “has devel- government. “I don’t like being told apologise at all." dom’ and ‘equality’. At first glance, his oped over the years and is now more what to do,” he explained. “Bureaucrats politics are similar to the Greens; he tolerant of those who don’t instantly and politicians really are not that smart, The Outdoor Recreation Party remains supports drug legalisation and considers grasp the benefits of small govern- [they don’t have] any right to tell me highly controversial. In a departure the belief that life begins at conception ment”. Certainly his early forays in the how to live my life.” from previous statements, Leyonhjelm “a little bit irrational”. media present a man less cautious than admitted the party was registered for the Leyonhjelm acknowledges the similari- the one I met last week. In 1991 he 2013 election (as the Outdoor Recre- ties but says the LDP do not consider the blasted anti-gun commentators in a let- "I don’t like being told ation Party (Stop the Greens)) “as a way Greens to be socially liberal. “They want ter to the Sydney Morning Herald, “for all I of improving the preference flow to the what to do." the rest of society to sign up to [their] care they can totally remove your rights Liberal Democrats”. I asked him how moral position," he argued. "That’s no to free speech, assembly, a job, a vote an he responded to allegations of electoral This deep-seated scepticism is reflected different in principle from the Church anything else they think of. I will not lift dishonesty in registering parties specifi- in the Liberal Democratic Party’s (LDP) saying it’s immoral to have sex before a finger in your defence.” cally for the purpose of funnelling votes. “first principles” libertarianism. The you get married or have abortions.” Whelan’s assessment seems apt. “He “That’s the reality of the preferencing philosophy underpins the seemingly The LDP, conversely, argues “from the has mellowed a little, but he still doesn’t system in the Senate... I don’t apologise disparate policies of low taxation, drug point of view of choice and freedom”. suffer fools gladly!” at all.” legalisation, euthanasia, and minimal On the “gays”, for example, “I cannot *** *** gun control, and is the end point Leyon- understand why they want to get mar- Leyonhjelm is an ambitious political hjelm's forty years of conflicting politi- ried. I think it’s absolutely silly... But At the end of the interview he told me operator – perhaps unsurprisingly for a cal positions. they’re entitled to be silly.” that he had four cats, that he jokingly man who has run in five elections under Leyonhjelm’s first political exposure referred to as his “fur babies”. “That ‘Silly’ is a word that he uses a lot. three different party names. He became was personal, fighting with Young Labor will help to humanise me.” For someone so committed to logical President of the Shooters Party after to end the conscription that threatened The Wallabies: bring back Alan Jones OPINION Tim Whelan tackles possible solutions to the Wallabies' failing fortunes They like to accuse Generation Y of coloured EPL replica. To the sports are imported and may well disappear on entitlement. Guilty. I enjoy government scientists who defend this top as having White’s departure when some idealistic handouts, marginally smaller phones less air resistance and being harder to local replaces him. every six months, writing about my grab, I ask of you: Were David Campese The current Australian signature move sexual frustrations to mX, and start- or Joe Roff ever cost a try because of is to attempt to cheat at scrums, and ing insurrections to ‘bring back the old the strip of fabric around their necks? lose. Which brings me to my next point. Facebook’ for two weeks after every When Richie McCaw was rearranging 3. Reinstate Alan Jones as coach revamp. Quade Cooper’s internal organs three Yes, that Alan Jones. This suggestion In atonement, I have come to expect weeks ago, did he do so with a Mean will not be received well. Some con- nothing from our beloved Wallabies. Girls-style shrieking and clawing of fab- text: our scrum has been repeatedly Well, no, that’s not technically correct: ric? Does James O’Connor have a trou- and shamelessly collapsed into a human there’s a reliable parade of knock-ons, bling lack of chest hair to hide? centipede for well over a decade, and handling errors, breakdown hands, 2. Have a national unsportsmanlike Photo: holacomovai, Flickr has cost the lucky country a good four turnstile tackles and Hail Mary passes tactic in flux. games this year. The inconvenient truth that would clear Golgotha. If James Until then, I have a few suggestions The ACT Brumbies, last year, were is that the Australian scrum was at its O’Connor has a blood alcohol level to sate the great unwashed’s hunger for hapless. The Brumbies this year owe technical and physical peak under his below his BMI, it’s a slow news day. If some change, any change, for the next a great deal of their success to South tutelage. It also goes without saying he the constant battlecry for new coaching five minutes. African coach Jake White, who has also has a sterling record of indoctrinat- saviours by the armchair whinge-brigade 1. Bring back collars on jerseys instilled a highly effective culture of ing the mentally dense. has died down, it’s because it’s now com- kneeing people’s heads and coming in Historians will note that we haven’t won And who knows, our underperforming mon knowledge that Robbie Deans was from barely-legal angles in the ruck. a single World Cup or Bledisloe since we players might die of shame. a dual passport holder with both New They made the Super 15 grand final as swapped our national jersey for a piss- Zealand and Manchuria. We are a nation a result. The problem is that these ideas

8 Education building: "Teachers are learning / their projects profoundly bleak / I pray for the youth" www.honisoit.com news I ran for Honi and I lost Daniel Swain dreamed the dream of student journalism. Then woke up. I write this piece in the gutter that actually care about their vision for course. I applied to prove that the Honi I now call home, counting the track student journalism. Because newspaper campaign wasn’t an arbitrarily selected marks on my arm and wondering editors don’t usually run for elec- outlet for my hyper-competitiveness. I what could have been. I trace all of tions our lies were even more baseless wanted to show that I really did want to my failures back to those two weeks in than the regular student politicians. We be a magazine editor. I didn’t. September, many years ago. didn’t even have liars to emulate. I’m over it now. Much as a psycho- Jokes. The two days of voting was an une- analyst might – with reason – treat this Losing an Honi election is an unspeak- ven blend of relief, anticipation, horror article as evidence to the contrary. First able tragedy only in the sense that it is and sunstroke. You feel less like you’re world angst has a half-life. Initially, SRC such a trivial defeat that one probably campaigning and more like you’re election season made me resentful, then shouldn’t talk about it. But when I stalking forty thousand people. Except anxious, then bored, and now, it ap- reminisce about the bizarre little drama regular stalkers are more effective and through the night and got on with your pears, sentimental. of my own Honi campaign I do wonder less driven. lives, but that would be another lie. We I wouldn’t presume to give the current why I ever did it. But you have to choke back the self- actually took the winning ticket to the tickets advice on winning. I’m a loser. I spent a whole evening making chalk loathing, turn your blistered heel and Electoral Arbiter because (we alleged, But here’s my advice on losing: do it from paint designed for submarines. I identify the nearest student who you in a 30-page legal brief) they lied in with grace and a sense of perspective. spent lots of money on industrial or- think might respond to your harass- their printed materials. Our ‘case’ was As you can see from the above, I’m not ders of poster printing at Officeworks. ment with pity rather than rage. dismissed in about forty-five minutes. speaking from a position of smugness And every day, around noon, for two In the neurotic mental exit poll I kept Afterwards, the ten of us went for a fi- but contrition. weeks, I would spend a few hours inter- over the polling period, I counted every nal drunken, sulky yum cha session and You’ll be fine. You’ll all go on to do rupting people having lunch in order to vote cast for the opposition twice. But were collectively, gloriously, awesomely interesting wonderful things at universi- hector them about my own ambition. we were actually (very) narrowly ahead bitter. ty. Hopefully, you’ll still be friends with It’s bonkers. on primary votes but (very!) narrowly I dreamt that the winning ticket’s Honi everyone on your ticket. You’ll come We became habituated liars. (A dedi- lost after preferences were allocated. Soit would be like a misspelt newsletter to realise that it probably really didn’t cated engineering page? Over my dead No suspense there, I suppose. Note the for an aged care home. But democracy matter that much. That it may not have body!) It was all one big lie: I knew headline. was vindicated and their editions were been worth all of the fuss and dawn those pasty first years weren’t really I’d like to say that we thoughtfully great. wake-ups and recriminations. postgraduates, they knew that I didn’t consoled our campaigners, boozed The next year I edited the Bull, of But then I would say that. I lost.

Students’ Representative Council, University of Sydney Annual Election Polling Booth Times and Places 2013

Polling Wed 25th Thurs 26th Location Sept 2013 Sept. 2013

Fisher 8:30-6:30 8:30-5:00 Pre-Polling will also Manning 10:00-4:00 10:00-4:00 be held outside Cumberland 11:00-3:00 11:00-3:00 the SRC’s Offices, SCA 12:00-2:00 No polling Level 1 Wentworth Building, on Engineering No polling 12:00-2:00 Tuesday 24th Conservatorium 12:00-2:00 No polling September from Jane Foss 8:30-6:00 8:30-6:00 10am-3pm.

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AnotherFelix Donovanbrick and Michael Rees on gated communitiesin and exclusionthe wall ago called them “gateways to the good that there are good reasons to be afraid life.” “We just love it,” one resident told of what is beyond the gate. In this the reporter, “love going everywhere way, gated communities reinforce and in golf buggies.” Studdert’s sinister aggravate the security paranoia of their conclusion praised gated communities residents. year before Trayvon Mar- for keeping residents “safe from the There is also a “birds of a feather” tin was murdered, there riff-raff of the outside world”. This effect, Blakely tells us. Residents share was a meeting in George year, Andrew Winter penned a story for their anxieties with one another, giving A The Daily Telegraph titled, ‘Life’s Great rise to a “club mentality” in which fears Zimmerman’s gated community. The Twin Lakes homeowners’ association Behind the Gate’. “It is no different become collective. was concerned about the security of from an English village 50 years ago,” The investments in security aren’t their neighbourhood. They asked the he wrote, “where the policeman ruled only social and emotional. The minutes local Sheriff to attend the meeting and the community.” from a March 2013 meeting of the demanded to know why his office had *** residents of the Terraces on Memorial, not been making more arrests in the Daniel Farinha, a third year Econom- a gated community in Houston, show area. They requested an increase to the ics / Law student at USYD, grew up in that residents invest huge amounts local police presence. a gated community in the suburbs of of money as well. At that meeting, Three days after Zimmerman shot Johannesburg. His life was lived within $11 000 in CCTV camera upgrades was and killed Trayvon Martin on a street its walls. Farinha’s school was in the approved, as well as a new front gate in Twin Lakes, he was asked by police gated community, as were his doctor with a $17 000 price tag. Households in why he had followed the teenager after and his friends. He would only travel Macquarie Links, a gated community in police had told Zimmerman to stand beyond the fence twice a week in order Sydney’s south west, are expected to pay down, to go home. “These assholes, to see people his family knew. up to $8000 per year in security levies. they always get away,” he said. “Fucking In South Africa, Farinha says, nobody “It is not only the people you would punks.” pretended the fences and gates were want to be making decisions on your The Twin Lakes crime rate is half the about community. They were purely behalf that do so [in gated communi- national average and a third of Florida’s pragmatic. To protect residents from ties],” Blakely says. The residents who average. When Zimmerman stopped crime, Farinha’s gated community had are most security-conscious and most his car to pursue a black teenager who an electric outer fence, with spikes on enthusiastic about creating new rules he did not know and who he’d seen top. The only way into the community for the community usually staff the commit no felony, he did so in one of was through an entrance policed by pri- councils that manage the communities. the safest areas of the country. vate guards at all times. Anyone coming And so the levies go up as CCTV pres- Gated communities put a person’s in would have their photo taken and ence is deemed to not be enough and a “front door at the front gate,” says their car’s registration details recorded security guard is hired around the clock. Edward Blakely, the author of Fortress before they passed through the boom The irony, of course, is that fencing America, which tracks the climb and gate. Every house had its own security: off the ‘criminals’ on the outside has impact of gated communities in Amer- iron gates and walls too high to scale. very little effect on crime rates within ica. They give rise to a security anxiety *** gated communities. George Zim- that makes everyone outside the fence a Fences, alarm systems, inquisitive merman’s Twin Lakes community is threat and everyone inside it a vigilante. security guards: these are constant a statistical anomaly. The majority of Living in Twin Lakes, George Zimmer- physical reminders that threats exist, US gated communities have no less man “thought he was defending his living room when he was actually on a public street.” *** Gated communities don’t get much attention in the Australian press. Despite the development of hundreds of fenced-off communities over the past two decades in cities across Aus- tralia – four gated communities have been constructed in Cherrybrook alone – they rarely enter our public debate or consciousness. When they do, gated communities are presented as benign and even pleasant. An advertisement masquerading as an article in The Australian two years Raleigh Park in Kensington, Sydney. Photo: Ezreena Yahya

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AnotherFelix Donovanbrick and Michael Rees on gated communitiesin and exclusionthe wall crime than the region in which they are never met one another. located. The only crime significantly Resentment emerges, Blakely says, reduced by the construction of walls among some of those who live outside and gates is car theft. In fact, a number the gates. Borders drawn with cyclone of gated communities in South Florida fencing cripple a sense of community and California have been sued for mis- that extends beyond your own home cans make up a far greater proportion leading advertising when they claimed or own street. Parks and streets, once of the total number of gated commu- they could keep potential residents safe public goods, are now only available nity residents than they do of the total from crime. for those who have bought a home American population. No such lawsuits have been launched inside the fence. The very facilities that Living in Macquarie Links isn’t about in Australia, and the marketing strategy Yenko says built an idea of neighbour- race; it’s about wealth. The income of of real estate firms has played on the hood inside Macquarie Links weaken a family living within its gates is twice anxieties of potential residents. Mac- any broader community. the state average and treble the Camp- quarie Links is Sydney’s largest gated A community premised upon the belltown average. As Yenko conceded, community, with over 1100 residents. erection of physical barriers between “living in the Links was based greatly Shortly after its construction in 2004, them and the rest is arguably not on income.” Inflated house prices and Monarch Investments began advertis- built upon similarity but difference. residential levies are the premiums of ing the homes behind its fence. The ads The setting of boundaries is an act exclusivity. She says that her parents walked buyers through the gates, past of exclusion, a political statement of wanted to live somewhere that “felt “the reassuring face of your security difference. That is overwhelmingly luxurious and reminded them of more concierge who welcomes you in while apparent in articles that talk about “the wealthy areas.” They make gated com- keeping unwanted elements out”. riff-raff ”, ads that allude to “unwanted munities more valuable to those within Since its conception, the Macquarie elements”, and the coldness with which and more inaccessible those without. Links community has doubled-down on Zimmerman referred to the boy he’d Farinha told us that even in South security. A two-metre high cyclone fence just murdered as a “fucking punk.” Africa, gated communities are no longer marks its perimeter; a security station at as strongly segregated along racial lines. the entrance is manned 24 hours a day Fences, alarm systems, In the post-apartheid era, wealthy black and all visitors are stopped upon entry. inquisitive security guards: South Africans have fled crime-riddled Security cameras are present throughout these are constant physical townships to live with the old white the community and back-to-base alarm reminders that threats exist, elite behind walls. And those walls systems have been fitted in every home. exist next to black townships because There are proposals to increase the that there are good reasons the maids and cooks and gardeners for security in the community. All of this to be afraid of what is South Africa’s wealthy few live close to despite the fact that the Campbelltown beyond the gate. where they work. The contrast is stark; area, where Macquarie Links is situated, lucky for some. has experienced a 60% drop in reported It was expected that the Macquarie *** crime over the past decade. Links community would be as white- There is a line usually attributed to *** washed, as Anglo-dominant, as an Eng- Robert Frost: ‘Good fences make good The gated community is one form lish village 50 years ago. Led to believe neighbours.’ That’s the idea that has of imagined community. People arrive by Today Tonight and The Daily Telegraph been the impetus for gated communi- with an idea of a neighbourhood that that old white people everywhere live ties. People can choose to live next to appears to be modelled on the ideal in fear of the Lebanese gangs that ter- ‘good neighbours’, and keep the bad of suburbia: of safety, social cohesion, rorise them, we thought the fence was ones at bay. good neighbours, and friendly kids. motivated by race; that the ‘us’ was It was written in Frost’s poem Mend- Certainly, the residents of gated com- white and the ‘them’ wasn’t. ing Wall, an elegiac portrait of a lonely munities are more god-fearing. Rates Not so. More than 40% of Mac- figure trying furiously to construct of religiosity and marriage in Macquarie quarie Links residents speak two or a stone wall around his property. Links are significantly higher than the more languages at home, almost twice “Good fences make good neighbours” Australian average. the NSW average. Yenko told us that, is the man’s refrain as he works. Frost Kristina Yenko, who lived in Mac- “I saw many families there of differ- observes him with melancholy, know- quarie Links for seven years, says the ent nationalities including Bangla- ing what the man is missing. “He sense of community was strong. “We deshis, Indian, Chinese, Australian, moves in darkness,” Frost writes; he is had communal facilities like a golf Greek, Italian, and Filipino.” There is unaware of the apple orchard that lies course, pools, tennis courts, and BBQ no evidence of a specific race being beyond his own fields. Watching on, areas, and many locals gathered there.” excluded. Muslim Australians are over- Frost thinks, “Before I built a wall I’d A newsletter distributed by Macquarie represented in Macquarie Links. This ask to know / What I was walling in or Links management deepens that con- is a trend not confined to Australian walling out.” nection – even between people who had gated communities. Hispanic Ameri-

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Jeremy Elphick embraces Kirin J. Callinan’s Embracism

Kirin J Callinan’s debut album Embra- soning for remaining in Sydney despite the record’s focus on reality and the as the pulsating ‘Come on America’, cism, released in June, has been met the close-knit music scene flourishing in body stemmed from what Callinan which features the shouted lyric “I cry with near-universal praise on a critical Melbourne. “Melbourne’s based around described as “an intense break-up, after when I listen to Springsteen,” are more level while simultaneously presenting its music community in a lot of ways – an equally intense relationship”, leaving inspired than they sound – often reveal- its contemporaries with an intricate, communities in general – whereas Syd- an emotional imperative to find some ing the confliction that underpins much experimental, and challenging work to ney, everyone’s isolated. You’ve got these kind of ground to “rebuild [his] belief of Callinan’s approach to songwriting. match. Embracism mediates between little pockets that aren’t so connected – system.” On some tracks, this takes “I love Bruce Springsteen, he’s one of Callinan’s trademark sonic experimen- from Newtown, Surry Hills, Kings Cross, place in his examination of boundaries, my biggest influences,” Callinan pushed tation, cathartic ballads, and nostalgic Bondi, Glebe – while Melbourne is more transcendence, and frustration, and on back, when I questioned whether the reminiscing, to electronic influences geographically, and physically connected, others, the sense of heartbreak is more lyric was sincere, “and the American quite absent in his previous work. All and accessible.” In person, Callinan is as linear. dream is something I did legitimately of this is amalgamated into a starkly distinctive as his music. Our interview ‘Victoria M,’ well-known for its grow up with, and I still romanticise unique record that presents itself as began at “high noon” at the designated comedic music video, was reserved for America and consider it an exotic place. one of the strongest of the year. meeting spot of “the elevator at Kings Callinan’s most poignant reflections on ‘Come on America’ was borne out of Cross station, between platforms 1 and Known for his involvement in the breakdown of a relationship that my experiences of spending time there 2,” however, before long we were driving Mercy Arms, Jack Ladder, and briefly, inspired a significant portion of the as an adult and having some of those to Bunning’s Warehouse Alexandria to Lost Animal, his debut solo work is album. ‘Victoria M’ was a very personal illusions shattered.” build a “Balinese shower board” for Cal- the first time Callinan has been at the song, about very real experiences, and Bruce Springsteen, and the idea of the linan’s shower. Over the course of three centre of a work. The result is some- experiences I couldn’t talk about with songwriter colliding with the rockstar and a half hours, the interview slowly thing fresh, raw, distinct and cathartic many people – but by putting it in song, – something simultaneously intellectual transformed into something more syn- – both for the listener, and for Call- I was able to express it, particularly to and explosive – has been absorbed and onymous with a casual hangout – driving inan, after spending much of the last the people it concerned and that I cared reinterpreted with startling originality from Bondi to the Inner West, stopping decade scrapping various incarnations about. And we didn’t have to talk about with Embracism, but at the end of the at various hardware stores throughout, of the record. While he stated that he it from that point on.” Callinan spoke day, Callinan stills categorises himself with conversation frequently drifting “had very high standards for the solo most candidly in moments like these, fairly bluntly: “Songwriting is very per- away from the actual album and into album; probably more than any band when questioned about his songwrit- sonal, particularly the cliché idea of a something more genuine – with Callinan [he’d] been in,” the positive recep- ing process and the influences that singer-songwriter. Even though there coming off as someone far more authen- tion on an international scale is still have forged it. “It’s much more beau- are a lot of boxes I don’t tick, I think it’s tic, sincere, and polite than the enigmatic something completely alien to Callinan tiful to put something in song than to still essentially what I am – even if I’m figure cast in his music. who genuinely reflected: “none of my talk about it. There’s something beauti- the antithesis of that on one level.” Cal- bands have ever had any sort of trac- Embracism is punctuated by Callinan’s ful and undefined and romantic – you linan’s debut album is defined by these tion overseas.” fascination with physicality – in particu- can leave a lot to the imagination, and contrasts, self-awareness and introspec- In many senses, Callinan’s sound is lar, the limitations of the human body, its you can create worlds that are far more tion. For most artists, it would be a rec- defined by his attachment to detach- expectations, and the division that exists interesting than reality.” ipe for disaster, but somehow Kirin J. between the two. The influence behind ment, which he expressed in his rea- Even noisier cuts on the album, such Callinan has turned it all into something truly beautiful.

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www.honisoit.com culture Bidding farewell to Jurassic Lounge Max Chalmers reports on quirky nights at the museum On a Tuesday night at the Aus- tralian Museum visitors scan e-tickets, tilt bottles of cider to their lips, and pass to and fro under a 17.4-metre-long sperm whale skeleton. The whale doesn’t have a name, but it washed up on a Wollongong beach in 1871 and eventually found itself – minus skin and blubber – hanging above the College Street entrance of Australia’s oldest museum. Two rooms across, sage primates and lackadaisical big cats stare down from the walls of and Liberal state governments cutting ishing novelty over time, the Museum Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibi- revenue and forcing staff redundan- higher-ups have decided to call it a day, tion. In the room adjoining this cies. “Death by a thousand cuts,” says and November 5 will mark the Lounge’s year’s most photogenic David Bock, Events Coordinator at the last night. Government funding is one animals and the 19th Museum. thing but museums have also lost their century’s second- In search of new patrons, Bock edge as emporiums of curiosity and most enduring and the Museum’s administrators set scientific wonder. While hinting a new whale (Moby-Dick their sights on the inbetweeners, 18 to youth-targeted program will take Juras- being number 30-year-olds who haven’t had been to sic Lounge’s place, Bock still holds hope one) a woman in white a museum since they were in primary that the traditional museum experience sneakers, knee high fluorescent school but don’t have any kids of their will sustain public interest in his institu- orange leg warmers, a black leo- own to bring. The problem is, according tion. tard, and a cut-off pink-yellow-green- to the Museum’s market research, they “One of the strengths that the blue striped singlet bounces along to see the place as “dusty, musty, a bit bor- museum has is that it is real. I think eighties dance hits. ing”. So Bock and co reached out to The people overplay the fact that you can It’s the last season of Jurassic Lounge, Festivalists, an events group who helped see it on the Internet and then you won’t the Australian Museum’s popular after- plan and run the nights. want to go and see the real thing. If you take something iconic, say the Mona hours program which it claims has Perhaps because of its carefully mar- brought 55 000 guests through its doors Lisa, people can get that online but they keted-to target audience, some of the would still pay even to go to Paris and since 2011. On Tuesday nights the event’s quirkiness could comes off as Museum allows musicians, face painters, see it at the Louvre,” he tells me. Aside too self-consciously so. There’s also from the research and collecting the burlesque dancers, and even Labrador only so long the juxtaposition between puppies to wander between its exhibi- Australian Museum still quietly attends contemporary performance and ancient to, Bock hopes the immediacy of its tions, as patrons stroll the halls with skeletons can sustain its entertainment drinks in hand. The Museum has weath- objects will leave children and adults value and overcome the desire for a with an experience they can’t have any- ered a trying decade with ‘efficiency cheaper drink and a comfortable bar dividends’ enforced by both Labor where else, “I was in the museum and Photographs: Jurassic Lounge stool. Seemingly aware of its dimin- saw the dinosaurs”. Exile poetry in China Samantha Jonscher reports on political Chinese poetry As chaos erupted across China on his world, what does a life of exile in June 4 1989, Liao Yiwu turned to the Germany mean for his work? He is now only thing that made sense to him in away from China and away from his a country in chaos: poetry. Hundreds raison d’ecriture, which is perhaps exactly of miles away from the unfolding where the Chinese Government wants events in Tiananmen Square Mr Liao him to be. composed Massacre, a howling poem Image: Xiaoran Shi Liao has made a life for himself in of outrage and disgust that he swiftly Berlin now, among a community of recorded and distributed to foreign Chinese expats in similar situations. He and domestic literary agents. The self- has declined to learn any western lan- professed womaniser and “well-dressed guage and seems optimistic that he will hypocrite” became a liability to the state return to China one day. This though, is overnight. Eight months later, Liao was improbable; China is liberalising, but it imprisoned. His experiences have been is a slow process and given his resolve documented in his recently translated to resist silence, he is unlikely to be left memoir, For a Song and a Hundred Songs: alone for long. His world has paradoxi- A Poet’s Journey Through a Chinese Prison, cally become very small. At home in which was published in 2011. China, he is seen as a sell out for leaving What emerges is the story of a man and without a physical presence there to who is above all an artist. Liao main- continue circulating his work and work- tains even now, after five years in his supreme literary ethic, however, that are strikingly removed from their sub- ing within his artistic community, his prison, after constant hardship, and makes his work among the most pro- jects, exist without judgment and seek work is being forgotten. after the trauma of fleeing his home vocative in China. Unlike the work of only to reveal the simple realities of his Liao exists now in an artistic limbo – country to live in Germany, that he is most Chinese dissidents, there is nothing subjects’ lives and humanity. physically free but creatively caged. He not a political man – he is a poet who polemical or heroic about Liao’s work. Just as Wordsworth gave British has attained the status of ‘dissident’ simply wishes to observe and recreate His prose and poetry are works of pure peasants inner selves to reflect their that the West holds in such high regard, the world around him. In a 2011 con- observation, his tone is almost journalis- democratic humanity, Liao Yiwu gives but without the potential for affect- versation with journalist Ian Johnson, tic and what exists within them is the true voices to the people and events that the ing domestic change, and without the Liao insisted as much: “I don’t want to profundity of daily life. His most famous Chinese Government wish to forget. potential for continuing to write truly break their laws. I am not interested in work, The Corpse Walker: Real Life Stories: “China remains a prison of the mind: honest accounts of his world, where them and wish they weren’t interested China from the Bottom Up, published in prosperity without liberty,” he writes, does that leave him? Only time will tell in me” and in his memoir he is clear 2002, was a collection of interviews with “This is our brave new world.” But as where his artistic future lies. – “I never intended to be a hero”. It is the lowest classes of Chinese life. They an artist who captures the intricacies of Carslaw: “thriving mozzies nor/concrete shall dampen my sub/terranean love” 13 Photo: Peter Plozza culture @honi_soit

Way out west OPINION Avani Dias explores class in the University community It’s said that education is the vehicle perception of a detrimental association people had no idea where he was from. I took offence to a reference he made for reducing societal gaps. It can teach with the lower class is a clear demonstra- He also had to travel three hours each about my ‘broad accent’, “It’s just that, you that discrimination still exists in tion that class-consciousness is alive and way to get to class, which becomes a you’re an ethnic girl and you wear cool many forms and that we should not well. tiring journey when it happens every clothes… well I didn’t expect you to take it for granted. But the last thing an day. But he argues that there are many speak like that.” Even just last month, institutional education will teach you is The University throws more barriers to success for kids from a close friend said that my ‘accent’ had its own inadequacy. I have sat in gov- around words like lower socio-economic backgrounds. ‘changed for the better’ after my work ernment tutorials that condemn the “Financial, structural, ambition and in radio and “hanging out with people west for their selfish attitudes towards ‘accessibility’ and ‘equality’ aspiration – they’re the big [problems]. at USYD.” It’s interesting that these poverty and destruction around the on a regular basis... But Combine that with peer pressure or two people are university-educated and world, and have discussed discrimi- it’s what happens beyond with mum and dad saying that you incredibly intelligent, but their com- nation against minority groups with should start earning money and add- ments were offensive unbeknownst to friends at parties. But at the end of my getting into university that is ing to the family household income… them. I wonder if they would make four years here at university, my peers the issue. it’s a lethal mix to prevent kids from concessions for my friends who live and friends have forced me to come to studying at university.” in my area, talk in a broad accent, and quite a confronting realisation about the A Sydney University report confirms The University throws around words don’t wear the same clothes as me. “elite” educated minds of our country; that a far smaller proportion of students like ‘accessibility’ and ‘equality’ on a No university program, or early that assumptions based on which part from south west Sydney make the transi- regular basis. The ‘Compass – your admissions scheme can eradicate the of Sydney you are from, are a precursor tion to university than the national aver- way to higher education program’ and preconceived opinions that people have to knowing someone. age. Corey Payne, who is a former rugby the E12 admissions scheme are just about the western suburbs. Perhaps the I live in a place tucked away in the player for the Canterbury Bulldogs, has two examples of USYD’s attempts at problem is that this in no way com- south-western suburbs of Sydney – studied at Sydney University as an under- keeping its doors open to everyone. pares to the extreme racial vilification somewhere between the Shire and Liv- graduate and is currently studying his But it’s what happens beyond getting that exists, so why does it make me so erpool. If you ask me where I went to Master of Commerce. He focuses his into university that is the issue. Know- uneasy? Sydney University has forged school, I reply with ‘Bankstown Gram- time on helping students from the south ing three people from your high school itself as a diverse, progressive, and bal- mar School’ and feel the need to auto- western suburbs of Sydney go to univer- in the western suburbs, as opposed anced place. So that’s why it catches me matically follow it up with “but it was sity and was named NSW Young Aus- to half your grade from an inner-city off guard when judgments imposed on a really good school” to wipe away the tralian of the year 2013 for his efforts school, adds to this problem. class difference are normalised… even looks of distaste. Needless to say, Bank- in this field. One incident in my first year really if it is in all their casual subtleties. stown has always had a negative stigma His passion for this came from the highlighted that there was a bridge I’d surrounding it – so much so, that my fact that he was brought up there, “I was have to cross because of the place I school decided to change its name to born in Greenacre and raised in St John’s grew up. I had just started dating some- @avanidias ‘Georges River Grammar School’ a year Park. I’ve lived here my whole life.” For one and we had previously discussed after I graduated. That a school would Payne, the biggest problem he had when that I was from the western sub- see the need to distance itself from a attending Sydney University was that urbs. He was from the North Shore.

Drones for sale OPINION The commercialisation of military drones means more than just a new Phoenix music video, writes Tom Joyner A US military unmanned aerial vehi- during their career. As artificial intel- cle flies low over the tribal belt along the ligence reaches the point of “singular- Pakistan-Afghanistan border in search ity”, military technology approaches a of its target. 12 000 kilometres away, level of autonomy dangerously detached a young man in a faded Call of Duty from human moral processes – the t-shirt sits behind an array of dimly lit future of war is beginning to look like a screens. A can of Mountain Dew rests video game. in one hand, his legs slumped on a box So what commercial use could anyone of CDs beside him. Squinting at the possibly have for a deadly, expensive displays, he sits motionless and silent, killing machine? This level of sophisti- occasionally with his free hand tilting a cation has in recent years proven useful joystick left and right. for civilian application. In the same year Or so the popular perception would that 16 militants are killed in northwest go. Pakistan in a large scale strike, the Fed- A drone pilot’s working day is enjoyed eral Aviation Administration (the US from the comfort of a chair. With major body in charge of regulation of the air decision-making issued from above, the industry), last month granted its first The music video for Phoenix’s ‘Entertainment’ was filmed entirely on a drone camera pilot need only follow standard proce- ever commercial licenses to two manu- place for drones in the American pub- while harangue their dim view of an dure with a cool and level head. From facturers (Boeing and AeroVironment). lic consciousness, where the financial, ‘Orwellian’ future where drones are ground level, the sound of a drone fly- Enterprising French band Phoenix human and political costs of its last ominously wielded by the Thought ing overhead might normally cause fear, recently released a music video for their two military engagements overseas Police of the Obama administration. except their operation is silent. Their song ‘Entertainment’, shot entirely on remain visible and raw. However, one only need be reminded sight might inspire trepidation, only a drone-guided camera – the results are Is the commercialisation of high- of the NSA’s recent PRISM scandal to they are too indistinct for the untrained unprecedented and breathtaking. Pub- tech, dangerous military technology see their relative innocuousness in this eye. Only when their target is destroyed lic opinion of the US drone program though in some way tantamount to regard. is the hysteria real. though has been mixed. Some reports civilian profiteering of war? Maybe I will be watching with interest as This is a paradox at the centre of the have outlined enormous public support at a stretch, but for the moment the drone use is diversified across whatever debate surrounding the ethics of drone (as much as 59%), while others have not proliferation of the technology is aid- industries can find use for them. And combat by the US military. A Pentagon been so favourable. The US government ing police, firefighters, freight, and of course listening to the rest of that study found that some 30% of drone has been fighting a public relations battle conservation efforts for governments Phoenix album. pilots experience an “existential crisis” on the home front to find a comfortable around the world. Detractors mean-

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OPINION Just a boy in Girls PROFILE Hannah Ryan interviewed Ray, but not Shoshanna Alex Karpovsky has a face that would Ray’s complexity is part of what Kar- is something of an accident. Instead of After subletting and couch-surfing for look very much at home atop a black povsky says is one of the things he likes film school, he went to grad school: he his twenties – “I was very much a wan- turtleneck. His appearance, unconven- most about the show: “how much it is studied social anthropology at Oxford, dering Jew”, he says – Karpovsky finally tional for an American actor, may be grounded in authenticity and tethered with an interest in ritual myth and the got his own apartment in Greenpoint, one reason he is often described as his to reality – or at least the reality that I Amazon. He also pursued visual eth- Brooklyn this year. But it seems he generation’s Woody Allen. Like Allen, remember from my twenties and that nography, which involves documenting won’t be settled down for long: he’d fin- he is a cinematic triple threat: director, I still continue to see around me in cultures of the developing world with ished filming Season 3 of Girls the day screenwriter, and actor, often all at once. Brooklyn today.” video capture. His education has indi- before we spoke, and over the next few But although he shares Allen’s obvious While Karpovsky is tight-lipped on the rectly influenced his work: “I made one months he plans to go to Chicago, Phil- intelligence, Karpovsky seems much plot of Season 3, to screen in early 2014, documentary film which felt a little bit adelphia and then to Austin to work on more self-assured. In conversation, his he hints that it will continue the work anthropological at times,” he tells me. some friends’ films, and then to make speech is deliberate and at times almost Season 2 started in explaining the char- Alongside his degree, he wrote plays another film himself early next year, academic: he’s endearingly intellectual acters’ histories. Ray in particular could and acted in small comedies, and when “if everything goes perfectly”. In a few and almost charming, although not use some context: Karpovsky refers to he moved to New York he got involved months, Australian audiences will be as obviously funny as his interest in Ray’s “unresolved issues” which, paired in stand-up comedy and made a few able to see him as Marty Green, a pro- comedy would suggest. With five well with his girlfriend Shoshanna’s naiveté short films. He made a feature, The Hole fessor of anthropology, in Inside Llewyn received (although not widely seen) fea- as the couple headed towards a “very, Story, and “kind of by default” cast him- Davis, which is directed by two of his ture films under his belt and a host of very scary place of deep intimacy,” led self as the lead. “I didn’t really know favourite living filmmakers, the Coen dedicated fans, he sits on the cusp of to their breakup at the end of Season what I was doing,” he says, “and I just brothers. When I ask whether he’ll stay established indie celebrity. 2. That episode also featured the jar- thought I couldn’t rely on anyone else to in films for the rest of his career, he Karpovsky is a pinup for all the girls ringly rom-com-style reunion of two stick around to make this film. Who else sounds unsure. “I really don’t know,” who dream of an older, cynical man to other couples, which, juxtaposed with is not going to change their haircut for he answers. For the moment, he says, watch out for them if they accidentally their previous misery, suggested that two years?” A few other filmmakers saw switching back and forth between act- smoke crack, thanks to his role as Ray the show’s women couldn’t survive on the film and then cast him in their own ing and directing keeps him fulfilled and Ploshansky in Girls. Ray initially seems their own. Karpovsky argues that Ray – “and that’s sort of how it started.” engaged. And, he says, “I don’t see what to be awful, a diary-thieving misan- and Shoshanna provided a counter- else I could really do.” thrope with a dark sense of humour point to that. “I think sometimes you who inexplicably hangs out with people can find fulfilment and satisfaction in much younger than him, but the writ- relationships and sometimes you can’t,” ing and Karpovsky’s performance are he explains, “and the show kind of tried nuanced, and by Season 2 Ray is one of to depict both of those sides.” And has the show’s most sympathetic characters. he learned anything about girls from the Although he’s a writer himself, Kar- show? “They’re not so different from povsky leaves the development of Ray’s boys at the end of the day,” he says. “A character up to the show’s creator and lot of their inner desires and closeted head writer, Lena Dunham, with whom demons are, in shape and form and size, he first worked in her 2010 feature Tiny not so different from our own. And that Furniture. “I really love Lena’s voice,” is somehow reassuring to me.” OPINION he says, “and because I believe in that Karpovsky’s casting in Girls fol- voice, I don’t really want anything to get lowed his rise to celebrated indie film- in the way, including my own thoughts.” maker, but the way he tells it all of this Cali Fun-fortunate ANALYSIS Alex Christie gives you more reasons to hate American Apparel I was prompted to write this article him as saying that in order to break into number of which have been banned in parody here but that’s beside the point. not because of the ongoing tsunami of the modelling industry, “it’s not who the UK for featuring models that look In my opinion Bunny Holiday can do advertising that invades my inbox from you know, it’s who you blow. I don’t underage. If you’re still not convinced, whatever she likes in the realm of ‘slut- American Apparel (AA) but because of have a hole in my jeans for nothing.” just look at the Swedish clothing com- wave’ (whatever that is) but her AA their most recent advertising campaign, The myriad of quotes from this sexist pany who photographed male models campaign changes the game. When one ‘Cali Fun & Sun’. I confess, sometimes turd make me ill and if you’re thinking – in the same poses as AA’s female mod- of the world’s major fashion retailers I’m a fan of AA’s ‘un-airbrushed’ adver- so the guy’s a dick, that doesn’t mean his els; you might get a glimpse of Char- decided to feature Bunny they actively tisements and professed commitment photos are bad – I urge you to Google ney’s thought processes. promoted the infantialisation of women to featuring girls of all shapes, sizes and his pics. Reason 3 and the early sexualisation of young colours. But there’s something about girls. Reason 2 Although many past campaigns have The music video for Phoenix’s ‘Entertainment’ was filmed entirely on a drone camera this particular ad campaign that makes AA is also owned and run by multi- not been without controversy over sex- When I look at Bunny Holiday in her me feel a little bit squeamish. millionaire creep, Dov Charney. He’s ism, I was able to put up with them to metallic spandex non-clothes I see a Reason 1 a fashion pioneer in sweat-shop free an extent because, while demeaning, tall eleven-year-old in ‘clothes’ that are Much of AA’s advertising has been production, but he seems to think that they have featured un-airbrushed, ‘real’ designed for women with A-cup breasts shot and influenced by notorious ‘uber- this gives him the right to mistreat his looking women. Plus, the sex sells mar- or smaller, and that freaks me out. creep’ Terry Richardson. An extensive staff. Since the early 2000s he has been keting technique is hardly unique. But What troubles me the most, however, is Jezebel article sums up why he is the fighting off law suits from employees, ‘Cali Fun & Sun’ is different. It features Bunny’s face – the wide-eyed stare that most “fucked up fashion photographer accusing him of various offences. One self-described ‘audio/visual/sex artist’ she has perfected throughout her video ever”. It highlights accusations of sex- 21-year-old woman alleged that he kept Bunny Holiday, who has carved a career career gazes at you in every shot – she ual harassment against him, detailing an her as a “prisoner” and as his sex slave. out of her child-like looks. She’s done knows she looks underage and she’s interview he gave for The Observer where Charney denies everything, except for this through dressing in school girl- daring you to go there, and so are AA. he confessed to have an intern whose the fact that he says ‘slut’ in front of esque outfits and producing videos in duties included, “doing his dishes and employees and does not consider that which she encourages her audience not @alexachri posing for photos fellating Richardson offensive. Aside from battling law suits, to worry about her “tender young flesh” from the kitchen trash can while wearing it’s worth pointing out that Charney and to “just eat the cherry cream”. Now a tiara that reads ‘slut’”. It also quoted does photograph some of AA’s ads, a it’s possible that there’s a not-so-clever

Holme: “Ho(l)me of the Union / offices, cafes, Union! / I love the Union” 15 culture @honi_soit Engineering revue: the slizzard of oz Brendan Day hopes that you are drunk while reading this review To heckle but not be entertained, says Lane Sainty Is it even fair to critique the Engi- audience mem- Directly who appreciate toned abs, and the band neering Revue? Performed in Manning bers to tweet after the 2013 was truly phenomenal, provoking sev- Bar, it’s more of an excuse for cast and their heckles, Engineer- eral audience sing-a-longs. audience alike to get blind drunk. So, was placed in a ing Revue The Slizzard of Oz narrative almost in the spirit of The Slizzard of Oz, this tiny banner at The Slizzard entirely failed to capture the interest of review will arbitrarily cobble together a the top of the of Oz, the the audience, though, to be fair, most of bunch of half-arsed thoughts and hope stage’s backing most com- the dialogue was completely drowned that the audience is too drunk to care: screen, making mon refrain out by yelling. Other sketches, such as HECKLES: An essential part of any it impossible to among the political showdowns between a vary- engineering revue. Often they would read through audience ing combination of Abbott, Gillard, and drown out the performers, and I thank our thick pairs members Rudd and a couple of scenes that inex- them for that. Special consideration of beer gog- was simply plicably turned into dance parties, fell goes to the Arts Revue cast (particu- gles. Oh, and “What was flat all on their own. larly their director, Jack Gow) and the each tweet only that?” It was woman who bravely admonished the popped up for a fair enough hecklers for being sexist. about three sec- criticism onds. of a show MICROPHONES: The only way FEMALE that lacked to drown out the baying crowd. Only finesse and, implemented after the intermission. CAST MEM- BERS: More than the number of at times, logical progression. INTERMISSION: The best part of women in Tony Abbott’s cabinet; less But those who had not witnessed an the show. than the number of jokes made about Engineering Revue before, meant it sin- The last twenty minutes of the show BRIDGES: Apparently the only Tony Abbott’s cabinet. cerely. See, the aim of the Engineering dragged, as sketches and heckles alike thing engineers have any interest in VOICE-OVER: Stuttery. Revue is wholly different to that of its deteriorated in quality. The cast looked besides.... peers: it exists not to entertain, but to PUNS: A metric fuckton of them. increasingly reluctant to be appearing on BEER: Needed more. The free drink be heckled. Some puns were incredibly complex the stage — a reasonable approach, con- ticket on entry was a thoughtful and For the most part, the heckling was sidering the sheer volume of the heck- necessary gesture, however. MALE CAST MEMBERS: Cupped. inarguably hilarious. But sometimes it ling crowd. THE BAND: Non-ironically played THE SHOW: Surprisingly concerned marred skits that would have otherwise Against regular revue criteria, this was Pat Benatar, Maroon 5, and various with sticking to its Wizard of Oz theme. been successful, such as the deadpan not a good show. But the crowd was pop-punk songs. Obviously the high- Contained a number of sketches that reading of news stories with puns, and engaged, the Manning atmosphere was light of the night. were just people dancing under strobe the plight of the unfortunate man suf- electric, and I suspect few people left lighting. Recommended for masoch- TWITTER FEED: Underwhelm- fering from costume confusion. The disappointed. I’d see it again — just to ists/alcoholics. ing. The feed, designed for the quieter constant bare chests of various engi- heckle. neering students were a delight to all Living la video loca $38ab GAME REVIEW Ariel Castro-Martinez tells us about the links between stories and gameplay in video games It’s difficult to talk about Gone Home In Ico, a game that has the player is with this in mind that the game has touching, sexual awakening of a young without giving away spoilers or key escort with the titular character an ethe- its disappointing downfalls, but also its adolescent little sister whose mem- moments. Thankfully though, it’s been real girl named Yorda around a castle, subversive strengths. oirs of tough times have conveniently out for a few weeks and lasts a mere the game has you grip the controller by It’s devilishly subversive because it been left to you to discover by way of three hours to complete at a measured holding the right trigger button, tenderly plays mercilessly on expectations and audio messages triggered by inspecting pace, so if you were thinking of playing evoking the feeling of holding her hand. pulls the rug from under the player on clues strewn about the house. Disap- it, I urge you to purchase it (for about Movement becomes a critical consider- multiple occasions. Gone Home throws pointingly, the main mechanics in this $20) and play it in a single sitting. This ation as you must account for Yorda’s away setups most other games would game are walking and reading, and the analysis will have spoilers. safety and your own when she is pur- dream to fulfill. Setups like a slightly ajar occasional 4-number combination to a Ludonarrative dissonance, to those sued by shadowy creatures. This simple bathroom door in a dark hallway reveal- safe for you to inspect, find out there uninitiated into the masturbatory circles mechanic makes the feeling of helping ing a bathtub stained red with… hair are papers inside, and then read them. of video game appraisal, is the jarring someone in a video game tangible. Just dye. In any other world, it would be too That’s all you’ll do in this game; explore, disconnect between gameplay and story as you are restricted by needing to hold tempting for that bathtub to be stained pick up, read, and repeat. The lives of in a video game. the trigger buttons down to hold Yor- with blood. But it isn’t. It’s the red hair your family will unfold in admirable da’s hand, so is Ico as he sacrifices his detail with the most effective use of It’s the ‘Press X to cut off leg’ in a dye of a teenage girl going through self- greater mobility for Yorda’s. ambient storytelling in any game I’ve first-person shooter that shunts the questioning times. played, but there is scarcely anything to player along the campaign, unflinching Gone Home is a subversive game that Gone Home tells the story of a young do that would not be possible in another in its blatant reduction of the traumatic achieves what many games cannot, but girl, the older of two sisters, coming medium. procedure of amputation to a mere but- almost at the expense of eschewing home from an extended trip abroad ton press. Though it cannot be escaped, its greater gameplay responsibilities. to the new house her family has only Gone Home was critically lauded for its it can be thoughtfully addressed. Almost, I say, because there is no dictum recently moved into. The atmosphere story, representing a brave maturation of or industry standard for in this game is absolutely terrifying. The the medium, but it’s frustrating to have a gameplay, especially not for echoing thunder, the creaky, dimly lit game deliver so much here and fall short an indie studio that made hallways, the unpacked boxes in the cor- in gameplay. The medium is set apart the game with, ostensibly, ner, all convey immediately a feeling of by interactivity. Maturation would entail four people. But there are rushed abandonment as you’re tasked innovation in bridging ludonarrative dis- gamer expectations to sate, to turn the lights on and piece together sonance, not widening it by abandoning and Gone Home certainly the last moments of a barely occupied its most fundamental aspect. In terms does not exist in a vacuum space. But noticeably, something’s hap- of its disregard for gameplay, Gone Home divorced from the wider pened. is a little too subversive, and a little far context of its industry. It from home. As it turns out, that something is the

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So there we go then. An Abbott limits to what a student union at one civil institutions that have the capacity We should take a lesson from the government. The most reactionary university can do to fight the mighty to organise demonstrations. NTEU as well, and take the political Prime Minister in our nation’s history, apparatus of the state. We can lobby. We can make media decision to create an NUS Fighting replacing six years of social democratic But there are some things. releases. We can print propaganda and Fund of students’ money which we can stasis. First of all, we can demonstrate. have it distributed across the city. use to hold political parties to account. Without a doubt, the SRC and NUS During the Howard era student protests But given that the government exists If the Minerals Council of Australia need to prioritise the fight against the could involve very large crowds, outside metropolitan Sydney, clearly can do it, why can’t we? Liberals’ policies for students next shouting very loudly, and in a very geography places a block in place of Well, we used to. In 2004 the NUS year. Some of the things we can expect real way making opposition to anti- what we can do. spent $255 307 on a campaign against include the re-introduction of Voluntary student policies known to people. Just Which is why the National Union of the Liberal Party in marginal electorates. Student Unionism (destroying the SRC), think for a second about the Iraq War Students is so important. I happen to think that this would be the deregulation of university fees and protests in 2003. They were organised I anticipate next year the calling of a good thing. the stripping away of funding from primarily out of the basement of your multiple National Days of Action and higher education. Obviously, there are very own SRC – we are one of the few student strikes.

Womens’ Collective Report [email protected] The Women’s Collective wants you to help reclaim the night In recent years, discussions about vio- have taken an active role in organising tember in the Holme Building at the tional, domestic, and street violence. lence against wom*n have become more Reclaim the Night Sydney, and this year University of Sydney. The panel is made Please feel free to come along with frequent and more widely heard. From is no different. Several members from up of three wom*n speakers all speak- your friends to the panel discussion the backlash against Robin Thicke’s Wom*n’s Collective, along with other ing on the general topic of “Violence this Thursday! Entry is by optional creepy song ‘Blurred Lines’, to the cre- wom*n from across the community, against wom*n in modern Australia”. gold coin donation, and refreshments ation of a new foundation to help pre- have been meeting up weekly to discuss Our speakers are Cassandra Giudice, will be provided. The event will also vent violence against wom*n in Victoria, their visions and plans for this year’s a criminal defence lawyer who has be AUSLAN interpreted. To find more and more community members events. Traditionally, Reclaim the Night regularly defended people accused of out more, visit the Facebook event are becoming informed and speaking takes the form of a rally and march committing domestic violence crimes; page at https://www.facebook.com/ out about violence against wom*n in all where the public take to the streets and Dr Kyllie Cripps, a Pallawah woman events/300712536733633/ or Reclaim its varied forms. Since 1984, Reclaim the join together to take a stand against and UNSW Senior Law Lecturer with the Night Sydney’s website at http:// Night has been annually actively cam- violence towards wom*n. This year the research interests including Indigenous www.RTNSydney.com. Also, keep an paigning against all forms of violence main event will be held on Saturday family violence; and Zahra Stardust, the eye out for the upcoming Reclaim the against wom*n. Every year, wom*n 26 October at Prince Alfred Park, pre- policy officer from Scarlett Alliance, Night events, including an autono- from around the world hit the streets to ceded by a family-friendly picnic. Australian Sex Workers Association. mous dance party hosted by Black Cat, Reclaim, or Take Back, the Night. In the lead-up to the main event, Our speakers reflect the three-pronged and the rally and march on 26 October! In recent years, members of the Uni- Reclaim the Night Sydney is holding a theme of Reclaim the Night Sydney versity of Sydney Wom*n’s Collective panel discussion on Thursday 26 Sep- 2013 – speaking out against institu-

Welfare Officer’s Report [email protected] We cannot live on Mi Goreng alone. This report is not by the Welfare Officer Eleanor Morley. You’ve probably already had this one who you vote for, make sure your vote but given that they often provide three different page numbering and an extra yelled at you by a campaigner in a garish counts. of four copies for classes of three or sentence here and there, so shopping and ill-fighting t-shirt, but here goes. Even in these dark times of an four hundred the claim is more farce online for an earlier edition or drop- than tragedy. This year’s SRC election is the most Abbott government, however, everyday ping by the SRC bookshop near the important in living memory. Because of life goes on. This month, SRC Student How could your university stop you ISL is definitely worth it. Tony Abbott’s commitment to ending Welfare have been fighting against your from having to live off Mi Goreng to Nobody should ever have to live the SSAF, the election of a Liberal gov- university’s excessive textbooks costs. afford your textbooks? Other univer- off Mi Goreng to afford textbooks. If ernment presents an existential threat It’s a massive joke that some faculties sities around the world have already you’d like to get involved in the fight to every service the SRC can offer (looking at you, Science and Law) seem adpoted policies that resolve this. against student poverty, shoot your you when you’re in trouble, from legal to expect their students to live off two- Second, they could stop telling you Welfare Officers an email – we’d love advice when your boss is mistreating minute noodles just to afford the mate- to buy textbooks you don’t really need. to chat! you, to the caseworkers who help you rial they need to pass their courses, and There’s no need to buy the whole book get Special Consideration, to the Coun- this barrier to entry disproportionately when you really only need that crucial terCourse that helps you avoid the sub- affects the lower-SES, International and paragraph in page 148. Next year’s jects that are just a little bit shit. I can regional students who are already strug- CounterCourse will hopefully include only urge you, in the strongest possible gling with Sydney’s rising cost of living. a section about which subjects actu- terms, to vote for the candidate who’ll The interesting thing about these ally require the textbook, but your uni- make sure that there’s still an SRC this course costs is that they have very versity could go one better by putting time next year. That means a candidate dubious legality, since your educational those particular pages into free online who will be able to sit down with the institution is *meant* to provide you course readers instead. Vice-Chancellor and convince him that with all these materials as part of your Third, they could point you to ways continuing to fund the SRC is a worth- HECS fees. The University *claims* you can acquire pretty much the same while use of University money, and that you can *technically* pass the textbooks for a significantly lower price. who won’t prioritise radical appearances course by borrowing the textbooks you Some so-called fifth or sixth editions over real results for students. No matter need from the library on a weekly basis, are actually earlier editions with slightly

18 Chemistry building: “The study of change” / It’s got salmon coloured walls / (That’s a shade of pink)" www.honisoit.com SRC Education Officer’s Report [email protected] One of the SRC Education Officers gives her reflections on the strike campaign. Not the Education Officer Tenaya Alattas.

On the 8-10th of October the National be of a high quality if the workers them- the doors and stood at the front of the upheld. Many misunderstand the term Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) will selves are not looked after. This is obvi- theatre yelling and screaming at you. militant industrial action and misunder- once again be taking industrial action. ously not even beginning to consider Understandably, this could leave you stand the best ways in which to explain The members of the NTEU (casual and the most important argument here that less than enthused about the campaign. the union’s demands to potential sup- academic staff at Sydney University) these are human beings that deserve to I want you to know that this is not what porters. will be stopping work for these three be treated with respect and compassion, the campaign is about and this is defi- If you have been treated in this way, days and encouraging students not to no matter what their occupation (and nitely not what the NTEU is about and I am sorry. Not because of personal go to class in an act of protest against whether they have one or not). How- not what many in the SRC are about. responsibility of this “flying picket” the University’s current treatment of its ever, if you wish to look at this only as This is not militant industrial action (because I have never participated in staff. The NTEU is doing this because an economic debate, you’ll see that it is that ‘politicises the masses’, as those it, and in fact have argued passionately they believe our staff deserved to be actually in the University’s interest to involved may have tried to sell it to you against it at all points of the campaign). I treated with dignity and respect in their agree to the union’s requests for respect as, it’s nothing but the quickest way to am sorry because this is not what union- workplace, and deserve to be paid a and dignity at work. alienate the students that would have ism is about and I am sorry that this was, respectable wage so they can afford life’s I feel extremely uncomfortable com- otherwise considered supporting the for many of you, your first experience necessities, like food, shelter, clothing, paring the incredibly talented and hard- campaign. Those that claim they’re with unions and industrial action. This is and so on. working staff at our university to cars or being militant with actions like these not what unionism, militancy or indus- The NTEU is also taking this action machinery of any sort. However, I fear misunderstand what militancy is and trial actions are about – not in any sense as they believe students deserve to be that is how the University views them misunderstand what unionism is. They of the words. treated with dignity and respect and – as cogs in their machine. So, I have misunderstand collectivism and solidar- Abusive actions are not what the deserve to receive world-class educa- two requests to the University manage- ity. NTEU is about and not what I, as one tion. Students cannot receive the level ment. Firstly, to realise that you can pro- Unionism is about everyone coming of the two SRC education officers, are of education they deserve if their staff vide the best service possible (providing together for the common good, to pro- about. I hope this report clarifies slightly are treated poorly. Staff working condi- quality education to the current gen- tect everyone’s interests and ensure all what the campaign, and unionists, are tions really are student learning condi- eration) when you nurture and respect workers are treated with respect and dig- really about. I’m for helping the most tions. your employees. And secondly, and even nity and are fairly compensated for their vulnerable; i’m for equality, respect and You can’t exploit people and expect more importantly, that you start treating labour. Militancy is about passionately dignity. I’m for everyone having his or wondrous results, just like you’d cry these people as more than just work- defending workers’ rights and ensuring her fundamental human rights upheld. out in protest (rightly so) if your boss ers. They are first and foremost human that bosses are not allowed to get away If you too, share these values, please overworked and exploited you and beings, like yourselves. Human beings with exploitation, it is about demanding realise you can support the campaign then complained that your productivity that are entitled to fundamental rights, fundamental human rights are upheld. without endorsing the behaviour of a hadn’t increased. and who won’t stop until they get them. It is about the strategic use of indus- minority (albeit a very loud minority) of If you want to take this down to its If you agree with these sentiments, trial action and direct action. It is not individuals involved. They do not repre- most basic (and crude) level – a car please consider not going to class. You about abusively yelling and screaming sent the campaign. won’t run if it doesn’t have petrol in its may be hesitant about supporting the at those who do not yet understand If you’re for equality, collectivism tank and its engine isn’t looked after. NTEU’s campaign, and joining the what the campaign is about, and are not and respect, and you will passionately The driver can’t expect results if he does strike, due to the behaviour of some responsible for any mistreatment of the defend those values, – you’re a true mili- not do this, just like bosses of all sorts of the students involved in previous workers. However, it is not really ever tant unionist. strikes. The, so called, “rolling-picket” cannot expect results if they mistreat about abusing people. It is about col- Names were ommitted from this article and exploit their staff. The product or may have come into your lecture, where lectively coming together to strategically due to SRC Electoral regualtions. service these workers produce will not the protestors turned off the lights, shut use industrial action to have our rights

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SEE YA, BITCHES Abbott Plans to Reduce Population of Women Attempt to fast track migration back to Australia! to Make His Cabinet More Representational

“Australia is a representa- ship in nearby foreign nations “With a lower population of ety within the Coalition team tive democracy. A place where such as Indonesia. They’ll be women in Australia some may as to whether the idea will be everyone has a fair go and cool with that, right? Eh, just cry bigotry, but many women palatable to the voters. “We’ve our Parliament represents write it up, I’m sure they’ll be hold new and very powerful found a perfect way to pander the people. I am disappointed fine with it. Another foolproof portfolios within the minis- to the Right and the Left by that only 5% of my cabinet Coalition solution!” PM Abbott try – Fiona Scott is now in the exploiting each of their hatred is female, whereas 50% of went on to say, high fiving the new position of Minister for for certain females within our the population is female. The sheepish-looking Hon. Julie Sex Appeal, and Kelly O’Dwyer population. Therefore, the problem is now very clear to Bishop. has taken the new portfolio of first two to go will be Cathe- me – the female population Minister of ‘Women’s Issues’ rine Deveny and Sophie Mira- of Australia is way too high,” “All the women in my Cabi- (with monthly parliamentary bella,” PM Abbott concluded. Prime Minister Abbott began net will stay in Australia, of reports).” his press conference today in course. Women have a very “I am not, not against Parliament House. important space in my cabi- There has been some anxi- women. Women in Australia net. There’s Julie Bishop – or have a position: missionary.” “The plan to enact this is ‘Lookin’ fine, Toots’ as she’s just like all other Coalition known around the office – in policies: economic, efficient, my Parliamentary Cabinet, and incredibly oversimplified. my wife and not bad-looking It will work in tandem with our daughters drowning their sor- Paid Parental Leave Scheme rows in my liquor cabinet, – now to be renamed ‘Paid and I’m fairly sure Annabelle Parental Leave the Country Crabb is still in Kitchen Cabi- Scheme’. 44.5% of Austra- net – the door is quite hard to lian women will now be housed find.” with residency and citizen-

TONY ABBOTT DENIES SCIENCE, APPOINTS MINISTER FOR MIRACLES [@THE_SOIN] 21 THE SOIN This week’s Soin is made of the essence of a stew of various body parts belonging to Daniel O’Doherty, ABBOTT’S UNDERSTANDING OF SYRIA CRISIS ‘BAD’ Prime Minister Tony Abbott simplifying the ongoing crisis in short, simple terms, how rebel.” has faced backlash over in Syria as “not goodies versus else will the Australian people comments he made during baddies – it’s baddies versus understand complex issues?” The Soin has also learnt his election campaign, baddies”. that Mr Abbott referred to Mr Abbott further defended longstanding geopolitical Pressed for an explanation, his comments, stating, “I’ve tensions in India-Pakistan as Mr Abbott emerged from his always thought of the Middle “cowboys and Indians” but Prime Ministerial Pillow Fort East as a cast of characters,” couldn’t decide which title in Canberra to explain that he continuing, “Syria are best described India. At this only sought to describe the baddies, and they’re fighting point, the Prime Minister crisis in broad simple terms. some more baddies who run had to take a top- secret call “What’s happening in Syria into other countries and make from his chief military adviser is too much for any one man a mess. Israel is a goodie, and using those paper cups with to understand, let alone the so is Saudi Arabia as long as string attached between sole woman in my ministerial they keep providing the West them. Soin reporters were, team, Julie Bishop, whose job with oil. Lebanon’s the cool however, unable to trace the it is to deal with these sort one, Jordan’s the cute one, line. of things. If I don’t speak and Iran is the dangerous

JAMES PACKER TO BUILD BIG SILVER Wanted: Young, well connected candidates PENIS ON SYDNEY HARBOUR for NRL referee train- In the basement of a ridicu- glanced at it, and let out a pri- “What’s that, baby?” ing camp. lous Bondi mansion, James meval howl. The proportions Call: J. Diaz - 0412 Packer crawled on hands were all wrong! How was he 345 789 James Packer turned around and knees through a mess of ever meant to continue on the to face the doorway. His face architectural blueprints and legacy his father and grandfa- Wanted: Malleable was bathed in darkness, but his own solid gold poops. He ther, if he couldn’t build the 18-year-olds to join Erica Baxter could make was surrounded by a choir of perfect colossal silver penis political movement out the deathly flicker of his Rhino-lard candles which cast casino at Barangaroo! with enviable past, and eyes in the candlelight. “Chi- an embryonic glow over the questionable future. nese high rollers” he spat. detritus of his genius. James For more information, Suddenly there was a move- “CHINESE HIGH ROLLERS! Packer hadn’t eaten, show- contact Anthony A. Classifieds ment in the doorway behind CHINESE HIGH ROLLERS! ered, or bought a race horse him. “Look baby, you’ve been CHINESE HIGH ROLLERS! in days; it was beginning to down here for months. Why CHINESE HIGH ROLLERS!” Job wanted: North show in the cloud of snooty don’t we dice up a sack of Shore matron seeks eastern suburbs flies hovering $100 notes, mix it with a bot- Erica Baxter ran back speakership. Can pro- above him. tle of Grange, and give our- upstairs. She hugged herself vide own wig if needed. selves some money enemas?” and sobbed. One thing was Please call Bronnie. “Big. Silver. Dick. Big. Silver. suggested the tender voice of for sure: that wasn’t the man Dick,” he muttered rhythmi- his wife Erica Baxter. “It’ll be whose money she had fallen cally. “Gotta build a big silver just like back in the day when in love with. Erica Baxter dick on Sydney Habour.” Seiz- we were level eight scientol- wasn’t even sure there was ing a 2B lead pencil in hand, ogy wizards…” Available for hire: a man in there anymore. All James Packer pulled out a Factional backing for she had seen was a billionaire fresh piece of draught paper Labor leadership. Good James Packer was silent for robot obsessed with building and scrawled two lazy circles. condition, only used a minute. Then he muttered a giant silver penis in Darling He topped this with a gener- twice. something: “C…ese…h…. Harbour. It was time to leave. Please contacted B. ous parabola with the classic oller”. inverted T in the vertex. He Shorten.

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22 CLIVE PALMER BUYS OUT FAIRFAX, ALSO WINS THE SEAT [@THE_SOIN] THE Ariel Castro-Martinez, Nick Gowland, Tom Murphy, Nina Hallas, Blythe Worthy, Lucy Watson and Hannah Ryan SOIN practicing ‘unsound methods TOP SECRET of campaigning’, namely unau- INDI DISPUTE GETS thorised pamphlet dropping Military Report: For the in letterboxes and walk and consideration of talks with bewildered locals REAL, ALL TOO REAL Special Forces Agent Ben- from the city central car park Relations between Greek and The Italian, quick on his feet, jamin L Willard regarding to the back entrance of Gun- Italian communities turned less lightly retorted, “Of course the rogue activities of dagai Mall in order to avoid Kevin Rudd since the 2013 detection from authorities. sour at a local multicultural Sophie Mirabella is Greek. Federal Election An informant, Brendan Ger- event in the seat of Indi, She hates taxes!” Greeks in whek, executive produce mer- hosted by former Liberal MP, the audience scoffed, while Arrangements are being made chandiser manager at Target Sophie Mirabella. Tszarziki made several lewd for your transportation up Country, has contacted us the Murray Darling River by over this matter and will be gestures evoking the image of Naval boat on the 26/09/2013 After smooth exchanges of Mussolini. “Couldn’t think of your chief point of contact in order for the immediate and mediator between you and food, dance and pleasantries a better inheritor of the title investigation and arrest of the local population for the that celebrated the best of ll Duce” pointing to the fallen Kevin Rudd, recent ex-prime duration of your assignment. both cultures, Italian repre- politician. minister of Australia. sentative, Gianni Piccalino, This mission is completely Once you have infiltrated the classified and cannot leave target’s ‘Shadow Cabinet of True stood to close the event. “She can’t be an Italian poli- this document. “From the two cultures who tician. She isn’t nearly corrupt Believers’, using any means at your disposal (it is suggested brought you the birth of West- enough,” Piccalino paused. In fact, you may as well burn you attend their weekly dis- ern Civilization, we sincerely “Well, Italians don’t have the this document after you read cussion forums, in which the hope you had an excellent monopoly on shit politicians! it because if you don’t you’re ‘True Believers’ participate in time at today’s festivities. Haven’t you heard of Petro going to be in massive trou- a crude ‘Question Time’ type of ble. We’d like to thank our Greek Georgiou?” he spat. policy reform, the most recent hosts, including the wonder- achievement being the passing But this ‘never happened’ so of legislation regarding the ful Sophie Mirabella for their Mirabella, meanwhile, spent maybe you won’t. inclusion of bilbies in cabi- time, and hope to see you all the time sobbing in the corner. I don’t know. net), you must terminate Rudd’s again next year!” Insiders rumour not even an This is getting too meta. command with extreme preju- afternoon of scolding children dice. Anyway. After transportation Halfway through a cannoli and drowning kittens could up the Murray Darling you and disguising his drunken- cheer her. Sitting him down in a quiet must locate Rudd in his ‘Com- room and asking him if he’s ness under the veneer of pound of Solace’, which from OK is the suggested method doing the Zorba, Greek Mayor, Asked to comment on the recent intelligence appears to of achieving this outcome. He Peter Tszarziki, unexpectedly event, the Greek Ambassador be an abandoned ALDI in the reportedly responds well to jumped to the stand. “It’s shrugged off the severity of township of Gundagai. Rudd the term ‘buddy’ and is sym- has taken up residence in the pathetic to personal stories rare you’d find a modest Ital- the damage. “At least Abbott building and from all reports ian,” he joked to a laughing is an English name”. of rejection, so if you have has been forming an army of any classified stories about audience,“ but I couldn’t idly locals into a ‘Shadow Cabinet a friend backstabbing you for stand by while we unfairly The English Ambassador of True Believers’, reportedly personal gain it is suggested took the credit. Mirabella’s declined to comment on the a guerilla force he directs that you would use those to from the dairy and juice aisle. not Greek. There’s not nearly matter, but wished to remind talk Rudd down from his post. enough ‘pous’ in the name for Greece of its debt. Rudd has been reported to be her to be one of us!”

“It’s a good thing they float!”: a boat full of political footballs approaches Australia.

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