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A student paper which and crude language you used have refused to apologise despite calls does not acknowledge historical and ongoing colonisation and the white supremacy embedded within Australian society can never adequately represent the students It probably wasn’t your intention to which is still regarded by many as from Jewish student representatives and Just wanted to say I really enjoyed the of the institution in which it operates. We seek to resist colonial violence and the racist power structures that serve to oppress those who are Indigenous to this land. invite an open letter of thanks when you obscene. Your reported behaviour in Catholic students. Week 2 edition of Honi. I laughed Sovereignty was never ceded. Always was and always will be Aboriginal land. published anti-Semitic, anti-Christian communication with Jewish student While you may not care at all (and several times, and found a fair amount and generally anti-religious items representatives was especially judging from what you have published of it interesting and thought provoking. designed to insult Jews and Catholics reprehensible. This presents me with in your Orientation edition, that seems That is all. (and apparently to provoke religious a unique challenge: how do I respond highly likely, at least), you need to Contents Editorial hostility between them as well) in the to people who are – apparently – understand that while a searching In appreciation, student newspaper you produce at obstinately unwilling to understand scrutiny and criticism of any religious James This week, we witnessed the converging of stories on the corrupting impacts the University of Sydney. But here it what they have done? How does one faith or philosophy is entirely justified, Editor in Chief: Chuyi Wang. of a liberal Death Star unlike this world of the all-powerful corporation. From What’s on / 2 is. On behalf of Catholic students at respond to seeming brats who are insulting it is not. has ever seen. With some backdoor hideous boutique dresses (pg. 11), to Sydney University, staff attached to the convinced they are cleverer – and Nudes, declarations of Editors: Nina Dillon Britton, deals orchestrated by the international exploitative groundwater management Catholic chaplaincy and Catholics in therefore more entitled – than those Matthew Forbes, Zhiquan Gan, club of billionaire boys, a grandpa (pg. 16), to the USU’s brand new and -Mr Peter Rosengren affection and hate mail Gossip / 3 general, I write to thank you for what Robbie Mason, Angad Roy, Lara without so much as the ability to string very appetising cereal bar (pg. 17), we they attack? you did. may be sent to: Sonnenschein, Ranuka Tandan, together a coherent sentence is now the slowly come to terms with our status as Honi Soit’s editions to open the News / 4 Chuyi Wang, Madeline Ward, closest he’s ever been to becoming god- ants in a world where profits rule all. Normal people everywhere would student year at Sydney University. [email protected] Lei Yao. emperor of the West. This is like if you Yet, little bursts of resistance can still describe what you published as vile Articles ridiculing Catholics and finally found all seven Dragon Balls happen in the seams - whether that be Analysis / 6 Contributors: Misbah Ansari, and all you got was a cool branded hat. from French film journalists (pg. 15), or Shrawani Bhattarai, Alvin Can we really be surprised? We medical test baboons (pg. 8). Perspective / 11 Chung, Bella Devine-Poulos, are hurtling towards a neo-lib-fucked I would especially like to thank Tristan Dearden, Nisha oblivion, and yet I still found myself Jacob Shteyman for his incredibly Weekly Duggan, Maya Eswaran, debating the merits of buying Boiler thorough investigation of Parramatta Feature / 12 Bapou He, Marlow Hurst, Room tickets for over three hours last Road’s glamorous history and not-so- That’s not a strike, this is a strike a bridesmaid, never a bride, Dane Holme Building last Thursday for acknolwedgment of country when Sarah Jasem, Rhian Mordaunt, Tuesday. Maybe this time, I’ll finally glamorous decay for our feature article cements his reputation as a stickler for the least anticipated social event of he said “we recognise this land was Claire Ollivain, Kate Scott, Max transcend to the astral plane with the this week, as well as Ranuka Tandan Petition wielding Trotskyites were the rules. Capricious Carrie is also no the year, Glitter Gala. As per, it was terra nullius,” seemingly oblivious rest of my bros. and Janina Osinsao for their beautiful out in force on Eastern Avenue longer in the running, a decision she a classic cross factional piss up, with to the error. Ah, what a glitter galah Culture / 14 Shanahan, Jacob Shteyman, And so, the world keeps turning. pieces of accompanying art. Will Solomon. last week. Rival factions, Socialist he is! People were also seen snorting Parasite finally gets the HBO television Hopefully this edition gives you some Alternative (thems) and Solidarity substances during a (not so rousing) Creative / 18 show starring Mark Ruffalo all the respite from your endless acquisiton (whos) have been engaged in a war poem delivered by Colonial Connor Artists: Lilly Aggio, Misbah fans have been clamouring for. Grimes syndrome in the coming days. In the of words, stickers and Facebook Wherrett. Ansari, Jocelin Chan, Ash endorses Bernie whilst continuing to meantime, I’ll be trying desperately to comments. What is it that has gotten SRC / 20 Duncan, Ben Lopes, Shania date a very handsome and oh so very convince myself that I really need to our favourite socialists so hot under Forgive me daddy, for I have sinned O’Brien, Janina Osinsao, Sophia rich techno-fashie. Behringer keeps buy a new synth. Maybe this time, I’ll the collar? The precise meaning of Perez. ripping off open-source and DIY finally get signed to Warp Records. the word “strike,” and whether or not Yours truly were condemned again Puzzles / 22 circuits to mass-produce and sell to the SAlt organised action on the 13th last week, this time by God Himself, Cover artist: Ranuka Tandan. poor musicians. Elizabeth Warren rakes of March constitutes one. Guerilla through the mighty pen of his fierce in paychecks to play septuagenarian Yours, in rage, Solidarity fighters have been scuttling disciple, Peter Rosengren of The Comedy / 23 Bachelorette live on television. Chuyi Wang the length of Eastern Avenue, Catholic Weekly. Whomst is this This week’s edition of Honi is full stickering over any SAlt posters in Mr Rosengren, you ask? A former sight. SAlt have responded in kind editor of Pelican, the UWA student (with memes). publication, and Australia’s least read Disclaimer: Honi Soit is published by the Students’ Representative Council, University of Sydney, Level 1 Wentworth Building, City Road, University of Sydney NSW 2006. The SRC’s student newspaper. According to Mr operation costs, space and administrative support are financed by the University of Sydney.Honi Soit is printed under the auspices of the SRC’s directors of student publications: Maia BYE LOSERS! Rosengren, we are “vile, juvenile and Edge, Peiqing Fan, Nina Mountford, Roisin Murphy, Mikaela Pappou and Maxim Vishney. All expressions are published on the basis that they are not to be regarded as the opinions of obscene.” He also invoked the word the SRC unless specifically stated. The Council accepts no responsibility for the accuracy of any of the opinions or information contained within this newspaper, nor does it endorse any of Dodgy Dane is apparently no longer came to once her hangover cleared. all the drama missing considering of the Absolute Boy in saying that the advertisements and insertions. Please direct all advertising inquiries to [email protected]. in the race to be a Board Director the event is no longer held in our heresy would be yeeting all good later in the elections later in semester, Who is the glitter galah? semester two after election season. Catholics to the Kingdom of Heaven. as he is now employed by the USU Highlights of the evening included What’s on this week as Secretary to the Board. Always Campus hacks came together in the Naughty Nick Forbutt fucking up his For those fighting the good fight!

250 years of resistance - ‘88 film screening Cathsoc Monthly BBQ Uni Student Climate Strike Protest: Solidarity with Victims of Modi’s Astral People & Nectar present Objekt When: 11th March, 5:30pm - 8pm When: 11th March, 1:00pm - 2:00pm When: 13th March 11:30am - 1pm Fascist Regime When: 14th March, 10pm - 5am Write, create Where: TBA (USyd) Where: Eastern Avenue Where: Front of Fisher Library When: 15th March, 1pm - 2:30pm Where: Universal Price: Donation Price: Prayer Price: Free Where: Consulate General of India Price: $30 - $35 Price: Free and produce If the stupidly long name of the new Birds of Are you a tradwife wannabe with a burning It’s a win-win situation. Miss class and feel morally If your only relationship with the Indian community Let Berlin-based DJ Objekt bamboozle you with Prey movie turned you off ‘cinema’ forever, then desire for some thick Catholic meat? Your future righteous about your decision! This strike is part is drunkenly eating naan and bhaji at Indian Home a set of techno and edgy club music after a hard venture to Sydney University Education Action husband is waiting for you, sausage in hand. of broader strikes across Australian university Diner in Paddington, then it’s really time to be aware week of fighting the system. Support comes from for Honi Soit Group’s film screening of ‘88. Raise funds for campuses. The intention is to tackle climate of the severe injustices marring the country right the all-female collective Nectar (Andy Garvey, DJ the Gweagal-Bidjigal gathering in April. The film As it says in Galatians 5:19, “The acts of the flesh change and our current federal government’s now. Organised by USyd’s Autonomous Collective Scorpion, Jemma Cole and Natalia). This gig shows documents the historic protests during Australia’s are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and complete ineptitude in not completely fucking our Against Racism, this protest is an expression of promising signs of genre-defying music for such Interested in reporting or making 1988 bicentenary and will provide useful context debauchery.” Enjoy all three this Wednesday! nation’s beautiful landscapes. solidarity with Muslim communities in India, who a large venue. Embrace the confusion as normies art for Australia’s only remaining for anyone keen to show support for First Nations have endured violence, riots and the descration of realise they won’t hear any Chainsmokers. weekly student newspaper? Email communities. Don’t waste money on exorbitantly sacred sites by Hindu nationalists. us at [email protected] or priced popcorn here either; it’s BYO snacks. message us over on our Facebook, Twitter or Instagram pages.

2 3 NEWS SRC NOTICE UNSW to divest from fossil fuels by 2025 Notice of Student General Meeting Lara Sonnenschein reports. The University of New South Wales UNSW, who have led the divestment who campaigned explicitly on has so far refused to divest from fossil for Climate Strikes (UNSW) is set to divest from all fossil campaign at the University. divestment to the UNSW Council, the fuels. Information obtained under When: 1pm, 1 April 2020 fuel company investments by 2025. A spokesperson from Fossil Free University’s chief administrative and freedom of information laws last year The University’s current portfolio UNSW told Honi, “we are so excited financial body. highlighted that the University has Where: MacLaurin Hall includes approximately $16.2 million in that UNSW has committed to divesting Fossil Free UNSW $22.4 million invested in fossil fuel companies “that directly own fossil fuel from fossil fuels. This announcement UNSW now joins La Trobe and the companies. This meeting has been called by the University of Sydney Students’ Representative Council in resonse to a statement signed reserves”, per UNSW’s sustainability has been the result of countless petitions, Queensland University of Technology Fossil Free USyd has called on the by 400 students. policy. rallies and sit-ins organised by students (QUT) in committing to divesting from “University of Sydney to make the same Today’s decision also follows a and staff, and highlights the power of fossil fuels. right choice on behalf of its students School Strike 4 Climate has called their next major climate strike for Friday, 15 May. In addition, trade unions are taking partial divestment announced last year. ordinary people coming together and The University is also aiming to be and fully divest from fossil fuels.” The resolution comes after six years demanding climate action.” carbon neutral in its electricity usage by action for “workers, rights, social justice and climate action” on Friday, 1 May. of sustained campaigning from campus Fossil Free UNSW has also had the end of this year. environmental group Fossil Free success in electing student candidates Meanwhile, the University of Sydney The meeting is to: 1. Hear an introduction from student strike activists and unionists building May 1 and May 15 actions. 2. Vote on the following motion: University cancels semester exchanges in response to i) We express support for the May “month of mayhem” – the global climate strike on May 15 and the May 1 union protest action for “Workers’ Rights, Social Justice and Climate Action”. ii) We call on the Vice Chancellor Michael Spence to publicly commit to a position of no penaltyfor staff and students the coronavirus who join strikes on May 1 and May 15. Ranuka Tandan reports. Mover: Raul Haagensen. Seconder: Margot Beavon-Collin In a travel advice update, the University Pavia, Italy. He told Honi, “Before complete the coursework from their budget by more than $200 million. Authorised by Liam Donohoe, [email protected]. of Sydney (USyd) has cancelled waking up to this email, I received zero exchange university online, or pull out The measures include limiting all semester exchange programs in communication from the University of the exchange and re-enrol in classes capital spending on equipment and mainland China, Hong Kong, Iran, of Sydney regarding the COVID-19 at USyd. However, as the latest date infrastructure, deferring project Why join the climate strikes? strike. penalty for staff and students who depends on the anti-strike laws to South Korea and northern Italy, and is situation and zero warning that my that students can add or change units spending that is not a priority, reducing By Kelton Muir and But the protests need to escalate. strike. We forced him to do this for prevent staff striking against his cuts. encouraging students in these areas to exchange might be cancelled. Up to for Semester 1 is this Friday, 6 March, money spent on entertainment, Frieda Rzewnicki Street marches, high school and the climate strikes last year, and we We need to use the SGM to build return to Australia and self-isolate for this point, all I had heard from USyd it’s likely that this will be impossible for international travel, contractors and university student strikes alone will can do it again. The USyd branch the power and confidence to strike 14 days. was regular COVID-19 messages from some students and that it will disrupt consultants, and putting a pause on The climate crisis is upon us. Severe not force action on climate change. committee of the National Tertiary regardless. This is part of a broader policy to the Chancellor that were sent out to all their study significantly. recruitment. The University has also bushfires have destroyed swathes of What is needed is hundreds of Education Union has also voted SGMs have a proud history. When suspend all student and non-essential students, but I received nothing from This comes as the University evaluates advised that Faculties and Schools Australia, killing 34 people, over one thousands of workers striking to to support the “widest possible the apartheid South African football staff travel until further notice,Study Abroad to check up on myself the financial impact of COVID-19 and should review their casual teaching billion animals and destroying 3000 shut the economy down. Strikes are stoppage” for the May strikes too. and includes exchange programs, or other students in affected countries introduces five key savings measures. team toured Australia in 1971, there budgets, though they have emphasised field schools and all other overseas and we certainly had no warning that In an email sent out to staff yesterday, homes. The impact will be felt for effective, workers taking mass strike We need to build on momentum was a militant campaign to boot them being mindful of the impact that this placements in affected areas. the University was going to shut down Vice-Chancellor Michael Spence years to come and future summers action was an important reason by passing masses of strike motions out of the country: A 3000 strong will have on employees. Tim Livingstone is one student who exchanges.” announced that USyd will be activating will be worse. behind Australia’s withdrawal from in classes like we did for the 20 SGM at the University of Queensland had already flown out of Australia Students were given two options to a financial shock recovery plan as it The response from our Prime the Vietnam War. September climate strike last year. voted to strike for the duration of the for his exchange at the University of ensure that their study is not affected: expects to fall short of its $2.8 billion Minister Scott Morrison has been The coming months offer the We also need to step things up. tour. The Springboks were chased disgraceful. He has escalated the perfect opportunity to begin the Our petition for action in May included out of the country and didn’t return cause of the fires by bribing the NSW major task of building towards such a call for the SRC to back an official until the fall of Apartheid. government to lift its production of an escalation. But workers can Student General Meeting (SGM) on You can help make this escalation UNSW将在2025年之前放弃投资化石燃料 coal and gas. face $12,600 fines if they strike for April 1 to vote on a motion in support happen. A minimum of 200 A coalition of former Fire Chiefs political causes like the climate. of the May strikes. Action from students must attend the SGM 翻译 Zhiquan Gan & Lei Yao says the climate crisis is making On May 1 workers in Sydney our student union will mean more for it to be official. We need every bushfires deadlier and bushfire will challenge these anti-strike pressure on the Vice Chancellor and student interested in fighting for 新南威尔士大学（UNSW）计划在2025 作出的，该组织领导了新南威尔士大 同时，UNSW Fossil Free 中的一些在 在用电量方面实现碳中和。 season longer . laws, demanding “Workers’ Rights, more support for strike action across climate action to attend this meeting, 年之前从目前所有化石燃料公司的投 学的撤资运动。 此次石油撤资活动中出力的成员在新 但是，迄今为止，悉尼大学一直拒 People see the crisis and are Social Justice and Climate Action”. the uni. become part of the Month of 资中撤资。根据UNSW的可持续发展 UNSW Fossil Free 的一位发言人对 南威尔士大学学生议会（即新南威尔 绝从化石燃料的投资里撤资。根据从 ready to take action. Last year, the These include the construction and Our Vice Chancellor is attacking MAYhem campaign and help SHUT 政策，该大学目前的投资组合总额（ Honi说：“我们感到非常激动，新南威 士大学主要的行政和财务机构）的竞 去年信息自由法中获得的信息表明， September climate strikes drew maritime divisions of the Construction staff by cutting jobs in response DOWN the campus on 1 May and 15 包括直接拥有化石燃料储量的公司） 尔士州大学（UNSW) 已经致力于从化 选中也成功获得一席之地。 悉尼大学已向化石燃料公司投资2,240 millions of people into protest for Forestry Maritime Mining and Energy to budget shortfall from the May. Find “Spreading The Climate 约为1,620万澳元。 石燃料中撤资。该公告是学生和教职 新南威尔士州立大学现已加入拉伯 万澳元。 此决定的实施还取决于去年宣布的 员组织的无数请愿，集会和静坐示威 筹大学 (La Trobe) 和 昆士兰科技大学 Fossil Free USYD 基金会同时呼吁 “ climate action around the world. Union, workers from the Electrical Coronavirus. We can’t rely on him Strike – USYD” on Facebook and 部分撤资。 的结果。同时也强调了普通人团结在 （QUT），共同致力于从化石燃料中 悉尼大学做出同样正确的选择，并完 80,000 gathered in Sydney. Over Trades Union and Plumbers Union. It supporting the 1 May strike: he join us at the SGM to get involved. 该决议是在校园环境组织 Fossil Free 一起，以及气候抗议行动的成功依赖 撤资。 全放弃化石燃料的使用。” 2,500 Usyd students and staff will be the first large-scale UNSW过去六年的持续抗议运动之后 于集体的力量。” 新南威尔士大学还力争到今年年底 marched to the protest in the city. workers’ strike action for 191 classes passed motions to join climate action in Australia. the strike, dozens of classes and Unions have called assessments were cancelled or university students to join 悉尼大学取消了部分学期交换项目，作为对冠状病 moved. their action, and this will Over the summer tens of be only the beginning of thousands protested in response a month of mayhem. First 毒的回应 to the bushfire and smoke crisis. we defy the anti-strike 翻译 Zhiquan Gan & Lei Yao Workers at Port Botany shut down laws with workers on 1 their job site in response to the May, then we go all out for 在最新的旅行建议中，悉尼大学 告诉Honi：“在收到这封电子邮件警 正在交换的大学中完成网络课程，或 务低迷的困境中复苏的计划。该计划 horrendous smoke. On February a massive climate strike （USyd）取消了中国大陆，香港，伊 告之前，我没有收到悉尼大学关于 者退出交换并重新注册悉尼大学的课 预计从目前28亿美元的财务预算中削减 22 tens of thousands attended a on 15 May! 朗，韩国和意大利北部的所有学期交 COVID-19情况的任何信息，也没有被 程。但是，由于学生可以在第一学期 2亿美元支出。这些措施包括限制设备 national day of action to demand The campaign to build 换课程，并鼓励这些地区的学生及时 告知我的交换可能会被取消。到目前 添加或更改课程的截止日期为3月6日（ 和基础设施等固定资产支出，推迟不 publicly-owned renewable energy by the Month of Mayhem in 返回澳大利亚并自我隔离14天。这是一 为止，我从学校获得的的只是大学校 星期五）。因此对于某些学生而言， 必要的项目支出，减少在娱乐、国际 2030 and a just transition for workers May is already taking off. 项更广泛政策中的一部分，该政策将 长发送给所有学生有关COVID-19的常 这很可能是不现实的，并且会严重干 旅行、承包商和学术顾问上的支出， and Indigenous communities. Over 1000 Usyd students 暂停所有学生和非必要人员的旅行， 规消息。但我从 Study Abroad 中没有得 扰他们的学习计划。 以及暂停大学教师的招聘。悉尼大学 School Strike for Climate will be have signed a statement 直至另行通知，其中包括交换计划， 到任何有关自我检查，亦或是关于其 这也是源于悉尼大学评估COVID-19 还建议，各学院应审查其临时教学预 launching their next major strike on supporting the action 短期实践性学术研究和所有其他在海 他在受病毒影响地区交换学生的有用 的财务影响后果，并且引入了五项关 算，虽然也同时强调避免对教职工产 May 15 and a massive student strike and calling on the Vice 外受灾地区的安排。 信息。而且我们确定没有被警告，大 键的节流措施。 生负面影响。 can help give workers confidence to Chancellor to agree to no Tim Livingstone 是一名悉尼大学 学将取消交换。” 在昨天发给所有工作人员的电子邮 About 2000 USyd students joined last September’s climate strikes. Photo: Claire Ollivain. 学生，他已经从澳大利亚飞往意大利 学校为学生提供了两种选择，以确 件中，副校长 Michael Spence 宣布，悉 的 University of Pavia 进行交换。他 保他们的学习不会受到影响：从他们 尼大学（USyd）将启动一项从目前财

4 5 ANALYSIS ANALYSIS The offence of female Muslim dissent The right and the “Judeo-Christian” myth Misbah Ansari champions the women leading the anti-CAA protest movement. Lara Sonnenschein on how a term which sounds inclusive promotes exclusion. When someone asks me to define light a cigarette. The discomfort that In a 2017 speech at the Values Voter Anjem Choudary, stated “my country Judeo-Christianity as a framework phenomenon in the Anglosphere. myself, I reply, confused, “I would say, Muslim women bring to the right wing Summit, American President Donald is a Judeo-Christian country. So we’ve through which to propagate their views. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor someone who has grown up waking up is clear not only in high-profile politics, Trump addressed the crowd by saying, got to actually start standing up for our Their willingness to embrace the term Orban and French National Front to the morning azan?” The morning but also in day-to-day interactions. “We are stopping cold the attacks on values.” represents a strategic shift in how the leader Marine Le Pen also propagate call from the minaret was usually The women-led protests are Judeo-Christian values… we’re saying Here, Farage is linking his fears about right deals with Jewishness. Of course antisemitic myths about Jewish financial infused with the rosary breaths of my happening in Muslim neighborhoods ‘Merry Christmas’ again.” It seems Islam with Judeo-Christian values. the radical right remain enchanted by the control and “globalism,” whilst at mother, the lunchbox clamour of Farah and are led by Muslim women; a patently absurd to assert there is an However, it’s apparent that he is not antisemitic fiction of Jewish financial the same time musing on Judeo- aapa from the neighborhood, groans combination of topographical and intrinsic Jewish value in celebrating a really concerned with including Jews, control, a centuries old conspiracy Christianity and cuddling up to Israeli of morning obligations, and other gender anomaly in the Indian society. Christian holiday, not least when the but with excluding Muslims. Further, theory largely embodied in the modern Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. womanly sounds. You would expect It is this game of image that comes holiday in question largely revolves seeing as Farage has been roundly George Soros myth. Further, as Robert Even a cursory search on social media the colony to ring with the domestic here. If you are a Muslim woman in around eating a huge hunk of ham criticised for antisemitic comments, Bowers, the Pittsburgh synagogue will show that while large sections of the callings of women, but hardly expect to India, the assumption is that you are and copious amounts of prawns (in including complaints about the impacts murderer outlined in his manifesto, right have embraced the term, Jewish hear words like Inquilab and Azadi. either an uneducated, submissive wife Australia at least). Nonetheless, the of “the Jewish lobby” in American many on the radical right view Jews people have overwhelmingly rejected India has witnessed an already or a sensuous, promiscuous woman. term “Judeo-Christian” has come to be politics, it’s seemingly unlikely that he as supporting non-white (particularly it. Jewish people are not falling for tumultuous political situation flare The former comes from a place of deployed fairly frequently by those on places much value on Jewish people, Muslim) immigration, casting them as what is fundamentally a right wing dog up in the past three months following geographical and societal history of the political right, from Republicans Jewish culture or Judaism as a religion. the real force behind “white genocide.” whistle, and the myth that Judaism and the BJP government’s decision to pass oppression. to alt-right message board dwellers. So, Instead, the “Judeo-” functions as a However, whilst this is the case, Christianity are one and the same when the Citizenship Amendment Act, a My family grew up in the chawls of what does it all mean? useful shield with which to attack Islam Israel is often held in high regard within it comes to values. Indeed, “Judeo- discriminatory act which provides Nagpada in Mumbai and women of On the face of it, it might seem Christianity” represents a longer, citizenship safety to people of religions my family do not have much formal during the 2002 Godhra riots, how their like these stimulate volunteer and like an act of good faith inclusion to historical trend of erasing Judaism other than Islam. This act has been education. I have seen the women of spines twitched at the radio updates, educational circles, sensitising people received with dissent from all over my house in hijab all my life, and I have incorporate Judaism into an imagined and Jewishness by subsuming it into and how they prayed through the about the issues and making them India, and the world. Women, and always associated them with sewing set of ‘Western’ values. But this has Christianity. As K. Healon Galston, political tumult that night. The fragility understand their stakeholdership in the especially Muslim women have been machines, spoons, and pots. However, not been how the term has operated. a lecturer at Harvard Divinity School of the right winger does not see this. revolution. These circles are a feminist Instead, the term has functionally explains, some Christians “have for There is this image which has settled conundrum of shared understanding served to exclude raather than include. many years viewed Judaism as the dead in their minds, of us growing up by the and tranferring of information from Indeed, it is clear that Trump has no root of the flourishing branch.” The offence arises when the right wing see women sewage, being imbued with jihad. If we women with more access to those with genuine intentions to be pluralistic It is clear that the notion of Judeo- ignore politics, we are docile. If we talk lesser access. When I tried to explain this who carry any trace of their Muslim identity - a or pro-Jewish. This is, after all, the Christianity functionally excludes both politics, we are terrorists who will burn to some acquaintances, they dismissed same guy who labelled neo-Nazis at Jews and Muslims whilst centring hijab the Qu’ran in their hands, some Islamic chant, down your shops on the orders of the this by saying, “anpadh auratein Charlottesville’s ‘Unite the Right’ rally Christianity. The phrase implicitly or simply the statement “as a Muslim woman...” men in our lives. If we try to sensitise dusre anpadho ko padhayengi?” (how “very fine people” and trafficked in excludes Jewish people by subsuming - out and proud. our fellow sisters, we are wayward can a group of uneducated women thinking people dismissing our religion. teach another group of uneducated antisemitic tropes when he questioned Judaism into Christianity and explicitly I have had all sorts of conversations women?). The assumption that we the loyalty of most of America’s Jewish excludes Muslim people in its intention with people, with some questioning are uneducated comes from the sight population to the Democratic Party. to justify anti-immigration rhetoric at the forefront of the dissent that is when I see the current protests in how the “poor’’ Muslim women know of the hijab, the assumption that we Majority Christian nations, and Islamophobic policy. Practically, circulating throughout the country. My Mumbai happening in the same area, about the political reality of the act. My cannot have a different life while living particularly those in the Anglosphere — “Judeo-Christian” values make goal here is not to say that only female and the clinking of pots and pans on discomfort with that term is another in such areas. My aunt, a chemistry such as Australia, the United Kingdom reference to a specific form of right wing protestors should be glorified, but to protest grounds, I shiver. I hear my tale, but the lack of efforts from the professor, who lives in Nagpada and and the United States — like to assert Christian values. As Rabbi Jill Jacobs reflect upon how seeing women I have grandmother, and think about how the opposition to understand the reality runs a volunteer group at Mumbai Bagh themselves as being grounded in a Judeo- wrote on Twitter: “Much of ‘Judeo- grown up with out on the streets made women were up all night in solidarity of the protests is appalling. Protests tells me how everyone assumes she is a Christian values system. However, it Christian’ tradition involves centuries of me feel something in my gut. There was nobody because she wears a hijab and is critical to acknowledge that Jews Christians trying to kill us. If you mean just something about seeing them with communicates in Urdu. “Wo kehte hai have been historically persecuted and ‘not Muslim’ say it.” their fingers up in the air that made ki maine mera inquilab mardo se seekha excluded from these countries. Whether Ultimately, the popularising of me wonder what offense they will stir hain. Par mai toh bachpan se hi meri it’s the 13th century expulsion of Jews “Judeo-Christianity” is part of a broader amongst the rigid right-wing. behno ke sath azadi ko pyar samajhti Shaheen Bagh has gained popularity from England, the 1905 British Aliens political trend within the right, wherein hu.” (They think that I have learnt for being the longest running peaceful Act, or the cap on Jewish immigration to progressive terms are weaponised for resistance from the men in my life. But protest in India. This idea of 24-hour such countries even after the Holocaust, their own political gain. For example, I have romanticized revolution with my sit-in protests was proliferated to places it is abundantly clear that for the vast “freedom of religion”, meant as a sisters right from my childhood). like Lucknow, Mumbai, Bengaluru and majority of history, Jewish people have universalist term and practice has been When I went to Mumbai Bagh to The phrase operates in drawing a false distinction Varanasi. I could not physically attend been deliberately treated and cast as appropriated by the Christian right in protest, I saw girls of the age 12 – 18 sing the Shaheen Bagh protests, but attended unwelcome in the Christian world. between a set of imagined “Christian”, “Western” defence of conservative values. This azaadi in chorus until 10 pm. They then Mumbai Bagh, a similar 24-hour protest It is only recently that Jewish people is currently the case with the Federal resorted to simple learning circles after values on the one side, and Islam, as an “ideology” that happened in Mumbai. However, I have been, for the most part, welcomed Government’s “Religious Freedom the time. All I saw was an unquenchable need not be physically present to tell you within Christian countries, albeit on alongisde the perceived threats of Muslim Bill” which seeks to allow for sexist and female anger that I wish I had when I about the reactions that people (read – someone else’s terms. Of course, now homophobic discrimination. Indeed, the was 12. They say we protest for their imigration on the other. privileged upper caste Hindu men and money, and I ask how, how do you get Muslim people, especially Muslim same parallel can also be drawn when women) have thrown at me for talking the audacity to make such claims? For immigrants and refugees, are receiving and Muslims. sections of the radical right as a powerful it comes to those weaponising the right about it. a large circle in Indian society, Muslim similarly racialised and exclusionary When those on the right, like Trump embodiment of “Western” values. The to free speech. Deployed by disgraced There is this sense of discomfort women are still the money hungry treatment. Accordingly, the term Judeo- and Farage, deploy the term they are country’s military prowess against its figures such as Milo Yiannopoulos or among people when they see overtly tawaiffs and prostitutes. We are either Christian is now most frequently used fundamentally engaging in an “us Muslim neighbours combined with Bettina Arndt, “freedom of speech” is Muslim women being the face of our names, beauty, or poverty. I ask as a way to be falsely inclusive of Jews versus them” division regarding the its ethno-nationalist philosophy, as strategically used as a shield to harass something dynamic. Mind you, the issue here, a simple question to all – whilst excluding Muslims. West and Islam. Importantly, this is not explicated in the 2018 “nation-state and insult minorities and survivors, is not with women, or Muslim women Tumhara inquilab, inquilab. Par The phrase operates in drawing about incorporating Jews within this, law”, which asserts that Israel belongs rather than being used as some great who are latent about that identity. The hamara inquilab jihad kyu? a false distinction between a set of but about the deliberate and xenophobic to Jews alone, enamour the radical defence of liberal values. offence arises when the right wing see Your resistance counts as resistance, imagined “Christian,” “Western” exclusion of the “other.” Additionally, right. As America’s most famous If we are to celebrate religious women who carry any trace of their so why does our resistance count as values on the one side, and Islam, as it is often used to propagate a mythic white nationalist, Richard Spencer, has pluralism and inclusion, rather than Muslim identity - a hijab, the Qu’ran terrorism? an ‘ideology’ alongside the percieved narrative of Christian persecution in the proclaimed “Jews are, once again, at exclusion and bigotry, we should reject in their hands, some Islamic chant, or threats of Muslim immigration on the West. the vanguard, rethinking politics and and retire the word “Judeo-Christian” simply the statement “as a Muslim Art by Misbah Ansari. other. This framing is encapsulated by It is not just those on the populist sovereignty for all the future, showing a immediately. woman…” - out and proud. It is like Photo: Hamara Times, depicting students we are matchsticks and can only escape right wing populist Nigel Farage, who in right, but those on the more radical path forward for Europeans.” from Jamia Millia Islamia University. their matchboxes when they want to denouncing the Islamic fundamentalist, right who are beginning to embrace Importantly, this is not just a Art by Jocelin Chan.

6 7 ANALYSIS ANALYSIS Knowing other animals: Through science or soldarity? What’s the link between microchipping Bella Devine-Poulos on how we should join with animals in resistance.

When three baboons escaped from emerging infectious disease threats to The grant description advises that the loss of proximity to humanness, such and Satanism? Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (RPA) livestock and aquaculture fish in order to use of animal testing “will underpin as human vivisection experiments Shrawani Bhattarai interrogates the religious resistance to human RFID technology. two weeks ago, in their reporting on bolster the profits of these industries; the commercial decisions by our industry carried out by Germany and Japan’s the event, The Guardian repeatedly DPI Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural partner (GSK) leading to human trials fascist regimes during World War Two, In 1998, British scientist Kevin Warwick up their daily routine. RFID has been linked to the mark company’s Facebook page, and accused used the same stock image of an olive Institute, which contains and researches and the development of a safe group A or the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis conducted the very first experiment with Whilst Warwick believed that a for about 15 years now. Back in 2006, the company of being the Antichrist baboon, found throughout equatorial upon animals for the purposes of streptococcal vaccine for human use.” Experiment carried out on African- RFID (radio-frequency identification) human-computer hybrid has many Katherine Albrecht told C/net that and “doing the dirty work for Satan.” Africa, despite the escaped male Australian biosecurity; the National GSK—Glaxo Smith Kline—is a British American men. In Australia during the baboon’s obvious mane of grey-white implants and became the first human to applications, both negative and positive, her goal as a Christian is to enunciate The company received hundreds of non-human primate breeding and pharmaceutical company which was 1920s and 1930s, First Nations people fur and red face announcing him as a host a microchip. Lodged just under the Katherine Albrecht, an anti-RFID the alarm. The connection between one-star reviews, and were accused of hamadryas baboon from the Horn of research facility at Monash University; fined US$3 billion in 2012 for bribing were subjected to medical experiments skin, the implant was used for meagre evangelist, has been very vocal on this technology and the mark has been committing a sin by using RFID as a Africa and Arabian Peninsula. While and ozGene, which breeds ‘customised doctors to prescribe their antidepressant by the University of Adelaide justified tasks like opening doors or switching the negatives. She believes that such established for two reasons. First, the form of identification or payment. a mistake as obvious as this should genetically modified mice’. Evidently, medications to children and failing to by a regime of scientific racism. on lights with just a wave of a hand. technology may unfold to become the microchips have been implanted onto This is not the first time that end- reveal poor journalistic standards, it is the common use of animals in research report safety problems with diabetes While many student-led campaigns When Warwick strolled through the mark of the Beast and wrote a book - The the palm of the right hand for ease and times theologians have portrayed the likely to go unnoticed by readers as the does not take place purely out of the drug Avandia. USyd also collaborates emphasise the importance of showing front door of his office, a computerized Spychips Threat: Why Christians Should convenience. This mimics the phrase apocalypse in reality. Some believe that majority of us know very little about goodwill of scientists trying to make with GSK, through an ‘Industry- solidarity with university staff and voice would be activated by the implant: Resist RFID and Electronic Surveillance from the passage where all are “to the WWW (World Wide Web) would any other animal species: their forms the world a ‘better place’ by alleviating Based Learning Program’ offered to defending the right to university “Good morning, Professor Warwick. - warning other Christians about the receive a mark on their right hand”. bring forth the end-times, on the basis of embodiment, social and kinship human illness—it is directly related undergraduate students in their final education, I think we also need to You have five new emails.” technology. It is believed that the mark Second, some of these chips have been that in Hebrew www is 666, the mark structures, dietary habits, lifespans, to the need to maintain Australia’s year, reflecting the rise of public-private recognise the way that the academy has These implants are now used to store of the Beast is a way to distinguish those used to store credit card information, of the Beast. preferred habitats, technologies, means profitable livestock sector despite its partnerships in the education sector. been the originator of many discourses digital identity information, medical who worship the Antichrist, indicating which Biblical theorists believe is true Rev 13:18 states, of communication and self-expression. negative environmental impacts, its While mice are traditional in vivo and practices that intellectually bolster records or to gain access to buildings. the end of times; a future time period to the phrase “that no one may buy or “Here is wisdom. Let him that hath This is the result of the entrenchment colonial regimes, develop techniques of urbanisation and industrialisation, of power for capital and the state, and Martijn Wismeijer, Dutch marketing when the world will cease to exist. A sell except one who has the mark.” This understanding count the number of the which has transformed space in the deepen the hierarchies of class, race, sex, manager for Bitcoin ATM manufacturer passage in the Book of Revelations has led some people to infer that those beast: for it is the number of a man, and European imperial core and its colonial ability and species which make up our General Bytes, placed RFID chips in 13:16 states, without the implant/mark will not be his number is Six hundred threescore outposts including the Australian settler- world through knowledge production both of his hands to store his Bitcoin “[The Beast] causes all, both small able to earn a living. and six.” colony, razing other animal habitats and and technological development. private keys and business card. Jona- and great, rich and poor, free and slave, In 2017, a company based in Grant R. Jeffrey, bible teacher of Bible constructing our own out of concrete, There are other ways that we can than Oxer, a programmer based in Aus- to receive a mark on their right hand or Wisconsin offered to pay for their Propphecy, wrote in his book The Prince timber and steel. In the process, other know other animals than through the tralia, self-implanted an RFID chip in their foreheads, and that no one may employees to get RFID implants if of Darkness: “The number 666 indicates animals have been banished from their disciplines of natural science which his arm using a veterinary implantation buy or sell except one who has the mark they wanted one. This action received that the letters in the Greek form of own homes to make way for ours. Those seek to objectify and instrumentalise tool. Thousands of Swedes are implant- or the name of the beast, or the number grave backlash from religious advocates, the name of the Antichrist will add up that remain such as rats, pigeons, ibises their bodies, the voyeuristic spaces of ing microchips under their skin to speed of his name.” who voiced their displeasure on the to 666. There is a slim possibility that and cockroaches, are seen as ‘pests’ in zoos and aquariums, or shallow pop his name will equal 666 in the Hebrew their defiance of human attempts to culture representations. When I saw language since the Antichrist will be banish all other animals (besides our the footage of the baboons’ escape, I Jewish. The numeric system does not pets, eugenically curated to suit our saw three agents affirming themselves work in English, or in languages other aesthetic preferences) from non-‘wild’ against the speciesist power of the than Greek or Hebrew, so it is useless space. While in many other parts of the medical institution that they were to calculate the values of names in these world, including more remote parts of escaping from. I read their activity as the Australian continent, people and modern languages.” Further, the www a form of protest, a way of thwarting is not imprinted on the right hand or other animals still coexist and share their the people who depended on their environments, most of us in the Global forehead, making it improbable to claim bodies for research funding and clout it as the mark of the Beast. North have never engaged in an organic within their discipline. Although they Worried evangelists have had this relationship with a non-domesticated were eventually captured, on some level terror about salvation and apocalypse animal. And through colonisation, First ongoing role in colonial dispossession, test subjects, primates are often used their protest was successful: it generated - a feeling now commonly known as Nations peoples’ totemic cosmologies and its brutalisation of other animals. as alternatives where transgenic discussion in Australian news media the “salvation anxiety.” Predicting have been removed from their original The baboons came from the mouse models fail, due to their closer about animal testing, sparked a protest and understanding the first sign of context, involving relationships with National Baboon Colony at Wallacia physiology to humans. Due to the outside RPA last week, and created new and knowledge of animals and the land. which is part of the Sydney Local size similarity between human and pig knowledge of vivisection. the Antichrist has always been a topic It is partially because we have learnt Health District, a division of the NSW organs, researchers at USyd including However perhaps what was missing of fascination among them, which to never see non-domesticated, non-bird Government Department of Health. Alexandra Sharland have been doing from the news and from the animal is why the aforementioned lines species in our midst that the sighting Amongst other organisations it has research into xenotransplantation rights protests was a knowledge of the of Revelations have been so oftten of three hamadryas baboons was so historically received funding from the between pigs and baboons, with the baboons as agential subjects with whom scrutinised. These lines however, are shocking to passersby. Of course, a National Health and Medical Research ultimate goal of using animal organs for we can stand in solidarity, not simply obviosuly so ambiguous that no definite great part of the shock came from the Centre (NHMRC). According to data transplantation into humans. Sharland pit or feel the need to ‘save’. I heard interpretation can be discovered. These knowledge that baboons are not native available on the NHMRC website, has been part of 6 research teams fellow vegans describe how scared the so called marks would be ubiquitous to Australia and do not exist in the during its 2017 Grant Application receiving grants from the NHMRC baboons must have felt on the streets of and seen many times over if one was Australian bush or urban landscapes. Round, the NHMRC allocated spanning 2000-2015 for research into Sydney, when really I think they would to apply a broad scope of inerpretation. But that does not mean that they, and University of Sydney researchers at xenotransplantation. It is highly likely have been relieved and overjoyed to be Bracelets, smartwatches, tattoos - you other primate species, are not prevalent least six grants using so-called ‘animal that this research has involved baboons out of the confines of the hospital being name it. After all, there is no correct within Australian borders. Most readers models’, totalling $5 million. from Wallacia. able to move about on their own terms. way, or a doctrinally acceptable way to have likely seen various species of While no 2018 University of Sydney In this way, other animals are Ironically, it was this welfarist idea that foretell what’s to come and prevent the baboons, gibbons, orang-utans, and (USyd) grants from the NHMRC constantly being evaluated for their was used to legitimate Taronga Zoo rise of an Antichrist. gorillas imprisoned within some of the mentioned animals, at least 35 grants exploitation and commodification based handlers recapturing them. While the religious concern about the 61 zoos currently operating in Australia. from universities across Australia did, on their proximity to humanness— Ultimately, what propels forward my But behind locked doors, razor-wire mark of the Beast might have evangelists including Monash, the University of in some cases primate closeness to politics as an animal liberationist is the worrying about technological fences and security clearances are a Queensland (UQ), UNSW, and Adelaide humanness leads to concern for their desire to know other animals as they number of medical testing facilities advancements, the origins of the matter University. Most grant descriptions ‘conservation’, in other cases it makes know themselves: as subjects of their do suggest an intriguing question which often use primates like baboons did not specify which ‘animal models’ them research subjects to have their own experience. I would encourage about merging the human body and because of their relative ‘closeness’ to they intended to use—those that did reproductive functions controlled, anyone who currently views other computing. humans in terms of DNA. mentioned ‘mouse models’ and one bodies mutilated and existences animals as alien to their existence to The Aussie Farms ‘Farm grant awarded to Professor Mark confined to labs and cells. Historically, cultivate that curiosity. Transparency Map’ reveals 10 medical Walker from UQ mentioned the use racialised, colonised and criminalised testing facilities in Australia, including of non-human primates in research populations have also been used as Art by Sophia Perez. the Australian Animal Health into a Group A streptococcus vaccine. test subjects due to their perceived Art by Lilly Aggio. Laboratory which does research into

8 9 ANALYSIS PERSPECTIVE The science of sex and gender incongruence Coming back to university with a chronic illness Nisha Duggan on why the science proves that gender is absolutely non-binary. Sarah Jasem reflects on the health issues that are out of our control. As the last specks of glitter embryo will develop to have XX or Genes + hormones + brains way straightforward or binary and there Year 8. The talk of the year would transplant receivers, and only now does like the ‘Australian Institute of Health in government funded discourse where (biodegradable, of course) disappear XY chromosomes. Embryos with XX are many complex factors involved. usually be assessing the attractiveness of his anger make sense to me. and Welfare’ does ‘health’ equate to room is made for the fluctuating from Oxford street, and the flurry of chromosomes will generally develop Research conducted in the 2000s showed The terms ‘cis female’, ‘cis male’, a new student, but this year it wasn’t the After realising that being tired and anything outside of the sum of an states of both sickness and health for rainbow, feathered and leather outfits ovaries while XY will lead to testes. that during brain development, exposure ‘transgender male’ and ‘transgender case. With a locked door in the centre of feeling ‘not normal,’ was a chronic individual’s choices . This idea of health chronically ill patients, can surely help are pushed to the back of cupboards, it We now know that XX and XY are to particular hormones can cause female’ are not even adequate to describe the changing room muffling our gossip illness and not just a result of being can be helpful in progressive conditions mental and physical health far better is clear that Mardi Gras 2020 is over. not the only possibilities, as people ‘masculinization’ (or ‘defeminization’) all the members of the gender-expansive from the boys, we spoke openly about twenty and a student, I try to waft a like diabetes, where 45-49 year-olds are than the biomedical model alone. The celebrations in Sydney were can be born with natural variations of the brain that will cause the developed community. Intersex people can also who else started their period in the sense of guilt towards the specialist at higher risk, but it doesn’t necessarily I don’t remember my friend being ill. spectacular and the overall attitude of of these chromosome combinations. brain to have so-called typically be born with a wide range of natural summer and who believed in their 13- doctor from behind the desk like this is relate to the 20-30% of young people Even when we skipped queues because the city was joyful and inclusive. This And chromosomes aren’t the only ‘masculine’ brain characteristics. variations in their sex characteristics, year old bone structure enough to shear somehow his fault. He’s old and white with chronic illness. Diseases can also of his disability card at theme parks. may give the impression that LGBTIQ+ important factor impacting biological This is part of the sex determination including chromosomes, hormone their hair into a pixie cut this time. and rich, and I’m the sky but I pay him develop beyond individual control, The best rollercoaster was vampire welfare is at an all-time high but it is sex determination, hormones play an pathway of the developing foetus just profile, genitals and more. But we were closed about other, to tell me the report of my own body’s and otherwise healthy young people themed and painted loud purple, with important to remember there is still a important role too. before or after birth. Furthermore, a physical things like our starchly ironed weather. likely haven’t lived long enough for all- kitsch gravestones scattered throughout long way to go. recent study that involved sequencing So what does this mean? armpits stuck rigidly by our sides, lest Chronic illnesses are defined by their nighters to drastically affect the body’s the queue. At the end of the queue you According to the National LGBTI Oestrogen for girls, testosterone for the whole genome of trans men and we let out the result of that dark damp longevity and likely progressive nature physiological mechanisms. could see segments of the roller-coaster Health Alliance, transgender people boys? trans women identified variations in 19 While an understanding of the relevant hotbox seep out. if not managed. According to the Therefore, if health does stray beyond coming in, offloading and picking a new over the age of 18 are still nearly 11 of those genes, which were associated science may be one way to help The hushed talk of that year was my Australian Bureau of Statistics, chronic the individual’s control, it can feel like set of people like clockwork. There was times more likely to attempt suicide We are taught as we grow up that with the hormonal signalling pathways support people facing issues related petite friend’s face sprouting cheeks like illnesses account for 9 out of 10 deaths the body isn’t your own. Being told that a robot playing the organ. We found in their lifetime than the general females have high levels of oestrogen, involved in the ‘masculization’ process. to gender incongruence, we cannot raised bread dough, whilst the rest of in Australia. Around 50% of men and I was ill regardless of my individual him terrifying, until the tenth time we population. Transgender people are also while boys have a lot of testosterone. This data suggests that variations in simply minimise the complexity of him remained the same: petite, birdlike. women in Australia present with one efforts to be healthy, makes me feel like clammily went on the ride. far more likely to experience violence, This is not entirely true: all people these genes could mean that someone the condition into facts and figures. Our smelly bodies belonged or more chronic illnesses, spanning I’m personally fine. But the sick person Coming back to University, where homelessness, unemployment and have oestrogen, progesterone and who was assigned as male at birth due What is perhaps more important is an everywhere, so we couldn’t understand from progressive diseases like COPD uber pooling around in my skin isn’t. there is so much emphasis on the future, barriers to healthcare access. testosterone. During puberty these to physical sex characteristics may not empathetic understanding of the social why his face didn’t belong to the rest of and diabetes mellitus to autoimmune The dominant biomedical model has made me realise that one of the only Poland’s recent adoption of hormones are generally present at have undergone the hormone signalling and political issues still faced by trans his body anymore. diseases, disabilities and mental of health focuses on the sick body’s certainties in my life, and others going LGBTIQ+ free zones and of course higher levels and do tend towards one required for ‘masculinization’ and thus people as well as other members of the I remember being at his house. illnesses. pathology rather than other aspects through similar circumstances, is the the Trump administration’s proposal end of the spectrum. During this time, will develop a typically feminine brain, LGBTIQ community and the work He was angry at his dad a lot, which Some chronic illnesses, like cystic of personhood. However, integrating illness. to roll back the transgender protection hormones cause the development of or visa versa. necessary to break down barriers. confused me because he had given him fibrosis are purely inherited whilst sickness and health, rather than purely Life has always been too short. Being legislation adopted by Obama proves secondary sex characteristics including In a society that can truly support a kidney. others like mental illnesses and labelling people as one or the other is ill has just made me recognise it sooner. that discrimination still exists on a external genital and other physical It’s a spectrum. and celebrate natural diversity within It’s been almost a decade since autoimmune diseases may be largely particularly important in people with But, like the roller-coaster accented with global scale. features. What we are often not taught the human race, the joyful and inclusive the day when he came in with cheeks a result of genetics, environment and chronic illnesses, who, by being the death, there is enjoyment to be found in Last year The New York Times is that adults generally have similar There is plenty of scientific evidence attitude adopted during Mardi Gras puffed as a result of steroid side effects, chance. What is worrying is that despite antithesis of health,face the heavy the strangest of places. infamously reported that in a memo levels of these hormones, irrespective of that proves that gender incongruence should not be limited to only one night a common medicine given to organ this, nowhere in government guidelines connotations of mortality. A change they obtained from Trump’s health sex or gender. is real. What the science also shows a year. department, it was proposed that “sex Furthermore, a multitude of clearly is that sex and gender are in no means a person’s status as male or environmental, social and behavioural female based on immutable biological factors also influence hormone Peacocking, but for women (or why Gorman sucks) traits identifiable by or before birth.” production. This can lead to variations STUDENTS’ REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL LEGAL SERVICE Nina Dillon Britton is only kinda kidding. Shockingly, even the World Health in development throughout puberty, as Organisation (WHO) classified being well as hormone levels over a lifetime, For decades sleazy pick up artists have created in collaboration with emerging and practical” outerwear. transgender as a ‘mental health supporting the theory that hormone relied on the tried and true method of Australian artists. On their own, many The sack dresses, infantile prints and condition’ until May last year. This is levels and physical sex characteristics “peacocking”: dressing in something so are quite pretty. You could imagine (fucking) raincoats create the overall simply false. determine sex and gender. outlandish and offensive that women them being sold as mass-produced aesthetic of an overdressed toddler. Scientific understanding of the basis have no choice but to ask them about it. IKEA prints that end up tastefully In fact, in a savvy business move, of sex and gender is still growing, but A male or female brain? Though perhaps the trick has gone out decorating Annandale rentals. But Gorman recently expanded to include a one thing is absolutely clear: gender is of vogue as the pick up industry moves many are psychotic – collaged stripes, children’s line. If you didn’t know this, non-binary and gender incongruence, While there is no such thing as a male on to darker strategies, it remains at the cartoon animals and flowers are mixed you’d assume it had expanded from a the feeling that your assigned sex does or female brain, various studies have heart of one fashion brand’s business together in a bewildering mess. More children’s line to include an adults’ line. not represent your gender identify, found that there are certain structural model: Gorman. importantly, neither type has any place Gorman carries an oversized is real. We also know that people can differences between the brains of cis The model is simple. First, take on clothing. An inoffensive purple floral presence in the fashion of young A technicolour plaid dress that’ll leave him thinking “does she have a body under there.” be intersex, that is, they have natural males and cis females. These include a woman devoid of taste and dress print is ruined by being blown up and professionals. Frumpy enough to fit variations of their sex characteristics. differences in cerebral cortex thickness her in something so garish, so deeply forced to cover a two-piece suit. into an office setting but garish enough Thus not even genitalia fits into the (the thin neuronal tissue that surrounds offensive, that other women are forced The cuts though are not much better. to appear “quirky” and therefore binary categories of male or female. the brain) and composition of white to comment on it. Second, (because One is given the impression that the substitute as a personality, Gorman The research in this area is complex, and grey matter (tissue components of women’s social interactions are reliant designers have, at most, only a loose dominates the wardrobes of young revolving mostly around genetic factors, the central nervous system that consist on small compliments and confrontation approximation of what a human media professionals. In a disturbing hormones and neurobiology, and their of various neuronal cells). Both of is rare) another woman will feel obliged body looks like. Gorman sells tapered anecdote, a friend tells me that she’d interplay. these features have roles in neuronal to compliment her hideous outfit. cropped, tapered, pleated jeans: for been encouraged by a MeCo professor signalling. Third, the wearer, incapable of creating the woman who wants to look shorter, that she needed to invest in Gorman. Let’s talk genetics. Another feature of the brain that is her own sense of style, mistakes these bow-legged and accentuate her cankles. “It’s what everyone’s wearing!” generally structurally different in cis men prompted comments for affirmation The paradigmatic printed Gorman sack This highlights the central Genes are segments of DNA which and women is the central subdivision of she’s dressing well. Fourth, the dress bears special mention. Market contradiction of Gorman. Though Clothes tell a story. This dress screams “I’m dictate body features including hair the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis misguided, and now validated designers research must have indicated to the its aesthetic is centred on prints that fucking unhinged, cunt.” colour and height. There’s no single (BSTc). This part of the brain is involved Have you received a fine or create even more horrifying prints for brand that women object to highlighting appear hand drawn and one-off, this is gene that encodes for sexual preference in emotional and behavioural responses or for gender identity. However, large to stress. In a range of structural brain infringement notice that you the woman to consume in a depressing their waist or curves. Coupled with the a mirage. Meander down King Street population studies have shown that studies of trans women and trans men, it race to the bottom. brand’s prints, it gives the effect of an during the Sunday brunch rush and you being transgender can run in families, was consistently found that the BSTc of think is unfair or too harsh? What is so horrifying about Gorman? Amish acid trip. will realise it’s a strict uniform. There which means that genetic factors a trans woman more closely resembled Most obviously, the prints. A purple But of course, one cannot go past is about as much original thought that certainly come into play. Recent genome the BSTc of a cis woman, and the BSTc Ask the SRC Legal Service! snake print, technicolour plaid and the raincoats. Despite the fact that the goes into wearing head-to-toe Gorman sequencing studies have expanded on of a trans man more closely resembled mismatched stripes and spots (featuring raincoats are ugly, unflattering, not long as there is for tweens in General Pants this finding and have suggested that that of a cis man than a cis woman. *The SRC Legal Service assits USyd undergraduates. SUPRA offers assistance to USyd postgraduate students on an incredibly unattractive piece titled enough to keep one dry in a downpour, uniforms. There is a small army of genes that make up certain hormone So trans men and women have brains the ‘Hotpotch Jacket’) are particularly not insulated enough to keep one warm women throughout the Inner West A Gorman monogram is considered in signalling pathways are likely to be that are more similar to their identified SRC Legal Service offensive additions this season. in lieu of an ordinary jacket and made ruthlessly committed to looking terrible, Level 1, Wentworth Building (G01), p: 02 9660 5222 int: 12871 /usydsrc several countries a crime against humanity. involved in gender incongruence. gender rather than the gender they were University of Sydney NSW 2006 e: [email protected] The staples of Gorman’s prints are of a sweat-inducing plastic, they are and looking the same. Genetics determine whether an assigned at birth. PO Box 794 Broadway NSW 2007 w: srcusyd.net.au @src_usyd illustrated patterns and cartoons, often somehow now acceptable as “stylish

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allowing for government consideration. Current Leader of Hong Kong-based development firm MTR Corporation were the Opposition and then Labor transport spokesperson Jodi contracted to build and operate a metro line in a similar model McKay said in 2019, “They were required to have some form as the MTR Corp has constructed elsewhere in the world. of public transport in place when the M4 East tunnel opens, The model of MTR Corp is something we are likely going and if that is not the case then they are clearly in breach of to become accustomed to over the coming years. According The rise and fall of the consent conditions.” The Department of Planning and to Mr Schroeder, “it gives Sydney Metro corporation rights Environment themselves have maintained that “the condition to develop all the property along their transport routes, rights does not specify a timeframe.” to develop properties over their stabling yards and around As the government waits for WestConnex to be completed, stations… It’s set up for privatisation, and if it is privatised Parramatta Road their inaction on improving public transport on Parramatta MTR Corporation will come in and complete the metro and Road will only further hurt the struggling businesses that have the property development rights along the route.” Words and Photos by Jacob Shteyman remain. While buses are an important component in a public The North West Rail Link’s conversion into a metro line has transport system, they are best when making up the capillaries no clear justification. Metro lines are ideal for servicing high Parramatta Road. Many of us travel down it every day on the years he’s been on Parramatta Road. “Jackson’s Rare Guitars of a city’s transit flow, not a major feeder road like Parramatta density areas and closely spaced stations. The carriages have way to work or uni, but the mundane quotidian never dulls the was two doors up from us, Gallin’s Guitars was next to that, Road. Whilst buses are slower, have a lower capacity and are longitudinal seating to allow easy access for large quantities enigma of this mysterious and storied stretch of bitumen. What the Base Player was next to me here, the shop after that was more susceptible to traffic than rail, their advantage is in their of passengers and riders with disabilities, but this comes with happened to this once thriving high street? The Gateway to the a Sydney Guitar Setups, so we were basically surrounded by lower implementation cost and increased flexibility, meaning less seating capacity. This means they are better for hop-on- West. The King’s Road. Now, the “varicose vein of Sydney.” music stores. Slowly but surely they’ve all just disappeared.” more routes and greater coverage. But this is incumbent on hop-off, shorter distance travel. For example, the Paris Metro Seemingly all that remains in amongst the abandoned buildings The State Government has also had its turn at drawing having a reliable, high capacity arterial system to feed the has an average of 582m between stops. The Metro Northwest and boarded-up shop fronts are bridal stores, bead emporiums up a plan to reinvigorate Parramatta Road. The Parramatta capillaries. For high density areas where you also want to averages 3.5 km between stops. A metro system is ideal in the and bordellos. Road Urban Transformation Strategy, released in 2016 under encourage foot-traffic, street-level light rail that doesn’t require high density, short distance geography of inner-city Paris. In The Annandale Hotel is a hold-out of Parramatta Road’s the guise of the now-defunct UrbanGrowth NSW, also details travelling down stairs or escalators is ideal. the sprawling, suburban northwest of Sydney, the existing thriving past. A man I spoke to who only goes by Fish has been improvements to be made to public domain amenities such as One proponent of the Parramatta Road light rail line is double-decker heavy rail lines would provide higher capacity a regular at the Annandale for longer than anyone else at the bike paths, pedestrian walkways, seating and parks. The $198 Colin Schroeder, Co-convener of Ecotransit Sydney, a public service and would integrate with the rest of the heavy rail pub could remember. He still describes it as “the centre of the million government has set aside for it will supplement opening transport advocacy group that has been speaking out against network without needing for passengers to change lines, or for universe.” The legendary live music venue played host to the up to developers 8 precincts along the road from Camperdown the government’s transport strategy for years. “The government the government needing to acquire buildings in the CBD. The likes of Jimmy Barnes, The Dandy Warhols and Jet in its heyday, to Granville, which will see an additional 60,000 apartments has dismissed the Parramatta Road light rail even though decision only makes sense if you consider the government’s and despite having gone into receivership twice over the past by 2050. The strategy has also set an affordable housing target we’ve been proposing it for over ten years,” he said. Ecotransit plans to privatise the public transport system. decade, it remains one of the only places on Parra Road that still of 5%, well below Inner West Council’s target of 15% that they has listed the light rail as a priority project and estimated that showcases live music on a regular basis. Now owned by hospitality have set for the area. it could remove tens of thousands of vehicle movements per chain Oscar’s Hotels, which also owns the Empire Hotel, the According to NSW Greens MP Jamie Parker, the strategy day from the road, with the 7,500 per hour carrying capacity Camperdown Hotel and the Petersham Inn, the Annandale has doesn’t address the core root of the problem – inadequate of tram lanes dwarfing that of a general traffic lane at 2,000 per certainly fared better in retaining its heritage than its sister venues public transport that has left Parramatta Road a “transport hour. Such a development would be a godsend for businesses along the strip, which have been reduced to dingy pokie dens and sewer.” He says that Parramatta Road has been “killed by along Parramatta Road, who have seen foot traffic dwindle to strip joints. This comes on the back of a gradual disintegration shopping centres and the focus on using it as a thoroughfare,” near non-existent levels, driven away by the hostile landscape of music venues’ rights to operate as council interventions; noise and by years of policy that has “maximised the volume of and its constant flow of heavy vehicles. complaints and fire regulations have caused a widespread decline traffic on the road. According to Mr Schroeder, the neglect of Parramatta Road in the viability of live music venues around Sydney. is just one instance of a deeper trend in the state government’s Fortunately, music venues in the Inner West have a willing approach to public transport. “The transport projects this ally in the form of their mayor, Darcy Byrne. He introduced the government has introduced are mainly development driven, not Good Neighbour Policy that “requires all noise and amenity transport driven,” he said. “And it’s not just this government, complaints about pubs, clubs and small bars to be mediated it’s been previous Labor governments as well.” before costly compliance action is initiated,” as a measure to prevent live music venues getting shuttered in response to the Annandale Hotel’s 2013 collapse. This policy, along with the Effectively, the Urban Transformation Strategy as it stands, NSW government’s removal of lockout laws and newfound without a light rail down Parramatta Road, is akin to applying appetite to foster live music, is encouraging for venues like the a band-aid over a septic, dilapidated, graffiti-ridden wound. Annandale, even though Parramatta Road is a long way from Inner West Council and Jamie Parker have both endorsed the bustling incubator of arts and culture that advocates want centre-running light rail or Autonomous Rail Transit, which it to be. would have the benefit over curbside rail in that it allows for on-street parking, creating a traffic barrier for pedestrians. Autonomous Rail Transit (ART), also known as Guided Electric Transit, essentially refers to electrically powered trams Parramatta Road is already fatally clogged up with cars, with rubber wheels instead of tracks that are guided along a with the only public transport being the slow and unreliable bus dedicated lane by a similar technology to that in self-driving service. Adding another 60,000 new apartments over the next cars. Advocates claim ride quality and capacity matches 30 years without improving public transport infrastructure will traditional light rail without the disruption or cost of installing only further increase the congestion on the roads. WestConnex light rail tracks. By all accounts, initial performances of ART may reduce some heavy vehicle traffic on Parramatta Road, in the Chinese city of Zhuzhou have been successful. Trackless but the induced demand created by the motorway will still trams are predicted to cost around $6-$8 million per kilometre result in clogging up bottlenecks that feed Parramatta Road to install, compared to the $240 million per kilometre cost of and cars using it as a rat run to avoid the tolls. installing the CBD light rail. The NSW government announced last Friday that it would Mr Schroeder maintains the relative value of tracked light be selling off its remaining 49% stake in WestConnex to help rail over the trackless variety, “if you’re going to invest in public extend its $97.3 billion infrastructure program, most likely to fund transport you should be investing in the best infrastructure at the currently unfunded Western Harbour tunnel and Northern the most reasonable cost. You want to get the best result for In 2013, the former Leichhardt Council, along with other Beaches link motorway. While WestConnex is a fundamental part the long term.” He contends that the costs of installing ART organisations with an interest in the area, conducted a report of the government’s strategy for revitalising Parramatta Road, it’s infrastructure are still substantial, and the energy efficiency into the viability of developing Parramatta Road around dismaying to see new toll roads once again being prioritised over and operating costs are higher than light rail as steel on steel Camperdown, Annandale and Leichhardt into a live music public transport infrastructure and further adding to the inequality of rails is more efficient than rubber on bitumen. and cultural precinct. It called for promoting the viability inherent in Sydney’s transport network. Sydney already has the Given the state government’s reluctance to invest in public of cultural venues such as small bars, music venues and world’s most extensive and expensive toll road network, with transport and their failures to deliver light rail projects on artist studios and galleries, and improving public domain some commuters from Sydney’s outermost – and generally less time and under budget, ART might be the best option to to “complement increased pedestrian traffic” and “improve affluent – suburbs straddled with upwards of $35 per day in tolls. ensure Parramatta Road doesn’t end up missing out on the access and safety for pedestrians, cyclists and public transport While the government has promised greater public transport vital infrastructure that it desperately needs. With businesses users.” spending alongside building new roads, they have seemingly continuing to struggle and investors further turning away, Shop owners such as Phil Thomson of The Vintage Record gone back on their commitments to improve public transport on it’s essential that the government doesn’t abandon its in Annandale were consulted for the report but have seen no Parramatta Road. Planning condition B34 of the WestConnex Essentially, the way public transport projects are selected in responsibilities under the WestConnex agreement. They must increase in pedestrians walking past their shopfronts. “You approval stated that “at least two lanes of Parramatta NSW comes down to how profitable they are for developers. either commit to funding one of these options or face the don’t get foot traffic out here, man,” he tells me as we sit in Road, from Burwood Road to Haberfield, are to be solely Governments are no longer willing to acquire debt to construct permanent death of a once thriving high street. his empty record store at around lunchtime on a Friday. “This dedicated for the use of public transport unless an alternative large infrastructure projects, especially for public goods such Until then, Parramatta Road will remain solely inhabited is basically a destination area for people. You need to have dedicated public transport route that provides an improved as public transport. Public goods, in this neo-liberal political by specialty stores and vacant shop fronts waiting to be leased. a specialty shop and good quality service and good quality public transport outcome for the area, when compared to climate, effectively do not exist. Instead of developing the As to the question of why so many bead and bridal shops? products that will encourage people to drive here.” two dedicated public transport lanes on Parramatta Road, is North West Rail Link as a heavy rail line as it was originally Well, perhaps some mysteries are best left unsolved. Mr Thomson has managed to stay alive through a niche but approved.” In 2016, Transport for NSW developed planning planned to be, and refusing the Gillard government’s offer dedicated cohort of regulars, but many of the music shops, documents for a Parramatta Road light rail line, extending to fund 80% of a proposed Parramatta to Chatswood line, Art by Jasina Osinsao and Chuyi Wang. bars and record stores around him have shuttered in the 16 from the CBD to Burwood, before scrapping them without 12 13 CULTURE CULTURE The joy of lock picking Class politics and Downton Abbey Alvin Chung explores the hidden world of competitive lock picking. Marlow Hurst has a problematic fave.

Many people have never heard of Guide to Lock Picking. It was one of first lock. “It’s kind of like a puzzle,” love for lock picking in different ways. Downton Abbey is a master class in herself in Victoria. And in Downton’s the stairwell. Nor is it complete without crunching those numbers (which on locksport. It’s a niche hobby, some the first widely available lock picking he said. Usually, beginners learn to use Alex Holmes, a member of the sumptuous design, compelling stories case, the audience is invited to join in us seeing some up-jumped, self made reflection look suspiciously like letters), might say a strange one; we can even instructions. The rise of recreational lock picking tool sets first. “It requires a Facebook group, Australian Locksport and aristocratic aesthetics. But whilst on the all rigidly structured, hierarchical rapscallion impugning the good name you’re left with a whole lot of nothing. call it underground for its obscurity. Yet, lock pickers also coincided with the little bit of practice, a little bit of time, Guild, shared his experience with one sits down to see how the Crawleys fun. It’s easy to lose yourself in the of England’s rich and powerful. The At the end of the day, everyone needs people around the world are meeting rise of the internet. With Facebook to get competent at it.” Most people me. Alex, a private investigator, could combat the Spanish flu, what one is moment and drift into a catatonic state nouveau riche, championed by their to feel like an oligarch every once in a up—in seminars, conferences, and groups, YouTube channels, blogs, think Topaz’s hobby is cool when they already pick a lock when he was in junior really doing is betraying their social of nobility: one where you observe the symbolic leader Sir Richard Carlisle, are while. It’s good for the soul. Downton competitions — to practice it. and websites, locksporters grouped first learn about locksport. Others get high school. His interest in locksport and economic class in order to adopt narrative of Downton as a simple Earl or often depicted as cruel, money-hungry, Abbey lures the viewer into a social Simply put, locksport is recreational their own communities and shared “surprised it’s a thing” and question originates from seeing it in a movie or themselves into the noble house of Baron watching from the wings. Which merchants of misery. structure which no longer really exists. lock picking. It is the hobby of opening knowledge. TOOOL (The Open its legality. “I’m not a lawyer but the a video game during childhood. He Grantham. Not that there’s anything One might argue that it’s going strong locks without keys for fun. It is a Organisation of Lockpickers), one legal advice tends to suggest that it is emphasises that private investigation wrong with that. Playing class dress today but simply by another name. bit like solving jigsaw puzzles. Each of the first international locksports perfectly legal to have this as a hobby,” work “should never need lock picks.” up is a perfectly innocent pursuit that, Which is a perfectly valid, perfectly lock, like each set of puzzles, has a communities, was first formed in 1999 Topaz said. Mr Holmes’ skills would enable him to when restricted to the privacy of your incorrect point. The allure of Downton’s different personality that poses a unique in The Netherlands. Now, TOOOL The TOOOL website has outlined “identify levels of security” and “enter own home, has little to no effect on the fantasy is not so much the substance challenge. Locksporters need to first vehicles and other obstacles within a world at large. of aristocracy but its aesthetic. An understand how each lock works. Then, Perhaps due to the constraints imposed on us by our few minutes.” His favourite type of lock It’s another form of escapism, except aesthetic which is undeniably delightful. with their hands and tools, they try to world, we yearn to loosen our shackles. In proving picking is single-pin picking, preferring this type is mired in a great deal more If only we could keep the velvet drapery political context. While fantasy and sci and grand staircases of a ruling nobility conquer their locks of choice. Some quieter methods over noisy tools like that no locks could restrain us, lock picking acts as a fi often serve as a convenient release without the class oppression. purchase lock picks on the internet or bump keys and snap guns. cry of freedom — it becomes an act of defiance. from the dreariness of the modern nine While at first glance it may seem like in retail stores; some make their own. Another Facebook group member, to five grind, shows such asDownton Downton’s viewers are traitors to their Most of the time, they pick their own communities around the world hold the laws of many countries and states IT professional Sean Rodden, first Abbey (and other similar prestige class, it’s important to remember that locks and they do it for enjoyment. monthly meetings. Notably, there are in relation to lock picking. Its legality, discovered locksport through the period dramas) offer an escape from at its peak Downton had 13.3 million It has nothing to do with thievery or over 1000 official TOOOL members therefore, depends on where you are YouTube channel LockPickingLawyer, one’s social station. Everyone wants viewers per week in the UK alone. It’s breaking in. Although locksport is a in Berlin. They gather for seminars, in the world. In general, as long as which has over 60,000 subscribers. He to be the 7th Earl of Grantham, the difficult to be a traitor when everyone global phenomenon, I will focus on the general meetings, and competitions. locksporters are picking their own locks enjoys picking locks because it enables Viscount Downton, Lord Lieutenant, else is a traitor too. One can enjoy Australian scene here. In Australia, the TOOOL community and not using their skills to commit him to use his hands and it provides an and Colonel of the North Riding is good for the viewer, as much of the With all this in mind, let’s crunch fictionalised portrayals of unjust power Nowadays, lock picking enthusiasts meets up in Melbourne. Lock and theft, trespass, or other criminal acts—it outlet for creativity. He finds crafting Volunteers. And of course they do: show’s villainy tends to arise from the the numbers. Downton Abbey invites structures and their associated aesthetics call their hobby locksport — opening security enthusiasts also hold regular is likely to be legal. Morally speaking, his own lock picks very rewarding. when they’re not floundering due to a poor and nouveau riche. you to masquerade as a member of the without betraying anyone. All it really locks without keys for fun. Although conferences around the world. I would compare lock picking to The “craft side” of locksports offers risky investment in Canadian rail, the Thomas and O’Brien are perfect British ruling class for a crisp hour and shows is that you like sandstone castles. we can find many historical examples Last year, the OzSecCon, a martial arts. Hobbyists can choose a relaxation away from the routine of Crawleys live a charmed life. examples of the former. No episode is a bit while encouraging you to go after of recreational lock picking, the “conference dedicated to locksport and to use their skills to challenge their his office day job. It is more convenient The exact same can be said for the complete without a close zoom on the the poor and nouveau riche like a pack exact origin of modern locksports is physical security,” was held from 14th mind and body, or they can be used than other workshop hobbies such as Windsor’s in The Crown, or the Queen two concocting some devilish scheme in of well trained hunting beagles. After Photo: Radio Times. contestable. The term “locksport” was to 16th of June in Melbourne. The for dubious means. As most skills carpentry because the required tools probably first used by a community with conference included talks, professional could be adapted for questionable are portable. He added that he never the forming of Locksport International training, workshops, and competitions. deeds, I think lock picking itself is not picked locks outside of the hobby. For in 2005. The word “locksport” itself, I talked to Topaz Aral, an organiser of a concern. Instead, we should worry apartment residents like Sean, locksport The death of Cahiers du Cinéma though, might have been coined years the event. Topaz is a computer security more about the moral quality of those is ideal because it doesn’t take up space; ago. The purpose of the term was to and penetration testing professional. involved. The TOOOL website points practicing it requires only a lock and a Tristan Dearden reflects on the final days of the seminal French film magazine. distinguish hobbyists from thieves He said although many lock picking out if something from the locksports lock pick. Emilie Bickerton, author of a history - Sight & Sound and Film Comment are towards the world. Their guiding lights phenomena Jonathan Rosenbaum and other unethical lock pickers. The enthusiasts are IT professionals, community is likely to endanger public No one can give an exact reason for of the magazine, declared Cahiers du published by the British Film Institute were Renoir and Rossellini, but their calls a “cultural confusion of criticism modern hobby of organised recreational locksporters often come from diverse safety, such as the development of a why, throughout history, some of us are Cinéma a “dead sun” in 2006. Cahiers and the Film Society at Lincoln taste was particularly influential in the with advertising.” As cinema becomes lock picking dates back to the late and surprising backgrounds. “We have new, dangerous technique; then, ethical so fascinated by lock picking. In a way, has therefore achieved something really Centre respectively. The more obvious re-evaluation of Hollywood filmmakers a more marginal form, its institutions 1980s and early 1990s.David De-Val’s one person coming in presenting at the and possibly legal actions should be our desire to open locks without keys is remarkable in the past week - a death problems are the conflicts of interest like Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks necessarily integrate. Distribution book, Lock Picking, was published conference who I believe is a mechanic taken. Locksporters, in general, use a metaphor for humanity’s longing for from beyond the grave. On the 27th created by having film producers on the and John Ford as serious artists. and criticism become entangled in 1987. In 1991, a Roof and Tunnel or a tow truck driver,” Topaz said. “He’s their skill only in recreational ways— freedom. Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote of February, its entire staff resigned in board, as well as fears that the boards By the 1960s, Cahiers had essentially economically, but also philosophically, Hacking group based in Massachusetts done some amazing research.” they are decent humans from diverse at the beginning of The Social Contract: protest against the magazine’s sale to ties to the Macron government would won the war. The major critics of both seen to be engaged in a noble battle also published a pamphlet, The MIT Topaz was 13 when he picked his backgrounds who have discovered a “Man is born free, and everywhere a group of shareholders led by banker restrict Cahiers critical attitude towards the 1950s period had become world- to preserve cinema. There is scarcely he is in chains.” Perhaps due to the Grégoire Chertok; these shareholders the administration. Overall, it seems renowned filmmakers in the French any effort though to define what that constraints imposed on us by our world, included eight film producers. worth conceding that the situation itself New Wave. Their theories and tastes cinema being preserved is. In other we yearn to loosen our shackles. In The magazine was begun in the is not exceptional - it is firmly within the were spreading. The magazine was seen words, cinema’s excellence is assumed, proving that no locks could restrain us, 1950s, under Andre Bazin, and with a bounds of what we’d expect to occur to be in decline - Godard claimed that it and explained in received terms. It is lock picking acts as a cry of freedom roster of no-name critics including Jean in modern journalism - but the act of was “due chiefly to the fact that there is not necessarily that critical values are all — it becomes an act of defiance. In Luc-Godard, Eric Rohmer, François quitting is quite remarkable, especially no longer any position to defend.” And wrong, but rather that films are received another way, locks can also symbolise Truffaut, Jacques Rivette, and Claude when considered as continuous with the yet Cahiers found new life in the 60s by in terms of a continuous proof of the security. Through always challenging Chabrol. Despite the publication’s history of the journal. refining, revising, and overturning the medium’s vitality, rather than a gesture the concept of impregnable security, we decline in reputation in recent years, A fierce independence is at the heart ideas of the 1950s - in particular, by towards its potentiality. This prepares find that nothing can really be kept safe. the more irreversible nature of this of Cahiers du Cinéma. The initial group politicising them, with an increasing the way for the ecstatic reception of Paraphrasing Shakespeare, lock picking self-destruction seems tragic for film of critics were held together by a set urgency up to and in the wake of May academic films like Bong Joon-Ho’s shows us the world is an oyster: there’s culture. And yet, also stirring: an act of shared tastes and beliefs that were 1968. Cahiers was thus heavily influential Parasite and Celine Sciamma’s Portrait always a way to crack it open. containing something of the quality of considered, at the time, quite radical in the move towards structuralism in of a Lady on Fire, but leaves Angela While the illusion of perfect security those energetic polemics which made and which had to be fought for to be film studies. This was the magazine’s Schanelec’s unclassifiable I Was at is dead, recreational lock picking is Cahiers the most important journal in accepted. Most important were the second Golden Era, but it wasn’t to last. Home, But… unattended. becoming more popular. Locksporters film history. “politique des auteurs” and the concept By the mid-1970s, there was a feeling In Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 film It wouldn’t, however, be too difficult of “mise en scène.” To establish film that Cahiers had to become commercial Breathless, a very memorable Jean-Pierre must use their intellect, their hands, to find the actions of the editorial board as a personal art, they uncovered again, and this is seen as the beginning Melville claims that he would like to their skills to meet every challenge each excessive. At least two items of protest the signature of certain “auteurs” of their decline proper. “become immortal and then die.” All lock poses. I think part of being human may strike one as business as usual. throughout their oeuvre. To establish The 1960s period is instructive, brands, including Cahiers, are of course is to be playful, to solve puzzles, and to The new managerial team wanted the merits of cinema as an art form, they because it shows us that independence immortal. Now though, Cahiers have create challenges. So, as long as we are to make the magazine “a little more were attentive to what was cinema’s is not merely to do with concrete done the decisive, fulfilled Melville’s human, some of us are bound to pick chic” and “convival… critical without own - the organisation of visual threats, such as those facing the journal maxim, and died. Other publications locks. Not necessarily because it means being insulting,” as well as looking into elements into mise en scène. The two today. There are impediments to shouldn’t follow suit, but certainly anything, but only because it makes us new partnerships with organisations lines of argument enriched each other. independence, but independence is not the relative similarity in their different feel alive. Lock picking is — like many in the film industry, in particular the In contrast with that impoverished, achieved simply by their removal. It is positions should be considered, and things we do — a source of pleasure and Cannes Film Festival. It should be dominant criticism concerned only with an act in itself. It is the taking up of a our appreciation for and recognition of a way to fulfil our human potential. noted that the two pre-eminent English ideas and themes, auteurist criticism position. independence strengthened. language film magazines seem already took the film, or in fact the auteur, as What masks the absence of Art by Ben Lopes. to have succumbed to such directives a whole and elucidated an attitude independence in film writing is that

14 15 CULTURE Chennai’s Water Crisis: A perspective through film The Politics of Plaid Maya Eswaran muses on her grandfather, his films and modern lessons for groundwater extraction. Kate Scott on plaid’s history and conscious fashion. A gaunt young boy wearing only a government mismanagement. use water, you’ll likely have a bucket the loyalties of the political class are You need only walk past the windows in 1745 was the culmination of decades conscription, or even transportation. identity), plaid and tartan remain a loincloth walks barefoot in the scraggly Lax regulations on groundwater bath instead of a shower. Yet in writing contained to each other; the villagers displays of Glue, or click on a junk of violence and political instability that It is easy to dismiss the experiences symbol of a dark time in Scotland’s past. foreground, carrying a pot of water drilling has seen an 85% decline in this, the salience of my outsider’s have only themselves to rely upon. email from ASOS to see some mini saw the massacre of Scottish Jacobite and hardships of Scottish culture. However, this cultural significance and on his head. He sees a note nestled in Chennai’s bore water levels over the gaze becomes clear. I have only ever Further, the actress Saritha’s skirt or flannie covered in plaid print. rebels and began a dark era in Scottish As a result of integration into Great the fight to reclaim Scottish practices the sand. On one side is a photo of last decade. India’s use of groundwater experienced these things as a visitor, character in the film embodies a The criss-cross of woven wefts always history. To quell any further uprisings, Britain, Scotland has become engaged is not something that is advertised in Rajnikanth, a famous Indian actor. He exceeds that of both China and the from the perspective of an upper middle markedly feminine and nourishing makes an appearance at this point of the English began a campaign of in colonisation and imperialism. contemporary fashion. bends down precariously but carefully US combined. Whole new sections of class Tamil Brahmin family. figure: a symbol of a divine Mother the year; the rain and growing chill This is not to guilt anyone away of autumn encourages many to seek from buying those cute plaid pants. to inspect it. A gust of wind blows the Chennai like the “IT corridor” are not Thaneer Thaneer aptly mocks this Earth. A scene shows her character out cosy grid patterns that whisper of This serves only as a reminder to paper out of his hand, causing him to even connected to the main water grid, profound caste and class divide, through swiftly but strongly juggling three crackling fireplaces in a highland log shop in a thoughtful and conscious stumble. The water on his head crashes relying instead on expensive private the arms-length way in which journalists pots of water and an infant child, as cabin. However, a 90s fashion revival manner. Within the past century, to the ground and is rapidly swallowed tankers to deliver water. and politicians interact with the most she crosses kilometres of barren land is seeing more and more individuals fashion has turned from a personalised by the parched clay ground. The boy Yet for the poorest areas of the city, vulnerable in such crises. In one scene, a in search of water. The use of the adopting a myriad of tartan plaid prints. experience where fit, fabric, and style crawls desperately towards the soaked the price of private water deliveries is city-slicker in all-white, speaking a more ghatam, a Carnatic instrument made In contemporary fashion there tends were deliberately chosen with a certain dirt, frantically digging with his bare out of reach. People have to travel tens “polished” Tamil hitches a ride into the of an earthen pot in the score produces to be a general ignorance surrounding individual in mind, to a constant fingers to recapture what is now the of kilometers for wells and line up for remote town, Achipati, on the back of a a rhythmic, guttural sound matched this heritage print and the historical momentum of mass producing, mass uncapturable. days to receive a measly supply from bullock cart which the locals had built only by her quiet intensity. The way struggles that they evolved from, prior purchasing, and mass throwing away in This is the opening scene of the film her character’s needs are deprioritised, to being assumed by the 1970s punk a month or two before the process starts Thaneer Thaneer (“Water, Water” in despite carrying the stresses of the movement and contemporary lesbian over. Current fast fashion sees garments Tamil) released in 1981, which depicts village, are a metaphor for the treatment culture. For Scottish people, tartan or flit through wardrobes before the life in a village in Tamil Nadu, India, of the Earth: an enlightening comment plaid has been at the cornerstone of words “cultural heritage” or “factory affected by severe water shortages. The on both the gendered divisions of their culture and a very dark part of conditions” can be spoken. But the plot follows the desperate attempts labour in India and the state of its their history. For centuries, Scottish fashion you engage in, the clothing you of the villagers to improve their water environmental conservation. Highlanders used tartan and plaid as a wear in is a primary element of how supply and highlights the apathy Like many diaspora, I must consume symbolic representation of their ties to you represent yourself. You have a duty and corruption of politicians and my culture through things like movies, their clan, their families, their friends to take a genuine look at the processes and their land. Each clan had their own and history behind any item you pick; broader society towards their plight. language, family and music against unique pattern and their own unique cultural genocide; they evicted many However, this does not discredit the understand the past you represent, the It was directed by K Balachander and the overwhelming Western hegemony colouring. highlanders from their ancestral lands, deaths at Culloden, and the erasure of industry you support. Make a conscious produced by my maternal grandfather which permeates all other inputs in However, in the 18th century, a shaky banned their native Gaelic language ancient traditions that did occur in the choice. PR Govindarajan, a man I never met. my life. But this deepens on a personal new union of Great Britain caused strong and made the wearing of tartans illegal. Scottish Highlands. Whilst the laws It won two National Film Awards and a level where my grandpa’s movies not divides among Scottish Highlanders Penalties for insubordination ranged were eventually appealed (after the Filmfare Award South for its empathetic only serve as a conduit into village life and the English. The Battle of Culloden from imprisonment without bail, satisfactory deconstruction of Scottish Art by Ash Duncan. depiction of rural India and its scathing Like many diaspora, I must consume my (a life familiar to my grandparents), but portrait of the political elite. also between the space I inhabit and I recently watched it, as part of a culture through things like movies, language, the imagined space which I reconstruct holiday goal to see all my grandfather’s family and music against the overwhelming from my family’s (hi)stories. Cereal Lab: 5 stars movies: a flailing attempt to improve Western hegemony which permeates all other The movies my grandpa produced Max Shanahan reviews the latest breakfast-themed offering on campus. my comprehension of my mother often had transgressive political themes: The news that Manning Bar had closed greyness of the Footbridge thoroughfare. Of the cereal, it tasted - like all cereals pit of my stomach, supplemented by tongue, Tamil, and to contextualise the inputs in my life. I wonder was this just expediency or did cast a pall over my summer. The evening While the new venue does not share the do - of nothing. I tried to converse with a weeks worth of supply stuck in my stories I had heard about my Thatha. they speak to his political persuasions? I heard the news, storm clouds rolled in same vistas as Manning, one does have my friends, but the cardboard cereal in molars. Our family’s claim to fame was that What would he think of me or this with the southerly buster, and it rained a front row seat to a parade of depressed its cardboard bowl kept drawing us in, a At first, I was skeptical of the my grandfather introduced Rajnikanth article? The Tollywood of today is for five days straight. My memories students, set against the belching of black hole into which all joie de vivre and cereal cafe. But I have realised the into movies, who started off as a bus commercialised, slick and sanitised, of that period are largely amorphous. trucks from Parramatta Road. other nice Romantic ideals had been ills of my past ways, and embraced conductor and is now one of the most like most modern mainstream cultural I took long walks. The press made it Inside, only a six year old child is sucked. With some grief, it dawned prudent asceticism. I know now that iconic Indian actors of his age: an ironic industries. To enjoy the caliber of his worse. “Dying campus life” bemoaned ahead of us in the line. From a woman in on me that I lived in a time where a “loss of time through sociability and allusion to the opening scene of Thaneer movies is also to appreciate a different Honi; “rigatoni and wine at Courtyard a lab coat (Cereal Lab — ha ha), the boy breakfast cereal cafe is a more viable idle talk…is worthy of absolute moral Thaneer, where Rajnikanth’s fame sits era of filmmaking. When he passed Cafe” lamented the Herald; “what the orders Nutri-Grain with milk, yoghurt, business proposition than a bar on a condemnation.” Thus, I have spurned heavy against the gravity of the water away, my mum had just married and hell is going on!” raged Albo. I dreaded soft-serve ice cream and honey ($8.50). university campus. A brave new world the memory of the sinful Manning shortage. migrated to Australia at age 20. I think the new semester. I feel sick on his behalf. I lean in to try in which I could be charged $7.50 for Bar, and now find myself a reformed What struck me about Thaneer of another possible world in which my But, just days before the start of to read the menu, but it takes my eyes a single cardboard bowl of Special-K. I dilettante. I will therefore continue to Thaneer was its parallels to life today. Thatha hadn’t died so young, where my classes, salvation arrived. The party some time to adjust to the ecstatic colour was rattled. The illusions and lights of return to the “Cereal Lab” for my fix But with research I realised that these family had stayed in Chennai. animals at the USU, who for weeks I scheme. The light from a giant Froot my universe had gone out, and, during of the lab-produced nothingness which parallels were not unique, but rather Climate change exists in this liminal had cursed, provided deliverance in the Loops poster refracts off the metallic a brief moment of clarity as I drank the will see me thrive at Sydney University indicative of a cycle of exploitation, state in our collective consciousness — form of a Fun! and Cool! new venture. laboratory-imitation furnishings, giving milky dregs, I think I understood the in 2020. greed and political dislocation in the happening around us, hurtling towards On Facebook, the students praised the unsettling impression of a fever- wisdom of Silenus. southern Indian state. municipal lorries. The ability to drink, in order to collect water. The journalist a point of no return. Yet, Thaneer it: “let me in!” demanded one, “!!!” dream disco. Overwhelmed, I order It would be wrong to say that I felt Tamil Nadu’s capital, Chennai, now bathe, cook and clean is now a luxury asks the villagers why they chose to Thaneer focalised an experience of exclaimed many, “GUUUYSSS LOOK without thought: the “Healthy Start” - empty upon leaving the cereal cafe — I approaches Day Zero, where demand for for some families. Coextensively with boycott the last political elections. disparity that left my throat dry. Rich WHAT OPENED AT UNIIIIIIII” Special K with raspberries and honey. felt, in fact, very bloated. Instead, I felt water will outstrip supply, threatening climate change, this will only worsen The villagers explain how the wealthy people are bathing in swimming pools cried another. Thus, it was with vigour I throw $7.50 in loose change at the nothing. I discarded my friends and made the lives of millions of people in India’s Water scarcity has never seemed like politicians always promise they will give while the poorest die from deprivation. restored that I returned to Camperdown strange woman in the lab coat. a beeline straight for the library. For days 6th largest city. something that could threaten my life in them water. They never do. Another India’s reliance on, and exploitation for another semester, looking forward There is something not quite right on end, without distraction, I imbibed Chennai was originally a rich Sydney. But watching Warragamba Dam scene illustrates this through a comedic of, groundwater is unsustainable. Until to whiling away time with friends at about watching somebody prepare you a the dullest regulations and the most network of wetlands, which have fall to its lowest levels in 15 years over visual metaphor where a request from this baseline stress is addressed with the USU’s brand new establishment: bowl of cereal. Like asking someone to verbose judgments. I opened a stock since been polluted or paved over by the most recent catastrophic summer a villager given to the local politician is sustainable management, rather than “Cereal Lab”: “Your favourite cereals… draw you a bath. It seems inappropriate. portfolio and conspicuously checked overdevelopment and an expansion reminded me of the preeminence of passed off down a line of bureaucrats. a feckless race for growth, people will only $8” The lab coat woman is unnecessarily its progress in class. I threw myself into of the automotive industries which water to human existence. This indifferent approach ofcontinue to suffer. As regenerative as it And so, with time to kill on a deferential as she asks me which type my OLEs and came to appreciate the hub the city. The four main catchment Water in the motherland has always politicians, where villagers are left to has been for me, personally, to explore dreary Tuesday, I gathered some of milk I would like. There is a choice endless group mind-mapping exercises. areas which supply the city’s water have been precious, contested, scarce. A site fend for themselves, derided in the my grandpa’s film, I do not wantThaneer friends to celebrate the beginning of of seven varieties, which is more choice By the end of that week I was, to my shrunk dramatically to less than 1% of of much political energy. Norms around movie is reproduced in Chennai’s Thaneer to remain a relevant reflection another semester. The metal tables than Manning ever had in beer. My own surprise, eminently employable. their capacity. water use are different: in knowing that political scene today, which has been of the world we live in. were deserted, so we took prime spot bafflement must have been evident, as Potentially distracting brain activity In part this was due to dryer monsoon you cannot drink tap water, people are criticised by activists, NGOs and the beside a sad-looking potted plant, with she just served me milk which looked did not eventuate, for the feeling of seasons, but largely, it is a story of generally more discerning in how they scientific community. It is clear that Stills taken from Thaneer Thaneer. uninterrupted views of the impressive like, and tasted like, real milk. nothingness remained concreted to the Photo: University of Sydney Union (USU)

16 17 CREATIVE Returning to Monkton Combe – on dropping out Will Solomon

How do you begin to tell the ones you that these gateways were paths to the the memories, rationalise them. I wanted unlocked by the physical places of my love that you have decided to change the subconscious because the unicameral so badly to be in the physical space of memories, were revealed instead in direction of your life? I tried to write an mind of a toddler has thoughts without that city and to have the wonders I felt my inability to verbalise my longing essay for Honi Soit and decided to drop the cluttering of verbalised, rationalised there as a kid come jumping back out of for Monkton Combe. Removed from Hayfever out, or rather, to drop out of one of thoughts that we encounter once older. the recesses of my memory as they had Sydney, I understood the unhappiness two degrees and completely refocus the The evidence I was using was my with each return visit. What I was failing of my life there; out of reach of Bath, I Rhian Mordaunt other. Right now, I'm enrolled in Arts relationship with the English city of to remember was that with each return realised that what I longed for so deeply / Law, but I will be recommencing my Bath. I lived there as a toddler for near visit, like a teenager first learning how was not a physical place, but a life To all the boys I’ve slept with, studies in semester two studying Arts three years from 2000 and made return addictions form with caffeine, that the lived – a life of calm, of teaching and Albeit, there’s not as many of you as I would have hoped for by 21, alone, in pursuit of becoming an Eng- trips in 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2017. My effect would be lesser with every coffee, learning, of travel and a comfortable Because my teenage dreams would have thought that every night I’d be drowning in ecstasy, lish teacher. parents are English teachers. When we or every visit. Bath continued to hold its home. I longed to be a boy in a village. But instead I fell for you and I thank every day for that. To all the boys I’ve slept with, The faster an object moves, the lived in Bath, they were on a teaching magic only because I wasn’t visiting. It I felt, for once, an incredible certainty, I’m sorry that I said thank you every time we had sex. greater the force required to divert it. exchange at a school called Monkton was the moment that I realised this that which I continue to feel as I write, that I Because I just don’t get how I could be good for you, We grapple with this law each time Combe, in a village of the same name, I broke my momentum lock and realised was returning to Monkton Combe. Or why you’d choose me, we tell ourselves: "I can't stop doing on the city's edge. I wasn't visiting Bath that I did not want to be a lawyer. I imagine that I will return to the And so I question both your eyesight and your sanity, x, I've already gotten so far." We can on this February trip but it was weighing In a stupor on the Dutch coast I physical Monkton in the future. When But why wouldn’t I, only change course if we break free of heavily on my mind. It was the perfect became fascinated by the realisation I do, I’m sure it won’t be the place of When you look like that. this momentum lock. The process by case study for my thesis; the city has a that once upon a time I was a boy in my memory, and yet I will be certain To all the boys I’ve slept with, which mine was broken took a month, mythology in my mind, composed of a village. I repeated to myself and to the idea of Monkton Combe, the life it I’m sorry that my dirty talk, Sounds like a chipmunk reading Fifty Shades of Grey, and I did not notice it was happening. colourful pigs, a flying fox, and a red others, “I was a boy in a village… I represents, will remain worth chasing. And I’m sorry that I tell jokes during sex, Everyone who has made a radical and blue sword of plastic. The further was a boy in a village.” This simple fact By meditating on my childhood, isolated Because my thick skin makes vulnerability seem like as much of an impossibility as an orgasm. change of plans has a story to go with back I dive into my memories of the city, that I had known my entire life seemed by travel, I could answer so clearly the I’m just kidding. No really, you’re great. it and while theirs may be much more spread across four return journeys, the startlingly new, not because I had visited question of what I want to be when I To all the boys I’ve slept with, interesting than mine, the experience more mesmeric and the less articulate that village once again but because, by grow up: a teacher. No, I don’t have hayfever, was nonetheless strikingly profound. these memories become. The nostalgic removing myself from Sydney and Which in retrospect is such a weird thing to lie about, This is how I broke the lock: I spent glimmer we give our oldest, fading the hallmarks of my day-to-day life, I Because of all the lies that I could have told you, this February traveling. I was exhausted memories has been rendered incredibly had envisaged another life, if only for I wish that I had thought of something sexier, and needed to extricate myself before bright for Bath, as these memories are a month, more closely aligned with Like that I own a private jet or that I’m not still on my Ls. returning to university and work. I hoped made more distinct by the thousands of what I desired than I had in the years I To all the boys I’ve slept with, I was a boy in a village, to spend my long hours in transit writing miles I must traverse to unlock them. had lived in Sydney since leaving high No, those weren’t antihistamines, an essay for Honi. What you’re reading As my February holiday progressed, school. I had, by trying to rationalise I lived in a school. Because instead of clearing out my throat, now is more or less that essay, though far I ran into trouble with figuring out my childhood memories in an essay, I’m clearing out my head, I left the village to be a lawyer, morphed from what I had first intended. the conclusion. I was spending weeks attempted to do to those memories And instead of sneezing, The thesis was about memory – the way thinking about, and reliving memories exactly what would have happened if I But I returned to be a teacher. I’m crying, And unlike springtime allergies, that I believed revisiting the geographic from, my childhood, but I believed that had visited the city – sterilise them and My eyes burn all year, settings of childhood memories because I wasn’t actually visiting Bath, strip them of their majesty. And so I can’t see shit, can form a gateway to experiencing I wouldn’t be able to prove my thesis The longings of my subconscious But somehow I managed to see you. childlike thought. I wanted to argue correct. I couldn’t quite make sense of thought, which I believed would be To all the boys I’ve slept with, I didn’t mean to lie, It’s just that when you said you wanted my D, I didn’t think you were talking about depression, Matrilines And I’m sorry about being confused about why you’d want me to give you head, Claire Ollivain Because I can barely get my own to function. And who would have thought that these two pills, Could cause this much trouble. After all the golden And how is it that And who would have thought that these two pills, Could save my life. painted mothers the birds of the morning And who would have thought that these two pills, Could have me questioning whether or not I could ever feel happiness without them. and the cathedals whose songs my grandmother Until I met you.

that made me shudder To all the boys I’ve slept with, mourned in the afterimage I’m sorry for never saying goodnight. (ant-like on cold floors) It’s just that goodnight would mean letting you go, the after smoke and And allowing for the morning sun to release you from my arms, Art by Shania O'Brien. why is it that And you, after fire Walking out the door, I see the face And locking it behind you, learn to sing again? of God And leaving me wondering if you’ll ever come back. And all this is very pleasant with my back turned to the To all the boys I’ve loved, to think about burning bush that Don’t wake me up. unfolds bright leaf-flesh until I realise silently as if there might be a morning

she had made up her mind where all is silent

to keep growing and the trees and birds

in the cracks won't have a mother to teach them

of her hard, dead cinders? again.

18 19 SRC REPORTS SRC CASEWORK HELP

President Note: These pages belong to the Office Bearers of the SRC. They are not altered, edited or changed in any way by the editors of Honi Soit. STUDENTS’ REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL, UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Liam Donohoe Tips for Effective Time With the rigours and routines of semester firmly addition, staff have been particularly hard working their most comprehensive shakeup since the of the University’s austerity measures which have in motion, the SRC remained busy as ever, with as they assist students grappling grappling with introduction of VSU in 2006. been introduced to mitigate the financial impacts all of our professional staff and Office Bearers Covid-19’s impact on study and this University, Though Constitutional and Regulatory reform of the Covid-19 outbreak. These measures include Management at Uni working frantically to remedy an abundance of and we hope to soon start producing translated is a large undertaking, it is not the 92nd SRC’s a freeze on new hiring, and generally seem to local and global challenges. The Environment versions of SRC pamphlets and information to only big project that commenced this week. On promise greater precariousness for casual staff Time management allows you to achieve talk to an SRC Caseworker before dropping Collective has continued to pull enormous crowds increase engagement and reliability of assistance. Wednesday evening international and domestic and must therefore be resisted by students out of the most within the limited time you any subjects. Some students think that hav- to their meetings, and recently had a meeting at students from a variety of different political groups solidarity with and concern for our own learning have available. At University that might ing a smaller study load will mean they will the Conservatorium, a rare and promising move and factions met to start work on the Fair Fares conditions. mean balancing all of your readings and graduate later, but the reality is that you for a Collective. The Autonomous Collective campaign, which is demanding concession Opal The EAG and SRC is also actively organising assessments, with work, a social life and will progress more quickly, and at less cost, Against Racism has been staunch and diligent in ORIENTATION & COUNTER cards for international students. Though campaign to support the Gweagal-Bidjigal Resistance home responsibilities. It’s like a budget for if you do three subjects and pass them all, COUNTERCOURSE

their organisation of a significant protest against strategy is still being formulated, at our meeting on events between the 26th of April and 6th of May, your time. than if you attempt four subjects and fail 2020 HANDBOOK THE FOLLOWING SECTIONCOURSE OF THIS PUBLICATION HAS BEEN COLLATED AND PUT TOGETHER BY THE SRC’S 2020 EDUCATION OFFICERS, JAZZLYN BREEN AND JACK MANSELL. THE AUTHORS OF THE FOLLOWING PIECES ARE MEMBERS OF THE EDUCATION ACTION GROUP, AN ON CAMPUS ACTIVIST Modhi and India’s descent into fascism, which COLLECTIVE WHICH ORGANISES AROUND A NUMBER OF POLITICAL ISSUES. TO GET INVOLVED OR Thursday we thought it’d be good for it to involve which will acknowledge the 250 years of colonial There are many resources you can ac- some. KEEP IN TOUCH YOU CAN FIND US ON FACEBOOK: SYDNEY UNIVERSITY EDUCATION ACTION GROUP.

THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES ARE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE INDIVIDUAL AUTHORS’ OPINIONS ONLY, will be on Sunday the 15th of March at the Indian NOT NECESSARILY THE EDUCATION OFFICERS, THE EDUCATION ACTION GROUP OR THE SRC. a protest in early May. Week 3 will see meetings brutality and inspiring resistance which began with cess to help you manage your time effec- Consulate General. The Women’s Collective had for the SRC’s other major projects for the year, the Captain Cook’s first landing at Kamay (Botany tively. Both the University’s Counselling Both the University’s a large contingent at International Women’s Day, CONTENTS SRC Feeds and SRC Informs programs. Bay) in 1770. This will be a once-in-a-generation and Psychological Services (CAPS) Unit STUDENTS AGAINST UNPAID PLACEMENTS - PAGES 34-35 Counselling and Psychological

2019: A YEAR OF GLOBAL REBELLION - PAGE 36 while the Queer Action Collective brought a large SANDSTONE DOESN’T BURN: BUT COLLEGE CULTURE SHOULD - PAGES 38-39 On top of these SRC-oriented meetings, I also act of dissidence, and will be followed by what FIGHTING THE MORRISON GOVERNMENT - PAGE 37 and Learning Centre have online resources, and colourful group of students along to the Pride WELCOME TOUSYD YOUR TIED NEW TO NEOLIBERAL ARMS INDUSTRY UNIVERSITY - PAGES - 40-41PAGES 42-43 had a fair few with the University over the week. will be one of the largest months in the history workshops, and one-on-one consultations Services (CAPS) Unit and COUNTERCOURSEpages 33–50 HANDBOOK

STUDENT RADICALISM - PAGE 44 LIVING IN THE CLIMATE CRISIS - PAGE 45 in Protest float at Saturday’s Mardi Gras. And, as COLOURED SHIELDS:YOUR RACISM RADICAL IN GUIDECOMMUNITIES TO STUDENT OF ACTIVISMCOLOUR AND- PAGES THE 48-49 I had a Safer Communities Advisory Group of environmental activism, with International ENROLLING IN THE UPPER-CLASS - PAGES 46-47 EXCITING TRADITION OF MAKING A DIFFERENCE that will teach you the skills to manage ORIENTATIONpages 2–32HANDBOOK Learning Centre have online meeting and induction to the Academic Board if all that weren’t enough, all the Collectives came EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO FIND YOUR FEET Workers’ Day (May 1) and May 15’s climate strike AND SETTLE INTO THIS RIDICULOUS CLUSTERFUCK your time. They will help you to create a STUDENTS’ REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL, UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY together for a large bake sale on Thursday, which Beyond these small-scale improvements to the and University Executive on Monday, Academic likely to give a large platform to industrial Green weekly timetable that charts all of your resources, workshops, and raised money for Indigenous communities that SRC, week 2 also saw us begin the long process of Board on Tuesday, and a Thematic Review Left politics. In anticipation of those events, the class times, your study time, work time and meeting on Wednesday, though at this early point one-on-one consultations that have been affected by black deaths in custody. Constitutional and Regulatory reform, which will SRC has received enough student support to call a free time for yourself. This will allow you With the Office Bearers and Collectives setting hopefully culminate in a 200+ student General in semester nothing major has yet been discussed General Meeting, which will be on April the 1st. to quickly see if you have allocated enough will teach you the skills to such a fast pace, the SRC has had no time for Meeting in Semester 2. The SRC has an open at any of those. This will be the first General Meeting since the Do you need help time for study, and if you have enough time lassitude. This week, the Sydney Legal Service working group, and invites participation and The Education Action Group is close to introduction of VSU in 2006, and will be one of manage your time. for sleep, and fun. Try this for a few weeks, board concluded our search for a second solicitor, feedback from anyone with thoughts on either launching their new exciting campaign for the year, two this year. 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We have University of Sydney NSW 2006 e: [email protected] some leaflets and workshops on how to centre/managing-your-time.pdf @src_usyd Over the past two weeks Liam, along with and work on the SRC budget for the year. We will be throughout the year, ensuring that all students are made demands to the University that they turn on PO Box 794 Broadway NSW 2007 w: srcusyd.net.au/src-help deal with both of these. If this is not help- President Liam Donohoe and the rest of the SRC delivering this at the upcoming council meeting on aware of the SRC services available to them. lecture recordings for all units of study and for the ful, consider talking to a counselor to get Book in to see a CAPS counselor: Legal Board, has been busy sitting down and Tuesday 10th March. We have also attended the first meeting on University to come up with better measures to ensure some strategies. sydney.edu.au/students/counselling-and- interviewing a number of shortlisted candidates We also wrapped up our SRC UE Wonderboom the campaign for international student opal card that information is being circulated to all students. Sometimes you cannot get things done, mental-health-support.html for the position of the second SRC solicitor. We prize draw, announcing the winners on Thursday! concession. We look forward to further meetings to Abbey also attended a panel with Michael Spence because there are too many demands on are pleased to report that we have been incredibly Congratulations to everyone who won and thank you plan this campaign. and Jenny Leong MP on combatting racism arising GET YOUR 2020 you. If you need to work, or have other Drop into the SRC & grab a free semester impressed by the standard of applicants for the job, to everyone who entered. This prize competition has We have been continuing to deal with the from COVID-19. responsibilities, consider taking a reduced wall planner! with many candidates catching our eye. This hiring been a resounding success with hundreds of entrants unfolding COVID-19 Coronavirus situation and its study load. If you are on a Centrelink pay- ment, or a student visa, you will need to Vice President SRC YEAR PLANNER • Important University dates & deadlines Felix Faber and Charlotte Bullock Over the course of the last two weeks we have both the efficiency and potential of the SRC as our core on their working hours by their visa. We were able to OLEs, Advanced Studies and Interdisciplinary Impacts • Clear layout of teaching weeks, non-teaching weeks and exam periods been working on a number of projects, separately aim. From this discussion, we were able to identify a identify some key strategies we hope to employ over the units in particular. Felix has been continuing in his • List of services and activities offered by your SRC Ask Abe and with other officer bearers.We recently attended number of goals and a timeline outlining the progress course of the campaign, with particular thought given to efforts to re-establish the Faculty Societies Committee. the inaugural meetings of two SRC working groups we hope to make on this project throughout the year. how to engage both domestic and international students He is currently in the process of confirming an initial • Fun fruity background! SRC caseworker help Q&A established to carryout the major projects of the SRC The second meeting we attended was with regards in the campaign. We were also able to develop a timeline meeting with the President of each faculty society. We • Available for FREE! for this year. The first of these meetings was about to the SRC’s campaign for concession Opal cards for for how the campaign will develop. We have also been are looking forward to detailing the progress of both of Disability Services / constitutional and regulatory reform. This is an area international students. This campaign is an important working on a number of smaller projects. Charlotte is in these projects in our next report. Help with Anxiety activism advocacy of particular interest for us, and we were very pleased one as the NSW government continues to discriminate the early stages of developing a review of the university’s representation

src SUN MON TUE FRI SAT WED THU SUN MON TUE FRI SAT 31 TUE WED THU 29 30 SAT SUN MON 26 27 28 KEY: # Semester Week # 2020 THU FRI 23 24 25 WED Public with the outcome of the meeting. The meeting begun against international students, who are particularly 2018 curriculum change. Through this process, she MON TUE 20 21 22 SUN THU FRI SAT 17 18 19 Holiday Teaching Week YEAR PLANNER MON TUE WED 14 15 16 SUN 13 THU FRI SAT 10 11 12 MON TUE WED 7 8 9 Non-Teaching Week 4 5 6 1 2 3 Dear Abe, may suffer from anxiety. I would urge Exam Period Public 27 28 29 Holiday 24 25 26 21 22 23 with a broad discussion of our ideas and aims for vulnerable to financial difficulty already given the hopes to conduct a survey of students affected by the 19 20 Semester 1 Weekend! 18 15 16 17 Begins 13 14 Welcome JAN 10 11 12 JAN Week 8 9 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 1 W you to see a doctor to talk about it. Some 31 28 29 30 25 26 27 Census Date 22 23 24 constitutional and regulatory reform, with maximising increased fees they are expected to pay and limits placed curriculum change, addressing the introduction of 19 20 21 Last Day to 18 15 16 17 Withdraw (WD) 12 13 14 6 FEB 9 10 11 7 8 4 5 6 5 1 2 3 Every semester I do really well in the first doctors aren’t very good at helping people 4 3 29 30 26 27 28 2 23 24 25 21 22 Public 18 19 20 Last Day to 15 16 17 Discontinue Holiday MAR 13 14 Not Fail (DC) 12 9 10 11 9 7 8 Public Non- 5 6 Public Public Teaching few weeks, then as the assignments start to with illnesses like that, so if you need help 3 4 Holiday Holiday 1 2 Holiday Week 8 31 Public 28 29 30 Holiday 25 26 27 Last Day to 7 23 24 Discontinue 20 21 22 17 18 19 Fail (DF) 14 15 16 APR 11 12 13 Environment Officers 9 10 8 13 5 6 7 come in, I get really stressed out to the point finding a good doctor that bulk bills try the 2 3 4 1 Exam 12 SRC Closed timetables 11 released 30 27 28 29 10 24 25 26 21 22 23 18 19 20 MAY 15 16 17 12 13 14 10 11 Exam where I stop eating and have insomnia. University Health Service or ask an SRC 9 6 7 8 Period 4 5 Exam 1 2 3 Period 31 Prudence Wilkins-Wheat, Shani Patel, Sophie Nicholson & Lily Campbell Study Public 28 29 30 27 Vacation Holiday 25 26 Week 22 23 24 19 20 21 16 17 18 JUN 13 14 15 12 9 10 11 I don’t have any friends to talk to about this caseworker. You can also register with the 7 8 4 5 6 1 2 3 31 28 29 30 26 27 Census Date 23 24 25 ACTIONS SINCE WELCOME WEEK fundraiser for First Nations families affected by contingents to both – one by Uni Students for group to apply or contribute! 20 21 22 Last Day to 19 16 17 18 Withdraw (WD) 13 14 15 5 JULY 10 11 12 8 9 and my mum just thinks I’m being a sook. university’s Disability Services. You might 7 4 4 5 6 1 2 3 Semester 2 3 Begins 2 30 Following a successful Welcome Week stall, 27 28 29 black deaths in custody. It was massive success Climate Justice and one by School Strike for From then on we shall be building the 26 1 25 23 24 Non- 21 22 Last Day to 18 19 20 Teaching 16 17 Discontinue Week AUG 14 15 Not Fail (DC) 13 I really want to do well this semester so be able to get later deadlines for assign- 12 9 10 11 6 7 8 4 5 8 1 2 3 7 31 drinks, and attendance at the ‘Solidarity with the 28 29 30 with $750 raised – huge thank you to all the Climate. MONTH OF MAYHEM which begins with the 25 26 27 6 22 23 24 19 20 21 16 17 18 13 14 15 I can graduate and get a job. What advice ments and extra time in exams. Try to be SEPT 12 11 9 10 12 6 7 8 Exam 3 4 5 timetables 1 2 Public released 11 Wet’suwet’en’ & ‘Climate Crisis National Day Holiday 28 29 30 10 27 volunteers, bakers, and buyers! If you would like Currently we’re planning an educational/ Gweagal-Bidjigal Resistance at the End of April, 24 25 26 21 22 23 9 19 20 Exam 16 17 18 13 14 15 Period 11 12 Exam would you have for me? realistic about what you can achieve in a OCT 9 10 OCT Period 7 8 5 6 Study 2 3 4 Last Day to 1 Discontinue Vacation of Action’, the Enviro Collective has run weekly Fail (DF) Week to donate to the cause, there is a ‘Go Fund Me’ on upskilling month starting from Week 3, which then the May 1st Worker’s Strike and May 15th 30 31 usydsrc SrcHelp 29 26 27 28 13 24 25 Public 22 23 Public srclegalservice 19 20 21 Public Holiday src_usyd 17 18 Holiday Holiday semester. It is far better to enroll in 2 sub- NOV 14 15 16 12 13 For additional information on key dates visit: 9 10 11 6 7 8 sydney.edu.au/students/study-dates.html meetings with amazing turn outs! 3 4 5 the USYD Enviro Collective Facebook page. This will include cross-collective reading groups, film Climate Strike! Watch our space for the Enviro 1 2

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20 21 PUZZLES THE Film Quick ACROSS DOWN 8 Classic and indie film streaming 1 Film is structured to please this sort of service free for USyd students! (6) gaze (4) 9A/10A 27 Across? (8,9) 2 Vertigo’s Scottie and Body Double’s Jake 11 Classic Ryan Gosling sadboi movie embody this sort of spectator (6) RODENT REVIEW (5) Moaning magical maiden (6) Fierce, independent journalists controlled by the rats on our heads! 13 Director of last year’s miniseries The 3 Characteristic of Snake Plissken, Elle Irishman (8) 4 Driver, and Mike Wazowski (3-4) In this issue: 15 Orphan musical! (6) 5 First name of the director who made Underground “Sight Club” uncovered at USyd 16 Filmic technique stunningly Gemini Man and Life of Pi (3) Sarah Jasem, Eyeballs Editor employed in Battleship Potemkin 6 What a good score should be (8) USU hosts ladies jelly and Rocky (7) 7 Body of work (6) Students’ overwhelming unresponsiveness in tutorials and seminars wrestling tournament for 19 Highest grossing film ever (7) 12D/25DMagnificent romcom with icon Cher and is largely due to the thriving “Sight Club”, an underground student- International Women’s 22 A thrilling movie might make you do Face/Off legend Nicolas Cage (10) led staring competition, an investigation by The Rodent has found. this! (6) 14 Ravenclaw quidditch player and first Seminar and tutorial groups across faculties have been competing Day / p. 7 24 Very well blocked? (8) girlfriend to Harry Potter (3) against each other during lessons via social media. 27A/18D Sandler and the Safdies’ snubbed 17 Homages (8) The uncovering comes after years of investigative reporting by Elizabeth Warren drops silver screen sensation (5,4) 18 See 27 Across student journalist Betty, 45, who states that “Being the loudest voice out of Democratic race to 28 Billy Wilder’s film about a sharehouse 20 1930’s sex symbol West (3) in the room makes you wonder if all of the students are actually focus on ACAR convenor of sorts (9) 21 Director of Lost in Translation and Marie struggling. Then I noticed they were livestreaming themselves. Kind 31 Lulu Wang’s 2019 film starring Antoinette (7) of related actually, when I left Tassie I was a monk in Malaysia for election / p. 8 Awkwafina (8) 23 Face/Off legend John Travolta is an quite some ti-” 32 This hit film paid off for 13 Across (6) ambassador for this airline (6) This quote has been shortened for clarity. USyd funding shortfall ross? (8,9) 25 See 12 Down The controversial “Sight Club” is being viewed by some as a due to Spence spending 26 Expose one’s true character (6) low-level cold plaguing the University for years. Vice Chancellor If you like films, be sure to come to FilmSoc trivia! 29 The Winter Soldier, Live and Let Die, and Michael Spence, soon resigning to publish his poetry, agrees millions on toilet paper This Thursday 5pm at Manning Bar. The Rise of Skywalker (4) stating: / p. 8 30 Number of times Robert Downey Jr has “They look like turkeys, portrayed Ironman in a film (3) Or big wagyu cows in drought, VIDEO: Massachusetts Cats Quick Oh woe is the smart.” ACROSS DOWN Postgraduate lecturer Mark emotionally delivered his gratitude MILF gets pounded by 8 Pop superstar who gives an 1 What Cats is about, according to Andrew Lloyd to the investigative team. “I don’t cry after every tutorial anymore.” two old white studs / p. 69 enthralling performance as Webber (4) Here he gestured to his skin. “More hydrated now.” Bombalurina (6) 2 Characteristic of Deuteronomy (3,3) Considering the alleged goal of Sight Club is that the winning International Annoying 9 Venue for the Jellicle Ball (8) 3 How you might describe the rituals of the Jellicles seminar /tutorial group are somehow lifted up the ranks of the Instagram Bitch’s Friends 10 20 Down, really (9) (6) University’s mental health service waiting list, there is no sign of Day celebrated / p. 40000 11 You might visit the Tomb, Blimp’s, or 4 These kittens do not get drilled in the ___ troupe the club stopping anytime soon. the Siamese for this meal (5) (7) 13 This Latin-named Jellicle is Rum Tum 5 Organ glass-green for Skimbleshanks, sunken-in Tugger’s biggest fan (8) for Macavity (3) What are board games really teaching your Chinese-Australian mum 15 Mr Mistoffelees’ catchphrase (6) 6 Bustopher Jones, compared to the other cats (8) non-existent children? 16 Skimbleshanks’ haunt (7) Apt description for the St. James’s Street Cat (3,3) wins Pulitzer for live 19 Jennyanydots is Macavity’s first (7) 7 Up up up ___ the Heaviside Layer! (2,2) Marlow Hurst, Little Babies Editor coverage of coronavirus in 22 Oh, well, I never, was there ever, a cat 12 Morning beverage you can have weak or strong so ___ as Magical Mr Mistoffelees? 14 (3) family Wechat group (6) 17 Macavity, Mr Mistoffelees, and Skimbleshanks 24 My mind may be wandering, but ___, can do this (8) Baopu He, Chief Mum Correspondent I believe it is Old Deuteronomy! (1,7) 18 Old Deuteronomy has a strong one in her first 27 Condition of the Hidden Paw’s coat scene (4) The 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Live Coverage has been (from neglect) (5) 20 The Theatre Cat (3) awarded to Chinese-Australian mother and Wechat 28 Actor who delightfully portrays 21 Grizabella perhaps (7) extraordinare Linda Wang (53) for her “fearless, Macavity the Mystery Cat (5,4) 23 Actor who portrays the Marvelous Magical Mr persistent and multi-faceted reporting on the Coronavirus 31 Francesca Hayward gives a Mistoffelees, ___ Davidson (6) outbreak.” Minimum of 4 letters per word. 25 Yes, no, ___ Eye! (1,2,1,2) 10 words: You’ve got plenty of soul wonderful debut performance as Speaking for Columbia University, a representative Target 20 words: I believe you truly are a Jellicle cat this cat (8) 26 Macavity and Firefrorefiddle (6) from the Pulitzer Prize said the judging committee 30 words: You are the Jellicle Choice 32 These ___ productions are all very 29 The Rum Tum Tugger is a terrible one (4) COMMUNISM was “blown away” by Wang’s sheer dedication to well! (6) 30 Garment played with by Mungojerrie (3) reporting, citing that her live coverage in her family DRUGS Wechat group averaged at approximately one Combine the two images shown to find the answer! update every two minutes - vastly outstripping any C A T Get it The solution is also the answer to 31 Across in this week’s film crossword. ANAL mainstream media outlet. The Pulitzers further praised Wang’s ability to synthesise both English and Chinese language sources S I S Cluedo: This unregulated bonanza of death explicitly promotes vigilante justice and extra-judicial in her reporting, and her speed in breaking scoops investigation to a dangerous extent. Up to 6 “players”, or should we call them “outlaws”, investigate the hours before mainstream newspapers. When asked murder of a dear friend. Do they call the police? No. Do they telegram the police? No. Do they send out how she knew there was a coronavirus case at Ryde L O V some kind of messenger with an oil lantern in search for the police? No again. Just to prevent my conscience Hospital, Wang was equally swift in her reply. from being eternally stained I introduce an extra unofficial character to the game called Inspector Indigo. He “Oh that? That’s simple. My daughter’s high school Sudoku wears a purple trench coat, loves to knit and most importantly of all is a trained and authorised agent of the friend’s boyfriend’s mum’s colleague’s mahjong Week 2 Edition Solutions law. Please visit my Etsy shop for the Inspector’s figurine. Bulk purchases will be discounted. partner is a nurse at that hospital.” Omega Sudoku Speaking to The Rodent, Wang’s daughter Mary (21) Jenga: Construction codes and building industry regulations are critical to the safety and wellbeing of all. was proud of her mother’s achievements, but wished Why then is Jenga allowing the unauthorised renovation and subsequent demolition of a brutalist (and most she would tone it down a little. Puzzles by Cloud likely heritage listed) high rise building? I don’t recall the proper permits being granted by the Jenga tower’s “I get that she’s worried but a phone call update local council (Presumably the City of the Dining Room Table, which after amalgamation merged with the every hour is a bit ridiculous… Every time I check my Runner. City of the Lounge Room Coffee Table). And I certainly don’t recall them seeking a materials exemption phone there are like 100 notifications.” with the Department of Planning, considering that the double thick wooden planks they’re using could spell Solutions next week. “Honestly I haven’t seen her this preoccupied with another cladding crisis. Shame on Jenga and shame on Hasbro for encouraging such dangerous behaviour! something since I finished my HSC.” Crossword Society Monopoly: This game is perfect. It represents the majesty of free market capitalism in its purest form. The Wang was unable to travel to New York and meets in the ISL at rule book is the ever present invisible hand and the two dice (found in the game box) which exactly replicate accept her award, having placed her whole family 1pm on Mondays and the unquestionable fairness of unregulated markets. And like all good public transportation systems, taking in lockdown based on an article she read on Wechat 3pm on Thursdays. the train can potentially bankrupt you (depending on how concentrated its ownership is). What this adds about how the Australian government is hiding the up to is a highly educational experience which teaches humans aged 8 and up what truly unregulated bliss true extent of the virus. feels like. Target: Celebrate 22 23