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Issue 4 March 23RD 2011 NSW VOTES HONI NSW VOTES SOIT Issue 4 March 23RD 2011 6PM Slap that bass, toot that horn and catch that fox at SUNSET JAZZ with Jazzsoc at Hermann’s Bar. FREE. • 7PM What good is sitting alone in your room? Come hear the music play, It’s the opening Night of CABARET presented by MUSE! Until March 26, Seymour Theatre, $18 Access/ $22 Concession. WED 1PM Death In a minute! Love in a minute! Bread in a 23rd minute! Spend Thursday lunch at THEATRESPORTS. Manning Bar, FREE. • 8.30 Get ready to laugh your butt clear off with Irish t musical comedy phenomena DEAD CAT BOUNCE at the THU Sydney Comedy Store’s ROCK ‘N’ LOL show. $20 Entry. 4pm-7pm• • Kick back after class with a frosty bevvy and tunes from resident student DJs at the • WEEKEND WARM-UP at Hermann’s Bar. FREE. | Join the adorably eccentric Phebe Starr for her 8pm • PINK LEMONADE EP LAUNCH and let the genres FRI mash! Gallery bar, Oxford Art Factory (the FREE bit!) • 11am Pop, lock and break at a FREE KRUMP CLASS at Carriageworks for the Platform Hip Hop Festival. • 8pm Check out some damn good music at the brand new single launch for SUPER FLORENCE JAM’s ‘BLOOZEPOWER’ at The Gaelic theatre. They’re joined by special guests The Salvagers, Where’s Jerome and JUNK. Entry is $15 and SAT includes the single! 04 STATE26th ELECTION DAY - GET TO YOUR LOCAL PRIMARY 10AM• -10PM Opa! Get your moussaka taste buds bubbling SCHOOL AND VOTE. THE P & C ARE OUT IN FORCE! at the sYDNEY GREEK FESTIVAL at Darling Harbour. 06 FREE ENTRY. • 8pm Can’t make it to the Melbourne International Comedy SUN Festival? Check out two great shows from JOEL CREASEY and JACQUES BARRETT for $15 at the Comedy Store. BUILD-A-BEAR • 5pm Beer! Chips! Cards! It’s going to be a full house at Hermann’s Bar for the weekly 07 MON POKER TOURNAMENT put on by Sydney Uni Poker Society and FREE. 7:30PM • Sydney Legend John Chesher hosts weekly open mic acoustic sets at the sONGWRITER SESSIONS at the Excelsior Hotel, Surry Hills. FREE. 08 5-6pm • 99...12...34...3. BINGO! Head to Manning after tutes for ROCK YA BALLS BINGO with beers and prizes up for grabs. FREE. • 7AM - 10pm The City of Sydney have installed 7pm TUE CANDY STRIPED DECKcHAIRS in Sydney Square next to Town Hall, George Street. Sit in them! Honi Soit cannot stress enough that you will actually be building a bear. They have free wireless! 29th DISCLAIMER THE LOVECHILD: Honi Soit is published by the Students’ Representative Council, University of Sydney, O RETRACTION Level 1 Wentworth Building, City Road, University of Sydney, NSW, 2006. The SRC’s Steve Buscemi operation costs, space and administrative support are financed by the University of The editors of Honi Soit wish Beyonce Knowles Sydney. The editors of Honi Soit and the SRC acknowledge the traditional owners of to unequivocally apologise this land, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. Honi Soit is written, printed, and for unintentionally inciting a distributed on Aboriginal land. Honi Soit is printed under the auspices of the SRC’s violent revolution through last directors of student publications: Pat Massarani, Rhys Pogonoski, Deborah White, Pierce Hartigan, Alistair Stephenson and Meghan Bacheldor. All expressions are HoniLeaks week’s feature ‘Kill! Kill for published on the basis that they are not to be regarded as the opinions of the SRC Honi!’ While Honi appreciates unless specifically stated. The Council accepts no responsibility for the accuracy (do not the unquestioning devotion of any of the opinions or information contained within this newspaper, nor does it endorse any of the advertisements and insertions. Honi Soit is printed by MPD. hold over of its readers we seem to be ADVERTISING: To advertise in Honi Soit, contact Tina Kao or Amanda LeMay now in control of most of the [email protected] expensive Southern Hemisphere, Cuba www.src.usyd.edu.au rug) and the Toys R’ Us corporation. We don’t know what to do with THIS WEEK’S TEAM any of these things. EDITOR IN CHIMP: James Colley EDITORS: Jacqueline Breen, Neada Bulseco, Bridie Connell, Shannon Connellan, Andy Fraser, 5 Julian Larnach, Michael Richardson, Laurence DAD JOKE OF THE WEEK: Rosier Staines, Tom Walker Two peanuts went down a REPORTERS: Cindy Chong, Monica Connors, dark alley. State Michael Coutts, Shaun Crowe, Neil Cuthbert, Will One was a-salted! Haines, Pierce Hartigan, Michael Koziol, Dominic govts. McNeill, Harry Milas, Will Mollers, James O’Doherty, Chloe Paul, Tim Scriven, Annie Wylie Who needs CONTRIBUTORS: Travis Ash, Al Cameron,, HONEY SUAVE Bridie Connellan, Joss Engebretsen, Arghya Gupta em? Do I look like a puzzle? CROSSWORD: Steven B. Beevan & Samuel B. You? Because I think you might complete me. Movie COVER: Sebastian Hernage 8 HONI SOIT Track down WEEK 4 ISSUE where 23 MAR 2011 your vote CONTENTS is going and ask MAIL PROFILE it to 04 Here’s the mail, it never fails. It SHAUN CROWE catches up with stay makes me want to wag my tail. 11 Premier Kristina Kenneally and asks her all the questions. 9 06 CAMPUS FEATURE DOMINIC MCNEILL is rockin’ the vote. 12 PIERCE HARTIGAN catches the ARGHYA GUPTA got in to medicine. election’s youngest candidates Goodchap With his advice, you can too! (You between recess and nap time. may need more than his advice). Street Meet here for the Conservatorium THE ARTS BIT falls guided tour with TRAVIS ASH. 14 ANNIE WYLIE’s indie clothes were in short of the wash. The new SUDS play, reviewed by its name WILL HAINES. NEWS MICHAEL KOZIOL goes to a bar and calls it journalism. NEIL CUTHBERT defends state government. CINDY CHONG on Mark Ronson. Well, 07 not on him. MICHAEL COUTTS dishes up bite-sized news bits. PAGE ... 16? 14 Spot the hipsters at Garden Music FARRAGO 16 with BRIDIE CONNELLAN and JOSS ENGERBRETSEN (it’s easy, they’re JAMES O’DOHERTY on what kids everywhere). Review 08 these days are voting. Ding ding! We got AL CAMERON in SRC GRIBBLIES of MUSE’s the blue corner and TIM SCRIVEN in 17 Reports from some people in this ‘Cabaret’ the Greens! This room’s only got two here SRC building. corners! Caba-raise Where’s ANDY FRASER and what’s the roof! this big puff of smoke? CRYPTONOMICON 20 STEVEN B. BEEVAN and SAMUEL B. MOVIE have an impressive SPORT crossword. TUE 10 NEADA BULSECO dives in with water polo super star Thomas Whalan. 16 WILL MOLLERS on the Australian soccer league. Apparently it’s still there. 3 YOU THERE! Love us? Hate us? If you’ve got an opinion on something in these ? pages, we want to hear it! Hit us up at: THE [email protected] EDITORIAL Japan Nuclear ordinary student against the There is no good or evil: only power In our feature this week we speak Disaster and the marginal ideologies of left-wing letters and those too weak to seek it. So to the youngest candidates and loonies. These two men claim to be said the darkest of all wizards, J.K. find out what draws them into this SEAC injecting a little reasoned objectivity, a bit of non-partisan common sense, into Rowling. intimidating world. Also, be sure to In the wake of a tragic and huge natural the hysterical, politically correct tone check out our profile where we track disaster, Japan is still threatened Ladies and gentlemen, our lesson of USYD public and intellectual life. It is down and interview Kristina Keneally by a disaster of uniquely human today is on power and politics. obvious that their agenda is anything on the campaign trail just days out construction. Fukushima power plant but neutral. Neil Cuthbert went so far as from the state election. has leaked radiation, and as workers By the end of this week we will know to liken ‘minority’ groups like women, and the military brave extremely who is premier of NSW for the next But worry not, gentle readers – people of colour, queers, the working elevated levels of radiation attempting four years. That’s right, get out your politics isn’t the only thing Honi class, the mentally ill and prisoners to cool the fuel rods, there is still posters and deface everyone else’s offers this week. We also bring you to ‘the wretched of the earth’. Chad the threat of even greater radiation posters, it’s state election time again. an interview from Olympic water Sidler called SRC collective members leakage. Already many people have To “celebrate” the forthcoming polo captain Thomas Whalan, a guide ‘extremists’, implying that issues been exposed, in particular workers election Honi delves into the world to a day in the Conservatorium, and pertaining to women, queers, welfare at the site, but also civilians in a wide of power, corruption, vice, deception reviews of the best shows in and recipients, Indigenous peoples, disability, radius, who have had to evacuate or and, very occasionally, hope; the around Sydney University. the environment and refugees are just face dangerous exposure. This radiation world of politics. not relevant to real students. Now when election day rolls around may affect the area long into the Politics is more often than not a you will find yourself informed, future. So, just who are these hunky-dory, 100% terrifying subject. When confronted entertained and thoroughly genuine students? Certainly not me, a Despite the seriousness of what has with politics most people are either depressed at the whole process country kid, the daughter of an under- happened at Fukushima, nuclear instantly enraged or instantly asleep.
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