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4-5: NEWS 14-15: FEATURE Protesters clash with CPAC Omagoor: The Quest for the attendees and police Asian-Australian Accent Student protesters have organised Union. Its speaking list includes When I was twelve, my mum proud parent, wanted to share a snap rally against the former Prime Minister Tony Ab- brought a video I’d made for it with everyone she knew. But Conservative Political Action bott, leader of the Brexit Party a school assignment to work, instead of gushing praise, her Conference (CPAC), resulting in Nigel Farage, as well as a host of and showed it to her colleagues colleagues, most of them white, clashes between the two groups other inflammatory right-wing during lunch. She was obvious- seemed to only comment on only and police intervention. commentators. ly proud of the cinematic mas- one thing — my accent. CPAC was jointly organised by terpiece I had whipped up on Australian group Liberty Works Windows Movie Maker during and the American Conservative Read more on page 4 >>>> the school holidays, and like any Read more on page 14 >>>> LETTERS

嗨假期又又又结束了，当代恶臭年轻人离开了他们瘫了一个假期的沙发， Acknowledgement of Country 端正的坐到图书馆—开始玩起了手机。假装繁忙之际，一定别忘了给我们 Write to us: [email protected] 写信。要么给我们写信要么进来挨打！ I would like to acknowledge the land that Honi publishes on was never ceded but stolen from Letters the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. As an international student, who was not familiar with Australia’s Aboriginal history before, I thought the brutality and violence only existed in history. However, it is important to recognise the ongoing unfair treatment and voicelessness of First Nations’ people still happening today. There are too many fellow international students using the fact that they are Mr Spence! Thank you also a vulnerable group in Australia as an excuse to avoid knowing more about this colonial history. However, as a foreign student from overseas, who benefits from Australia’s high-quality education, Students’ Representative Council, University of Sydney comfortable housing and other privileges, we should all be aware of this ongoing inhuman treatment and recognize the real owners of this land. Do not tear for your Honi Soit stands in solidarity with First Nations communities, prioritising their voices, respecting elders past, present and future. down this concerns 原本是，永远都是，原住民的土地。 wall! Dear Nicholas Contents Dear Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor, Thank you for your raising these Notice of Editorial concerns with us. I can assure you I feel lost recently. There are so for a while and concentrate on what I am deeply disturbed at the attack on that the University does not condone 3 LETTERS Editors many roads in front of me but I is most important in the present — free speech by Chinese students who the removal of the “Lennon Wall” and 2019 SRC don’t know which one to choose. how to make a wonderful newspaper tore down the ‘Lennon Wall’ at the is committed to ensuring freedom of 4 NEWS Baopu He, Pranay Jha, Amelia Mertha It is my last semester of in my second editor-in-chief week. USYD campus. speech and enquiry on our campus. Jessica Syed, Liam Thorne, Nell O’Grady, undergraduate study, and I can’t see To be honest I wasn’t worried too Promoting the capacity to disagree Carrie Wen, Joe Verity, Annie Zhang my future at all. Should I continue to much. This paper is the product of Annual 6 ANALYSIS This attack on the freedom of well – described by Professor David and Alan Zheng pursue higher education or should talented reporters, photographers speech by Chinese students against Schlosberg as “an ethic of agonistic 8 PERSPECTIVE I immediately start working after and artists, working together. students who support Hong Kong’s respect across difference” – in relation Writers graduation? Should I try to get I am very proud of our amazing citizens, including many students and to even the most complex and emotive Election 11 MULTILINGUAL permanent residency in Australia or news coverage over the past week: we academics, is unacceptable and attacks issues is a responsibility which the Vivienne Guo, Robbie Mason, Grace should I go back to my country and stay have covered the ‘Lennon Wall’ removal the core values of the university in University takes extremely seriously. 12 PERSPECTIVE Johnson, Max Shanahan, Ben Hines, with my family? I can’t decide at all. On on Eastern Avenue; the University of civic society. Astonishingly, it appears We will not tolerate violence or Shania O’Brien, Alice Trenoweth, Anh the one hand, I am tired of leading a Queensland signing a deal with the from the article below that even SRC harassment on our campus. 13 FEATURE Nguyen, Michelle Lam wandering life all by myself in a foreign Ramsay Centre; a Chinese student co-Education officers and student country; on the other hand, I can feel was punched and spat on in the group members on the SRC are actively I have recently formed a consultation 16 CULTURE Artists my eagerness for an adventurous life. racist campus attack, and so many involved in these public attacks against group, which includes student Authorised by C.Lu, Electoral Officer 2019, Everything bothers me, and I have been more important rallies and news. students. representatives, to determine how best Students’ Representative Council, University of Sydney 18 CREATIVE Olivia Allanson, Grace Fu, Amelia sleepless for multiple nights. These We have an insightful investigative to implement the recommendations of Mertha, Lauren Moore, Nhatminh Vu, feelings of anxiety haunted me until piece about the Convervative Political I trust the University will demonstrate the Independent Review of Freedom of 20 PHOTOGRAPHY Mei Zheng I saw this week’s cover art by Annie Action Conference by Joe Verity. its resolute support for free speech Speech in Australian Higher Education Nominations are called for the following elections/positions and Zhang. The girl in the art is just like me. Robbie Mason’s long form analysis give and make its response public, and Providers (“the French Review”). We open on the 31st July 2019 at 4:30pm: 22 WRITING COMP Photographers There is an unknown place with tall us insight of the voices of subversive also demonstrate its support for the will be issuing a call for input from (a) The election of the Representatives to the 92nd SRC (35 positions) 26 PUZZLES buildings hidden in the forest in front of researchers in the field of psychedelic democratic aspirations of the HK students in Student News on Monday, (b) The election of the President of the 92nd SRC Ieong Meng Seng, Lindsay Rui the girl. Just like the unsure, potentially medicine. Also many thanks to Baopu community, including its university and I encourage you to consider (c) The election of the Editor(s) of Honi Soit for the 92nd SRC 27 COMEDY adventurous future in front of me. He for doing this edition’s feature article students and academics, at this providing feedback on freedom of (d) The election of National Union of Students delegates for the 92nd SRC (7 positions) Cover Artist: Annie Zhang What should I do; should I approach or about the Asian-Australian accent. speech on campus to this process. important moment in time. Nomination forms can be downloaded from the SRC website: srcusyd.net.au/elections should I leave? I ask myself again and There is a spread of photos of Macau again. The glow of fireflies are above and Japan this week. They are taken by Sincerely. Your s, Original signed nomination forms and a printed copy of your online nomination must be received no later than 4:30pm on Wednesday 21st August, either at the SRC front office Disclaimer: Honi Soit is published by the Directors of Student Publications (DSPs), who are elected the girl’s head, lighting up the darkness two wonderful student photographers, Nicholas Strobbe Michael (Level 1, Wentworth Building), OR at the following postal address: PO Box 794, Broadway by the Students’ Representative Council (SRC). The SRC provides space and administrative support of the forest and cold buildings. Leong Meng Seng and Lindsay Rui. NSW 2007. only, which is financed by the University of Sydney. 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I feel kind of relieved, even 山重水复疑无路，柳暗花明又一村。 does not have control over the ads that appear in this paper. though I still haven’t decided anything. Anthony’s sins as well! Forgive, that for US Senator Jim Inhofe, whose council nomination form specifies I decide to leave everything behind just Carrie Wen on his blog with the newly registered Wikipedia article proclaims him to only 35 councillors (an increase domain name of www.anthonyseagart. be “the most conservative member of from 33 in 2018) but not enough com he has linked his piece, “Why both the House and Senate, according to constitute compliance with the More Indidgenous History In The to the 2017 GovTrack report card” we Constitution… the pits of fire are Swoop Right Curriculum Isn’t Necessarily Better.” must repent! How dare we sin, and opening! Repent! Amelia Mertha Ô LORD, forgive JP Baladi, the head name her to be right of the moderates. honcho of this lib-ticket, for buying Burn us at the stake! Revelation 5: The Scroll and into this drivel! We are all but sinning the Lamb lambs, dear LORD! Sacrifice us! Have mercy on the constitution, dear Father! Then I saw a Lamb, looking as if it Hon-way road to heaven Our lies are sending us right to had been slain, standing at the center hell! The very fabric that ties our society of the throne, encircled by the four Humbled are we, Ô LORD – we were together (apart from the Book of living creatures and the elders. The wrong about last week’s Liberal We repent in the face of GOD the Revelations) is at stake… an SRC Lamb had seven horns and seven party aligned-ticket, running to Almighty. We bow down to those constitutional crisis looms… the end eyes, which are the seven spirits of edit that godforsaken paper Honi honourable saints paying visits to the is nigh… the fear renders us even more God sent out into all the earth. 7 He Soit! There were not four, but FIVE Mount Sinai of student journalism, the God-fearing than usual! Answer our went and took the scroll from the men on the ticket! And only ONE Honi Soit Anonymous Tip-line Google prayers, ô LORD of Standing Legal, right hand of him who sat on the of them is NOT in the Liberal party! Form, and informing us of God’s Xiaoman Zhu! Let it be known that throne. 8 And when he had taken Blessed be thou, our priestly brother prophecies: “Josie Jakovac is a moderate section 3(a) of the SRC’s Constitution it, the four living creatures and the Anthony Segaert, present on Lib- liberal not soft-right dudes. Soft-right requires that Council be comprised twenty-four elders fell down before ticket, and whose involvement with is like Zac and Hartley. Ur burn book of one councillor for every 1000 the Lamb. Each one had a harp and Honi Soit does not extend beyond needs to be burned.” So burn it! Burn it students enrolled in an undergraduate they were holding golden bowls full occasionally tweeting ambivalently we say! Condemn it to the everlasting degree. According to current USyd of incense, which are the prayers of about the paper! Forgive us for flames of hell! Though Josie publicly enrolment figures, campus has 37,146 God’s people. 9 And they sang a new we have probably sinned! Forgive boasts of the fact that she interned undergraduate students. The 2019 song, saying: “You are worthy.”

2 3 NEWS NEWS UNSW Law exams no longer Pro-Choice protest ‘Lennon Wall’ dismantled on Usyd sponsors Saudi available for collection outside Parliament Eastern Avenue Symposium Kiran Gupta Vivienne Guo Alan Zheng Nell O'Grady The University of New South the move. Reasons for such relatively progressive step. Some At 8 am on Tuesday morning, gave a fervent speech praising Geopolitical schisms are coming Jingrui (Jesse) Xu, current SRC told Honi that the University The University of Sydney spokesperson told Honi. Wales (UNSW) Law School criticality, included less face- students told Honi that UNSW masses of protesters flocked to the trailblazers of the pro- to the University of Sydney after co-Education Officer, who is "strongly supports the right of was the principal sponsor of The Saudi Arabian Cultural released a statement on to-face contact between law seminars rarely exceed 30 the gates of New South Wales choice movement. a mural established by Hong paid close to $13,000 by the students to protest and express the fifth annual Saudi Arabi- Mission is a cornerstone of Thursday announcing that law staff and students, and more people and that the move to (NSW) Parliament, as politicians “We will go inside and we Kong students on the poster SRC for mobilising student opinions and political views." an scientific Symposium, an the Crown Prince’s Vision students will no longer be able concentrated and difficult term restrict access to exam papers, readied themselves for a debate will attempt to deliver what you boards of Eastern Avenue protests and movements. "The safety of all our event occuring annualy that 2030 plan that attempt to to collect their exam papers times. Honi recently reported even if to decrease staff hours, regarding the Reproductive started all those decades ago,” was dismantled by Chinese Xu and another yet students is a top priority attempts to forge ties be- modernise the country after being marked. that the firing of 400 staff and is a reasonable concession to Health Reform Bill 2019. Leong pledged. “We will stand students yesterday afternoon, unidentified student are both and we will continue to tween the scientific and - ed when it comes to women’s In an email obtained by the significant cuts made to make when considering the The bill, proposed by with regional women, with rural according to video footage involved with Panda — a monitor the situation," ucational communities of rights, science and education. Honi that was sent on behalf student services were made in small legal seminar sizes that Independent MP Alex women, with women from non- obtained by Honi. It comes three faction loosely grounded in the the spokesperson said. Australia and Saudi Arabia. Honi has found that in of the Deputy Dean of UNSW preparation for the restructure. UNSW prides itself on. In Greenwich, seeks to English speaking backgrounds, weeks after pro-Hong Kong and China Development Society Vice-Chancellor Michael The event was managed supporting the efforts of Law, Professor Andrew Lynch, Multiple student protests addition, Honi revealed last decriminalise abortion in NSW. Aboriginal women, and women pro-Beijing students clashed (CDS) — who are also part Spence told Honi the by the Saudi student club the Saudi Sydney Student the faculty announced, “in opposing the move have year that only 3.1 per cent of Two separate rallies from both from [all other] disadvantaged in the Great Court of the of the SRC's majority bloc. “University does not condone in Sydney, an organisation club, the have by association, accordance with the practice of followed. Consequently, staff marks available in a UNSW Law sides of the abortion debate backgrounds." University of Queensland (UQ). Founding President of the the removal of the “Lennon sponsored by the Saudi supported a student other faculties … examination have widely reported having degree stem from closed book – pro-life and pro-choice – Leong drew attention to the The mural, inspired by the CDS Ye Xue told Honi that Wall” and is committed to Arabian Cultural Mission organisation operating under papers will no longer be significantly less time to mark examinations, compared to 19.1 were face to face, exchanging often-neglected issue of trans ‘Lennon Wall’ — a mosaic of the CDS does not endorse ensuring freedom of speech which is facilitated by the the supervision of the Saudi available for your collection.” assessments. Not returning per cent at USyd, which further counter-chants and heated and nonbinary erasure in the sticky notes also used during any political activities which and enquiry on our campus.” Ministry of Education of the Arabian Cultural Mission The faculty will instead papers could allow markers to reflects what the UNSW Law words back and forth. fight for women’s reproductive the 2014 Umbrella Movement its members participate in. Advance, a Pan-Asian Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. and thus directly facilitated request that course convenors spend less time on each script, School market as a “progressive The initially mild rights, “I am sorry that your — contained messages, some "CDS had no role in student coalition which The event was booked and by the Saudi Ministry for release general guides to the as feedback would only need to and rigorous legal education.” confrontations escalated into voices, and your views, and your of which read “No extradition the dismantling of the contested the USU and SRC fully catered by the University Education. In recent months, final examination on Moodle, be recorded and provided when The Faculty has assured yelling matches and bouts bodies have been somewhat bill”, “We need Freedom”, Lennon Wall," Xue said. elections in 2018, proposed a of Sydney for an attendance the Saudi Arabian government an open-source learning requested, or be substantiated students that “the retention of physical intimidation on erased by this. But please “Free Hong Kong”, and “Hong The move echoes the actions motion for a peaceful student of 150 guests, though the has sought to promote a management system. verbally. of papers does not prevent both sides, leading police to know that there are many of us Kong is home”. Peace signs of pro-Beijing students at UQ protest and strike in solidarity University of Sydney denied liberal vision of itself in a The timing of this move While many have criticised students who wish to seek a intervene as they attempted to that realise the struggles that and love hearts also adorned who dismantled a ‘Lennon with Hong Kong at last any connection with the Saudi globalised world. This has is interesting given UNSW’s the policy change given its review of results from doing separate the two rallies using continue for you. Please know the mural. A similar Lennon Wall’ set up by the Hong Kong week’s SRC council meeting. Arabian Cultural Mission. “To emerged at a time when transition to a trimester model possible implications for staff so ... if a student makes an orange traffic cones. that it is not acceptable you are Wall in the Graffiti Tunnel Students Association before That motion was not heard the best of our knowledge, the Crown Prince Muhummad at the beginning of 2019. Both cuts and the additional difficulty appointment with their teacher The bill proposes to allow erased in the struggle that we also went missing this week. interrupting a sit-in protest after the meeting was cancelled university has not supplied Bin Salman maintains many staff and students have met for students to appeal marks, to discuss their exam paper, the abortion upon request up have for our freedoms and our Individual sticky notes by Hong Kong activists with following controversy any funds to the Saudi Arabian aspects of its guardian system, the introduction of trimesters some UNSW law students have teacher will request the paper until 22 weeks of gestation. rights, and we will stand with were first removed from the intimidation tactics and the with regulation changes Cultural Mission, we provided The Australian with widespread criticism and embraced the change. They note from Student Services for this Thereafter, abortions would you every step of the way.” board, before the placard itself Chinese National Anthem. proposed by the majority bloc. the “Saudi Student Club in Government’s direct exposure condemnation. According to that traditionally the law school purpose and will then return it require the approval of two The bill passed the lower was dismantled by a group of This morning, the Lennon The Hong Kong Students Sydney” with the venue to the Saudi Arabian UNSW student newspaper, has been one of the last faculties after the consultation with the doctors, based on criteria house on Thursday night. If Mandarin-speaking Chinese Wall at the University Association (HKSA) did not and catering to the around government remains limited, Tharunka over 90% of the to change policy and a move to student." The UNSW LawSoc assessing long-term physical, enacted, it will overturn the students on Tuesday afternoon. of Queensland was respond to Honi’s request for 150 guests who are mostly yet is largely dependent responses to a student survey digitise general exam reports in declined to comment on the social and mental factors. 119-year-long criminalisation The identities of one of those destroyed by masked men. comment in time for publication. students who attended the on student sponsorships in May 2016 were critical of a timely fashion is potentially a policy change. Greens MP Jenny Leong of abortion. students is known to Honi as A university spokesperson event," a University of Sydney and academic networks. Protesters clash with CPAC Rally: ‘ScoMo is a UQ signs deal with Ramsay Student punched in attendees and police coal fondler’ Centre for Western Civilisation racist campus attack Pranay Jha and Joseph Verity Matthew Forbes Liam Thorne Liam Thorne and Alan Zheng Student protesters have conference, some dressed in past. Tony Abbott also attracted Hundreds of protesters shut for fossil-fuel industry On Wednesday, the University curricula three times. The HASS least 6 new staff.” A Chinese international post- of them, the student asked him organised snap rally against the MAGA hats, attempted to move attention by using his time of down streets in Sydney’s CBD workers. Back in June, the City of Queensland (UQ) Board only holds an advisory The involvement of the graduate student was attacked “What are you doing?” and Conservative Political Action into the crowd of protesters. the stage yesterday to decry the on Friday evening calling for of Sydney declared a climate signed a Memorandum of power at the University. Ramsay Centre in the selection on campus today by a 30 to pushed the man away from him. Conference (CPAC), resulting One attendee had a coffee recently passed NSW abortion immediate climate action. The emergency and promised to use Understanding (MOU) with There are outstanding of the program’s staff and 40-year-old man wearing a grey Following this, the student was in clashes between the two thrown on them, leading to bill as “death on demand” and rally was part of a series of 100 per cent renewable energy the Ramsay Centre for Western concerns that the curriculum is students comes as particularly hoodie-jacket. The student was punched in the face, and after re- groups and police intervention. the thrower of the coffee being a “fundamentally inhuman nation-wide demonstrations by next year. Gumbaynggirr Civilisation to launch a major likely incompatible with UQ’s worrying news. As the likely one of several Asian stu- taliating with a punch himself, CPAC was jointly organised handcuffed and arrested by position”. hosted by the National Union activist Gavin Stanbrook in Western Civilisation in 2020. commitments to reconciliation Ramsay Centre has made bids dents targeted by the man today. he was then punched a second by Australian group Liberty police. Organisers have divulged of Students (NUS) and Uni provided an acknowledgement 30 students each year will with First Nations peoples. The to fund similar programs at The student was spat on, time. This second punch came Works and the American Hersha Kadkol, principal their intention to turn CPAC, Students for Climate Justice, in of country before expressing receive scholarships funded by fact that the course curriculum other Australian universities and punched multiple times, with a key held in between Conservative Union. Its organiser of the protest and which currently attracts conjunction with other groups his support for the movement. the Ramsay Centre, and will take signed off by the VC was never — including the University including being jabbed in the attacker’s fingers, connect- speaking list includes former Ethnocultural Officer of the crowds of 10,000 in the US, including Extinction Rebellion. He tied the environmental either a Bachelor of Advanced approved by the HASS Board of Wollongong, USyd, and the eye with a key at around ing with the student’s left eye. Prime Minister Tony Abbott, National Union of Students, into a permanent fixture of the 2018 University of Sydney movement to the fight for Humanities (Honours) (Western will likely present further University of Western Australia 4:45 pm this afternoon. The student had complet- leader of the Brexit Party Nigel gave a statement to Honi. Australian political calendar in SRC Education Officer, Lily Indigenous land rights and Civilisation), or a Bachelor concerns for many.In the — significant concern has been Today was his first day at the ed a 4-year undergraduate de- Farage, as well as a host of “The worrying rise of the far the future. Rosebell, chaired the event native title — specifically in of Humanities (Western announcement of the MoU, UQ raised about how such funding University of Sydney, and fortu- gree at the University of New other inflammatory right-wing right all around the world must which commenced at Town regards to the Adani coal mine. Civilisation) / Bachelor of Laws stated that they “acknowledge might erode academic autonomy nately, he was able to walk away South Wales, in which he said commentators and politicians be resisted. Every time they Hall. The rally was one of many Bruce Shillingsworth, (Honours). the historical fact that violent and university independence with just a swollen eye with- he never felt racially victimised. Below: protesters gathering outside from Australia, the US, and the get organised, we must protest These students will be colonisation was undertaken by from partisan financial interest. out an ambulance being called. The student said that he the Rydges World Square to take place over the last few an artist and member of UK. The event attracted around and stand in solidarity with the months, with international the Budjiti and Muruwarri selected by the ‘Ramsay western countries that believed At UQ alone, there has Honi spoke to the at- was “quite disappointed” that 400 attendees on each of its victims of their attacks,” she strikes organised by school Nations, spoke outside NSW Scholarship Selection Panel,’ themselves to be ‘civilised’.” been resounding backlash to tacked student and his both Campus Security and the two main days on Friday and said. students occurring on the 15th Parliament, calling the rally a which will be chaired by The program will be taught the program’s introduction. In friend, both of whom pre- police were slow to respond, Saturday. Official organisers of CPAC of March and 24th of May “gathering of the true warriors a member of UQ senior by ten full-time equivalent May, over 500 students met in ferred to remain anonymous. telling Honi that a Campus A few hours after Farage declined Honi’s request for earlier this year. of the future” and repeating management and will include academic staff. Notably, the first general meeting since The alleged assailant had Security officer arrived at the gave his speech, approximately comment. Daisy Jeffrey, a 16-year-old “we don’t inherit the Earth either the Ramsay Centre's CEO although UQ will have the final 1971 to vote down the Ramsay been shouting and swearing scene 10 minutes after being 30 protesters gathered on the The conference has not been representative from School’s from our ancestors, we borrow or Academic Executive Officer. say in who these staff will be, Centre’s program. A potential loudly, and spitting on people called, and two police officers street outside Rydges World short of controversial moments. Strike for Climate, labelled it from our children”. The panel will also include the UQ will invite either the Ramsay deal was also rejected by the as they were using the stairs arrived 40 minutes after called. Square, where the event is Yesterday, the crowd launched Prime Minister Scott Morrison A United Nations report Executive Dean of Humanities Centre's CEO or Academic National Tertiary Education leading from Wentworth build- The University disput- being hosted, chanting a raft of into chants of “send her back” a “coal fondler”. Jeffrey also released on Thursday warned and Social Sciences (HASS), Executive Officer to be on the Union and the student UQ ing to the City Road bridge. ed these figures, suggesting anti-conservative slogans. when Kristina Keneally became outlined the movement’s three of the devastating effects to Professor Heather Zwicker, staff selection panel. Moreover, Union. The pair recounted that the Campus Security arrived in 4 A heavy police presence of a topic of discussion. Keneally demands: the abandonment of food supplies climate change who earlier this year bypassed although current UQ staff may The status of negotiations man seemed to be spitting only minutes and Police within 10. close to 20 officers prevented lobbied to have speaker Raheem new coal, oil and gas projects, will cause through extreme the advisory HASS Academic apply to teach the program, between the Ramsay Centre on those of Asian appearance. "Any behaviour that is in- the protest from reaching Kassam barred from entering sole nation-wide use of weather conditions. A third Board to approve the program, UQ has also committed to and the University of Sydney He reportedly smelled of alco- timidating, abusive or threat- the conference. However, the country, citing misogynistic renewable energy by 2030 and student-led global climate strike even after the HASS Board “recruiting, through an open has remained largely unknown hol, and was yelling with a slur. ening is not welcome on cam- numerous attendees of the comments he had made in the job creation and sustainment takes place on 20 September. rejected proposals for Ramsay and competitive process, at for most of 2019. When the man spat on one pus,” a spokesperson said.

4 5 ANALYSIS ANALYSIS For Farage and Latham, what establishment is there left to rail against? The not so international language Joseph Verity reflects on Australia’s first Conservative Political Action Conference. of music “Now that I’m no longer an MP, I don’t radical reimagination of identity. subscribers of Trumpian populism (with media junket at the back of the room, Grace Johnson explores the linguistic differences inherent in music education. have to solve problems anymore,” Tony Matt Schlapp, chairman of the ACU, the exception, perhaps, of speakers such Meadows lamented that journalists It is well established in the media that which make up the majority of the piano I spoke to Wendy Chen, a student music?” Abbott declared midway through his spent a considerable amount of time as Senator Amanda Stoker, whose half an were no longer unbiased, shortly before international students face certain cohort, at least. There is less emphasis from Hainan in the Music Studies This is a completely mindset to those interview with former Deputy Prime interviewing Republican Congressman hour speech on industrial relations law introducing Fox News host Jeanine Pirro disadvantages in Western universities, on holistic learning about music and degree, majoring in classical piano. She trained to believe that only diligence and Minister John Anderson at the inaugural Matt Meadows (with whom Schlapp reform failed to rile the crowd up as much to the stage. It was the same again when especially to do with language. This is an more about striving to achieve the end talked to me about overcoming such academic rigour leads to success. On Australian Conservative Political Action shared a number of similarities as the thinly veiled dogwhistling of Ross disgraced columnist and serial plagiarist obvious drawback in situations where result — playing, rather than complete differences. this, I spoke to Ryan Tu, an international Conference (CPAC) on Friday. “It’s extending far beyond name) about the Cameron). A resounding theme of anti- Tanveer Ahmed boasted of his ability students are required to participate in understanding. This is doubly difficult “The main problem is as a Chinese, student in his fourth year of the Horn enough just to point at them.” virtues and popularity of Donald Trump. establishmentarianism percolated the to bring a “different angle” to popular class, give marked presentations, and for international students not yet the way I think is different to Western Performance degree. Abbott, like many of the other Meadows, relying on North Carolinian 14 or so hours of oratory, and attendees issues during a speech which, if actually submit academic essays. But how does fluent in English, since they are able people and those academic words that “So, back in my hometown, I had a speakers at the conference, spent his folksy charm alone to pad out his were convinced that action against the written by Ahmed, offered evidence as this go in a music degree, where most to perform the piece flawlessly, yet appeared in the class. We have totally pretty straight forward music education. time on stage meandering aimlessly numerous speaking slots, delivered an establishment is urgently needed if the to why he felt the need to obscure his international students are admitted they are unable to introduce their piece different ways to think and express.” It is like, do whatever the teachers tell through a vague and nostalgic ode to extended sermon of anecdotes about country is to stand a chance. intellectual efforts with the work of on a performance basis? Despite most at a level the teachers/markers find Wendy described the different styles you. Like the teacher tells me to learn a conservatism. John Howard quotes his interaction with the President and Janet Albrechtsen dedicated her time others in the first place. students being talented performers, and acceptable, let alone eloquently express of teaching she encountered: in Hainan, piece, I learn a piece. You kind of rely on took centre stage as the retired Member painted him as a model conservative in the spotlight to evangelising about To a large extent, it was this lack of with the university generally having a their interpretation of the piece’s teachers would typically explain their the teachers a lot. But after coming here, for Warringah extolled the virtues of leader. free speech, inventing the conveniently self-awareness coupled with Abbott’s high English requirement (IELTS 6.5), meaning. meaning through playing any particular the teachers would actually ask, why do pragmatism, traditionalism, and the It was only a few years ago, however, reductive equation “anger plus disgust confession of retirement-induced apathy there is still a dis-advantageous gap of Tertiary education often comes as a passage or instructing the student to play you want to learn that piece? How do the family unit. that the well-entrenched American equals contempt” to explain the mindset that defined the conference. Attendees understanding for some students, even shock. We leave the guided instruction louder or softer here. But coming to the different notes/phrases function in the In his allotted half an hour, however, of the broad left, which she argued were convinced wholesale of the evils when studying the so-called universal of our secondary teachers and we Sydney Conservatorium, and learning music? Like how all the little details fit that was about all Abbott said. In The ‘A’ in Conservative is inherently unwilling to engage in of several different supposed bogey- language of music. are suddenly expected to engage in from a European teacher, she said, “You into each other. I think it gave me a more fact, with a few exceptions, that was a dialogue. Raheem Kassam, former men — the government, according to Recently, teachers across the discourse and independent research. need to have a good understanding of in-depth insight into music and more about all anybody said at CPAC. The Political Action advisor to Nigel Farage, spent most of entrepreneur and free marketeer Steve Conservatorium created a new At the Conservatorium, it first comes English, he always uses metaphors. freedom to learn.” ‘A’ in Conservative Political Action Conference was noticeably his time mocking Kristina Keneally and Baxter; global free markets, according to Conference was noticeably redundant the ALP for their attempts to convince nationalist Farage — without stopping throughout. redundant throughout. the Home Affairs Minister to bar him to consider the inherent contradictions *** CPAC welcomed a patronage that was from entering the country due to his in the messages delivered to them. It was Like most components of Australian far more fond of Republican presidential suggestion that Scottish politician Nicola enough for everyone to simply point to a conservative culture, CPAC was candidates Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. Sturgeon have her legs “taped shut [...] so problem, without stopping to think too imported from the US. Familiar and An internal poll of attendees in 2016 she can’t reproduce.” much about whether it really was the foreign faces alike from Sky and Fox reflected precisely this result. Fast The arrival of a small band of student fault of elites or migrants, Boris Johnson News adorned its speaking list; book forward to Sydney in 2019, and both are protesters only served to vindicate or Teresea May, Malcolm Turnbull or signings and photo opportunities the butts of numerous jokes. Alongside the hive of conservatives at Rydges the supposed rabble chanting outside. were conveniently included in the Jeb Bush, the pair are dismissed as World Square. They seemed not to The only speaker to actually propose any conference’s pricey ticket packages failed emissaries of the establishment, appreciate the glowing irony underlying kind of pragmatic solution to anything, (named, apparently unironically, the trampled and cast into irrelevance by the their encouragement of direct anti- Senator Amanda Stoker, was met with ‘Reagan VIP Pass’ and the ‘Iron Lady same populist fervour that ushered 400 establishment action coupled with a sterile indifference and impatience. Pass’). But a cursory glance at the history attendees from around the country into simultaneous condemnation of the The reality was that everyone in the of CPAC, which was founded in 1973 the room on a weekday. efforts of those protesting two former room was just as much guilty of the by the American Conservative Union Organisers were keen to bill the event leaders of the largest parliamentary indolent contempt Albrechtsen had so (ACU), suggests that the institution that as a catalyst for grassroots conservative parties in the country. This irony also thoroughly accused the left of. graced Australia’s shores for the first time action. From Mark Latham to Nigel slipped by apparently unnoticed on *** this year has only recently undergone a Farage, the speakers were avowed Friday when, speaking directly to the It would be cynical to call CPAC a simple money grab, though it certainly was. It would also be disingenuous, to suggest that ‘action’ played any major role in the conference’s purpose. What became clear after two days at CPAC was that it’s very difficult to stir anybody into anti-establishment ‘action’ when, in fact, you are the establishment. Many of the speakers spent a good deal of time recounting a highlights reel of 2016, and with good reason: what else is there to discuss now? It became clear after fielding expectation for students to address in doses, perhaps which edition of the I was super confused about what he “The history of different composers a question about Boris Johnson’s prime their audience before they perform, score you choose. Shortly into your was trying to teach me, when he asked and their pieces were one of my biggest ministership that Farage would prefer including introducing the work and the degree however, alongside theoretical me to stay in the garden and think. I difficulties when I started studying to avoid the topic because it involves composer. Previously, students would and historical study, you are confronted didn’t know what he said, he just wrote in Sydney. Back in Hong Kong, I only admitting that there isn’t really anyone left simply walk on stage, perform, bow, with a huge responsibility of the choices down all he wanted me to know and I learned the surface of their backgrounds. to rail against. Similarly, Latham seems to then leave. The new expectation was you are expected to make within used Google to translate after class.” After coming here, there is a lot to learn.” have had the wind taken out of his sails introduced to keep in line with current your performances. You are expected I learnt from the same teacher for Unlike a mathematics or engineering to some extent following his election to practices in concert halls and chamber to interpret the piece according to some time, who often told me to not degree, where there is less reference NSW Parliament, unable to countenance settings. historical convention but also to justify over-practise and instead to watch the to meaning and language, the way we his ‘outsider’ identity with the inside of a Briefly discussing the work prior your choices, like bringing out certain grass grow--“That will do more for you learn, play, and perceive music, is heavily chamber offering parliamentary privilege to performance benefits the audience melodies over others or choosing a than another hour of practice.” This informed by our language and culture. amongst a raft of other benefits. in the way that it offers some history, particular tempo. seems to stem from a well-known quote While there are increasing numbers CPAC was a study in inertia. A group context, understanding, and perhaps This is encouraged by teachers attributed to concert pianist Arthur of international students in Australian of people who never quite thought they key things to listen out for, such as predominantly through descriptive Rubinstein: universities and more Western teachers, were going to win, whether it was June structural diversions or interesting or metaphorical language, and you are “Never practice more than three or and even institutions, being established and November 2016 or March and May tonalities. But playing to professors also expected to express independent four hours a day. No one can concentrate in Asian countries, there remains a 2019, are now struggling to shift gears; and fellow students in a class setting, thought. While there are obvious longer than that, and you must spend the divide in communication that not even scrambling to imagine a world in which this practice compels performer to limitations between English-speakers rest of your time learning about life and music can always make up for. they have become the very thing they understand, at least partially, the and international students, this goes love and art and all the other wonderful railed against. We can only hope they background of any given musical work. beyond language barriers and into the things in the world. If a young person Art by Olivia Allanson don’t notice the ‘A’ in CPAC anytime This is extremely different to the way very conception of learning, practice, sits in the practice room all day, what soon. most East Asian students were taught, and the music itself. could he possibly have to express in his

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According to Dr Bright, Australia — does not slide smoothly into a may be exaggerated or that they could be for many broken bones and a scarcity of is “conservative” regarding psychedelic medicalisation mould but it has received explained in terms of expectations from thrills. Medicalising psychedelics: alternative research because individual disciplines widespread support where it supports people reading the media.” Dr Bright understands the scepticism are “so insulated” here. “The best way the capitalist model. Unlike media reports and research of Compass among psychonauts: “The to fast track a career in academia in Psychedelic culture has also become on high-dose psychedelics, this study psychedelic experience is one of unity approaches to mental health care in Australia Australia is to jump on board what synonymous with whiteness and found no significant change in creativity with the cosmos and connection with everyone else in your lab is doing and get findings suggest white people use and open-mindedness among the 98 Mother Nature — things that are quite Robbie Mason investigates antidepressants, psychedelics and the neliberalisation of mental health. on those papers. The most difficult way psychedelic drugs, like many other drugs, participants over a six week period and a inconsistent with the capitalist model.” to work your way up is to do something more than any other race. It is hard to small increase in neuroticism. But micro- But Compass’ recent emergence in The wind extinguishes the 42 degree or “rewire” brain networks, allowing the so you can eventually take the training accepting business as usual. different, to challenge the paradigm. This discard the images of (predominantly dosing did increase feelings of personal psychedelic spaces does not alarm him. Wollombi morning, leaving silver streaks brain to return to a predisease state. When wheels off, go off the antidepressants and I’m not saying we should toss is also not very Australian because you white) Silicon Valley techies micro- well-being, reduce stress, anxiety and Rather, he sees this progression as a like a mesh frame. It shrouds me in a wispy taken in significant enough quantities, not relapse into anxiety or depression.” antidepressant bottles into landfill become a tall poppy and people want to dosing, obscene wealth and comfort at depression and improve absorption in reflection of the need to work within exo-skeleton. The grass only grows in tufts they can induce ego dissolution and More sinisterly, popular tools for or abandon mindfulness. Many cut you down. Up until very recently, faux-hippy festivals such as Burning activities. The investigation suggests a the dominant capitalist model. In his but the drought-stricken bush glows yellow mystical or transcendent experiences. combating depression — antidepressants antidepressant sceptics believe the no senior academics in Australia would Man, a war on drugs that has targeted note of caution due to the capacity of the eyes, Compass simply offers something and green under the acid glare. The endless They also present us with radically new and mindfulness — reinforce the neo- drugs should be used (in the short-term) stand up in support of these [psychedelic] experience to create unease. The authors different from non-profit organisations horizon fizzes blue. ways to tackle mental health issues. liberal doctrine of self-control, boundless alongside therapies that treat the social treatments. Still, the Australian Centre assert that regarding its “potential as a like MAPS and PRISM. Chatter bubbles from within the shed- So often we are told that, when we agency and free-market logic because causes of depression. But are there other for Posttraumatic Mental Health has not Antidepressants took business tool… micro-dosing may not be cum-living space behind me. A bee settles on are down, the problem exists within us. they fail to address the societal causes of options? come out supporting MDMA-assisted universally beneficial.” *** my pinkie. I allow it to explore the grooves Perhaps our suffering is due to a chemical personal distress. While the stigma attached to psychotherapy.” me away from the edge Furthermore, the benefit of in my hand. The grass feels like curly hair imbalance in the brain and to feel better In his polemical tome McMindfulness, psychedelic drugs is dissipating, Dr Bright laments Australia’s history of a cliff but then left psychedelic drug treatments — and the In many ways, psychedelics offer a beneath my fingers. Red gums and wattles we need only swallow a pill. Perhaps Ronald Purser coins the term “mindful Dr Bright suggests academics and as a disinterested follower, rather than me stranded in no reason Big Pharma has generally steered promising alternative for treating rustle where the afternoon breeze caresses we need to practice mindfulness — to capitalists” to emphasise that the recent health professionals often remain less a leader, in psychedelic research. Since clear — is that their administration depression and anxiety. While I am them. keep our mind centred in the present and commodification of mindfulness by supportive of psychedelic research Australia is “so far behind … clinicians man’s land without bumps up against our current reality of ambivalent about micro-dosing — (My insides tingle and my throat begins non-judgemental. Both are necessary for companies such as Google and Apple has and drug law reform than the average and patients are becoming increasingly adequate supplies. prescribing antidepressants indefinitely. something I have never tried, mind to fill with pressure.) short-term stabilisation. But they are depoliticised the practice and unmoored Australian. “Even people who are really frustrated by the lack of movement in Research suggests that participants only you — my own experiences with I know I can move inside and I’ll have only band aid solutions. mindfulness from its ethical and Buddhist conservative in Australian culture are the research space. There have been a need one intense spiritual experience higher dose psychedelics align with the internet connection. I know I can move Last year, like one in eight origins. Used in this way, mindfulness open to the idea of the medical use of number of media reports – one by Jenny racial minorities and the racialisation of to feel continued benefits for months research. Taking acid while I was on inside and talk to my friends. Australians, I was given an becomes a tool to make us accepting of illegal drugs,” said Dr Bright. “Alan Valentish for the ABC, and another schizophrenia as a black disease from the afterwards. antidepressants and after I stopped taking (My cheeks are wet.) antidepressant prescription. Along with power imbalances and resilient within Jones, for example, supports medicinal by Jesse Noakes for Meanjin – on the 1950s. Perhaps this explains why over In a randomised, placebo-controlled them helped me to engage my pain in I roll another Champion Ruby cigarette. the prescription came diagnoses — a precarious, uncertain economies. This cannabis. They can see that A: there underground, psychedelic therapy scene 80% of participants in research-related, study with patients with life-threatening empowering and progressive ways, and I lean into the earth, splashing beer across passport that allowed me to jump over privatisation of depression and anxiety is a difference [between medical and where people are accessing psychedelic psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy are cancer at Johns Hopkins University in to reconnect with friends, nature and a myself. The bottle lolls at a precarious angle, a threshold of acknowledgment into, I threatens to support the status quo. recreational use] and B: there is a need.” therapy in an unregulated environment white. 2016, 80% of participants stated, six meaningful future. leaking. I don’t care. anticipated, a new realm of recovery and When antidepressants are effective Dr Bright and Dr Martin Williams, co- because they’re sick of waiting for trials Arguably, psychedelic research has months after their psilocybin experience, Our current approach to depression, (The wind whips across my face and self-awareness. — sometimes this involves changing founders of the non-profit organisation to happen in Australia.” been conducted by white people for that the experience increased well-being which centres on the neat checklists scatters my tears like a farmer throwing Antidepressants took me away dosages and medicines multiple times Psychedelic Research in Science & Besides the obvious risks of tapping white people, although the American or life satisfaction moderately or very of psychiatrists, prescription seeds.) from the edge of a cliff but then left — they can make us thriving members Medicine (PRISM), have written and into an unregulated drug market, Dr organisation Multidisciplinary much. While there is little effective antidepressants and self-help, encourages I don’t know how long I sit there crying me stranded in no man’s land without of society. However, they can also publicly spoken about entrenched Brights warns, “if you’re working in an Association for Psychedelic Studies pharmacotherapy for drug dependency, individual disconnection from the world but it must be a while because, by the time adequate supplies. They provided some bulldoze motivation and emotions — conservatism and risk-aversion in unregulated environment and something (MAPS) has very recently taken steps to another recent study on psilocybin- and, sometimes, from the pain necessary Henry and Caleb join me on the grass, the stability but they also numbed my both positive and negative — leaving us Australian research communities and goes wrong with the patient, the threshold address race within psychedelic debates assisted psychotherapy for tobacco to growth and future happiness. sun is setting already. They have also taken senses, interfered with my sleep pattern flat and potentially more susceptible to universities. before you bring in paramedical services and fund studies on trauma within addiction has shown that, one year after I genuinely believe my trips (and CBT) acid. They don’t say a word. They have heard and left my body playing catch up as I is probably going to be a lot higher than minority communities. taking psilocybin, 10 of 15 participants helped me more than any antidepressant. snippets. adjusted to the medication. For a long it would be in a regulated, sanctioned Dr Bright suggests that the paucity were abstinent from smoking tobacco. But this is my story, and my story alone. (I float in a pool of tears.) time I felt more ghost than human, and environment.” of people of colour in psychedelic 13 ranked their participation as one of I told this belief to my psychiatrist They pass me a cigarette. Someone plays I was only on a low dosage. Only after Similarly to the NSW government’s research is a direct result of the society the five most meaningful events in their when I explained to her why I wasn’t Smoko by The Chats. The kitsch song draws a many psychologist sessions, cognitive draconian stance on drug use and pill- within which we all live. “When you’re lives. taking Zoloft anymore. She shifted into a twisted, masochistic smile on my face. behavioural therapy (CBT) and several testing at music festivals, excessive legal accessing research therapy, there is If psychedelic drug production is condescending tone and scribbled down More friends sit down around us. I don’t acid trips did I begin to perceive a more and bureaucratic obstacles to psychedelic no cost associated with it... You’re the indeed a playground for profit-seeking a list of drug counsellors, shooing me out feel ashamed for one moment, despite my familiar landscape. use and research may harm Australian guinea pig... The reason minority groups venture capitalists — this is highly to the door. I don’t expect everyone to puffy eyes. Someone suggests a walk before I am not alone in my awareness of adults intent on making their own have been somewhat excluded thus far is questionable – it will likely be culpable understand. the world goes dark on us. Maybe it’s me. the limits of antidepressants. A raft of decisions more than it helps them. not about cost. It’s about how you access I’m both there and not there, leading the studies show that antidepressants have Government regulation is not the only a clinical trial. You need to [already] be conversation and following it. almost no more meaningful impact on potential obstacle to the fair distribution accessing a well-connected psychiatrist We set off so eagerly I don’t find time to improving mental health than a placebo and use of psychedelic medicines. or psychologist who can refer you into put on a shirt. except, some argue, in cases of very The possibility that multinational it.” When darkness begins to engulf the land, severe depression. Unlike placebos, corporations and profit-driven venture “With the St Vincent’s [psilocybin] the others are keen to return to the shed. antidepressants present numerous capitalists could co-opt and misuse trial in Australia, for example, there is I linger behind them. Hunter Valley worrying side-effects, withdrawal psychedelic research exacerbates its nothing that would lead to minority hills unfold in the twilight. In the dust and symptoms and vicious dependency already precarious position in society. groups being excluded in any way the heat, my mind expands to fill the space cycles. Concerns have arisen surrounding the other than the people they’re seeing around me, bending and rolling into itself. A growing movement of disparate funding for Compass Pathways, a for- prior, who would need to refer them in. I feel like I am the sole inhabitant of the voices are calling for medical practitioners, profit corporation that has undertaken These professionals may not be as well planet. What if, what if, what if… researchers and policy-makers to focus psychedelic research, and recently made connected as others. Better connected on the root causes of depression – a patent application for the psilocybin professionals are difficult to access in the *** environment and disconnection – rather production process. Intellectual property first place unless you have private health than a chemical imbalance in the brain. rights have long been a weapon in insurance.” In recent years there has been talk — not Johann Hari and Irving Kirsch, in Lost the arsenal of ‘Big Pharma’, attracting As the all-pervading force of in hushed voices but in loud, confident Connections and The Emperor’s New criticism from experts such as Nobel neoliberalism surreptitiously scouts shouts — of a “psychedelic renaissance.” Drugs respectively, foreground their own Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz. mental health as a new frontier, research In June, a panel on psychedelic research conversion from antidepressant believers Since psychedelic drug treatments centre suggests there are empirical barriers to forged a space within the very walls to antidepressant heretics, speaking to a on consumption within clinical settings the capitalist exploitation of psychedelics. of NSW Parliament for the inaugural profound sense of betrayal among those with trained professionals, market A recent preliminary study on micro- Science in the House. who have taken antidepressants for monopolisation may make an already dosing by staff at Macquarie University, Psychedelic drugs (read: medicines) many years (Hari) and those who have expensive treatment inaccessible. has shown that the actual effects of such as LSD and psilocybin, the active prescribed them (Irving). By framing the micro-dosing of micro-dosing differ from the expected ingredient in magic mushrooms, Dr Stephen Bright, a psychologist psychedelics in terms of productivity and effects. According to Dr Vince Polito, have significantly helped people with and academic at Edith Cowan University, innovation for tech entrepreneurs, rather one of the study’s authors, they began the treatment-resistant disorders including explained to me on the phone, “An than in terms of the therapeutic effects, research precisely because “the claims depression, addiction and end-of-life antidepressant is like putting training media coverage meanwhile has cemented that people were making [about micro- anxiety. wheels on your bike. It’s going to help you the phenomenon as a Parthenon in the dosing in the media] were pretty wild Scientists theorise that these learn how to ride the bike but eventually Silicon Valley landscape, resplendent in considering the doses that were being medicines have therapeutic effects for you need to learn how to ride it on your marble. Micro-dosing — taking small reported... It seemed like there was at least psychiatric disorders because they “reset” own. You need to make lifestyle changes doses of a drug for cognitive benefits the potential that some of these effects Art by Lauren Moore

8 9 ANALYSIS PERSPECTIVE & MULTILINGUAL What USyd’s Draft Alcohol Policy doesn’t achieve Angus McDonald and Perfect Snogging Liam Thorne does some digging into the policy undergoing consultation. Content warning: Mention of sexual assault Throughout 2019, the University of Sydney a misconduct process is explicitly engaged entitlement of those who perpetrate sexual PhD candidate Anna Hush authored the Alice Trenoweth-Creswell is flummoxed by doctors still thinking everything can be solved with a positive attitude and a teenage heartbreak. (USyd) has been working on a draft update should the AP be breached. It, for example, violence.” Funnell posited that the draft Red Zone Report into Australian residential to its current Alcohol Policy (AP). First specifically prescribes disciplinary action did not go far enough in its requirements colleges, detailing a long history of students created in 1992, and last updated ten years for “any action intended to impede an for staff or student training in consent, or suffering at colleges. Importantly, the report ago, the policy leaves much to be desired. individual’s right to choose not to consume in requiring staff to be useful bystanders: stresses that, whereas other reports like Declaring an intent “to minimise alcohol- alcohol.” The draft also aligns USyd policy training staff to be first-responders to Elizabeth Broderick’s review of cultural When my grandmother was 16 she was now that I’m taking my new best friend misconception within the medical Attitudes within the medical related harm to the individual [and to] with NSW criminal law, establishing that, sexual assault, and in how to interfere in change at St Pauls’ have an “overarching misdiagnosed with a brain tumour. She Estelle and, most crucially, there’s no way community about female ‘hysteria’, and a profession clearly need to change. For property,” and to “preserve the reputation “Intoxication will not be considered as a moments of drink-spiking. focus on alcohol and binge drinking would lie on her bedroom floor, listening that the pill could affect my mental health. belief that women are more likely to see many women, the solution is seeing a of the University in the community,” it has defense or as a mitigating factor in any More broadly, while USyd did culture, rather than rape culture or toxic to ‘La Mer’ by Charles Tebet over and Weeks later, after conversations with doctors unnecessarily. A 1999 UK study female physician. A 2018 study linked very poor enforceability. disciplinary action against a student or implement a compulsory ‘Consent Matters masculinity,” we must remember that, over, crying about her crush on Angus many female friends about their (usually proved this undeniably false. male doctors to worse outcomes for The draft released to the USyd staff member.” Moreover, the draft provides Module’ for students to complete in 2017, “alcohol is not a cause of sexual assault, McDonald, the boy next door. She’d climb similar) experiences on the same pill, I Further studies found that 30-50% of women suffering heart attacks. It’s a good community for consultation thus comes as a definitions for the specific obligations of it has been met with significant criticism although it may often be a contributing the oak tree in her leafy Gordon backyard book an appointment with my aunty’s women diagnosed with depression were sign that the numbers of female medical necessary change. Yet there are good reasons members of staff, be it university staff, over how effective its design is: while factor, or a ‘tool,’ used by perpetrators.” to spy through his bedroom window. GP. Her practice is in Newtown so I misdiagnosed and that the underlying graduates are vastly increasing, however to mistrust the proposed changes. Despite or bar managers and senior managers, compulsory, the module can be opted-out- This year alone, despite St Pauls’ having Naturally, her parents called the doctor. think maybe she’s open minded. I enlist disease often remained undetected. Once they are not reaching the same positions espousing to better secure student safety, regarding their responsibility for students’ of; not being a face-to-face training, there espoused in its Cultural Reform Review She was rushed to hospital and poked my mum for moral support and climb a psychological disorder was in a patient’s of power as their male counterparts, and many of the details appear paternalistic in welfare. is no way to guarantee active engagement to have largely removed hazing rituals and prodded. A lumbar puncture left her the rickety stairs to her terrace-house medical history, future issues would often many believe that real systemic attitudinal their restrictions of what adults can drink Beyond these initiatives, however, the with its content; and it is neither evidence from its halls, Honi reported that St Johns’ bedridden for weeks. In retrospect, she surgery, but I am once again dismissed. be dismissed, creating a never-ending change will need to come both from the at university, and come without the support efficacy of the draft in making campuses based nor specific to Australian contexts. College held Anzac Day hazing rituals attributes her symptoms to the lethal This doctor, who has never met me, insists cycle of misdiagnosis. bottom and from the top. Ultimately, of much needed broader and more rigorous safer for students falls into significant doubt. Funnell stressed that in approaching still occurred, encouraging drinking-till- combination of PMS and a teenage crush. that my anxiety makes me irrational – it’s Where my grandmother and I are however, doctors of all genders simply attempts to attack cultures of sexual The foremost actionable policy resulting alcohol-related sexual misconduct, or vomiting, and consuming spirits from a live Sixty-five years later, I’m sitting all in my head – but to humour me, she fortunate that our misdiagnoses caused need to listen to their patients with an assault. In prioritising alcohol consumption from the draft is a possibly paternalistic ban violence, blanket bans make no change to squid. “If you really want to address sexual opposite my GP in her dishevelled Potts prescribes a different pill. no long-term harm, this isn’t always the open mind. as a means to make campuses safer, policy on the sale of more ‘dangerous’ forms of deeper cultural problems. assault, when you have students with pro- Point surgery. I’m listing my symptoms. It’s been 65 years since French case. Misdiagnosis can be extremely I finally call a friend’s mum. She’s a discussions continue to err away from alcohol: shots, pre-mixed spirits with more The insufficiencies of the policy in rape groups [like St Pauls’ College in 2009], I have splitting headaches, my period pop music sent my grandmother to dangerous – in the US, 40,000 to 80,000 gynaecologist. I give her the same spiel deeper sexual assault cultures. than 5 per cent alcohol, and mixed drinks its impact on deeper cultural reform are you can have the best AP in the world but cramps are unbearable and my mental hospital, and still doctors are notoriously deaths per year are due to delayed or I’ve given to the two doctors prior, except The draft’s core recognises alcohol as with more than 30ml of spirits. Events no more stark than in the absence of any it won’t change the attitudes of problematic health is at an all time low. I’ve always misdiagnosing women and dismissing inaccurate diagnosis – and women are this time there isn’t a doubt in her mind creating risks in university-environments. would no longer provide more than one policy pertaining towards residential men. [That requires]reforming how been a bit of a worrier but in the past their problems. A Breast Cancer Network disproportionately affected. A 2014 that my symptoms are caused by Estelle. This makes sense; even over the past four free drink to any student outside of a meal, colleges. While a University spokesperson individuals are educated and target[ing] 18 months I’m as anxious as a turkey in Australia study found, in 2018, that study found it took significantly longer I’ve now stopped taking the pill and years, Australian universities and their which if enforced, would likely significantly explained that “we consulted closely with their leadership.” December. I ask whether the pill could be doctors’ dismissal of young women’s for women to be seen in the emergency I’ve never felt better. But perhaps most residential colleges have been lambasted impose upon clubs and societies’ weekly the residential colleges in developing the The draft is positive in attempting to to blame but am immediately shut down – health concerns leads to substantial delays department, and that they were rarely importantly, for the first time in months, for their structural failings to prevent drinks. draft and invited all colleges to take up the fill the current policy’s dire inadequacies. not a chance! My cramps should be better in diagnosis. There remains an enormous classified as an urgent case. I feel heard. sexual violence in their premises. The 2017 Honi spoke to End Rape On Campus policy in full,” the fact that colleges like And yet, it remains unable to move beyond AHRC National Report on Sexual Assault (EROC) Australia co-director Nina Funnell St Pauls’ or St Johns’ do not legally exist alcohol as a primary explanation for and Harrassment surveyed over 30,000 regarding this element of the policy. on ‘university lands’ — the AP has no negative campus behaviours. USyd’s draft students, and found that “a number of While also welcoming some of the draft’s influence over them. AP makes no firm commitment to impose students described alcohol being used by initiatives, Funnell posed questions for the While USyd attempted to assuage cultural reform regarding alcohol on the perpetrator to commit sexual assault or core of the draft’s policies. “It is important Honi’s concerns by stressing that “all residential colleges, or broader universities. sexual harassment ... A deeply concerning to realise that alcohol doesn’t rape people, residential colleges are signatories to the The University told Honi that it was 切尔诺贝利事件与HBO剧：浅 picture emerged about the role of alcohol in people rape people,” Funnell said. “If Liquor Accord, which governs the sale currently working on a “toolkit” to help college and university residences.” we want to prevent sexual violence, we and consumption of alcohol on our lands,” students and staff implement the policy. On the face of it, the draft policy seems must tackle the factors driving it: gender existing research suggests such a stance How impactful a few workshops can be on 谈历史与当下 to make positive inroads into making inequality, a need for proper consent is insufficient. In 2018, Funnell and 2016 ingrained patterns of male-privilege and Iris (Lei) Yao campuses safer. Unlike the previous policy, training, and tackling the power and USyd SRC Wom*n’s Officer and current alcohol-abuse remains to be seen. 在1986年的4月26日，历史上最严重的 造成接近10万的伤亡人数以及数年之后 处被不合理地添加或者夸大。 矿工不拘小节的形象。如果说这是资本 核电事故发生，被国际核事故分级表评 被影响的20万人额外死亡。 其中一幕是，剧中有一群矿工在反 主义对社会主义的攻击，不免有矫枉过 Forget hustling: have a beer at Manning instead 定为最高等级第七级的事故。这一声炸 在事故发生多年后的今天，这个事 应堆下方掘坑道的镜头，掘坑道是为了 正的倾向。 Max Shanahan wants you to skip your lectures and take a trip to Manning. 响将永远地改变乌克兰和苏联的命运， 件被HBO拍成一部迷你美剧，引起了 保护核电站周围的居民。他们需要为热 虽切尔诺贝利的防止辐射外漏的石 而当晚人们还处于睡梦朦胧中毫不知 各国观众在重大核电事故面前作为命运 交换器清出一片场地，这样可以防止反 棺在十万苏联青年的努力下已经建成， The travails of Manning Bar have been well combined to trim hours off the learning its elevation above all other considerations for many, reduced the university experience 情。大厦将倾。切尔诺贝利“弗拉基米 共同体的共鸣。但同时，这部剧也受到 应堆核心的熔液渗出，进入地表水。如 但遗留的问题使得悲鸣之声犹在。切尔 covered previously in Honi. The demise of process. It should follow, then, that this while at university leaves one with a to a utilitarian and transactional one. When 尔·列宁”核电站，仿佛是苏联这个当 了一些质疑，在篡改了一些与真实历史 果地表水受到核辐射污染，那就危及千 诺贝利发生了操作失误，推卸责任等问 compulsory student unionism (CSU) and efficiency dividend has furnished students sense of waste. Not until retirement will uni becomes transactional – I turn up to 时超级大国名称的缩写。也貌似是苏联 有出入的细节之后，被指这部剧作为文 百万人的生命和健康。矿工们都脱得精 题，其实并不只是苏联的特色。苏联腐 the unattainable cost of renting close to with unprecedented amounts of leisure we again have so few obligations. The tutes, you give me a degree – leisure time 崩坏的起点。人性的好与坏，脆弱与坚 化输出，强调了资本主义在制度上的优 光，裸体上阵，因为地下温度奇高。而 败和各自为政的官僚体系值得批判，但 campus have correctly been given as reasons time. It is clear, however, that this dividend companies which so many seem so willing becomes irrelevant. Spending time at the 强，单纯与复杂，交织在这个工人和无 越性，贬低了社会主义制度下的军民。 事实上矿工们是脱了衣服，但不是那么 在任何有迹可循的核电站事故中，例如 behind the decline of the bar. However, it is not being spent socialising at uni. to submit themselves to are unlikely to look bars is incompatible with this increasingly 产阶级主导的国度里。核辐射不仅造成 根据bbc乌克兰语科对前切尔诺贝利核 赤条条的。这幕被认为是剧中矿工被刻 日本福岛和美国宾州发生过的事故，这 has been over a decade since the abolition The strangely positive connotations favourably upon a weekday afternoon spent utilitarian attitude of students to their 了巨大的经济损失约两千亿美元，更是 电站幸存的操作员的采访，这部剧有几 意抹黑和被侮辱，从而贬低社会主义下 些问题事实上都存在。这可以看作是复 of CSU and rental affordability has been of ‘grind’ or ‘hustle’ are a puzzling recent at the pub with friends. So venture out of education. 人权不完善的证明。确实，矿工 杂的官僚体制所制造的必然结果。 an ongoing issue, and yet Manning Bar addition to the student lexicon. When one Fisher, patronise Manning – a misspent While there are myriad generational Art by Amelia Mertha 的这场戏属于多余，没有必要。 我们需要思考的不仅事这部剧背后 continues to fade further into irrelevance. is hunched over a laptop in the small hours hour won’t derail a whole career. and economic reasons behind the decline 但从另一方面看，这部剧作为导 意识形态的倾轧，也是现有制度下如何 Manning and Hermann’s recently of the morning, fermenting in one’s own According to Russell’s theory, we of Manning, the increasingly dour and stoic 演主体意识的反映，已经极大程 应对危机，以及个人命运与国家命运孰 reported a loss of $245,000 over 2018. stress-induced sweat and the entrenched should be invested with an excess of attitude of many students should not be 度还原了核反应堆的问题和辐射 轻孰重的价值取向。毫无疑问，制度需 In response to questions from Honi, the odour of Fisher, the self-congratulatory leisure time. And perhaps that is so. But, it ignored. 症状的细节，作为艺术创作，在 要不断变革和完善，而不是固步自封。 USU attributed some blame for the poor refrain of ‘on the grind’ emerges in stark can be argued that the efficiencies gained Despite living in an era of unprecedented 拍摄的某部分上有缺陷是情有可 当任何一个国家机器上的螺丝钉沦落到 performance of the bars to a “significantly contrast to the depressing reality. in university in the last decade have acted social and sexual liberalism, young people 原的。一千个读者一千个哈姆雷 替罪羊的地步去掩盖制度的问题，那么 changed drinking culture on campus.” In the New York Times, Erin Griffiths to discourage leisure on campus. Online today are drinking, drug-taking and love- 特。在当下有些反美情绪较为严 机器会在一个个螺丝钉的离开中分崩离 What, then, is this new culture, and why wrote of ‘hustle culture’ as “obsessed lectures, the emergence of almost entirely making at lower rates than at any time since 重的观众眼中，任何来自美国的 析。切尔诺贝利事件发生以后，苏联政 have students so rapidly abandoned the with striving, relentlessly positive, devoid online subjects, and the digitisation of the sexual revolution. We consume more 文化输出都是极为敏感并且应该 府把核电站的负责人们放到审判席上， haunts of previous generations? of humour…” For those who binge on research have all acted to reduce physical sport, yet participation declines further 受到舆论鞭策的。基于历史，美 令他们成为千夫所指，而上级领导人的 Bertrand Russell argued that “modern corporate office dramas and devote more presence on campus to something of a every year. The sun shines warmer and 国作为二战以后资本主义的主要 决策失误与隐瞒事实造成的严重后果被 technique (technology) has made it possible time to their LinkedIn profiles than their nuisance. Cramming uni into two days is more often, and yet we recoil from it. While 代表国家，以及冷战的胜利者， 刻意忽视。 for leisure, within limits, to be not the social lives, a simple beer at Manning an achievement to be lauded and leaves the corollary of this is not necessarily that 去拍摄这部前苏联灾难剧，也不 正如俄国作家恰达耶夫（1794—1856 prerogative of small privileged classes, is incompatible with the unending little space for on-campus leisure time. our leisure time is now spent in bed with 乏让人产生歧义。仿佛日本拍摄 ）曾在1829年所预见的俄国的命运： but a right evenly distributed throughout competition which marks their university The days, often long and with few breaks the curtains drawn, drinking kombucha 中国的清朝甲午战争抑或是还原 “我们的国家和其它一些国家一样，似 the community.” Education, in only the philosophy. To indulge, even briefly, at between classes, become chores to be and masturbating, it is perhaps not so 韩国的慰安妇问题的现状。在俄 乎不是人类种族不可或缺的一部分，而 past decade, has become remarkably Manning would be to fall behind in the rat dispensed of in the most efficient manner foreign an image. To sit under the sun on 罗斯，这部剧的视频被官方删减 只是为了让世界记取一些严重的教训 more efficient. The wonders of the race for an unpaid, unvalued internship at a possible. Success in tutorials is marked the terrace at Manning with a beer and a 和部分禁止。但仅从历史的还原 而存在。当然，这些注定要有的教训不 Google search, online library databases, nondescript corporate body. Griffiths again: by achieving the minimum amount of friend, with the quadrangle and jacarandas 度和这部剧的细节而言，对于矿 会白白经受，但是谁又知道，我们什么 Computer Aided Design software and “spending time on anything that’s nonwork social interaction with classmates. The in the background, is one of the great 工脱光衣服的解读可以有多种。 时候应当重新回到人类当中去，而在完 the wildly underappreciated command-F related has become reason to feel guilty.” efficiencies which have revolutionised remedial pleasures afforded only by Sydney 在剧中给予的情景下，脱光衣服 成我们的定数之前，还要遭受多少灾难 function have, among countless other tools, While ambition should not be discouraged, tertiary education in the last decade have, Uni. 也可以是因为炎热，表现了一群 呢？” 11

10 PERSPECTIVE

supposed progress of the metro, if what time is reduced, recent changes pose we are losing are merely memories, numerous safety issues for vulnerable The death of the 610X or more perniciously, convenient and people­, especially people travelling accessible transport options. alone, young people, or those somewhat Ben Hines mourns the loss of familiar transport to a city of change. The noble Rouse Hill variant of the intoxicated. Those safety issues can only 610X was brutally cut down in the really be circumvented by those who middle of its prime, but the metro as it can afford an expensive Uber. stands now is a youth on the precipice The reduction in peak time direct of its peak, a mere portion of its possibly bus services — the only slot where glory, reaching only from Tallawong buses like the 610X are temporarily to Chatswood. The changes did not restored to their former glory — also OMAGOOR wait until the city link was finished to guarantee crowding on certain services, connect the west to the city without dictating access to the bus by means transferring to train lines. Transport of a lucky draw for commuters at the NSW is not merely encouraging people right stop at the right time. This adds to use the new (unfinished) metro, but unforeseen delays rippling through the in many cases actively forcing them by rest of the bus schedule, hampering the dramatically reducing the reach and ability for people living in the West to frequency of certain services. Surely the travel to work in the city. The changes benefits of new, convenient, and most to routes on top of times also mean that notably additional modes of transport many commuters may not have an easy are lost if they fail to add flexibility as way to actually access Metro stations, an alternative, and instead become a especially if they are unaware of the necessity denigrating the quality of the new “On Demand” public transport trip for travellers. trial, or unable to use it unless they walk Art by Mei Zheng Buses to certain areas, especially substantial distances. This poses serious between the city and the Hills, now problems for those less mobile and those simply without the time to do so. THE QUEST inexplicably start later and finish earlier, The Great Barrier Reef. The old Sydney present when you were feeling elated, harming the potential for those relying More than mere sentimental dismay, tram network. The 610X to Rouse Hill. or disappointed, after a first date. There on them to enjoy Sydney’s nightlife. these changes have had the effect of Three seemingly strange bedfellows is, of course, that time you admittedly This is compounded by the fact the increasing commute time, confusion united by one transcendental quality of can’t quite remember getting on the bus, Metro services currently finish earlier and cost. The nature of these harms are solidarity: being decimated and reduced but you remember just enough missing than buses previously did. Even when likely to be disproportionately felt by by human activity to shells of their your stop and waking up somewhere the Metro is an option, it again relies those who can afford them least: The former selves. slightly familiar, before frantically on numerous changes. Commuters parents that combine their career with To the uninitiated observer, it may pushing the stop button. Your bus was previously blessed with a direct line their caretaking now have less time at seem strange to be sentimental over a there throughout all the laughs, the to the city now face having to change home, those who face an uphill struggle bus and bus route. Yet in the same way sadness, the angsty staring out the back modes of transport multiple times, in constantly changing transport, and that people grow attached to their cars, window, and the jovial fighting over worsened by often late — or sometimes those in unforeseen circumstances a bus route can develop into a major your favourite seat with your favourite mysteriously missing — buses or trains, at now inconvenient times needing feature of one’s life. The bus itself takes people. Throughout it all, there was resulting in missed connections and transport quickly and directly. on all the hallmarks of an automotive always one constant. Your bus was further delays. For example, one of the The Rouse Hill 610X is dead, at least symbol. It becomes a finished portrait there. Transport NSW TripPlanner website’s when measured to its former heights of past memories, and a sketch of future The spectre of change haunts suggested means of travelling from QVB and frequency. It has gone where many adventures. The silent third through public transport. It always has. Yet the to Kellyville in the very early hours of buses like it have gone, to the waste bin sixth wheels throughout many of life’s qualms with Transport NSW’s new Sunday morning after a Saturday night of convenience, nostalgia, and simpler iconic moments. arrangements run deeper than mere in the city — previously a single trip times. Those who will be unduly FOR THE Your bus was there when you sentimentality over the death of familiar on the blessed 610X — now involves hindered by the changes to public were unable to drive home having transport. We must ask whether, amid waiting for close to an hour to transfer transport will forget the 610X one day, had a drink or two (or twenty). It was the major upheaval inherent in the to a different bus. Even if nominal transit but not soon enough. Who raised you? Shania O'Brien is crossing out her checklist and making her own choices. I have always, essentially, been waiting. mother always gave me freedoms, be I come from a family of businesspeople said “Yes! The world needs you to write!” In my mind, I have a checklist of things it picking what books I wanted to read and lawyers, and I was always asked Hence, I wanted to know I wasn’t I have to accomplish before I turn 30, growing up, my subjects in high school, when I would finally fill my parents’ alone, that there were other people out before I get married, before I graduate. or what major I wanted to study in shoes. For a long while, I considered there who were meant to be somebody There is a clear mental space dedicated university. She would say that my life going along with it. I could study else. And once I found them — and it to all of those colour-coordinated would be a result of what I decided, and economics, or law. I could’ve become wasn’t difficult — I found that the one milestones that will get me one step not what was decided for me. a lawyer and argued in a courtroom; I thing all of us had in common was a closer to having my ideal life. could’ve gone into marketing and come crippling sense of dissatisfaction and a Or so I was led to believe. Only later up with new business strategies. I could lot of repressed rage. ASIAN-AUSTRALIAN ACCENT — much later — did I realise that the list The list was not my own, have repressed the writer, the painter, All of a sudden, my mind went blank. was not my own, but one constructed but one constructed for the creator. The checklist blurred and disappeared, for me based on who I was supposed Deep down, I knew most of this leaving an uncertain path and unsteady to be, and where I was meant to fit in me. pressure came from within myself — the legs to tread on. But I knew I was blessed within my society. Growing up in an need to conform, to belong somewhere, for the choice I had been given, and Indian household, it was understood But how much autonomy could I to have it easy and never have to explain would forever mourn the lost creations that my accomplishments and really exercise in a collectivist society why I deviated. Once I realised this, I of those less fortunate than me. shortcomings were not merely my own, deadset on fitting me into a mould crafted also realised that amidst these pressures, I learnt that you become so many but also reflective of my family. It was by preconceived beliefs? Would I really I still had free will. other people before you find yourself, very easy to construct seemingly logical be allowed to change my mind again in a In retrospect, I know I needed to and no Europe trip or mountain trek arguments like, “I am my own person” world where I should have known what brave that storm before I could discard can speed the process up.I recall being WORDS: BAOPU HE ART: GRACE FU and “I can make my own decisions,” but I wanted for the rest of my life at the it as a career path without a ‘what if?’ seventeen and scared, clutching onto the every mistake was met with questions crisp age of 16? Why would one assume haunting me later. I had to be strong blossoming ideas of a fiction novel and of “who raised you?”, and “what will I was fit to make a decision when I was enough to tell everyone that no, I would newspaper article in my mind, going to people think of me?” from my mother. too scared to tell my legal mentor that not be going to law school, despite my mother, and saying, “I want to write.” After all, most of my choices were not the air conditioning was too cold for two dedicating a whole summer to it. I had I remember her smile, her determined the ones she would have made for me. weeks, and wore a shawl in the middle of to make peace with the tight smiles and eyebrow raise, and her saying, “then I was immensely grateful that my New Delhi’s worst heatwave? pitiful head-tilts to find the people who write.” 12 FEATURE FEATURE

hen I was twelve, my mum brought a video my accent, and my complete denial of them, started to “Asian-Australian”. I’d made for a school assignment to work, and make sense. I had an accent because I existed in a bubble Just as I had hypothesised, the respondents, regardless Wshowed it to her colleagues during lunch. where everyone my age spoke like that. And because of background, were able to tell with remarkable She was obviously proud of the cinematic masterpiece everyone around me spoke like that, I lacked any accuracy the ethnicity of the speaker just from listening I had whipped up on Windows Movie Maker during meaningful points of reference, so I had never realised to their voice. In the end, Asian and white voices the school holidays, and like any proud parent, wanted that I spoke any differently to the rest of society. averaged a score of around 3.7 and 2.2 respectively. Of to share it with everyone she knew. But instead of And just like that, I went from thinking that course, this was not to say that ethnicity can uniformly gushing praise, her colleagues, most of them white, comments about my accent were racist fabrications dictate a speaker’s speech patterns, and there were seemed to only comment on only one thing — my designed to attack my Australianness, to firmly instances where respondent’s couldn’t accurately tell the accent. Despite having grown up in Sydney and having believing that I, along with many other people like me, ethnic identity of the speaker. One case featured the done all my schooling in English, I apparently spoke speak with a unique accent that is not purely Australian voice recording of an Asian-Australian who attended with an “Asian” accent that her workmates decided was or Asian, but a true mixture and compromise of both. a majority white private school, who most respondents a Hong Kong one. “Don’t worry,” they reassured her, “it’s thought sounded “white.” This is to be expected as other only very slight! He still sounds pretty Aussie.” * * * social factors, such as class or degree of identification Of course I reacted with indignation when my aturally, I chose to study linguistics at with one’s heritage culture, play an equally important mum told me. I’m not sure what angered me the most university, and I was lucky enough to conduct role in shaping the way we speak. More interesting — the fact that she showed my school assignment to Nmy own research project looking into whether was the case of a clip featuring a white Australian her colleagues, or the fact that they proceeded to say an Asian-Australian ethnolect has developed in Sydney. who attended a majority Asian selective school, who that I had an accent, and not just any accent, but an While doing a preliminary literature review for it, it many respondents thought sounded very “Asian- Asian accent. “Are you sure you didn’t misunderstand seemed like virtually no Australian had ever done Australian,” leading to an average score markedly them and they actually meant I sounded British?” any research into this. Even in America, a country higher than the other white speakers. Whilst it could I asked, trying to make sense of the ridiculousness arguably more abundant in academic literature about ultimately be statistically insignificant, this seeming of it all (Hong Kong, after all, was a former British race, there were only marginally more research papers subversion of linguistic power dynamics suggests a colony, and sounding British would be acceptable — a on Asian-Americans, which was surprising given degree of panethnicity to the hypothesised ethnolect, compliment even). Back then, the hyphen that linked how extensively other American ethnolects had been and that there is enough cultural cohesion and capital my Chinese and Australian identities together was in studied. Thinking about it more, I couldn’t help but in Sydney’s second-generation Asian community that a volatile state of flux, and finding out that someone find the scarcity rather amusing. Not only are Asians they can lead language change as opposed to being I’d never met before thought I sounded “Asian,” and underrepresented in Hollywood, I thought to myself, they’re mere passive recipients of it. This level of panethnicity therefore different to the mainstream, shattered some also underrepresented in sociolinguistics research. can help explain how second-generation South Asians of the confidence I had haphazardly built up in being There is the argument, however, that Asians have fit into this sociolinguistics puzzle. Wary of how the Australian. At the same time, it didn’t make me feel not lived in the West long enough, or in large enough nebulous nature of “Asian” can make it meaningless any prouder of being Chinese either. To me, sounding communities for them to have developed their own as a demographic label, I limited “Asian” to East and Asian meant sounding like my parents, or worse, unique ethnolect. Whilst this is true in many instances, Southeast Asian for the sake of reducing the variables. sounding like one of those late 2000s Asian Youtubers the unique social topography of Sydney makes it an ideal However, given that the South Asian community and when they impersonated their parents. I’d laugh at these location for ethnolect formation. For starters, using the other Asian groups are in very close proximity to one videos before, especially at the crazy accents, but the broadest definition of “Asian,” Sydney is one of the another in Sydney, living in the same suburbs and going passion about the increasing attention that ethnolects findings with broader shifts in Australian English — particular moment where I questioned the social utility joke didn’t seem so funny anymore now that I was the most “Asian” cities outside of Asia, with almost 30% to the same schools (some selective schools in Sydney are receiving from the academic community — a result something most studies cannot do. Viewed simply of what I was investigating. A respondent to the survey punchline. Even if I didn’t look “Australian,” I thought I of the population having Asian heritage according the are majority “Asian” due to the large population of of more and more people finding themselves in “diverse at a single point in time, it does appear that Chinese- I made, a white university student, refused to answer could at least sound the part. 2016 census. Even more striking are the demographics South Asian background students attending them), it urban centres across the globe.” Australians are producing ethnically distinct vowels, any of the questions and instead wrote an impassioned Unsurprisingly, I angrily dismissed my mum’s of certain suburbs of Sydney, such as Eastwood, could very well be that they are also leading the unified “London, Berlin, Toronto — people have talked but when they are compared not only with their Anglo critique in the “additional comments” section about colleagues as a pack of racists and refused to speak Hurstville and Cabramatta, which are majority Asian, linguistic change together with their East and Southeast a lot about ethnic groups drawing on their ethnic contemporaries, but also with Anglo-Australians from how he “objected” to the research because it was on the topic anymore. In my head, however, I was suggesting that there is cohesive geographic structure Asian peers. Kolhatkar, who first observed the accent in background to mark their identity.” forty years ago, Travis found that Chinese-Australians “problematic,” adding that he “honestly does not and redoubling efforts to make sure I sounded more to the community. But while Asian enclaves exist in his peers at the selective school he attended, believes What inspired her to undertake the project in seemed to be at the forefront of wider changes cannot judge” people based on the way they speak. At “Australian” in the future, so that no one would ever almost any Western city (though perhaps not to the the different Asian groups share many features in Sydney was a pioneering study from the 1970s by happening in Australia. I see this almost immediately first I was furious, and dismissed him as coming from throw such an “accusation” at me ever again. scale of Sydney’s), what is not as common is having their speech patterns, but notes that there is a vague linguist Barbara Horvath, which looked into Australian when she shows me a diagram comparing where in a long lineage of white liberals who think it’s their duty But people did. Not frequently, but over the next few so many schools which are overwhelmingly attended difference he puts down to South Asians speaking with English as spoken by “Anglos, Italians and Greeks” in the mouth the three groups produce the diphthong (a to lecture people of colour on what they should and years, every now and then I’d get comments about my by second-generation Asian students like Sydney’s “less of a twang.” Sydney. sound comprising of two vowels) in “speak.” In the should not be offended by. “accent.” Each time it was raised, I’d vehemently shut selective school system. Disregarding for a moment Of course, the study above was still limited by “I just thought how wonderful it would be to past forty years, it seems the diphthong has gradually However, I couldn’t shake off the feeling that he might it down. If they pressed any further, I would bring out the intense debate about their social value, the 16 the constraints of it being an undergraduate research replicate that study and see what has happened now shifted to somewhere more to the front and top of our be right. Indeed, when people of colour in Australia the R-word, more out of frustration than anything else. selective schools in Sydney, where the percentage project (glaring methodological problems and all), forty years on,” she says, adding that the new study now mouths, with this change being even more pronounced are confronted with racist assaults on their right to be And then I noticed it myself. Towards the end of of Asian students generally hovers at 80% but can and did not conclusively prove the existence of an includes Chinese-Australians in their twenties as a way in Chinese-Australians. So when Travis says Chinese- in this country, what they often brandish as a weapon Year 10, I saw a video that was going semi-viral on be high as 97%, have unintentionally provided the Asian-Australian ethnolect, but rather pointed to to “take into account what society looks like today.” Australians sound “more Anglo than the Anglos,” that’s in defence is their accent. How many times have we Facebook of the Indian-Australian comedian Neel perfect environment for the formation of a unique the possibility of it existing. Just as it’s difficult to tell While Mandarin is currently the largest language not necessarily to mean that they sound exactly “Anglo,” angrily retorted to people that we speak English as well Kolhatkar. The premise was quite simple — a mock Asian-Australian diaspora culture and ethnolect. Due what individual paints form a colour after they’ve been other than English spoken in Australia, Sydney Speaks but more that their vowels are the logical “next step” as they do, that our vowels and our inflections should interview comparing the different studying habits of a to the geographic closeness of the community, second- mixed, it’s equally hard to disengage the various social currently focuses their research on Cantonese-heritage in an ongoing language change. From one perspective, be enough evidence for our right to call ourselves White girl and an Asian girl (both of whom were played generation Asians who attend their local public high factors that ultimately go into an accent, so perceived Chinese-Australians, as they have been in Australia the way Chinese-Australians sound today could be the Australian? More than a sport or a mythic set of by Kolhatkar.) Whilst I found the content itself very school are also likely to be surrounded by students variations can ultimately relate to something else for longer as a community. However, Travis adds that way Anglo-Australians sound in another ten years. values, the thread that binds Australia together is our funny, what intrigued me the most were the accents from similar cultural backgrounds. Consequently, entirely. And even if it exists, the actual features of the they will be looking into Mandarin-heritage Chinese- Travis’ work is far from complete, and while her accent. And by trying to show that perhaps there isn’t Kolhatkar adopted to act out the two characters. While while we often hear stories in the Asian diaspora of ethnolect still eluded me. From my own intuition, I can Australians as a future step. team have not observed ethnolectal variation in the just one, but several interlocking threads that form Kolhatkar’s white girl sounded like she had stepped people trying to become more “white” in order to fit in point out a couple of phonetic details, but none of these While they are looking at everything, of particular vowels, they remain open to the idea that they may find our nation’s linguistic tapestry, maybe I was leaving right out of the set of Home and Away, the accent he with those around them, this may not be as common in can be said to be cohesive changes, or uniquely “Asian” interest to Travis and her team are the way Chinese- it in prosodic features — not in the sounds of speech, people like myself open to division and attack. But then used to play the Asian girl was one I initially thought Sydney. And so, in the period of their life where they either. I also couldn’t find any widespread use of slang Australians produce vowels. Through analysing but in its rhythms. I remembered a line from one of the only linguistic I’d never heard before. It definitely wasn’t one of those are most susceptible to change, many if not most young by Asian-Australians. After much research, the only spontaneous speech gathered from specially recorded “Languages differ in whether they are stress timed papers I found on the second-generation Asian diaspora, stereotypical “herro I’m yerrow” accents I’d come to Asian-Australians in Sydney are in an environment words that I found that could truly be said to be Asian- interviews, they have found that Chinese-Australians or syllable timed Mandarin and Cantonese are syllable which talks about how Asians in Western countries are expect from online Asian comedians, and was very where there is little racial pressure to conform to the Australian were LG (an acronym for little girl which do produce vowels of a different shape to their Anglo timed while English is stress timed, and some people pigeonholed as either “forever foreigners” or “honorary different to the one he had used for the white girl. mainstream because, in their social bubble, they are denotes a member of a subculture revolving around counterparts. However, these differences seem less to do have proposed that Chinese heritage people might have whites.” In this dichotomy, Asians are considered Strikingly so. It sounded harsh, almost aggressive, and the mainstream. If they speak differently to the rest of raves), and caps (if an Asian-Australian tells you they with their Chinese ethnicity and more to do with their more syllable timed English.” either so “exotic” to Western society that no amount absolutely different from any mainstream “Australian” society, it’s because no one is telling them not to. “As took a lot of caps in Year 7, they probably don’t mean social standing in Australia, and Chinese-Australians Towards the end of our conversation, Travis notes of integration can change foreignness, or that they are accent I had heard before. Speaking to Kolhatkar such, it would be highly unlikely that a Sydney-wide the drug but rather Japanese sticker photos which, for produce vowels associated with the Australian middle that as young Chinese-Australians enter the workplace, so successfully aspirational that there is virtually no many years later, he describes the accent as “very fast ethnolect hasn’t arisen among Asian-Australian youths,” a while, you could only take at Capital Square — hence class even more so than Anglo-Australians. they may feel a strong pressure to conform to Anglo difference between them and the mainstream white paced, almost like a variation of the w*g accent” adding my introduction concludes. the name.) “One way to interpret this that, rather than marking norms, and so any ethnolectal variation developed population after a generation. And sometimes it does that the vowel in “no” is particularly elongated. After But an accent only exists if people can actually hear But while I struggled to find any unique features, their ethnicity, they are marking their Australianness in before then could be wiped out. Languages, after all, feel like there’s no in between. With the rise of Subtle hearing it multiple times, its features become clearer. it, and so I decided to conduct a perception study where some professional linguists are currently working on their realisations of vowels.” Travis says, noting that this change all the time. It’s both strange and sad to think Asian Traits, the Asian diaspora is currently soul- Clusters of words dramatically slurred together, some I compiled a list of 12 short voice clips from YouTube doing just that. There is currently a government funded seems to contradict much of the literature on ethnolects, that the way I and so many of my peers speak could searching for their own identity, one more meaningful syllables cut off abruptly, others extended for unusually videos of young people from Sydney, six featuring research project being conducted by the Australian and indeed, my own intuition on the subject. However, be, like sound itself, something transient — doomed than bubble tea, and more exciting than good grades. long, and the catchphrase “Oh my god” sounding more Asian-Australians, and 6 featuring white Australians. National University called “Sydney Speaks”, which is she explains that this seeming lack of ethnolectal to fade with time. What a relief, then, that someone is With it has come a deepening realisation of the like “omagoor.” And yet, despite these stark differences, All of the voice clips had been made since 2010 and seeking “to document and explore Australian English, formation is more complicated than it first seems. In studying and chronicling it while it’s still invigorated sometimes painful, sometimes hilarious confusion that it all sounded strangely familiar, as if I had actually were carefully chosen to exclude any possible markers as spoken in Australia’s largest and most ethnically the initial stages of the project, Travis was able to get in with youth and confidence. comes with being an Asian who grew up in a Western heard it in the past. But where? Before long, it hits me. of ethnic identity in what was being said (which meant and linguistically diverse city.” The project is led by Dr contact with Barbara Horvath and discovered she still country. But if we are to live in our society on our own That was my accent. even references to studying couldn’t be used). Then by Catherine Travis, an Australian linguist who previously had cassette tapes of the recordings she did in the 1970s * * * terms and not that of our Asian families or of our white Not only that, it was the accent of pretty much means of an online survey, I asked respondents to give spent 10 years at the University of New Mexico studying stored in her garage, all in “fantastic” condition. Tapping ’ve told most people I’ve met about this passion surroundings, we must forge a cultural identity that is everyone I knew at the overwhelmingly Asian selective each voice recording a score from one to five — one Spanish-English bilingualism in the US. Talking to me into this treasure trove of sociolinguistic information, project of mine, and the responses have been unique to us alone. And perhaps an ethnolect isn’t so school I attended. Suddenly, all those comments about being the most “white Australian” and 5 being the most over Skype, she tells me with an obvious, effervescent Sydney Speaks has been able contextualise their Ioverwhelmingly positive. However, there was one bad a place to start looking. 14 15 CULTURE CULTURE The The nine crazy lives of poor international Asians pets

Name: Cassie Name: Milky of Carrie Wen Photo by: Carrie Wen Photo by: Olivia Wang Parasite I own the most adorable one-year-old cat named Cassie. titer test to meet the requirements. The huge amount a better life.” Fortunately, Iris has a good relationship She’s the warm, trusting, and easygoing angel in my life. of paperwork includes health certificates, China pet with the family looking after Inno, and frequently visits She’s always there for me no matter how frustrating my passports and more. People who apply will have to pay them. Yao says she treated Inno as a “son” rather than day has been and through whatever stressful situation all of the fees themselves and prepare all the documents just a cute animal. “Inno is a symbolic sentimental object Anh Nguyen / Words I’ve put myself through. She can magically heal me, over the course of a few months. Moreover, bigger dogs for me to maintain a good state of mind, and meanwhile calm me merely by licking my finger and looking into and 41 specific breeds that are deemed violent are relieve myself of feelings of loneliness.” my eyes. After having been through many difficult banned from China. Due to the unavailability of pet adoption services Nhatminh Vu / Art experiences and countless dark days together, she is The RSPCA, an animal welfare organisation, for international students in Australia, and a steadily As a single door more than just a pet to me. refuses to allow international students to adopt pets increasing demand for these pets, access to pet stares deridingly downwards Owning a pet to keep you company is an easily because they do not believe that international students purchasing services are very limited and the price of achievable choice for many. These furry friends bring can “provide for the needs of the animal during their purchasing a pet is incredibly high. Both Iris and Olivia at each of its coming guests, countless joy into your life. They improve your own lifetime.” This guideline partially stems from widespread spent more than 2000 dollars on purchasing their pet. the message evoked mental wellbeing, ease feelings of loneliness, and public incidents like one in 2016, when footage of a Wang told Honi that she has spent thousands of improve your chance of meeting new friends. stray dog, later confirmed to have been abandoned by a dollars on Milky since purchasing her last year. could not be more clear. For international students living away from home Chinese international student, went viral. In that same “She vomited a lot for no reason, I brought her To enter it — for the first time, owning a pet can be a crucial source of year, many Australians demanded a ban preventing more than ten times to the veterinary clinic but they support. In Australia, many international students own foreign students and others with temporary visas from still couldn’t figure out what was wrong with her.” you’ll need to ascend. cats and dogs to ward off feelings of loneliness and to owning pets. She didn’t believe there was anything wrong with the lower their stress levels. This story is an isolated incident, however. Most online pet shop where she brought Milky. However, the decision for an international student students willing to adopt pets ensure that they are “We don’t really have much information about local Slabs of sleek concrete shield part of a beauteous that lies beneath the false façade of globalisation. relationship with the United States. There are repeated to purchase a pet can be a controversial one. Most rehomed or are attempting to have them flown to their pet shops and we aren’t allowed to adopt one. So, we mansion. Its modernist sophistication sits airily on top In Shoplifters, these secrets are literally buried motifs throughout Parasite which associate the US international students leave the country after years of home country when they leave. normally purchase pets from online pet shops that we of a high slope within the city of Seoul. The house’s underground in the space of a shabby home, hushed with validity and prestige — it is through emphasising studying in Australia. When they go back home, their Olivia Wang, a third year arts student at Usyd, owns find through WeChat. But the price of these online entrance boasts a flight of stairs that leads to a tight set between the cracks of a middle-class suburban jungle. a US-based education that Ki-woo and Ki-jung both pets often remain here. It is an international student’s a one-year-old Japanese Spitz named Milky. She enjoys pet shops are very expensive and many of them sell ill of security systems. As a single door stares deridingly Meanwhile, Parasite slowly unveils the underground earn their respective jobs at the mansion. Whenever responsibility to ensure that this pet is rehomed. In Milky’s company and treats her like a member of her animals,” Wang said. downwards at each of its coming guests, the message spaces in which filthy masses of contradictions begin questioned about the reliability of an item, Mrs Park some cases, particularly in the rush to return to their own family. Milky has provided Olivia with the support Although International students often face doubt evoked could not be more clear. To enter it — you’ll to accumulate, and inevitably (like the monster from The absently replies “Don’t worry, we got it from the US.” home countries, an international student’s pet is left and comfort sought by many international students. from the Australian community on whether they have need to ascend. Host) emerge to the surface. This allegory is established There is also the use of English phrases by the upper abandoned. “I’ll try everything to bring her back to China, we are the time and energy to take care of their pets, the love Thankfully, it is not here that Parasite begins. by Bong early in the film, with the family staring up class as a means of demonstrating their prestige, and The process of bringing in a pet outside of Australia inseparable,” she said. and care they provide to them cannot be denied. Instead, it begins underground, in a basement- from their sunken home into a society that may not the appropriation of a Native American headdress. is expensive and exhausting. People are required Iris Yao, another pet owner, is a second year arts As for me, Cassie is a beam of light and she will turned-house where a zero-income family is living, even realise they exist, and even urinates onto their Bong once identified his stylistic use and subversion of to meet requirements of pet export regulations in student. She has a ten-month-old Blue British Shorthair always make me happy no matter what happens. She leeching a few bars of Wi-Fi from their local businesses. windows. Hollywood conventions as a sense of “schizophrenia.” Australia and pet import regulations in their own named Inno. She rehomed Inno two weeks ago to a is home to me when I am far away from my own home. Consisting of the kind-natured patriarch Ki-taek (Song However, it is this same invisibility that became This reflects South Korea’s half-respectful, half-cynical country at the same time. Different countries have lovely local couple. “As an international student, my life Most other international students who own a pet in Kang-ho), whose life advice is well-respected by his son the catalyst for much of Parasite’s plot. When Ki-woo’s attitude towards the US, whose occupation during the different regulations, which also seem to change very is changing constantly. My future is still undecided. I a foreign country feel the same way as me. I believe Ki-woo (Choi Woo-shik) and cunning daughter Ki-jung higher-class friend goes to study overseas and asks 1960’s to early 1990’s is often linked to South Korea’s often and can differ by point of entry. For instance, if am busy with study, work and building networks while international students will do everything they can to (Park So-dam). Alongside their mother, Chung-sook him to take over his job tutoring the teenage daughter rapid modernisation. This close alliance (critiqued by people wish to bring pets into China, the pets need a I am here,” she said. “I gave Inno to other people. It was give their pet a new home before they leave, as they (Jang Hyae-jin), the family earns a living by folding a of a wealthy businessman, the underqualified Ki- some as almost neocolonial) underpins South Korea’s rabies vaccination, a microchip, blood test, and a rabies a tough choice to make but I believe they can give Inno understand those same hard feelings of being alone. restaurant’s cardboard pizza boxes in their bug-infested, woo vehemently agrees. After the forgery of some current position as a developed, capitalist state. But as ramshackle home. documents, he is now pushed into the world of a portrayed by Bong, though the system seems grand, it It is the exploration of this family’s absurd and marvelous concrete mansion located on the high hills offers no support to those who’ve been kicked down to exploitative rise to economic stability that has earned of Seoul. the bottom of the stairs. South Korean auteur Bong Joon-ho this year’s Palme Winning over the confidence of the naive lady of the The Kim family, having successfully gained a Name: Inno Name: Maggie d’Or. The film, despite being labeled by Bong asa house, Mrs Park (Cho Yeo-jeoung), the opportunistic precarious sense of economic security, then find Photo by: Iris Yao Photo by: Carrie Su “tragicomedy,” flouts the narrow conventions of genre Ki-woo quickly concocts a plan for his entire family to themselves having to maintain their social position to present a narrative too preposterous to be real, too con their way into employment at the same mansion. through the most gruesome of means. This hanging stained in satire to be sad. And yet, eliciting both a Eliminating the unneeded chauffeur and nifty anxiety about security can also serve as a reference harrowing sense of social-realism and tragedy, it is all of housekeeper, the wily ménage inserts themselves into to the threat of invasion by North Korea. It is these “As for me, Cassie is a these things. Like Bong’s previous work, The Host, which the secured space of their money-provider, the Parks. unresolved tensions that underpin the film’s foreboding carefully critiqued the conditions of South Korean They live in symbiosis with their hosts, and in some atmosphere. For perhaps, what we fear most is the beam of light and she will society,Parasite abandons allegorical hints for a straight ways, even begin to transform into a knock-off version disruption of order, as well as its seeming fallibility. slap in the face about the detrimental consequences of of them. In Parasite, a powerful final shot points to an economic insecurity. As Bong describes, it is “a comedy Throughout the film, Bong does not let us forget that inescapable cycle of oppression, tragically unrecognised always make me happy without clowns, a tragedy without villains.” it is the things hidden in the depths, unexposed to the by its main protagonists. Here, Bong’s comedy becomes The tragedy’s focus on an impoverished family unit surface, that control the story. For when all seems to be a bitter reminder of our wretched reality. Intricately no matter what happens. demonstrates a thematic similarity to Hirokazu Kore- well for the clan, having found stability in a marvellous crafted, Parasite evinces a distant dream of social eda’s stirring Japanese drama, Shoplifters, which also space, what ugliness could this wide-open home and its equality that eventually batters you awake. Its raw She is home to me when I happens to be last year’s winner of the Palm d’Or. Both transparent rows of glass possibly harbour? depiction of Korean society in all of its absurdities Shoplifters and Parasite belong to a rising surge of films With careful steps like that of a chessmaster’s, spills powerfully onto each frame of the screen. Its representing those in the socially and economically Bong unveils the layers of dirtiness that both classes hilarity masks a face of anger — one that rejects the am far away from my own marginal slates of East Asian society. Their significance possess in an indictment of the country’s broken socio- fickle sentiment expressed by a character: “Money is an resides in their exposition of the underground space economic system. iron, it smooths out all the wrinkles.” After the rain, the home.” — a metaphorical space exhibiting the hidden ugliness Portrayed also is South Korea’s ambivalent wrinkles will just appear again.

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Photos by Lindsay Rui The motorcyclist lets him off, turns to the metal box smile that’s more like a snarl. A soft, wicked chuckle, like a sniper leveling and opens it. Bends down and lifts the packages out. his crosshairs onto the target’s forehead, iciness Painfully slow. Careful. The soldier hurries to take “Cadre—” creeping into the darkest recesses of the human mind the job, as the young should do for the elderly; the old “Don’t. I’m not one of yous.” The uncle spits. The that consumes the whole and shreds, disassembles man lets him, amused as the recruit happily jostles university student flinches, growls. the existing beaten into submission of a new form. the packages to show off his youth. The old man “… Sorry.” That you love your country so much you smiles wryly — almost envious. would betray what we fought for. He shudders. Fear grips him. His legs falter — tires skid — a very rough bump jolts the whole machine. “I wouldn’t do that if I were you.” The young soldier The uncle quells his outburst, pastes on a smile as Every limb in his body freezes. Nothing but the sends him a questioning glance. he tentatively retrieves his bag from the student’s whistling wind. Gingerly inches forward. Places his clenched fist. foot ahead of the bike, feeling out the terrain. He can “Open it.” sense Its jagged maws, looming. The air is suffocating. The crowd’s silence an elastic The recruit hesitates, glances at his superiors — stretched uncomfortably tight. Narrowly avoids a pothole… they’re dealing cards and exchanging cigarettes, one of them sends him a lazy wave. The recruit turns The youths red armbands, bright, burning blood. Scrapes by a bump… back to the old man. For a brief moment, a silence descends over them. The recruit’s fingers tremor # Almost there… slightly as he— Buzzing. It’s unclear if it’s the radio or the flies. A The young recruit clutches onto his hat, ushering Opens it. familiar leathery hand squashes a slow one. Wipes it him to the shelter as they both cough their lungs out. on his shirt, its blood stains alongside grease streaks. The recruit yells over the din. Colour drains from his face. He listens to the winds howl over the land, grateful for the rain amidst the cloistering heat. “Did you bump anything?” Landmines. “Vietnam is independent. Vietnam is Free. We must “What?” The old man watches the recruit as he scrambles fight to make it stay that way. Ho Chi Minh is out away from the package. in Paris, working for our country. We at home must “Did you BUMP anything?” protect Liberated Vietnam. We who truly love our “Don’t piss your pants. Take them to recycle.” country.” The old man hesitates. Shakes his head no. They finally make it into the encampment, clothes askew, The youth doesn’t move. Frozen. The old man grunts, Smashes his thigh, pain jolting the doubt from his handkerchief dangling from the recruit’s pocket. averting his eyes. The pain of rebirth still fresh. mind. The revolution had succeeded, now it was just It’s stiflingly hot. All officers are crammed into this deciding who would deal with the rest. tight space, sitting on crates, playing cards, smoking. “They’re faulty,” pauses, “I think.” Glances around him nervously, he can feel It Even so, the borders between each group are drawn watching. very clearly. The same uniform, all Vietnamese faces, The recruit hurriedly nods, noticeably gentler with yet there’s the subtle suspicious glances cast at each his handling of the package. Still white. He takes a Waiting other, the sneer of disdain as if proclaiming ‘I know while to return with the cash, his eyes darting back . what you are.’ Former brothers-in-arms now jackals and forth nervously. Shakes himself out of his reverie. vying over ‘freedom’.

The motorcyclist counts it with expertise, takes his He focuses on the group approaching him. The They all look up as they enter, hands on their rifles. cut. His eyes pierce into the recruit’s soul, well- invisible presence purrs, whispering dread into his honed instinct detecting the scent of unease. The mind, calling back unwanted memories of the prices Relaxes. recruit fidgets, hiding a crumpled something in his paid. pocket. It hisses into the old man’s ear, beckoning The old man wipes off his sweat. Smiles tiredly at his suspicion. The motorcyclist pauses, scrutinises In denial, he calls out ‘jokingly’, “hurry up if you want them. They smile back. He turns to the new recruit, MESSENGER the recruit for any sign of a red arm band — none. to avoid your wife’s wrath.” “Can I borrow your handkerchief?” Michelle Lam // First place fiction He lets breathes a quiet sigh of relief, disappearing down the track. A few chuckles. For a split second — they’re human. “Sure.” Then it’s back again, seeping into their bones, It’s quiet. Tense. With none of the peace and respite buildings slowly being rebuilt, scaffolding fresh and sleeve. The small motion sets off a ripple of unease. # stiffening their muscles. They each lay down their The old man gratefully takes the fabric. promised by prayer. Heat simmers in the air. The bricks a different colour, dozens of posters detailing Furtive glances are exchanged. Although there was share gingerly, almost treating the landmines with forced upbeat singing of Tiếng Gọi Thanh Niên Vietnam’s bright new future — an ‘Independent no longer any need, they wore their various armbands The evening is cool, dark, with a complete absence of reverence. Freezes. finally ends. The news, what the people were really Nation’ — plastered like a bandaid over glaring as declarations of allegiance to change, though the sound. Complete absence of light. The heavy presence waiting for, plays. wounds. He used to pause and admire them, tracing sincerity of the gesture was questionable. of Its shadow still lingers in the tangled wilderness, A young man from group one’s hands tremble as he It’s red. its shadows with his memory. Now he barely glances where leaves rot and persons were burned into their plops in his share. Every eye is pinned on him. The “Vietnam is independent. Vietnam is Free. Ho Chi as he roars past. The motorcyclist sighs, knows not to tip the fragile next life. The people in Tonkin tread lightly, already last guy. He darts back into the crowd – eager to be Beep… Beep… Beep… Minh, through his bravery and sacrifice for the balance. used to the dark. In fact, light scares them. It flashes forgotten. A flash of red? The old man’s stare lingers country, has driven off the French! We now stand as The buildings become more sparse, eventually fading — like a burst of gunpowder. on him. Something prickles at his neck, that familiar The noise is terrifyingly clear. Piercing. One by one, equals to the world.” away as his lone, ant-like figure crawls along the lush “It’s not my place to decide. I’m just the messenger.” feeling that followed him home. He swats at it. Just heads turn. fronds of the jungle. A horizon of mottled green, The old man hesitates to turn off his headlight. Leaves a fly. A small contemptuous snort. The man drifts off, dotted with husks of tanks like trophies past. He The leader dodges just in time as he soars away with it on dim, an indecisive neutral caught between hope The old man’s eyes widen. He turns — the recruit knowing far better than the superficial cheer of red slows to a stop at an empty expanse of land. Waits. his cargo — nearly running him over. and pessimism. It scatters the residents nearby, who He races down the track without looking back. is gone. The commanding officer rises, eyes grim. surrounding him. Face wrinkled and haggard, his relax upon seeing his face. A few disgruntled insults Condemning. He stalks towards the metal box. eyes are empty. A spectator, not a narrator. His back He revels in the silence, a respite from the reminders # are hurled his way but he just breezes past it all. It’s Ignorant to the soft Heaves it open. is hunched with a permanent limp, weighed down by of… The cold prickling brushes against his skin, the to be expected. Ever since the rumours of the Viet the years of wars. caress of a familiar friend he embraces with both His path is much different to when he first started. Minh selling secrets to the French, everyone felt It Beep… Beep… Beep… The small flashing light from a DIY bomb hidden comfort and dread. It’s significantly slower. In fact, he carefully slows and breathing down their delicate necks, again. beneath a Viet Minh banner… He checks the clock on the garage wall and curses, avoids each pothole as much as possible. Crawls over Snatched away by the wind. hurriedly dragging an odd-looking trailer from a From the grass emerges a small group of people, each road bumps. He shudders as the rattle of the trailer A rough bump jostles his bag from his grip, he pauses. Whimpers crescendo into a desperate wail. Legs corner of the shelter and attaching it to the back lugging a package, metal detectors whimpering softly becomes deafeningly loud, fighting the temptation The motorcyclist eyes his bags — currently in the He does his usual routine. Inching over the road scramble. Hands claw. Squeals of terror. The old of his beat-up motorcycle. Last but not least — his on their backs. He stares at them expressionlessly. to glance back, back at that precariously bouncing university student’s hands. The student tentatively bumps. Slowing over every pothole. Eyes squinted man’s frozen. Lame leg crumbles. It finally rears its wrangled left leg straining — he hauls a sturdy, metal The leader of the group tentatively steps forward, metal box latched onto his bike — onto him. offers it to him, although mild disgust swims beneath behind his goggles. Raindrops slash his skin. The terrible head, inescapable. box onto the trailer and hops onto the bike. The wipes his hands before offering a greeting. the surface of his expression. dark dragon in the sky rumbles ominously. It stalks engine sputters. He growls, gives it a few kicks — He finally ends his journey at an out-of-sight, old at his heels, revelling his ignorance to the soft sounds Too late. for a minute it trembles, one kick away from falling “About a hundred piastre today?” His smile strains army base. Few officers are stationed there anymore. “Brother, you dropped thi—” emitting from the metal box. apart. Then it roars to life. under the lurking animosity of the group. The The bloodstains, however, have yet to be cleaned from Outside, the storm howls. There is a dull THUD. motorcyclist shrugs, loads the packages into his “Uncle.” Venomous. The uncle stares down the Suddenly the engine sputters out. He curses. Hops off Concrete crumbles. Debris and body parts fly. Blood its walls. A young soldier greets him with a warm, # bulletproof box, ready to ride off. university student, prickling with indignation at the his bike and pushes it, lame leg stumbling through stains the rain. hopeful smile — it was obvious he didn’t question impertinence of this brat. thick mud. Coughs. Icy rain forced down his throat. In the dim light of dawn, tropical heat clings to “Look Uncle, we might as well make the most of complexities. The old man returns his greeting with a Flickers of the army base against the looming storm. But nothing is heard over the wind. skin, the taste of metal on the tip of the tongue a our victory.” Their images waver in the heat. One of cold stare. The poor boy fidgets, stripped bare before Visibly affronted, the student almost looks to toss A cold phantom grip pulls him back, anchoring his reminder of yesterday. The motorcycle flies past old the members of group one wipes his brow with his his aged scrutiny. it at the uncle’s feet, but he stops himself. Smiles a ankles. #

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