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4-5: NEWS 12-13: FEATURE A student allegedly stole Hostile architecture: $12K from USU clubs A city consumed A student is in hot water and accounts to her personal account. At some bus stops around Sydney, in sleep. Some with a coffee in facing an investigation by The USU confirmed the transfers, you don’t sit — you lean. hand, some on their phones. But detectives at Newtown Police telling Honi that the $12,000 was My friend Lily and I were most of all, they were all on their Station after transferring more taken from three separate USU waiting for a bus at Railway feet, either leaning or standing. than $12,000 from University of clubs. Square. Surrounding us were Sydney Union (USU) club bank Read more on page 4 >>>> bodies — heavy and tired, stained Read more on page 12 >>>> Stop playing games like Jumpy Jumpy Helix Ball Send us a letter: Acknowledgement of Country LETTERS [email protected]

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I love what you have done, and I hope This was the first paper I read to fuck that you have loved your editing Contents Editorial religiously. I have every edition in year. Please hold your heads high and varying conditions in the family send it at the Honi party. garage, and holy shit I’ve loved it. You have so much to be proud 4 NEWS Editors This week, the editors of Honi Soit patterns and poetry. Pranay Jha talks I really wanted to voice just how of. And on a selfishly personal note, created a games group chat on Crohn’s Disease and uncertainty. great the newspaper, and hence the you have made this particular boy 6 ANALYSIS Baopu He, Pranay Jha, Amelia Mertha Messenger. Everyone is playing Jumpy Amelia Mertha expounds upon her love team has been this year, and how incredibly happy in probably one of my Jessica Syed, Liam Thorne, Nell O’Grady, Jumpy Helix Ball. At the time of writing, for birds. And in our excellent feature, much it has meant for me as a regular darkest times. 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Honorary Secretary Decheng $un had but perhaps none more impressive Could I also register a correction and Alan’s creative piece and editorial Big Hustler on Campus and newly some enviable associates friends wish than the achievements of third year please. It’s not any design defect but (respectively) were by far the most elected president of SASS, Nick him a happy birthday following this entrepreneur/podcaster/hustler/ the actual usage of the Level 2 Foyer humbling. Rigby, allegedly did some last-minute shitstorm of an AGM. Arts student Jake Thrupp (Thruppy). space of the Law School that has been I hadn’t considered how much networking and shifted alliances $$$Earn Book$$$ understands that You may not have heard of him, disappointing. And the lack of use work, passion and I guess how much moments before the vote. Emily around 20 members of the $$$Liberal but any self-respecting fan of is not because students and staff are of yourselves you have committed to You might be Kardum was allegedly promised the Party$$$ sang happy birthday to $un. Alan Jones has. And that’s because turned off by any heating and lighting the old rag. I wish Cream didn’t call position of Socials Director by Rigby And what does this say about Rep$elect Thruppy has pulled off the ultimate problems. Rather, as soon as the you “self involved”. I wish students before the position ultimately went this Wednesday? Well, those at the top act of hustle; the most superlative building was finished and everyone actually read the paper. I wish people Extreme Networking in SASS to Angelina Gu, who commentators of the mountain didn’t fall there. feat of networking. The Thrupster could see how very attractive the Level were discussing the content, and not in luck! argue has had far less experience than To quote Ryan Seacrest: “mine’s a has secured himself an enviable 2 foyer was, with the park on one side bagging each other for even picking If there’s one thing I know for sure, Kardum. The same went for Pablo pretty simple strategy: there’s not a lot business partnership with Jones and the law lawn (and café and vistas ) up a copy. I wish that every copy it’s that you NEED to hustle if you Avaria-Jiminez, who was apparently of talent here, but there’s a lot of hustle. himself. on the other, it was quickly taken over would be snapped up by Thursday. I Please visit Campus Security in want to succeed. You’ve got to be promised Secretary but was ousted by I have to be in every place I can, and be Thrupperoo is apparently family by University Venues as a bookable wish you guys had more respect, and prepared to rise and grind, grind and Belinda Thomas as part of a deal with busy.” friends with Jones, according to space. So it’s usually locked up and not love because you put in so much and rise, and rinse and repeat. In fact, you Unity. What does it all mean? By the the Sydney Morning Herald, and has available as a day to day space for staff the CIS Building to see if you it is genuinely a beautiful craft. Your really ought to be grinding WHILE Any true hustler knows that success time this paper is out, Panda, Pro- already appeared on Jones’ show on and students to hang out, study, or meet paper deserves love and respect. You you rise if you want the sweet, sweet only comes to those who are hungry for Team, Unity, and the Libs are likely to Sky News. The favour has also been up, as it was originally intended. can identify your belongings. all deserve love and respect in barrels, taste of success. it, and it looks like the Mod Libs and have engaged in a group conference returned by Jones, who appeared on Also I should point out good news rolled up to your office weekly. If anyone on campus knows Unity’s feast is getting messy. With (scheduled for Monday, Week 11). We Thrupperino’s podcast. that new Dean of Law Professor I really love what you have done this, it’s the hustlers at the Sydney RepsElect only a few days away, the can hardly imagine what this audacious Thruppo, we here at $$$Earn Simon Bronnit has set up a Building and how much hard work you’ve put in Arts Students Society. The Arts question remains — will their hustle act of networking will produce. Book$$$ salute you for this unrivaled Advisory Group to take on proper this year. I wish I could say it in person world is vicious — only those who game be matched? networking achievement. maintenance ­of the building and but I’m anxious and know I’d cock it all truly know how to activate beast The Sky’s the limit You have truly earned a lifetime aesthetic improvements to its fit-out, up. I want to give each and every one mode survive. That’s why it comes Even more networking subscription $$$Earn Book$$$, eg furniture, for students, staff and of you the biggest hug, a card, some as no surprise that the recent SASS We’ve seen some pretty enviable which we hereby present to you free visitors. food, or if you’re not a hug-fan maybe a election was marred with sly secrecy Ch-ch-ching! Birthday boy and USU examples of networking this week, of charge. Enjoy. — Professor Barbara McDonald smile or something? (I’m really fucking (Sydney Law School) awkward, I’m so sorry.) You don’t know

2 3 NEWS NEWS SASS election stacked again by Mod-Lib/Unity “One sided” and “hawkish”: students and staff at coalition USyd respond to Four Corners exposé Pranay Jha and Liam Thorne Joseph Verity A coalition of Moderate of SASS, strongly discouraging branding Unite for SRC) and the and directing votes. While past relating to stacking at its Students and staff at the being unfairly vilified. “On the last day of the headline for a story that were in any way silenced. Liberals (Mod-Libs) and Labor factional voting. mod-libs were in the process of Returning Officer Connor elections. The society’s elections University of Sydney have Speaking to Honi, He campaigning, during the last involves Chinese international “In my experience, Right (Unity) have taken back Salzmann recently authorised negotiating a deal in relation Wherrett (also a member of were declared invalid in 2018 pushed back against claims claimed that programs like few hours of the day, a huge film students — it’s as if we’re being academics at the University of the Sydney Arts Student the Cream for Honi campaign, to the SASS election. Earlier Unity) issued a warning of their and 2017. made by Four Corners that Four Corners are responsible crew started quite intrusively invited to think of them as Sydney are much more likely Society (SASS), beating out the an outfit heavily associated today, PULP reported that this removal, they were ultimately the Chinese Communist for perpetuating unfair filming campaigners — more ‘infiltrators’,” Dr Brophy said. to face intimidation from off existing executive comprised of with the mod-libs. deal involved trading Mod-Lib allowed to stay in the room. Party (CCP) has “infiltrated” attitudes towards Chinese specifically, Chinese-appearing Dr Brophy was a signatory campus, and pressure from the non-aligned SASS members. Salzmann’s sentiments National Union of Students While Rigby claimed to have Australian universities, students who are simply campaigners — and getting to an open letter from a University itself, for criticising The vote for President were also supported by co- (NUS) delegate positions for no role in negotiations over The 2020 SASS executive is as labelling the assertions made trying to get an education. interviews from Chinese number of China studies Israel than they are for criticising was contested between executive member Tim Seguna, Unity’s support in SASS. While SASS positions, he confirmed follows: by the program “one sided” “I certainly think that in students. I was told by one of my academics that criticised the China,” Dr Brophy said. and “extremely dangerous.” those parts [of the program] friends that it was Four Corners ‘foreign interference’ narrative “I’ve put on events with mod-lib Nick Rigby and an ex-Students’ Representative that deal may be limited to SASS that negotiations did take place. President – Nicholas Rigby Katherine Anagnostopoulous. Council and Sydney University and NUS, cooperation between “I heard there were Secretary – Belinda Thomas The ABC broadcast an where there was an emphasis on making a documentary about spun by the government and Uyghur dissidents, spoken at Anagnostopoulos belongs to Postgraduate Representative the two factions quite possibly negotiations but I didn’t have Vice President (Internal) – Yanyan episode of Four Corners Chinese international students, Chinese influence in Australian large sections of the media. Uyghur rallies, put videos of what could be described as a Association councillor. Seguna reflects further dealings for the any role in them.” Chen on Monday night entitled there has been a lot of one-sided student politics,” Wilson said. Four Corners also claimed myself supporting the Uyghurs group of SASS members non- also managed Mod-Lib Lachlan upcoming SRC RepsElect. While NLS had a reasonable Vice President (External) – Nicole ‘Red Flags’ which sought to comments that don’t necessarily “Nobody was asked if that Australian universities’ online, and never experienced aligned to any political factions. Finch’s USU board campaign. Honi received reports that presence in the room, it appears Baxter expose Chinese interference malign international students, they wanted to be filmed; partnership with China any pushback for any of this. She, along with most students He was heard to have shouted the attempted stacking of SASS as though they were locked out Treasurer – Jaz Judd in Australian universities. but certainly draw the negative nobody was asked if they is “putting their academic But since I went public with in that group, emphasised her “fuck Unity, fuck the Liberals” caused significant internal of any position contested by Socials Director x 1 – Angelina Gu It featured interviews with and incorrect connotation that wanted to be photographed.” integrity at stake.” It cited my support for Palestinian apolitical nature and dedication upon Rigby’s election. friction within the outgoing another faction. Approximately Socials Director x 2 – Caitlin people such as Dan Tehan, the Chinese international students Honi acknowledges that a Confucius Institutes — rights, pro-Israel groups and Clarke to SASS in her speech. Current USU Board executive. In a private group 81 per cent of Angelina Federal Education Minister are spreading propaganda photographer from a different Chinese cultural centres individuals have tried multiple Publications Director x 1 – Kate who recently launched a in Australia by dominating publication was also present at which appear at a number of times to put pressure on my job.” Ultimately, despite what Director, Vice-President chat, one member allegedly told Gu’s (Unity) preferences in Scott government taskforce into Australian universities,” He said. the time and that the filming universities around the country In August, the Vice- appeared to be a heavy Mod- (External) of SASS, and member their fellow exec members of the Socials Officer election Publications Director x 2 – Jenna Lib/Unity presence in the of National Labor Students Unity supporting the Mod-Libs reportedly flowed to Caitlin Lorge foreign interference, and “That may in turn lead to more took place in a public place. — as one such example of this. Chancellor of the University room filled with 80 voters, Nick Forbutt said, “I think were “weak-willed and morally Clarke. This, in combination Sports Director – Katie Morris Clive Hamilton, the author schism and tension between Dr David Brophy, a senior The University of of Sydney, Dr Michael Anagnostopoulous ended up this is quite unprecedented flippant.” with preferences flowing from International Students Officer – of ‘The Silent Invasion’. international and domestic lecturer in modern Chinese Sydney rejected this claim. Spence, warned that the losing by a mere two votes. and everyone knows what has On the night, headkickers Emily Kardum, prevented NLS Aditya Nair The program gave students and that may even history at the University “[The University of Sydney ‘foreign interference’ Before voting took place, happened… I have seen society from Unity and the Mod- members Ruby Lotz and Sophie Ethnocultural Officer – Jennifer prominence to a number of have wider implications on the of Sydney, also criticised Confucius Institute] is not debate has the potential to several people spoke to the be dramatically impacted Libs (including failed 2018 Ohlin from being elected and Kwon claims, including that the Australian society as a whole.” the program’s portrayal of involved in any decisions embolden racist attitudes. crowd alluding to the need to by people only [joining the presidential candidate Adriana suggested a concerted effort Queer Officer – Daniel Graham participation of Chinese Parts of the program were Chinese students and accused around our research, curriculum “We have to be careful steer clear of voting according executive] for their political Malavisi) were seen engaging from Labor Unity to lock NLS Women’s Officer – Olivia Niethe students in student politics filmed at the University of Four Corners of pursuing a or the general operation of the that the whole debate doesn’t Postgraduate Officer – David to factional deals. Current SASS interest.” in frequent discussions. At out this position, and likely is “a gateway for CCP Sydney during the recent SRC “hawkish” editorial agenda. University,” a spokesperson said. have overtones of the White Delprat influence on campus.” elections, held in September. “Infiltration, like invasion, “We value our Australia Policy,” Dr Spence President, Brooke Salzmann, There has been significant numerous points, members of others, during the night. No position filled for Indigenous Jacky He, president of the Ellie Wilson, a student is one of those terms that we productive partnerships said in a statement to the said factional dealing conjecture over the last week Unity and the Mod-Libs were SASS has been subject to Officer. compromised the effectiveness that Unity (who ran under accused of interfering with significant criticism in the University of Sydney Students’ at the University and one seem to only use in reference with Chinese universities Sydney Morning Herald. Representative Council of the SRC’s Ethnocultural to China. Language like and research institutions.” There have been a number (SRC), was interviewed on Officers, says that she felt that is designed to bias the Dr Brophy pushed back of attacks on campus this year the program. He claimed harassed and intimidated by discussion from the start, and against the suggestion that targeting East Asian students, A student allegedly stole $12K from USU clubs, that Chinese students were the Four Corners film crew. it’s particularly dangerous as academic critics of China both verbal and physical. Newtown police are investigating ­— what now? Jessica Syed and Alan Zheng A student is in hot water and of community. We have been her “Goodness me! It’s Tina (among other constraints). The made aware of the police A TRIBUTE TO THE REFUGEES WE HAVE facing an investigation by shocked and appalled by these Lee!” board campaign this year, maximum penalty for the crime investigation and is awaiting detectives at Newtown Police allegations,” said USU President her presence within the USU of embezzlement is 10 years. NSW Police advice before Station after transferring more Connor Wherrett. clubs and societies program If Lee is to be alternately proceeding. FORGOTTEN than $12,000 from University “We received an assurance spans several years. At the charged with committing fraud, “Any student found to be of Sydney Union (USU) club form [sic] the banks that they time of her campaign, she had the penalty is nonetheless 10 engaging in such behaviour bank accounts to her personal will in future abide strictly been on the executive of nine years. If any such charge is may be in breach of our student It is with a deep sense of sorrow of The Saturday Paper, Maxine manifest a situation that drives account. with the two-signature rule.” clubs and societies. Notably, pressed, it will become Lee’s code of conduct and subject to that we pay our respects to Beneba Clarke articulated just innocent people to the end of The USU confirmed the That rule requires club finances Lee served as the treasurer of prerogative to either defend or our discipline rule,” an official Sayed Mirwais Rohani, a how beautiful a human life is their lives. Ours is fuelled by a transfers, telling Honi that the to be signed off by at least two the Sydney University Medical plead to them. spokesperson told Honi. Hazara refugee who committed in her poem, Jacqui’s law. In this misguided, archaic and racist $12,000 was taken from three executives. Science Society and Sydney This is not the first time suicide on Tuesday, 15 October excerpt, she was writing about belief in the fallacy of “securing separate USU clubs. Among If the investigation does University Red Cross Society. prominent members of the 2019. Hamid Khazaei — a refugee our borders.” Ours has driven them, the humanitarian charity- not exonerate the student, the She additionally held life USU have come under fire for Mirwais was a trained who died after the government Sayed to this fate. aligned Sydney University Red student may end up expelled membership of the Union, and abusing financial privileges and doctor. After being moved did not grant him medical Mirwais was the thirteenth Cross Society. from USU membership and was named USU Volunteer of misusing student money. off Manus Island following treatment for his infected leg: person to die after being Staff in the USU’s finance stripped of any USU awards the Year last year. USU Board Directors were deteriorating mental health, he transferred to Australia. For team are said to have stumbled they may have received. Lee did not respond to Honi’s asked to return their Cabcharge volunteered at the Lorengau most Australians, the names onto the transfers, discovering In addition, they may end up request for comment. cards back in 2015. Among hospital. Mirwais’ father made in photographs, of the twelve who died before discrepancies in the club facing criminal charges. Newtown Police Station them, Liam Carrigan took 27 numerous pleas for him to him have fallen victim to short accounts dating back three If the allegations are proven, failed to provide comment to cabs in January alone, costing be resettled in the United his eyes are as deep memories and apathy. While years. the Board, in accordance with Honi in time for publication. the USU close to $500. Carrigan Kingdom. Those pleas were not contemporary society allows The student appears to clause 9.2(f)(ii) of the USU Likewise, it is unclear at this subsequently paid the debt in heard because Peter Dutton as where the gulf of aden these innocent refugees to have made the transfers with Constitution, will consider a stage whether charges have full. refused their requests. Mirwais' fall out of our minds, it is our increasing sums over time, with resolution to expel the person been laid, and it is more likely In 2013, a KPMG audit death was not his own suicide. greets the arabian hope that the history books do individual transfers ranging from Membership of the USU that an investigation is still revealed that an office-bearer A callous Australian society sea not forget them. We pray that from $10 to $200. and strip them of any awards ongoing. of the Australian National that supports the arbitrary there comes a time where the The USU Board unanimously they might have received from Given the circumstances University Student Association incarceration of the most and the aching amber hue present becomes a dark chapter voted to suspend the student’s the USU. at hand, it’s improbable that (ANUSA) embezzled $126,000 persecuted people took his of falling in Australia’s past. A time union membership via a It has been alleged that the Lee would hypothetically be from ANUSA, the Interhall life. For our complicity in that where tributes like these are no circular motion last week. The student in question is 2019 charged with embezzlement — Sports Organisation and ANU society, we express sincere autumn leaves longer necessary. A time where student’s access to club accounts USU Board candidate Christina that charge requires Lee, who Student Media, which publishes regret. Western societies take on the has been revoked. (Tina) Lee. held positions on a voluntary ANU student newspaper In last weekend’s edition No government has the right to human costs. “The USU is an organisation Though many students were basis, to have been employed as Woroni. that prides itself on its sense first introduced to Lee during a ‘clerk or servant’ of the USU The University has been Pictured: Tina Lee, in happier times

4 5 ANALYSIS ANALYSIS Sliding into the revolution The revival of still life Himath Siriniwasa DMs the Internationalist Commune of Rojava. Donnalyn Xu explores a humble art form. Earlier this week, Turkey moved forward anarchist civil-war era Spain, the of libertarian communes. Also, the thought have suggested supporting Above the clutter of books and old white men. The hierarchy of genres, attached to art that removes the self bread bowl, a scallop-trimmed hot pink with its long discussed military invasion commune argues that Rojava has women's role is bigger than with the the Syrian government to restore a wilting flowers on my desk, there is a established in the seventeenth century from the story. And this is rooted in the saucer. The unusual shadows of these into the Kurdish dominated territories resolved the “inner contradictions of Mujeres Libres. Here, women play a semblance of civil society in the region. reproduction of Cezanne’s Still Life with by the French Academy, placed still life delusion that identity is merely a cloak objects are pitch black and skewed. They of Northern Syria. In response, the Spanish anarchism around power and central role in both civil and military In response to peace talks with the Syrian Apples (1893–1894) hanging haphazardly paintings on the lowest rung. In parts one can simply slip on and off. are flat, but given the comical illusion of Internationalist Commune of Rojava patriarchy.” society, and the ideology of women's government and their support from the on the wall, still dressed in the black of Europe, women painters were often It is difficult to unlearn the colonial depth. Appropriately titled Vessels, Yin’s have released a declaration calling for “The Autonomous Administration of liberation is a motor of the revolution.” broad left, the commune believes that: frame it came in when I bought it restricted to still life because it was easily discourse that continues to permeate artwork explores emptiness and physical international solidarity movements to North-Eastern Syria is a concrete example While Rojava’s intricate social “The agreement with the Syrian from Vinnie’s. In my little gallery of accessible and undervalued. Supposedly the field of Art History. When studying space in relation to cultural history. The “defend the revolution.” of a society based on the Leftist ideals formations draw on a rich intellectual Arab Army has been made in order to blue-tacked postcards and newspaper devoid of any human quality or personal Western art, I am confronted by the items are both deeply personal and The Internationalist Commune of the 21st century: women's liberation, background, the ideas of anarchist avoid an outright genocide. It should cutouts, this particular painting stands identity, it was considered to be one of strangest desire to step out of myself, unfamiliar, like realising the strangeness was founded in early 2017 when a grassroots democracy and ecology. In thinker Murray Bookchin and ex PKK not be thought that the Autonomous out from the rest. Its soft contours and the lowest forms of painting compared as if I am staring at something that is of your own body. Placed next to each number of left-wing activists formed a times of severe climate change and of leader Abdullah Öcalan seem to weigh Administration has come any closer mellow colours remind me of what I to the highly-esteemed portrait. After all, not intended for me. This, of course, other, these objects revel in the absurd, solidarity group within Northern Syria. rising fascism, and after Russia and heavily on the collective consciousness ideologically to Assad's regime, which love most about still life — how I feel what could be as harmless as a bouquet is followed by a wave of guilt — am I splendid nature of materiality, and how They allege that they provide a diverse China fully endorsing capitalism, Rojava of revolution. The commune believes remains hostile to the AA and will try instantly comforted by the intimacy of of flowers, with their softened petals so allowed to enjoy this? Do I betray myself this is traced in the mundane details of amount of material support: medical appears to be one of the few places in that this vision can provide a site to take over some cities. We can only domestic spaces, the sensuality of a vase, easy to envision? What else is there to when I am not actively thinking, hurting, our everyday lives. The simple pleasure aid, community building and ecological- the world where a change of system is of inspiration for social movements support the state in the sense that it is the sensory delight in picturing bruised think of except time passing and fruits rebelling? of colour still surprises me. The brief oriented engineering, among other enacted, giving hope to a worldwide Left worldwide. helping the democratic system to stay fruit. The pure joy of finding a painting rotting, the inevitable decay we are not There is an unexplored, yet distinct flicker of recognition that eases my things. The commune has also been a that was pushed into believing that there “Democratic Confederalism is alive, using its illegitimate power to do you recognise in a second-hand store privy to? Lacking a human subject, it was relationship between the painful heart also sings my name, loud with its prominent public relations voice for was no alternative.” thought to be a solution not only for so.” is very much like bumping into an old awareness of the self. the Rojavan revolution, promoting the As many readers know, Twitter the Kurdish people, but for the whole When asked on how activists can friend when you least expect it. That When I recently visited a friend’s virtues of what they purport is a vision threads have, to a large extent, of Middle-East, maybe more. As it is help support the resistance against the pleasant swell in my chest lingers for the What could be as harmless as a home for the first time, I noticed a bowl of decentralised, direct-democratic and overturned the printing press to become stateless, it is also virtually borderless, alleged genocide, the commune explained rest of the day. bouquet of flowers, with their of White Rabbit candy on his coffee feminist socialism. the next media outlet for budding and this is shown by the fact that some that they should “organize long-term On a surface level, still life appears to table. Its crinkled blue and red label In congruence with left-Twitter’s revolutionaries. The Communehas played democratic structures exist in Europe, solidarity, not just through one-hit be a genre of painting that is as apolitical softened petals so easy to envision? was a familiar sight. And the glass cup, penchant for online politicking, Honi a large role in broadcasting why they mainly with the Kurdish diaspora there. actions, but with a strong community, as it is static. The Tate Museum Glossary passed from his hands to mine, resting reached out to the commune via an perceive the federation of self-governing We believe that Rojava can be a that can lead big and meaningful actions.” describes its subject matter as “anything accused of being too neutral, too simple, marginalised experience and the innocently beside it. And the light from exchange of DMs. We discussed the municipalities to be an attractive new democratic centre which will inspire A recent Amnesty International report that does not move or is dead.” In French, and without any intellectual stimulation. comfort of still life. The calmness that I the window, always the light, leaving left-wing allure of the revolution, the model for the left. radical change for the Left all around outlines that, since the beginning of the it is called nature morte — translated This view also insinuates that aspects once considered to be mind-numbing is the room sun-laced and warm. How I commune’s relationship with the Syrian “The stateless democracy that the world. With the values already offensive, 218 civilians have died. literally as “dead nature.” Its implicit of the physical world are exempt from not the removal of the self — a privilege almost wanted to get up and leave, just government and how internationalists is implemented here takes direct mentioned, of feminism, direct The commune also implores that connection to death can be traced back human concerns, that a rotting carcass, that has never been granted to people to imagine this space without a single can stand in solidarity with the inspiration from the CNT's experiment, democracy and ecology, we can really supporters consider travelling to to its origins, as the earliest known or a golden vase are as impenetrable as of colour — it is a marker of its very body in it. I thought, I should’ve brought movement. and pushes it further inside the say it is fully a 21st century revolution, Northern Syria. still lifes come from Egypt in the 15th they are untouchable. significance. To rest your eyes on the flowers. It was mid-afternoon, and there While many activists draw romantic framework of democratic confederalism. and it will lead to other ones. We hope If not, they suggest participation century BC. Murals of everyday objects A single moment that evades corner of a room, a desk, an unoccupied was a candle lit. There was nothing parallels between the democratic The Autonomous Administration is a so.” in the #WomenDefendRojava and adorned the interiors of Egyptian tombs movement is perhaps the antithesis of seat, and realise how deeply life moves significant about it, except that I wanted uprisings in Northern Syria and the bigger and longer-lasting confederation Many strands of radical anti-war #RiseUp4Rojava campaigns. as prayers and offerings for a blessed a revolution, but there is an undeniable you. To allow yourself an identity that to remember it so vividly. A white afterlife. These funerary paintings of fish, power in constructed objecthood. The is not defined by grief is a slow act of candle sinking into itself. A white candle crops, and other stacked goods reveal values of the establishment may have forgiveness. in a bright room on a quiet Sunday in SSAF: raiding student coffers something profound about personhood shifted since the seventeenth century, In her still life paintings, October. that extends beyond the body. That but they continue to be defined by contemporary artist Crys Yin speaks What is it about this image that I find Anie Kandya and Pranay Jha question the rationale behind the Student Services Amenities Fees allocations. hopeful desire for what we leave behind, dominating power structures. In to the nuances of her Asian-American so compelling? Still life as a reflection The Student Services and Amenities funding allocations, in recent years no by SUSF to be anything resembling a to more increases in funding, creating a for even the smallest traces of this earth “Delusions of Whiteness in the Avant- identity. Remarkably alienating in its of lived spaces — not necessarily the Fee (SSAF) is an amount of money agreement has been reached. student-led organisation. Despite this, problematic cycle. It is extremely telling to follow us into the next life. Garde”, Cathy Park Hong critiques the simplicity, her depictions of countertop echo of a person, but a reminder that every university student in Australia is Notably, the group that consistently USyd has indicated no intention to alter of the University’s intentions for the Our understanding of still life has notion of post-identity that is often objects are odd, humorous, and somewhat their perpetual absence, our permanent required to pay every semester. In fact, takes home the largest share of SSAF the amount of money in SSAF funding future of student unionism for them to changed over time, particularly through hailed as a pure state of artistry beyond detached. In Vessels, Everything Is Exactly impermanence, is still a call to memory. most students would have received an money every year is Sydney University that SUSF receives. increasingly prioritise funding for these its rise as a distinct genre in Western “the taint of subjectivity and history.” the Same (2018), a wooden table appears That even the deepest parts of our email this week informing them that Sports and Fitness (SUSF) operating Alongside SUSF, the USU is allocated profit-driven organisations. tradition. In the art world (and in the Still life is by no means considered before an emerald green backdrop. An identity will recognise and resolve this semester’s payments have been with millions of dollars every year. In the second largest share of SSAF, Funnelling exorbitant funding to external world), cultural values and avant-garde, but the sentiment remains: array of household containers are spread that full-bodied shape of a feeling so processed. The fee funds student groups 2018, they were allocated over $5 million receiving $4.3 million in 2018. That organisations like SUSF and USU comes prestige have always been defined by there is a certain beauty, if not prestige, out on its surface: a porcelain teacup, a impossibly, unremarkably human. such as the University of Sydney Union in SSAF funding, as well as generating figure stands at more than double that at the cost of supporting student unions (USU) and the Student Representative over $14 million in revenue, in addition received by the SRC. There are numerous which have the power to provide vital Council (SRC), the groups in charge to their significant generous donations problems with this allocation of funding. welfare services, such as food subsidies, of USyd’s events, clubs and societies, from ‘Hockey Donors’ and ‘Boatshed Firstly, corporatised organisations advocacy for affordable housing, mental student publications (like this one), and Appeal Donors’. like the USU and SUSF have significant health services, free legal casework, and welfare services. so on. It is more important than ever that SSAF was made mandatory by federal genuine student unionism is supported legislation following the introduction The University has long since been criticised to actually represent and protect student of voluntary student unionism (VSU) for the amount of funding SUSF receives. interests, and fight the corporatisation of in 2006. Its purpose was to mitigate our institutions. Students and student the effects of VSU on the funding of organisations should not merely be an student organisations. Problematically, The University has long since been alternative sources of revenue. This avenue from which to make money, and SSAF legislation sets out an incredibly criticised for the amount of funding allows them to exercise discretion over as such, SSAF allocations should be on broad range of services which the fees SUSF receives, especially due to the what projects they can include in their the basis of student needs, rather than can be spent on, providing universities fact that its managerial structure proposal for contestable funds, cherry- the amount of revenue an organisation with significant discretion over the way has been known to hinder student picking those which are appealing to is able to generate. money will be allocated. engagement. Recently, an overhaul of the USyd management. This is a luxury that SUSF and the USU are multi-million At USyd, the allocation of SSAF governance structure has been carried organisations like the SRC who entirely dollar organisations, able to generate fees is decided every year by means of out, with SUSF undergoing a process of rely on SSAF for their funding simply do their own hefty income and source each student group preparing budget incorporation which sees the University not have. funding from numerous other channels. proposals for the upcoming year. The being given powers to influence the In a post-VSU era, the organisations Organisations like the SRC struggle for organisations are guaranteed 90 per cent appointment of SUSF’s company board. that are most corporatised and profit scraps despite entirely relying on SSAF of their previous years funding as a ‘base The restructuring means there is even driven, like SUSF and USU, are rewarded funding. The services they provide are amount’. After each organisation’s base less student input than previously, with an increasing hunk of student critical for students facing the worst of funding is allocated, the remaining SSAF with only two student directors to be money. Many of their projects fall nicely circumstances. SSAF legislation places fees are placed into a contestable pool of appointed to the board. The general within the key performance indicators all the power in USyd’s hands. Whether funding. That contestable pool is divided student population is afforded no outlined in SSAF legislation, allowing they will exercise that power justly between student organisations, making transparency into the operations of them to attract favourable treatment remains to be seen. At the end of the SSAF allocations a zero-sum game. the organisation, let alone given voting from USyd. day, to the decision-makers in USyd’s While historically these negotiations rights. This change indicates an even As SUSF and USU’s scale of operations ivory tower, goat yoga is probably more Art by Donnalyn Xu have led to a joint-proposal about further departure from any attempt grows, so too do their base costs, leading appealing than sexual assault lawyers.

6 7 ANALYSIS ANALYSIS What's the deal with RepsElect? Symbols and suits: a history of the Spade We map out the star-crossed deals. Peter Prentice asks: is a spade really a spade?

It’s that time of year again: the air is some of the positions elected will receive of a simple majority. relationship this year. In modern society, signage throughout The modern symbol for the Spade, ♠“ ”, choice but by law. It quickly became as well as those who were deemed warmer, the breeze a little less crisp, and a stipend which comes from student Activist Strikeback (Solidarity), since Cupcake is the nascent newcomer the world is littered with easily came from the French iteration of the one of the more ‘iconic’ cards along ‘unclean’ by society, such as swingers. the jacarandas have bloomed. Since the money. With the right people elected winning one councillor position, are – with one council seat to their name, recognisable symbols that represent Sword suit, which represented the head with the face cards, and seemingly by There have been attempts to reclaim end of mid-sem break, your favourite into these roles, the student union can perceived as de-facto members of the their affiliations remain unclear. clear purposes — the “☢“ symbol of a pike. random chance its association with the use of the term akin to other slurs, campus hideouts —the darker parts of become effective in agitating for various Left bloc post election. Cupcake’s campaign manager, Crystal represents radioactivity, and the☣ “ ” This association with the older suit the military resurged with practical such as the 1973 sculpture “Spade with Laneway cafe, or the parquet tiles that social causes and student interests. Though it is highly unlikely that Xu, historically worked with Chinese symbol unequivocally represents of Swords meant that the suit of Spades use in the Second World War. Some Chains” by artist David Hammons. comprise the Anderson Stuart courtyard they side with the Right bloc, Activist international student grouping, Panda, biohazards, both without any need was also associated with nobility and American soldiers had their helmets On a more empowering note, the — have been peppered with factional What’s cooking? Strikeback are just as likely to retreat who backed her move to become the 91st for context. However, there are some military. This connection would later marked with the spade, as playing cards Spade has also been appropriated for powerbrokers, hidden in plain sight as from any ‘deal making’ – which they Wom*n’s Officer, against the autonomy symbols that seem to have an ambiguous cement itself in 17th century Britain had developed a reputation for bringing more just purposes by the asexual they scramble to lock in numbers before Positions are negotiated between deem to be unprincipled. Given this, it of the Wom*n’s Collective’s preselected meaning with multiple interpretations. where, under the reign of James I, the good luck. In particular, the Ace of movement. The shortening of the the inaugural meeting of the 92nd factions prior to RepsElect. For the will be harder to predict who and how officers. For example, the “♠” symbol — also Spades became extensively used during term “asexual” to “ace” is an intuitive Students’ Representative Council next majority of those involved at least, it they will support the left bloc on the Things have changed throughout the known as the spade or pike — requires the Vietnam War in card form, where contraction and has led to the adoption Wednesday. So, what is the deal with looks to be pretty smooth sailing this year night. year though, and recently, Crystal has context to understand its meaning. Just The spade stems from boxes of only the Ace of Spades were of the various suits of Spade to RepSelect? compared to last year’s iconic four part If the Left bloc is numerically moved away from the confines of Panda, how did this ubiquitous symbol from a a history of nobility, shipped to American soldiers to use as represent varying strands of asexuality. series. In those circumstances, a series victorious, the biggest divergence from refusing to endorse Boost presidential pack of playing cards make its way into morale boosters. It is also theorised, The ace of hearts has become a symbol A meeting of many hearts of absences, abstentions and factional last year’s repselect may be the decision candidate Josie Jakovac. The Panda- popular culture? war, and racism. and popularised by Coppola’s war epic for romantic asexuality, while the ace of and sour minds shifts meant the SRC saw itself move to respect ‘collective autonomy’, and Cupcake relationship appears tense, The notion of a playing card game Apocalypse Now, that the card was used spades represents aromantic asexuality, towards complete dysfunction right out elect preselected office-bearers from however, and Xu may be tempted to join with suits is said to have come about Ace of Spades in a pack of playing cards as a taunt against the Vietnamese by a sardonic nod to the previously RepsElect (short for “representatives of the gates of the He presidency. autonomous SRC collectives, such as the the right bloc if they offered her the role around the 14th century as a “Saracen’s was required to display the insignia of a leaving the card on a fallen Vietnamese mentioned stereotype that swingers are elect”) is the first meeting of the At this point two rounds of Wom*n’s Collective. of Vice-President, which now includes a game” The Latin suits, which came to be member of a noble house, and later the soldier, giving birth to the notion that lacking in romantic attraction. freshly elected SRC council, where negotiations have taken place: one pre- tidy $13K stipend as of this year. the modern French suits, were based on a logo of the manufacturer. the Ace of Spades was the card of death. Ultimately, the history of the spade new councillors will vote for different election, and a second round following Moving right on The Right bloc received far less mixture of currencies (Cups and Coins), As the French suits cemented Darker yet is the use of the Ace of is a complex and unique one. While people to hold office-bearer positions, the council announcement. At the councillor positions than they would and weaponry which represented the themselves into modern society as a Spades as an insult or slur In the 20th other notable symbols such as the in the 92nd SRC administration. It time of writing, it looks like the ‘Save Two other groups and their plans have hoped. Panda gained only nine nobility and the military (Clubs and pastime and industrialisation brought century piece “The American Language” radioactive symbol were carefully seems simple enough a process, but Our Union’ left bloc, who campaigned for the night remain unclear for the positions, and Boost gained four. With Swords). The suit of swords then came playing cards to working class bars, so too by H. L. Mencken, a ‘spade’ is considered designed in controlled laboratories to this meeting is infamous for generating together throughout the election in moment. While Labor Right (Unite) Colleges for SRC almost certainly set to to be represented in the German- did the popularity and notoriety of the a slur for African-American peoples, be contextless, the spade stems from a considerable amount of drama and support of Liam Donohoe, will work worked with the Save Our Union group support the right, that bloc look to hold speaking world during the 15th century suits. In particular, the aforementioned and eventually the slur “black as the ace a history of nobility, war, and racism anguish. Indeed, from 2015 onwards, together in RepsSelect to consolidate a throughout the campaign, rumour has 14 positions. as Shields, and in the French-speaking Ace of Spades was unique — the only of spades” became racist slang used to that has embroiled it in a hotbed of RepSelect has been reported on by the left-wing majority on council. it that positions on the National Union Whether Cupcake will support the world as Pikes, also known as Spades. card which had a special print, not by refer to peoples of darker complexions, contextual meaning. mainstream press for incidents ranging If this is done, a simple majority of Of Students (NUS) positions offered left is yet to be seen. Should Unity defect from, inter alia, the cutting of power 18 out of the 35 available seats is easily by the right bloc, may lead Unity to and Cupcake turn to the right, the left switches, Liberals adopting non-binary achievable and will give the bloc control sway towards the right. This year, three bloc will lose their majority. The Right, identities in an attempt to overcome over all paid positions, at least 3 out members of the Boost campaign have in turn could create a “minority bloc” Dear yuppies, you can keep Kings Cross affirmative action requirements, and the of 5 General Executives and at least been elected as NUS candidates. gaining them access to at least half of pulling of fire alarms, all with the view half of the minor OB positions. ‘Save Unity headkickers have no doubt the minor OB positions and up to two Robbie Mason cautiously celebrates Sydney's re-opening, but remains skeptical for the future of its underground scenes. of stopping votes from going in certain our Union’ – made up of Grassroots, been in discussion with Boost over the general executive positions. directions. Switch, National Labor Students (Pump), last couple of weeks, and, if the Sydney None of these things are set is stone Lockout laws lost Sydney an estimated regional NSW. Sydney Open (KSO), this proposal would In this context, Berejiklian’s While so much makes it easy to Socialist Alternative (Left Action), and University Arts Society AGM is anything – in fact, probably by the time you’re $16 billion. Many friends and creatives When you have over 200 people have seen live music venues, cafes, artist statement is little more than a hollow trivialise and dismiss RepsElect for the Advance (Pro-Team) – make up a total to go by, it appears Unite and Boost have reading this in the paper, half of this have packed up and left Sydney without dancing at 4AM to Thick Owens mixing studios, offices and small bars enter plea for redemption and an opportunity shitshow it inevitably devolves into, number of 17 councillor spots, one shy forged the way for a lasting deal-based information will have evolved. a plan or have eagerly seized job breakbeat hardcore, donk and more, the surrounds of Sydenham Station. for our current state government to rest opportunities interstate because Sydney alongside intriguing art installations by This would have caused gentrification, on their laurels. no longer holds any value to them. local students, you know there is little regulation, the removal of blue collar Secondly, beyond the immense time So why, when Gladys Berejiklian reason to reclaim Sydney’s empty clubs. industry and the displacement of an it will take to restore Sydney’s cultural announced the “relaxing” of lockout laws, There is a fundamental disconnect already vibrant, creative community, vibrancy, there is also awareness in the was I still sceptical of the widespread, between governments, large venue which has long used this area for live rave scene that there are much bigger celebratory posts on social media about owners and grassroots, community music and art production. problems than mere lockout laws. the scrapping of the lockout laws? efforts to sustain Sydney’s cultural The subcultures that have embraced Currently, the rave community Despite the blundering policy life precisely because these grassroots alternative event spaces – especially prioritises cross-cultural decisions of government, musical and efforts utilise spaces without health the punk rock, rave and experimental solidarity, diversity in line-ups and artistic innovation has thrived within and safety regulations, liquor licences, art scenes – will continue to prop up acknowledgments that we party on Sydney’s DIY, underground scene thanks security personnel, and always without Sydney’s cultural life until there is more stolen land (I can’t speak for the crews to certain, attentive workers on the major incidents. meaningful financial injection into the who have recently commercialised and production line — kids like you or me in While Justin Hemmes may lament arts in NSW. But this economic model is tried to imitate truly boundary-pushing, their early twenties— who collectively, the irreversible death of Kings Cross, the fundamentally unsustainable. I’ve seen not-for-profit raves). This is by no means organically and almost single-handedly suburb’s continued suffocation has little friends lose thousands of dollars on a universal trait. No scene is perfect. ensured that operations never ceased impact on Sydney’s rapidly diversifying events; others barely breaking even. But I genuinely believe that those at entirely. and resilient music scenes, which have The timing of Berejikilian’s the heart of this scene actively promote This is especially true in the looked beyond the inner city. announcement is therefore welcome. We these values. electronic music scene – a vulnerable Urban planners and private need licenced venues to take the heat off While KSO has advocated for a much community hit hard by the introduction developers reduce human experience our own scene. But a cause of unbridled needed after-dark economy, progressive of the Liquor Amendment Act (2014). to maps and models. By applying celebration? No. voices have criticised them for having Despite coming close, Sydney hasn’t standardised scientific laws to neglected Firstly, the repealing of the lockout too narrow a political gambit, and for died — you just have to know where spaces, industrial decay and empty laws alone is nowhere near enough to being too silent on the political issues to look. Despite dwindling attendee land ripe for development, in the name restore Sydney’s aboveground nightlife. facing rural NSW and Indigenous numbers and financial difficulties, the of urban renewal, they fail to hear the While the Victorian government has Australia. At the same time, Sydney rave lockout laws have ironically instilled in relentless bass thud that shakes the pledged $27 million to the music promoters were often donating profits to Sydney’s young, creative population a walls of a dilapidated warehouse or industry over a four year period, the FIRE (Fighting in Resistance Equally), resilience and DIY spirit now unrivalled rips apart the stale air and dust under NSW government in 2017-18 dedicated who have provided invaluable assistance within Australia. Bunker raves and a motorway. They never feel the sweaty only $1,095,805 to contemporary music. in the NSW water crisis. warehouse parties are a key part of this limbs pressed against them on the A representative of Sounds Australia KSO was never a unanimous voice resistance. dancefloor. They never taste the bitter told members of the NSW Government for Sydney’s creative community and If I’m not fazed by Berejiklian’s flavour of a warehouse swaying with inquiry into the state’s music and arts grassroots activism. Nor, in fact, was announcement, it’s because Sydney’s indoor smokers. economy that Victoria is “investing 10 the CBD or Kings Cross a unanimous more “legitimate” music venues haven’t Take present-day Sydenham. After times as much funding in a quarter the battleground. interested me for years. While Oxford five years of work, the plans of the Inner amount of time” and “they are supporting The repeal of the lock-out laws are Underground and Club 77 struggle West Council to create the “Sydenham 567 per cent more artists and 900 per a step forward but one that must be to sustain a dancefloor, Sydneysiders Creative Hub” fell at the last hurdle, cent more music businesses towards followed by many, many more steps that regularly pack out warehouse voted down by Greens, Liberals and export success than New South Wales cross racial, class and geographic divides institutions across Sydney and doofs in Independents. Supported by Keep currently is.” in Sydney. 8 9 MULTILINGUAL PERSPECTIVE

读李安，看人情冷暖 by Lindsay Rui Finding equilibrium between numbers and words 今年《小丑》爆冷威尼斯影节金狮奖， 最近还补看了《饮食男女》，从断 坞创作文学改编剧情片《理智与情感》 杀。李安这次不再着眼于一个人个体与 Rameen Hayat seeks comfort in STEAM. 随后引炸院线；王子逸的《别告诉她》 背山的世外桃源，一下被拉回台湾市井 ；2000年拍武侠《藏龙卧虎》；2003年 外界亲人、爱人、社会的连结，而是把 The first learning experience I can There are one thousand and one ways Stories are told so differently in own. 低调上映，但一个动情的移民家庭故事 的烟火气里。镜头前的家庭及其普通， 拍超级英雄《绿巨人浩克》；2012年的 镜头转向自身，试图让观众对自己做一 completely remember is sitting with to solve a problem, yet at the end of the many portions of the world, whether As the educational and professional 也收获极好的口碑；阿里·艾斯特继《 但在平凡之下导演又极细致地刻画出了 《少年派》用了当时还未普及的3D和 个剖析，开启一段自己与自己的对话。 my dad at the kitchen table as he taught day there is one right answer. The back they are written, visual or told through spheres scramble to find answers to the 遗传厄运》之后推出第二部恐怖片作 中国家庭、爱情、社会里的复杂与戏 CG；2016年的《比利·林恩》初试每 “如果你有机会回到过去遇见十年前 me how to add. He had primal migrant and forth between the complex and the movement. For my family, it’s oral ‘diversity problem’ in STEM, and as I try 品，把宗教、惊悚与小清新杂糅成一部 剧——老父亲每周亲自下厨摆一桌丰盛 秒120帧。而在今年的《双子杀手》， 的自己，你会对年轻的自己说什么、做 parent instinct, something that would simple is beautiful. storytelling — how we learn about our to find meaning in my career to come, I 《仲夏夜惊魂》…… 在这样的十月院 菜肴，餐桌上的一家人却是各怀各的心 李安更是融合了120帧、3D、4K、CG 什么？”这便是《双子杀手》全片所提 make me fear him yet seek his approval *** past, our culture and our values. My look to STEAM — Science, Technology, 线，李安的新片《双子杀手》上映得几 事；女儿心疼父亲年迈体弱疾病缠身， 这一系列当下电影行业所拥有的最新科 出的问题。这是一个假想题，对这样的 at the same time. So my brothers and The way my parents taught me the mother who silently observed as my dad Engineering, Arts, Mathematics. The 乎是悄无声息，没有大排场的宣传，没 关怀到了嘴边却又始终讲不出口；有 技，尽己所能在尝试和探寻一种当下尚 问题我们并不陌生，但往往我们会一笑 I learnt how to add at lightning fast English language was through books. taught us, used to be an urdu teacher. She experts say the idea is that we can 有大数量的排片，安静得不像是一部奥 些人深陷爱恋，却一次次站在朋友的关 未存在的、新型的电影观感。 置之，因为，毕竟只是个假象。但当一 speed and how to multiply with military The idea was that if I managed to read says that urdu is the poet’s language, one use creativity in the problem-solving 斯卡最佳导演的作品。 系上欲言又止；另外一些人渴求坦然与 也因此不少评论把李安称作一位“开 部影片用两个小时不断向我重复这个问 precision, shedding one too many tears enough books that I enjoyed, I would that carries itself with grace, softness and process, and vice versa. 那么这个李安与科幻的组合，究竟 诚恳，却又不由自主地在言语间玩起把 拓者”，影评人把他放在当下“传统电影” 题，不断地推着我去想出一个答案时， in the process. For the outsider, it sounds figure it out myself. My dad used to respect. A language that is melodious While I’ve found comfort amongst 是否值得起一张电影票？ 戏与谎言……虽说只是日复一日的饮、 与未来“数字电影”的交叉路口，比拟上 我不禁开始觉得，或许这个问题并不是 like a tale of childhood trauma. For work across from a bookstore. He would and powerful at the same time. While equations, sometimes there is still 一直以来，我从未想过把李安和科 食、男、女，其中却充斥千百个解不开 世纪三十年代默片到有声的飞跃，期待 一笑置之这么简单了。穿越时空回到十 me, it’s a shared experience I’ll always observe the frenzy of children and pick my dad gave me books and maths, my loneliness. You are constantly craving 幻放在一起。我钟情李安早期九十年代 的矛盾与死结，爱情对抗着自私，真心 能见证他带起一轮新的电影革新。 年对话自己是一个假设，但如果把这个 cherish. up whatever book was popular for mother gave me bedside stories and to be part of something bigger: a 的作品，那些影片的感觉很暖、有爱、 在和欲望博弈。 “百年前声音打破了默片所特有的梦 假设拉回当下，如何与自己相处、如何 For parents like ours, the language of the month and bring it home, a steady hymns. When she talks, words become community and purpose. For me, the 像家。就像是在一个冷冬里，我回到自 就像李安自己所说：“我始终是一 幻质感，这和当下李安的120帧对观众 与自己对话，如何理解自己，如何宽容 numbers was one that both generations stream of words for an eager kid to less daunting and more familiar, as the A — Arts — is an opportunity for 己得小房间，懒懒地坐在沙发里，手边 个‘人’，对于‘人’的情感与表达，我始终 的冲击其实别无二致。” 自己，这是一连串非常现实的问题。 understood — it was the one thing they consume — from Harry Potter to Inkheart softness of her voice embraces us with meaningful representation and personal 捧起一杯热可可，周围是我最亲爱的朋 保有着一颗好奇心。” 但类型、题材、科技说到底都只是 都说人是群居，我们花好多的时间 could proudly pass onto us, and it could to Clair De Lune. Books have a special warmth. Although I haven’t inherited my reflections on the changing world. It 友或家人。屋外很冷，但屋里轻微的暖 这些大概就是我印象中的李安式影 媒介，是一种表达内容的手段。即便《 从自身的视角看向外界，我们用尽力气 never get lost in translation. This soon place for sheltered ethnic girls; its this mother’s soft-spoken elegance, I’ve learnt has ranged from utilising poetry to 气和橘色的落地灯把整个房间衬得很 片，他讲亲情，讲恋情，讲一个人与一 双子杀手》是一个已经在好莱坞漂流了 去交流、去融入、去善待周围形形色色 evolved into this idea that, well, numbers absolute escapism where you transpose of the power of the voice in speaking exploring what it means to be human, to 暖。这种来之不易的温暖与满足感，便 个人之间，最普遍但又最讲不清道不明 二十年的老剧本，李安还是拍出了一些 的人群。但在这样的过程中，我们是否 don’t discriminate. Regardless of where yourself into imagined realities, those one’s truth and sharing it unashamedly talking to girls who look like me about 是我脑海中对李安式电影的记忆。 的情感与连结。而且他讲得温柔，就像 他所坚持的“‘人‘的情感与表达“。 还能记得将视角转回给自己，给自己留 you came from and how the world saw that not even the television screen can with others. the wonderment the world has to bring. 我怀念《断背山》，虽然已经是两 一位老父亲坐在床头给你讲睡前故事， 《双子杀手》展现了一个自己与自 些时间，与自己重新连结？还是说，群 you, as long as you could solve a problem, imagine. It was cool to be Igraine The *** As a person still trying to figure out my 年前看的影片，但依旧能回想起来那 他阐述故事里细碎的情感、可能并不深 己的克隆体相遇的故事，已入中年的精 居久了，我们已经忘了？ you would be okay. Brave, a 12-year-old girl defending her The idea of left brain/right brain place, it’s seeing women of colour pave 份山谷中的清新与寂静。连绵起伏的翠 刻的寓意，但他不去苛责、不去呼吁、 英杀手Henry面临着来自20岁自己的追 I’ve always found a sense of castle from siege. dominance, one or the other, persists to the way and telling myself it’s possible to 绿，毛茸茸的白色羊群，泛着寒意的黎 不讲太多道理，他丝毫不强求读者此时 familiarity and comfort in STEM. For Even then, it’s always been an escape this day. I’ve tried to commit to one side ‘make it’. 明，倚着篝火取暖的深夜……在这世外 此刻就去理解或改变。 some, it’s incomprehensible — but I’ve — it’s never really been my story on but find myself writing poetry when I’m In a way, there is equilibrium to be 桃源般的断背山上，有着Ennis和Jack 抱着这样的印象，其实我心底里并 always enjoyed the combination of my own terms. To this day, the English sick of numbers, and wishing I had an found in STEAM. Amongst the barrage 让人心碎到透的爱情故事。当看到最后 不希望李安去做一部科幻题材——一个 wonder and finality in it. Patterns can language is something that still daunts engineering problem to solve when I’m of voices in the 24-hour news cycles, it’s 一幕Ennis打开衣橱，将自己的格子衫 略显冰冷硬核的类型。 form without you creating them, because me. I can never truly be confident in knee-deep in readings. So far, I’ve used a way for me to find comfort in fact. As 搭在Jack牛仔服的外面，旁边贴着的是 但如果抛开个人偏好，纵观李安在 they simply exist and are waiting to be what I have to say and how I say it. I’m one to be a reprieve for the other. As I the planet deteriorates, it’s a way for me 两个人记忆中的断背山，我无比心痛惋 电影行业的30年，我们其实能看到他在 found — whether it be the rings of a not sure if I’ll ever learn to command it near the end of my studies, I’m trying to stay a hopeful idealist and believe that 惜，但又无比感动，我也缩在自己的小 类型、题材、技术上的一次次革新。 tree trunk delivering history, or the on my own, but maybe if I do it on my to learn how I can take the best parts of humans will eventually pull through 房间里，无意识地跟着影片一起安安静 他在1993年已经开始在《喜宴》中探讨 perfect symmetry of a simple snowflake. own terms I can. my mum and dad and turn them into my despite all odds. 静地流泪。 同性于中国的意义；1995年踏足好莱 Reading Ang Lee, No more ‘Harry Potter’ ice breaking games

Art by Ludmilla Nunell Liangyu Sun thinks the University could be doing more to facilitate cultural awareness in tutorials. reading love and warmth “Which house do you want to go if you and PhD candidate who prefers to be Asian international students. Inside the to tutors before their first class about were in Hogwarts?” I was asked this anonymous, also recalled that one of classroom, some lecturers are concerned facilitating a culturally aware learning Lindsay Rui probes Ang Lee’s latest creation. question in an ice breaking game in his colleagues “got into trouble” for not that tensions between ‘pro-Beijing’ and environment. my first semester at uni. “Glenffindor?” being well aware of the different needs ‘pro-Hong Kong’ students may become “When I stood outside the door While Joker has gone wild in cinemas romance, in society, revealing how these make a sci-fi film likeGemini Man work? Lee’s Gemini Man pushes me to I said to the partner I was assigned to. of students. In a role playing game in disruptive while the negative portrait of before I stepped into my first tutorial this month, another film released on 10th nuances are rooted in broader Chinese During the past 30 years, Lee has consider another form of connection, “Gryffindor? I love it as well.” I hoped an introductory international relations Chinese international students as ‘spies’ class, I completely didn’t know what was October went unnoticed. culture. The father cooks great food for created a highly diverse filmography not between lovers or family, but that the tutor would not ask “why?”, or class, the tutor (his colleague) deliberately in the mainstream newspapers and going on,” Ben said in the focus group. Not many people are talking about his three daughters, but ends up having across numerous genres. He mastered of unconscious connection between me people would figure out that I had only assigned Chinese international students documentaries has profoundly alienated The true culprit is the University. The Gemini Man, others have brushed it off, arguments with them during every rom-com with The Wedding Banquet and myself in the eternal dualities of our watched the first movie, at the age of 7, the role of China in a model United this group of students. However, on sad fact is, the University doesn’t have any pointing to the cringey pun on the movie single meal; the daughter worries about in Taiwan, adapted seminal writing personalities, divided by time or actions. in Chinese. In other words, I had no Nations activity, whereas domestic some occasions, tutors and lecturers interest in promoting cultural awareness poster: “Who will save you from yourself.” the father’s poor health, but does not in Sense and Sensibility for Hollywood, Gemini Man tells a story about an idea what it was all about. However, students were put into the roles of the automatically seek the most convenient on campus, despite earning hundreds of I don’t disagree with them. Guns, fire, have the courage to offer help and care; produced superhero movie The Hulk assassin hunted by a younger version when I was asked the same question ‘U.S’ and ‘Australia.’ What was supposed way to deal with the dispute — that is, thousands of dollars from international blue & red, and Will Smith — a typical One falls in love, but hides the feelings with Marvel, and with Gemini Man this of himself, or in other words, his clone. for a second time in another tutorial ice to be a fun activity then descended into a avoid discussion on ‘politically sensitive’ students every year. In 2018, the sci-fi genre film. But there is one line in deep in their heart; the other values year, he entered the sci-fi arena for the The film asks one question throughout: breaking game, I knew this ‘Harry Potter battlefield of nationalism from both sides, topics or narrate class discussion in a University made the consent education the poster which surprises me: “An Ang honesty, but plays around with tricks first time. “what you are going to say, what would ice breaker’ was no coincidence. exposing rifts in identity and ideology way favourable to one stance but not online program ‘Consent Matters’ a Lee Film.” and lies. Lee’s films are filled with these Some critics have seen Lee as you do to connect to yourself, if you have The problem is not Harry Potter. The in the class. However, the tension could the other. Prof. Wanning Sun, from compulsory part of study for every I realise I have never put sci-fi and intricate paradoxes, building love against an “explorer” in film technology. To the chance to go back ten years?” problem is that tutors presume Harry have been easily solved with just small the UTS Department of Media and newly enrolled student to address the Taiwanese film craftsman Ang Lee selfishness, desire against affection. produce Gemini Man, he adopts 120 We are familiar with this question. Potter to be a cultural prerequisite for adjustments — in Ben’s class, he tried Communication, who has written on problem of sexual harassment and sexual together before. These are the memories associated frames per second with 4K resolution It is commonly asked, but not treated everyone in the tutorial room. While to make Chinese international students this issue, said that she believes avoiding violence, proving that it at least has the When I think about Lee’s films, I feel with Lee’s films. He tells stories between and computer generated imagery, the seriously because it is a hypothesis. It is USyd promotes itself as a multicultural play the U.S and Australia, and domestic ‘sensitive’ topics for the sake of managing capacity to implement such a program warmth, love and the air of home. These families, between lovers, between basic most advanced technologies in the film an impossibility. It is not real. and global campus, and over one quarter students play ‘China.’ This helped the difference and maintaining order is not for other issues. However, in terms of intuitive feelings seem to have nothing encounters amongst human beings. In industry today. Lee is at the junction But by spending two hours watching of its students come from overseas, it’s class understand why people think the necessarily the best approach. Instead, if cultural awareness, the University seems to do with sci-fi. an interview, he said, “I’m a human being. between the “traditional cinema” of now Will Smith struggling to deal with his disappointing to know the tutors are not way they do, and how this is shaped by tutors and lecturers facilitate discussions to have the strategy of ‘better say than I love Brokeback Mountain. Even I’m curious about human conditions and and the “digital cinema” in the future. relationship with his clone in the film, fully culturally aware of the people they the cultures they were raised in. properly, these ‘politically sensitive’ do.’ Each year, the Vice Chancellor makes though it has been two years since I expressions.” He is seen as a figurehead, facilitating a Ang Lee asks viewers to reflect on their teach. moments can become opportunities a statement on why cultural diversity watched it, I remember the beautiful Lee’s films are quite relatable to new round of revolution in the industry experiences with self, more deeply than Why a cultural awareness program? whereby critical analytical skills can matters to USyd after mainstream green of the hills, and the chill blue of students. Imagine finishing a big day of by experimenting with the possibility of is comfortable. The classroom beyond ‘Harry Potter’ be taught and mutual understanding newspapers negatively portray Chinese dawn. It is fresh and quiet. And there is uni, returning home, laying on the couch new film technology. Going back 10 years in the past may Whether we’re local or international, we between students fostered. international students, but what tangible a sweet but heartbreaking story between with a cup of hot chocolate with family Indiewire has compared Lee’s Gemini be a hypothesis, but if I give this idea a Two weeks ago, three other people, all come to university with an implicit policies have come out of it? Ennis and Jack. When I witness Ennis or friends. The weather is cold outside, Man to the leap from silence to sound more realistic context, that of my own, it including one social science expectation of exchanging perspectives From ‘Consent Matters’ to ‘Culture Matters’? ‘Culture Matters’ matters. Under stick a photo of Brokeback Mountain but the mild orange light makes the cinema in the 1930s. “Sound killed the becomes a question that deserves to be undergraduate, one tutor and one and making friends with people from the current circumstances, promoting inside his wardrobe, and put his shirt room feel warm and cozy. dreamlike quality of silent filmmaking, thought through. professor, participated in a focus group different cultural backgrounds and Tutors and lecturers are not all to blame a classroom that everyone can over Jack’s, my little room is filled with Lee’s early films are like bedtime not dissimilar to the way Lee’s 120 FPS We make so much effort to interact on International students’ English ability, communities. However, despite the for the problem. Tutors are all on casual contribute to is crucial to dismantle tears at midnight. stories told by an old father, subtle and can feel to a modern audience.” and connect with all the people around but soon the discussion became focused number of international students growing, contracts, with most of them being the invisible barrier between domestic I enjoy Eat Drink Man Woman as well. gentle. I can feel the story, I can feel the But in light of all that, Lee has us. But what about ourselves? on problems of cultural awareness on the campus is becoming more split up. PhD candidates. Some are even normal and international students. Only then Lee puts an ordinary Taiwan family in meaning, but I do not think he is trying maintained consistency in his craft Do we know the path to walk back campus. Outside the classroom, there has undergraduate or postgraduate students. can we understand each other through front of the camera, capturing the gentle to lecture me. through an adherence to “human and connect to ourselves, or have we The Harry Potter ice breaking game been racist graffiti on campus, followed In the Arts faculty, the University does communication and not fear. nuances of relationships in family, in Does this mean that Lee cannot conditions and expressions.” forgotten? is not an isolated case. Ben*, a tutor by verbal and physical harassment of not offer any kind of official ‘training’ *Name has been anonymised. 10 11 Hostile architecture: A city consumed

Words and photography by Anh Nguyen

t some bus stops around Sydney, you don’t sit — you lean. Other examples include plants in sheltered spaces, blockades placed on building My friend Lily and I were waiting for a bus at Railway Square. corners that would otherwise shield from wind (check out the Sports & Aquatic prioritisation of corporate interests by government elites. ASurrounding us were bodies — heavy and tired, stained in sleep. Some Centre), the round terror blocks on Eastern Avenue, and the metal skate stoppers In 2014, when anti-homelessness spikes in London were facing a series of intense with a coffee in hand, some on their phones. But most of all, they were all on their all over the handrails of ABS. contestations from the public, Boris Johnson’s first remarks when questioned about feet, either leaning or standing. We ourselves were crouched atop the glacial metal Walk out further into the city, and you’ll see benches with metal handrails them was that “they were not a good look.” bars and transparent glass that made a temporary shelter for the bus stop. Hardly placed in the middle. Though varying in intensity, these seat designs are masters If these are the first reactions of politicians to the effects of hostile architecture, comfortable. It was morning and we were all tired — but nobody was sitting. of their craft in preventing bodies from lying down, as well as stopping the path of what does it tell us about the rights of homeless people versus the maintenance of a It was then that I realised I had seen this all before. Around the platforms skateboarders. city’s aesthetics and globalising processes? These examples are a sombre indication at Town Hall and Central Station, if you don’t manage to snatch one of the few There are also other commonplace architectural features in our cities that of homelessness’s low position on the hierarchy of socio-political importance — benches, you are then left to either stand or to lean on one of those strange, lifeless double as more subtle forms of environmental social control. Ultraviolet lights are something the implementation of hostile architecture has been informing us of all wooden bars — awkwardly situated a bit too close to the approaching form of installed in public toilets to forfend intravenous drug users, CCTV cameras are along. transport. They were practically useless, as well as uncomfortable. Much like the scattered through urban centres, and most recently, blue LED lights for suicide bars that Lily and I were slanting our bodies over at that very moment. prevention at train stations in Tokyo. Why would anybody design something so useless? I posed this question aloud, However, what categorises these designs as ‘hostile’ is that their function is to If not here then where? when Lily’s response made me realise that they were anything but. selectively and directly exclude an unwanted group. In the case of the designs seen “I think they are forms of defensive architecture,” she said to me. in Sydney, their most common purpose is to discourage rough sleeping and prevent s of late August 2019, Sydney’s temporary accommodation for the homeless Ever since, I haven’t stopped noticing them. the space from becoming a permanent shelter. In this city, the most significant has supposedly reached a ‘crisis point’. Data indicates that the number of ‘Hostile’ or ‘defensive’ architecture describes the design of various public unwanted group are the homeless. Apeople sleeping rough has dropped 9% compared to August 2018. Many structures that renders them unusable for certain purposes or groups. They are So how, then, does a city like Sydney become so hostile? How did our more beds are being used in crisis and temporary housing, increasing by 20% – designed in an inconspicuous way to prevent ‘undesired’ behaviours from being architecture come to express such an antagonistic attitude towards public displays A hostile neighbourhood is a safe one providing now just 38 beds short of capacity. seen in urban spaces. The top-ranking menaces are often seen as homelessness and of homelessness and poverty? To understand our current reality, we have to first Despite the decrease of rough sleepers being a positive sign of the successful pesky skateboarders. trace back to why such attitudes exist. ostile architecture also serves as a symbolic means of thwarting urban work of outreach teams, one cannot help but also draw a link between this and the The most prominent examples of hostile architecture are benches and seats that anxieties. Since the late 1970s, there has been a process of urban consolidation increase in discriminatory spaces in our city centres. Where makeshift housing is a are designed to be impractical for any purpose other than sitting. A walk around Hin Sydney — building up existing urban spaces rather than expanding to temporary solution to a systemic crisis, the implementation of hostile architecture USyd will expose you to an array of cases — ranging from benches with undulant The O in homeless stands for ‘Other’ new areas. Whilst there is still a push for jobs to be in more expedient locations, the in urban spaces can hardly be deemed as any solution at all. platforms around the Civil Engineering building, to those with protruding pegs process is slow — causing different populations to be simultaneously pulled away The structural exclusion of rough sleepers aims to simply displace them from next to the new Administration block. omelessness has had a long history of being a signifier of ‘Otherness’. from these locations and into the CBD. The State Government can therefore slow view instead of offering stable solutions to confront the issue systematically. The Those living this way have long been exposed to exclusion and disciplinary down the expansion of the city, and hence, reduce the costs of infrastructure. The focus is shifted away from the structural and systemic drivers of socio-economic Htreatment. Bearing this identity often means living in unpredictable, and result is a rising, culturally diverse population in a limited area. inequality, and redirected towards what are deemed as undesired behaviours at often unsafe, circumstances. The co-mingling of distinct social groups in a condensed area can create a cloud street-level. As observed by Dr James Petty from the University of Melbourne, The list of aims of the City of Sydney’s Homelessness Unit notes objectives to of anxiety. With diversity comes urban paranoia. People become concerned with there is “an ossification of surface over substance, clean appearance over informed “prevent people from becoming entrenched in homelessness in the inner-city” crime rates and, in turn, homelessness. When people don’t trust their neighbours, or effective policy.” and to “enact a compassionate and proactive approach to the management of defensive architecture can be used as a tool for easing these fears and regulating Data from the ABS 2016 census showed an increase in homelessness of 13.7% public space.” This points to a telling perception of displays of homelessness as the ‘Other’. in Australia, with NSW accounting for more than 73% of this national increase. It either a threatening or unwanted part of our urban spaces. As Sociologist Robert It is interesting to trace this history back to the roots of defensive urban design seems that hostile architecture and measures like the criminalisation of begging in Park wrote, “In making the city we make ourselves.” When our city is covered in itself. Evolving from Oscar Newman’s 1973 work Defensible Space, the philosophy Melbourne are ineffective ways by which we should be approaching the crisis that anxious, inhospitable objects that aim to displace people, what does it say about our of these forms of architecture is to be designed not only to prevent crime itself, pervades the people that makes up our cities. collective self-conception? but also the perception of crime. Here, hostile spaces serve more as a means to Regardless, there are potential solutions to provide hospitality to our most ease anxiety — creating a purchased, symbolic sense of safety in a concrete jungle vulnerable people. In Brisbane, a trial is being undertaken by the country’s largest replete with globalisation and discrimination. car park operator, Secure Parking, for a car park to be turned into a pop-up shelter Privatised spaces for paying people for the homeless. It’s been noted that if the trial goes to plan, the organisation hopes to expand the project out into Melbourne and Sydney within the next 12 months. he privatisation of space is another contributing factor to the preponderance The consequences of ignorance Though a good solution, it poses the question: why must private institutions of hostile architecture. In an increasingly privatised urban environment, provide these services when the provision of public housing should be the work of T‘security’ is perceived according to an idealised vision of which groups a city hen you’re designed against, you know it,” explains Ocean Howell, our governments? It is also a risk to entrust such a project to a private organisation should serve and contain. In Australia, the mass privatisation of traditional public a former professional skateboarder and assistant professor at the that also relies on corporate help, when corporations have such a large role in the spaces are as ubiquitous as ibises in bins. It wasn’t too long ago that the Sydney “WUniversity of Oregon. “Other people might not see it, but you will. displacement of homeless people in the first place. Opera House projected onto its sails a gargantuan, controversial advertisement for The message is clear: you are not a member of the public”. It’s like a game of ‘once you see it’. Once noticed, the effects of defensive urban Racing NSW. Dr Steven Flusty, who documented the commodification and rise of He’s right. The subtlety of many designs, along with our tendency to simply designs and the root causes become clear to you in chilling layers of inequity. I hostile spaces in Los Angeles, noted that the intrusion of corporations into urban accept our environment, have caused these spaces to become something that we can no longer see, nor appreciate, the aesthetics of the plants under the City environments helps create a new kind of public space, where access depends on a rarely notice in our everyday lives. It has also made defensive architecture a powerful Road footbridge in the same way. Nor am I able to sit on a public bench without person’s apparent ability to pay. In these spaces, exclusivity is needed to ensure that tool of urban control that has insidious ramifications for how we understand our acknowledging the privilege that I am granted in such spaces. But this is nothing nothing unpredictable disrupts the flow of capital. People are separated into groups community. compared to the insidious effects they have on a society’s most vulnerable people. of who can pay and who cannot. This is termed a process of “urban securitisation” 2017 saw the death of Tent City. The homeless encampment/community in When cities are constructed for the benefit of those who can adhere to an idealised where the definition of what constitutes a “potential threat” now extends to people Martin Place was forcibly removed, the reason being that they had left “unacceptable vision of an unblemished cityscape, the definition of urban diversity narrows, and who seemingly lack the capacity to buy. impacts on the public.” These “impacts” mostly involve making visible the systemic so does our sense of morality. Urban spaces are also increasingly constructed according to an idealised issue of homelessness and housing affordability that encumbered the idealised Hostile architecture not only points to the problem of structural discrimination public, in order to facilitate and encourage ‘proper’ identities and behaviours. A visions and aesthetics of the city. An interesting observation, though, is that just and systemic injustice, but also exposes the incidental complacency, ignorance and way of attracting ‘the right kind’ of people is to make them do ‘the right thing.’ months earlier, the NSW Government revealed designs for two new towers to be prejudice that hides beneath our social preconceptions and attitudes. Our cities Take the seats in Pitt Street Mall as an example. Instead of a long bench, they are built for the future Martin Place Metro Station. The new metro precinct will include need more inclusive spaces, and for those in power to directly address social tiny squares, separated with strange rests that seemingly turns one away from the an assemblage of shops, restaurants, and offices that expands its connection to inequalities rather than simply sweeping them out of sight. other. This makes it a strenuous task to even try to talk to the person next to you, Hunter, Elizabeth and Castlereagh Streets. Premier Gladys Berejiklian’s comments Urban dwellers need to resist the pleasantries of ignorance. At the end of the much less relax and stay there for some time. The purpose here is to push people on the project emphasised the city’s “truly global” capabilities and the fact that day, it is all about taking the first step. An acknowledgement that all spaces are not to congregate, but instead to shop. Those who are meant to be there are kept on “developments like this continue to elevate our status”. It is hard not to see the link equal, but some are more equal than others. Art by Annie Zhang their feet; those who aren’t are kept out altogether. in our city planning between the displacement of homelessness visibility and the Look around.

12 13 PERSPECTIVE PERSPECTIVE The making of creation myths Shania O’Brien muses on the process of creation. There are stories that predate our need me think of a frustrated artist drafting Elizabeth Gilbert talks about a woman that haunted them into creating art or to tell them. They exist as a whisper multiple versions of their art, unsure of who could feel her poems coming destroying it. A friend of mine, Sunaina, between thoughts, their shadows which one to move forward with. toward her in a thunderous train of air has multiple creation myths. She, too, Small Things: following creators until they are ready But what is the purpose of a creation that would shake the earth beneath her described the sensation as if it had to be brought into the world. Haitian- myth? To take nothing and turn it into feet. She would “miss” the poem if it agency, as if it forced her to tell stories. American novelist Edwidge Danticat something? To explain why and how wasn’t written down immediately, and It was similar to what I had experienced, On birds and compared them to creation myths, certain things come into being? Maybe the poem (or daemon) would move on to the incessant need for my magnum opus stating that these stories are not ones we we don’t always create these myths, but find another poet. to be out in the world. We didn’t know why I love them make up, but ones we already know. sometimes they create us. In Ancient I have characters I’ve been trying how, but there was something within In terms of the universe, there are Greece and Rome, creativity was a to write since I was fourteen. Their us that needed to be made, to be freed. many creation stories: abiogenesis where disembodied genius, a divine attendant narratives change often, but they remain She told me that it was different from life arises from the ground, Iroquois spirit from a distant and unknowable the same. An overpowered woman, an writing, like she’d be walking down the mythology where life falls from the sky, source. This spirit was called a daemon, army of one surrounded by a pale lilac street and see a certain shade of green Greek mythology where life emerges she had to have in the background of a from chaos. But what about the life that video she wanted to make. The first one Words and art by Amelia Mertha comes from within? The life that exists I often feel like my characters are she ever told me about always crosses as a half-formed thought, fighting its on loan to me from creation gods. my mind. There’s a melody she’s always way into being? known, chords that communicated Based on my research, the most and was thought to be the cause of all glow, who never has to fear for her yearning and introspection, vocals that creatio ex common story of creation is human creation. The paranormal nature safety or answer to anyone. An angry relayed anxious inhibition. Attempting Superb fairy wrens made their springtime nest in our orange tree this year. Australian Pelican is femme. The jury may still be out on the ibis. Though, nihilo — creation out of nothing. The of this concept is one with which I girl with glowing eyes and demon claws to recreate it was never practical. The Blue flashes through our lounge room window when the male wren soaks neither @butchbirds or @femmebirds pretend that their two categories first things that come into existence are resonate, because I often feel like my and vengeance coursing through her. A baggage that came with wanting every and shimmies in the bird bath right outside. Mum sends me outside to have any hard and fast rules when it comes to birds. The brilliance of these often the ocean and the sky — the vastest characters are on loan to me from boy who can bend reality if he obsesses little detail to be perfect was not easily shoo away a predatory Pied currawong that has sent the smaller birds — two accounts, in this era of memes, memos and mood-boards, is their things that humans were aware of. creation gods, only made available when about it too much, who lives in fear of the discarded. the wrens, finches and a Willy Wag-tail — into a panic. “They’ve taken eggs archive of an unabashed beauty of small things. Creation stories reflect writing traditions I’m desperate. It is quite humbling to things he’s afraid of coming to life. Now The wonderful thing about creation before,” she warns. Brown and gangly, I make a good scarecrow. Any account I make about ‘small things’ can be owed to Arundhati of the time, as well as ideals and norms believe that the most remarkable aspects that I know they form my creation myth, myths is the possibility of a new one to Earlier in the year, we were visited several times by two adult Magpies. Roy’s novel The God of Small Things. Roy’s novel operates within an economy that already existed. In the Popol Vuh, of my being came from somewhere I see glimpses of them in my childhood, emerge. It doesn’t have to be the start of One had a deformed, but still functional, foot – I called her Ajani. The other, of magical realism and it is the laws of nature — of lush utopias and in- creation was spoken into existence. In outside of me. character traits sprinkled into imaginary the physical universe, it could be a world Zoya, liked to announce their arrival through chortled song, stretching neck between states — that manifest as magical realism’s political language. Not daemons Hinduism, the world is created over and Building on , I believe it is friends and nonsensical daydreams. beginning entirely for myself. The myth and beak to the light dappled leaves of our blueberry ash tree. We fed both all birds are small, I concede, but, unless one really pays attention, they over again in period cycles that give birth possible to catch a story. In a TED talk on I wanted to know if other people is only the origin — what comes after is of them small amounts of cheese and fruit. This gesture seemed to pay off take up a small part of the quotidian. How many pigeons, seagulls, ibises or to innumerable universes. This makes “Your Elusive Creative Genius,” author had similar experiences, obsessions entirely up to me. when, on their fourth or fifth visit, they brought their juvenile with them. magpies are really being noticed when they aren’t shitting on us, swooping, Magpies are generally quite curious, and very intelligent, but juveniles also or eating our trash? tend to be more trusting of humans. When I sat in the middle of the yard, The narrative in The God of Small Things does not entertain Crohn’s, uncertainty and comfort it hopped into my lap. I was softened and named it Penguin. It waddled extraordinariness or sublimity, nothing and no one is larger than life but Pranay Jha reflects on the paradoxes of growing up with a chronic illness. quickly around the yard, inspecting every corner like a small, inquisitive small witching hours, small lives, can “affect the outcome of whole lifetimes child assembling treasure. … [l]ittle events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Imbued with after, asking him what it was like in the more I’m troubled by a persisting sense On the website magpiealert.com, anyone can add a record to the map of new meaning.” A witching hour feels like waking up from a mid-afternoon early stages when my Crohn’s symptoms of uncertainty. magpie swoops across Australia throughout the year. Swoops that resulted fever nap to the rare sight of a goshawk outside. It feels like the familiar were at their worst. The pain hasn’t quite My experience of suffering from in an injury are marked by a red icon, the rest are road-sign yellow. Users call of a masked plover flying overhead late at night standing in an inner left his voice as he recalls his fear and a chronic illness is undeniably made can add their own comments about the nature of the swoop too. A recent Sydney street that yawns into an unfamiliar darkness. despair over the horror stories he had easier by class privilege. Unlike many recount from North Parramatta notes, “swooped 4 times, very gentle taps Digital archiving is a way of tending to my own queer feelings; I read on the internet. My mother later people around the world, I’m fortunate on the top of helmet.” Another person, in Earlwood, was “swooped and screenshot messages from lovers and crushes, map date spots, make tells me that although he couldn’t quite to have family support as well as access injured while running.” In early September, a magpie in Bella Vista was playlists on Spotify. I have tried to do the same with bird encounters — articulate it at the time, it was incredibly to proximate and affordable healthcare. shot dead by The Hills Shire Council after local residents lodged over 40 record bird sounds, bookmark links detailing unfamiliar species. I once emotionally difficult for him. Unfortunately, though, the fears and complaints about its exceptionally aggressive, territorial behaviour along watched a documentary about the great hornbill, the state bird of Kerala (in To hear my parents recount that anxieties of chronic illness remain Old Windsor Road. One person was reported to have had a heart attack, which The God of Small Things is set). The hornbill has a horned structure period is a little disorienting. As a enduring. Each small instance of pain mid-magpie attack. Magpies mate for life, and somewhere in Greater on its bill called a casque, which I found so impressive that I was compelled child, I had very little appreciation for or mild sickness brings with it a sense Western Sydney, a magpie is surely wondering where its mate went. What to rank my favourite birds in my notes app. The hornbill came in at number the magnitude of what I was going of panic that I may be falling out of now remains of the “Windsor Road Monster” is just a cluster of records on 7, the kookaburra in first place. Somewhere else in my notes app, I have through. I was certainly in a lot of remission. Any thought of the future magpiealert.com that mark where it once called home. typed “3:22am - birds” during an acid trip I took on a mild Boston night. Art by Ellie Zheng pain, but as a child, that pain seemed inherently involves a contingency for my While bird watching (also known as ‘twitching,’ or ‘birding’) is To me, the archival space of Magpie Alert is not entirely dissimilar transient. It never caused me to dwell symptoms worsening. In stark contrast traditionally an analogue practice, and hobbyists are generally white and from the mapped structure of a Canadian-based website called Queering too seriously or attach any sense of to my childhood, it’s incredibly difficult middle-to-upper-class, my experience of the digital archiving of birds and the Map. Users pin locations on a Google-sourced global map (like Magpie meaningful emotional disruption to to simply leave Crohn’s out of my mind. bird activity is strangely similar to, if not intertwined, with some of the Alert) then submit “queer moments” attached to that specific location. The my condition. For me, being unaware The uncertainty of chronic illness queer and so-called-radical digital spaces I have access to. ephemeral nature of some queer acts remind me of the brief swoop of a of what Crohn’s really was or its long- doesn’t confine itself to my physical @femmebirds is a US-based Instagram account that declares in its bird. For a single moment, another creature sees you and only you. The I have always considered my earliest allowed us to be emotionally uninhibited lasting consequences, my illness simply condition either. It means that I’m often bio that it is “anti-racist, trans/gnc celebratory, fat liberationist and body is self-aware, triumph or danger imminent. memories of suffering from Crohn’s around each other. One day shortly after meant a day off school every once in a left yearning for certainty in other intersectional feminist.” High definition photographs of gorgeously In The God of Small Things, Roy writes, “Ammu said that human beings Disease to be somewhat strange. Their my Crohn’s diagnosis, he came to my while. I have no memory of the tense aspects of my life. It makes me a little plumaged birds follow relatable, edifying captions. It is certainly a neat were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things they peculiarity does not arise from the room and sat on a chair opposite my discussions in the consultation rooms as guarded in social interactions, perhaps intersection of some of my interests. Some posts celebrate a femme icon could get used to.” In the same way I might see a dog on the street and specifics of what happened. In fact, bed. There was an unfamiliar tenderness each new treatment seemed to fail. I can’t in the hope that a stoic facade will or make a cheeky reference to romantic endeavours, others affirm fashion exclaim, “dog!”, once I developed an interest in birds, it became a habit to they mostly involve quotidian family about him, which at the time I couldn’t even recollect fragments of the debate allow the world to see that I haven’t let choices or the account’s left-wing politics (pun intended). Beneath a row of acknowledge their presence. Just ask my girlfriend, who has spent enough interactions that most people would entirely comprehend. After a few over whether parts of my intestine this disease get the best of me. In my six puff-chested green bee eaters, the captain stands in particular solidarity time with me waxing lyrical about birds to say she now thinks of me when easily forget. What perplexes me about lingering moments of silence, he asked should have been surgically removed. personal relationships, I am forced to with trans women in the US. They await a Supreme Court’s ruling over she sees a magpie. And why should we overlook the small things, why not them is how little they actually have me how I was feeling and if there was All that lives with me from that period seek reliability and comfort in ways that whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act (1964) protects employees from pay attention to the ecosystems around us? The climate is changing, you to do with the symptoms or physical anything I wanted. We exchanged a few are snippets of family interactions and many of my peers are not. discrimination based on sex and/or sexual orientation. can hear the droughts and floods in birdsong too. experience of Crohn’s itself. more words, he gave me a hug, and then a sense of frustration over the quality Ultimately, though, I’ve learned to In an older @femmebirds post, the caption “Yes, yellow eyeshadow is in This week, I read online that birds can see colours on the ultraviolet One of the memories which resonates gently walked out of my room. of toys in Sydney Children’s Hospital’s make my peace with the uncertainty. I this year, Becky. And fuck you, no, I did not overdo it,” refers to the yellow spectrum that our trichromat vision cannot. Birds know that they shimmer with me most is an interaction I had Eleven years later, while I’m visiting waiting area. As I have gotten older know that Crohn’s will be a permanent Pulcinella face of the masked plover in the accompanying photo. Masked in many more colours than humans have the language and capacity to with my father around the age of eleven. my parents on the weekend, I share this however, I have slowly been able to make fixture in my life. But so too will my plovers have notoriously protective and gutsy parenting techniques. This name, or to even imagine. Birds and love have that in common. And maybe I recall that until that point, like many memory with my mother, explaining more sense of my disease. I often see mother accompanying me to every is important when you’re a bird that evolved to lay eggs within anxious we could say the same about each other. In each of us shimmers a tiny children, I had maintained a respectful how odd it is that this is my first my specialist alone, make many of my infusion I have, or my father awkwardly proximity to human foot traffic on the ground. A plover chick, about the universe worth trying to see and know. sense of caution around him. We would, memory of Crohn’s. To my surprise, own bookings, and take an active role in (but nourishingly) checking in on me. I size of an apple, once played dead right in front of me. Hearing its parents’ This coming summer will likely be my last chance to look out into our of course, spend a lot of time together she begins to instantly tear up, looking monitoring my condition. Naturally, the know my closest friends will continue rapidfire kikiki-ing, the chick knew exactly what to do — close its eyes and backyard. I will leave the nest, my childhood home, next year. Goodbye to — he would keenly follow my sports away as she tells me I won’t understand. transition into adult treatment has been to support me and that my sister will collapse on the spot — barely a day into its life. Later, I watched it bounce the red-whiskered bulbuls whistling atop our TV antenna. Goodbye to the or answer the tedious questions I asked “When your child is suffering like that… empowering for me in many different crack a joke when I’m feeling down. For up a grassy knoll behind the adults, knowing it was safe. spotted doves, two lumps on our lawn. Goodbye to the honeyeaters and as he drove me to school. However, our it’s worse than anything you could go ways. Paradoxically though, the more I now, at least, that’s really all the certainty There is a @butchbirds account too. For those playing along, the Emu the figbirds. Goodbye to the magpies and the wrens in our orange tree. relationship was certainly not one which through.” I speak to my father shortly begin to understand Crohn’s disease, the I need. and Macaroni penguin are both, apparently, categorically butch while the Another morning song awaits.

14 15 Know CREATIVE er s B You are not your own h e st From mother to daughter ot I inherit crucifix Words: Shi Feng Art: Olivia Allanson after crucifix. M I met Jia on a Japanese gay dating app called other kids, their verbal bullying became Virgin Mary pierces her heart Nine Monsters. Like me, he was from China muted. Instead, they invited me to play with seven sorrows to bleed — a 21-years-old freshman at a university basketball with them. However, I turned the blood of the covenant, in Tokyo, Japan. I was in Japan for a gap year, them down. It was not easy to trust after spending the three years before in a biology someone who’d once said horrible words to you. mẹ weeps unceasingly at night, in the scent laboratory studying my masters degree. At that time, Years later, one guy in my class had a crush on of olive oil & balsam like Mystical Rose, we lived close to each other, in Jiyugaoka. “Jiyugaoka” me. His feelings scared him, so he made up stories but joy comes with the mornings, means “the hill of freedom”. It is a comfortable, about how I’d taken advantage of him sexually, but I middle-class area, with many stylish cafés located don’t think having lunch together in the cafeteria fits Ripeness and I dance resignedly between nearby. An oddity amongst Tokyo’s many suburbs, the definition of having sex in any culture. It was temptation & deliverance it felt more like Europe than it did Asia, with in the final year of my bachelor’s degree. He gave Poetry and art by Emma Cao for the sake of sorrowful passion, streetscapes inspired by Venice and Paris hidden me a lesson about homophobia. Some classmates amongst Japanese-style residential houses and treated me better like I was very fragile in this as these binding memories narrow roads. It was rainy when I went there in situation, but more classmates gazed upon me like I promise me that I am the spring of 2017. Locals were enjoying the falling was dangerous. Most students on both sides enjoyed only ever a part of, cherry blossoms, gently reflected in the puddles the juicy rumours. Vinasun 8:39pm and parts of. of water along the road they drifted into. The rain My parents also heard about the situation from was heavy for a while. Then it stopped. their friends. My parents’ friends had heard from Ask politely, taxi man He messaged asking to meet me in front of the their children who were also at my university. At that I’ll let you call me foreign. train station. I remembered the perfume he wore time, my parents went to the gym together after work. on that frosty afternoon ­— Acqua di Gio, the water My father didn’t know my mother had known about I’ll open my mouth wide & stretch out my tongue, of youth. my sexuality since high school, and he told her not to let calloused thumbs drag over pink gums I’ve forgotten how the conversation started. worry. The conversation occurred in a taxi on the way & sharp knuckles crack yellow teeth. Probably, we discussed the weather, then talked home. According to my mother, he said it was normal about the previous dates I’d had in China. I had met for two men to live together like a couple. He didn’t Non-native, overseas, different types of gay people during my time in China. use the term homosexuality. “But you knew your Taxi man reaches his arm down my throat And I had used different Chinese gay dating apps. “Yes, I went to a Chinese Kung-Fu school as a child.” father’s attitude on your sexuality,” my mother said. and tucks his verdict in my stomach. The last person I met before travelling abroad was an “Really? The training must be very tough.” international student from a Muslim family in Kenya. “My mum noticed I was a little bit different and sent * * * In the rear-view mirror there has always been two of us He spoke better English than me. Before him, I thought me there.” Two days after that first night date with Jia, we went to the known and the unknown cosmopolitan was just the title of a magazine. “So, you came out as gay to her?” a queer gift shop together in the Shinjuku Ni-Chome, riding along this temporary moment. My new friend in Japan said he didn’t have as much “No, I didn’t. My mother thought I’d become normal Tokyo’s famous gay quarter. It was a very short road experience as me and laughed. after physical training.” which people could easily miss while walking by. On We first went to a soup pasta shop called Conana. “I came out to my mother in high school,” I said. the outside wall was an advertising campaign poster Under the rays of the day’s waning light, the city was “I want a mother like yours,” he replied. celebrating same-sex love. The two of us stood in golden, and the road filled with people rushing to and front. about. There were no high-rise buildings in that area, * * * He didn’t mention anything about his father, but he A Sanctuary in Coming so my mind was distracted by the sunset. The sunset That was not the first time that I’d told my story. showed his mother’s photo to me on his phone screen. dyed the sky orange, then inked the clouds slowly like a My mother looks younger than she is. Although She stood with pride in the middle of several young and Going (Terminal 3) luminous watercolour. she had a boyfriend in college before she met my father, students at an academic conference.

After dinner, Jia suggested going back to my place. she believed her personality was more attractive than “My mother is tough. She is a professor at a In summer, mẹ likes this Raindrops fell into black night. We were walking her appearance. When she was in her mid-thirties, my university,” he said. place most. For her, there is a warmth under the yellow street light. Some bars were preparing mother stopped using any make-up or wearing any He showed me his student card. that cascades through sealed windows to open, and some shops were closing. accessories. She cut her hair short, which made her “Do you think my name is like a girl’s name?” he and solace in staring idly at white walls. He was quiet and walked swiftly. look younger than she is. asked.

I realised that he might want to see me only for a My mother knows how to enjoy life. Some of her Then his mother’s phone call interrupted us. Don’t you know? A woman’s grace sexual encounter. female colleagues worked as Avon ladies or in sales for “Keep silent because my mom is calling on the is carried in the shoulders. Hers “Do we need condoms?” I asked. other brands during their time off work. But she took phone,” he said. bloom black and blue bruises hidden “Maybe, yes”, he said. me to the park on weekends. We’d watched a movie I left him alone with his phone. I saw a small by silk. We stopped halfway to my place at a 7-11. The cold together and then talked about it. sculpture of Buddha bundled with rope. I took that to

white light glowed through the window. Staff carefully There are long winters in my hometown, which the cashier. Mẹ ơi, prop your feet set a box of condoms into a small paper bag and printed makes the autumn short like a beautiful gift. When you After the phone call was over, he came back, his on your polyester suitcase the receipt for me. On the surface of the bag, I saw a line finally open it, you realise it’s gone. It was a Sunday gaze carefully avoiding the covers of gay porn DVDs stuffed with yearning and written in Japanese: throw it alone within the bag after afternoon in the autumn of 2005, my first year in in the store. ache since last summer. use. I wondered if it was referring to the condom or the high school. I put a DVD on in our drawing-room. The “How was your mom on the phone?”

hookup. Either way, the message was clear: be secretive. sunshine was bright and warm, so I had to block it by “She said she can send more money monthly if I get Chrysanthemum She eats persimmon misshapen with My apartment was a modern Japanese style loft drawing the curtain. a girlfriend.” sweetness and rot, tears flesh from room. I could see the neighbour’s living room from “So, what do you think of the movie?” I asked my “Cool. Have one.” blossoms skin with naked thumbs, and lets the the window because of the short distance between mother when the DVD stopped playing. “I just told you what she said — more money juice and meat sit in her fingernails. buildings. They were watching television without any “It was touching. Have I watched some television monthly if I get a girlfriend.” My mother shows me

sound by reading the subtitles. drama with the same actor?” Then he took me to a cinema for the movie there is love in waiting. In this suspension of coming “Anything for you?” I checked the fridge. “The film has two leading male actors,”I said. Moonlight. He cried at the end of the film. We walked and going, my mother remembers a rhythm He looked stressed and stood beside the bed. No “Both actors are great. I can see the passion between on the street at midnight. She brings home pink lilies in the shuffle of strangers, and recalls hope chair was in the room. them. But also, the tension,” she said. “Let’s do something that we can’t do in my that have not yet bloomed, she once found in dark tunnels. I took a seat on the bed. He got close to me but was It was a film called Lan-Yu, a Chinese movie about a hometown. Like walking hand-in-hand,” he suggested. and makes tea from dried

still standing. romance between two men. “I think it’s okay in China,” I said. chrysanthemums. Her sweat pours and eyelids stretch tears I suggested he sit. He sat down by facing a different “Are you open to the possibility that one day I’ll get “But the feeling is different,” he replied. only in the lonely absence of light, direction without eye-contact and put his arm around into a relationship like them? I mean, with a boy.” “What do you feel now?” Flower head, as she mourns the ripeness of summers past, my back. He whispered that he had tried sex before, “Why not? Have fun when you are young,” my He blushed and didn’t say anything. I felt his hand noble roots, the going and the gone. but it had been terrible. mother said. sweating. sweet aroma, “We don’t have to,” I said. “We can chill and talk I didn’t like the concept of “coming out”. I couldn’t “Why did you cry at the end of the movie?” I asked, about anything you want.” hide somewhere because there was no place to do so. trying to break the silence that had grown between us. be gentle when you touch the soft petal. He kissed me and held me tightly. When I was in primary school, I was verbally bullied Under our own moonlight, tinged with neon from the Your skin understands first When I touched him, I found his body was built by school kids because of my soft voice. But I became lights around us, Jia turned around and looked at me. that there is fresh air after a rain shower, better than I’d thought. immune to horrible words, and somehow still managed “They didn’t get together in the end,” he said, as we and love in waiting. “You’ve got nice muscles.” to have a decent school life. When I grew taller than continued walking into the night.

16 17 HONI SOIT WRITING COMPETITION Luck Hold the Line 2019 Kara Ortiga // Editors' Choice Award (Non-fiction) by Emily Lau // Editors' Choice Award (Fiction)

“When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can race and to emulate the random act of Gods, a lottery system was put in place. At 28 years old, I was laid off from my job. neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere… the world At 12am local time every day, the odds are received by smart systems in every will purge itself in one or another of these three ways (floods, plague and aspect of your life. The personal assistant would know the odds of staying I packed my things inside a cardboard box and kept my dinosaur-shaped magnets. The magazine I worked with famine).” – Machiavelli (1469 – 1527) at home or leaving home. Every mode of private and public transport would for four years had folded. We had a good run: poking at societal issues with a sharp cognizance, provoking and know, public spaces would know, and you would know. You have control of asking all the right questions. People took notice of our work, and the work was important. For a while, we felt * * * your life, so you choose whether you want to take those chances. Of course, invincible. Purposeful. you also have the option of not knowing your chances. His neighbours were Herb watched the queue move forward. The air in the cavernous airport of that kind. They were one of those “God has a plan” families. They were his But when I carried my box of things home with me, I realized that even significant work was dispensable. lobby was heavy with an electric silence as nothing, but soft murmurs, neighbours. I wondered, what’s a jobless millennial supposed do now? I felt too young to be a casualty of retrenchment, too clacking keyboards and sporadic beeping transactions, could be heard. old to keep up with the next generation. The queue was silent in anticipation and desperate to catch a whiff of this week’s Herb stepped out of Metro Airport and checked the apps on his phone for the numbers. Left, left, right, left, left. No, no, yes, no, no. Left to exit, right to enter. latest bus, taxi and subway odds to the conference centre. Although buses I remember the day the company’s founder gathered the entire editorial department in one room. She read her Your choice, your luck, your life. typically had lower odds, today the taxi was lower at 1:452. Herb appreciated speech with a lofty acceptance, starting with a story about how a few brilliant, fashionable women gathered the unexpected side effect of the Nietzsche treaty. The high turnover rate in a basement and dreamed up this very publication house, and then lead it to become the biggest one in the “Hi, welcome to Universal Airlines, how may I assist you today?” trilled the in each profession distributed demand and supply, employment, expertise Philippines. You could feel the weight of gloom in the air: she wasn’t just reading a speech—she was delivering bubbly stewardess. and wealth so evenly, one might describe the socio-economic climate as a eulogy. A year later, the company would replace all its 11 print publications with websites, replacing an editor’s communist. The costs of living that once differentiated the classes were no mastery with Search Engine Optimization, prioritizing things like clicks-to-site and engagement ratings. “A ticket to Detroit please. What are the numbers?” Herb grunted. longer, and the classes themselves were no longer. I thought it a weird time to be in the newsroom. Technology had challenged the integrity of the work that “This week’s chances for a Detroit plane are 1 in 74. Would you like to proceed * * * journalists did, and changed the way that these stories were being told and consumed. The political climate was with these odds?” tearing communities apart. Social media festered toxicity. Media businesses struggled to stay afloat. Journalists “Mr President, there have been reports that activists are targeting national were replaced by bloggers. “Yes, I’ll take it.” telecommunication sites and destroying antenna dishes, do you have anything to comment?” Herb thrust his recorder towards the stand. For a year, I let this disdain simmer inside me while I worked freelance writing profiles of celebrities and beauty “Great! That’ll be $202USD,” tap. beep. queens. It wasn’t ideal work, but one needed to pay the bills. I managed until a breakdown one morning. I cried “These acts of vandalism and property damage are callous and selfish. These in the arms of my boyfriend and whined about this feeling of “selling out.” He rubbed my shoulders and offered “You’re in seat 3C, the gate is number 23, closing at 9:20pm. Please enter people do not care about the wellbeing of others. The antennas are critical the only comfort he knew: a helpless optimism disguised as bad humor. through the right here, thanks for choosing Universal Airlines and good luck!” tools used to relay odds to everyone in the country. Without them, you and I will not be able to make informed life decisions. We all know what happened Outside, the Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s ruthless crackdown on drugs continued. His brutal war Ah, ‘choice’, what a beautiful concept, thought Herb, but what exactly am without the Nietzsche Treaty 25 years ago, and I don’t intend on returning had killed more than 12,000 people. Human rights advocates were sent to prison, administration-critics were I choosing? He sank into his thinly cushioned seat in the tiny capsule of a to those days. Thank you.” The sea of reporters, cameramen and journalists harassed and humiliated. The news filled with haunting images: a howling mother cradling her dead son plane, inhaled and exhaled a breath of lemon-scented air. If only it wasn’t surged into a wave, reaching up to hang on to the last words of the President. in the darkness of the night; children weeping against the caskets of their fathers; there were portraits of masking the smell of disinfectant and bleach, which always lingered like a A stampede ensued as each news outlet rushed to be the first to broadcast the orphans and widows and broken families left behind. At night, the town smattered with dead bodies. smothering shroud of death and apathy. Across the aisle, a man pulled out a message. Police washed their hands off the blood of the people. To respond, the President hissed at his critics, string of talisman and began chanting in a hushed whisper. The Star of David, mocked the poor, tormented the people who fought for truth and spewed misogyny towards women. the Virgin Mary, the Holy Trinity, the Swastika, the Pentagram, the Cross; he Herb sought refuge in a corner of the conference room and quickly jotted prayed to them all. Herb returned his attention to the screen in front, inhaled, down some notes, whilst replaying key quotes from his recorder. He slotted I thought, somewhere in the world, another writer is packing their things inside a box. Another and held his breath. He watched the scramble of numbers on the screen as the his note pad into its place in his brief case and patted his pockets for his phone paper folds. Another machine stops printing. Another news story is overshadowed by a celebrity. lottery was drawn. “This week’s number has not been drawn yet!” read a tiny to prepare for the journey home. His heart sank as he spotted his shattered Another truth is bent and twisted and molded into obscure shapes so unlike itself it’s hard to note at the bottom. 1-7-7-5-8-3-0. The final number ticked to a stop. All life phone on the floor where he stood amid the crowd. He must have dropped it distinguish what it even is anymore. A light goes off. seemed to freeze in that moment, the air was thin, as though the cabin became in the chaos. Herb retrieved the gadget, but it was beyond saving. He wished a vacuum, and all eyes fixated on the numbers. Blink. Blink. Flash. Flash. Was he knew the odds for phone death. He took a seat and evaluated his options. He But as I sat despondently on the sidelines, watching the world turn without me, I realized he dizzy from anticipation or the lack of breath? “Enjoy your flight!” Crisp, could take the taxi to the airport and take a plane or hire a car from there. Herb that I wasn’t the only one wrestling with angry thoughts at 4 a.m. in the shadow of my clean letters replaced the numbers. Herb exhaled, and the cabin was suddenly sighed. He hadn’t made a decision in his life without knowing the numbers phone’s blue light. Today, in a time of war, people will raise their armors even higher. filled with air once again. The plane began to taxi. before. The thought of this was both terrifying and exhilarating. In the face of abuse, they will stare attackers straight in the eye. In response to threats, they will speak even louder. Herb bitterly admired the ingenuity of the macabre human mind to design “Hi, welcome to Universal Airlines, how may I assist you today?” trilled the such a machine. There would be no wreckage of a plane if it should be unlucky, bubbly stewardess. It only takes one person to inspire a group to charge for combat. It only takes it would be too expensive to replace! Its modular internals ensured ease of one person, so publicly beaten and shamed and chewed up and spat out, to exchanging damaged or soiled parts for new ones. This plane would not “A ticket to Washington DC please. What are the numbers?” Herb grunted. stand up and say “hold the line,” which will inspire this moping writer to even have to leave the ground. The results were immediate, and the deed was get off her ass, pick up a computer, and start writing again. efficient and indiscriminate; passengers and crew, old and young, rich and “This week’s chances for a Washington plane are 1 in 4. Would you like to poor. The vessel was air travel for the fortunate, and a gas chamber for the proceed with these odds?” unfortunate. “No thanks.” As he looked down over the clouds through the plane window, Herb caught himself in awe at how effective the Nietzsche treaty was. Within 20 years, “Not a problem, please exit through the left here, have a good day!” world population had returned to a more sustainable level, global temperatures decreased by half a degree and the sky was blue again. Herb recalled when Herb turned on the rental car and adjusted his phone in the phone holder. it first began; the days when technology and medicine became so advanced Although the phone could no longer serve its navigational purpose, he liked that death was no longer involuntary. The world population exploded, wars the thought that it would keep him company. He could drive 4 hours and have broke out over the lack of resources, forcing world leaders to discuss difficult a nap, then finish up the rest, easy. He felt a new confidence rise up his chest, questions. The question shifted from, ‘how do we accommodate for everyone’, and he liked it. He liked not having to worry about numbers and chances and to ‘how do we control the amount of ‘everyone’’. Who was worthy of living, dying. Maybe he will try Not Knowing and maybe he could be happier like his and who was not? How does one decide? Who decides? The debate lasted 300 neighbours. He pulled onto the highway and drove into the night. consecutive days, over protests and riots objecting to every idea presented. The United Peoples finally devised a plan, to ensure fairness across class and He woke up to the light of two suns, and a low trumpet of a new day.

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Note: These pages belong to the Office Bearers of the SRC. They are Vice President not altered, edited or changed in any way by the editors of Honi Soit Ask Abe Know Your Rights in a Wanlin (Caitlyn) Chu and Dane Luo SRC caseworker help Q&A Rented Share House Statement on racial attacks to campus. Any behaviour that 90th Anniversary Celebration What we’ve been up to for this pool of funds. For Asian students is racist, intimidating, abusive As you may have seen from recently? the SRC, SSAF funds 97% of Academic Misconduct CW: racial abuse. The Vice or threatening should not be our previous reports, the SRC Over the past two weeks, we our activities. We have been Presidents strongly condemn tolerated. is hosting a 90th Anniversary have been very busy with consulting the newly-elected Dear Abe, already have some evidence that you the racial abuse on Asian Celebration on Thursday 5 the SRC’s SSAF application. President on the funds needed have done something wrong. While students on 8 October 2019. Drop-in Sessions with your December 2019 from 6pm to You might wonder: what is for the 92nd Council. This year they certainly do not have police I’ve received a letter from the University Asian students have been Vice Presidents 8pm in the Refectory, Holme this? Each year, every student has been particularly difficult powers, they have the ability to give accusing me of misconduct. My mate racially abused and targeted We will be moving our weekly Building. The guest speaker for pays the Student Services because we have renegotiated penalties including giving a fail grade told me that they’re not the police, with Sinophobic slurs by a man drop-in sessions to the entrance this event is the Honourable and Amenities Fee (SSAF). a new Enterprise Bargaining for a subject, suspending you from and they haven’t got any power to do near the Wentworth building. of Fisher Library on Thursdays Michael Kirby AC CMG and The University has a process Agreement and more University for a semester, and for anything to me. I was going to just We call on the University to take from 1pm to 3pm. Come drop Ms Avani Dias. The MC will where the total pool of funds contestable projects. We have extreme cases, expelling you from the ignore it, but I thought I should double all steps to ensure the safety of by and speak to your Vice be Dominic Knight. Details of get distributed to your student also continued representing University for good. They can, and check with you. students on their own campus. Presidents so we can be better tickets and more information organisations, including the undergraduate students at have in the past, notified the police We will continue to demand informed about your issues on can be found on www.srcusyd. SRC, USU, Cumberland Student the University’s Research of wrongdoing, for matters including zero tolerance towards racism, campus. net.au/90Anniversary. Guild and SUSF. Each year, we Education, Student Life and Teflon assault and fraud. It is best to take intimidation or abuse on this make an application to contest WHS committees. misconduct allegations seriously. Meet with an SRC Caseworker to discuss Ned Cutcher, Policy Officer, NSW Tenants’ Union the best way to respond. To make an Dear Teflon, appointment call 9660 5222 or send an Until a couple of years ago, renting more likely that your rights will derive Residential College Officers email to [email protected]. laws in New South Wales did a pretty from the common law of lodging, which Hayley (Luoyu) Zhang, Flora Zhao, James Ardouin and Annabel de Mestre If the University has accused you of poor job of giving share house residents is not ideal. (If your head tenant resides straight answers about their rights. The elsewhere, you may have rights under misconduct, the chances are that they Abe Budget Activism Deputy-Chair/Vice-President: fledgling Collective, we have a contacted regarding designing law only properly recognised rental the Residential Tenancies Act). The SRC in its September Members of the Executive Annabel De Mestre (Womens) long way to go but already we a functional Consent Module relationships between a single landlord meeting approved a budget of attended the Rally and Panel Secretary: Caitlin-Alyssa have started to make a difference for 2020 Colleges O-Week. and tenant. However, there is a spectrum In the past, a problem The SRC can help with tenancy and accommodation $650 for the next year. While for stopping sexual assaults on Brown (Wesley) which is all I could’ve hoped for of rental relationships, and share housing between housemates could not much, this is the first time campus, we thank WoCo for Treasurer: Holly McDonald when I planned creating the Regulations Changes issues. See our online guide or call us. offers up some of the most complicated that the Residential College hosting these events. Members (Womens) Collective. The Collective has submitted srcusyd.net.au/src-help/accommodation-issues/ types. be extremely difficult to Officers have ever received a also attended the Climate Strike Social Director: Saurav Bansal an amendment of the SRC accommodation-guide/ In the past, a problem between resolve, especially if it budget and we are thankful to last month and we would like (Johns) Consent Module/ Regulations to ensure that the housemates could be extremely difficult Dane Luo and Niamh Callinan to encourage Students to get Engagement Director: Environment Accord Residential College Officers to resolve, especially if it boiled down to boiled down to a dispute (Vice-President, General involved in this important Nicholas Comino (Pauls) The Collective will also be must be College students in the a dispute over legal rights and duties. The over legal rights and duties. Secretary respectively) for issue, which effects all of us. starting dialogue with the future, in order to preserve the Residential Tenancies Act 2010 has gone Residential Tenancies the preparation of this. We Noting that the Chairperson Environment Officers to Collectives Autonomy. As the some way towards changing that – some The would like to ask any College AGM and Co-Residential College design both an intercollege October SRC meeting did not answers are clearer than others. But you Act 2010 has gone some Residents to send us ideas for The Collective Held its first Officer, James Ardouin will Environment accord, focussing achieve quorum, we intend to have to know how it works in order to way towards changing that. how they would like this to be AGM on the 8th, the following resign effective the 21st of on waste, energy use and still attempt to pass this at the Semester 2, 2019 make the most of it. spent, we can be contacted at were elected to positions at the October. I would like to thank sustainability. The Wom*ns November SRC meeting. The first thing to consider is where The Tenants’ Union argues that all [email protected]. meeting: everyone who helped over the Officers/Sexual Harassment your rights and duties actually come renters who are not covered by the edu.au. last year in establishing the Officers have also been Exam Timetables from. In a rented share house, your legal Residential Tenancies Act should have an Students’ Representative Council, University of Sydney status will depend upon a number of automatic right to the kind of occupancy possibilities: agreements the Boarding Houses Act Now Available! - If you are named on the residential provides. This would be very easy for the MEETING OF THE REPRESENTATIVES-ELECT OF tenancy agreement along with one or NSW Government to achieve. It would more others, then you are a co-tenant. ensure all renters in NSW have basic THE 92nd STUDENTS’ REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL Your rights are equal and several, so you occupancy rights and access to affordable, The University provides students with a personalised could be held liable for the actions of independent dispute resolution. your housemates. A final word of caution – if you live timetable for all formal, end-of-semester exams. - If you are named on the residential in a share house that has seen a number A meeting of Representatives-elect of the 92nd SRC will be held on Access your Semester 2 2019 exam timetable via this tenancy agreement but your housemates of occupants coming and going over Wednesday 23rd October at 6pm in the New Law Lecture Theatre 104. are not, then you are a head-tenant. time, you may not know who is named link: sydney.edu.au/students/exams/timetables.html You’ve transferred part of your right to on the residential tenancy agreement. The following positions are open to nomination from members of the undergraduate student body: occupy the premises to your housemates It’s possible that you are a sub-tenant and you act as their landlord. Your without rights under the Act, and your Vice-President Two Residential College Officers Positions in italic cannot be shared (SRC Regulations obligations to your housemates will head-tenant is the unknown person who Part One Section 3d). All other positions may be split General Secretary Two Sexual Harassment Officers depend on the nature of your agreements signed the original agreement. Your ONCE only (Part One Section 3c). Education Officer Two Social Justice Officers with them. relationship to the landlord, and your Wom*n’s Officer Two Standing Legal Committee members* Nominations shall be taken from the floor at the - If you are not named on the right to occupy the premises, may be meeting. However, nomination forms may be Two Disabilities and Carers Officers Two Student Housing Officers Get FREE help with your tax return from residential tenancy agreement, but you tenuous and in need of some care. But obtained in advance from the SRC front office a Tax Help volunteer on campus! have a written agreement with the head- other things are possible, too. It’s a good Two Environment Officers Two Welfare Officers or downloaded from srcusyd.net.au/wp-content/ tenant, then you might be a sub-tenant idea for your household to get to the uploads/2019/10/Reps-elect-nomform.pdf Two Ethno-Cultural Officers Chairperson of the Standing Legal Committee with rights and obligations covered by bottom of this, to make sure everyone Two Global Solidarity Officers Six Directors of Student Publications Descriptions of positions are found within the the Residential Tenancies Act. But if your knows where they stand. Speak to your Regulations of the SRC available on the SRC website: Two Indigenous Students’ Officers agreement is a ‘lodging agreement’ you’ll local Tenants Advice and Advocacy The following positions are open srcusyd.net.au/about-us/constitution-regulations be covered by the common law or (less Service to find out what to do. Two Inter-Campus Officers to nomination from representatives likely) the Boarding Houses Act. Note: Part One Section 4b. states: Talk to your housemates about Two Inter-Campus Committee members* of the 92nd Council: - If you are not named on the Where an Officer position is split and shared between Two Interfaith Officers getting your house in order: Five Executive members two members of the student body it shall only be residential tenancy agreement and have Two International Students’ Officers no written agreement with the head- • Decide whether you want to be considered held by a woman, for the purposes of co-tenants, or head-tenant/sub- Two Mature-Age Students’ Officers *must be a member of council. To be considered Part 1 Section 4 (a) of the Regulations, if both of the tenant, then you could be a sub-tenant with no rights under the Act, or a boarder tenant. Two Queer Officers you must be either an elected representative, joining members of the student body do not identify an office bearer an ex officio member. as cis-males. or lodger. Your share house could be a • Get more info at tenants.org.au/ Two Refugee Rights Officers ‘registrable boarding house’ subject to factsheet-15-share-housing Available to Sydney Uni students through the the Boarding Houses Act 2012, and you • If you are a head-tenant/sub- Students’ Representative Council (SRC) until the end of semester 2 could have an ‘occupancy agreement’ tenant, write up your agreement. To book an appointment call: 9660 5222 under that law. A number of criteria Authorised by C.Lu, Electoral Officer 2019, Students’ Representative Council, University of Sydney Download an example at tenants.org. must be met for that to be true – it’s Phone: 02 9660 5222 | src.usyd.edu.au | Level 1, Wentworth Building, City Rd, Sydney University. au/share-housing-agreement

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