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Meet your p.14 Union Board Candidates Review: p.19 52 Tuesdays The Master Budget and the Margarita Nick Gowland witnessed a most unusual exchange.

A sharp knock rang against the door of It was Jesus. “Um, actually I did…” began Jesus, but “So did I do well, Jesus?” Tony’s ears Tony Abbott’s private Prime-Ministerial it was no use, because Tony had entered wiggled like a giddy puppy. “Are you office. “Look, Tony, I’ll cut to the chase,” full fan-boy mode. happy with me?” said Jesus as he took a chair and struck “Go away, I’m busy Prime Ministering,” a match to a slender cigarillo which “Of course, we couldn’t have pulled Jesus sighed. Were times really so bad said Tony, as he frantically minimised appeared between his lips out of nowhere. it off without softening everyone up that his only choice was between THIS NeoPets browser tabs. “You’re going to “I’ve come directly from Moscow to talk with the Commission of Audit report, and Cory fucking Bernardi? “Well, I guess want to meet this person,” said attractive about your new budget.” which was TOTALLY inspired by the paid parental leave is hard to fault…” young secretary and Minister for whole Bad-Cop Old Testament, Good- Education Christopher Pyne as he opened “Oh, Jesus, of course mate!” gushed a Cop New Testament deal. And then “$50,000 to eastern suburbs yummy the door and ushered in a shadowy figure. near-hysterical Tony, as he scrambled I plonked an extra few million into mummies!” through a pile of Sudokus and Paint- Operation Sovereign Borders, because “Chrissy, are you serious? Is this one of by-numbers for the right document. after all, neither you nor your family “Oh for fuck’s sake… Look, fine, those Q&A hooligans?” exclaimed Tony “Oh my gosh, you have no idea what an ever benefited from strangers who were whatever, if this is what you want as he eyeballed the stranger’s swishy inspiration you’ve been for me! You are willing to offer what little they had to to do after everything I went through, hemp robe and Pantene commercial hair. like…” Tony paused as he handed a file desperate foreigners with no place to go.” then go for it. I just can’t anymore.” He began to reach for the button under to Jesus. “Jesus, you are my muse.” Jesus stubbed out his cigarillo on his desk that would send $12 billion of “Look, Tony…” a mountain of tax cuts for the rich. publically funded joint strike fighter pain “Riiiiiight…” said Jesus as he pressed screaming in through the windows of the beige envelope to his forehead and “Also, we’ve revamped universities to “DOES THIS MEAN I GET TO BE Parliament and into the kale-smattered absorbed its worldly knowledge. He reflect how you charged your disciples, POPE???” beard of this smelly ideologue. But sucked deeply on his cheroot. “Tony, so debt now kicks in at minimum wage. before he could press the button, his eyes what’s going on here?” Which we’re lowering, because like you “Sure.” popped out like moles in a Whack-a-Mole. told the Pharisees,” – and here Tony “Oh, Jesus, you’re going to love this. placed palm on beating breast – “Let he Tony began spinning in gleeful circles. “Aaaaaaaaaaaw, mate!” said Tony. The other night I was in the tub and who is without sin have the courage to Round, and round, and round he went! I thought, ‘Not once in the Bible does do whatever he wants by oppressing the By the time he slowed down, Jesus had “Please allow me to introduce myself,” Jesus ever attempt to redistribute limited fashionable minorities of the moment already vanished into thin air. “Just like said the stranger. resources to support society’s most through neoconservative economics.” in the book!” thought Tony. This was the vulnerable and oppressed.’ So we’ve happiest day of his life. “AAAAAAAAAAW, MATE” squealed given welfare a kick in the teeth...” “Okay, that’s just a garbled mix of Tony. “I KNOW WHO YOU ARE!” Ayn Rand and yourself.” 3 Letters 14-16 USU candidates guide letters 4-5 News 17 DIY smartphones & losing teams 6 Investigation: clerkships 18 Review: Hiatus Kaiyote month-to-month, and who appoint the I’m not sure how we can fix this,Honi . Regards, 7 Manning Files: USU Edition 19 (J)O(h)n Bell people who run O-Week, Verge, gigs at More conveniently placed reshelving Lachlan Ellison Contents Manning, and so on. Board directors trolleys might encourage students 8 Police and the media 20 Swimming lane psychology Write to us: Arts (Languages) honi soit editors@ made the controversial decision to, for to leave the returning of the book to 9 Chilean student activism 22-23 SRC Reports one year only, double the mandatory the shelving experts, however I am issue #9 honisoit.com student services fee to raise enough pessimistic about this option, given 10-11 Feature: private universities 24 Puzzles capital to construct a new building for it would require more staff and as 12 Profile: Jake Lynch 26-27 Honey Soy its members (Wentworth was built, I learned from Honi last month, our from scratch, from student money). libraries are sadly headed in the Thumbs 13 Diary of a Hack 28 RIP back page art It would have been an exceptionally opposite direction. Why so USU? crazy director to come up with that down to Q&A funding model - what if she or he hadn’t With the current library climate, I Dear Eds, gotten up? We’d have a lot less food see no possibility of change. I guess I protestors options, retail outlets and one less bar. should just knuckle down and wait for I am writing in response to the the apocalypse, for surely it will come Dear Honi University of Sydney Union election We acknowledge that Honi Soit’s office is located on the traditional lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. We would like to acknowledge It’s easy to be disillusioned by the sooner than 300.1 201 will return to its coverage in the Week 9 edition. I feel On behalf of all mainstream students the Traditional Owners of the land on which we work and pay our respects to the Elders past and present. ball pits and the lanyards and the rightful place, between 300.1 200 and the editors, in stressing the candidates’ parking spots and the douchey vibes 300.1 202. on campus, I would like to express my determination to annoy the fuck out emanating from self-confessed student disappointment at the juvenile antics of every student on campus, lost an leaders like cartoon stink lines. But Yours in despair, of the extreme left on Q&A. opportunity to emphasise not what know that today’s pests are tomorrow’s Lucy Watson board directors usually do, but what absurdly influential decision-makers. Many of those who engaged in such they have the potential to do. When they’re not in court they’re busy Media and Communications VI churlish behaviour that evening building shit, and they might even be were unfortunately students of Editorial But that’s hardly the editors’ fault. worth your time in voting. Sydney University and are thus an The 2013-2014 term was a fraught one embarrassment to the majority of Print journalism was dealt yet another incomplete. with a lot of crap flung into the student Alistair Stephenson Forking out the student body. blow last week, with the announcement political ceiling fan that has warranted focus. While it›s easy to dismiss what JD III, Douchey Self-Confessed of 70 job cuts across Fairfax Media titles. Although this example is given so often In this democracy, we pride ourselves directors are individually in charge of, Ex-Student Leader for sexism Thirty photographers will be cut from the it has almost become hackneyed, the hard in our freedom to dissent strongly the truth is that the amount of power against government policy that we company, with Fairfax stating they will work of Kate McClymont has led to the Dear Honi, given to these students is patently disagree with. No one is denying their outsource most of their photography to uncovering of rampant corruption within absurd. It sucks that as a young male on a right to protest. But it wouldn’t hurt to Getty Images. Fifteen journalists will be our criminal government. Their work The falcon night out with fellow uni friends, I have lift the level of discourse beyond a leftist 18-25 year olds are pushed to come cut from the Life Media team. Thirty-five extends from the political to the personal to feel like I’m condoning wet T-shirt banal call for free stuff. These radicals up with ideas, and if they›re intelligent jobs will be cut in editorial production, – just earlier this year, Peter Munro wrote competitions and near-naked salsa have done nothing except attract and have the gumption to follow them cannot hear with ten of these jobs shifting to newsroom an intensely compelling story on Natalie wrestling. I’m not. And yet simply by ridicule, as well as to hurt their through, can execute them with the Wood, a Sydney woman who lay dead in her entering Scary Canary, I fund sexist own message. editorial roles. Just to be clear, yes, it help of a few votes from their mates the falconer practices like these. Practices like was Fairfax Media that produced the now home for eight years before anybody noticed. on board and then thousands (or when their male MC announces that, Nothing is for free: everything has infamous “World is fukt” paper and, yes, The value of this kind of journalism won’t be sometimes millions) of member Dearest Honi, unbeknownst to participators, the a cost. It is unfair for these privileged they are now cutting sub-editors. realised until it no longer exists. dollars to bring it home. The premise lefties who so often spend their I write to you today with the gravest provided shirts should be removed is terrifying, but when the directors are time asking everyone else to check concerns about the state of humanity. for the final round of salsa wrestling. Almost used to the periodical shaving of Here at Honi Soit, we are lucky. We don’t smarties the creativity that follows is their privilege to ask the majority of It was nothing short of abject horror (The thinly veiled premise of a game wonderful. Australians who don’t go to university their newsroom, Fairfax journalists walked have to sell newspapers. We survived the today when I made this discovery. For here makes this option more like a paid to subsidise the majority of the cost of out in a heavily publicised (after all, they death of compulsory student unionism, years now, I have suspected something command.) Bras remained, but these The successes borne out of this their university education. University are journalists) 24-hour strike. Management and – so far, at least – have survived this to be amiss, but today I stumbled on were lost in the fight. Presumably, this arrangement are readily forgotten. students on average have the capacity sent out a terse email threatening job losses criminal government, which is more than the confirmation of my suspicion as was anticipated. I don’t mean to excuse the broken to earn higher incomes. With no one for non-unionised strikers, while Twitter we can say for parts of the ABC. However, promises or frivolous campaign I roamed the (now rather roomy) aisles What I find disturbing, though, is the having any intention to remove the erupted with people posting the brilliant despite our financial status and situation policies (of which I am very much of Fisher. double standard generally that girls HECS scheme where every dollar can guilty). I only mean to bring attention work of photographers whose jobs are on being markedly different from that of the on a night out should be drunk, sexy be borrowed from the government to examples where directors haven’t University students do not understand the line.The ongoing slashing of newsroom SMH, we stand in solidarity with those in and yet with their capacity to consent and paid back in the future, surely fucked up but have instead positively basic concepts of decimals, which has staff is something that should draw the danger of losing their jobs. totally intact. Worse is the attitude privileged Sydney University students influenced students’ day-to-day lives, thrown the entire Dewey decimal which holds that this one-off consenting can in the long run afford to contribute concern of anyone who cares about the whether they›re hacks or mercifully system in Fisher library signature represents that this sort of more to the cost of their education. role of the media as the fourth estate. The Fairfax will never regain full health, never disenfranchised. into COMPLETE DISARRAY. return to be the media gatekeeper it once thing is universally okay, particularly eruption of the Twittersphere is not just the In my opinion, many of the When looking for books today, I when that initial participation means echo chamber of those who inhabit it most was. The proliferation of online news This year alone, current directors recommendations under consideration discovered the 363.32 36 I was after a potential boost in disposable income. enthusiastically, but the genuine anger of sources has taught audiences not to pay Bebe D’Souza and Eve Radunz have from the Kemp Norton review, if crudely shoved between 363.32035 Let’s not lie - there aren’t many those who feel quality Australian journalism for what they can already get for free: developed, respectively, the new and adopted, should see an Australian and 363.32037, thus placing it in an things a student or backpacker could Clickbait. Celebrity gossip. AAP wire important Sex and Consent Day and tertiary system that is accessible, fair slipping away. entirely different topic category. Then, conscionably refuse to do when $200 Health and Wellbeing Week. In 2011, and of higher quality. Already Minister rewrites. Getty images. after traipsing all the way to level is involved. Last week’s election a director founded Incubate, which Pyne has shown a passion for reform Here on this predominantly left-wing today officially partners with Google. eight via the stairs (the elevators in The saddest part about Friday night and is to be commended for this. campus, far more politically aligned with the Quality, trust, and brand recognition are cover art was by In 2010, it was a board president who Fisher shall be the topic of another was the knowledge that the club would SMH than The Daily Telegraph, many have all Fairfax have left. This is what they must mandated free ACCESS cards for every strongly worded letter, I’m sure) to find Julia Zhu Wei. recover their cash loss many times over, At least there is some sensible policy pointed out the Fairfax flagship’s decline in focus on going forward, and asking people college student. In 2009, another board 956.70442 25, imagine my horror when because apparently this is what people engagement by the centre left. But president conceived of and then built I found not only it, but also 956.70442 quality, saying their website homepage has to do more with less will only serve to Many apologies to pay to see. I guess Scary Canary can›t unfortunately, the radical left wing the International Student Lounge 24, 956.70442 26, 956.70442 27, and become an homage to sporting and celebrity further erode this crumbling foothold. be blamed for giving the market what (5th, 6th, 7th, 8th year Arts??) students Julia for forgetting on Level 4 Wentworth and the Verge 956.70442 44 shoved four shelves gossip. However, an assessment of the Continuing to undercut quality in the it wants. And that’s the problem: the on Q&A get a kick out of professional Gallery. His name was Ruchir Punjabi away from the rest of their 956.70442 name of ‘keeping up’ will only send Fairfax culture that condones the humiliation activism and perpetually living off SMH that fails to take into recognition its to credit her work. and he was the first international ?? counterparts, in a random location of young women as a legitimate form the taxpayer, so I won’t be holding my investigative journalism and commitment tumbling into the abyss of irrelevance even student to be president; he saw a need that cannot even be a simple misgiving of entertainment, and the culture that breath for considered policy engagement to uncovering the mysteries of this city is sooner than expected. for an international student space, and (as in my previous example)! This act equates the term ‘feminism’ with a with them. was driven enough to get the job done. was pure mischievousness, that fact is brand of anti-male extremism that He started and finished these projects undeniable. Then, when I descended people seem to think exists everywhere, Yours in deregulation and efficiency within his two-year term. the stairs back to level 4, imagine my disappointment when 300.1 201 just despite being able to point to few actual cuts, simply wasn’t there, despite two copies subscribers. (Please don’t say ‘Germaine Across too many board terms worth Greer’.) Chaneg Torres counting, it was down to the smarts being allegedly available. of a handful of directors to seek, and BPESS III Credits Why do students seek to undermine I think it’s up to us, as students, to seek again, funding from the university select products and services on the basis President, University of Sydney to keep the C&S program alive, at a the Dewey decimal system? I think Editor-in-chief: Lane Sainty masthead illustration: Helen Xue contributors: Benjamin Bolton, Cameron of a social conscience, because dollars Conservative Club time when the USU couldn’t stand on it must be an innocent lack of Smith, Georgia Carr we spend at Scary Canary endorse the its own legs. I shudder to think what understanding, for surely University Editors: Georgia Behrens, Felix Donovan, John reporters: Andrew Bell, Ben Brooks, Ben demeaning of our sisters, our friends would have happened if those fearless students must understand that the Gooding, Georgia Kriz, Andrew Passarello, Justin Pen, Brunker, Geordie Crawford, Milly Ellen, Dominic Ellis, artists/photographers: Jay Ng, Maria and of young women generally. 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Tensions run high on USU Board Sydney Astha Rajvanshi reports on the Andrew Bell reports on Board-staff discussions at the recent USU Board Meeting. best city for EAN’s starring role on Q&A. University of Sydney Union email, written to provide him comments made by Woodward Q&Anarchy CEO Andrew Woodward rebutted context to the report that had at the last Board meeting should international Students from the Education recommend an increase in the abandoned in favour of a clip Morning Herald. “Q&A protesters claims that he disclosed aspects already been published in a public have been made in a private Action Network (EAN) appeared contributions paid by students of a previous episode featuring didn’t disrupt democracy, they of a confidential USU report to domain by Honi,” Woodward setting, particularly given he was students: on ABC’s live Q&A show on May for the cost of their degrees, as a performance by singer Katie disrupted a highly produced USyd Vice-Chancellor Michael later said. conveying his personal opinion 5 to protest against Federal well as a drop in the HELP-debt Noonan. Jones resumed the show TV show,” wrote SMH national Spence at the most recent Board after the vote on the Special report Education Minister Christopher repayment threshold. “By further by apologising to the panelists and opinion reporter Judith Ireland. “Tom had already made public meeting. Resolution had already been cast Pyne and his support for various deregulating the sector to create the audience. “This is not what we the report that I referred to in by the Board,” he later told Honi. Sydney ranks high for higher education policy proposals. a US style two-tiered system want to happen on this program. The show’s Executive Director At a fiery meeting, held earlier my email by the time of the International Students, where only rich kids can get a This is not what democracy is all Peter McEvoy did not think that this month, Woodward responded email. I did not release the entire USU President Hannah Morris reports Jay Ng. The interruption came 20 minutes quality education … poor, working about and those students should the protest was an appropriate to a number of comments made by content of the report. To this day suggested perceptions of staff into the program after students in class students will be in severely understand that,” he commented. use of Q&A. “We think there’s Board Directors during another I still have not seen the report.” favouritism may be mistaken. Recent research conducted the audience asked Pyne questions underfunded institutions,” Morley a lot more value in people having meeting held to vote on the “If some Board Directors appear by global consultancy firm A.T. about the government’s plan to explained. Jones has received wide criticism a productive dialogue rather than Woodward also denied that expulsion of USU Vice-President to have particularly friendly Kearney shows Sydney is the deregulate university funding on Twitter for his response, chanting slogans,” he said. “There USU staff “play favourites” Tom Raue. Honi could not relationships with a staff member most popular destination in the and make cuts to youth programs. As security guards stepped sparking debates about Q&A’s role was some opportunity for debate with Directors, saying that “each acquire a direct transcript of the more than other Directors do, it is world for international university In an attempt to give Pyne “a in to suspend the protest, the in democracy in news outlets like lost because of the interruption of Director brings a unique view and proceedings due to restrictions often because that Board Director students. Sydney ranked higher breather”, the show’s host Tony live broadcast was temporarily The Guardian and The Sydney the protest.” McEvoy also believed makes a unique contribution”. on attributing the statements has taken up opportunities to than many cities such as London, Jones asked another panelist to that the protest did not have At the expulsion meeting Raue of non-elected USU staff during spend time with and form a close New York, and Paris, which won respond, at which point over a any impact on higher education stated that he faced “punishment meetings. working relationship,” she said. the title last year according to QS dozen protestors appeared on the issues. “So far, it’s really led to because I am not aligned with the World University Rankings. mezzanine behind the guest panel. a discussion about the place of During the expulsion meeting powers that be in the Union”. In contrast, Magyar said he They chanted “Chris Pyne, get out! protests in a democracy rather Raue stated that Woodward had witnessed staff preferential The firm’s 2014 Global Cities We know what you’re all about! than a discussion about education disclosed much more of the report Board Director Robby Magyar treatment. “On the topic of Index found that a majority of No cuts, no fees, no corporate policy,” he said. to Spence than Raue did, a claim also criticised the relationship individual staff members playing international students come universities!” and dropped a Woodward disputes. between staff and student favourites, I cannot speak for from China, India, South Korea, banner – at first, back to front Morley disagrees. “It’s just false directors. Magyar was critical of all directors, but it is something Malaysia and Vietnam. The – which read, “More brains, not to say that no one’s talking about “The email between me and the Woodward’s decision to speak at I have personally felt for quite report also stated that the warplanes. Fund Education. education cuts, I mean there’s Vice-Chancellor was a private the most recent meeting. “The sometime,” he said. number of students originating May 21 Rally @ UTS 2:30pm”. obviously two things going on from Pakistan, Colombia and the here, talking about the cuts and Philippines is increasing. Eleanor Morley, the Education the impact they’ll have on students Officer at Sydney University, said and the role of protesting.” USyd housing plan sparks controversy Sydney’s Lord Mayor Clover Moore the protest was organised because said the international student “students aren’t happy with the The EAN will be organizing more Tom Joyner investigates the criticisms surrounding USyd’s new student accommodation. community has contributed more attacks on higher education that campaigns against increases in than $1.6 billion to the Sydney’s are being proposed by Pyne and student fees with its cross-campus Sydney University, “The University economy. She added that a high Abbott”. network, including a protest among other of Sydney does international student population for the National Day of Action Australian tertiary not seek to make “helps build Sydney’s cultural The protest followed the recent on May 21st at the University of institutions, has a profit from its diversity and strengthen our release of the Kemp-Norton Technology, Sydney. drawn criticism proposed student regional and global connections.” Review and the Commission illustration by Maria mellos for its funding accommodation of Audit Report, both of which application developments,” Moore named Sydney’s prestigious under the he said in the education institutions, quality National Rental letter. “It believes employment and research Affordability that utilising experience, lifestyle and strong Scheme (NRAS) NRAS in this economy as reasons why students to build housing way is entirely would choose Sydney. for low-income consistent with students on the objectives of While the result is a win USyd researchers focus on campus. the program.” for Sydney’s universities, international students in NSW Introduced Dr. Spence are still denied student concessions refugees with disabilities under the Rudd claimed that on most types of public transport government Photography by Jay ng if successful, tickets, and face other difficulties, in 2008, the the University such as a lack of assistance within Milly Ellen reports on an important research project. scheme aims to would provide educational institutions. use subsidies to and high quality accommodation 1,200 rooms at a The Department of Foreign Refugees (UNHCR), Professor The UNHCR has struggled to The consideration of disabilities incentivise property developers options for low income students”. weekly rent below $300, with the Emma Liu, an international Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has Crock, Emeritus Professor Ron accurately determine the number is often neglected in the context of and businesses to lease to lower ultimate goal of providing up to student at USyd, says Sydney provided three University of McCallum and Professor Ben of disabled refugees under their civil war, mass displacement and income-earners at 20 per cent “Our proposal fits entirely within 4,000 additional beds adjacent to University “must not take it for Sydney researchers with the Saul have already extensively care, with figures contradicting the the immediate needs of refugees. below the market rate, in order the current requirements [of the main campus. granted that foreign students necessary funds to monitor documented the conditions within rates reported by the World Health to address shortages in affordable NRAS]. If successful the project will keep coming and thus lose and make recommendations on refugee communities in Malaysia, Organization. As Professor Crock surmises, housing. will deliver benefits for low- The University spokesperson has motivation to support them.” disabled refugee populations in Indonesia and Pakistan. “a conservative estimate would income students, with flow on also denied that there are plans Institutions should “actively six countries. Whereas the UNHCR generally deduce that there are 5.5 Other Australian universities benefits for the local community to introduce a quota system to invest in facilities and support for Their most recent excursion relies upon refugees self- million displaced people with have been accused of exploiting by easing pressure in the private discriminate against domestic or international students,” Liu said. The research, led by Professor to Uganda yielded over 1,000 reporting their disabilities, the disabilities worldwide. Having the scheme to build on-campus rental market,” they explain. international students in planned Mary Crock, primarily focuses individual testimonies from recommendations put forth by the a disability has significant accommodation targeted at full student housing. Eligibility The Federal Government on finding mechanisms for disabled refugees. Following University of Sydney researchers impacts on the experiences and fee-paying international students, Sydney University Vice- criteria will instead include estimates that Sydney has 50,000 effectively protecting refugees on from the success of these will aim to provide a more effective quality of life of refugees and often at the expense of their Chancellor Michael Spence “means test requirements”. “If the international students studying at with disabilities, whilst potentially initiatives, and with renewed framework for identifying, the provision of protection for domestic counterparts. also denied suggestions that University’s project is successful universities, and another 50,000 developing a more sophisticated funding from both DFAT and classifying and allocating effective them is fundamentally important the University’s application was we will target the accommodation studying specialty and English identification tool for displaced the UNHCR, the researchers are physical and psychological to ensuring their international A University spokesperson has profit driven in a letter written to to students assessed as having courses. International students and disabled citizens. aiming to cover the burgeoning health-care services to vulnerable human rights are respected.” rejected such accusations, saying Mark Bishop, Western Australian the greatest need based on an at high schools are not included number of refugees fleeing the refugees. that the University “aims to senator and chair of the understanding of their incomes in these statistics. With support from the United conflict in Syria to reach Jordan deliver the cheapest possible, safe committee that reviews NRAS. and other factors.” Nations High Commission for and Turkey.

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Clerking mad FORGING AHEAD REGS SCHMEGS really likes making antler ears on Eastern Ave Joshua Krook investigates how legal careers are represented and sold by the Sydney Law School. at midnight. Callum Forbes is to be congratulated for On Sunday, Forbes sent out an email to all pioneering some new campaigning tactics. He WineSoc members promoting his Union Board In a bizarre turn of events, Aitken-Radburn, has posted his weekly schedule on his website, campaign. The email begged: “This week also the Labor Right candidate, has received backing listed his daily lunch location, and invited marks the final full week of the USU Board from some members of the Conservative Club. When I first entered law school crippling conditions that most that SULS places a priority on clerkship from one of them”. One voters to join him at BodyAttack at 6pm on Election campaign. I’ve been nominated by We’re not exactly sure whether they think I wanted to become a lawyer. young lawyers have to deal with corporate career pathways. Sydney Law student mirrored Thursday. Honi isn’t a huge fan of yuppie gym members of the Wine Society as a candidate for Aitken-Radburn supports their normal agenda at major firms. Corporate law Dixon’s comments, revealing to me classes, but if anyone else wants to go and get the position of Board Director of the University of neofascism or if they just really dislike Callum Forbes. Conservative Club President This shouldn’t surprise you. firms have a lot to answer for, in Despite receiving a substantial their “nightmare” of not getting a sweaty with the candidate please let us know of Sydney Union and we’ll be asking for your how it goes. support in voting for me next week.” Chaneg Torres told Honi: “Many members Neither should the fact that 66 relation to caring for the mental degree of sponsorship from large clerkship in law. Particularly after have expressed a deep disappointment in per cent of students entering and physical health of their law firms, he argues that such just being told at a Minter Elison However, his innovation doesn’t end there. Most According to USU regulation 17.11.1m, it’s the actions of the Liberal Club in choosing to law school want to become legal employers.” He tells me of the “support is targeted and does not presentation that a clerkship is the candidates mindlessly decided to obey the regs against the rules to use any USU resource support a candidate known to have engaged practitioners. What should belief amongst many social justice in any [case] cause detriment to only way of getting a job there. and only start campaigning when permitted in the Board election, including USU emails. in dishonest conduct, and feel there is nothing surprise you is that 64 percent oriented students that they should the quality of [SULS’] events or – the lazy shits. But not Forbes, who was seen The WineSoc email also lacked a candidate conservative about this.” Aitken-Radburn’s first wearing his campaign shirt on campus the authorisation, a breach of regulation 17.11.1e. policy is subsidised ACCESS for students in of law students don’t end up “do their time” at large firms, programs”. Of the 60 mentors Justin Whealing, Editor of financial difficulty.Honi can’t wait to see the going into law. These competing involved in the SULS Career Lawyer’s Weekly, Australia’s Friday beforehand. The Manning Files team is sure that every but that many get “swallowed single other candidate reported Forbes’ Conservative Club endorse compulsory student statistics pose a confronting up”, “drawn in by the tempting Mentoring Program, he informs leading source of legal news, Forbes also found himself in an A-frame related indiscretion to the Returning Officer within unionism next. dilemma. The reality is that the income”. me, 62 per cent come from non- tells me: “a law degree is very workout that surpassed any of the gym sessions seconds of the news breaking on Facebook, job market cannot handle the corporate backgrounds. well regarded in many other he plans to attend. Omar Hassan, a member of and are keeping an eager eye on her decision. PROPOSED ARMISTICE oversupply of law students, to the UNSW Law Student, Amber professions, such as journalism, Socialist Alliance, was seen expropriating the point where only the cream of the Karanikolas, tells me “there are He recognises, however, that so the fact that the majority of law light blue signs and Forbes chased after him in WHO’S BEHIND WHO? Members from Grassroots are trying to crop get employed. The rest are lots of students who are passionate some change is required within graduates don’t take up a career an endearing little hack scuffle.Honi is loving orchestrate an agreement for all the campaigns SAlt’s participatory democracy this week, keep to take a one-hour break from campaigning on left without direction, the dreams in the law is not an undue cause Lest we forget the other campaign celebrities. it up guys. Power couple Tara Waniganayaka and Rhys the May 21 for the National Day of Action, a of corporate careers sold to them for concern.” It is simply a matter Pogonoski, who were previously supporting protest against cuts to university funding and at Sydney University now deflated. of telling these students that other Forbes is also the only candidate to have Jethro Cohen before he dropped out of the race, the deregulation of fees. Even though it is just “Despite SULS’ best efforts, options exist. Whealing is more inspired the creation of a fake Facebook page, have now thrown their might behind Liam 60 minutes, campaigns are reluctant as May 21 UNSW, ahead of Sydney concerned with the significant titled ‘Callum Forges’, reminding voters of the Carrigan and his dopey-looking reindeer. It’s is the main day of polling. Forbes has refused to University, has recognized this however, the fetishisation contractions in the legal sector. time Forbes fraudulently doctored receipts in highly likely that Waniganayaka is trying to participate in any armistice. disconnect between students’ the 2013 SULS election, trying to hide the fact shore up a vote for her presidential ambitions He tells me “graduate recruitment that he had breached the spending cap and lied expectations coming into law in the upcoming executive elections. If only of clerkships appears to be programs have been cut hard as about it to his ticket before being caught out there was such a clear reason for quasi-geriatric school and the dismal graduate law firms look to reduce costs”. by the Electoral Officer. Campaign celebrity, Pogonoski, who was Treasurer at some point job market. Professor Michael an ongoing phenomenon. woohoo! last decade. Honi can only speculate that he Legg, the newly appointed Director So what do students think of this of Senior Studies at UNSW Clerkships remain a “permanent structural change” (itself a recently created role), of reduced grad intakes? I asked understands students are “anxious calendar staple for many several, who wanted to reply about the fall in graduate places anonymously. On the lighthearted being offered by the major firms,” penultimate-year students.” end was a fourth-year Sydney Law and the “increasing numbers of student who said, “Who cares if graduates being churned out by we end up in a law firm or not? If universities nationwide”. His role about social justice and may be the Law School, “I think it is Minter Elison want to buy me free includes outlining to students interested in alternative paths… much more important to provide drinks, then so be it.” Cutting red tape a range of “alternative career” but just don’t know where to more clinical courses in the area pathways outside of corporate law. look”. She tells me UNSW has of social justice law, or with Other students were more Public service job losses aren’t mourned like they should be, writes Georgia Kriz. He wants students to “broaden had “genuine recent attempts by public sector organisations”, as forthcoming with their fears of never getting a job in law. Another their minds” and ask: “what kind students to promote non-corporate compared to UNSW’s approach, Since the Abbott government workers left jobless. impact of the public service jobs retrain in order to find work. fourth-year told me privately, of career might I be interested in?” careers”, but the focus on corporate he tells me. In line with Legg’s came to power just eight months cuts on the Canberran economy “getting a job [in law] is like careers “is still quite visible”. She recent appointment however, he ago, there have been more than Unsurprisingly, there have been will be worse than that of the An interesting comparison can Some students, however, who getting into the popular clique admits that, “UNSW at least [may informs me “SULS will be looking 5,000 public service job cuts no commentators rubbing their closure of the Holden plant upon be made between the public prefer to remain anonymous, in high school – reserved for a be] changing its culture over time”. to propose that the Law School announced. Another 15,000 are hands in glee at the prospect of South Australia’s. perception of academics and have questioned whether Legg small crowd of people. It seems implement a system of academic to come. joblessness in the car industry. that of public servants. While is the right person for the job. as though the future of the legal As compared to UNSW, all of advisors [who] will be able to Public servants are broadly academics are cut from a very His background, working in profession will be saved exclusively these dire warnings have yet provide advice and support to Liberal governments framed these As a nation, we have written our from a different, more similar privileged, white, tertiary- large corporate practices, along for those outstanding, all-round to change practices here at students”. cuts with well-known phrases like public servants into a narrative of privileged background than car educated cloth to public servants with his focus areas of ADR and HD recipients that tick all the Sydney Law. Currently, Sydney “trimming the fat” and “cutting red excess and greed. We take delight manufacturers, but this should and they do similar, socially corporate law, are questionable Despite SULS’ best efforts, additional requirements.” Law is entrenched in corporate tape”. Cuts like these are broadly in vilifying them, in painting them, not render them intrinsically productive work, they are cast as qualifications for a man who however, the fetishisation of advertising, which props up welcomed by the Australian public. their jobs, and their livelihoods as less valuable or worthy of victims when they lose their jobs. is there to guide students to clerkships appears to be an In this tough job market, where the idea that going into legal When reading the comments somehow less valuable than the consideration. Just as the car plant Students rally to defend them “alternative career” pathways. ongoing phenomenon. Clerkships marks are everything and practice is the inevitable, and section on news stories reporting rest of the nation’s. By extension, workers will have trouble finding and politicians denounce their remain a calendar staple for positions are far from guaranteed, even the only, option, for law the cuts, one could be forgiven for the city of Canberra itself is new jobs, so too will the public poor treatment at the hands of Michael Bradley, Managing many penultimate-year students. students can perhaps be comforted students. Sydney University thinking that public servants were denounced as a bloated bastion servants. corporate management. They’re Partner of Marque Lawyers, by the words of one law tutor. Law Society (SULS) receives Perhaps it’s the offer of salaried the most despised sector of people of bureaucracy and red tape, and not excess fat to be trimmed. gives similar advice to readers “Don’t worry, there are a few corporate sponsorship each year, work over the summer, or the in the country. held up as an example of the Many of those who have lost of Survive Law: “Stop listening to P’s on my transcript. Just keep which filters into its activities and stability of the much sought-after dangers of big government. and will lose their jobs are career When the Federal Budget is other people and think about your persevering,” he recently told a promotions. I put it to President grad job. Over the next three years up to public servants, having gone handed down this coming Tuesday, own career from the perspective of student. James Higgins that SULS is 200,000 people will lose their jobs But public servants have families directly from university into the more public service job cuts will what might make you happy and UNSW law dean, David Dixon, embroiled in these corporate as car manufacturers Ford, Toyota too, and they have mortgages to service, with few unique and undoubtedly be written into it. fulfilled,” Bradley tells the Blog. recently told The Australian, That idea, to “keep persevering”, connections, and relayed to him and Holden move production out of pay. They have kids to send to marketable skills that make As these are carried out, and “students often [think] a job at is perhaps the only option left for the messages given to me by Australia. school, just like their counterparts them desirable in the cutthroat as the Holden, Ford and Toyota The question does arise: is law a large law firm [is] the only the embattled law student. The several Sydney Law students, at Holden, Toyota and Ford. and highly competitive private plants steadily shut down, we actually all it’s cut out to be? A pathway to a career in law. other option, given little credence who feel overwhelmed by this The federal government has Canberra’s economy will suffer just sector. The car plant workers should spare a thought for all final year JD says to me, “Let’s The university is dominated by at Sydney Law, is to consider the corporate sponsorship. pledged $100 million to help as Victoria’s and South Australia’s will face a similar struggle, with those who are affected. Job cuts be honest: from a distance, being publicity from the big law firms path less travelled into alternative develop a re-skilling and will. In fact, a report by Deloitte many of them finding themselves and losses should be mourned in a lawyer looks like a lot of fun. [and] students think they have careers. Higgins rejects the contention resettlement program for those Access Economics predicts that the financially unable to move or whichever sector they occur. Only later on do [you] realise the failed if they don’t get a summer 6 7 analysis analysis Not #myNYPD Don’t be too quick to trust police media sources, writes Subeta Vimalarajah. Students revolt in

In late April, the New York Police trend in policing. of the police acting respectfully: of a protest, even if there is a ten Department (NYPD) launched an filmed, edited and uploaded by the minute video of police behaving informal social media campaign to In early May, Sydney University police. It seems relatively harmless appropriately, giving it airtime is improve its public reputation. academics Professor Murray Lee – surely the police have a right to problematic in that it encourages privatised Chile and Dr Alyce McGovern released represent their perspective? All the belief that it’s good enough for Police officers took photographs Policing and Media, a book that good media requires balance. police to be doing their job most with willing members of the public explores the relationship between of the time. The police should be Benedict Brunker on the students fighting back. who then uploaded their happy the Australian police force, the But there is no balance in the held to a higher standard than snaps to Twitter with ‘#myNYPD’. media, and the public. Using case relationship between police and that. This is made difficult when Soon enough, the NYPD’s studies from the Queensland floods those they use force against. The police have extensive control of remarkable lack of foresight through to ‘Operation Eyewatch’, police have access to mainstream traditional media through news was evident when their humble a neighbourhood watch initiative media that investigate stories outlets, propagandising TV shows tag was reclaimed nationwide of the NSW Police, the book and, to some extent, balance like RBT and Recruits, and your democracy”. By 2012, police had through the 1980s, many of the to expose all manner of police explores the reasons for and perspectives. Social media, Facebook news feed. begun removing students from hallmarks of Pinochet’s reign have brutality. Occupy Wall Street implications of police media however, is unregulated. The occupied high schools by force, remained firmly in place through was first to get the tag trending, output. dissemination of information If the NYPD debacle teaches and began to occupy such schools Chile’s return to parliamentary wittily paralleling the hollow should be democratic, but the us anything, it is that it will themselves to prevent students democracy. Chile’s economic sincerity of the NYPD with a photo But beyond those official, police, as an authoritative be decades before police can as from returning. The Confederation system is characterised by steady of a young African-American man traditional channels, it is state institution, will always be seamlessly propagandise through of Chilean Students (CONFECH) privatisation, market deregulation crushed against a car by a mob of important to recognise that police perceived as more credible. This social media as they have through called for student strikes, some and restrictions on independent policemen accompanied by the line media output now extends to allows them to undermine the traditional media. Hashtags and of which lasted up to seven trade unionism. Though the “Free Massages from the #NYPD. smaller scales. Now that every voices of those who are beaten, statuses will likely always be the months. Unionised workers children of the wealthy have What does your police department protestor has an iPhone 5 to cuffed and silenced. domain of the young and dissident. engaged in solidarity actions, little trouble in securing a quality offer?” Thousands of photos and shakily document the riot squad But not every attempt by the including most dramatically university education in Chile, retweets later the saga was picked bashing up their best friend, The format of social media also police will be as mismanaged as a general strike called by the the protestors’ demands have up by national media outlets and police have started bringing their dilutes critical perspectives. the #myNYPD campaign, and Central Unica de Trabajadores coalesced around ensuring all deemed the #D’oh NYPD Twitter own cameras for documentation Viewers do not realise that a we ought to be cautious of the (Central Workers’ Union). High Chileans have a chance at securing campaign. Whilst the result was purposes. This means that for Youtube video by the NSW Police intention behind police media school students repeated grades a decent education. humorous, the NYPD’s campaign every two-minute Youtube clip of Force is as much propaganda output or we may lose the critical in order to participate and tertiary to reform public will through social a protestor being pounded to pulp as a comment from the Police dialogue that keeps our police force students suffered the loss of vital That higher education is only a media brings to attention a general by the police, there is another clip Commissioner. In the aftermath in check. bursaries and scholarships in part of a larger struggle in Chile order to take part. against the legacy of Pinochet is Chilean President Michelle in companies that rendered perhaps evidenced by the election Bachelet has reiterated her services to these institutions, and In spite of the disruption to daily to Chilean parliament last year commitment to free higher stood to gain personally by the life caused by two years of strikes, of two key figures in the student education for all Chileans, government’s decision. demonstrations and occupations, movement: Camilla Vallejo following three years of intensive polls showed that four out of five and Gabriel Boric. As Vallejo, a Rewriting the law student action around the country. Chileans supported the students member of the Communist Youth Her government plans to grant and their demands. This, and of Chile, has put it: “The public Female voices have been silenced in Australian legal system, writes Isabelle Youssef. free tertiary education to around Chile is the the participation of workers’ understood that we were not just 1.2 million students over the next unions in militant student action students who fought for our own Historically, female voices all levels of the bench in recent women in the Northern Territory. judgments with accuracy in the six years. wealthiest suggest a wider disenchantment interests and that the youth is have been pushed out of our years. He created payment plans in law at the time of the decision as amongst Chileans with the neo- also part of the process of a much legal system: both before the which he automatically deducted an issue with the constraints of Chile is home to one of the world’s country in liberal economics of the Pinêra greater social transformation that courts and in the law-making Each rewritten judgment is money from their accounts. He the project. Dr Luker said that Dr most heavily privatised education government of which higher involves the rest of society.” process. From this, comes the accompanied by a commentary was found to have engaged in Irene Watson, another Indigenous systems since the sweeping neo- Latin America education is a symbol. Chile is Australian Feminist Judgments that reflects on the original unconscionable conduct, for scholar, recognized that “she liberal reforms of military dictator the wealthiest country in Latin Lessons for Chile, then, and Project, a collection of existing judgment and how the feminist selling toys which were not age- didn’t feel that she was able to Augusto Pinochet in the 1970s – and its most America – and its most unequal lessons for us. Chile remains the legal judgments that have judgment alters this. Most of appropriate for the women’s speak with a sovereign Indigenous and 80s. This trend has continued in wealth. chief example in the 21st century been rewritten from a feminist the judgments are written by children; deducting money for woman’s voice” within the confines through the “return to democracy” unequal in of the ability of students to take perspective. Inspired by the 2010 feminist academics, covering goods which were never provided; of existing law from the outset. over the last two decades. Chilean Though the right-wing military matters of public policy into their UK Project, the Australian Project diverse areas of law, including not and taking advantage of the lack students have been paying some wealth. dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet own hands. (‘the Project’) is to be published only criminal and family law, but of commercial knowledge The Project is a very exciting of the highest education fees in was gradually overthrown in December 2014. In the UK and more unexpected areas such as or education of the women. endeavour as it explores the the world – 50 per cent higher on Australian legal systems, judges consumer, tax and constitutional importance of developing inclusive average than Australian students. must make and write decisions law. Dr Luker identifies this case discourses in law making. In the They have been paying 75 per cent On June 13 of that year in protest within the confines of existing law. as “highly distressing” and Ms Foreword to the UK Project book, of the costs of higher education, to the government’s educational Authors for the Project also had to Dr Luker described the feminist Loban’s judgment seeks to reinsert retired judge Baroness Brenda higher than any other OECD policy, students occupied 100 write within this constraint and approach taken by each writer as the Indigenous women’s voices Hale writes that the Project opens country. high schools around the country. therefore the Project explores the “intuitive.” She said that she and into the case. The original decision fascinating possibilities: “not the By July 19, 148 high schools potential for feminism in the law her co-editors were “very open was based on the technicalities straightforward, predetermined Bachelet’s education commitments were occupied. On June 30, as it currently stands. to the fact that there are many of the transactions and the key march from A to B of popular also involve the removal of something like 200,000 student different feminisms” and that role of gender and race in their belief, but something altogether government funding to for-profit demonstrators turned out against Dr Trish Luker, a post-doctoral the feminist angle taken varied interactions was completely more complicated and uncertain.” institutions and free pre-school for the government in Chile’s major research fellow at UTS and one of “according to the intention of the overlooked. This reinsertion of a all children. These are amongst the cities. In response, President the four leaders of the Australian rewriter.” human voice and recognition of While titled the “Feminist” demands that have been made for Sebastian Pinêra pushed Project, said that there were power imbalances in relationships Judgments Project, it seems the past few years by Chile’s large privatisation still further by “clear hopes” for the Project as an Ms Heron Loban, one of three can only be beneficial to legal that these cases are not only and powerful student movement. formally allowing higher education exercise which could be used for Indigenous contributors to the development, both in terms of feminist but also humanistic – The movement gained momentum providers to operate for-profit, teaching purposes and read by Australian Project, rewrites a 2005 being a catalyst for law reform they very necessarily reinsert in 2011, when massive protests thereby codifying conduct that judicial officers. The Project comes decision ACCC v Keshow in which and for a better experience of the the individual’s story into court were triggered by the decision of was already widespread. at an important time in Australia’s Mr Keshow, who owned a business individual in the legal system. decisions. the right-wing Pinêra government legal history, as there has been a that sold children’s educational to increase funding to for-profit On July 14, students marched significant increase of women on materials, targeted Indigenous Dr Luker identified rewriting educational institutions. Minister alongside striking mineworkers in for Education Joaquin Lavin one of the largest demonstrations was discovered to be an investor since Chile’s “return to 8 9 feature feature

whereas here it’s sort of like an including Health Science, Medicine office building,” he comments. and Nursing.

The relatively younger Bond “All my friends who go here, Private and and Notre Dame stand in stark they’re all on FEE-Help,” Oscar contrast to Sydney’s marketing. “It was sold to me as ... says. “Their parents aren’t paying Established a mere 25 years ago, their fees, so they’ve got a huge they lack the entrenched historical an elite club that I should amount of debt to pay off.” prestige for which institutions controversial like Sydney are widely known feel very privileged to Counter this with Sydney, where Rebecca Wong probes private universities. and esteemed. Even Notre Dame’s studying any degree must meet website acknowledges this: “It be invited into.” an ATAR cut-off of at least 70, will be some years before it [the with higher cut-offs for premier university] can be regarded as undergraduate degrees like Law In Sneha’s first year of Medicine and 12 students per tutorial, exists within other, larger public (NUS) consistently lobbies the a mature institution.” and Physiotherapy. at Bond University, one of the guys where staff get to know students institutions. Federal government to abolish and that’s not necessarily a art show, that’s relevant to what in her class announced that both of practically by name. fees for social equity, with their “The uni’s improved a lot since Despite its higher fees, Notre particularly efficient way of doing you’re doing. And because there his parents had BMWs. Ask most “At Notre Dame, I’d see the same website proudly stating that the 2010,” Oscar contends. “The café Dame outperforms many of either teaching or research,” he aren’t that many of us ... it makes students what they know about Hashim, who transferred from people every day and I knew union “supports free education used to be a car wash, now they’ve Australia’s top public universities states. it easier to do that.” private universities and they’ll the University of Melbourne, says, everyone’s faces,” Katie says. internationally” to ensure equal gained like five or six buildings including Sydney, Melbourne talk about wealthy kids paying “They basically have an open door access to students from all socio- in four years ... they’re just and ANU in participation across Staff dissatisfaction with this * * * their way through degrees they policy. And obviously they can’t “Every single person I’ve spoken economic backgrounds. expanding.” socioeconomic status. A 2009 study trend is evident with the ‘Stop the weren’t smart enough to get into. have that at bigger universities... to [at Sydney] is like, ‘Yeah, I don’t undertaken by Chris Ryan (ANU) Cuts’ campaign and subsequent The most contentious aspect “It’s basically just rich white kids you get that one-on-one time have any friends in my classes’. Australian universities are often Instead, the marketing of these and Buly Cardak (La Trobe) strikes at Sydney University in of the existence of private who come here,” Sneha says. whenever you want.” For some reason, here it’s like, ‘I’ve compared to America’s top colleges, private institutions stresses found that low-SES students with 2012 and 2013. In his speech universities remains whether been here for four years and I still which are all private. Harvard, teaching and learning outcomes equivalent ATARs are as likely to at a rally in 2013, Nick Riemer, students can afford this kind of Looking at Bond’s campus, which Notre Dame is similarly small, don’t know anyone’s names in my Yale, Princeton and Stanford within the university market. attend university as their high- English lecturer and National education. With hefty price tags boasts a man-made Lake Orr and with 11,000 students spread across classes.’ That seems very strange charge an average of $50,000 - SES counterparts. This suggests Tertiary Education Union of up to $300,000 for Medicine, a 48-hectare campus complete with its Broome, Fremantle and Sydney to me.” $60,000 per annum, while Sydney These competing marketing that a student’s capacity to do well member at Sydney University, Bond’s reputation for attracting a Sports and Recreation Centre, campuses. As a Roman Catholic University’s most expensive strategies reflect a more complex in high school is a better guarantee accused university management moneyed students is perhaps an Olympic-size swimming pool, university, its teaching curriculum * * * undergraduate degree (Medicine/ nexus of competitive pressures. of access to university than wealth. of having a vision “predicated not undeserved. Without access and rugby and soccer fields, one is underpinned by a value- Commerce) is $67,000 for seven In 1997, the Howard Government on competition, division, self- to subsidised university places walks away with the impression driven focus on philosophical and In private schooling, government years’ full time study. initiated six per cent upfront At Notre Dame, Tertiary Enabling interest”. Heavy criticism has or HECS loans, students must that this is a university for the theological subjects. In particular, funding is buffered by the political funding cuts to tertiary education, and Foundation Year programs are been fired at Vice-Chancellor pay their fees up front. While dumb children of the rich. On Notre Dame emphasises imperative of parental choice. Critics of America’s education with further cuts proposed in offered as an alternative pathway Michael Spence for supporting some may have access to FEE- the other hand, one campus of alternative pathways and flexible Private schools are viewed as system point to the $1 trillion 2013 to fund the Gonski reforms. to those who did not get the extensive staff cuts while Help loans, these are limited to private Roman Catholic university entry policies to students. the purveyor of all manner of debt currently owed by students, Along with a cap on domestic fees, required ATAR to enter university, simultaneously spearheading the $120,000 and incur a 25 per cent Notre Dame is enclosed within opportunities that are invaluable many of who have struggled to the proportion of full fee-paying or may have suffered educational construction of the $385 million interest fee. the confines of Chippendale in Oscar, who is studying a Bachelor to the social and professional find jobs in the flagging post- international students has surged. disadvantage. These bridging Centre for Obesity, Diabetes and Sydney’s CBD, overlooking little of Media and Communications, development of a child. The Global Financial Crisis economy. They now represent a quarter of courses are fully funded by the Cardiovascular Disease. For Georgia, the decision to study was offered a place at Notre Dame Independent Schools Council In response to the prospect of the student population, making government, and are advertised else but a busy Parramatta Road. at Sydney Uni rather than Bond, even before he received his HSC of Australia wields considerable fee deregulation, NUS president Australia the world’s third largest as providing a study environment Bond and Notre Dame are less despite being offered a 50 per For Katie, however, it was the results. “I wasn’t sure what I political clout, having endorsed Deanna Taylor stated “an income- provider of international education that is “both challenging and subject to these competitive cent scholarship, was partially a transfer from Notre Dame to a wanted to do so I was like, ‘Alright the federal Gonski reforms in contingent loan scheme ... is not an services, outranked only by Britain supportive”. funding pressures as they remain financial one as the baseline fee public university that proved to I’ll just take it,’ and it was a July 2013 only after the addition excuse to gouge more money out of and the United States. uninhibited by domestic fee caps. was still exorbitant. be a daunting experience. “At Commonwealth supported place, of a $150 million sweetener to students’ pockets and leave them “When I first started uni I hated International students comprise Notre Dame, lectures probably so half the fees are paid for.” independent school funding. crippled with debt.” In a “demanding budgetary it,” Oscar says. “I took four years 40 per cent of Bond’s intake, with “That aside, I think I definitely seated about 150 people, maybe situation”, the Kemp-Norton off, and now I’m 23... and I’m doing American students representing would have gone,” Georgia says. even less. Here [at USyd] I’m For those without a standard It is surprising, then, that this However the National Commission Review noted the importance of the quite well, and it makes me want Year 12 qualification such as the generally favourable view of international student market as a by far the largest proportion. to stay and I’m learning everything sitting in a lecture theatre with of Audit report, which was “They wooed me because I was HSC, Notre Dame accepts Special private institutions does not source of revenue for universities. This can perhaps be explained by that I guess I can.” 300 students around me, and released last Friday, recommends school captain,” she continued. Tertiary Admissions Test (STAT) extend to tertiary education. Members of the Group of Eight the emphasis on small class sizes it’s intimidating and hard to that student contributions to “They kind of spoke to my ego a for almost all its undergraduate Indeed the dominance of public (Go8), a coalition of Australia’s similar to the US, where smaller, “They’ve got a really good film concentrate,” she explains. higher education costs should lot. It was sold to me as something courses. unis, making up for 41 out of 44 top-ranked universities, rely on elite institutions differentiate school here, it’s really involved, actually be increased, with HECS that could get me into networks tertiary institutions in Australia, their reputations as innovative from their larger, lower-tier public it’s got a lot of smaller classes.” Bond and Notre Dame both loan repayments coming into effect that were otherwise completely Like Bond, the flyers of Notre is viewed positively by those research institutions to compete counterparts, also known as opened in 1989 as Australia’s as soon as graduates begin earning closed ... an elite club that I should Dame also promote a “caring who see high fees as a barrier to in the global and national community colleges. * * * first independent universities. the minimum wage. feel very privileged to be invited Earlier this year, they were community atmosphere” with low-SES students. Perhaps the education markets. Sydney In the context of a comparatively into.” joined by Torrens University in individualised teaching and a less historical progression of university In the current political climate, University’s website advertises Crusading against higher alienating classroom experience. funding in Australia is to account its impressive placement in the small private sector, and absent university fees is popular as this Adelaide, offering non-subsidised, it seems unlikely that there will Several students admitted that According to Sarah, who studies for this. Many see the 74-89 QS World University Rankings, the imperative to produce is an aspect of education over full-fee undergraduate degrees. be any reduction in fees any time Bond was the only university to Psychology, Notre Dame is “a period as the golden age of higher waxing lyrical about the benefits innovative research, Australia’s which the government can exert Bond is relatively small with soon. offer them places in competitive bit more nurturing, the classes education in Australia. Following of studying its internationally private universities are able to control. It is more difficult to a student body of 7,000 and a courses such as Medicine when were smaller so you get to know the Whitlam government’s * * * renowned degrees. Getting focus on teaching and cater to admit that there exist less tangible trimester system that enables fast- their ATAR did not meet public your lecturers and meet a lot abolition of university fees in 1974, a World University Ranking individual students’ needs. The barriers to access, such as the tracked degrees. The 2015 Bond university cut-offs. Many were also more people”. Similarly, Katie, tertiary education remained free When flipping through the requires combining research with 2014 Good Universities Guide gave competitive and prestige-driven University Undergraduate Guide willing to move interstate to attend who studied a bridging course, for 15 years. Spearheaded by then prospectus for Sydney University, teaching and learning outcomes, Bond and Notre Dame five stars atmosphere of bigger universities. spruiks the benefits of “working university, which would add to describes the tutors and lecturers Education Minister John Dawkins, it’s the allure of sandstone and including a minimum number of for teaching quality and overall with internationally renowned their costs due to accommodation as more accommodating and the Higher Education Contribution prestigious alumni that entices published papers as a prerequisite satisfaction (based on graduate Despite a good quality of education teachers in small personalised and living expenses. Almost all engaged in the learning process, Scheme (HECS) was introduced in prospective students to enrol. for consideration. As collating ratings), while Sydney University at Notre Dame, Oscar plans classes”, further emphasised by Bond scholarships are awarded from helping students grasp large 1989, and is based on a system of Perhaps this is not a bad move, and comparing data on outcomes was given only one star, placing it to transfer to UTS next year. the comparatively high teaching on the basis of academic merit, concepts to detailing the nitty interest-free loans that are repaid given that even Oscar opines such as barriers to entry and in the bottom fifth of universities When it comes to job interviews quality and student satisfaction extracurricular and leadership gritty of assessment submission. once students reach a certain an express wish to be able to lie staff-student rations is difficult, for each of these indicators. and applications, it’s a more ratings that Bond received in the achievements, with none geared Good Universities Guide. income threshold ($51,309 in on the grass that Notre Dame’s the emphasis in the rankings “respectable” university. Mina, who chose to study at Notre towards educational or economic “We did all our stuff in APA style 2013-14). HECS works in tandem concrete labyrinth does not shifts to research. Andrew Norton, Dame because of the community disadvantage.Over at Notre “I can just get through my degree referencing, and they spent a long with direct government funding for provide. the Program Director of higher Still, the impression of a colder setting, appreciates the flexibility Dame, fees are less prohibitive, a lot faster,” says Sneha. “Instead time making sure we knew exactly Commonwealth Supported Places education at the Grattan Institute, environment at bigger public that smaller classes allow. “You ranging from $18,000 for Nursing of waiting six years, I can do it what we were doing.” (CSPs) in university degrees, “Nothing beats that quadrangle believes that this is a particularly universities persists. “Here I’m have all the resources that the to $52,000 for Law. Limited (Medicine) in four and a half.” This ranging from $1,600 per student at Sydney, it’s just that sort of problematic aspect of the legacy somebody, whereas I feel like if I teachers provide you with, the HECS loans are available for the Smaller class sizes have also for Law to $17,800 for Agriculture. American college feeling ... those of the Dawkins reforms. “Almost go somewhere big like UTS I’d just intake allows Bond to cap its class first year of some government- encouraged the development of a big prestigious grounds that give every academic is expected to be opportunities they give to go and become a dot in this huge ocean of sizes at 120 students per lecture designated high priority degrees, more close-knit community than The National Union of Students you a sense of purpose there, both a teacher and a researcher, see theatre shows ... maybe an people,” he says. 10 11 #usudecides profile Eastern Avenue is Decadent and Depraved [REDACTED] was told campaigning would be a great way to meet people.

Profile: Jake Lynch 0700: By the time I wake up, I’ve got 1130: Go to King Street for lunch. out and puts it to her ear. “I’ve already three missed calls from my booth Sit next to someone from rival campaign voted”, she says. The polls don’t open till Nick Rowbotham speaks to the Centre of Peace and Conflict Studies Director about his time manager, who’s reminding me to wash on bus. In my head, imagine an next week. as a BBC journalist, involvement in the BDS movement, and the push for academic freedom. my shirt. It’s day five of the campaign entire reality where we overcome our and, till now anyway, I was wearing the differences and have a steamy romance 1430: For the first time in ten years, same shirt uninterrupted each day. “The inside the ballot box. She gets off a stop I see my estranged father, standing in a smell is turning away voters”, they said. before me. I run my hand down the throng of people on Cadigal Green. I run window and whisper “noooo” as she to him. Dad, I have so much to s— “Sorry Last November, the UN General boycotted by Lynch, ultimately 0900: My job today is to follow Callum walks past. Son,” he replies, “I’m voting for Alisha”. Assembly passed a resolution landing him in the Federal Court around campus. He’s the corrupt condemning Israeli settlements despite Avnon expressing no desire candidate, and we figure we can get him 1200: Stop campaigning to go to class. 1500: It starts to rain. My soggy in occupied Palestinian territory. to be a part of the case. disqualified if we get enough electoral People look anxiously over their candidate flyers become a metaphor for The resolution passed with breaches on tape. I asked to look at CF’s shoulders when they see me approaching. my heart. One of our placards is pushed little fanfare, as it does almost Lynch’s stand in the Federal Court receipts and CF said they were still “Don’t worry, I’m off-duty,” I say, but the over by the wind. It is also a metaphor ritualistically each year at the UN. is perhaps the first sign that there rendering. guy has headphones in so he just tells me for my heart. is any resistance, at least from to fuck off. But in one of the Abbott academics, to collaboration with 1100: Walk-and-talk outside Fisher. 1600: A mother comes by the stall with government’s first major foreign Israeli institutions with links Get told to fuck off in Española, which 1300: Everyone I try campaigning to goes her baby. I smile at the baby. The baby’s policy decisions after the to the occupation of Palestinian joins French, German and English as to UTS. Even that guy wearing a USyd first words are “fuck off”. landslide September election, territories. In part, it’s reflective ‘languages I’ve been told to fuck off in’. bomber jacket. Australia reversed its position on of a man who believes firmly settlements in the West Bank and that “it’s absolutely essential to 1400: Cute girl walks towards me near abstained from the vote. It passed establish our political freedom to Manning. I smile. She pulls her phone with 158 countries in favour, six take non-violent action from the against, and eight abstentions. level of civil society.”

Rewind to late 2012, and Julia mobilising publics for war” whilst an apartheid state, but just last But it’s also reflective of an Gillard, along with Bill Shorten, working at the BBC during the month US Secretary of State John Australian society that is ignorant, opposed the consensus position first Gulf War. But his career in Kerry stated that Israel risked sometimes wilfully so, of human of the rest of the Labor cabinet journalism no doubt informs his apartheid if a two-state solution rights abuses in Palestine. It’s to vote in favour of granting UN belief that “academics need to have was not reached. in this context, Lynch opines, ‘non-member observer’ status a careful think about their role in that academics need to “stand to Palestine. the public sphere”. He points to the Kerry later retracted the comment up and be counted.” He refers to Abbott government in illustrating after pressure from the Israel last year’s industrial action as an Australia ultimately abstained the problem facing academics. lobby, but there is plenty of example of their capacity to do so. on another vote passed “There’s a heedlessness to this anecdotal evidence that awareness overwhelmingly by the General government,” he says. of the Israeli occupation and When the Centre for Peace Assembly. As Professor Jake support for BDS is growing. and Conflict Studies adopted Lynch, head of USyd’s Centre for “When evidence does not suit Actress Scarlett Johansson was its boycott policy on Israel in Peace and Conflict Studies, puts the interests of their members criticised heavily earlier this year 2009, Lynch wrote to USyd Vice- it, “Australian government policy and clients, they are inclined to when she stepped down from her Chancellor Michael Spence asking positions this country on the disavow and deny that evidence ambassadorial role at Oxfam, after for USyd’s fellowship schemes with extreme pro-Israeli fringe of and ignore it, and try and bluster the human rights organisation Israeli universities to be revoked. world political opinion.” their way through it. So that’s expressed concern about her According to Lynch, “Spence wrote really producing a climate in which appearance in advertisements for back and said, you know, because Professor Lynch is currently in academic endeavour is going to be SodaStream, whose main plant is Australia has diplomatic ties with Australia’s Federal Court fighting seen as less and less important.” in occupied Palestinian territory Israel, we won’t do it, we will a landmark case in defence of the in the West Bank. continue.” global Boycott, Divestment and Lynch brings an activist mindset Sanctions (BDS) movement, which to his professional life, which In the US, several large academic Lynch has few kind words for aims to put diplomatic pressure undoubtedly stems in part from associations have voted to boycott Spence, whom he describes on Israel to end its military his days as a student journalist Israel, and the EU has a number as “craven” and “an enemy of occupation of the West Bank and activist. He is one of the of policies in place penalising academic freedom” in the context and Gaza. world’s leading scholars in peace individuals and corporations with of university management’s journalism, “a globally distributed ties to Israeli settlements. It’s proposed removal of academic He is accused of breaching the reform movement in and around interesting that, given the power freedom clauses in 2013’s Racial Discrimination Act after journalism” that aims to reduce of the Israel lobby in the US, the enterprise bargaining negotiations, refusing to endorse a fellowship “emphasis on violent events” in pro-Palestine movement seems to which were eventually application for an Israeli academic the reporting of conflicts and have gained more traction there reintroduced during the last year. When the court last to reprioritise an “emphasis on than it has in Australia.Lynch year’s industrial action. sat, several key sections of the process”. He describes his first argues that Sydney University statement of claim against Lynch journalism assignments working “goes out of its way, and beyond He describes last year’s were struck out, though it still as “a kind of, part-time Wales the call of duty, to appear as the controversies as “a concerted appears likely the case will go theatre correspondent for the most prominent ally of Israeli management attack on the to trial. Morning Star” (Britain’s socialist higher education in Australia”. principles of intellectual newspaper). “I would do reviews of He cites USyd’s extensive research freedom”.“We only have it because The quiet niche of academic life plays that were likely to appeal to partnerships and fellowship of the strength and solidarity of is a far cry from Lynch’s former a Morning Star readership – and schemes with Israeli universities, staff at the university,” he says. career as a BBC and Sky News there were plenty of those,” he particularly the Hebrew and “Academics do have a record presenter. His transition from remarks drolly. Technion universities, both of of taking action and coming the buzz of TV news in Britain which have strong institutional out of their offices in defence of to relatively obscure academia in Lynch was also an anti-apartheid links to the Israeli Defence important principles. All they Australia puts him in opposition to activist as a student, which goes Force.Hebrew University has need to do is extend their vision the stereotypes of both professions. a long way to explaining his a campus in occupied territory a little bit further, and take on strong support for BDS. A few in East Jerusalem, and is home responsibility for some of these Lynch struggled with the “possible years ago, it would have been to Dr Dan Avnon, an academic other issues.” complicity of journalism in deemed extreme to label Israel whose fellowship application was

12 #usu decides #usudecides quiz 2014 liam callum liv alisha edward A. USU finance carrigan forbes ronan aitken-radburn mcmahon meco II JD II arts/llb iii meco iii BIGS/LLB V 1. To the closest $1m, what is the total annual expenditure (based on the 2012 financial audit of the USU) of the USU?

2. To the closest $1m, how much money did the USU receive in SSAF funding from the university in 2013?

3. Of that 2013 SSAF allocation, approximately what percentage went to i) the Debates Program; and ii) Revues?

4. To the closest $1m, how much money did the USU make from the sale of goods and services in 2012?

5. How much money was the Quidditch Society given to go to the World Cup? Liam Carrigan is running as an After just one year at the University of The Honi Soit editors did not write, Alisha is an experienced and knowledgeable The times appear to suit Ed McMahon. B. Other campus organisations independent but presents a very Sydney, Callum Forbes is already one of the candidate who placed equal first in the At some point during the failed dismissal progressive platform. One of the more biggest names on campus. There are two edit or provide direction to this profile, Candidates’ Quiz. Her extensive – some of Tom Raue, everyone in student 1. Which student organisation(s) received more in SSAF knowledgeable candidates in the field, reasons for this. The first is that Callum has as Liv managed our Honi campaign. might say unachievable – policy document politics except those at the Howard Cup funding than the USU in 2013? he got 74 per cent on Honi’s quiz, and his mastered the art of shameless self-promotion It was written by Georgia Carr and contains a whopping 31 policies. Some are decided that they were best mates with 2. Name five SRC office bearers. interview showed he is well versed on all to a degree not normally achieved by anyone Geordie Crawford. admirable and pragmatic, including a free Grassroots. In this election, many of the things USU related. He supported Raue with a surname other than Kardashian. breakfast bar, an increased focus on social other candidates have been lining up to 3. To the closest $1m, what if the SRC’s annual budget? and genuinely seeks to make the USU His social media presence, resume, and justice within the USU, and an end to Eftpos align themselves with Ed. a democratic institution. personal grooming are immaculate, and, Liv Ronan is prepared and well-spoken, minimums on campus. 4. Who is the current president of SUPRA? in person, he is the perfect combination of a testament to her wealth of experience as The lionisation of Raue has set up He can talk at length on his commitment to self-aggrandisement and self-deprecation. However, some others are disappointingly this election for a candidate preaching 5. Which student organisation has the acronym CSG? a debater and because she’s probably been student control and democracy, however his The second reason for Callum’s notoriety is planning to run for board since last year’s populist. In particular, Alisha’s policy student control and a greater emphasis progressive idealism comes across as quite that, last year, with the assistance of Adobe Honi Soit elections where she co-managed to introduce beanbags at Hermann’s is on equity and environmental justice. C. USU regulations naïve. He flipped around between arguing InDesign, he managed to single-handedly the winning ticket Sex for Honi. particularly ill thought out, considering for more SSAF funding for the USU and derail an entire SULS executive election. that last time the USU bought beanbags But let’s not crack out the goon without 1. Identify two of the three mechanisms for changing the then insisting that he doesn’t want to screw they wasted $14,000 of student money. a bit of consideration first. Ed is a USU Constitution. If you don’t already know what incident we’re Her Access Sydney Arts and Student over other student organisations. He does referring to, put down this paper, get out your Marketplace policies are clever in that they strong candidate, sure of his principles 2. Who were the two Directors removed in 2011 and why seem to have lucid ideas: he supports the phone, and Google “Callum Forbes receipts”. add to pre-existing models at the university Alisha said she would prioritise her and eloquent in their defence. He has a were they removed? Queer Portfolio review and is happy to cut Now. (Access partnerships and the fortnightly ACCESS subsidy scheme if elected, which clearly defined and well defended vision funding for Incubate, the USU’s annual Wednesday market respectively). The would take both USU engagement and of what the Union should be. 3. What is the quorum for a General Meeting of the USU? dinner, and Debates if necessary. In his interview, Callum blamed this Breakfast Bar and Free Event Night Quota financial need into account to provide particularly “poor decision” (his words, not cheaper ACCESS cards for students. Yet his understanding of the 4. Who decides the date of the Annual USU Director policies are well thought out despite also election: the USU Board, the USU President, the USU His policies are generally poorly thought ours) on the pressure of being involved in a seeming somewhat populist, but the Pre- “I don’t really envision this being a scheme organisation he will confront (if elected) CEO or the USyd Senate? through. His online grievance box sounds “very intense campaign”. He also claimed to Exam Pick-Me-Up policy could use further for someone who just wants to get 20 cents is less detailed. In the quiz, he scored more like publicising Board Directors’ email have since learnt how to manage his time and fleshing out. off their coffee,” Alisha said. She would also less than 20 per cent in the USU D. Current board and policies addresses. When asked what would be new stress better. Given the dozens of students prioritise her policy about USU jobs for Finances section. He got the budget about ‘open board forums’, location seemed who manage to run in elections every year We questioned Liv on why her policy USyd graduates and students. wrong by $15 million, thinking that it 1. Name two of the specific policies of each of the USU key. He suggested Manning Forecourt without resorting to fraud, Honi can’t help statement made no mention of increased was three and half times smaller than Board Directors elected last year (half a point for each or the Law Lawns as ideal venues, so but think the real issue at play may not have transparency within the Union – something Those who have worked with Alisha on it actually is (we suppose, if nothing else, correct policy). we can only conclude that he just wants been poor time management skills, but a that was notably lacking in a field of campus were mixed in their reviews. SURG he will be pleasantly surprised when these meeting to happen outside. On his fundamentally defective moral compass. President Gordon Leibowitz said Alisha he gets a copy of the financial audit). 2. Name the two Senate-Appointed Directors who USU progressive candidates. She responded President Hannah Morris attempted to get reappointed ‘student control committee’ he failed to that she supports increased transparency had performed well in her role as Publicity He couldn’t name any resolutions to the USU Board by the USyd Senate earlier this year? articulate why the Board couldn’t fulfil Callum’s campaign thus far has been slick, wholeheartedly and believes that the board Officer and was an enthusiastic member of passed by the Board this year. the job description of representing student smooth, and engaging – Honi particularly will inevitably move in that direction, and the executive. However, another student 3. During the special resolution to remove Tom Raue, interests, or why the Senate would listen applauds him for his willingness to chat to assured us that this was part of the message who has worked with Alisha noted “she is That indicates that some important which Board Directors voted for Tom’s removal and to such a committee. Like much of Liam’s voters over a 6:30am Body Attack session. quite competent when she is available, but aspects of the organisation he wants which directors voted against? she has been communicating to voters. presence, it “just flags an issue we’re Unfortunately, though, there’s not much this is an uncommon phenomenon”. to serve as a Director of remains a bit 4. Who is the current Queer portfolio holder and who passionate about”. He also wants fireworks policy substance to back it up. In his We got the sense that Liv does indeed of a mystery to him. Unlike his fellow was their immediate predecessor? on campus, a daily USU BULL App, and interview, Callum was unable to provide support increased transparency, with Alisha said she supported USU corporate candidates, Ed cut his teeth in campus the USU to give careers advice. any suggestions as to how he would go about considered responses around tweeting, in partnerships, but only to the extent that life primarily outside the domain of 5. Name three resolutions passed by the Board in 2014. achieving the universally-accepted objective of camera meetings and Tom Raue’s almost- they don’t dominate student events. the USU – in activist groups and SRC It is hard to imagine Liam navigating “greater engagement with students”, claiming She publicly supported Tom Raue prior politics rather than clubs and societies. 6. Who is the current Marketing and Communications dismissal. Manager? strong personalities on Board, as during that this (his flagship policy) is “more of a to the vote for his attempted dismissal, That’s why he’s able to articulate a his interview he was swayed by the way framework through which decisions would be However, we did feel she was somewhat and is running on a platform of increased convincing progressive vision for the questions were asked. When asked about made”. He was equally unconvincing on his transparency and accountability within Union, and it’s also why he is relatively E. Student life evasive on questions relating to Tim the role of friendships on Board, he said, vague promise to “reduce unnecessary red Matthews – a top contender for Union Board the USU. ignorant of many important aspects of that Union. 1. To the nearest 5 per cent, what percentage of USyd “your opinion of them is going to mediate tape” in the Union, a subject which, as a President. Despite Matthews authorising students are international students? how you view their voice on Board and card-carrying member of the Liberal Party, and co-managing her campaign, Liv denied It’s important to note that Alisha enjoys how successful you want to see them be in he should be able to effuse upon with ease. that her executive vote was finalised. immense factional support in this election. Ed is an agitator before he is a 2. Name 10 businesses given tender by the USU (half the organisation” before correcting himself A member of Labor Right on campus, Alisha prospective USU Board Director. point for each correct business). by saying he “wants the most progressive You should probably also know that Callum She also expressed that she does not believe is also being backed by Labor Left faction That’s his number one credential to people to succeed”. performed poorly in the Candidates’ Quiz; the senate-appointed directors should have SLS and an assortment of friends/student many wearing his shirt around campus. 3. What was the name of the band night at the O-Week finale and who headlined? turned up 25 minutes late to his candidate a vote in the executive ballot, and admitted politicians from the progressive end of It’s also the number one concern for All in all, Liam is a well-meaning ingénue interview; has been openly criticised for that should a Presidential candidate the spectrum to bona fide members of the those who haven’t been swept up in the 4. To the nearest thousand, how many likes does the who wants to sit at the big kids’ table. He not doing his job properly as Treasurer of seek their votes she would speak to them Conservative Club. Even her campaign highs of the Stand with Raue campaign. USU Facebook page have? seems genuinely committed to changing the SHADES; and looks set to get in trouble for, privately about her disagreement. When managers are stupol heavyweights – USU, but we saw no evidence that he has once again, testing the limits of USyd election probed on whether she would speak out Jennifer Light, SRC President, and Robby 5. How many issues of BULL get printed in a year? tangible plans for how to achieve it. regulations. See this week’s Manning Files publicly, she responded that she would Magyar, one of the USU President hopefuls. 6. Name the subjects of five features inBULL this year? for more. ‘if asked the question directly’.

7. Which USU club has the most members?

F. Ethics quiz results quiz results quiz results quiz results quiz results 1. Is it ethical to doctor receipts? Total: 74% Total: 46% Total: 79% Total: 79% Total: 47% A. 4/6 D. 9/10 A. 2/6 D. 4.5/10 A. 5/6 D. 9/10 A. 3/6 D. 10/10 A. 1/6 D. 3.5/10 B. 4/5 E. 7/12 B. 3/5 E. 5.5/12 B. 2/5 E. 9/12 B. 3/5 E. 10/12 B. 4/5 E. 6/12 14 C. 4/5 F. 1/1 C. 2/5 F. 1/1 C. 5/5 F. 1/1 C. 4/5 F. 1/1 C. 3/5 F. 1/1 #usu decides analysis kate cameron arghya bullen caccamo gupta Rooting The IKEA of phones arts III arts iv mbbs iv for losers is coming Sam Jonscher explores Why not just build your next phone, asks Jeff Wong. the romance of under- You’re running out of space on would never use or wanted, innovation. Third-party performing teams. your phone, and it’s starting just to replace an older phone development is key to the to get a bit too slow for your that still functioned perfectly. survival of Project Ara – and When my parents were younger liking. You need a new phone, if these third-parties step up, and living in Chicago, they were you say. This is where Project Ara Project Ara devices could offer devout Cubs fans. The Chicago fits in. The battery, the functionality other smartphone Cubs inspire love in their fans akin Enter Project Ara. It’s a Google memory storage, the camera, users could only dream of. to religion. The Cubs, it should be funded project to develop a all of these are modular Crowd sourcing hardware and Like all great Labor politicians, Kate Cameron Caccamo is a former Education You likely haven’t seen much of Arghya said, are universally acknowledged modular smartphone platform pieces of hardware which indie developers will make an Bullen has perfected the art of loving and Social Work student, fourth year Arts Gupta so far, and if elected, the USU is to be the worst team in America – the first of its kind. This can be removed or upgraded already innovative platform unions, making few promises and Student, and serial hack. He describes himself unlikely to see much more. Working 9-5 – they have not won a championship means is that the hardware independently without having rise above and beyond. avoiding questions. Just in case you as “broadly left-wing”, though contends it isn’t in a hospital and studying a Masters game in 105 years (they are 107 is comprised of independent to replace everything else. Take the software-hardware haven’t heard, the third year Arts a difficult position to hold “in this [current] degree in the evening, he’s not a regular years old). units which are used to form Want to take better photos? comparison again: how much student lives in a share house in political climate”. He scored equal 3rd in the FUNCH-goer. the smartphone. For the non Upgrade and get a better sway does third-party software Newtown and likes pears. Candidates’ Quiz, indicative of his broad and My mother remembers those tech-savvy, this means you can camera module. Need more and apps hold upon your myriad interactions with the USU. He’s the only true outside-the-beltway games fondly: sitting in the cheap mix and match the hardware storage? Easy. Even bump up choice of phone? If you design At the time of writing, Kate has a candidate in this election. If that makes seats – the bleachers – exposed of your smartphone depending your battery life by putting in a platform that strives for far more sparse policy platform than Cameron’s involvement as an embedded Union him enigmatic, it has also made him to the elements, with my dad on what you need your an upgraded battery module, individuality and independent most other candidates, and is actively Board tweeter and Quidditch team keeper ignorant. In the section of quiz devoted and 20 or so of their nearest and phone to do. In recent years, or multiple battery modules if design, and then let the people collecting policy suggestions from the is reflected in his policy suite of increased to current board and its policies, Arghya dearest. There was cheap beer in smartphone competition has you’re so inclined. During the provide the ideas, success general USyd public. At first glance transparency, by way of “Town Hall-style notched up a score of zero. a plastic cups, hot dogs, and score been defined by software – but Google Project Ara developer will follow. this seemed like a strategy of running meetings”, and events like Geek Week and sheets. They militantly observed if Project Ara has its way, it conference on April 15, it was with fewer policies in order to run Comedy Festival. When pressed whether his His maverick status has only been the various rituals that surround will be defined by hardware. even hinted that the screen Ultimately, what makes up with fewer promises, but Kate policies were unambitious, he described them reinforced by some of the stranger and game day at Wrigley Field: Certain itself would be modular. our individuality is mostly to assures us that she will, by the time as broadly representative of his electoral more inexplicable policies we’ve seen in songs at certain times, particular In the past, if you wanted a Should you find yourself on the do with our personality and of publication, have collated these commitments. recent years. He told us in his interview flags, chants and the masochistic better, upgraded aspect of wrong side of fortune and crack our innate characteristics, public contributions and used them that he would like to sell off Manning insistence that all balls caught by some part of your phone, you your screen, there will be far but undoubtedly some part to supplement her policy platform. When asked how he would vote on the Board’s House and the Holme building to private special resolution to sack Raue, he admitted corporations, despite no Union financial the away team should be thrown had to wait until the next less heartbreak. The modules of it is to do with our material back if they happen to be caught model was announced and on the prototype are held and commercial identity. Some of Kate’s few existing policies his position had changed since the information audit recommending that. We asked who (a serious sacrifice in the eyes of pray the designers had your together by electromagnets, What brands we wear, which are vague nods towards abstractions first broke following revelations of “procedural would apply to fill the ‘Library angels’ baseball fans). They always went wishes in mind. Even then, you and are intuitive and simple ones we hold with our loyalty. like “ensuring students are at the injustice”, that the “report wasn’t fully positions, the people Arghya wants to see hoping the Cubs would win, and were more than likely going to customize. That being said, what better heart of every decision”, but others, confidential”, and that there was a significant employed by the USU to silence the less they did occasionally. But that to be paying a hefty sum for a way to express your individual like subsidized Responsible Service “student interest” attached to the leak. Cameron studious students in the library. The St wasn’t really the point. whole new piece of hardware, There are boundless identity than with a phone that of Alcohol courses and free breakfasts was less conclusive, however, when pressed Andrews rugby team, he responded. including features that you possibilities for further has three cameras on it? during exams, seem like both positive whether some lighter form of punishment ought I asked my mother why she would and tangible goals. to be handed down, such as removing Raue’s Arghya has been a USyd student for position as Vice-President. “I don’t think I eight years. He is midway through his throw herself head first in to a team that seemed like the eternal Kate has far less autonomy than the would’ve voted to have him kicked out of that second degree. It’s clear that, almost just underdog, doomed to only dream other candidates, as she is bound to position, but I could be swayed,” he said. through experience, Arghya understands of being the ‘best’. She started by National Labor Students (NLS) caucus, what a lot of non-political students want How to spend 12.4 billion dollars explaining that the bleachers were which effectively means NLS caucus Despite being well-ensconced within The from their Union: cheaper food, Uber an exciting place to be, part beer members will collectively determine Game, Cameron lacks strong factional support. rides at the price of petrol and a quieter Ben Brooks gives Abbott some better options. garden, part amateur cheerleading her vote on major decisions. This isn’t However, though still in its planning stages, library. It’s just that the policies he has squad. She was eager to impress as bad as it sounds: NLS, generally Cameron’s fortunes may turn come polling day. devised to achieve these aims seem to The Joint Strike Fighter looks Galactic. contribution to Afghanistan and upon me that she went for the speaking, are consistent in their Rumblings of a special ops team, affectionately have been written on a small napkin and performs like a disfigured Iraq totals over $10 billion. experience, the traditions, the game progressive values, not rogue decision referred to as ‘Operation Old Hack’, may see at the end of a boozy afternoon on the Transformer. It is now the most Of course, we also need itself, more so than for the out come makers. retired hall of famers spring from the grave Manning balcony. expensive defence procurement somewhere to indefinitely detain Economic Stimulus? (read: graduation, Juris Doctors) to help push of the game. “If they won, that was project in human history, and them. $12.4 billion would secure When asked what would happen if her him over the line. Currently, however, the team The presence of outsiders in elections better, but I didn’t really care. yet the federal government has a three million year lease of Over 50,000 jobs are expected personal views on an issue conflicted is so clandestine Cameron himself has allegedly should be celebrated. They bring new They were the underdogs and committed to buying a further Guantanamo Bay which is, by to be lost with the demise with that of caucus, Kate said, “I can’t not been informed of its existence. ideas to the fore, and they likely have winning was not the point. It was 58 Air Force variants for $12.4 all accounts, more hospitable of the car industry. Each of perceive a situation where that would better instincts when it comes to about being there and loving the billion. It is worth considering than Manus Island. The Liberal those workers could be given ever happen, because we’re a group of Overall, Cameron came off an informed and engaging students who haven’t been C&S Cubs with other people that also what other ludicrous assets party has abolished legal aid for a $248,000 publicly-funded people who … all believe in the same dedicated candidate. However, his eagerness executives since first year. But Arghya is loved the Cubs”. $12.4 billion can buy as the asylum seekers but, thankfully, redundancy package. Then ideas.” In short, as long as you agree to please and lack of positive vision may cost not really an outsider with a fresh take government cuts, abolishes, we could put 102,000 asylum again, they could be put to Wrapped up in American with the NLS Hive Mind, you’ll agree him a spot on Board. Cameron has hedged his on the USU; he’s an eighth year medical and repeals in the name of seekers through the University better use building seven Burj Exceptionalism – that handy catch with Kate. bets low, selecting relatively milquetoast policy student who, it seems, might not have “austerity”. of Sydney Juris Doctor program Khalifa towers in Barangaroo, platforms, which won’t substantially challenge the time to take this election seriously. all explanation for American culture (full international student fee, six Space Shuttles, or three Her Candidates’ Quiz results the status quo. It reflects a commitment We all make mistakes when we’re – is the expectation of superlative Turn Back the Boats? naturally). nuclear reactors. demonstrate a middling understanding to tinkering, rather than long-lasting or drunk, and it’s fair to say that Arghya’s achievement: the best, the brightest, of the USU and the wider USyd meaningful reform. His ostensible lack of candidacy fits somewhere between the fastest, the smartest. Being Intercepted asylum seekers Defence? Failing that, the government landscape: far from the best but experienced campaigners, when compared texting an ex and sleeping with a a Cubs fan though, is about are turned back aboard orange could buy out News Corp for also far from the worst. to this year’s frontrunners, may further family member. camaraderie. She admitted to me as lifeboats. With $12.4 billion, In place of the limp, overweight $10.3 billion, formalising its prove detrimental. we talked more that “it’s sort of nice we could return over 1.2 million stealth fighter, Australia control of the Murdoch press. to not have enormous expectations asylum seekers to South East could purchase a Nimitz-class of things and to just have fun. A Asia from Sydney in first class aircraft carrier ($6.3 billion), We could spend $12.4 billion holiday I guess from work, politics. suites aboard the Queen Mary 2. a full complement of 85 (more on healthcare or education, but There was no pressure on anything.” capable) Super Hornet fighters this is unlikely in a government That, I think more than anything, Too pedestrian? Between ($6 billion) and three B61-12 which takes ‘Kill the Poor’ for is why the loveable losers captured 2002-2013, Australia recorded nuclear bombs ($90 million). its motto. Future governments quiz results quiz results quiz results Chicago’s heart. They are easy to over 44,000 irregular maritime can opt out of the absurd fighter love in a world where achievements arrivals. We could return each Alternatively, we could program – let’s hope Cabinet Total: 50% Total: 74% Total: 28% mean everything because their individual with a $270,000 fund another 1.5 Wars on changes hands in the meantime. A. 2/6 D. 5/10 A. 3/6 D. 9/10 A. 2/6 D. 0/10 achievements mean nothing. suborbital trip on Virgin Terror – Australia’s financial B. 3/5 E. 6/12 B. 5/5 E. 9/12 B. 1/5 E. 5/12 C. 2.5/5 F. 1/1 C. 2/5 F. 1/1 C. 2/5 F. 1/1 17 arts & culture arts & culture Review: 52 Tuesdays Under the radar Benjamin Bolton and Leigh Nicholson think that trans* characters need to be at the fore Geordie Crawford chats to Hiatus Kaiyote, a world-famous Australian band you probably haven’t heard of. of their own films.

Recently released indie film52 like your mother”. He doesn’t Tuesdays opens with teenager mean “Don’t be trans*,” but rather, Walking down King Street I A case of different taste it may be, explaining the role of women in and then sliding into a synth-laden Billie receiving some news: her “Don’t be indecisive,” referring to spotted a rare flock. There was but the Australian music industry music. “It’s important to challenge samba replete with polyrhythms mother is going to undergo gender the fact that it took James until a male with matted plumage and has also played a part in keeping the ideals that have been placed on and lush backing vocals. And it transition. The story moves he was age 48 to come out. This a rastacap chirping to another Hiatus underground. Unlike other women in the music industry,” she works because it’s not contrived. quickly from that momentous kind of identity awareness is a with a slicked back crest and national acts that have recently says. “I’ve had a lot of cheek from It’s their shared life experience. occasion, jumping from Tuesday, constant theme in 52 Tuesdays, leather jacket. Next to them was made it big on the international sound engineers thinking that to Tuesday, to Tuesday – 52 times, but it is only ever brought up by an unassuming male with a hairy stage, such as Flume, Chet I’m just the face of the band and “The music will probably keep all up. It’s on Tuesday afternoons surrounding characters. There is bib nodding at a female with Faker, and Tame Impala, Hiatus disregarding me as a musician. changing because we keep that Billie sees her mother, James, never appropriate time given to exotic plumage in the form of Kaiyote have not been fostered It’s not that there’s a lack changing as musicians. What we and also on that one afternoon James’s engagement with his own tattoos, bangles, piercings, badges, by Triple J. And, while their of fucking awesome female like now we might not like in a per week that the entirety of this decisions and identity, and while sparkles, crop top, and blue critically acclaimed debut, Tawk musicians, it’s just that, as far as year’s time,” says Moss. It’s a scary unique film is set. there is a short scene of James eyebrows. Tomahawk, received significant the industry goes, there are certain philosophy for the intransigents speaking with his lover about this, media coverage in America and niches women fit in. For instance, who love Hiatus Kaiyote the way Whilst the lack of information and it is too quick and unfortunately No, I wasn’t bird watching. I was Europe, the Australian music the ‘pop princess’ world as opposed they are, but a philosophy the context that the audience initially feels out of context. on my way to interview Hiatus press have largely turned a to just being a badass musician.” band couldn’t exist without. Their receives about James’ experience Kaiyote, an Australian band blind eye. music is futuristic and they don’t and rationality is not inherently The lack of engagement with that have played to hundreds of In another band, Nai’s tractor plan on letting time catch up. a bad thing, it is unfortunate that the actual experience of a thousands of people around the Not that they’re complaining. beam charisma and nomadic pop- we don’t get this engagement for trans* person in 52 Tuesdays trans* narratives, the film does Whilst the representations world, been lauded by Pharell Over the last two years Hiatus punk aesthetic would make her the In the spirit of time travel, after the entire duration of the film. unfortunately makes for successfully explore Billie’s provided by 52 Tuesdays are not and Prince, ‘done’ The Tonight Kaiyote have travelled the world focal point. The most impressive we’d been talking for an hour or 52 Tuesdays explores a handful superficial character development. own coming to terms with her always in themselves problematic, Show with Jay Leno, and been showcasing their unique gumbo aspect of Hiatus, however, is their so the band informed me they were of productive themes, including James is unable to continue with sexuality, while avoiding the the film is perhaps slightly pre- nominated for an R&B Grammy. of soul/hip-hop/West African/jazz music; a beautiful beast born from running late to catch a plane. As sex-positive depictions and the testosterone treatment, but the need for Billie to define herself. emptive. While the experiences music, or as it is described on the imagination of four mad music we went to leave, Mavin abruptly complexity of gender. However overwhelming trauma of this is It presents a refreshingly raw of children of trans* people are If you’re rubbing your eyes and their website, “multi-dimensional, scientists. grabbed my arm. it fails to positively engage with crammed into about five minutes, and realistic depiction of a incredibly important, actual trans wondering how such a pre-eminent polyrhythmic gangster shit.” the trans* experience which is quickly portraying the difficulties young, teenage woman exploring narratives continue to wait in the band could have slipped past your Keyboardist Simon Mavin and “Man, you have a spider on your currently needed in film. this presents for James, and is sex without any sort of guilt or wings, untold. There are hardly musical radar, there’s actually When I asked lead singer Bender have played music forehead.” then never addressed again. You suggestion of abnormality. any portrayals that focus on trans nothing to worry about. Hiatus Nai Palm what informs her professionally since they were The story of James and his are only ever given insight into his people in film, fewer still of older are, somehow, still relatively contributions to the band, she teenagers, in genres spanning I slowly rotated to face him and identity is explored solely through experience from Billie’s perspective Additionally, the subversion of people transitioning, and none of unheard of in Australia. cited an array of non-musical from metal to classical, free jazz he vacantly stared at me for what the lens of his daughter; used only and how it affects her. the definition of ‘mother’ was a older people transitioning with culture : “There’s a lot of to eighties porn-funk. seemed like two hours. Could he as a backdrop to Billie’s growth highlight of the queer themes in 52 children. Until actual engagement Their recent opening slot for neo- references, from [children’s TV not see the terror in my eyes? and interactions. In one scene, Although sorely lacking in Tuesdays, with James adopting he/ with the trans community is soul empress Erykah Badu at The show] Adventure Time, to Tuareg Drummer Perrin Moss is a veteran Thankfully, Nai was more decisive. Billie’s uncle tells her “Don’t be its direct engagement with his pronouns but choosing to keep explored, stories such as 52 Star in Sydney was only attended nomadic silversmiths, to the producer and one time emcee. the label “Mum”. Tuesdays should not take priority. by a couple of hundred fans, while lifespan of a type of cacti from Hiatus Kaiyote is the first band “I’ll save you!” mention of their name often leads Jericho.” She says all of this while he’s played drums in. to confusion in Australia, “Coyote? Michael Jackson glares at me in Taking the spider’s web in one Ibis Coyote? Wait, who caters his ‘Thriller’ pose from a badge Nai Palm is an accomplished hand, she carried it, suspended, peyote?” It turns out that the soul on her jeans. singer songwriter with a to a tree; the invisible line between food of the States and Europe is background in soul and world her hand and the spider suggested not as appetising to Antipodeans. In conversation with the band, music. Prior to Hiatus, she was a telekinetic power. Evidently, it’s clear Nai’s more than just a singing in an Aztec cumbia dub Hiatus Kaiyote’s front woman is Bell and the Bard “I think stylistically what we leader on stage. When I spilt my band that covered Radiohead not only a ringmaster of crowds do is more in tune with what’s tea and subjected a tiny teddy in Spanish and traditional around the world, she is also a Australian theatre needs more in the mould, writes Patrick Morrow. happening in other places,” to death by Chai, her absurdist Columbian fishing songs. tamer of deadly creatures. bassist Paul Bender tells me. humour brought some relief to “You have two voices: one for the privileged position to which only Aside from excellent advice to offer his full support to Hamlet, “For instance, I think here there the otherwise sorrowful occasion, It’s this eclectic mix of I’m actually pretty chuffed stage and one for the pub. Don’t a handful in the Australian arts on approaches to Shakespeare, our major production this year. can be people who are really into “Teddy needs to change his cottage backgrounds that allows their that she saved my life, not mix them up.” community will ascend – one performance and scripts generally, But more than his assurance that Australian hip-hop but really pouch.” music to remain fluid. One minute least because Hiatus Kaiyote is which many more will struggle Bell spoke about the state of he would be there on opening unaware of a lot of stuff in the the band will be laying down recording a new album and I really John Bell is 73. It is literally half for, only to fall short. theatre in Australia. He knew night, his assistance was an American hip-hop realm.” After an appropriate mourning a crisp hip-hop groove before want to be around to hear it. a century since he graduated from his time here that direction inspiring reminder that art is period, she was erudite in transitioning into a soulful ballad from USyd. Despite this, he does John Bell represents one of only was his calling, saying, “other worth pursuing and is pursuable. not look, act, or sound out of a handful of Australians who things may have appeared to Decades ago, students of our place surrounded by the current make a real living through change that, but they didn’t. University were the best placed theatrical cohort at our university, theatre. While his reputation is I had the opportunity to follow to follow real careers in making as he proved in a three hour now enough to sustain him, there those things through.” Bell’s an infinitely precious, but difficult Shakespearean master class were no such assurances during drive was not solely the allure of to value, product. It is hard not to that he conducted last Thursday. his time in The Players (a the study of Shakespeare, nor of envy him, or the fecund stomping dramatic society more or less as theatre, but their intersection: ground from which his career It was 52 years ago that Bob Ellis SUDS is now) and SUDS (then staging the Bard’s works. He grew. (who still reviews our shows) a chiefly postgraduate society), freely confessed that he would wrote of Bell in the pages of Honi however, there did exist a culture play most every character he ever as a “top dog uni actor, cartoonist, of artistic criticism that could had played again and advised that good bloke.” In his introduction, be depended upon. Student “you’ll never nail it. You’ll never Nathaniel Pemberton (director productions made every other get it right.” of the SUDS Hamlet production front page of Honi from the late this year) described him as a fifties into the mid-sixties. Clive I, along with the rest of the national living treasure, and Bell James’ indefatigable body of SUDS, am tremendously thankful responded with a cheer and two review material saw the likes for Bell’s time and insight on punches of the air. He is charming, of Bell scrutinised in every issue. Thursday. It is affirming to know he is thoughtful, and he is in a And that’s great. that he has the generosity of spirit

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The reports on these pages are wholly the work of the SRC Office Bearers. Ridah Hassan and Eleanor Morley President’s Report They are not altered, edited or changed in any way by the Honi editors. Education Officers’ Report Jen Light consensus that marks QandA. articulate or measured, will change We have reached a critical moment. ending compulsory student unionism SSAF is divided up amongst six to put SSAF payment onto FEE- Week after week, the ABC carts that. Higher education is facing the and ending valuable student organizations. The SRC, SUPRA HELP if they are unable to pay out the most right wing panellists biggest attacks in decades. In the services. On the 11th of October (Sydney University Post Graduate the fees. it can find, allows a few people to None of the political parties upcoming budget, students can 2011 The Australian Parliament Association), the USU (University ask pre-approved questions, lets the represent the voice of students. expect to see fee increases, the panellists retort their pre-written In any case, we want to speak for undermining of student welfare and passed the Student Services and of Sydney Union), SUSF (Sydney With the Liberal Government on a answers and passes it off as, in the ourselves. We want to take on the full or partial deregulation of the Amenities Fee (SSAF), a specific University Sports and Fitness) and cuts rampage the Students Services words of Executive Producer Peter politicians directly and on our own higher education system. fee to be charged to University Student Services. The SRC relies and Amenities Fee could well and McEvoy, a “free exchange of ideas”. terms. That means putting forward students for the use of non-academic solely on SSAF for funding, as we truly be on the chopping block. arguments, raising our voices, There is every reason for students activities. After the introduction have no commercial operations. This will be devastating to students. Our disruption of a tightly controlled speaking out of turn, calling out to be pissed off. We don’t want of VSU the breadth and quality Through SSAF funding the SRC The SSAF provides essential TV show was the opposite of politicians on their lies, and yes, to be polite, we don’t want to of many vital student services is able to provide essential services services that students need through ‘undemocratic’. Democracy should even chanting and using banners. be respectful, or courteous, or diminished, and SSAF has filled like legal advice and representation out University, as well as giving Last Monday night, activists staged mean that in a debate about higher measured. We are angry about that void. Universities have used and casework to students for free. students a forum to have a voice. a protest on Q&A against Education education, students and staff who The political establishment and its the government destroying our SSAF for legal assistance, sporting Similarly the funding allows student Minister Chris Pyne and his plans are directly affected and with the official channels and processes aren’t education system and our lives, facilities and childcare, as well as activists to have the facilities and for the tertiary education system. Students need to fight against these most to lose actually have their there for us to use, but for people and we are going to say so. student advocacy. The introduction resources to fight for student rights. For the most part, we’ve had an cuts at every point, and ensure opinions conveyed. like Christopher Pyne. Students What is the Student Services and of SSAF has facilitated an increase extremely positive response, but that SSAF is kept. So when you are don’t get their speeches broadcast So we disrupted Q&A, and in a Amenities Fee and Why do we need in student movements all over the While a fee to any student is seen as there’s also been a lot of tut-tutting paying your next SSAF installment The set up of the show purports on TV or on the radio, we don’t have week we’ll disrupt the country on to fight to keep it? country. Similarly it has provided a burden, the SSAF fee directly gives and hand wringing from those who don’t think about the money coming to offer reasoned and rational mates who run the newspapers. May 21st in the National Union of welfare services that are invaluable back to students and is one we need think we hijacked a democratic out of your account, think of the discussion, but you can’t reason with The response we’ve received to Students national day of action for for students. to fight to keep. Without this fee forum, and did more harm than On the 1st of July 2006, Australia benefits you are receiving. people like Christopher Pyne. He is a our protest confirms our view that education! student support would dramatically help to our cause. saw the rollout of Voluntary Student born-to-rule Tory and has no interest sometimes the only way to be heard At Sydney University the decrease. Students have the ability Unionism (VSU), consequently in the opinions and struggles of is to disrupt business as usual and Sydney Uni students are meeting at Contrary to what Tony Jones thinks, students or anyone that’s not a rich refuse to be silent in the face of Fisher Library at 1.30pm. Be there! there’s nothing democratic about bastard just like him. He rules for stifling conservatism. the mind-numbing conservative General Secretary’s Report the 1%, and no argument, however James Leeder Union Board Directors have. In the the way they can shape the board reminding our politicians of the Wom*n of Colour Autonomous Collective past we’ve been promised everything the most. Do they see the Union views of students. Shareeka Helaluddin and Tabitha Prado-Richardson from large-scale renovations of as run by students for students, Conveners’ Report Manning, Holme and Wentworth, or do they want it to maintain its Turning our eye to what your SRC to scores of new food outlets and current trajectory of increasing has been doing: Oliver Plunkett, one to give wom*n of colour a space for how relaxed and inhibited I felt inclusive and empathetic space, more bars than you could drink at corporatisation? The incoming Union of the SRC Welfare Officers has been solidarity. anyway as the hours ticked by. It’s it seems obtuse to ask wom*n of on a Young Labor pub-crawl. Board is also significant in that the working on a campaign to lobby the hard to convey it to those privileged colour to participate outwardly CEO of the Union’s contract is up university to allow HECS for Winter We held a dance party on the 25th enough to not know how it feels without allowing them time and to be in an autonomous space, or space to nurture themselves. Young Be aware that almost no candidate for renewal. and Summer School – check it out of April, at the Newsagency in Marrickville – a big thank you to those who aren’t privileged enough wom*n especially need time to has fulfilled many of their promises on Facebook. This is a terrific idea all that came and to the Newsagency to be able to access it. But there’s crystallise their sense of self and in the past. Partly because board Despite the election campaign, this and long overdue. At both UTS and for supporting us. Shareeka curated a liberating sense of joy in finding shelter themselves while they grow. directors are not individually in week is also important as the federal UNSW students can claim these the playlist which swung between or creating spaces that allow you It would be shortsighted to think charge of many of the activities of budget will be delivered on Tuesday. units on HECS, ensuring that they blues, sixties pop, and then a medley to acknowledge the truth of your that’s all activism should be, but it’s Dedicated readers, if you were the Union and partly because By the time you read this we will are accessible to all students, not just of M.I.A., Solange, and Beyonce’s experiences, that not only act as important to keep a balance and to away from campus last week you directors only gain the institutional know what sorts of changes the those who can pay $3000 upfront. For those who don’t know about us, most recent album. Wom*n of colour sanctuaries from daily oppression take care of yourself. might not be aware that the most knowledge to figure out what can University sector faces. Regardless Finally, there is an SRC meeting the Wom*n of Colour Collective is a staples. I can now say happily that but allow you to be a little more colourful student election, that of be done once they’ve been elected. of whether or not we are facing on this Wednesday, 6pm in the collective existing primarily online I have danced until sweat fell in yourself. If your identity falls in line, come our Union Board Directors, has Regardless, as students we have a drastic changes, it is important to Professorial Board Room within the for wom*n who identify as of colour, droplets to Matangi with a group of join our facebook group. We’re begun. Whilst many are caught up right to vote for the candidates that remember that this is only the first Quad. All students are welcome to from an ethnocultural background, other wom*n of colour who, yes, also While people might believe that thinking of holding another event in the rainbow storm of promised speak to us. I urge readers to take budget of this federal government. come along to hear the motions being Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander knew all the lyrics. autonomous collectives are divisive around the end of semester which change, it’s important to focus on the time to question the politics Changes to the sector might not discussed and to ask questions of or otherwise marginalised by white - especially ones as specific as ours looks to be less sweaty and more – to me, that’s an irrelevant claim cosy. It would be nice to see more what the Union actually does and and vision that candidates have appear until next year or the year their student office bearers. supremacy. Due to the complexity Being vaguely responsible for the night, I decided not to drink, and to make. Asides from the knowledge faces! what capacity to implement change for the Union, as this is arguably after; what matters is that we keep of experiencing both racism and sexism, we founded this collective it struck me over and over again that the collective creates a uniquely Vice Presidents’ Report Anti-Racism Collective Conveners’ Report Vice Presidents Max Hall and Laura Webster love protests and hate the government. Gabrielle Pei Tiatia tells you why we should stop Abbott not the boats

budgets and the proposed Absolutely. education funding and Morrison announced the introduction their own political expediency. an equitable future for the most deregulation of university then purchase $12.4 billion worth of the Australian Border Force to take Despite how horrific these policies are vulnerable. In order to do this, we fees – this essentially The Q&A protest achieved its goal of of fighter planes? If the ‘budget over customs and the Navy to turn however, this isn’t a time to despair. need to unite collectively to demand means universities will publicly broadcasting the discontent crisis’ is as dire as the government back asylum seekers coming by boat. The movement under Howard showed a principled and humane approach to be able to charge whatever and frustration university students want us to think it is, why can’t This is only to serve a rhetoric which that a pro-refugee mandate can be won refugee processing and resettlement. their little hearts want. feel with the Liberal government. these funds be instead spent shifts policy focus on militarising through building a strong grassroots This can only begin by breaking We have been constantly silenced, on things we actually need like borders, that further stigmatises movement. bipartisan support, shutting down Universities are already policed and downright bullied improved public health care, refugees and overlooks the reality offshore processing centres and ending woefully underfunded and and, in the immortal words of repairing infrastructure and funding of the persecution asylum seekers Tens of thousands have hit the mandatory detention. we cannot fathom what will Twister Sister, we’re not going to quality and affordable education at are fleeing from. streets to demand justice for asylum happen if further funding take it anymore. The only means all levels? Since day one of Abbott’s Prime seekers and there is already a strong The Anti-Racism Collective (ARC) is cut. Tutorials are already we have of getting our message to Ministership, our action as pro-refugee While Morrison and Abbott champion foundation being built to fight back is committed to strengthening the “The More You Ignore Us, The at capacity, staff casualization is a the wider community is through As long as the government continues students has never been more urgent. their policies for “stopping the boats” against Abbott - pro-refugee groups refugee campaign by educating Louder We Will Scream disturbing trend and academics live media coverage and public protest to wage war against tertiary The Liberal Party (LNP) has already and hide behind a tough facade, at universities, schools, workplaces, students and building up their in constant fear of being fired at any and actions. Students are growing education, we will continue to spent over 7.2 billion dollars on they’re actually more vulnerable unions, occupations etc. have been confidence to become activists. Vice Presidents Max Hall and Laura moment. Do the Liberals care that more concerned, discontent and protest. The more students you expanding offshore camps, brutalising than ever. The Nauruan Government established all over the country Webster love protests and hate the our education system is failing? No, furious as the government continues anger, the louder we will become. refugees and violating international have come out announcing it will that are committed to growing ARC meets every Tuesday, 1pm on government. and the proposed fee deregulation is to obliterate our rite to a quality law; meanwhile, they’re cutting 2.3 not resettle Australia’s refugees , the movement. New Law Lawns. All welcome! the final nail in the coffin of tertiary education. However we will take one piece billion from the public university and now the LNP are frantically First of all, we want to offer our education. of Pyne’s advise: as we are both sector (which translates to 50 million trying to negotiate with neighbouring Students are a vital component of For more info, check out our facebook congratulations to the University Abbott and Pyne would have us students and tax payers, we will dollars cut from USyd). This is a clear impoverished countries to take up our the broader movement outside of page, ‘Anti-Racism Collective Sydney of Sydney Education Action Group, Are we angry? think we are in a budget crisis. The be sure to send each other flowers illustration of the LNP’s priorities international obligations. parliament. We are always at the Uni’ or contact Gabby on 0416 488 258 UTS Students’ Association and the fallacy of this is apparent to anyone and chocolates as a thank you and a clear reason why we should be forefront of pushing progressive NSW Education Action Network Yes. capable of noticing that the OECD for funding each other’s tertiary fighting back against them. The Liberals have consistently been political agendas and we have have We hope you can join us. Stand up, for such an amazing action on last rates us among the strongest and education.” feeding the Australian public lies - the power to dismantle Operation fight back! week’s Q&A. The protest was in Do we have a right to be? most secure economies. 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24 black- The 9. Wilbur 8. America North 7. Kiev 6. (1992) 1990s The 5. Georgia 4. 3.Gold (Riverview) College Ignatious St. 2. sinful” is Education “Western 1. Answers: *Cashback rate depends on conditon Union Board Elections 2014 Mum “No Longer Impressed” OPINION PIECE: NRL Bosses Are Peter Walsh and Dominic Ellis By Twice-Folded A4 Paper have just come back The white on blue is a familiar choice, Totally Miranda reminiscent of one of USyd’s most popular from an alternative reality Sigmund Freud would have much to societies. Though, I do have to wonder Card For Mother’s Day and these are the Union Board say about the way I first interpreted the why the candidate chose to spraypaint the Devine splatter that makes up Ed’s logo. “Ed is slogans they had there. Facebook and Twitter logos on his A-frames. Cam Smith used to be a a great candidate” – Ed’s campaigner. Peter Walsh is a shit son. Hyperlinks don’t work in real life, dickhead. Sandra Port, mother of three, was that “essays on Analytic Philosophy don’t just Miranda Devine. Two stars. “disappointed, but not surprised” when her grow on trees, y’know”. son, John, greeted her on Mother’s Day with WHY doesn’t the NRL just burn Mitchell Moses another homemade card. The card – a twice- While Sandra agreed that “it’s the thought at the stake? The 19-year-old Wests Tigers folded piece of A4 paper on which he had that counts”, she said that gifts such as these player has been hit with a two-week match ban drawn a stick figure diagram of himself and “no longer impressed her”. The drawing was for leveling a slur against Queensland opponent his mother holding hands under a sunglass said also to reflect John’s growing distance Luke Bateman. wearing sun – was “basically identical” to from the family. “He should know better than the cards she had received when John was drawing like that,” she said. “We haven’t Let’s get one thing straight, he did no such a baby. been the same height in years.” Sandra then thing. What Moses actually said was “you f ... opened her bottom drawer to reveal the ing Miranda Devine”, during an on-field biffo John, 22 (Arts II), who woke up at 2pm, twenty previous cards John had made since with Bateman. But “Miranda Devine” no longer claims the date “snuck up on him since it he developed the cognition and motor skills means what it means. You follow? Good. was a Sunday this year” and blamed “the to both understand and produce a ‘gift’. newsagents shutting early” for the throw Worse still, a close study of John’s earlier Before “Devine” came to mean “sad excuse for together gift. When pressed, he accused his work, especially around age two, suggests a journalist”, it meant good and high quality, mother of thinking he was made of time his artistic skills have regressed. but hardly anyone uses it that way now. Young during this very stressful year and said people these days use “Miranda Devine” to mean anyone who’s lame, or dumb or stupid, as in: “That journalist is Miranda Devine.” People of an earlier era used the word one way, and now a hate-filled fear- mongering minion of Callum Forbes Union Board the Murdoch empire has changed its meaning to something else. Easy come, easy go. No one While this logo would have guaranteed 92 owns a word, and it would be just tyrannical per cent of the vote in November 1933, it Wake up sheeple, there’s obvious Illuminati Receipts Leaked: Photoshop symbolism in the triangle. Don’t be to demand that people must use the words might need some explaining in May 2014. Change, but from what? To what? For surprised if you see this candidate on “Miranda Devine” only in the form approved For those not in the know, electrocute is us students of advanced age, change is a portmanteau (nothing to do with Natalie the Grassy Knoll across from Manning. threatening. Personally, I hearken back Classes Clearly Paid Off by some nutjobs named Miranda Devine. Portman) of ‘electrify’ and ‘execute’. If I wouldn’t be surprised if her candidacy to the good old days when candidates you’re an easily scapegoated minority, entailed putting fluoride in Manning and promised rickshaws on campus. So, following that clear logic, why is anyone avoid Eastern Avenue during the campaign. Hermann’s cider, to make us all docile. pretending that what Mitchell said had One star, obviously. Joke’s on her, I bring my drinks from home. anything to do with Miranda? It didn’t. He was being offensive, sure, but he was not being Mirandaphobic, which last time I looked meant “an extreme and irrational aversion to Miranda Devine” or “sane”. Bateman isn’t even Miranda Devine. What more evidence do you need that Mitchell didn’t call Bateman “Miranda Devine” as a slur? Checkmate, thought police.

What might have started as a noble cause to prevent vilification of Miranda Devine has veered into dangerous territory. If punishing someone for doing something that was against the rules is now NRL policy, then someone is on drugs. And reading back over my disconnected ramblings and idiotic arguments, I’m guessing it’s probably me. Oh well, I guess I’m just a bit of a Miranda Devine.

Holy fucking shit these stylised Oddly similar to a drawing I did in blunt lacerations make me want to lacerate my crayon when I was four. Also: do I want an Nothing to be said. Clearly the best own jugular, we’ve seen this shit a million attack on my union? I think not. Clearly a slogan and logo. Five stars. times. -3/25 stars. neoliberal. Zero stars.

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