week eleven semester two 2013 honi soit honi General staff unhappy with EBA offer p 4 Master Shang p 7 Who’s Violence in the queer community p 10 playing Watching porn for the first time p 14 who? DISCONTENTS RAUE V MORRIS Untying the strings 4 Max Chalmers Deception. It’s a powerful tool. cons of transparency – are here to throw in the open, for everyone to see. Whether it be lying about – or hiding light into the places where it’s hard to It’s very easy to feel as though your – your identity, your situation or moti- see and hold the powerful to account. strings aren’t being pulled. To retreat THE WET PLANET vation, there are often a number of rea- The faceless can hold the strings of stu- into ill-formed preconceptions, judge- 6 sons to want to deceive an audience. dent politics as the Chinese millionaire Ariel Castro-Martinez ment, and arrogance; the idea that you In theatre, the audience is shown Master Shang allegedly does, or their can see through every pretense and the stage and little else. What goes on partner’s wellbeing and safety, or just a delusion. This is something none of us behind those curtains, in those wings, lot of money and little sense, and the are exempt from. But in order to shape REROUTING isn’t meant to be seen. We do know, by role of the media, we think, should be the world into something a little better 9 PROGRESS the nods of the head and the wave of to expose such things when it can. than it is – just a little better, only as Rebecca Wong the hands by the actors at the conclu- But the great paradox of our work much as we can – we need only be a bit sion, that there are people back there: as editors is that sometimes you can’t more thoughtful about who has power, pulling the strings, calling the shots. expose. Sometimes it’s clear that there’s a bit more critical of how they use it, THE REALITY Faceless men. just as much value in keeping things and – if it isn’t being used well – how to 10 OF VIOLENCE In the theatre, the faceless men are secret, to preserve people’s right to change things so they do. Georgia Behrens and usually competent and humble stage- anonymity. For one reason or another Madeleine King hands, lighting technicians, playwrights, – personal, social, or, well, criminal – designers. But, extrapolating this idea four of this week’s contributors could A BAD TRIP further, to life beyond the play, and not put their name to their work but 12 there are faceless men everywhere (and still wanted others to know about, and Anonymous women, and non-gender specific peo- learn from, their experiences. Whether ple), pulling the strings behind a whole it was their terrible time with LSD or horde of stages. Sometimes so quietly their experience being a trans* man at BUSHWALKERS DO you don’t even know. university, they’re things mainstream 15 A NUDE CALENDAR What happens when the faceless society won’t (but should) let us speak men are revealed? Time will tell in fed- openly about. In attempting to break Mariana Podesta-Diverio eral politics, as The Faceless Man this down larger power structures, the little week becomes The Face of the ALP. guys must change or redact their names. Truly great social shifts need to go down Bryant Apolonio and Lucy Watson THE SOIN But there are many more, hiding in the 21 shadows. And newspapers – ideally bea- before these things can be talked about Editors-in-chief than in recent years, it must be empha- sised that SULS were not informed of Editor-in-chief: Bryant Apolonio and Lucy Watson SOUND& the tax liability until the end of the 2011 Editors: Rafi Alam, Max Chalmers, Avani Dias, Mariana Podesta-Diverio, Nick fury Executive’s term. Naturally, a different course would have been taken had this Rowbotham, Hannah Ryan, Xiaoran Shi, Nina Ubaldi. been known. Reporters: Georgia Behrens, Ariel Castro-Martinez, John Gooding, Nick In Defence of SULS As the article attested, the USU paid Dear Honi, Gowland, Georgia Kriz, Samantha Jonscher, Neha Kasbekar, Madeleine King, the bulk of the tax liability up front with Phoebe Moloney, Thomas Murphy, Felicity Nelson, Cameron Smith, I write in response to last week’s arti- an agreement that we would pay them cle on SULS’ tax debt to clarify SULS’ Matilda Surtees, Rebecca Wong back in installments - and we are incred- position on some of the issues raised. Contributors: Alex Gillis, Lauren Pearce, Bro Reveleigh ibly grateful for it. SULS’ tax liability SULS receives annual sponsorship came as a complete surprise to the USU Artwork and photos: Madeleine Pfull, Eliza Waterhouse from corporate law firms as its main who audits SULS and the SULS. The Cover: Bryant Apolonio and Lucy Watson source of income. We receive around USU paying this tax has allowed the bur- Puzzles: Patrick Horton $160 000 each year, rather than the $350 den of the liability to be spread over two Ticker tape: Choose your own awkward party theme 000 claimed. Our relationship with cor- or three years. porate sponsors is mutually beneficial. While the Socials portfolio receives Firms pay money to access students more than any other SULS portfolio, through careers events which SULS host. this does not mean that SULS considers The editors of Honi Soit and the SRC acknowledge There is no pretense that the money that socials more important than other pro- the traditional owners of this land, the Gadigal people firms pay goes towards other SULS pro- grams. Rather, it reflects the reality that grams (including socials), but there is of the Eora nation. Honi Soit is written, printed, and social events are costly. While a moot still a strong benefit for the firms as they can be run by volunteer student conve- distributed on Aboriginal land. If you are reading this, recruit high numbers of Sydney Uni nors, socials require that money be paid you are standing on Aboriginal land. Please recog- students. While the society cannot be to an external group to administer the categorised as ‘charitable’ by the ATO nise and respect this. event. In 2013, as well as socials, SULS’ in light of this funding, all programs are program has included ten competi- run by a tireless and unpaid Executive tions, a women’s moot, a Rape Culture exclusively for the benefit of students. Want to place an advertisement in Honi Soit ? Contact Amanda LeMay & forum, a Mental Health publication, This benefit extends to students form- weekly juvenile detention centre visits, Jess Henderson [email protected] ing and maintaining friendships through two journals covering Social Justice and social events. It is important to clarify Women’s Issues respectively, and a text- Honi Soit is published by the Students’ Representative Council, University of Sydney, Level 1 Wentworth Building, City Road, University of Sydney, NSW, 2006. The SRC’s that a figure of $189 000 was not spent book exchange program. operation costs, space and administrative support are financed by the University of on socials in 2012, nor is the figure of Sydney. Honi Soit is printed under the auspices of the SRC’s Directors of Student $60 000 spent on law ball accurate or Best wishes, Publications: Clare Angel-Auld, Adam Chalmers, Bebe D’Souza, Brigitte Garozzo, suggestive of financial recklessness. James O’Doherty, Lane Sainty. All expressions are published on the basis that they Isabelle Youssef are not to be regarded as the opinions of the SRC unless specifically stated. The Whilst in fact $110 000 was the gross Council accepts no responsibility for the accuracy of any of the opinions or informa- expenditure on the 2013 ball, the net Arts/Law III tion contained within this newspaper, nor does it endorse any of the advertisements cost (event cost minus ticket sales) was 2013 President, SULS and insertions. Printed by MPD, Unit E1 46-62 Maddox St. Alexandria NSW 2015. around $9 000. With 700 attendees, this meant a cost to SULS of $13 per stu- dent, a cost the Executive considered reasonable. When any campus society Anyone can write for Honi Soit ! @honi_soit runs a large social event, of course the Email all letters and submissions to: gross expenditure will be high and this is [email protected] http://www.facebook.com/honisoitsydney countered by ticket sales. While expen- diture on Law Ball in 2011 was higher PARTY TIME. Are you a fan of costumes? If yes, go to 7, if no, go to p. 8. 3 HONI NEWS FREE Week Eleven Edition “MASTER OF PUPPETS, I’M PULLING YOUR STRINGS” CPSU strikes off on its own in EBA negotiations The general staff union has voted not to endorse the latest EBA offer, leaving it at odds with the University and the NTEU, Nick Rowbotham reports The USYD branch of the Community commit to further industrial action. increase in over a year. increase to lower paid staff – seemed to and Public Sector Union (CPSU), the Honi Soit reported last week that the “CPSU members remain disappointed no longer be on the bargaining table. union that represents general staff, has NTEU had voted overwhelmingly to by the sub-standard, sub-CPI salary When asked about the likelihood of broken from the National Tertiary Edu- endorse the University’s Enterprise Bar- increase offered by the University,” further industrial action, Wheeler was cation Union (NTEU) and voted not to gaining Agreement (EBA) offer and Wheeler wrote in an email to staff.