FIRST PRINTEDHoni 1929 SoitWEEK 12, SEM. 1, 2019 4-5: NEWS 9-11: PHOTO ESSAY SRC President censors Honi Driving water to Collarenebri SRC President Jacky He has and shouted at her campaign- While the urban public they have no future. Walk- censored a live blog post made ers. It was confirmed by sources argue with each other over the ing through these places is by Honi Soit regarding his on the ground that He had been finer points of tax cuts and like something out of a horror actions towards rival campaign- involved in particularly negative gearing, rural NSW movie - boarded up shops, tum- ers during the final day of the aggressive contestations is really hurting. Years of bleweeds and dust devils blow- USU Board election. At roughly and had raised his voice to drought and mismanagement ing by, run-down weatherboard 10 am on the final day of the USU drown out Ma’s campaigners. of the Murray-Darling river houses baking in a summer election, Board candidate Ruolin system have left entire towns sun so hot it melts the asphalt. (Irene) Ma contacted Honi and without drinking water, and alleged that He had harassed Full story on page 4 >>> many residents feeling that Read more on page 9 >>> LETTERS Acknowledgement of Country When a fresh-faced politician is sworn in as Prime Minister, they are told they have the mandate of the nation to push for progress. They are to represent their people, and guide them STATEMENT FROM THE EDITORS through whatever tough times may arise during their term. During their swearing-in ceremony, an acknowledgement of country is made to the First Nations people of Australia, as is done at the opening of many official events, emblematic of how our public servants will aspire to advocate for all Australians, how they will aspire to close the gap. These acknowledgements are an insult. For 231 years, leaders of this settler-colonial state have managed to destroy, erode or erase the peoples and cultures they invaded and the country they now occupy. Only this week, it was revealed that the Queensland Government locks up droves of First Nations children as young as 10 in watch houses, meters from adult offenders. In their cells, these kids are subjected to verbal and physical abuse from the police assigned to ‘care’ for them. This weekend, a Coalition government was reelected on a mandate of mining Aboriginal land in Far This week, a section ofHoni Soit’s annual not reach that bar. We should have power afforded by his office to control the expansion of censorship powers North Queensland, with no solid promise of constitutional recognition or treaty. They will likely continue the active occupation of communities in the Northern Territory. USU Election live-blog was censored by disclosed the source of the allegations in the narrative around his own behaviour over Honi’s election coverage. Not There has never been a more stark reminder that the government which takes our taxes, provides our services and fills our newspapers is a fundamentally illegitimate one. When we acknowledge the country we meet and live on, in our case the land of the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation, we should never let that be some vague liberal platitude. Occupation SRC President Jacky He. The censored the post and extended the opportunity is one that is disturbing and dangerous. only are such powers grossly at odds has and continues to destroy the lives of many. There will never be a time where it is not appropriate to centre decolonisation in our thoughts and actions. content, posted in a live blog during to He to comment on them. However, He’s function in relation toHoni Soit is to with the democratic ideals that the This always was and always will be Aboriginal land. the USU election, implied He had this shortcoming did not warrant an check the paper for defamatory content, SRC leadership purports to stand engaged in aggressive behaviour during egregious overreach of executive power. and nothing more. for, He and Luo also attempted to campaigning. Honi witnessed behaviour There were reasonable steps that The value of Honi Soit lies in its pass them in breach of regulations Contents Editorial by He that suggested the content of He could have taken before deciding ability to chronicle the actions of those — two simultaneous motions were these allegations was grounded in truth. to censor the Honi Soit live blog. He who go on to yield an enormous amount attempted without consulting the 4 NEWS Editors This is not what l expected to write. of the university community as being He instructed the Publications could have provided comment to Honi of power in the Australian political Standing Legal Committee minutes. Baopu He, Pranay Jha, Karishma I expected this edition to be the first useful and vital to its identity, from the Managers of the SRC to remove the post in his defence against the allegations landscape. On its pages, the conduct of We are often left to deal with Luthria, Jessica Syed, Liam Thorne, under a Labor Prime Minister since administrators to the librarians, the 6 USU ANALYSIS without consulting any of the editors. or requested an amendment to the Australian prime ministers and High student leaders who are ineffective Nell O’Grady, Carrie Wen, Joseph 2013. I expected this editorial to likely lecturers to the students — all people 7 MULTILINGUAL Verity, Annie Zhang & Alan Zheng be a self-righteous jab at Labor — that are made to feel unimportant in the When asked about his decision to do so, post. However, all of these steps were Court judges alike has been held to and unresponsive. We persist through something about being happy for their neoliberal university. He stated, “If I haven’t done something, bypassed so that He could regulate and account. No student politician should this because we love the paper. We 8 ANALYSIS win while still holding my fists tight, I believe this edition to chronicle I haven’t done it and I don’t think it is remove content portraying him in a be able to strike their own faults from will not stand idly by while the same Writers nervous about whether good was similar anxieties facing the modern right to report rumors [sic] before they negative light. the record. paper is desecrated in order to serve 9 PHOTO ESSAY Peter Burrel-Sander, Victoria Cooper, actually to come. student. CloudRunner, Peter Dougherty, Of course, this weekend’s result Students and unionists alike fight to are even confirmed.” Censorship is no doubt symptomatic He’s most recent actions have the short term interests of career 12 SRC REGULATIONS Austin Fong, Matthew Forbes, Grace should in many ways be of no surprise. protect Aboriginal communities along Honi always strives for the highest of a corroding democracy, even one not occurred in isolation. They exist politicians. 14 FEATURE Johnson, Albert Jagger, Catherine Labor presented a lukewarm attempt the Murray Darling Basin, left thirsty but standards of accuracy in its reporting confined to a university microcosm. in a context where, along with Vice Ku, Alex MacIntyre, Andy Mason, at a progrsssive vision — they failed to greedy politicians. Andy Mason records but is not afraid to admit when it does That the SRC President would use the President Dane Luo, he has supported Honi Soit 2019 16 PERSPECTIVE Robbie Mason, James Monaro & motivate many parts of this country, and the recent efforts of activists mobilising Ellie Stephenson. we as young people are now left waiting to resurrect Government failure. Undersigned are 17 COMIC for an end to the peddling of centrist, Students feel atomised and Third-Way, unsuccessful bullshit. anonymised by their university when previous editors of Honi Soit: 18 HISTORY Artists No, instead I am tasked with their tutor reduces them to their Alex Downie (2015) Kishor Napier-Rahman (2017) Olivia Allanson, Matthew Fisher, digesting and responding to a truly racial background — Catherine Ku 20 CREATIVE Chris McClymont, Ludmilla Nunell, terrible event, objectively incomparable communicates how students are left as Alexi Polden (2015) Justine Landis-Hanley (2017) Brown Town to its alternative — and as the brilliant atoms in a well-oiled degree factory. Sophie Gallagher (2015) Maani Truu (2017) 21 CULTURE Matthew Fisher’s cover depicts — a Students are left to the whims of 23 OPINION Cover Artist: Matthew Fisher source of immeasurable terror. We will the conservative institutions around Rebecca Wong (2015) Aidan Molins (2017) continue to grow up under a leader them; the all powerful Catholic Church, Peter Walsh (2015) Lamya Rahman (2018) 24 SRC with no real compassion for those as Peter Dougherty thoughtfully born into poverty, war-torn lands, or explores, or student unions with Patrick Morrow (2015) Andrew Rickert (2018) 26 PUZZLES settler-colonial occupation. Funding increasingly powerful conservative and Dominic Ellis (2015) Liam Donohoe (2018) for independent tertiary education will authoritarian tendencies, as our news Tim Asimakis (2015) Lena Wang (2018) 27 COMEDY remain precarious. section reflects. I will not attempt to analyse current From Raewyn Connell, I take the Subeta Vimalarajah (2016) Millie Roberts (2018) events any further — there are many lesson that in a moment as existentially Natalie Buckett (2016) Janek Drevikovsky (2018) far wiser and more affected who will dire as this, we students still have power. do this. All I hope for this edition is to Whether it be discussions across a beer Naaman Zhou (2016) Zoe Stojanovic-Hill (2018) be an historical imprint of the severe at the Royal, scientific advancements in Max Hall (2016) Alison Xiao (2018) Disclaimer: Honi Soit is published by the Students’ Representative Council, University of Sydney, Level 1 anxiety inherent to being a young the management-besieged Anderson Sam Langford (2016) Nick Harriot (2018) Wentworth Building, City Road, University of Sydney NSW 2006.