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It’s not a coincidence if you are not aware of the budget cuts that have swept our university off its feet for the past two years. As of last week, ABC News reported that UOW cuts have soared past 270 job losses “after a $35 million revenue drop, partly
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Students and staff who smoke have previously known where to go on campus to get a minute’s relief between classes and breaks, but now the “safe haven at the uni has been destroyed”. Complaints over the silent eradication of the cherished smoking area have made their way around the
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Will there be another witch trial?
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After more than a decade of silence on the Sea Cliff Bridge, protesters successfully and peacefully returned to close the bridge on the 7th of December 2025. Hundreds crowded the streets to rally against Israel’s ongoing illegal occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, and to demand more action
‘The power of her rhetoric, the improvisation of the words, the strength of her tone and manner, the calm at the centre of the storm – all of it was an incredible piece of theatre quite apart from the shift in attitudes it ushered in.’ Joanna Murray-Smith in On Cue Julia
Josh Hinton is back for a second time at the IPAC with his revered show A Place in the Sultan’s Kitchen that swept audiences last year. Teasingly delicious smells creep through every nook and cranny of the room as Hinton recounts some very intense and very real stories from
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It’s safe to say that Day 4 of the 2025 National Union of Students Education Conference didn’t go quietly. In fact, it ended with a bang, a pow and a flourish – courtesy of one of the more contentious plenaries of the week. Stephen Donnelly, founder of the Dunn
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Another two plenaries eclipsed Day 3 of the Education Conference. The first was on Diversity in Education by the Women’s Officer Ellie Venning – whose motivation was to highlight the segregation of university courses through a panel which included Jade Poulton (ANU Women’s Officer), Libby Austin (NX General Executive,
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First Plenary: What’s wrong with our universities and what can we do about it? Day 2 of the Education Conference opened on a calmer note than the day before. Maybe it was Canberra’s icy night air, helping clear heads. Maybe it was because former student and long-time activist
Pip Williams is the Australian author of the award-winning New York Times bestseller, The Dictionary of Lost Words (2020) and its sequel The Bookbinder of Jericho (2023). With Verity Laughton’s expert eye and hand, The Dictionary of Lost Words is now a smash-hit stage adaptation that swept all Australian
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A summary of events from the first plenary: Introduction to EdCon. More to come! The chaos that erupted in the first plenary of Day One at the 2025 National Union of Students’ Education Conference (EdCon) was, perhaps, not surprising. However lacking in information regarding the development of the EdCon events,
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Madame Bovary is a novel set in Victorian France, written by Gustave Flaubert in 1856. The novel’s complicated characters and refusal to comfort its audience has made it – especially its protagonist Emma Bovary – a subject of scrutiny. The novel follows Emma through her journey as a newlywed and through