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On Day 2 of Edcon, we started with the plenary from the welfare office where we discussed issues such as the food insecurity among students, accommodation and student life on campuses more broadly. The first question posed to the panel was, ‘how can our councils support students to address food
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The Firm (1993) dir. Sydney Pollack “It's not sexy, but it's got teeth!” While the 21st century has seen its share of legal thrillers with 2023’s Academy Award winning Anatomy of a Fall, 2007’s Michael Clayton, and 2019’s criminally underseen Dark Waters it
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Every year, students from different universities around Australia, members of the National Union of Students (NUS), get together at a conference for several days to discuss, debate and learn about student politics and the direction of student life. The Education Conference this year is taking place at Curtin University in
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You gaze down at your last hit. It could be a syringe, a tablet, some powder, it could be a beer or a shot of vodka. You try desperately not to grab at it, you’re in cold sweats just thinking about how calm it’ll be when you take
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“If the ‘self’ is a construct, and it’s all just role play, do you think people can change?” Richard Linklater’s latest foray leads audiences to a road less travelled in the mainstream cinema of today. A road full of rough edges, diminished morality and a leading man who,
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Over the weekend I had the pleasure of attending a play put on by students at UOW called Fractured. It was a collection of four plays in which the first three were written by the celebrated socialist-feminist playwright Caryl Churchill: Kill, Glass and Bluebeard’s Friends. These plays delve into
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The Zone of Interest was the area surrounding Auschwitz concentration camp created in 1941 to house SS officers. Right on the other side of the fence, Rudolf Höss and his family lived a privileged life inside a two-storey home with servants, a garden, a pool, access to a stream for
I remember the first time I held you. So tiny, so fragile. Your eyes were wide with unshakable curiosity as you explored your new home for the very first time. You were everything I could’ve ever asked for. I could deal with all the gross things to come, but
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A P.I. walks down a dark, smoky alley, taking a shortcut on the way to a seedy speakeasy. As he walks down, raindrops from this morning’s monsoon fall to the black cobblestone path. The only light coming from the P.I.’s $10 cigarette which he sparks under
As winds dance violently with my hair – I catch my mind wandering far and near – miss take my thoughts away from me – my country my soul desires to be – home Again, my mother’s arms embracing – my Eyes full of tears, my heart racing – heart Which I feel flooding with
This may be what kills me. In that moment Xanus could control nothing but his thoughts and if he could have moved his lips, he would’ve begged for it to not be his last. After everything he’d been through, for this to be the way he died seemed
I have barely seen you these past few years, but there are holes in my heart that belong to you. And memories marked with your name in the buzz of my head. Do you remember my phone number from when we were kids? I want to call home. But the