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How many times have you committed social suicide? How many times have you told a joke so much darker and unthinkable that your friends decide you’re the weird one? How many times have you accidentally injured a friend while joking around? How many times have you made a complete
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Ocean’s Eleven (2001) dir. Steven Soderbergh “The house always wins. Play long enough, you never change the stakes, the house takes you. Unless, when that perfect hand comes along, you bet big, and then you take the house.” For more than seventy years all Las Vegas has done is
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CATS is a musical that needs no introduction. Considered the first megamusical, it paved the way for shows from Les Miserables and The Phantom of the Opera to Hamilton and Wicked, on top of being a massive commercial success in its own right. It’s been produced all over the
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I know it’s unorthodox to review two films with the same star in such a short space of time, but after my review of Total Eclipse last week, I simply couldn’t help it. I’ve been kept awake at night by the thought that I deceived you, dear
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If you read the first film review I ever wrote for the Tert, you’d know I spent an inordinate amount of my teenage years in love with River Phoenix. If you’re reading this one, you’ll learn that my preteen years were almost identical to the later ones,
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“The Los Angeles Times reported that 63% of American families are considered dysfunctional. My god, that means we’re the majority… WE’RE NORMAL!” We all have a favourite stand-up special. Maybe a top 3. If not a top 3, maybe a favourite comedian. Maybe a top 3 of comedians.
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“We all see what we want to see. Coffey looks and he sees Russians. He sees hate and fear. You have to look with better eyes than that.” Stand on a shoreline on a clear night and gaze toward the horizon. Somewhere out there, just beyond your view, is the
This week marks 50 years of NAIDOC week, and the UOW Library is celebrating this half-century anniversary across its Wollongong and Shoalhaven campuses with a focus on establishing an attitude of reconciliation and recognition. NAIDOC week is held annually in the first week of July, running this year from July
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For more information, check out our article entitled: Changes to UOW Student Union Constitution. I didn’t leave the meeting confused; I left it angry. I was going to rant about the state of student politics: words tossed like grenades, people shouting over each other, not adhering to agreed-upon rules,
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One of The Tert Editors delves deeper into the mind of an attendee of the Student General Meeting, in his opinion piece: WUSA SGM: A Difference of Opinion. On May 29, 2025, the Wollongong Undergraduate Students’ Association (WUSA) held their long-awaited Student General Meeting (SGM): the kind of meeting where
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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