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With new recruits Drew Hutchison and Rhys Kennedy on the training paddock, the Albion Park-Oak Flats Eagles are dreaming big heading into the 2026 season. The two South Coast NRL exports join the Eagles following a promising past two seasons in which the club returned to finals football after a
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Gallivanting around Wollongong on a humid Tuesday night, there was a lively atmosphere in the community for Saint Patrick’s Day. Personal disappointment (not making it into Dicey Riley’s) after disappointment (not making it into Dicey Riley’s a second time) could never have stopped me and my fellow
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When I joked about enjoying the taste of concrete, I was met with thunderous laughter that filled the room. Apparently, the fact that I may have licked, or even eaten, concrete was not difficult to imagine. In my very humble engineering student’s opinion, there really is nothing better than
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There are some truths in this world that you grow into slowly. Said truths exist and begin to shape you before you even gain the knowledge to name them. One such truth I began to understand was that some of us were born into this world, learning that we must
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Members of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) coordinated a 24 hour work stoppage from 8am on the 19th of March on behalf of staff at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). The NTEU made a number of demands from university management, including requests for a fair pay rise, reproductive
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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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Bruce McLaren once said “life is measured in achievement, not in years alone,” and from what I saw on Saturday at Ben Hession’s tribute show, I feel that I saw the physical embodiment of those words. To many, Ben Hession may be a name that strikes no thought, but
WUSA
Hello beloved Gala readers! My name is Lexi Chipperfield and I am your WUSA (Wollongong Undergraduate Student Association) Women’s Representative for 2026. If you’re new to the University of Wollongong, it’s likely you don’t know what the Women’s Collective (WoCo) is. If you’ve been
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When does a weapon become a weapon? Is it when steel begins to take the shape of a blade, a gun, a tank, or a jet? Is it when a bullet is filled with gunpowder, or when the primer is set, or when the bullets are loaded into a magazine?
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Antipholus has clearly gone mad! He steals, lies, and pretends not to recognise his own wife. His servant Dromio is no better: straying from his quests, making insubordinate jokes, and even locking Antipholus out of his own house. Surely some kind of demonic possession is to blame! But here’s
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On Monday, I caught the train up to Sydney to protest war criminal and president of Israel Isaac Herzog’s arrival in Australia. I did so because he is a genocidal freak who has directly caused the murder of tens of thousands of Palestinians, and his arrival to Australia reaffirms