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Welcome to the internet! A platform to find community beyond the confines of your physical location, to share your music or your latest craft project, and to build each other up when things get hard. Also, a battleground where influencers, micro-celebrities, and all-round drama queens viciously tear each
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It all started when we couldn’t find a table at La La La’s. You see, we had been going to Tuesday trivia at the lively dive bar before The Trivia Tap took over. Because in a blink, a chill night at the local with a severely disorganised quizmaster
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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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Gong is dead – a sentiment myself and a lot of my peers can be guilty of carrying. My friends in Sydney, mostly residing in the city’s inner-west, refuse to visit. In fact, they seem to forget it is the exact same distance from Wollongong to Sydney as it
NEWS
The Bellambi People and Place Plan put in place by the NSW government is looking to displace public housing residents from their homes to make way for social housing and private developers. A key distinction between the two is that public housing is owned and subsidised by the state government,
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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
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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
ANALYSIS
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