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Recognition, reconciliation and voice: ‘Unfinished, uncompleted, unfulfilled’

By Olivia Cleal

News

Academic experts slam Government’s decision on AUKUS

The Australian parliament tabled an AUKUS agreement on August 12 to cover radioactive damages from the AUKUS deal and will be responsible for handling our submarines’ nuclear waste. The updated AUKUS agreement, in place until...

Creative Nonfiction

Sydney Writers’ Festival: Alisa Sapova and Anastasia Taylor-Lind on 5km From the Frontline

Ukrainian journalist Alisa Sapova and British photographer Anastasia Taylor-Lind knew instantly that they would be friends. “Our creative kinship happened by chance, really”, Taylor-Lind says....

Predictably unpredictable: How Tort Law helps us navigate daily life

Clouds are cobwebbed across the sky and the air fizzes with Friday-afternoon relief. The parents stand in circles, supervising from a distance. I follow the...

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Commentary

Depressed? Medication is no magic bullet

Australia's psychologist shortage leaves few treatment options for those experiencing depression. Suffering? "Take a pill" can be a common response in Australia’s overstretched and underfunded medical system, says psychiatrist Paul Vroegop. With mental health professionals in...

Podcasts

Ghost Bride

Can the living marry the dead? Does ghost marriage really exist? Why has this ancient ritual persisted over centuries? “Ghost Bride” tells the story of women bound by this fate, the fear of ghosts that keeps the...

Sirius and the Moon

Letters Never Sent

Cat Talk

Their Voices

Videos

University FoodHub under threat

With the announcement of the University of Sydney’s slated demolishment of the Wentworth Building, the SRC and Student Union’s collaborative initiative, the FoodHub, offering free food amid the cost-of-living crisis, is in a state of purgatory, despite...

Culture

Review: The Cat Empire, Sydney Opera House

Music is the language of us all The Cat Empire’s latest show at the Sydney Opera House was an electrifying display of the band’s capacity to escape all limits of genre. Performing for the first time...