Fresh, thoughtful journalism and creative works produced by students
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From Germany with love: A COVID-19 update from Cologne

There are more than 50,000 active cases of COVID-19 in Germany as of today, according to data from the John Hopkins University. With this...

Munro goes full speed in her run for Sydney

  It’s early Friday morning, but Jacqui Munro is up and running: running in an oversized campaign T-Shirt with her own name on it, a...

Transgender rights loom as the next battle

Sydney is home to the largest Mardi Gras parade of the southern hemisphere, and the queer community naturally migrates toward Sydney, a place where...

Mareike Bire

Mareike Bire was at the University of Sydney last year as a postgraduate media student on exchange from Germany. She joined The Junction team to report on Australia’s federal election in May, and did it with great gusto writing several stories and joining the live cross on election night. Now she has agreed to share her experience of living through the coronavirus in Cologne, her home city. Mareike Bire is a queer feminist at heart, who does not believe in binaries.