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Recognition, reconciliation and voice: 'Unfinished, uncompleted, unfulfilled'

by Olivia Cleal

News

White Bay Power Station’s Two-Phased Renaissance

Sydney’s new cultural venue remains a work-in-progress as plans for the creative powerhouse unfold. White Bay Power Station is a celebrated addition to Sydney’s cultural life, but site-upgrades and transport challenges mean it won’t be...

Creative Nonfiction

Synecdoche Beirut-Sydney

Beirut 1992 Light drizzle taps the blue-eyed girl on the shoulder. With a gleam in her eye and nervous flutter in her chest, she clutches...

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 they would be friends. “Our creative kinship happened by chance,” Taylor-Lind says. “It’s a...

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Commentary

Trump’s Misuse of ‘Socialism’: A strategy built on fear and misunderstanding

During a heated televised debate in September 2024, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump accused Vice President Kamala Harris of being a "Marxist" in their first head-to-head encounter. "She's a Marxist. Everybody knows she's a Marxist....

Podcasts

Minority Report – Ting-Jen Kuo

  Minority Report delves into the challenges facing American democracy post-2024 election, especially its ever-concentrating dominant powers, exploring pivotal moments, systemic flaws, and transformative possibilities through expert interviews and insightful analysis.   Ting-Jen Kuo · USSC2602 Podcast -...

Ghost Bride

Sirius and the Moon

Letters Never Sent

Cat Talk

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: Seventeen, Seymour Centre

Walking into WildThingProduction’s Seventeen at the Seymour Centre, we were instantly taken back to high school. The stage had been covered in AstroTurf. There was a broken swing-set, a graffitied table and even a...