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Seeing is Believing: Why Representation Matters
As representation continues to be a hot-button issue across all mediums, it can be difficult to see the non-politicised side of the picture. While...
Inflation crisis for Chinese international students in Australia
An "intelligent, dedicated" woman - a Chinese international student, took her own life in January this year after struggling to afford rent and buy food.
This...
Sydney Uni dog therapy eases mid-semester stress
Sydney University students have been destressing from 'ruff' assignments and swapping labs for Labs with Ther-A-Paws events.
At a recent session on May 4, students...
Call for formal menstrual leave
As I graduated high school back in June 2022, being enrolled under the February intake meant I had a chance to study in Taiwan...
Live music is back in Sydney’s Inner West
In a unanimous vote on March 14, Inner West Council approved the planning proposal for the Enmore Road special entertainment precinct to become permanent.
Since...
Standard Deviations Part 1: Our Language, Our Culture
In our formative years, particularly through education and even into the workforce, we’re always being told to speak and write ‘correct’ English. But what...
Review: Brave and beautiful
No one can resist the passage of time, but photographers can turn moments into "eternity". Timothy Owen relished the wonders and challenges of life...
Eat. Drink. Paint. Repeat.
Sydneysiders save the date for the 11th anniversary of the two-day Pyrmont Food and Wine Festival...
Community continuity in news
It is around 7:15 am and I am in the back seat of my aunty’s car. The roads leaving Balmain are quiet in the...
Sydney Easter Show makes a spectacular comeback
The Sydney Royal Easter Show, the annual largest ticketed event in NSW, wowed its way back with a spectacular two weeks of excitement from...
The Trouble With That Was
The Troubles is a typically Irish understated way to describe decades of violence within their history. But what exactly are The Troubles? How did...
Labor celebrates in Strathfield
On March 25, the people of the Strathfield district braved the rain to vote in the election and celebrated their victory at Club Burwood...
Seeing red: Labor dominates in Coogee, Heffron and Maroubra
On Saturday, Labor candidates for the seats of Coogee, Maroubra and Heffron celebrated their victory in the NSW state elections at Randwick Club.
After 12...
Inside NSW Labor’s Election Night Celebration: A Fresh Start for NSW
Chris Minns will be the 47th Premier of NSW after voters delivered big swings to Labor in Saturday’s state election after 12 years in...
Labor looks set to clinch Strathfield
Labor candidate Jason Yat-sen Li is hopeful of winning the seat of Strathfield tomorrow against Liberal candidate John-Paul Baladi, with a 5.2 per cent...
Coogee candidates hit the booths
On the first day of pre-polling, local candidates and volunteers line the footpath outside Randwick Town Hall handing out ‘How to Vote’ leaflets in...
Epigenetics: How will you change?
The humid heat of the late afternoon hung heavy in the air. The chatter of magpies and noisy miners had abated. Even the rumble...
No art without deformation: Picasso in Moscow, 1956
In 1956, the Soviet embassy in Paris is filled with thirty-eight artworks of Pablo Picasso, waiting to be shipped to Russia.
It is early morning,...
Covid, coups and learning to cope
It’s safe to say that we were feeling very sorry for ourselves as we pulled out of our driveway and turned onto the main...
The Talking Dead: Latin lives on
The subject of Latin will no longer be offered as an elective at North Sydney Boys High School.
What a revelation. What a stir-up. What...
Asian artists bridge divide post-pandemic
Asian artists Chris Yee and Joy Li are using art to help Asian Australians build a sense of identity and stronger ties with the...
