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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 we distract ourselves with, and maybe even avoid, the ongoing...

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 is the headline of a widely circulated article spreading on...

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 enjoyed being outdoors playing with six trained Delta Therapy dogs,...

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 before coming to Australia. It was during my time 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 the start of the precinct’s trial period in September 2022,...

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 does that mean for the dialects that use non-standard English?...

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 in his 17 years with passionate enthusiasm, using photography to...

Eat. Drink. Paint. Repeat.

Sydneysiders save the date for the 11th anniversary of the two-day Pyrmont Food and Wine Festival at Pirrama Park. On May 6-7, from 11am-5pm, visitors can eat...

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 new morning light. I am 8 years old and have...

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 April 6 to April 17. With new entertainment, funky food...

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 they affect the children who grew up during that time?...