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Congratulations Michael Koziol
We are delighted to hear that former MECO student Michael Koziol has just won the PRINT/TEXT NEWS REPORT Walkley.
Michael Koziol and Jennifer Duke, The Sydney Morning...
Indigenous Anzacs in the War For Recognition
The annual Anzac Day Coloured Diggers honours the Indigenous men and women who served in defence of Australia 100 years ago. In 2017 Indigenous...
WORD CUP 2016
Indigenous Anzacs in the War For Recognition
The annual Anzac Day Coloured Diggers honours the Indigenous men and women who served in...
Life and Death: Forks after Twilight
It’s a cloudless June morning here in Washington as my mother, my sister and I...
Sydney candidate pushes for scientific solutions
Contributor: Francesca Hung |
Science Party candidate Aaron Hammond stood on a very busy corner of...
WRC Rally Cup
Citizen Science
Contributors: Alana Callus, Emmay Hayman, Jack Foster, & Bianca Davino
Every day, people who aren’t scientists...
Sydney Liberal candidate steps into ‘lion’s den’
Contributor: Tim Piccione |
Climate change, taxes and local initiatives dominated discussion during the Sydney...
Australia lags on female representation in federal government
Contributor: Maria Gil |
Although women make up almost 51 per cent of Australia’s population, less...
CYCLING TOUR
Tanya Plibersek increases her popularity despite Labor’s devastating defeat
Contributor: Maria Gil |
Sydney’s overwhelming vote of confidence in Tanya Plibersek and Labor contrasts sharply with how the majority of Australia voted yesterday. While...
Technology and Eating Disorders: Not all bad?
Contributor: Juliet Lochrin |
Content warning: contains images of malnourished individuals from the Minnesota Starvation Experiment
There’s an app for everything nowadays. Be it online banking,...
Podcast: Do Not Turn Off
DMU Usyd · Maria Gil - Do Not Turn Off
Contributor: Maria Gil
Synopsis:
Do Not Turn Off is a fictional podcast that follows the story of...
The Crane
Contributor: Rhea Thomas
A stop motion about a crane’s adventure across Japan making an unexpected starry friend.
Video: Written, produced and directed by Rhea Thomas.
Music: Written...
Keeping up with the New Joneses: The rise of the micro-influencer
Contributor: Nicole Chew
In a gleaming Audi Q5 SUV, Steve Jones and his family pull up in front of an elegant, granite-cladded, multi-storey home. Steve’s...
TENNIS
The long way home
Contributor: Joseph Johnson
Through crime, addiction and loss, SubConscious Records trace their fraught journey from crew to family.
“I’ve seen a lot of crews come and...
Our Darkest Obsession: The Rise of True Crime
In the past 12 months, I have listened to 381 episodes of Last Podcast on the Left, 147 episodes of Generation Why, 97 episodes...
LATEST ARTICLES
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...
Can I have one serving of bilingualism, please?
It’s Saturday dinner and our family gathers at the table. A well-cooked rib-eye steak, along with mashed potato and salad, lies neatly arranged on each individual’s plate. On the left side of the table...
Small Axe, Big Tree
Small grassroots organisations are slowly chipping away at the huge problem of Aboriginal deaths in custody in Australia.
“I’d like to acknowledge the Gadigal people on whose land today… I take that back. On whose...
Podcast: What You Don’t Hear
DMU Usyd · What You Don't Hear- Emelie Watkins CoJo Podcast
Contributor: Emelie Watkins
Featured: Dr Kelvin Kong (ENT), Worimi man
Music: “Bullyman” by Jacob Ridgeway, Worimi man
Synopsis:
‘What You Don’t Hear’ explores the major public health problem...
Ghostly Digital Reproductions against ISIL: On Allahyari and Rhizomatic Activism
Contributor: Victor Zhou
ISIL pillaged Hatra in 2015, releasing viral YouTube videos that showed militants with sledgehammers gashing and decimating statues belonging to other Muslim sects (fig.1). In response, Iranian-Kurdish new media artist-activist, Morehshin Allahyari,...
Refugee children in the Middle East left homeless during the Pandemic
Humanitarian organisations say stateless refugee children are ‘not treated as humans, but numbers’
Médecins Sans Frontières is among humanitarian organisations calling for help as a shortage of funds threatens severe death tolls and a violation...
Information: The Ruling Power
Introduction
The world is in a state of flux – power looks very different today. Human species have arrived at a Black Mirror age wherein information technology, science, and data take over: we are no...
Podcast: Unfinished Business
DMU Usyd · Unfinished Business - Sarah O Keefe
Contributor: Sarah O' Keefe
Synopsis:
'Unfinished Business' is a comedic murder mystery centred upon a ghost named Martha. She is trapped in a house with her three ex-roommates...
Visualising COVID-19 – the challenge for data researchers
" Visuals are essentials. Sadly, there is a real human tragedy behind the statistics, the way we design and structure the narratives should account for that."
--- Yaryna Serkez, Graphics Editor at the New York...
COVID-19 would “spread like wildfire” in prisons say legal advocates
Overcrowding and social isolation leave prisoners vulnerable to COVID-19 but NSW Corrective Services has no plans to release prisoners on early parole.
The NSW Government passed laws in March enabling the Commissioner to release certain...
The Spotify Assemblage: Why your playlist shapes both your Saturday night and the...
Introduction
Founded in 2006 by Swedes Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon, the music-and-podcast-streaming service Spotify has quickly become a ubiquitous presence on digital devices. Like all social phenomena, it is an assemblage, meaning that it...