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Contributor: Wendy Guest
Dinesh, the driver, maintained his monologue of Fijian facts that floated loosely in his fictions as we drove past village after village....
Podcast: What You Don’t Hear
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‘What You Don’t Hear’ explores the major public health problem of ear disease and hearing problems prevalent...
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Study Drugs: Are They a No Brainer?
Contributor: Kate Cross
It’s 10pm on a Thursday night in the Law Library. Exams are fast...
Campaign to Save Sydney Dogs and Cats Home
Contributors: Naya Li & Lin He
Sydney Dogs and Cats Home has started a fund raising...
The Annika Foundation: supporting research into adolescent depression
Lucy Mushita interviews Dr Adrian Blundell-Wignall, the founder and Chairman of the Annika Foundation, which...
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Vivid Sydney has taken playing ball...
‘A great and unifying moment’: Sydney students demand action
Contributor: Emily Smith
An estimated 80,000 people rallied at Sydney’s Domain on Friday as part of...
In Plain Sight
Contributor: Sarah Carol Hughes
I am a tall, bright-haired anomaly in the small suburb of Tokyo...
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Badu Gili
Contributors: Roya Ghodsi, Madison Copland, Joanna Kim, Isabella Martin, Charlotte Middleton
In June 2017, the Sydney Opera House launched Badu Gili — a seven-minute art projection that...
Australia can be an environmental superpower says Science Party
Science Party's Aaron Hammond speaks on climate change from Digital Media Unit on Vimeo.
Contributor: Wuruo Xu
Candidate for Sydney Aaron Hammond says Australia has the...
The Hardest Pill to Swallow: My Experience with Antidepressants
Contributor: Lauren Littlejohn
“Don’t worry,” the doctor said, signing the prescription, “they’re not addictive”.
He handed me the prescription and sent me off. No mention was...
Campaign to Save Sydney Dogs and Cats Home
Contributors: Naya Li & Lin He
Sydney Dogs and Cats Home has started a fund raising campaign to buy a new site after their current...
Childhood cancer survivors suffer for life
Contributor Isabella Bradford
Every year in Australia 950 children aged 0-19 years are diagnosed with some form of cancer. In 2012, Ashleigh Bradford, now aged...
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Walking each other home: A weekend with the combined Australasian Threshold...
Contributor: Wendy Guest
It’s chilly in the mountains for late March and the 45 women bustling into the big pale chapel pull their shawls and...
Women in Sport
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Women in Sport from Digital Media Unit on Vimeo.
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For Isabella Brown and her partner Liam, an average day during the past 11 months looked something like this: sleeping-in, playing with their kitten, Penguin, and watching as the cancellations rolled in.
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An Unlikely Cure to Tiktok Fatigue – Phenomenology is #Trending
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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...