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“Are You Fucking Serious?” – A Response to Student Union Supporters of Nuclear Energy

– by Roxley Foley, introduction by Odette Shenfield At the 2015 National Union of Students National Confernece, the Labor Right faction (Student Unity) submitted a motion suppor...

Odette Shenfield

Roxley Foley

Is Patriotism Something to Strive For?

January 26, the ‘Great Silence’ and a new kind of love As the Canberra winter retreats and the magpies unforgivingly begin to swoop, I am reminded that soon enough another summer w...

Amelia Noble

Brotherboys and Sistergirls: Changing the Way Queer* Identities are Defined

– Isabel Mudford interviews Kellum Steele Could you tell us a bit about how you came to be living in Wadeye, after growing up in Melbourne? For my whole life I’ve wanted to learn a...

Isabel Mudford

Feminism: An Exclusionary Movement?

“What woman here is so enamoured of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman’s face?” Audre Lorde The importance of the third wave of feminism is th...

Rebecca Kriesler

For the Love of the Land

Coal seam gas through the eyes of a QUT Big Lift student   “I don’t think you’re listening. I don’t think anyone is listening.” Grief can never be simplified to a process. Mou...

Ria Bhagat

Victims, Not Perpetrators: Rehumanising Refugees in the Wake of the Paris Attacks

It was one of my first shifts back at work and everyone was lamenting the tragedy of the Paris terror attacks, when one colleagues turned to me and said, “I hope it wasn’t one of t...

Jason Ray

Teaching Tolerance and Seeking Justice in a World of Disadvantage

For too many people, our world is broken, and too many of us have stood silently for too long. There is too much hate, intolerance, and disadvantage in the world, but local, state,...

Bryan Fair

Beginning Democracy in a School Library

W hile there is no single understanding of democracy, there is broad agreement that it involves a people allowed to meet and speak freely, with the right to choose and question its...

Robyn Markus-Sandgren

Participatory Resource Management as an Alternative Democracy

You could be forgiven for thinking, or even believing, that you have a say in decisions that impact your life because you live in a democracy. “I vote. Therefore, I have a say.” Bu...

Mia Sandgren