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Nee Stokes

My aunty had become terminally ill. The recently found melanoma had spread and was now rapidly taking over her body. I flew up to Queensland to see her with my family, not knowing ...

Tegan Crowley

Market Research Politics

[caption id="attachment_1607" align="alignnone" width="800"] 'Race to Finish', via Flickr[/caption] 'We've received reports of a suspicious individual conducting surveys and photog...

Frances An

‘A ruse to mislead’: an insider’s account of the review of the School of Culture, History and Language at ANU

The review of the School of Culture, History and Language, which commenced in 2013, was an opaque process. It began with a shambolic retreat in which academic staff were invited to...

Anonymous

Failure

I firmly believe that universities and academics have the potential to do good; to contribute to a more just, sustainable and peaceful future for our world by advancing public know...

Anonymous

Inconvenient questions from a casual academic

How can I ever tell you what is really like? How do I explain the will necessary to get up each day, to go and work somewhere that I know doesn’t value me? How do I explain the imp...

Anonymous

Building Hope That Another World is Possible – SOS

SOS is Students of Sustainability, a unique, social and environmental justice gathering held every July by the Australian Student Environment Network (ASEN). It started in 1991, in...

Ruby Laginha

Yurt

In the aftermath of the 2009 Urumqi Riots in Xinjiang, I realised at the age of 10 what the Chinese label of the event meant; merely four simple characters: ‘hit, smash, snatch, bu...

Nuria Khasim Yu

Going In

I’m knee deep in my newest purchase: a giant maze of unique fingerprint arabesques spread out before me that delineate Namadgi and Brindabella National Parks. I couldn’t be more th...

Samuel Guthrie

Complicity and the Lolita Complex

In my life, art and pop culture have helped me understand and navigate the confusing world around me. There are few things more intimate than reading, watching or hearing something...

Codie Bell

Rapture

That child’s hand above your head; the hand of a little girl long dead. Kakadu. Djidpi Djidpi. Two blocks of ochre. One grinding hollow. A grinding stone. Five moments of pressure....

Steve Skitmore