– 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 supporting nuclear energy. The motion lauded South Astralian Premier Jay Weatherill’s...
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 will roll around, bringing with it another Australia Day. Each year on January 26 we are...
– 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 about Aboriginal culture and gain an acceptance from my people. It was hard growing up...
“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 that it is meant to cater to every different conception of what it means to be a woman,...
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. Mourning a loss is more than crying heavy tears that lead to inevitable acceptance. When a...
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 the people you helped through Greece that did it.” Everyone stopped and stared at me, but...
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, national, and international law all fail to produce solutions. We have forgotten that...
While 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 governing body. Yet, in Australia, children have little experience with active...
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.” But what if you wish to have a say in a different, more profound way? Participatory...
