Product of China
By Aster Ren Kivy I’m sitting in the food court of Garden City with two scoops of Movenpick’s Boysenberry ice cream when I find out my entire life has been a lie. And I do not use the phrase lightly. …
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Daddy’s Girl
By Tejal Thakur It’s a silly phrase. It’s often contextualised with the belief that mothers prefer sons while fathers dote on daughters. True it may be, for most healthy families. Unhealthy too. Daddy’s girl, daddy’s princess. Who exactly grew up…
Normal People – Can we really consider anyone ‘normal’?
By Taylor Sankey *Spoilers Ahead!* Normal People. This 12-episode mini-series, based on Sally Rooney’s wonderfully crafted narrative, navigates the on-and-off relationship between two heartbreakingly normal people. But what is a normal person? The catalytic moments in a person’s life all…
How much do you care? The false balance in climate reporting
By Gloria Leung From Black Summer to coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef to extreme weather events, climate change is increasingly making headlines. However, the media often fails to report the long-term impacts and complexities behind these events adequately.…
Australia’s domestic violence crisis: Time for proactive action
By Hayden Sinclair *Trigger warning: Sexual assault, intimate partner violence, murder* On average, a woman in Australia is killed by her partner every week. One in three women have experienced physical violence at some point in their lives, while one…
Ecstatic Rice and Queering Filipino Identity: A review of Buddy Malbasias and Clare Dark’s ‘Bahala/o’
By Isabella Rose Cort A recent experimental dance performance at BackBone Festival, Bahala/o arises like a sweaty hurricane of interchanging gestures, intimacy, and frantic grasps towards the (unattainable?) perfect bowl of rice. Upon entry, the audience passes by two performers…
Why ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is so captivating, even after 200 years
Pride and Prejudice is my favourite romance fiction, and I think part of its lasting influence comes from unforgettable characters like Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy.
Who Are We When our Girls have their Limelight
By Olivia Priddis Who Are We When – this column brings readers forward into the world of sociology, or to be more precise, how sociology plays in our world. It is something we all contribute to, but not many truely…
Maude Horton’s Glorious Revenge by Lizzie Pook: A Review
By Mia Paton I’ve always loved a good historical fiction, and Lizzie Pook’s latest novel is no exception. Set in the 1850s, a young woman called Maude Horton – our beautiful and clever protagonist – is regretfully told that her…
Haunted by our legacy: Review of Tim Winton’s chilling new climate epic ‘Juice’
By David Uptin *Spoilers ahead!* I’ve only finished a Tim Winton book once in my life – Breath, which I read in 2020. Cloudstreet, considered by many his magnum opus, was the last book I began without finishing. To be…
