Sydney University student-staff ratio crashes amid $3.3 billion endowment
USyd’s enormous wealth consolidates a crisis in tertiary education and indicates a university executive crying wolf over the grinding austerity measures of the past years.
Editorial: Vertigo’s funding cut is an attack on student media and democracy
Honi Soit stands in solidarity with the Vertigo community.
Federal Election 2022
Editorial: Week 13, Semester 1
A better world is always built by young people who are unashamedly idealistic.
Latest News
NTEU alleges Deakin University committed “systematic wage theft”
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‘Warrmula Unite’ against police violence on Indigenous communities
Forum calls to build resistance to AUKUS and the war on China
UTSSA to partner with UTS executive in contentious agreement, endorses Vertigo campaign
How USyd funds gunboats, attack helicopters, heat-seeking missiles for US military
USyd’s $3.41 billion investment portfolio is linked to F-35 fighter planes, Patriot missile systems, Apache helicopters, Predator UAVs, and heat-seeking Javelin missile systems.
Duty of care: Cultivating a court for our climate
The proper response to the watershed Sharma v Minister for the Environment case, and imagining climate litigation in Australia as a tool for justice.
The school that wouldn’t budge: Darlington’s resistance
“The struggle for Darlington is a struggle not only for the preservation of tangible reminders of our past, but also the struggle for the right of individuals and communities to decide their own future.” - Darlington Public School, 1878-1978.
A masterclass in greenwashing by the University of Sydney
EnviroWeek included sustainability lectures, bake sales and floral treasure hunts – all while $338,130 of the USU’s funds was effectively financing BHP, Rio Tinto, and Woodside Petroleum.
Opinion
Culture
A love letter to Love Letters to the Horizon
The exhibition at SCASS Backspace honours queer community and liberation, running until 30 June on Level 3 of Wentworth.
Analysis
The problem behind America’s school shooting crisis is not just found in their constitution
If the United States is to stop the school shooting epidemic, they need to confront their mental health crisis too.
Features
Duty of care: Cultivating a court for our climate
The proper response to the watershed Sharma v Minister for the Environment case, and imagining climate litigation in Australia as a tool for justice.
Investigation
How USyd funds gunboats, attack helicopters, heat-seeking missiles for US military
USyd’s $3.41 billion investment portfolio is linked to F-35 fighter planes, Patriot missile systems, Apache helicopters, Predator UAVs, and heat-seeking Javelin missile systems.
Perspective
The eye that wounds
In my culture, the evil eye represents all misfortune that may befall us. The eye is solely to blame for what goes wrong: any crisis is a result of its curse.
Environment
March 25 global climate strike location changed to Kirribilli House
The strike will be held this Friday at 12:30pm.
Profiles
In conversation with Third Space: on experimental music and strobing lights
The Melbourne/Naarm-based experimental-electronic artist recently played two sold-out solo shows at Phoenix Central Park.
Comedy
New Bacteria discovered on First Year Strikebreaker’s Knee
The newly discovered bacteria specie, Scabbamarie Jagosii, is sentient and is considered a scientific breakthrough.
Creative
‘The Bin Hover’ — In Defence of the Ibis
Lake Northam’s underrated waterbirds deserve a fairer moniker.
Multilingual
‘Put Back Our Arches’ – La Lotta per Il Forum Italiano
20 years on, Leichhardt's Italian Forum hangs in the balance.