Mapping the uncertain future of International House through its past
International House has been home to over 6,000 students since it opened in the 1960s, and is a hallmark of modernist architecture at USyd. So why is it closing?
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Mapping the uncertain future of International House through its past
International House has been home to over 6,000 students since it opened in the 1960s, and is a hallmark of modernist architecture at USyd. So why is it closing?
Inside Villawood detention, where guards smuggle drugs and use detainees for sex
USyd to Ukraine, Redfern to Rwanda, JFR to Jalalabad
Five years on and sexual assault still has a home on campus. What now?
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