‘I felt so alone’: Navigating USyd’s faceless bureaucracies as a student carer
The bureaucratic processes that students with additional caretaking responsibilities are offered at the University are clunky at best, and traumatic at worst.
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EDITORIAL: Voice to Parliament
As students, the Editors of Honi Soit support a “Yes” vote. However, we do not wish to reduce the scope of the Voice debate to simply a decision to vote “Yes” or “No”.
‘Just enough’, but not enough: The students’ guide to the Budget
Honi attended Budget lockup to assess what the Budget included for students.
Abolish the Colleges
That they themselves believe that endemic sexual violence is a PR problem to be managed, rather than an abomination to be eliminated in its entirety, shows that these issues are institutionalised and deeply embedded in the Colleges.
USyd School of Psychology conducts sexual assault experiment on students
The experiment has been criticised for endangering students and questioned on its ethics.
Analysis
What does the Minns Labor government mean for NSW?
NSW Labor’s victory, as one in a series of victories, actually illustrates that a red wave in Mainland Australia poses a clear mandate from the people – in particular, young people who are doing it the toughest — that they need a bold, progressive and, dare I say, socialist answer to the numerous crises they are facing in the modern neoliberal world.
Culture
‘The Holocaust — My Memories’: Keeping the Past Alive through Testimony
While their experiences differ, their stories of bravery, courage, grief, loss, resilience, and hope bring them together. It was noted, too, that the end of the Holocaust didn’t mark the end of survivors’ troubles, grief, and loss.
Soft Centre Festival 2023: In conversation with the founders of Soft Centre
Great Adaptations with Benjamin Law, Holly Ringland, Tom Rob Smith and Eleanor Catton
On Saving Time and How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell — Must we live by the 24-hour clock?
Perspective
Queerness, Pornography, Virginity
It’s a paradox, thinking that because I’m aware porn isn’t realistic, my experience of it isn’t real either.
Features
‘I felt so alone’: Navigating USyd’s faceless bureaucracies as a student carer
The bureaucratic processes that students with additional caretaking responsibilities are offered at the University are clunky at best, and traumatic at worst.
Investigation
In the wake of gentrification: The relocation of public housing tenants
Strong communities are being torn apart by the state government’s careless approach towards “renewing” public housing.
Opinion
Students are right to question the School of Psychology VR-simulated ‘implied’ sexual assault study
USyd, like many universities across Australia, has an abysmal record of responding to the endemic of campus-based sexual assault and intimate partner abuse.
Environment
Climate justice cannot be achieved without First Nations justice
We hear these words in speeches, at rallies, and on banners — but what does it really mean? What do First Nations-led climate solutions look like?
Profiles
You Can Go Now: Richard Bell on art as activism
You Can Go Now cannot be considered safe viewing by any means, but it is necessary viewing. It is not a film for delicate constitutions, but for those who are ready for a reckoning.
Comedy
A Place to Shit and Stink: A Love Letter to a Memory
Sydney Uni is already a maze before you consider that every building on this suburb-sized campus has a warren of an interior as well. In the mix of all the old and the new, there has to be a perfectly secluded toilet out there somewhere, right?
Multilingual
homesick هنا, homesick هناك
I suppose I am cursed and privileged to live in the space in between; Homesick here, homesick there.
Review
‘Scenes from the Climate Era’: What marks the end of an era?
Now, we are long past the point of no return. All we can do is try to come to terms with the world we do live in, and rethink how to live in it.