Attempts to convince students that the Colleges are ‘progressive’ or ‘liberal’ are the latest in a series of University PR stunts to elide the colonial, elitist and capitalist foundations which have entrenched sexual violence, misogyny and classicism in its halls today.
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To only peer into the Chancellor’s Office over the past decade provides a myopic and warped perception of its history. Colonialism, corporatism and militarism — alongside all the racism, elitism and misogyny they bring — are etched into the Quadrangle’s original mahogany desks.
Yet again, we arrive at the hypocritical stalemate of white identity. The ‘Global South’ can be an alluring unknown to the ‘Global North’, yet it is a dangerous and reductive lens in which to view the world.
With Indigenous knowledge and care at the forefront, multispecies living and justice is an achievable cause that should be implemented into Sydney’s urban planning and architecture development.
Meta’s unwillingness to return to the negotiation table places media platforms of all kinds in a vulnerable position as Australia awaits their fate — a fate held in inexorable and indifferent hands.
There is some value in the empirical understanding he advances; the degree to which modern capitalism is unproductive, unprofitable, monopolised, and increasingly relies on assets, rents, and finance to make any money. Yet any useful insights that Varoufakis has are obscured by his confused notion of technofeudalism. What Marx identifies as the core of capitalism — generalised commodity production and the wage-labour social relation — still reigns.
To truly understand where the university stands in terms of offering its students employment opportunities post-graduation, we compared the university to its other Australian counterparts from the Group of Eight which are seven other equally large and research-intensive universities.
Despite the substantial financial support MySydney offers, Sydney’s high cost of living, and cultural elitism means that far more support is desperately needed to ensure that a USyd education is genuinely accessible.
Considering the most influential factor in predicting recidivism in younger people is contact with the criminal legal system, holding unsentenced young people in custody endangers them, their families, and their future.
Although the initiatives read well on paper, there is a lack of depth in the specifics of what these changes will involve and how they will be implemented.