The Flodge has been witness to numerous political issues on and off campus through the years and has remained a constant third space for campus activists to organise and build relations.
Browsing: history
Central to the edition is the ongoing Gaza Solidarity Encampment. Although it may be passed absent-mindedly on your way to Courtyard — a historical reckoning of our time is sprawling over our previously, perfectly manicured Quad lawns.
On March 15, 44 BCE a guy named Julius Caesar was assassinated by way of stabbing. As far as political assassinations go this was a pretty big deal.
“In a post-Voice and climate-changing ‘Australia’ built upon the injustices of settler colonialism, white supremacy and capitalism, our generation must now reckon with everything our ‘National Museums’ stand for.”
Reflecting on history is no new tool pulled from the shed. I find that when we do pull it out,…
Place and history are intimately intertwined. Without an understanding of place, history becomes a fuzzy abstract.
Farrago is the University of Melbourne’s student magazine, founded in 1925 by two students, Randal Haymanson and Brian Fitzpatrick.
Winter was coming, nay, it had arrived, and you could hear me from a mile away, clippity-clopping my way up and down the steps of the Social Sciences Building feeling like I was on top of the world.
Parramatta Road and its secrets remind us that, when we look beyond the stained windows of our morning 413 or past the grittiness of the road’s concrete skin, a hidden world where past and present coalesce is all around us.
The prevailing history of the vibrator is shrouded in night-time mystery and buried deep beneath duvets.
