William Edwards reports on the latest news from Canberra.

Christina White gives an update on the budget.

A plague on both your houses In the diary of every campus hack the day of the annual Liberal vs. Labor debate is circled harder than any other. The topic for this year’s debate was “that the Abbott Government has it right on ‘stopping the boats’”. Seconds into Kanika Batra’s opening comments, from the Liberal…

Dear Honi, Academic dishonesty, as the SRC’s Education Department reminds us each and every year, covers a multitude of sins, including fabricating data, misrepresenting results, “recycling” past assessments, and simply copying someone else’s work without giving them the credit. Ironically, nobody seems to have told the SRC Education Officers, Eleanor Morley and Ridah Hassan. Of…

The following transcript has been taken from surviving excerpts of a notebook unearthed in Section 3A of the Quarantined Zone, on the site formerly occupied by the 2014 O-Week Main Stage tent. TRIGGER WARNING: Honi Soit apologises for any distressing content.

There is a connection between corporate universities, the Labor government, and the Dalai Lama, argues Angus Reoch

When it comes to government regulation of alcohol, consistency can’t be everything, writes Michael Koziol.

Why do we send refugees to the islands of the damned, asks Dan Zwi.

The know-it-all guru of Australian politics was created through mere coincidence, writes Dominic Wilcox.

Hannah Ryan talks to George Newhouse, human rights lawyer and asylum seeker advocate.