federal government pushing university sector “off the cliff” with proposed hecs reforms
Author: Millie Spencer University students’ HECS/ HELP loans will face termination if they fail more than half of their units, under the Federal Government’s proposed Job-Ready Graduate Package. National Union of Students (NUS) President Molly Willmott says the...
a new era of masculinity
Artwork and writing by Belle M. Stoic, strong, unemotional and dominant are words commonly associated with masculinity. Unsurprisingly, these male stereotypes are further fuelled by the mass media and entertainment industries. Over the last couple of years, however,...
COVID-19 Series: #2
Author: Girish Gupta There are days I just lay on my bed and listen to the same songs on repeat. Days when I fall on the carpet in my room and cry and scream as if there’s no soul who could hear me ever. Days when my muffled crying is too much, as if every brick in...
o-week x depop
SSU O-Week: Secrets to Success on Depop Thank you to the Depop team who put together this video just for our Swinburne Digital O-Week! We know some of you weren't able to attend our live viewing session, so we're making it available here. Watch the video below and...
COVID-19 Series: #1
Author: Millie Spencer In the first week of semester 1, my Global Media Industries lecturer began his lecture by telling us that 70% of people meet their life partner at university…so if we didn’t want to die alone, we should turn up to class. Looking around the room...
interview with o-week folk-pop performers parkville
Author: Tina Tsironis Swinburne students won’t be enjoying a regular O-Week anytime soon - that much is clear. But thanks to the beauty of Zoom and social media, events we would normally attend face-to-face will next week be streamed directly to our living rooms. One...
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” –– Angela Davis
Resources that will help you imagine a world without police. Author: Jessica Murdoch https://www.instagram.com/p/CBLRHjqgBLw/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link There are a lot of people asking us to imagine a different world right now. It may seem kind of scary. Or...
university fee reforms will prevent students from realising their potential and succeeding in the workforce – here’s why
Author: Tina Tsironis Recently, the federal government announced their plans to significantly increase the student contribution for numerous tertiary courses. To unpack the impact these reforms may have on the quality of life and career prospects of Australian...
burning home
Author: Girish Gupta Featured image by Jen Theodore, courtesy of Unsplash CW: this poem includes references to self-harm and suicide. I see these walls burn, as the heat scorches through my skin and I wonder to myself, is this the hottest it could have been? ...
textile recycling from your front door
Author: Millie Spencer Photo supplied. Australian charities spend $13 million on waste management each year, sending 60,000 tonnes of unusable or unrecyclable donations to landfill, according to the National Association of Charitable Recycling Organisations. To...
stains
Author: Andrew Dopper Featured image by anja, courtesy of Unsplash. The first of them arrived in 1963, soon after I came to be. They were so proud. They were a young couple who drove me from Sydney to Melbourne. He worked as a butcher and she had just...
the rant: edition 2
Author: Grace Ashford Artwork: Rachel Lloyd-Owens Having spent more time than ever before in the comfort of our own homes (who knows what day it is anymore?), it’s safe to say that things are starting to get grizzly - if they haven’t already. Maybe it’s the fact...