UOW STUDENT MAGAZINE
UOW’s by students, for students magazine.
Est. 1963.
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Marie slips the nail of her ring finger beneath the sleeve of her thick woollen jacket, peeling it back to reveal the watch face. Its little hand paces impatient circles around eight forty-five, collecting frantic seconds. She sighs with frustration,…
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Boys Don’t Cry – Film Review Fridays
We all struggle with identity, being caught between who we want to be and what everyone would prefer us to be. We’ll all come to an age where we don’t have the slightest idea who we are as people. We…
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Empure: Punk is Still Alive, and it Isn’t Going Away Anytime Soon
It’s incredibly easy to overlook just how hard putting on a good live performance is. On top of technical ability, you need the charisma to enthral the crowd and the style to match. You need the ability to keep the…
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The Insanities of UK Bars: Travel Tuesdays with Serena
Welcome back, dear reader, to Travel Tuesdays with yours truly. This week I’ll be writing about the insanities of UK bars and clubs and the events that have taken place in the past few weeks past the hour of two…
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Brokeback Mountain – Film Review Fridays
It can be hard learning new things about yourself, you can live your whole life believing you’re tough, when you find you’re human. You can live your whole life believing you’re generous and kind, only to find there’s a darker…
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Wild Dogs Under My Skirt – Interviewing Stacey Leilua
Merrigong Theatre Company is thrilled to present one of New Zealand’s most successful theatrical exports, Tustiata Avia’s Wild Dogs Under My Skirt at the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre from the 10th to 13th April. Adapted by Tusiata Avia’s poetry collection,…
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Profanity – Eclectic Vibes with a Grungy Undertone
There is a certain allure that accompanies the open mic night. You’re never entirely sure what to expect. The only thing you know is that what you’re about to experience will be truly authentic, that the people who make their…
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The Handmaid’s Tale – Film Review Friday
Where will you be at the end of the world? Will you be at home with your family, defending with a double-barrel shotgun? Will you be wandering the streets looking for anyone to answer your frightened calls? Will you be…
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The Magic Joint
Written by Kirsten Hammermeister and illustrated by Sash Lynch *This was originally published in the ‘Tertangala: Horror Issue’ (2023)
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Under the Light
Indie-pop trio San Cisco will be on the road heading to the UniBar this May. All that month San Cisco will be showing the regional towns some love and performing songs from their latest album Under the Light, and probably…
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Joseph Vieira – Sepia-Toned Tracks With Watercolour Sentiments
Amidst a wave of electronic synths and amorphous pop sounds, newcomer folk artist, Joseph Vieira, digs his heels into the more modest, rustic side of music. Addressing the audience at the University of Wollongong’s Unibar, Vieira adorned the infamous stage…
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All Aboard the Brontë Bus: Travel Tuesdays with Serena
Welcome back, readers, to Travel Tuesdays with Serena where this week I’ll be writing about my travels on my days off from school and my horrible, horrible planning skills that almost led me to multiple panic attacks. (I’m fine now).…
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‘The Double’ / ‘Enemy’ – Film Review Friday
In 2013, two films released, ‘The Double’ and ‘Enemy’ both following the story of a man meeting his doppelganger, much more handsome, much more charismatic, much more powerful in every way. Both films were based on books, ‘The Double’ on…
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Poo Man
Poo Man thought he would make a new hat. He had plenty of things to make a hat. He needed a shave too. He had been so involved in his project lately that he was starting to forget to look…
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The Friend
There once was a boy named Craig who was very unfortunate. One of these misfortunes was that his name was Craig, and not something like Daemon, or Link or Zuko (as his fellow classmates were named). Other misfortunes involved said…
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Served
Tonight, I am ethereal, and I glow. With a midnight blue light stretching across my skin, I am an alien. Tonight, you ask for a shot and a cocktail and a cigarette and a resurrection of your soul. And tonight,…
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Almost Famous – Film Review Fridays
We’ve all seen and heard the mad escapades of rock stars. Ozzy Osbourne biting into a live bat onstage, Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue sleeping with the wife of Bruce Dickinson (lead singer of Iron Maiden), Eric Clapton challenging George…
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Roadkill
it’s fresh when I pass it by guts glistening in the dim headlights, a red smear of viscera across the dewy morning concrete. as I try and fail to not let my eyes linger, i wonder if, like me, you…
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Eastwood – Waves of Dreamy and Apocalyptic Sweetness
I rocked up to the UniBar’s Open-Mic around quarter to ten all tired and jaded, but walking into the UniBar around this time was the kind of electric shock needed to make anyone jump out of their skin and bask…
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Edition Five: Travel Tuesdays with Serena
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world” Welcome back, readers, to this week’s column where I’ll be writing about the first week of uni on exchange in the UK. I initially thought that…
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Strawberry Blonde
TW: Pedophilia By Chloe Payne The shit and piss soaked rug burns into my nostril hairs late in the night. It gurgles and splutters lively out of its host — before setting into a burgundy crisp mess on the wooden…
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What is Philosophy? – Via Gilles Deleuze
Introduction: Let’s first start with a statement: human life is suffering. Throughout history, ranging from our ancestor, the first Homo Sapien who stepped foot out of Africa to 2024’s Homo sapiens who work in offices and type at their computers,…
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Teatime
TW for unpleasant eating experience/gagging Harry held his pinky out as he drank, pursing his lips to sip a shy mouthful of tea. He smiled and set the cup down on its saucer, careful not to let it clink. ‘How’d…
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The Whale – Film Review Fridays
You are not your mistakes, you are not your past, you are not your failures. You are your future. We all deal with setbacks differently, a few too many drinks in the evening, a full afternoon with headphones on listening…
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O-Week: The Thursday
Thursday’s sort was a successive lineup of three bands playing at the UniBar. The problem is that O-Fest has it’s spectacle located outside UniBar, music and play around the duck pond and such, and club stalls circling the whole library-cafeteria-jugglers-lawn…
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SILVIA LANE – A Cataclysmic Trip of Controlled Chaos
Nobody knows better how to control chaos than two boys from Wollongong, and it’s safe to say that the newly seasoned band have earned their stripes. The two-man band, Silvia Lane graced the University of Wollongong’s infamous UniBar stage Tuesday…
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Meeting O-Week Stars
With o-week having come to an end and the grind of uni underway, here’s The Tertangala’s scoop on the serious talent we got to witness. I had a chat with some of the musicians who are defining the golden standard…
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Atonement – Film Review Fridays
We’ve all said or done something we’ve regretted, whether it be saying terrible things about someone or hitting someone or sabotaging or lying or cheating. The general consensus is that as long as we learn and live with what we’ve…
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Rose and Crown – Travel Tuesdays with Serena
“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscious; this is the ideal life” -Mark Twain Welcome back, readers, to this week’s edition of Travel Tuesdays with Serena. The past few days have been both excitingly eventful and dreadfully uneventful at…
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Blue Valentine – Film Review Fridays
Romance and dating may come quite easy to us. However, in the drug-haze known as love, our judgement could be clouded, we may overlook warning signs, ignore all the ways the two of you are so different, ignore all conflicts…
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Delighted in Solitude: Travel Tuesdays with Serena
“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.” -Aristotle Welcome back to my travel column. The first day in a foreign country alone is, in my opinion, one of the most exciting and at the…
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Sinner
‘It’s in the sway of her hips I can see her sins. Like a an STD; it crawls through her blood. Her lips cushion with a shade of sex; A chemist perfume lingers from across the bar. The gripping cloth…
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Her – Film Review Fridays
Dating is hard, there’s a whole world out there, with only a small percentage of people in the world who could be your match. Sometimes it’s easier for us to settle for less, we don’t get hurt, we can maybe get more…
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33 hours to Nottingham: Travel Tuesdays with Serena
Hello again… I am now settled into my room at the University of Nottingham. Granted, all my stuff is still in my suitcases and bag and not one thing is in its proper place, but at least I’m here. And…
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How to lead? Nietzsche and Machiavelli: From Fear to ‘The Will to Power’
How to be a good leader? That has been one of the most difficult questions that our society struggled with throughout the years. For me this is a very difficult question since so many elements and qualities contribute to a…
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Dream Scenario – Film Review Friday
What was your last dream about? Can you remember it? Was it dangerous or weird or maybe wholesome? Was it absurd or horrific or hilarious? The one I remember most vividly is the one where I yell at Edward Norton…
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Monday Fever
To his alarm, great purple hammocks hung beneath his eyes, sore to the morning sun. Wrestling house keys to the car, it had stung to jog, spurred by the memory that he’d done mere nothing of the work his boss…
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Welcome to Travel Tuesdays with Serena!
Image credit: University of Nottingham “New year, new me” is a cliche for a reason. Welcome to the first part of my weekly travel blog, where I’ll be posting regular updates on my exchange experience as an Australian student moving…
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Clingin’ in the rain
The storm is chaos. Flashes of light streak sporadically through the creases of your blinds – shining the tiny shoebox of a bedroom ivory. In between beams of light, the thumping and pounding of thunder force you awake. Every fragment…
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Fatherland
Family portrait 1 by Helen Norton, from the series of paintings “ Once Upon a Time there was a Man”, published in 1995. Part 1: “Hey Marcus!!! What’s up with you?”, a voice echoes from the back of…
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Familiarity
I know those eyes. The cold unfeeling blue. I know that malicious smile. The grinding and retching of the teeth. I know those freckles. The splattered pattern like a bleach stained dress. The blonde hair. The gaunt cheeks. The vacant…
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A Time to Kill – Film Review Friday
No matter what part of the world you live in, whether it be the sandy beaches of the Bahamas, the tranquil water villages of the Netherlands or the harsh deserts of the Outback, the one undeniable aspect of life is…
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The Iron Claw – Film Review Friday
We can throw ourselves into the belly of the beast and work ourselves to the bone to achieve our goals, but it’s all about a healthy balance. Sometimes you’ll find people who believe the way is more play and less…
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Walking the Rocks
Here squats a sandstone city, its streets choked by motley cloth, Crowd River; bank brimming over toes tucked beneath dark waters cloaked by shade of steel shoulders, hunched, crouching. Light ripples on its water, blending hues which glimmer a vibrant…
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We Need a Pianist
I arrive at the Pavilion at 7:30pm in my best maroon suit. Stressing about my fingers. I’ve parked, engine’s off. Unfurl my fingers, staring, and thinking, they’re not broken anymore, and there won’t be an accident tonight that changes that.…
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Mean Girls (2024) – Film Review Friday
Welcome back to high school, take a seat at your desk before all the good spots are taken. Just make sure you choose correctly. If you sit next to Nick, be prepared for every class to be an hour-long discussion…
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Bonding
I. In the deep woods, the decaying and overgrown world, the twisted vines snap, frail from whips of wind. I am consumed, by the hollowness of the night. Here lie the crystals, the mild candlelight and my sacrifice – a…
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Ferrari – Film Review Friday
One of the most satisfying things to experience in film is a character’s ultimate downfall. Their entire world crumbling around them, leaving them like swimmers gasping for air 1000 kilometres deep below the horizon, a character’s flaws and sins paving…
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Creating Space: Interviewing Wollongong Music Circle
“We want to create a circle, a community that can bring us together, so that you can get feedback from people that understand you, network and find resources.” This is what co-founder Martin Sholl said when asked why the name…
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Siege
The Quaint residence abides around a cold street corner at 92 C Gosemer Rd, Meralvile, where tall apartments tower over a red door. The porch angles so slightly to the left, leaving an embellishment of chipped paint on its corner…
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Ardent Spirits
The effects of ardent spirits upon the human body and mind: Obstruction of the liver, Jaundice and dropsy of every cavity in the body, Diabetes, Voices, music. Now the empty street footsteps and an empty bottle. Falsehood, fraud, …
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Monkey Shines – Film Review Friday
n 1963, Alfred Hitchcock sought to villainise the beasts of the air in his film The Birds, showing the aerial demons can be more predatory than we give credit. In 1975, Steven Spielberg terrified us of the hammerheads, bulls and…
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Doomsday, Man
I’m no blushing bride when it comes to a good snog sesh, but someone’s stank ass breath can really kill the vibe. This gaping maw throws an absolute rancid gush of air at me, landing like a wet sock across…
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Boy and The Heron – Film Review Friday
Imagine a tower not too far away from your home, the endless hours wondering what purpose it served. There was always some building in our childhood that enchanted us like that. For me, it was the iron, alien spire that…
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Den
There are rats nesting beneath the stairwell bordering the doorway to our little shared house. Their little fingers scratch in the dirt, and their black eyes gleam like beads. They scour the alley to glean bits and pieces, fresh nibblings,…
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An attempt to develop a better understanding of Nietzsche
The following statements represent my personal reflections on Friedrich Nietzsche and his work, ‘Beyond Good and Evil’. The aim is to deepen my understanding of his philosophical contributions, and I welcome any criticisms and comments. The analysis below focuses on…
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Merrigong Theatre Company presented A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Wollongong’s Botanic Gardens
Merrigong Theatre Company presented A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Wollongong’s Botanic Gardens Merrigong Theatre Company was thrilled to present Wollongong’s first Shakespeare in the Garden – A Midsummer Night’s Dream; an enthralling open-air performance in the Wollongong Botanic Garden that…
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Student conference ends in chaos: NatCon day four
Feature image: Members of Socialist Alternative leave the conference early after a chaotic end to NatCon 2023. Photo courtesy of Lachlan White. A rooster of boring morning ballots Student media woke Thursday morning wanting more saucy coverage. Turns…
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The Ghost of Mount Keira
By Max Mandile Mount Keira harbours dark secrets. I’ve often felt a sense of unease in the area… a sense of wonderment. Living so close to it, I would often hear strange noises echo from the mountain and would see weird…
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Drag Me to Hell – Film Review Friday
Perhaps one of the most dangerous possessions are grudges. The past can be held in the hands of people you would never guess. Think you’re the nicest person you know? Think again. Even the best people are not immune to…
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Disability advocate says student conference is “inaccessible” and “ableist”
(Feature image) Muawiyath carries this chair as a “symbol of rebellion against indifference to our needs.” Photo courtesy of Lachlan White. A disability advocate attending a peak national student conference has accused organisers of ignoring his disability requirements. Muawiyath (Muthu)…
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“Emotions are high, tensions are high.” NatCon day three
(Feature image) delegates line up for the most important session of the day, Dinner Conference (DinCon). The nation’s student politicians have gathered in Ballarat for day three of the National Conference (NatCon) of the National Union of Students (NUS).…
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Witch
I am the woman who disappeared into the mist in her last life, The one who ran off the lip of the cliff, And whose body was never found at the bottom, They call me witch, with a hiss. They…
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NatCon is risen: Day two
If you happened to walk by Federation University’s Q2 building at 9am on Tuesday morning, you would have noticed a sorry sight. Hungover people in blue shirts that say ‘Unity’ lying in the sun, student media desperately searching Google Maps…
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Where’s NLS? NatCon day one
The National Union of Students’ National Conference descended on a cold, grey and rainy Ballarat on Monday, arguably a fitting tone for the day’s proceedings. After a lengthy check-in, the conference opened a respectable two hours late at 4pm, and…
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Nigredo
Truong wakes up to the sound of his phone ringing, unwilling to touch it. He tries to ignore the sound and turns his body to the wall side. Consistently, it keeps ringing, beat after beat after beat. He awakens angrily…
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Spooky101
For the Spooky Edition, I’ve decided to shine a light on the members of our uni’s Spooky community. While they might be easy to miss, they’re just as passionate about their futures as us. For example; the late Jayden Harris.…
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‘Lolita’ – Film Review Friday
This week, I dedicated my time to experiencing, what I was told to be, one of the most disturbing film adaptations to be filmed, boasting inappropriate relationships to make you squirm and wither like a dried apricot. What I found,…
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Hold the Note
It’s late morning, and the paterfamilias has donned his formal attire. The toga cloaking the loose folds of his chiton is blue with a fluffy grey lining on the collar and sash. His bare feet are swathed in a pair…
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Natcon 2023: What is it – and why care?
Well, it’s that time of year again. Christmas lights are beginning to colour the streets, Mariah Carey is playing in the shops again and student politicians are preparing their vocal chords for the annual screaming match known as NatCon. So,…
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Bad Boys Get the Dark
By Jacob Wood When the Dark was in control, Lester had little idea of his surroundings; could see nothing but shifting shadows. For brief moments at a time he could hear fevered shuffling, the scraping of harsh blades and a…
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‘Thanksgiving’ – Film Review Friday
The table is set, the cutlery’s shining, everybody’s gathered around the glazed, fatted turkey, you can just smell the sweet meat as the knife slices like butter. One slice, two slices, each making their way to everyone’s plates. Before we…
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UOW Theatre and Performance’s ‘The Flu Season’: The Snow Romance
‘The Flu Season’, written by Will Eno and directed by Michelle Fry as part of their honours course, was a fascinating and deeply moving production, playfully pulling between sadness and sharp humour. Set in the depressing scene of a psychiatric…
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The Final Crescendo – Reviewing GradFest
Friday 10th of November, I had the pleasure of attending UOW’s Music Gradfest. This event was hosted by the third-year creative arts, music students of Wollongong Uni. Mesmerised is an understatement. These were regular people who you’d pass by casually…
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Musings – Interviewing UOW Music Students
A couple weeks ago we had a chat with UOW third year music students Tom Price, Ella Grace, Jess Anderson and Daniel Munro about their music, their time at uni and the Music GradFest held earlier this month. Get to…
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Review: Interpol & Bloc Party @ Hordern Pavillion, w/ Dust (Sydney)
Last weekend, indie-rock legends Interpol and Bloc Party co-headlined two shows in Sydney at the Hordern Pavilion for the first time post-COVID. The hype was real. Safe to say both bands dominated the stages just as they did in their…
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‘Into the Wind’ – Film Review Friday
As we approach the new year, we yearn for more freedom and independence, we’re another year older and wiser. We want to explore the world, fight for ourselves, get amongst nature. We want to become human beings. We might want…
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Merrigong X presented Landed by Frumpus at the IPAC
Merrigong X presented Landed by Frumpus at the IPAC All-women performance group, Frumpus, returned to IPAC with their new show, Landed. Their nonsensical performance left audiences with a wonderful but strange feeling of confusion. The group, made up…
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Wollongong, a city I love
Wollongong, a city I love. Wollongong has been more than just a location; it’s a community where I’ve forged meaningful connections, found a new place to call home, and experienced a unique way of life. From the warmth of newfound…
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UOW Theatre and Performance’s ‘The Antipodes’: A Writer’s Take on Actors Playing Writers
DISCLAIMER: As a reviewer and writer, I feel it is my duty to disclose my closeness to this play to maintain reviewer integrity. Full disclosure, I know most of this cast and crew well and one of them is in…
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Champions – Film Review Friday
First, Woody Harrelson starred alongside Wesley Snipes in ‘White Men Can’t Jump’, a comedy film in which Harrelson is a conman, teaming up with Snipes in order to bet on himself in a basketball game and win big. Next, Harrelson…
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‘Clerks’ – Film Review Friday
You wake up to your ringtone, eyes blurry, you reach out and grab it to see it’s work. Your manager or your co-worker whose guts you hate is ringing you up for a shift. Either one of two things are…
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UOW Theatre and Performance’s ‘The Iphigenia Project’: The Delirium of Grief and Warfare
‘The Iphigenia Project’ follows the production of two plays, Iphigenia and Clytemnestra by Suhayla El-Bushra and Lulu Raczka, respectively, that independently and correspondingly explores the sacrificial burden of duty and grief amidst a background of war. Clytemnestra, while not as…
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UOW Theatre and Performance’s ‘Justified and Ancient’: Chaotically Captivating
The Scream is a painting by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch. The Scream is one of the five most famous paintings in the world. The Scream was painted in 1893 In the background of the painting are two men dressed…
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UOW Theatre and Performance’s ‘Chekhov in Hell’: Loose in London
UOW’s theatre season is pumping this year, with some exciting performances that will be blowing the roof off of the Julian Broadbent building. This week we have Dan Rebellato’s Chekhov in Hell, directed by Peta Downes, appearing from the 26th…
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Skinamarink – Film Review Friday
You’re in bed, you just woke up from a sudden sound you can’t exactly remember, but it almost scared you to death. You’re staring up at the ceiling, you don’t want to go back to sleep, if you go to…
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Merrigong Theatre Company to present The Visitors at IPAC
Merrigong Theatre Company presents Sydney Theatre Company and Moogahlin Performing Arts’s The Visitors by Muruwari playwright Jane Harrison, at Illawarra Performing Arts Centre from 25th to 28th of October. This moving but humorous show turns back time, taking you to…
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Pet Sematary – Film Review Friday
Walking down a dirt road, through bushes and abundant trees, you come across a sign. It’s clearly misspelled, you look beyond and see millions of crosses and tombstones. “Lucky”, “Rover”, “Spot”, we all wish they were able to come back…
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Centre Stage: From UOW to Sydney
UOW graduate Irelish Barker and 2nd year student Anna Krywyj Moore are both emerging artists working with Shopfront Arts Co-Op and Q Theatre Penrith in an artist residency program called ArtsLab. Along with two other artists, they have put together…
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‘Looking at Rainbows Through Kluak’
Martinus Dwi Marianto, ‘Looking at Rainbows Through Kluak,’ (55cm x 55cm, direct file transfer on canvas, 2023). According to historian and Indonesianist, Dr Rob Goodfellow (PhD UOW) “Something happens when we are confronted by authentic novelty.” By this, Goodfellow means,…
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“He just bled out in front of me.” Paul Jones on war photography and journalism
Content warning: article contains descriptions of death and injury in armed conflict Paul Jones is a photographer, photojournalist and writer. He’s covered it all: Nelson Mandela’s campaign trail in 1994, the Rwandan Genocide, the Second Intifada in Israel and the…
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UOW Theatre and Performance’s ‘The Future Show’: Facing Mortality
Thursday night, I walked into a performance of ‘The Future Show’ completely blind with no idea what it was about or who was performing, and I left that performance feeling recognised and acknowledged as a person. ‘The Future Show’ is,…
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Campus left wins big in WUSA elections
The WUSA elections have ended and all the stupol hacks have scuttled away from campus. Provisional results have been released and tears of joy and sadness have been shed. Now it is time for us here at Tertangala to dig…
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Saw X – Film Review Friday
You’re strapped to a chair, you don’t know where you are or what time it is. You feel like you’ve just come back from the dead with the worst hangover ever experienced. Before your eyes can even adjust, you see…
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Students rally for ‘Yes’ ahead of referendum vote
Image credit: Kirsten Hammermeister Students and members of the community rallied outside the library to advocate for a ‘yes’ vote for the Voice to Parliament and fight what they called racist rhetoric in the ‘no’ campaign. Around 40 people attended…
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UOW Theatre and Performance’s ‘Juliet & Romeo’: Wayward Kids in the Carpark
A Theatre Review by Paige Jenkins and Skyla Yorke. Theatre lovers filled the foyer of UOW’s Jillian Broadbent building on Friday night to watch the first of many shows put on by the University’s theatre majors, ‘Juliet and Romeo’, directed…
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Censor – Film Review Friday
It’s the coke-fueled era of the 1980s, ‘Scarface’ is in theatres bursting with gratuitous violence, everybody’s tuning in for the Live Aid concert where Freddy Mercury will give possibly his greatest performance and the government is cracking down on the…
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Seeing Clearly: Music, Art & Wellness
Clearly Festival and Clearer Workshop will be making waves in Kiama next month. We had a chat with co-founder Dom Furber about the music and the mission. Tell us about Clearly Festival and Clearer Workshop. Clearly Music, Arts & Wellness…
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Seven Strands – Candace Zalloua
The first string was violet, as many were. A co-worker I rarely spoke to, apart from telling her coffee orders. I refused to be excited because I refused to be brave. Then one day, she knocked three coffees off the…
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Dan in Real Life – Film Review Friday
It’s a Friday night at 6PM, you have work in the morning and your friends are all out drinking at the club. They asked you to come out but you’re simply too tired, don’t want to spend any money and…
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Can one Coco Pop make chocolate milk?
I sit in the empty public bus, my brightness up, my ears submerged in Michael Jackson while delving into an array of Buzzfeed quizzes such as, “What Disney Princess Are You?” (Cinderella) or “Do you remember the entire Twilight series?”…
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The Season of My Hibernation and Rebirth – Mya Hicks
My transformation began with a single wiry hair—long, grey, jagged at the end—sprouting from under my chin where the flesh is doughiest. I’d always uprooted these rogue hairs as soon as they reared their monstrous heads (as a girl I…
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All the world’s lights went out an hour ago – Renee Farrugia
The sky will be here soon. Parts of it have arrived early, embracing the outer neighbourhoods, Where the lawns were quilted in cockatoos. There’s nothing left there anymore. The clouds got here first, though. A few months ago. Stuffy,…
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Talking Poetry: Free Verse on RadioU
The university’s very own radio station was formed last semester and features a diverse range of news, music and entertainment hosted by students for students. I got to chat with the two hosts of a poetry show and discovered how…
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Cafe – Mark Russell
Afternoon. It is almost the close of the quiet café– The boy waiting waits for the ticking of time. But the hope that he had for a smidgin of time To himself after work is destroyed– It’s splattered and…
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WE ARE ALL BEETLES – Jacob Wood
All morning he twined the coarse rope through his hands. But now he was just trying to ignore the agonising thudding beneath the angry anthill that had formed on his left forearm. It was tipped a violent red and sensitive…
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Garden of Evil – Paige Jenkins
In the lead up to the winners reveal for our 2023 writing contest, Tertangala is showing some of the work submitted by UOW talent. Our first is a poem from Paige Jenkins. Enjoy! I tiptoe down the green sea od…
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NSW Law Society throws weight behind Voice
The Council of the Law Society of NSW has announced their support for the proposal to enshrine an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice in the Australian Constitution. Society President, Cassandra Banks, said “the paramount voices in respect of issues…
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TIM, a theatrical adaptation of an out-of-the-ordinary love story to be presented at Illawarra Performing Arts Centre by Merrigong Theatre Company and Christine Dunstan productions
TIM will be presented by Merrigong Theatre Company and Christine Dunstan productions from the 16th to the 19th of August at Illawarra Performing Arts Centre as part of its premiere regional tour. Tim McGarry’s adaptation of Australian icon Colleen McCullough’s…
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Barbie Was Already Kenough
Written by K.M.D. I’ve always been a Barbie girl. Ever since I was little. My favourite of the Barbie films was Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses. I had over 30 Barbie dolls which are now lurking in some tub…
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Silence performs at Merrigong Theatre Company, sparking long overdue conversation about Treaty
Thomas E.S. Kelly, a proud Minjungbal-Yugambeh, Wiradjuri and Ni-Vanuatu man, choreographed, wrote and performed in thrilling dance-theatre performance Silence, continuing the decades-long conversations that Australian society has tried to silence. Silence features a combination of powerful contemporary dance, a complex…
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Hachette opens intern applications
Good news for book lovers- the annual paid Hachette Australia Summer Internship is now open for applications. The program has been running since 2020 and provides “a broad understanding of the trade publishing business and a deep dive into how…
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Coil to be presented at IPAC by Merrigong Theatre Company and re:group performance collective
Merrigong Theatre Company and re:group performance collective present a trailblazing fusion of theatre and technology. Coil, performing at Illawarra Performing Arts Centre from 26-29 July. A tender elegy to the shutting of the neighbouring video store, Thirroul’s Leading Edge…
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Welfare not warfare: the final day of Edcon 2023.
Edcon is now behind us! Here’s a recap of the final day of Edcon 2023. Housing with Max Chandler-Mather Xavier Dupe, NUS Education Officer, opened the plenary, speaking on the housing crisis. “Tenants are being forced to bid against…
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Merrigong Theatre Company presented Spiegeltent performances in Wollongong
Merrigong Theatre Company presented the Spiegeltent performances, with events happening every night over the course of 3 weeks from the 7th to the 25th of June. These performances included London Calling, Woody – The Ukulele Kids Show and Roxee Horror’s…
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Protests, unions, sex work, and international students: Day three of Edcon.
We are all getting a bit worn out, but to the credit of all, Edcon once again descended on UQ to more drama and yelling. Welcome to the Tertangala’s third daily recap of Edcon 2023. Anti-war movements The topic…
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Many Voices, and Queer Support in the Regions. Edcon Day Two.
Welcome to the Tertangala’s second daily recap of Edcon 2023. The Voice The day began with a plenary on the upcoming voice referendum. The day started with Patrick Taylor, the NUS’ First Nation’s officer, addressing the conference about the efforts…
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The University Accords, AUKUS, and Reppin the Regions: Day one of Edcon.
Here’s a recap of the first day of Edcon. University Accords First up was a plenary discussion which centred around the University Accords project. It is the centrepiece of the Albanese government’s higher education policy, and the object of…
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Factional fighting and fanaticism: welcome to student politics.
I think I finally understood a little bit about student politics this morning, as I lined up to confirm my registration for Edcon. It’s 9am. There is an hour scheduled for this (it will take much longer somehow) before the…
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INTERVIEW: The UOW student mentoring Illawarra youth
YWCA Australia is putting gender equality into practice and has been for over 140 years. As a feminist organisation, its goal is to mobilise communities and push for change. In August last year, the Illawarra region formed its Youth Frontiers…
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Sparks to fly as ‘Air Time’ slides into Wollongong Town Hall
Merrigong Theatre Company and Branch Nebula are introducing the new and exciting world premiere of Air Time, an invigorating fusion of street style dance, theatre and sport with an eccentric electro soundtrack by Phil Downing. These energising shows – taking…
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New details on Wollongong benefactor Nazi links
New details have emerged about deceased Nazi collaborator Bob Sredersas, whose art donations helped establish the collection at Wollongong Art Gallery. Last year, former Wollongong councillor Michael Samaris raised concern over alleged links to the Nazi SS in Lithuania, which…
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Campus rainbow steps, rainbow crossing vandalised
UOW Security are investigating after the rainbow steps were vandalised this week, which the student union labeled “an attempt to intimidate and upset LBGTQIA+ students.” UOW confirmed this Friday staff removed graffiti messages from the steps and another, unspecified location…
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Is this art or porn?
Photos: Bailey Burgin Last semester for my second year photography subject, I explored how we tell nude photography and pornography apart. For my investigation, I reviewed past papers on prominent figures in nude photography, interviewed OnlyFans creators and even became…
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Capturing the heart and soul of Wollongong: a hand-drawn map by Alex Pescud
Feature image: Instagram/ TheWollongongMap There hasn’t been a birds-eye, hand-drawn map of Wollongong since 1840. Until now. Local cartographer and artist, Alex Pescud, sought to capture a moment in time in Wollongong with his ambitious project, The Wollongong Map. We…
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Yeehaw United’s Ela Akyol elected as WUSA President
Yeehaw United’s Ela Akyol has been elected President of the Wollongong Undergraduate Student Association. Running under a joint Labor caucus, Akyol received 302 votes, beating Left Action’s Jack Mansell by 34 votes. In a significant move, both Labor factions decided…
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EDITORIAL – In support of Semper Floreat
*The Tertangala does not endorse shoplifting or any crime in that matter. However, we understand that many will have to do what they have to do to survive. This editorial is not reflective of the Wollongong Undergraduate Students Association (WUSA) or the…
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Cameron Ling – Sarcasus Sarcmus Behishd – TTPAPC 2022 Prose
The first time I visited Sarcasm the guy at the gate checking ID cards told me I wasn’t weak enough to be seeking refuge. …
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David Allen – My Council – TTPAPC 2022 Poetry
The love of blue and redness, No green nor minor greys. Of ordered seats and houses Is in your veins ablaze, Strong love of clear division And policy resolute I know but cannot share it, My love is for dispute…
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Abby Dickerson – A Poem for Ava – TTPAPC 2022 Poetry
From the moment our eyes first met, Until your last dying breath, Never could I have foretold, What warmth you brought from the cold. It was only upon finding you, Could I discover a part of me, And with…
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Mya Hicks – I’m Beginning to Think Differently of You – TTPAPC 2022 Prose
On Saturday nights, we have dinner at a restaurant she selects from a list on her phone of Trivago’s Top Places to Eat Out in our city. This is our thing, our couple’s thing. In the bathroom mirror, I…
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Matilda Reid – Crepe Paper – TTPAPC 2022 Prose
‘I can see all of Sydney from up here. It’s fucking beautiful, Mum!’ were the last words my son would speak to me. Or shout, rather, from the top of the Norfolk Pine. Then would come the creek and snap…
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John Raison – a work of fiction – TTPAPC 2022
I’m sitting at the window seat on the lower level of a train, caked in layers of clothing like strata. I’m early but the train was already here getting cleaned, and they said I could sit inside to keep out…
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Cameron Ling – Despedida – TTPAPC 2022 Poetry
at the bottom of stairs I am waiting big stupid grin splayed across face it’s your lunch…
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Linda Godfrey – Poems from a Notebook – TTPAPC 2022 Poetry
ask people we know is the first thing I wrote, then lists: yours and owls soda ice cube tray bread milk fruit Hamish in Queensland. Turn the page for 13/8 Habossem St; Egem Pension, Kemalyeri, Cannakkale; the Fedriades Hotel in…
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Protestors hit with capsicum spray at AFR Higher Education Summit
Protestors have been capsicum sprayed by police during a protest at the Australian Financial Review (AFR) Higher Education Summit in Sydney last Tuesday. The protest was organised by the National Union of Students (NUS) as well as student activists groups…
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OPINION: UOW can’t let students hit by foot-and-mouth outbreak fall behind
*This open letter was originally published 5 August, 2022. Dear Professor Patricia M. Davidson, The Wollongong Undergraduate Student Association (WUSA) is deeply concerned with the recent news surrounding a possible outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. We believe that an outbreak of…
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Psych student takes aim at school’s “exploitative” flyer contest
A first-year psychology student says a School of Psychology flyer contest to promote respectful behaviour on campus should have been a paid gig instead. An email sent to psych students in early July called for flyer designs to promote the…
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UTS defends Vertigo funding cut-off
The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) has spoken out after it’s executive cut student magazine Vertigo out of a funding deal with the university student union. A UTS spokesperson told The Tertangala the university supports student journalism but is concerned…
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Wollongong kicks off it’s first very own comedy fest
An hour until showtime, organiser Riley Jones admitted he was nervous. “It’s a gamble. Comedy’s always a gamble,” Jones told The Tertangala at the showcase last night of the Wollongong Comedy Festival. “People will be like ‘I’m funny’ and then…
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Wollongong activists join nationwide protests against US abortion ruling
Feature image: Jordi Maudson Wollongong activists marched with others across the country to protest the overturning of abortion rights in America and demand that Australia doesn’t go the same road. Up to 200 demonstrators battled severe rain to rally against…
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The Tertangala Prose and Poetry Contest
Looking for a writing contest that values your unconventional ideas? Want a chance to experiment with your writing AND get praise for it? The Tertangala Prose and Poetry Contest is looking for your best contemporary work. You’ll be judged against…
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UTS student mag cut from union funding boost
The University of Technology Sydney’s (UTS) student magazine, Vertigo, has announced it will have to cut back on print issues after UTS executives cut the magazine out of a funding increase. According to Central News, Vertigo staff requested a budget…
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Proctorio protest postponed after heated union meeting
Last night student reps at an unofficial meeting of Wollongong Undergraduate Students’ Association (WUSA) discussed the clash between their anti-Proctorio protest and the third day of graduations tomorrow. The Council was largely split down factional lines. Labor councillors pushed to…
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OPEN LETTER TO VC: Proctorio risks student privacy, mental health
Feature image: Ernest Ojeh/ Unslpash (left), River McCrossen (right) Dear Professor Patricia M. Davidson, The recent announcement from the University of Wollongong regarding online exam invigilation using the controversial ‘Proctorio’ is of concern to both the Wollongong Undergraduate Students Association…
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“A difficult read”: one in five UOW students face sexual harassment at uni
*The article was published 23/3/2022 and updated 25/3/2022 to include a link to the Safe and Respectful Communities website. Near one in twenty UOW students have told a survey they were sexually assaulted in university settings since starting their studies,…
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Top 5 jankiest student election promises
If recent participation rates are anything to go by – under four per cent of undergraduates voted in the 2020 WUSA election – the goings on of the student union tend to go unnoticed. Pair that with political opportunism and…
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Library Makerspace says goodbye after almost five years
After pairing students with technology for years, the UOW Library Makerspace is closed for good. Beginning in 2017, project coordinator Nathan Riggir said it would be a “pilot space that will be a strong learning environment.” “We see it as…