Death To State Funerals
Kerry Packer was not a poor man, but when the end of the financial year rolled around and it came time to fill in his tax returns, the reptilian billionaire got quite good at appearing destitute. Anyone who didn’t try to slither their way out of paying taxes must be barmy, he...
Ian Young, Off The Mark
Ian Young has a conundrum. You can’t graph student ethos. You can’t draw a “line-of-best-fit” for how much students like daily life at ANU. The closest indicator ANU has is the line of students fitting as much free-Thursday-lunch as possible into their paunches....
Rudd Gets Ratfucked in Spillard
Kevin Rudd’s humiliating defeat at Monday’s ballot may have resolved the leadership issue for the time being, but fallout from this bitter feud has caused irreparable damage to the Labor Party brand. It might not have been an episode of celebrity Big Brother, to borrow...
‘The justice in school funding is Gonski’
On Monday 20th February, the Government released the Gonski Review on Funding for Schooling. Commissioned in 2010, it is the most comprehensive review of the system since 1973 and outlines many changes that need to be implemented in order to turn around worsening problems in the education...
Poster campaign puts the Focus on public space
It was hardly possible to walk through the ANU campus in the early weeks of this semester without encountering posters urging us to ponder the question, “what is love?”
However, the only real question anyone was pondering was not, “what is love?” but “who are...
Bringing Christianity into FOCUS
Up until my early twenties I was a sincere and devout Christian. I prayed earnestly and often read the Bible cover to cover, regularly attended Church and actively evangelised "the lost" with my faith. From creationism to Revelation, I tenaciously believed the indoctrination of my...
Living in the Congo line
On Monday 7th May, several thousand youths across Australia will take up the White Man's Burden and, for a week, live on less than $2 a day (excluding rent and utilities) to raise money for people living in abject poverty across the world. Or is it awareness they are raising?
The Oaktree...
The Dow Chemical Company Presents Intoduction To Economics
It’s a problem that can seem dystopian and hence ridiculous: hegemonic corporate sponsorship of university faculties. These institutions, like Sydney University’s United States Studies Centre (USSC), do exist, and may impact a university and its students in many ways...
Kony 2012
Social media has been abuzz this week with the posting, tagging and sharing of links to ‘Kony 2012’, a short film (or very long commercial) made by the American non-government organisation (NGO), Invisible Children. It was produced to raise awareness of the atrocities committed...
Clive Palmer takes the bait
Treasurer Wayne Swan and mining magnate Clive Palmer’s bitter exchange has left the sensationalist mainstream media, and stupid people on both sides of politics, no more or less hysterical than usual.
Swan’s essay in The Monthlyentitled “The 0.01 Per Cent: The Rising...
