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The Case for a Fairer University Admissions Process

A popular topic for discussion in Year 11 and 12 is the choice of university and degree. After all, students have just completed 13 years of schooling, and now, they face a new challenge: pursuing education in a new environment and adjusting to a different lifestyle. Gone are the regimented high school timetables; in with…

Asteroid Mining: A new frontier for Australia and sustainability

Asteroid mining refers to the extraction of minerals and raw materials from planetoids in outer space. Some of these Near-Earth Asteroids (NEAs) contain an “abundance of Rare Earth Elements” (REEs), which are essential for powering many modern technologies. Valuable volatiles and commodities such as silver, gold, platinum, aluminium and cobalt (among others) are also found…

Shades of Red: The fractured identity of an ascendant right

With more than eighty countries having held elections, 2024 was the “Year of Democracy”, confronting pluralist politics with its “biggest test” as its already battered ideals were tried over and over. While clear trends emerged – global sentiments of anti-incumbency, the emboldening of election challengers – perhaps the most salient of these was a broad…

Is the Political Centre Truly Dead?

Discovering your ‘political self’ is yet another challenge of emerging adulthood for university students. Differentiating through generational bias, parental influence & programmed thinking, to find at one’s core what they hold as ‘just’. Yet, in the chaotic realm of social media and growing partisanship, how are the political views and behaviours of Gen Z influencing…

Chimeric Blink

“The whole procedure will take roughly twenty minutes. You’ll feel a slight pressure behind your eyes.” Dr Abram peers through bushy black lashes and narrow, wire-rimmed spectacles, his face contorting into an expression of concern. A neuroscience researcher, it’s no mystery why he didn’t pursue general practice. This strange, neurotic little man’s weirdly contrived attempts…