The Fossil Fuel Industry: The puppeteer to our modern world?

Jamie McDonald talks about the apathy around climate change in Australia and the need for a cultural shift at an attitudinal level. To the average Joe (common folk of Australia), When I talk to my friends about climate change, most conversations simply revolve around, that ‘yeah it's happening’ and ‘shut up Jamie no one cares’. …

ByJamie McDonald10 April 2020

Opinion

Structures of Deviance and “The Other”

Kiran Gupta discusses “moral blindness in an age of increasingly self-indulgent progressivism,” both in an attitudinal context and with regard to present day events such as the COVID-19 Pandemic. Society has arguably come a long way in the last century and even in the last few decades. From the removal of homosexuality of the WHO’s…

ByKiran Gupta4 April 2020

Opinion

Australian Football’s Problem with Blue Players

George Bright analyses the psychology behind football and the effect on Australia’s football culture. Since the apogee of the Socceroos at the 2015 Asian Cup, Australia’s progress towards consistently becoming genuine contenders at the international level has seemingly stagnated. After unforgettably qualifying for the 2006 World Cup at expense of Uruguay, 13 of Australia’s 23…

ByKiran Gupta3 April 2020

Opinion

Crisis: Where Can Australia Turn Now?

Emily Tyrrell reflects on our current predicament and questions whether, as a nation, we can truly turn to our leadership at the moment. Summer in Sydney regularly feels like a dream. The feeling of driving through your suburb, singing to songs everyone knows the words to, cackling to in jokes and the taste of a…

ByEmily Tyrrell3 April 2020

Opinion

Coronavirus stops play: does the pandemic emphasise the dire need for unionisation in sport?

Kiran Gupta explores the benefits of unionisation in sport, especially in light of freak world events such as the spread of COVID-19. Coronavirus is playing out differently day by day. It seems like news is breaking every second and the outlook is becoming increasingly pessimistic. The outbreak has affected many different groups in many ways.…

ByKiran Gupta17 March 2020

Opinion

Pandemic Panic: How fear brings out prejudice

Kiran Gupta unpacks the global panic surrounding the COVID-19 Coronavirus and looks at the implications of mainstream and social media coverage on the virus and its impact. It is becoming increasingly inevitable that the COVID-19 Coronavirus is going to spread all over the world and at some pace. A significant number of people will die…

ByKiran Gupta5 March 2020

Opinion

Can We Appreciate the Works of Problematic Artists?

Harry (Haz) Salvesen muses over whether the artist is a law unto themselves or whether their legacy is inherently tied to their interactions with wider society. Allegations of sexual assault and sexual harassment have rocked the music industry in the past few years. High profile celebrities including Ameer Vann, R Kelly and Michael Jackson…

ByHarry (Haz) Salvesen2 March 2020

Opinion

It’s NOT Time To Say Goodbye

Bumping along in the back of an open-roofed truck down a dusty road through the Zimbabwean bush, we were about to burst with excitement, but had to maintain absolute silence. We had spent the morning exploring the beautiful Matobo National Park with its unique geological formations and fascinating history with the Bushmen of sub-Saharan Africa.…

ByZoe Latham21 February 2020

Opinion

Procrastinati—

Everyone at Drew’s is talented in one way or another. Whether it’s athletically, academically, musically, socially… you get the gist, everyone here is pretty much brilliant at what they do. Being in such an inspiring environment got me wondering, what is my special talent? And after thinking long and hard, I concluded that I’m ok…

ByZoe Latham21 February 2020

Opinion

Blurring the Lines of Musical Ethics and Law

In 2013, “Blurred Lines” took the music world by storm. Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams and T.I. leaped to the top of the charts with the catchy, “throwback” song and the intrigue of their provocative (and indeed, deeply misogynistic) video. But after basking in the success of a song that would last them a lifetime financially,…

ByKiran Gupta2 December 2019