The Crucible: Open justice in Australia

Marta: Truth and illusion, George; you don’t know the difference. George: No, but we must carry on as though we did. Edawed Albee, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf Edward Albee’s 1962 play, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, rips down a compulsive response in the human psyche: hysteria. What is worth believing? So too did Arthur…

ByJasper Derwent7 September 2025

Feature

Are We Witnessing the Decline of Feminism?

Is this still what we fought for? That’s the question that seems to hang quietly behind so much of the cultural discourse right now. From album covers to courtrooms, from social media trends to political movements, feminism feels at once everywhere and somehow nowhere at all. Its language has been adopted, repackaged, and monetised to…

ByChloe Gillis8 August 2025

Opinion

So What?: Deconstructing the common rhetoric and shame surrounding casual harassment

I was five years old when a boy took hold of my shoulders behind the water fountain without warning and pressed his lips against mine. The common rhetoric I often encounter as an indirect response is that of “so what?”; essentially, how can such a trivial act lead to tangible detriment to the woman? I…

ByEllie Craven30 May 2025

Opinion

Straight to the Courtroom: Castle Law in Australia

It’s the vibe of it. It’s the constitution. It’s Mabo. It’s Justice .... Darryl Kerrigan, The Castle Growing up, your parent or guardian might have kept a baseball bat, a knife, or some sort of object hidden in the house that they could use as a weapon in the case of a home invasion. The…

ByJasper Derwent14 May 2025

Opinion

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…

ByMia Seisun5 March 2025

Opinion Politics

Feminism and Fashion: The Politics of What We Wear

Fashion has always been a form of self-expression, but for women, it carries a weight that goes beyond style or personal taste. In today’s world, a woman’s clothing is still often seen as a marker of her character and intentions, with assumptions made about her morality, respectability, and consent. This troubling link between fashion and…

ByTilly Morgan9 December 2024

Opinion Politics

For You or Against You? Tiktok’s echo chamber dilemma

In the 5th century BCE, Athens experienced a radical transformation in governance. The city's elite gathered in the Athenian Assembly to discuss and, most importantly, vote on civic matters. This has come to be known as democracy and has evolved into today’s dominant political system. Yet, inadvertently, the Greeks also discovered the concept of echo…

ByToby Freeman21 August 2024

Current Affairs Opinion

“For the Women of Australia”: What the Brittany Higgins Decision Means to Me

I pride myself on being a relatively informed individual. Whether my yearning for political knowledge has been instilled in me from my Politics degree or the need to keep up with my politically informed friends, I have always believed that staying updated with the global decisions that greatly impact our lives is vital. However, while…

ByArya Moodley2 July 2024

Current Affairs

Understanding the Voice: a step towards Indigenous recognition in Australia

With the date of the 2023 Australian Indigenous Voice Referendum being confirmed for the 14th of October, read along to keep yourself informed of what's going on and what you will be voting for. On the 23rd of March 2023, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese stood up in Parliament and officially announced the Voice…

ByToby Freeman28 August 2023

Opinion

The perfect playground of Parliament: Can it be populated by imperfect people?

Gemma Hudson reflects on her childhood and her struggles identifying with politicians. Like most kids, I would, on occasion,pretend to be sick to stay home from school. But my motivation for this was rarely to get out of a test or avoid an activity I didn’t like. I generally enjoyed school as a kid, I…

ByGemma Hudson26 November 2021