The Facade of NGOs: what truth is being protected?

Pamela Murphy investigates the role of the UN and other non-profit organizations on intervention, specifically regarding occurrences of genocide and the lack of humanitarian aid. Like many others I am sure, I have always looked up to non-for-profit organizations that have strived to ‘help make the world a better place’. Growing up, I was in…

ByPamela Murphy5 May 2020

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Two Crises, Two Leaders: Scott Morrison’s Political Revival

Dan Breden reflects on Scott Morrison’s political revival in a challenging period of Australia’s history. It’s a strange feeling knowing that your experiences and actions will go down in history. In decades to follow, we will look back and judge the actions that we, as a nation and as humans, make today. Governments will be…

ByDan Bredan1 May 2020

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The Ageing Problem the Chinese Government Needs to Address

Elijah Eales analyses the impact of China’s ageing population on the social, political and economic climates. The ageing population in China presents the government with many challenges in the nation’s political, social and economic environments. In the struggle to provide care and support for the elderly, Chinese society is being forced to abandon traditional values…

ByElijah Eales19 April 2020

Opinion

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

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Feminism in the 21st Century: Sinking or Swimming?

Kupa Matangira examines the current state of feminism and investigates the profound impact the collective can have. Is the world sexist? Or, are we sinking deeper and deeper into the tide of second wave feminism? The theme for the 2020 International Women’s Day: I am Generation Equality: Realising Women’s Rights raises a lot of questions:…

ByKupakwashe (Kupa) Matangira11 March 2020

Opinion

Perennial Flux of the World Order

In realising the complicated nature of the world around us, it is often too easy to dismiss geo-political interactions as random; perhaps devoid of logic. However in actuality, State behaviour can be characterised by specific ideological traits. The most common of these ideologies, that has stood the test of time, is Realism. As defined by…

ByWill Andrews4 October 2019

Opinion

Populism — a misunderstood reality of liberal democracy

While we reluctantly settle back into the dreary university grind, the dining hall continues to provide a source of comic relief as we are temporarily teleported back to sunnier holiday paradises. Stories by those fortunate enough to have been abroad to #sailcroatia or #europe2k19 leave us hysterical or choking on chicken à la king with…

ByHogan Wang29 August 2019