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…

ByEddie Gerard10 April 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

Who Gets to be Smart?

Over a year ago, my mum was accepted into Oxford for her Master’s in Global Health Leadership. While this achievement may be a significant personal milestone to some, for our family, it was a generational milestone. My mother was raised in apartheid South Africa by a single mother who could no more imagine studying at…

ByArya Moodley30 January 2025

Opinion

The Economics of Naming Rights: Are We Living in a Corporate Naming Dystopia?

My first encounter with the bizarre world of corporate sponsorships and naming rights was at the age of 11, during the construction of a new ice hockey arena in Detroit, Michigan. This coincided with the death of professional ice hockey player Gordie Howe. The timing seemed perfect for a posthumous tribute to a beloved Michigan…

ByEvelyn Doan8 January 2025

Opinion World

The Erasure of Women: Afghanistan’s Silent Crisis

There is approximately 11,500 km of distance between Sydney, Australia, and Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. That’s a completely useless fact that will mean almost nothing to you – if you are a man, it means even less. But if you are a woman, that distance is a blessing. The Taliban’s Ministry for the Promotion…

ByLucy Millar23 December 2024

Opinion

Iron Mike’s Mid-Retirement Debut: The script and the legacy

Talk is currently on fire over the recent streaming of former heavyweight champion, boxing legend and senior citizen Mike Tyson, against the controversial youtuber and illegitimate Gen Z boxer, Jake Paul. Let’s go through it all – the fighters, theories and what legacy remains after the loss… Tyson or ‘Iron Mike’ holds possibly one of…

ByLucy Millar23 November 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

The Standard You Walk Past is the Standard you Accept: the gender-based violence epidemic sweeping the nation

Gender-based violence remains a pervasive and urgent issue in Australia, as highlighted by recent media coverage and statistics.

ByGreta Andrews21 June 2024

Football Sport

‘Til It’s Done – what you need to know ahead of the Matildas vs Lionesses semi-final

Seventeen minutes. The longest penalty shoot-out in all of World Cup history. A twenty penalty spectacular to decide the most important football match that us Aussies have ever seen. It was one of those glorious evenings where a nation stops, just for a second, to share something special - except if you’re that one odd…

ByClancy Aboud16 August 2023

Opinion

The Anatomy of Hatred

Alex Malouf reflects on the concept of hatred and situates it in the current political climate. Hate. The word ‘hate’ is, at least in English, a very vague concept. You can use it for just about any kind of negative relationship with anything, regardless of how severe it actually is. You hate stubbing your toe…

ByAlex Malouf5 May 2022