Ah, women. Those slutty sluts, with their casual sex and casual abortions and short skirts, getting all up in the face of quiet, peaceful, functional society with their alleged desires to “vote”, “work”, and “be independent”.
Aren’t they sweet? They think they’re people.
A Man Like Luai by University of Melbourne student Ellena Savage is the winner of the Tharunka Non-Fiction Writing Competition 2012. Tharunka would like to thank the judges Lisa Pryor, Jason Whittaker and Matthew Thompson.
It is May, 2009. A cold, clear night; frost will set over the tips of lawns before dawn. I wait at a bar for my new boyfriend, Luai, a thick-armed, thick-lipped Eritrean-Australian. He is late. Of course, he is late.
When I was fifteen, I went away to a camp. While I was there, I had my first experience of kissing another girl. More than that, I slept with two girls. At once, which was kind of the reason it was a big deal. Of course, because of this, it spread around the camp like wildfire.
Then again, because I was never really going to see them again, and my friends already knew I was bisexual, I thought that everything was going to be okay.
The University of Queensland has announced an audit of its student union (UQU) after incumbent right-wing ticket “Fresh” was criticised for hijacking campus elections.
Students will hold a rally on the St. Lucia campus this morning, demanding free and fair elections, following the revelation that “Fresh” pushed regulation changes that allowed the Liberal-aligned ticket to register the name of its rival.
An incoming Abbott Government would consider raising student fees by up to 25%, according to reports in The Sunday Telegraph.
The opposition would considering reintroducing a cap on the number of university places to save $2.6 billion, a move the Government says reflects the Coalition’s “born to rule mentality.”
Perennial SRC election candidate Brendan Byron has thrown his hat into the Tharunka elections for 2012, recruiting a team to run as a media student team.
Byron had last year been involved with the Labor Right “Fresh” ticket for SRC elections, running unsuccessfully for the NUS Delegate and Undergraduate Councillor positions.
A club aiming to foster “discussion and debate on the issues of abortion and euthanasia” held its inaugural AGM this afternoon, with some attending deriding the meeting as a circus.
LifeChoice UNSW (LifeSoc) is a pro-life society primarily interested in pushing an anti-abortion agenda.
The University of Queensland Union (UQU) has passed a series of regulation changes resulting in the withdrawal of all other nominations for the union elections.
Regulations allowing groups to maintain ticket names for up to 10 years, passed by right-wing office bearers elected on the “Fresh” ticket, will effectively mean all groups aside from “Fresh” are disqualified before the ballot.
Only a fortnight after UNSW Vice-Chancellor Professor Fred Hilmer criticised government bureaucracy and fee regulation as restrictive, newly released university rankings have shown Australian universities are performing better than ever.
The latest Academic Rankings of World Universities places 19 of Australia’s 37 universities in the top 500, the third highest number of universities in the list.
An adolescent youth with a military-style crew cut faces a foreign camera crew, hands behind his back like he’s taking a team photo.
He has the dreamy, dissociated gaze of a man who has just awakened from a dream, and looks down at the medal hanging by a ribbon around his neck as something unreal.
