By Maddi Smith @SmithMads
Author: Off Campus Editor
Journalist and teacher
The national apology
On February 13 2008 Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologised in parliament for the suffering of indigenous families affected by policies resulting in the removal of their children. Audiogram by Lukas Foyle @showroomvehicle Featured photo: Butupa/CC/flickr
In this together: Reconciliation Week 2020
By Dash Buxton @dirkandscabbar1 National Reconciliation Week 2020 is this week, May 27 to June3, and I’ve been thinking a lot about the issue of reconciliation. If you’re not familiar with it, National Reconciliation Week involves activities and conversations facilitated by Reconciliation Australia. It’s aim: “Creating a nation strengthened by respectful relationships between the wider […]
Are tiny homes the answer to affordable housing?
By Hoanglan Nguyen @HoangWorld The biggest concern we have been grappling with has been to stay home so we can kick the virus to the kerb. Central to that idea is the place we call home. For hundreds of thousands of people, a rental is currently home. An issue looming large is that even when […]
Ramadan 2020
Ramadan began on April 23, and for many it will be very different this year because of restrictions imposed by state and federal governments during the coronavirus pandemic. Fatera Ahmed explains what Ramadan means in her home. Ramadan is a holy month for Islamic adherents all over the world, where they follow certain restrictions from […]
Passover: Out of desolation and into isolation
Erin Grant @erinomelette interviews Miriam about how COVID-19 will change the way Jews celebrate Passover. Featured image: John Snyder/CC BY-SA 3.0
Thrashing and bashing through history: Testament drummer Gene Hoglan
Maxx Bradford Lester interviews thrash metal drumming legend Gene Hoglan. Featured image: © Markus Felix/PushingPixels/CC/Wikimedia Commons
Fear, families, and fighting: COVID-19
Single full time working mother, two teens and a pre teen, plus food limitations: is this a ticking time bomb waiting to happen? By Hayden Johnson-De Silva @hayden78514009 Due to the COVID-19 pandemic many people began bulk buying out of fear of an apocalypse. But as people were bulk buying, everybody else started too, in […]
Australia’s modern slavery laws: one step closer
By Dash Buxton @dirkandscabbar1 Modern slavery laws are now one step closer following a NSW Parliament’s Standing Committee review into the NSW’s version of the proposed law. The review found there are benefits to keeping both the NSW law and the Commonwealth law and praised the proposed NSW law as being world-leading in the fight […]
On re-igniting childlike wonder
By Alayna Patterson @twohdd Childhood is magic. It is a period in which all knowledge weighs heavier than stone, and ink on paper opened up universes, and of tales both forgotten and forbidden. Even with such magic, not all retain knowledge of those worlds as they grow older. They forget the tales they once read […]