Blood Sacrifice
True History of Occult Rituals on Campus,‘64 While one calendar year can’t be said to have a monopoly on summoning Satan, 1964 is worth our attention. It was the year the university actually mounted a...
View ArticleProposal to Remove Simple Extensions
A proposal to remove simple extensions is this week being brought before Academic Board, following recent recommendations by the Student Administrative Review. The report was conducted under the...
View ArticleTo The Best of My Ability
“I started uni 48 years ago. In those days there were no computers,” recalls Ron McCallum, who was Dean of the Sydney Law School from 2002-2007, and the first totally blind person to be appointed to a...
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Black heart, still beating: Redfern Aboriginal Tent Embassy claims important...
UPDATE, in principle agreement signed: The Aboriginal Housing Company (AHC) has this morning agreed “in principle” to a deal brokered with the federal government guaranteeing $5 million funding for the...
View ArticleMelbournites Relieved as Police Cancel One of 100,000 Racist Operations
Operation Fortitude Organisers At Today’s Press Conference. Protesters celebrated today after word that Operation Fortitude, one of the 100,000 currently operating police procedures that...
View ArticleSurvival is Insufficient, Trying isn’t Enough
I show a draft of a coming out letter to my friend. “Why do you want to fight everyone all the time?” he asks. Another transwoman is murdered in the United States. Her name is Tamara Dominguez. Her...
View Article9 of the 11 Facts You Should Know About 9/11
The attacks on the towers of the World Trade Centre in New York City defined an epoch. 14 years on, the incident is still fresh in the minds of many and still influences social sensibilities, art and...
View ArticleUSU’s BULL out to Pasture
Illustration by Zita Walker Eventually it comes time to put down the family pet, and, after a long slow decline, Bull magazine is being put out to pasture. After moving from a daily to a weekly, then...
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One Day Only
On November 21st, One Day—famous, among other things, for their monthly parties at Vic on the Park and the Factory Theatre—will take over Manning for One Day Only, a three-stage festival headlined by...
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The Show Must Go On
As Told By: Mattie Longfield: It’s like that family member that everyone just sort of goes “Oh God they’re useless”, but they secretly love them, because they don’t want them to fail, and they don’t...
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Sweet Karma, Business School Damaged in Cigarette Butt Fire
Art by Michael Lotsaris. A fire caused by a lit cigarette butt is the latest in a range of setbacks that have delayed the opening of the University’s new business school by almost seven months. An...
View ArticleUniversity of Sydney Student Smashes NASA Record For Fuel Efficiency; “Mars...
University of Sydney doctoral candidate in Physics, Paddy Neumann, has developed a new kind of ion space drive that has smashed the current record for fuel efficiency held by NASA. The current record,...
View ArticleChange Comes Slowly
According to a recent estimate, 17% of university students across Australia have been raped. This statistic is notable because it’s alone; there is little available data on the incidence of sexual...
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Peculiar Turnbullisms: Malcolm At Sydney Uni
Turnbull, the Liberal your ‘small l’ mother loves, staked his claim to “centre-cough-conservative” early on. He was a hack in every sense of the word: on first name terms with Honi’s readers, a...
View ArticleChloe Smith wins SRC Presidency; Scoop to edit Honi Soit
Between the voter turnout, the number of candidates, and the rain, everything seemed to be coming down for this year’s SRC election. With how to votes left to disintegrate on Eastern Ave, the counting...
View ArticleDisappearing Act
I’d like to begin by talking through three disappearances. I. On October 13, 2004, a backpacker named Monica Hurley disappeared from a youth hostel overlooking Bondi Beach. She had travelled to Sydney...
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Refugee Services Stretched to the Limit
George Winston, Secretary of the Blue Mountains Refugee Support Group; and Ocean 12, a cricket team formed with the help of the Group. In 1941, when George Winston was seven, he and his mother were...
View ArticleMadame Speaker
The proposal to set up a women’s-only tournament polarised the Indian University debating circuit. As Sharada Srinivasan told us, “the first question people asked was—why do you need one? The second...
View Article“The Best Feeling in the World”– Honi Speaks to Nazeem Hussain
Nazeem Hussain sees no shame in the sideline. His resume is a jumble of television’s vestigial limbs and off-peak hours – community TV, SBS 2, the Sunday night shift on youth radio. He never craves the...
View ArticleWhat’s Next for Adam Goodes?
I had the privilege of being able to interview Adam Goodes to discuss his struggles, his retirement, and his future. As an Indigenous wom*n this was a great honour. For many Indigenous people,...
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