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Opinion: The Problem With Australia’s System of Mandatory Voting

October 30, 2023October 29, 2023 By Maya Karia

It is undeniable that voting stands at the heart of democracy as an act of civic participation, one which ensures formal representation in

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Opinion: How Does the Open Access Policy for Digital Heritage Result in Epistemic Injustice?

October 26, 2023October 26, 2023 By Arlene Lam

The spirit of the aggrieved Indigenous people has never rested centuries after the Spanish colonisation of the Americas. On the British Museum’s online

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Student Housing Crisis: Mould or Fold 

May 20, 2023May 20, 2023 By Tabitha John

For some the closing of the year is just another few weeks of university work, the daily grind, mounting exam stress. For others

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Opinion: Rewind, Revert, Rewild – The Strange New Obsession

March 13, 2023March 13, 2023 By Daniel Bassett

There is, in our society and others, a deep interest in the preservation and protection of our common environment from the predations of

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Opinion: The Democrats in 2024

March 6, 2023March 6, 2023 By Daniel Bassett

Though the precise identity of the Republican party’s nominee may be up for question in the current political environment, it has become increasingly

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Opinion: Acting American – Excitement, Frustration, Catharsis

February 27, 2023February 27, 2023 By Daniel Bassett

American politics is an oddly global phenomenon, with its elections and issues often dominating news coverage on even our own national broadcasts. If

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Opinion: Reinstating the Death Penalty – Is it really that radical?

February 15, 2023February 15, 2023 By Daniel Bassett

The monotonous tyranny of grey, dull, and plastic politics that has defined our current Prime Minister’s time in office has finally been punctuated

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Opinion: Starmer’s Labour doesn’t offer change

February 6, 2023February 6, 2023 By Andrew Trovalusci

TW: mention of sexual assault and racism At the end of last year, the Labour Party released a report led by Gordon Brown

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Opinion: How the term ‘Far-Right’ now has almost no meaning

February 6, 2023February 6, 2023 By Daniel Bassett

Far-right has a meaning, I’m told, but whatever that meaning is, it is almost unique in being totally elusive to any description of

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OPINION: The Art of Stepping Down: Politicians Should Take Note from Jacinda Ardern

January 31, 2023January 31, 2023 By Ciara Howard

“I am human, politicians are human. We give all that we can for as long as we can. And then it’s time. And

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