Category: Features
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Factional fighting and fanaticism: welcome to student politics.
I think I finally understood a little bit about student politics this morning, as I lined up to confirm my registration for Edcon. It’s 9am. There is an hour scheduled for this (it will take much longer somehow) before the fun starts in the first plenary. There’s a ton of people around, people that look…
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INTERVIEW: The UOW student mentoring Illawarra youth
YWCA Australia is putting gender equality into practice and has been for over 140 years. As a feminist organisation, its goal is to mobilise communities and push for change. In August last year, the Illawarra region formed its Youth Frontiers Mentoring Program. I had a chat with Lauren Heslin, a UOW student and cognitive behavioural…
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Wollongong Affirmations: The challenge of going viral
Catherine Tran never expected her Instagram account to blow up overnight; let alone receive hate messages, experience the anxiety of running a big account, and even receive death threats. The Instagram page @wollongongaffirmations takes the emerging ‘affirmations’ meme format and adds some Illawarra flavour to it, and it has gained a lot of popularity in…