Category: NEWS
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UOW Theatre and Performance’s ‘The Future Show’: Facing Mortality
Thursday night, I walked into a performance of ‘The Future Show’ completely blind with no idea what it was about or who was performing, and I left that performance feeling recognised and acknowledged as a person. ‘The Future Show’ is, in short, a series of memories of the future presented to the audience, detailing the…
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Campus left wins big in WUSA elections
The WUSA elections have ended and all the stupol hacks have scuttled away from campus. Provisional results have been released and tears of joy and sadness have been shed. Now it is time for us here at Tertangala to dig into what has happened. These elections saw five tickets contest the elections and 29 nominees…
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Students rally for ‘Yes’ ahead of referendum vote
Image credit: Kirsten Hammermeister Students and members of the community rallied outside the library to advocate for a ‘yes’ vote for the Voice to Parliament and fight what they called racist rhetoric in the ‘no’ campaign. Around 40 people attended alongside local media: ABC Illawarra, Win News and Illawarra Mercury. President of the Wollongong Undergraduate Students’ Association, Ela…
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UOW Theatre and Performance’s ‘Juliet & Romeo’: Wayward Kids in the Carpark
A Theatre Review by Paige Jenkins and Skyla Yorke. Theatre lovers filled the foyer of UOW’s Jillian Broadbent building on Friday night to watch the first of many shows put on by the University’s theatre majors, ‘Juliet and Romeo’, directed by Tim Maddock. The performance, a final assessment for the semester, was a smashing and…
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Seeing Clearly: Music, Art & Wellness
Clearly Festival and Clearer Workshop will be making waves in Kiama next month. We had a chat with co-founder Dom Furber about the music and the mission. Tell us about Clearly Festival and Clearer Workshop. Clearly Music, Arts & Wellness is a festival and community engagement project being held in Kiama, NSW, with the inaugural…
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Talking Poetry: Free Verse on RadioU
The university’s very own radio station was formed last semester and features a diverse range of news, music and entertainment hosted by students for students. I got to chat with the two hosts of a poetry show and discovered how they’re hoping to make waves in the local poetry scene. Kirsten: Tell me a little…
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NSW Law Society throws weight behind Voice
The Council of the Law Society of NSW has announced their support for the proposal to enshrine an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice in the Australian Constitution. Society President, Cassandra Banks, said “the paramount voices in respect of issues concerning Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are the voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait…
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Many Voices, and Queer Support in the Regions. Edcon Day Two.
Welcome to the Tertangala’s second daily recap of Edcon 2023. The Voice The day began with a plenary on the upcoming voice referendum. The day started with Patrick Taylor, the NUS’ First Nation’s officer, addressing the conference about the efforts the NUS is taking in the Yes campaign. Bailey Riley, the NUS President, said, “Everyone…
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The University Accords, AUKUS, and Reppin the Regions: Day one of Edcon.
Here’s a recap of the first day of Edcon. University Accords First up was a plenary discussion which centred around the University Accords project. It is the centrepiece of the Albanese government’s higher education policy, and the object of the current higher education review. Edcon was addressed by Mary O’Kane, the chair of the…