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Caligula: The Five Cuts Of Hell – Film Review Friday
In 1980, one of the most controversial films of all time hit theatres, chronicling the vulgar reign of the Roman emperor Gaius Caligula. The film was filled with…
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Merrigong Theatre Company presents The Queen’s Nanny at IPAC
Merrigong Theatre Company presents The Queen’s Nanny at the IPAC theatre from the 16th to the 19th of October. I had the pleasure of speaking with director, Priscilla…
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Sex Robot Advice Column
I just discovered that when my partner has sex with their robot, they exclusively get it off. I’ve been seeing someone for a few weeks, and things are…
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Das Boot – Film Review Fridays
Das Boot (1981) dir. Wolfgang Petersen “They made us all train for this day. ‘To be fearless and proud and alone. To need no one, just sacrifice.…
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Flash Gordon And Barbarella Vs The Galaxy – Film Review Friday
This week, we were doing a cleanout of the house and my zone was the attic. I’d never actually been in the attic before, and I had no…
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The Substance – Film Review Friday
I’ve set the equipment along my bathroom sink. Firstly, the activator, a green vial to be injected in the arm, secondly, the food packs, one set for me…
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When We Were Kings – Film Review Friday
“I done wrestled with an alligator. That’s right. I have wrestled with an alligator. I done tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail.…
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‘No Love Songs’ Review: Why So Many Love Songs?
No Love Songs Review: Why So Many Love Songs? I truly had no idea what to expect from the brand-new Foundry Theatre’s first musical production: No Love…
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Before I Forget: A Review Of The ‘Before the Coffee Gets Cold’ Series
If you’re looking for a simple autumn read that you can have a crack at while having brekky, I can recommend a cosy series about a time-travelling café…
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Sleepaway Camp – Film Review Fridays
Sometimes the real horror of a scary movie isn’t the demonic plaything, the alien monster or the immortal butcher who can stand against 5 shotgun blasts to the…
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Scent Of A Woman – Film Review Fridays
“A very very distant second is a Ferrari. Charlie, give me your hand. This is just the start of your education, son.” – Colonel Frank Slade I…
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Identity, Visibility, and Pride: The Importance of The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade
Identity, Visibility, and Pride: The Importance of The Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade By Edwina Cooke Affectionately dubbed “Gay Christmas”, Sydney Gay and Lesbian…
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Gene Hackman: A Retrospective on the Greatest – A Film Review Friday Special Presentation
“You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, ‘Why didn’t I choose something else?’ But overall, I’m…
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I Think Therefore I Doubt: Descartes’ Meditations
Descartes’ Meditation on First Philosophy René Descartes wrote against scepticism in the 17th century in his most famous text Meditations. Scepticism is a school of thought that demands…
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Merrigong presents Trent Dalton’s ‘Love Stories’ at IPAC
Love, apparently, is three good things, so these are mine: my grandma, telling me she was the first person to see me when I was born; my best…
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Friendship On Film – Film Review Friday Triple Feature
The Banshees Of Inisherin (2023) dir. Martin McDonagh – Reviewed by Mason Horsley “Even the worm will turn” – John…
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MCERA Study Says Bullying Is Underreported
Media Centre for Education Research Australia says that kids in school aren’t telling their parents about their experiences around bullying. Recent data as part of News Corp’s 2025…
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Walk Hard – Film Review Fridays
One might consider the music biopic to be a formulaic and easy genre to produce. Of course, it’s an incredibly expensive genre, what with song licences and massive…
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Unbreakable – Film Review Fridays
“I’ve studied the form of comics intimately. I’ve spent a third of my life in a hospital bed… with nothing else to do but read. I believe comics…
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Brüno – Film Review Fridays
My first draft of this review went something like this: ‘Brüno is crude, bigoted, and completely insensitive, and it would be a terrible idea for you to watch…
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Courtroom Drama Triple Feature – Film Review Fridays
Kramer Vs Kramer (1979) dir. Robert Benton While many courtroom dramas focus on social issues impacting the world on a grand scale, I believe the most effective focus…
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Directors, Extenders and Unraters – A FRF Special Presentation
Like it or not, the film business is one of investments. In Hollywood, art has to take a backseat until the producers and studios are happy and feeling…
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Yakuza Graveyard – Film Review Fridays
There’s something about the Noir genre that always entices. Perhaps it’s the romanticisation of cold, silent gentlemen who aren’t afraid to play dirty (who, in any other situation…
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Contact – Film Review Fridays
Contact (1997) dir. Robert Zemeckis “I’ll tell you one thing about the universe, though. The universe is a pretty big place. It’s bigger than anything anyone has…
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Drawing Flies – Film Review Friday
As I was working through the entirety of Kevin Smith’s View Askew series last month, I stumbled across a film I hadn’t noticed the other three or so…
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The Film Diaries: The Final 9 – Film Review Fridays
About a week ago, Daniel propositioned Film Review Fridays with its most ambitious publication yet: a final 9 mini-reviews to cap off the year. 3 reviews from each…
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Ratatouille – Film Review Fridays
I have never been one for animated films. I know for some people, they’re the only kind of films; studios like Disney/Pixar and Dreamworks continue to be popular…
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Meet Archie !!! // Bands to Add to Your Summer Playlist
Meet Archie – the Canberra indie-rock quartet on the road for their ‘So Far Away From Me’ tour. I had the pleasure of seeing their show at La…
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Heretic – Film Review Fridays
For as long as humans have been around, there has been religion. A way to explain the origins of the universe, a way to explain what happens to…
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Boy Erased – Film Review Friday
Film Review – Boy Erased Here’s a fun little anecdote to get this started: in its original book form, Boy Erased is the only text I have ever…
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The Campaign – Film Review Fridays
The 2024 American Presidential election came and went and was quite an entertaining one. We’ve all had a good laugh or a good shudder in horror; maybe a…
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The Sum Of Us – Film Review Fridays
Not to speak too crudely, but I think it’s telling that the first words spoken on screen in 1994’s The Sum Of Us are “stick your frigging shoulder…
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Tron: Legacy – Film Review Fridays
‘Tron: Legacy’ is a film desperately calling out for a 4K release. Powerful IMAX visuals that are bound to trigger something from your childhood imagination. It’s as if…
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The Dune Triple Feature (Part 1 of 2) – Film Review Fridays
Dune (1984) dir. David Lynch – by Mason Horsley ‘Dune’ historically has been a near-impossible venture for any director. Any space opera faces it’s own set of challenges that…
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My Own Private Idaho – Film Review Fridays
This Road Will Never End: An Elegy to Gus Van Sant’s ‘My Own Private Idaho’ As I write this, it’s 31 years to the day that River Phoenix…
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Beau Is Afraid of The Thing – Double Feature Film Review Friday
Beau Is Afraid (2023) dir. Ari Aster I believe Social Horror is one of the more underrated, underappreciated horror subgenres. Whereas most horror films focus on a specific…
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The Night Of The Hunter – Film Review Fridays
The Night of the Hunter (1955) dir. Charles Laughton “Ah, little lad, you’re staring at my fingers. Would you like me to tell you the little story of…
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Student General Meeting – Calling UOW to divest, disclose and cut all ties with Israel
On the 4th of September 2024, UOW students held the university’s first Student General Meeting for Palestine liberation. In preparation for this historic event, students posted videos,…
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Shame – Film Review Friday
We all want to be wanted, we all want to be desired, to be someone else’s drug. It’d be nice to be sexually revered. We hear differing opinions…
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Merrigong presents Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap at the IPAC from 5th-15th September
Merrigong presents Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap at the IPAC from the 5th – 15th September. I had the pleasure of attending on opening night and the performance quite…
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Sweet
Last night I felt you near, as near as my own skin; With eyes that I’ve envisioned countless times in my dreams. Underneath the moonlit sky you pranced…
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Friends in Every Universe?
You ask, “Do you think we’re friends in every universe?” My reaction is instinctive. Of course we are. You’re everything to me. My muse and my other half,…
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Amber Glass
We look in the windows of apartments, rich and middle-class and imagine lives of ours. Swapping clothes with the woman lighting candles on her dining table. Cutting my…
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Dreams and despair of a pop-music icon
Brian Wilson, singer and principal songwriter for what today must look like an oldies act, The Beach Boys, is an interesting figure in the list of many heartbroken…
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Merrigong presented Jurrungu Ngan-Ga [Straight Talk] at the IPAC
I recently had the privilege of attending “Jurrungu Ngan-Ga [Straight Talk],” a powerful dance and theatre performance at the IPAC Merrigong Theatre. This thought-provoking show combined evocative dance…
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The Dark Knight Returns – Film Review Friday
If you were to ask someone what their favorite Batman film is, chances are the answer would be from the Christopher Nolan trilogy. You may have the odd…
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Donné Restom presents two new shows in Sydney Fringe this week: an interview
Donné Restom, a Central-Coast-based playwright, storyteller, singer and mum, presents two new productions at the Sydney Fringe Festival this week. ‘Kink in the Tale: Storytelling for Grownups’ –…
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The Killing Of A Sacred Deer – Film Review Friday
Have you ever gotten the feeling that something is a little off, something’s not quite right but you can’t place your finger on it? You’re looking around waiting…
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The Killing – Film Review Friday
The Killing (1956) dir. Stanley Kubrick “You know, I’ve often thought that the gangster and the artist are the same in the eyes of the masses. They are…
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Stranger Than Fiction – Film Review Fridays
“‘Stranger Than Fiction’ is a surrealist dramedy starring Will Ferrell”, Mason wrote. As the keys on his laptop clicked with every letter forming longer and longer sentences, his…
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Flash Gordon and Close Encounters Of The Third Kind – Double Feature Review
Space. The far reaches of the universe. What lies beyond our galaxy? Is there anyone out there? Who sent out the alien signal in 1977? Mason Horsley is…
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MERRIGONGX Presents A Place in the Sultan’s Kitchen at IPAC
MERRIGONGX Theatre Company presents A Place in the Sultan’s Kitchen from the 8th to 10th of August at the IPAC. See the end of the article for information…
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The Apartment – Film Review Fridays
The Apartment (1960) dir. Billy Wilder “Ya know, I used to live like Robinson Crusoe; I mean, shipwrecked among 8 million people. And then one day I saw…
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Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas – Film Review Friday
The drugs hit me at about the halfway mark of the trip. My best mate was driving when I looked up and saw the pterodactyls gliding across the…
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The Snow Women
Blankets of crystal-clear snow press against my boots. I had been traversing the tundra for four days, no – five. Or… seven? Someone can only take so much…
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The Darjeeling Limited – Film Review Friday
The Darjeeling Limited (2007) dir. Wes Anderson “I wonder if the three of us would’ve been friends in real life. Not as brothers, but as people.” If I…
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The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) – Film Review Friday
10:30 PM. Chicago Institute of Art. Under the cover of darkness, Daniel flies me in a helicopter over the rooftop, I strap myself to the rope and rappel…
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EdCon Day 3: Education or Press Conference?
On the third day of EdCon, the schedule showed a queer office plenary but the socialist students running it had a different plan. When students started calling it…
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Where’s My Special Features?
In 2006, we were introduced to two new formats: Blu-Ray and HD DVD. Media was evolving, 720 pixels weren’t enough for us anymore. We wanted more realistic video,…
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EdCon Workshops: We Got ‘Paid’ Placements, Now What?
After the very intense plenary, we had three separate workshops which we could choose from. I attended the ‘We got ‘Paid’ placements, no what?’ workshop. The speaker started…
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EdCon Day 2: Warfare First, Welfare Second
On Day 2 of Edcon, we started with the plenary from the welfare office where we discussed issues such as the food insecurity among students, accommodation and student…
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The Firm – Film Review Fridays
The Firm (1993) dir. Sydney Pollack “It’s not sexy, but it’s got teeth!” While the 21st century has seen its share of legal thrillers with 2023’s Academy Award…
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NUS Education Conference Day 1: Plenary With Plenty To Say
Every year, students from different universities around Australia, members of the National Union of Students (NUS), get together at a conference for several days to discuss, debate and…
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Requiem For A Dream – Film Review Fridays
You gaze down at your last hit. It could be a syringe, a tablet, some powder, it could be a beer or a shot of vodka. You try…
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Hit Man – Film Review Fridays
“If the ‘self’ is a construct, and it’s all just role play, do you think people can change?” Richard Linklater’s latest foray leads audiences to a road less…
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UOW’s Theatre and Performance’s ‘Fractured’: Four Part Play
Over the weekend I had the pleasure of attending a play put on by students at UOW called Fractured. It was a collection of four plays in which…
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The Zone Of Interest – Film Review Fridays
The Zone of Interest was the area surrounding Auschwitz concentration camp created in 1941 to house SS officers. Right on the other side of the fence, Rudolf Höss…
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Life Cycle
I remember the first time I held you. So tiny, so fragile. Your eyes were wide with unshakable curiosity as you explored your new home for the very…
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Blue Velvet – Film Review Fridays
A P.I. walks down a dark, smoky alley, taking a shortcut on the way to a seedy speakeasy. As he walks down, raindrops from this morning’s monsoon fall…
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Distant Seas
As winds dance violently with my hair – I catch my mind wandering far and near – miss take my thoughts away from me –…
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An Almost Heartbroken Death
This may be what kills me. In that moment Xanus could control nothing but his thoughts and if he could have moved his lips, he would’ve begged for…
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My Dear Old Friend
I have barely seen you these past few years, but there are holes in my heart that belong to you. And memories marked with your name in the…
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The Song of the Forever Rains to Wash Your Heartbreak Blues Away
The Song of the Forever Rains by E. J. Mellow is a charming book to read when you want a simple romantasy without too much complication and to…
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UOW’s Theatre and Performance’s ‘Saved’: “steeped in Marxist sentiment”
The other night I got to see UOW perform a play called Saved. This was not an original UOW production, rather it was an adaption of Edward Bond’s…
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Reflections on a musical rendition of American Psycho
Last weekend I saw the Illawarra Performing Art Centre (IPAC) have a stab at adapting American Psycho. The IPAC’s version – which is sadly no longer showing –…
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‘First Men In The Moon’ & ‘Planet Of The Apes’ – Double Feature Review
Action! Thrills! Mystery! The cinema of yesteryear never dies! Whether you’re running from the 50 foot woman or exploring the final frontiers on the U.S.S. Enterprise, there’ll always…
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Birdman – Film Review Fridays
I actually had a dream like Birdman once, a year or two ago. Instead of a Broadway theatre, it was a school hall and I went through the…
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‘& Juliet’ – A Review
As a university student, I was fortunate to witness the Sydney musical ‘& Juliet,’ a production that breathed new life into a classic story. This modern adaptation of…
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UOW Theatre and Performance’s ‘Who’s the Best’: Competition and Insecurity
Life is a competition, that’s why they call it the “human race”. Everyday, even if you don’t think it, you’re competing. Even on the way to the show,…
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Fire and Rain: an evening with Xavier Do
It’s about 7:30 on a cold, rainy Tuesday, and I’m one of only a few patrons at the UniBar’s open mic night. However, I’m also one of the…
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Changes for UOW coming in this year’s federal budget
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has handed down this year’s federal budget, the third of the Albanese government and recording a surplus of $9 billion. The main focus of…
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Executions and E Notes
‘American Psycho – The Musical’ is coming to the Wollongong stage this month at IPAC from April 23-25. This production is from local theatre company Rising Arts Productions.…
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UOW Theatre and Performance’s ‘Maryland’: The Weight of Fear
TW: SA The room is dimly lit. A woman stands on stage. Her name is Mary. Mary is shaking. A police officer stands in front of Mary.…
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Licorice Pizza In Society City – Film Review Fridays
5:25 PM. 1 hour, 5 minutes till doors open. I make a mad dash out of work to the car, the rain is splattering down, so I’m careful…
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MerrigongX presents Kay Proudlove’s ‘Dear Diary’: An interview by Cameron De Nysschen
After winning the hearts of Wollongong audiences with her MERRIGONGX debut in 2022, Kay Proudlove’s endearing comedy about the agony of growing up, Dear Diary, returns to Wollongong…
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Malaga in View: Travel Tuesdays with Serena
Welcome back, dear readers, to this week’s Travelling Tuesday where I’ll be talking more about my trip to Spain, travelling on my own for the first time. This…
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Monty Python’s The Holy Grail and The Meaning Of Life – Double Feature Review
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) dir. Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones – Review by Daniel Fagan Wi nøt trei ạ høliday in Sweden this yër? It would…
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Finding the Money (to steer the Titanic)
On Wednesday 13th of March, I was invited to see Stephanie Kelton present her new documentary called Finding the Money. Stephanie Kelton was a former advisor to Bernie…
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Drag Race: Down South – Interviewing Ellawarra and Roxee Horror
Illawarra – Welcome to your “Competitive Drag” era! For the third year in a row, La La La’s and Wollongong Drag Icons – Ellawarra (@ellawarra) and Roxee Horror…
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Sweet Sounds of Sundown
By nine forty-five the UniBar is quiet, and the energy is waning with each passing minute. This wouldn’t be an issue on a Friday or Saturday night, but…
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Spanish Shenanigans: Travel Tuesdays with Serena
Welcome back, dear readers, to this week’s Travelling Tuesday with me where I’ll be taking you down the narrow, cobbly streets of Spain and its sandy, sunny beaches.…
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Bros – Film Review Fridays
Our identity is the most important thing to any of us, who wants a world of clones? It’s important that we don’t take ourselves too seriously, though. I’m…
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Final Girls – Women Doomed to Live, to Women Made to Survive.
The evolution of ‘Final Girls’ in horror films. Grace La Domas trudges down the steps of her husband’s heritage manor and settles herself down. She oversees the courtyard…
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Cambridge Commotion: Travel Tuesdays with Serena
Welcome back, dear readers, to this week’s Travelling Tuesday where I’ll be talking about another random and not-well-thought-of trip around England. Perhaps a bit lighter in mood as…
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Break Appetit//eyes
‘Break Appetit’ What is there to eat when the food runs out? Pad your stomach with the briny gruel of rage. What is there to feel when…
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Within the Viewfinder
Marie slips the nail of her ring finger beneath the sleeve of her thick woollen jacket, peeling it back to reveal the watch face. Its little hand paces…
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Boys Don’t Cry – Film Review Fridays
We all struggle with identity, being caught between who we want to be and what everyone would prefer us to be. We’ll all come to an age where…
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Empure: Punk is Still Alive, and it Isn’t Going Away Anytime Soon
It’s incredibly easy to overlook just how hard putting on a good live performance is. On top of technical ability, you need the charisma to enthral the crowd…
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The Insanities of UK Bars: Travel Tuesdays with Serena
Welcome back, dear reader, to Travel Tuesdays with yours truly. This week I’ll be writing about the insanities of UK bars and clubs and the events that have…
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Brokeback Mountain – Film Review Fridays
It can be hard learning new things about yourself, you can live your whole life believing you’re tough, when you find you’re human. You can live your whole…
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Wild Dogs Under My Skirt – Interviewing Stacey Leilua
Merrigong Theatre Company is thrilled to present one of New Zealand’s most successful theatrical exports, Tustiata Avia’s Wild Dogs Under My Skirt at the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre…
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Profanity – Eclectic Vibes with a Grungy Undertone
There is a certain allure that accompanies the open mic night. You’re never entirely sure what to expect. The only thing you know is that what you’re about…
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The Handmaid’s Tale – Film Review Friday
Where will you be at the end of the world? Will you be at home with your family, defending with a double-barrel shotgun? Will you be wandering the…
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The Magic Joint
Written by Kirsten Hammermeister and illustrated by Sash Lynch *This was originally published in the ‘Tertangala: Horror Issue’ (2023)
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Under the Light
Indie-pop trio San Cisco will be on the road heading to the UniBar this May. All that month San Cisco will be showing the regional towns some love…
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Joseph Vieira – Sepia-Toned Tracks With Watercolour Sentiments
Amidst a wave of electronic synths and amorphous pop sounds, newcomer folk artist, Joseph Vieira, digs his heels into the more modest, rustic side of music. Addressing the…
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All Aboard the Brontë Bus: Travel Tuesdays with Serena
Welcome back, readers, to Travel Tuesdays with Serena where this week I’ll be writing about my travels on my days off from school and my horrible, horrible planning…
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‘The Double’ / ‘Enemy’ – Film Review Friday
In 2013, two films released, ‘The Double’ and ‘Enemy’ both following the story of a man meeting his doppelganger, much more handsome, much more charismatic, much more powerful…
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Poo Man
Poo Man thought he would make a new hat. He had plenty of things to make a hat. He needed a shave too. He had been so involved…
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The Friend
There once was a boy named Craig who was very unfortunate. One of these misfortunes was that his name was Craig, and not something like Daemon, or Link…
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Served
Tonight, I am ethereal, and I glow. With a midnight blue light stretching across my skin, I am an alien. Tonight, you ask for a shot and a…
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Almost Famous – Film Review Fridays
We’ve all seen and heard the mad escapades of rock stars. Ozzy Osbourne biting into a live bat onstage, Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue sleeping with the wife…
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Roadkill
it’s fresh when I pass it by guts glistening in the dim headlights, a red smear of viscera across the dewy morning concrete. as I try and fail…
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Eastwood – Waves of Dreamy and Apocalyptic Sweetness
I rocked up to the UniBar’s Open-Mic around quarter to ten all tired and jaded, but walking into the UniBar around this time was the kind of electric…
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Edition Five: Travel Tuesdays with Serena
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world” Welcome back, readers, to this week’s column where I’ll be writing about the first…
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Strawberry Blonde
TW: Pedophilia By Chloe Payne The shit and piss soaked rug burns into my nostril hairs late in the night. It gurgles and splutters lively out of its…
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What is Philosophy? – Via Gilles Deleuze
Introduction: Let’s first start with a statement: human life is suffering. Throughout history, ranging from our ancestor, the first Homo Sapien who stepped foot out of Africa to…
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Teatime
TW for unpleasant eating experience/gagging Harry held his pinky out as he drank, pursing his lips to sip a shy mouthful of tea. He smiled and set the…
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The Whale – Film Review Fridays
You are not your mistakes, you are not your past, you are not your failures. You are your future. We all deal with setbacks differently, a few too…
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O-Week: The Thursday
Thursday’s sort was a successive lineup of three bands playing at the UniBar. The problem is that O-Fest has it’s spectacle located outside UniBar, music and play around…
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SILVIA LANE – A Cataclysmic Trip of Controlled Chaos
Nobody knows better how to control chaos than two boys from Wollongong, and it’s safe to say that the newly seasoned band have earned their stripes. The two-man…
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Meeting O-Week Stars
With o-week having come to an end and the grind of uni underway, here’s The Tertangala’s scoop on the serious talent we got to witness. I had a…
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Atonement – Film Review Fridays
We’ve all said or done something we’ve regretted, whether it be saying terrible things about someone or hitting someone or sabotaging or lying or cheating. The general consensus…
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Rose and Crown – Travel Tuesdays with Serena
“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscious; this is the ideal life” -Mark Twain Welcome back, readers, to this week’s edition of Travel Tuesdays with Serena. The…
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Blue Valentine – Film Review Fridays
Romance and dating may come quite easy to us. However, in the drug-haze known as love, our judgement could be clouded, we may overlook warning signs, ignore all…
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Delighted in Solitude: Travel Tuesdays with Serena
“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.” -Aristotle Welcome back to my travel column. The first day in a foreign country alone…
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Sinner
‘It’s in the sway of her hips I can see her sins. Like a an STD; it crawls through her blood. Her lips cushion with a shade of…
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Her – Film Review Fridays
Dating is hard, there’s a whole world out there, with only a small percentage of people in the world who could be your match. Sometimes it’s easier for us…
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33 hours to Nottingham: Travel Tuesdays with Serena
Hello again… I am now settled into my room at the University of Nottingham. Granted, all my stuff is still in my suitcases and bag and not one…
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How to lead? Nietzsche and Machiavelli: From Fear to ‘The Will to Power’
How to be a good leader? That has been one of the most difficult questions that our society struggled with throughout the years. For me this is a…
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Dream Scenario – Film Review Friday
What was your last dream about? Can you remember it? Was it dangerous or weird or maybe wholesome? Was it absurd or horrific or hilarious? The one I…
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Monday Fever
To his alarm, great purple hammocks hung beneath his eyes, sore to the morning sun. Wrestling house keys to the car, it had stung to jog, spurred by…
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Welcome to Travel Tuesdays with Serena!
Image credit: University of Nottingham “New year, new me” is a cliche for a reason. Welcome to the first part of my weekly travel blog, where I’ll be…
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Clingin’ in the rain
The storm is chaos. Flashes of light streak sporadically through the creases of your blinds – shining the tiny shoebox of a bedroom ivory. In between beams of…
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Fatherland
Family portrait 1 by Helen Norton, from the series of paintings “ Once Upon a Time there was a Man”, published in 1995. Part 1: “Hey…
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Familiarity
I know those eyes. The cold unfeeling blue. I know that malicious smile. The grinding and retching of the teeth. I know those freckles. The splattered pattern like…
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A Time to Kill – Film Review Friday
No matter what part of the world you live in, whether it be the sandy beaches of the Bahamas, the tranquil water villages of the Netherlands or the…
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The Iron Claw – Film Review Friday
We can throw ourselves into the belly of the beast and work ourselves to the bone to achieve our goals, but it’s all about a healthy balance. Sometimes…
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Walking the Rocks
Here squats a sandstone city, its streets choked by motley cloth, Crowd River; bank brimming over toes tucked beneath dark waters cloaked by shade of steel shoulders, hunched,…
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We Need a Pianist
I arrive at the Pavilion at 7:30pm in my best maroon suit. Stressing about my fingers. I’ve parked, engine’s off. Unfurl my fingers, staring, and thinking, they’re not…
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Mean Girls (2024) – Film Review Friday
Welcome back to high school, take a seat at your desk before all the good spots are taken. Just make sure you choose correctly. If you sit next…
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Bonding
I. In the deep woods, the decaying and overgrown world, the twisted vines snap, frail from whips of wind. I am consumed, by the hollowness of the night.…
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Ferrari – Film Review Friday
One of the most satisfying things to experience in film is a character’s ultimate downfall. Their entire world crumbling around them, leaving them like swimmers gasping for air…
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Creating Space: Interviewing Wollongong Music Circle
“We want to create a circle, a community that can bring us together, so that you can get feedback from people that understand you, network and find resources.”…
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Siege
The Quaint residence abides around a cold street corner at 92 C Gosemer Rd, Meralvile, where tall apartments tower over a red door. The porch angles so slightly…
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Ardent Spirits
The effects of ardent spirits upon the human body and mind: Obstruction of the liver, Jaundice and dropsy of every cavity in the body, Diabetes, Voices, music.…
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Monkey Shines – Film Review Friday
n 1963, Alfred Hitchcock sought to villainise the beasts of the air in his film The Birds, showing the aerial demons can be more predatory than we give…
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Doomsday, Man
I’m no blushing bride when it comes to a good snog sesh, but someone’s stank ass breath can really kill the vibe. This gaping maw throws an absolute…
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The Boy and The Heron – Film Review Friday
Imagine a tower not too far away from your home, the endless hours wondering what purpose it served. There was always some building in our childhood that enchanted…
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Den
There are rats nesting beneath the stairwell bordering the doorway to our little shared house. Their little fingers scratch in the dirt, and their black eyes gleam like…
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An attempt to develop a better understanding of Nietzsche
The following statements represent my personal reflections on Friedrich Nietzsche and his work, ‘Beyond Good and Evil’. The aim is to deepen my understanding of his philosophical contributions,…
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Merrigong Theatre Company presented A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Wollongong’s Botanic Gardens
Merrigong Theatre Company presented A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Wollongong’s Botanic Gardens Merrigong Theatre Company was thrilled to present Wollongong’s first Shakespeare in the Garden – A Midsummer…
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Student conference ends in chaos: NatCon day four
Feature image: Members of Socialist Alternative leave the conference early after a chaotic end to NatCon 2023. Photo courtesy of Lachlan White. A rooster of boring morning…
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The Ghost of Mount Keira
By Max Mandile Mount Keira harbours dark secrets. I’ve often felt a sense of unease in the area… a sense of wonderment. Living so close to it, I would…
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Drag Me to Hell – Film Review Friday
Perhaps one of the most dangerous possessions are grudges. The past can be held in the hands of people you would never guess. Think you’re the nicest person…
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Disability advocate says student conference is “inaccessible” and “ableist”
(Feature image) Muawiyath carries this chair as a “symbol of rebellion against indifference to our needs.” Photo courtesy of Lachlan White. A disability advocate attending a peak national…
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“Emotions are high, tensions are high.” NatCon day three
(Feature image) delegates line up for the most important session of the day, Dinner Conference (DinCon). The nation’s student politicians have gathered in Ballarat for day three…
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Witch
I am the woman who disappeared into the mist in her last life, The one who ran off the lip of the cliff, And whose body was never…
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NatCon is risen: Day two
If you happened to walk by Federation University’s Q2 building at 9am on Tuesday morning, you would have noticed a sorry sight. Hungover people in blue shirts that…
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Where’s NLS? NatCon day one
The National Union of Students’ National Conference descended on a cold, grey and rainy Ballarat on Monday, arguably a fitting tone for the day’s proceedings. After a lengthy…
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Nigredo
Truong wakes up to the sound of his phone ringing, unwilling to touch it. He tries to ignore the sound and turns his body to the wall side.…
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Spooky101
For the Spooky Edition, I’ve decided to shine a light on the members of our uni’s Spooky community. While they might be easy to miss, they’re just as…
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‘Lolita’ – Film Review Friday
This week, I dedicated my time to experiencing, what I was told to be, one of the most disturbing film adaptations to be filmed, boasting inappropriate relationships to…
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Hold the Note
It’s late morning, and the paterfamilias has donned his formal attire. The toga cloaking the loose folds of his chiton is blue with a fluffy grey lining on…
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Natcon 2023: What is it – and why care?
Well, it’s that time of year again. Christmas lights are beginning to colour the streets, Mariah Carey is playing in the shops again and student politicians are preparing…
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Bad Boys Get the Dark
By Jacob Wood When the Dark was in control, Lester had little idea of his surroundings; could see nothing but shifting shadows. For brief moments at a time…
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‘Thanksgiving’ – Film Review Friday
The table is set, the cutlery’s shining, everybody’s gathered around the glazed, fatted turkey, you can just smell the sweet meat as the knife slices like butter. One…
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UOW Theatre and Performance’s ‘The Flu Season’: The Snow Romance
‘The Flu Season’, written by Will Eno and directed by Michelle Fry as part of their honours course, was a fascinating and deeply moving production, playfully pulling between…
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The Final Crescendo – Reviewing GradFest
Friday 10th of November, I had the pleasure of attending UOW’s Music Gradfest. This event was hosted by the third-year creative arts, music students of Wollongong Uni. Mesmerised…
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Musings – Interviewing UOW Music Students
A couple weeks ago we had a chat with UOW third year music students Tom Price, Ella Grace, Jess Anderson and Daniel Munro about their music, their time…
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Review: Interpol & Bloc Party @ Hordern Pavillion, w/ Dust (Sydney)
Last weekend, indie-rock legends Interpol and Bloc Party co-headlined two shows in Sydney at the Hordern Pavilion for the first time post-COVID. The hype was real. Safe to…
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‘Into the Wind’ – Film Review Friday
As we approach the new year, we yearn for more freedom and independence, we’re another year older and wiser. We want to explore the world, fight for ourselves,…
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Merrigong X presented Landed by Frumpus at the IPAC
Merrigong X presented Landed by Frumpus at the IPAC All-women performance group, Frumpus, returned to IPAC with their new show, Landed. Their nonsensical performance left audiences with…
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Wollongong, a city I love
Wollongong, a city I love. Wollongong has been more than just a location; it’s a community where I’ve forged meaningful connections, found a new place to call home,…
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UOW Theatre and Performance’s ‘The Antipodes’: A Writer’s Take on Actors Playing Writers
DISCLAIMER: As a reviewer and writer, I feel it is my duty to disclose my closeness to this play to maintain reviewer integrity. Full disclosure, I know most…
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Champions – Film Review Friday
First, Woody Harrelson starred alongside Wesley Snipes in ‘White Men Can’t Jump’, a comedy film in which Harrelson is a conman, teaming up with Snipes in order to…
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‘Clerks’ – Film Review Friday
You wake up to your ringtone, eyes blurry, you reach out and grab it to see it’s work. Your manager or your co-worker whose guts you hate is…
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UOW Theatre and Performance’s ‘The Iphigenia Project’: The Delirium of Grief and Warfare
‘The Iphigenia Project’ follows the production of two plays, Iphigenia and Clytemnestra by Suhayla El-Bushra and Lulu Raczka, respectively, that independently and correspondingly explores the sacrificial burden of…
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UOW Theatre and Performance’s ‘Justified and Ancient’: Chaotically Captivating
The Scream is a painting by the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch. The Scream is one of the five most famous paintings in the world. The Scream was painted…
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UOW Theatre and Performance’s ‘Chekhov in Hell’: Loose in London
UOW’s theatre season is pumping this year, with some exciting performances that will be blowing the roof off of the Julian Broadbent building. This week we have Dan…
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Skinamarink – Film Review Friday
You’re in bed, you just woke up from a sudden sound you can’t exactly remember, but it almost scared you to death. You’re staring up at the ceiling,…
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Merrigong Theatre Company to present The Visitors at IPAC
Merrigong Theatre Company presents Sydney Theatre Company and Moogahlin Performing Arts’s The Visitors by Muruwari playwright Jane Harrison, at Illawarra Performing Arts Centre from 25th to 28th of…
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Pet Sematary – Film Review Friday
Walking down a dirt road, through bushes and abundant trees, you come across a sign. It’s clearly misspelled, you look beyond and see millions of crosses and tombstones.…
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Centre Stage: From UOW to Sydney
UOW graduate Irelish Barker and 2nd year student Anna Krywyj Moore are both emerging artists working with Shopfront Arts Co-Op and Q Theatre Penrith in an artist residency…
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‘Looking at Rainbows Through Kluak’
Martinus Dwi Marianto, ‘Looking at Rainbows Through Kluak,’ (55cm x 55cm, direct file transfer on canvas, 2023). According to historian and Indonesianist, Dr Rob Goodfellow (PhD UOW) “Something…
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“He just bled out in front of me.” Paul Jones on war photography and journalism
Content warning: article contains descriptions of death and injury in armed conflict Paul Jones is a photographer, photojournalist and writer. He’s covered it all: Nelson Mandela’s campaign trail…
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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…
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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…
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Saw X – Film Review Friday
You’re strapped to a chair, you don’t know where you are or what time it is. You feel like you’ve just come back from the dead with the…
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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…
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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…
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Censor – Film Review Friday
It’s the coke-fueled era of the 1980s, ‘Scarface’ is in theatres bursting with gratuitous violence, everybody’s tuning in for the Live Aid concert where Freddy Mercury will give…
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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…
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Seven Strands – Candace Zalloua
The first string was violet, as many were. A co-worker I rarely spoke to, apart from telling her coffee orders. I refused to be excited because I refused…
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Dan in Real Life – Film Review Friday
It’s a Friday night at 6PM, you have work in the morning and your friends are all out drinking at the club. They asked you to come out…
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Can one Coco Pop make chocolate milk?
I sit in the empty public bus, my brightness up, my ears submerged in Michael Jackson while delving into an array of Buzzfeed quizzes such as, “What Disney…
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The Season of My Hibernation and Rebirth – Mya Hicks
My transformation began with a single wiry hair—long, grey, jagged at the end—sprouting from under my chin where the flesh is doughiest. I’d always uprooted these rogue hairs…
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All the world’s lights went out an hour ago – Renee Farrugia
The sky will be here soon. Parts of it have arrived early, embracing the outer neighbourhoods, Where the lawns were quilted in cockatoos. There’s nothing left there anymore. …
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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…
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Cafe – Mark Russell
Afternoon. It is almost the close of the quiet café– The boy waiting waits for the ticking of time. But the hope that he had for a…
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WE ARE ALL BEETLES – Jacob Wood
All morning he twined the coarse rope through his hands. But now he was just trying to ignore the agonising thudding beneath the angry anthill that had formed…
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Garden of Evil – Paige Jenkins
In the lead up to the winners reveal for our 2023 writing contest, Tertangala is showing some of the work submitted by UOW talent. Our first is a…
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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.…
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TIM, a theatrical adaptation of an out-of-the-ordinary love story to be presented at Illawarra Performing Arts Centre by Merrigong Theatre Company and Christine Dunstan productions
TIM will be presented by Merrigong Theatre Company and Christine Dunstan productions from the 16th to the 19th of August at Illawarra Performing Arts Centre as part of…
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Barbie Was Already Kenough
Written by K.M.D. I’ve always been a Barbie girl. Ever since I was little. My favourite of the Barbie films was Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses. I…
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Silence performs at Merrigong Theatre Company, sparking long overdue conversation about Treaty
Thomas E.S. Kelly, a proud Minjungbal-Yugambeh, Wiradjuri and Ni-Vanuatu man, choreographed, wrote and performed in thrilling dance-theatre performance Silence, continuing the decades-long conversations that Australian society has tried…
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Hachette opens intern applications
Good news for book lovers- the annual paid Hachette Australia Summer Internship is now open for applications. The program has been running since 2020 and provides “a broad…
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Coil to be presented at IPAC by Merrigong Theatre Company and re:group performance collective
Merrigong Theatre Company and re:group performance collective present a trailblazing fusion of theatre and technology. Coil, performing at Illawarra Performing Arts Centre from 26-29 July. A tender…
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Welfare not warfare: the final day of Edcon 2023.
Edcon is now behind us! Here’s a recap of the final day of Edcon 2023. Housing with Max Chandler-Mather Xavier Dupe, NUS Education Officer, opened the plenary,…
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Merrigong Theatre Company presented Spiegeltent performances in Wollongong
Merrigong Theatre Company presented the Spiegeltent performances, with events happening every night over the course of 3 weeks from the 7th to the 25th of June. These performances…
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Protests, unions, sex work, and international students: Day three of Edcon.
We are all getting a bit worn out, but to the credit of all, Edcon once again descended on UQ to more drama and yelling. Welcome to the…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Sparks to fly as ‘Air Time’ slides into Wollongong Town Hall
Merrigong Theatre Company and Branch Nebula are introducing the new and exciting world premiere of Air Time, an invigorating fusion of street style dance, theatre and sport with…
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New details on Wollongong benefactor Nazi links
New details have emerged about deceased Nazi collaborator Bob Sredersas, whose art donations helped establish the collection at Wollongong Art Gallery. Last year, former Wollongong councillor Michael Samaris…
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Campus rainbow steps, rainbow crossing vandalised
UOW Security are investigating after the rainbow steps were vandalised this week, which the student union labeled “an attempt to intimidate and upset LBGTQIA+ students.” UOW confirmed this…
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Is this art or porn?
Photos: Bailey Burgin Last semester for my second year photography subject, I explored how we tell nude photography and pornography apart. For my investigation, I reviewed past papers…
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Capturing the heart and soul of Wollongong: a hand-drawn map by Alex Pescud
Feature image: Instagram/ TheWollongongMap There hasn’t been a birds-eye, hand-drawn map of Wollongong since 1840. Until now. Local cartographer and artist, Alex Pescud, sought to capture a moment…
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Yeehaw United’s Ela Akyol elected as WUSA President
Yeehaw United’s Ela Akyol has been elected President of the Wollongong Undergraduate Student Association. Running under a joint Labor caucus, Akyol received 302 votes, beating Left Action’s Jack…
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EDITORIAL – In support of Semper Floreat
*The Tertangala does not endorse shoplifting or any crime in that matter. However, we understand that many will have to do what they have to do to survive. This editorial…
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Cameron Ling – Sarcasus Sarcmus Behishd – TTPAPC 2022 Prose
The first time I visited Sarcasm the guy at the gate checking ID cards told me I wasn’t weak enough to be seeking refuge. …
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David Allen – My Council – TTPAPC 2022 Poetry
The love of blue and redness, No green nor minor greys. Of ordered seats and houses Is in your veins ablaze, Strong love of clear division And policy…
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Abby Dickerson – A Poem for Ava – TTPAPC 2022 Poetry
From the moment our eyes first met, Until your last dying breath, Never could I have foretold, What warmth you brought from the cold. It was only…
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Mya Hicks – I’m Beginning to Think Differently of You – TTPAPC 2022 Prose
On Saturday nights, we have dinner at a restaurant she selects from a list on her phone of Trivago’s Top Places to Eat Out in our city. This…
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Matilda Reid – Crepe Paper – TTPAPC 2022 Prose
‘I can see all of Sydney from up here. It’s fucking beautiful, Mum!’ were the last words my son would speak to me. Or shout, rather, from the…
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John Raison – a work of fiction – TTPAPC 2022
I’m sitting at the window seat on the lower level of a train, caked in layers of clothing like strata. I’m early but the train was already here…
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Cameron Ling – Despedida – TTPAPC 2022 Poetry
at the bottom of stairs I am waiting big stupid grin splayed…
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Linda Godfrey – Poems from a Notebook – TTPAPC 2022 Poetry
ask people we know is the first thing I wrote, then lists: yours and owls soda ice cube tray bread milk fruit Hamish in Queensland. Turn the page…
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Protestors hit with capsicum spray at AFR Higher Education Summit
Protestors have been capsicum sprayed by police during a protest at the Australian Financial Review (AFR) Higher Education Summit in Sydney last Tuesday. The protest was organised by…
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OPINION: UOW can’t let students hit by foot-and-mouth outbreak fall behind
*This open letter was originally published 5 August, 2022. Dear Professor Patricia M. Davidson, The Wollongong Undergraduate Student Association (WUSA) is deeply concerned with the recent news surrounding…
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Psych student takes aim at school’s “exploitative” flyer contest
A first-year psychology student says a School of Psychology flyer contest to promote respectful behaviour on campus should have been a paid gig instead. An email sent to…
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UTS defends Vertigo funding cut-off
The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) has spoken out after it’s executive cut student magazine Vertigo out of a funding deal with the university student union. A UTS…
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Wollongong kicks off it’s first very own comedy fest
An hour until showtime, organiser Riley Jones admitted he was nervous. “It’s a gamble. Comedy’s always a gamble,” Jones told The Tertangala at the showcase last night of…
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Wollongong activists join nationwide protests against US abortion ruling
Feature image: Jordi Maudson Wollongong activists marched with others across the country to protest the overturning of abortion rights in America and demand that Australia doesn’t go the…
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The Tertangala Prose and Poetry Contest
Looking for a writing contest that values your unconventional ideas? Want a chance to experiment with your writing AND get praise for it? The Tertangala Prose and Poetry…
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UTS student mag cut from union funding boost
The University of Technology Sydney’s (UTS) student magazine, Vertigo, has announced it will have to cut back on print issues after UTS executives cut the magazine out of…
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Proctorio protest postponed after heated union meeting
Last night student reps at an unofficial meeting of Wollongong Undergraduate Students’ Association (WUSA) discussed the clash between their anti-Proctorio protest and the third day of graduations tomorrow.…
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OPEN LETTER TO VC: Proctorio risks student privacy, mental health
Feature image: Ernest Ojeh/ Unslpash (left), River McCrossen (right) Dear Professor Patricia M. Davidson, The recent announcement from the University of Wollongong regarding online exam invigilation using the…
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“A difficult read”: one in five UOW students face sexual harassment at uni
*The article was published 23/3/2022 and updated 25/3/2022 to include a link to the Safe and Respectful Communities website. Near one in twenty UOW students have told a…
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Top 5 jankiest student election promises
If recent participation rates are anything to go by – under four per cent of undergraduates voted in the 2020 WUSA election – the goings on of the…
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Library Makerspace says goodbye after almost five years
After pairing students with technology for years, the UOW Library Makerspace is closed for good. Beginning in 2017, project coordinator Nathan Riggir said it would be a “pilot…
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