Tag: opinion
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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 bet on himself in a basketball game and win big. Next, Harrelson starred alongside Will Ferrell in ‘Semi-Pro’ where he plays a backup point guard who gets…
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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 possibly his greatest performance and the government is cracking down on the rotten and filthy video nasties that plague VHS stores with the express intent to make…
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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 controversial ‘Proctorio’ is of concern to both the Wollongong Undergraduate Students Association and its students. WUSA has since received consistent feedback from both representatives and students over…
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We must demand sexual violence stays in the spotlight
Yesterday, the National Student Safety Survey (NSSS) results were released. They were confronting, to say the least. Confronting, distressing, disappointing and harrowing are just some of the words I’ve heard students use to describe them. The NSSS had 43 189 university students across Australia who took part. Of this, 1052 UOW students participated. The results…
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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 student union tend to go unnoticed. Pair that with political opportunism and you can get some weird election promises that candidates hope you’ll be too disengaged to…
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Opinion: Australia can’t afford to look like Britain’s Asia outpost
Images: River McCrossen, Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images Australia has been a sovereign nation for over 120 years, we have created our own education, welfare and health systems to take care of our citizens. We have a society which values mutliculturalism, fairness and honest work and we should be able to have one of our own…
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Opinion: It’s our fault they are in Parliament.
Photo: Kylie De Guia/ Unsplash In the 1980s, Australia was introduced to political polling. It is through the polls which focus groups have tested for the public’s views and ideas. However, the use of polls wasn’t as prevalent as they have become in contemporary politics, which meant that leaders and politicians were more focused on…
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Editorial: where the heck has the Tert been?
Good question. As the Tertangala’s new chief editor, I’d like to unpack what’s happened. A rough time for student life it has indeed been and the Tertangala hasn’t escaped unscathed. If you’ve tried to click onto past articles you would have come up against a void of internet. There’s no easy way to say it,…