by Chanel Trezise I’ve made it one of my aims this year to go to more local gigs and listen to more local music. So I thought, heck, why not do some song reviews and recommendations to plug a few brilliant local bands. Here are a few songs (and bands)…

Words by Grace Atta The AUU Board has informed the Occult Club that their appeal on the Clubs Committee’s decision to deny them full registration, has been unsuccessful. In his email to the Occult Club, the AUU President, Oscar Ong, wrote that the Board was ‘unable to reach a majority…

Words by Habibah Jaghoori Pauline Hanson’s One Nation has always and will always live true to its legacy of dismantling free speech, disbanding genuine democratic political progress and committing to the tireless campaign of upholding Australia’s imperialist and…

Words by Sebastian Andrew — A week and a half after the federal election, seat counting appears to have finalised. Labor wins 77, Liberals 58, and the crossbench comes in at a whopping 16! Although Labor won seat-wise, as 76 seats are needed for a majority in the House of Representatives, overall, the election wasn’t…

Words by Habibah Jaghoori & Chanel Trezise Being On Dit editors has its perks and being sent to watch the hit Broadway musical Frozen by the fabulous The Peach & Pineapple Co. is definitely one of them. The show was everything we could have imagined and more. Hosted at the…

Words by Louise Jackson — The Eurovision Song Contest has literally never not been political. Europe’s proudly apolitical competition is so regularly embroiled in politics that each controversy has its own Wikipedia page. Eurovision has grown from seven countries in 1956 to a pool of 50. It was founded in the tense climate of post-war…

Words by Sebastian Andrew Barring a major last-minute shock (it would have to be something pretty bad, think Anthony Albanese accidentally admitting on live tv that he eats live puppies) or an enormous error in polling, this time next week Anthony Albanese will be our prime-minister elect, and when the…

Words by Sebastian Andrew — The Eastern-suburbs electorate of Sturt held its first community candidates’ event on Monday night. This seat recently made headlines when a comprehensive YouGov poll of all 151 federal electorates found that it was one of six electorates labelled as ‘too close to call’. The Labor and Liberal candidates for the…

Words by Habibah Jaghoori May 14th of 2022 saw a horrific and sadly not very surprising massacre against the black people of America in Buffalo, New York. The mass shooter, a self-described white supremacist drove three hours to conduct a shooting spree at a supermarket, resulting in the tragic death…