UWA Professor Calls Out Gas Industry and Government
By David Hallam Environment Minister Murray Watt has conditionally approved an extension to Australia’s largest oil and gas project to 2070. The assessment for extension has taken six years, with…
You Can’t Erase Perth’s Queer Underground: A Chat with 3RAS3R
Are Queer Spaces under threat in Perth’s DJ Scene? – A chat with 3RAS3R By Zai McCabe I got to sit down with Perth DJ 3RAS3R/Guillaume Manfrino (they/them) who has…
Trumpets of Protectionism
How trade barriers herald a downturn for the Australian economy By Anthony Sims Recent movements in global markets would have even the most amateur of investors concerned. As one example,…
Cash Rate Not Cutting the Mustard
Remedying Australia’s Ailing Housing Market By Anthony Sims Australian homes are, relative to the rest of the world, objectively unaffordable – not just for students, but for workers and families…
Bob Trevino Likes It: Hard Not to Love
By Erika Johanson Tracie Laymon’s film Bob Trevino Likes It didn’t leave a single dry eye in the cinema. This, of course, was the film’s main motive; tugging on the…
Announcing the End of Student Announcements
Lecture Bashing Bashed By Scarlet Hannah On the fourth of March, something significant changed on the UWA Campus. There had been whispers leading up to it, but in an email…
Changes to HECS indexation set to wipe billions in student debt
By Abbey Wheeler In good news for tertiary students, legislation has recently passed which changes the way student loans are indexed. HECS (Higher Education Contribution Scheme) loans are interest-free, however,…
Could we randomly select a citizen as our head of state?
By Chas Underwood This piece first appeared as a featured article in volume 95, issue six of Pelican. You can view our print archive here. It’s the final politics column…
While many of us consider ‘where are you from?’ to be a question appropriate for small talk, for a lot of us it is a microaggression
By Shantisha Schaufler This piece first appeared as a featured article in volume 95, issue six of Pelican. You can view our print archive here. The question itself is not…
The Sun isn’t the only Star in Perth’s Music Scene: An Interview with Ain’t No Sun
By Zoe Salmond and Jay Suntharakumar This piece first appeared as a featured article in volume 95, issue six of Pelican. You can view our print archive here. With the…