Freedom of Expression @ UWA: Yes or No?
Pelican Diversity Editors, Elanor Leman and Eliza Huston went to the UWA Freedom of Expression Student Consultation Session hosted by the UWA Student Guild. For context, you can view the…
Do Your Own Research
The anti-vaxxers have done it again. Perth news media had warned civilians against visiting IKEA, Perth Zoo, and South West WA after tracing the path of a measles-infected individual who…
Not All MenTM: Or maybe some men, just not me
Not seven months after we mourned the death of Eurydice Dixon, we find ourselves, again, faced with another young woman’s senseless death at the hands of a man. The rape…
Stealing the Megaphone from Blak Voices
What do the Socialist Alternative, the Greens and the UWA Student Guild have in common? A tendency to advertise themselves at large social protests and promote their own self-interests despite…
Words with YUNGBLUD
Late last year, Music Editor Patrick Roso spoke to Dominic Harrison, better known as UK act YUNGBLUD. You can catch YUNGBLUD at Bandlands Bar on Sunday 17 February. Tickets available…
Australia Day
Sophie is an Arts Honours grad from UWA. She currently coordinates Social Reinvestment WA, a coalition of non-profits working for justice reform, to reduce the overrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres…
The Pills Testing Debate – Lives are at stake but ideology always wins
It’s a story that we’ve heard a little too frequently recently. A young person dies after taking a deadly dose of drugs at a music festival. There is heartfelt outpouring…
20 Easy Steps to Faking Your European Holiday When You’re Lying in Bed Watching Netflix
People say the summer holidays are the most wonderful time of the year. Newsflash: those people are a) rich, or b) liars Everyone knows that summer is a time for…
Texicana Takes Over for UWA Leisure 2019
Pelican Magazine has recently uncovered that UWA’s Social Club Lesuire, has decided upon a theme change of its “flagship” semester one party to be hosted on March 8. From this…
Review: Fahrenheit 11/9
Moore manages to balance the outrageousness of the Trump Presidency with both bleak nihilism and futuristic optimism. In a politically divided America, we have not been short on media consumption…