Pursue New Careers: UWA Slashes 300 Jobs
In a statement released yesterday, UWA Vice Chancellor Paul Johnson announced that Perth’s prestigious “Group of Eight” University will be laying off 300 of its staff as part of its…
Review: Lucky Chan’s Laundry and Noodlebar
The extremely average and uninspired fare of The Moon Café has been the only late-night option in Northbridge for far, far too long. From the team behind The Classroom and…
Pelican Speaks to Majdi Fal
Earlier today, a pig’s head was found in a UWA bathroom adjacent to a prayer room and community space used predominantly by Muslim students. When Majdi Fal discovered the head,…
UNDERWOOD AVENUE BUSHLAND: LONG-TERM ASSET OR SHORT-TERM PROFIT FOR UWA?
Did you know that the south-west of WA is one of only 25 global biodiversity hotspots, defined as ‘exceptional concentrations of endemic species undergoing exceptional loss of habitat’? This astounding…
UWA I Love You, But You’re Bringing Me Down
I joined the Young Liberals shortly after my eighteenth birthday. A wide-eyed fresher on O Day, I didn’t even pause before I put down the $10. That afternoon I also…
Greetings from the last town in Western Australia
For too long, the holiday options of Perth dwellers have been geographically limited. Really, only two points of the compass get a good workout. You either go “down south”, following…
Things That Person In Your Tutorial Who Hasn’t Said Anything All Semester and Has Instead Sat Silently While Staring at Nothing in Particular Might Be Thinking About
Getting a Thermomix The delicate difference between a flat white and a latte The soup Nazi episode of Seinfeld Dank memes Meryl Streep and Stanley Tucci’s onscreen chemistry Hash browns…
My Night of Fun and Glamour at the Baseball
I don’t like sport. Excepting my netball glory days (goal shooter, I was very good, thanks for asking), I have only two vivid sport memories from childhood. The earlier is…
Sigh Gnome More
It has been a rough year for arts at UWA. The faculty’s decision to cut three arts majors not only represents an attack on students, it also opens the way…
Vale Geoffrey Curgenven Bolton (November 5, 1931-September 4, 2015) Public Intellectual, Historian and Pelican Editor 1948-1950
The picture that adorns almost every obituary of Geoffrey Bolton fits his description as the wise old man of West Australian history. Bald with a long beard, his genial stare…