Kodachrome – A Review
Based on an article in the New York Times by A.G. Sulzberger, Kodachrome is a movie about death, family, and analog film — and the surprising overlap you can find…
How to save money on a student budget
Saving money as a student doesn’t have to be hard, and definitely doesn’t have to involve sacrificing sleep or a social life. Of course, it’s always helpful to have a…
A Fantastic Woman Review
One of the surprises of this year’s Academy Awards was Sebastián Lelio Chilean film, A Fantastic Woman, taking out the gong for the best foreign film. It tells the story…
Pacific Rim Uprising: Bigger Does Not Equal Better
In 2013 Guillermo Del Toro introduced us to the fictional world of Pacific Rim. Based on a manga, the film was meant to be the film that would make giant…
What We Were Reading – May Edition
Inferno – Dan Brown “The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.” Published in 2013, Inferno is Dan Brown’s fourth novel following Harvard professor Robert Langdon. As…
Would You Rather: Attend One Guild Council Meeting OR Have Your Liver Pecked At Constantly By Vultures
I went along to my first ever session of the guild council for reasons that are as of yet unknown. While I was listening, enraptured, as a debate about cuts…
A Biased Review of Australian Media Objectivity
With the release of the 2018 Federal Budget, there has been great scrutiny of its content from media outlets of all leanings. This is a good thing, because in 2015…
Can Western Science continue to ignore Indigenous Science?
How much longer can science ignore what Indigenous people have known for 50 000 years? A 2017 article in the Journal of Ethnobiology brought worldwide media attention to the Black…
I THRIFTED AT UNI AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS AMAZING HAUL
On the 24th of May at Welfare Week’s Clothes Swap or Shop, Pelican interviewed six individuals for their hot takes on the event. Amongst them included Aleasha Sanchez-Lawson, the current…
So you want to be Guild President? A Guide to Preselection – LAUNCH EDITION
The Red Baron – Launch Having walked you through the very long and extensive processes that have seen STAR win pretty much constantly in recent Guild elections, it’s time to…