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Economics

Cash Rate Not Cutting the Mustard

25 April 2025

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…

Film and Production

Bob Trevino Likes It: Hard Not to Love

23 March 2025

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…

Campus Affairs

Announcing the End of Student Announcements

6 March 2025

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…

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NUS NATCON 2025 – Fretting the National Stage

1 February 2025

By Scarlet Hannah A report on the reports from UWA’s boldest, sent to the represent us at the National Representative body, going where delegates have gone annually before. The National…

Campus Affairs Economics Politics

Changes to HECS indexation set to wipe billions in student debt

28 November 2024

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,…

Politics

Could we randomly select a citizen as our head of state?

17 November 2024

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…

Voice

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

15 November 2024

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…

Music

The Sun isn’t the only Star in Perth’s Music Scene: An Interview with Ain’t No Sun

13 November 2024

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…

Literature and Creative Writing

The Voyager Golden Record (1977)

11 November 2024

When you look up at the night sky, everything you see is the distant memory of somebody else. It’s all new to you, in that godly exhale of cirrus clouds…

Campus Affairs

What does it mean to have a new chancellor?

8 November 2024

In early June, Diane Smith-Gander was elected as the next Chancellor of UWA with her appointment commencing on 1 January 2025.

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