Telstra Perth Fashion Festival’s ‘Future Runway’ Show
As soon as Raingurl by Yaeji started blasting out of the speakers during the first category I knew this was going to be a fun show. The Telstra Perth Fashion…
Review: Battle of the Bands 2018
This year, Battle of the Bands was expanded into the new Ref area, as well as the Tav, and while there were no $2 middies, the crowd was a-buzz with…
The Chinese Students and Scholars Association and Guild Elections – A House Divided Cannot Launch
In a new turn for this years Guild elections, the public account of the Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA) has been sharing the profile pictures of Launch candidates and…
Progressivism or Tokenism? Guild Politics in a Nutshell
We seem to be in a golden age for progressivism and social justice. The last few years have seen our world explore new ways of protest and resistance, especially with…
‘CANDID-ates’ – Meet the SOC candidates
This series involves Pelican sitting down with all OB candidates from the major parties. We are starting this off with the Societies Council President nominees, Taco Shiraishi of STAR and…
5 Things I Wish I Knew Before Running in Guild Elections
It’s Guild election time again fellow students, and once again we find ourselves swarmed with red, green, pink and blue propaganda flyers around campus and shoved in our faces again.…
Pelican’s Policy Breakdown – 2018 Guild Election Editon
Campaign week well and truly began today. Lecture bashes have begun, the memes are flowing, and we are all wondering just what are both parties standing for this year. We…
17 Days of Guild, Day 1: So here we go again
And so, the merry-go-round begins again. As your only independent campus-based reporting service, we are by your side in these most absurd of times. The 2018 editorial team are going…
Sitting in Solidarity – Guild Council and the debate over symbolic motions
The motions that bring forth the deepest praise and strongest ire towards our elected student representatives are often those that involve issues that go beyond the daily administration of the…
ACAPELLA, EMPOWERMENT AND THE CHALLENGES OF BEING A WOMAN – AN INTERVIEW WITH THE MOCKINGBIRDS
This week I sat down with Kate Milligan and Georgia Scheepers over cups of cappuccino and prana chai at Tenth State, to talk about their all-female acapella group, the Mockingbirds.…