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Contents
Editors Sambavi Seermaran Rachael Versace Katie Kendall Christopher Quyen James Wilson Cameron Hart
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Editorial
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Meet the Editors
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Helicopter Parenting
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So You’re Having a Quarter-Life Crisis?
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A Standard to be Raised: White Feminism
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Malcolm in the Middle
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Heteronormative Binaries in Queer Media
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Digesting the Divestment
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Positive Online Dating
June Murtagh Allison Bermingham Gabrielle Rawlings
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Six Degrees of Dissociation
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Committing to a Climate of Change
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Knowledge is Power, and Power is Dead
Creative Directors Ting He Rose Wallace McEwen Designers Joy Li Angela Tam Brian Nguyen Collette Duong Cassie Ciccarelli
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Andrew and Laura Tolley Interview
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Coda Conduct Interview
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Ice Cream Pudding Recipe
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Creamy Corn Dip Recipe
Matthew Harrington Contributors Kate Gogolewski
Alexander Cochrane
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25 Years of Vertigo
Katie Kendall
Allison Bermingham
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The Malcolm Turnt-bull
Kien Le Board
Cameron Hart
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‘How to’: Anniversaries
Nicholas Phillpott
Chris McKay
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Tall Tales
Ninah Jo Kopel
Christopher John
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A Dance in Summer
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Vertigo Serial: Inevitable
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Poetry Showcase
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Art Showcase
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Photography Showcase
Rachael Versace
Quyen Dinh
Raveena Grover
Harley Lewington
Rhiona-Jade Armont
Harry Goddard
Sarah Mould
Jennifer Worgan
Sharma Anushkar
June Murtagh Design Contributors
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So, here we are - after 25 years of nuances of the everyday, of copious coffee-chugging and incessant keyboard-tapping, of late nights spent editing and the baggy eyes that ensued - Vertigo has reached the milestone. The Silver Jubilee. Usually, people celebrate their anniversaries with the exchange of sexy gestures and expensive wine. Unfortunately, the Vertigo budget hardly affords us full-scale sized printing, yet
scattered upon our shelves, and the 2 minute noodles that are, somehow, forever abundant in our kitchen. Milestones are a many splendid and frightening thing. On the one hand, they represent success; a temporal achievement, a sign of endurance and strength. And indeed, Vertigo offers us much to be proud of. Each magazine edition ever published showcases the concerns and affairs of its time, and reminds us that we are building upon the foundations that have been paved by our predecessors.
On the other hand however, the term ‘milestone’ possesses a more poignant connotation - that of advancement. With
to show its respect and acknowledge the Tradition Custodians of the Land, the Gadigal and Gurring-gai people of the Eora Nation, upon whose ancestral lands the university now stands. More than 500 Indigenous
error; the realisation that there are things
Nations shared this land for over 40, 000 years before invasion. We express our solidarity and ocntinued
to be revisited and re-assessed. So yes, this edition is a cause for celebration - but it is also an opportunity for us to look to the future, and to consider how we wish to progress from here. This dichotomy of achievement and regression is highlighted through the articles in this edition. There are of medicine and business, as well as a celebration of creative success in our showcase features. On the other end of the magazine spectrum, you’ll articles that call for change in feminist and LGBTQIAP spaces, and a feature article that critiques the current landscape of student media. Vertigo may still be young, but by golly, has it grown since its original conception in 1991. Here’s to 25 years more. Rachael and the Vertigones
commitment to working with Indigenous peoples, in Australia and around the world, in their ongoing struggle for land rights, self-determination, sovereignty, and the recognition and compensation for past injuries
t h a n k yo u s Hot bartenders Discount blueberries Feminine hygiene products Antibiotics Period-induced breast growth Heightened clitoral sensitivity
fu c k yo u s Chewy bread that should be crunchy Ringworm Batteries not included Stupol The hetero agenda Painful urination Extra powdery moths
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Meet the Editors Gabrielle Rawlings
Rachael Versace
Sambavi Seermaran I really hope in 25 years I will be a very
To envision what my life will be like 25 years
I’m not quite sure where I can see myself in
wealthy and successful member of society
from now is an extraordinarily infeasible
25 years. Is it even possible? I don’t entirely
with hopefully a few Nobel prizes or Oscars
task, as I’ve always ascertained that I will
place my trust in the hands of a psychic -
under my belt. Just kidding. As much as
cease to exist beyond the age of 30. This
perhaps I can manage to hunt down a Seer?
the baller lifestyle tempts me, I hope in
is partially attributed to my insatiable love
I suppose I’ll just wait for Marty and the Doc to show up and make use of the Flux
25 years I will still be alive and kicking, with a great clan of cats and alpacas in my
avoidance mechanism, sparing me from the
Capacitor instead, they’re not too far away
household.
future reality of (potential) child-rearing
now!
and gradual domesticity. I just hope that future Rachael never regrets her Vertigo bios about dildos and orgasmic prowess.
Allison Bermingham
June Murtagh
Christopher Quyen If family history gives me diabetes then
How to have a cool future - give yourself
25 years is a really long time, especially
I will start a chocolate factory and wear
no other option. I’ll have a career that sits
considering I’ve only been alive for 21. That
quirky purple suits with a matching top hat
somewhere between that of Julie Andrews,
being said, I think I would want to have
to spread my family history beyond the
Tina Fey, and whoever produces The Time
settled down in my own home with a sup-
family tree and into the bloodstreams of
Team. There’ll be no kids, no husband, and
portive partner, a few kids and maybe a
the masses in revenge. But if the diabetes
no white picket fence, but rather a part-
never hits then hopefully I will continue to
ner in crime who probably designs weird
work and practice as an all-round crea-
just want to be happy and maybe own a second home near the beach.
tive. Fingers crossed to never becoming a
and knows how to temper chocolate. Also
washed-up Asian Adam Sandler.
Hoverboards because duh??
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Where do you see yourself in 25 years? James Wilson
Cameron Hart
Katie Kendall It’s hard for someone who hasn’t lived 25
If I’d asked myself where and who I’d be 10
In 25 years time, I will be 57, meaning I’m
years to comprehend 25 more. I might have
years ago, I doubt I could’ve fathomed how
probably half a burger away from the big-
met the love of my life or written some-
much I love the present version of myself.
gest stroke I can ever expect. As such I
thing I’m truly proud of. Maybe I’ll meet a
Life is a realm of limitless possibilities:
embark on a diet-altering lifestyle change,
nice man and settle down behind a white
perhaps in 25 years I’ll have completed my
ditching my mobile-powered public trans-
picket fence, just like society says I should.
PhD, or succeeded in my schemes of world
port multipass and deciding to use that
Probs not though. I want to be certain of
domination, or have found love. Really, none
teleport technology that was all the rage 10
myself, and my place. That and I hope my
of these is more or less fanciful than the
years ago.
eyeliner game has only gotten stronger.
other, so let’s just hope that the past 20 years of fortune cookies, shooting stars, and birthday candles will count for something.
Meet the Designers into the void, I’ll describe what I hope to happen in the next 25 years. Obviously there’s the dream of spending my days drinking male tears from crystal goblets, but additionally, I would like the total dismantling of all corrupt politicians and power structures in this world—from the government, all the way down to the UTSSA’s SRC. I hope in 25 years, that the entire design team for vertigo is paid as it’s fucked to expect people to work endlessly for a multi million-dollar organisation and to not receive reparation. ROSE OUT.
I l l us t r a t ion by : E li za b e t h J u n g
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Features 07 - Helicopter Parenting 08 - So You’re Having a Quarter-Life Crisis? 10 - A Standard to be Raised: White Feminism 12 - Malcolm in the Middle 14 - Heteronormative Binaries in Queer Media 16 - Digesting the Divestment 19 - Positive Online Dating 22 - Six Degrees of Dissociation 25 - Committing to a Climate of Change 27 - Knowledge is Power, and Power is Dead
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ANUSHKAR SHARMA
I come from an Indian background, but I have grown up in Australia
their child’s experiences and success or failures. They do not
for most of my life, and consider myself as having the best of both
give their children the independence to work out problems and
the Western and Eastern worlds. I practice my culture at home
navigate life’s complications by themselves. Helicopter parents
and also blend in easily with Australian society, so it’s usually a
quite literally ‘hover’ over their children, and attempt to immerse
win-win situation. Of course, there is undeniable tension between
themselves in every aspect of their children’s lives to protect them
the two cultures, and although it is mostly manageable, they do
from harm and disappointment. The end result of this behaviour
clash at times. One of the biggest differences that I have noticed between my Asian culture and the Western one is the difference
reliance to cope with failure and unhappiness.
in parenting styles between the two. The degree of freedom and liberty that Western individuals feel upon reaching adulthood is
It is important to let children empower themselves and give them
often in stark contrast to the ongoing obedience and deference
the independence to make their own choices. Too often I see in
to tradition that Eastern culture tends to reinforce.
Asian cultures the cossetting and over-protection of parents who are anxious for their adult children. I always feel very loved by my
Recently, a term in psychology has popped up to explain a
family and I am glad for their concern; but, at the same time, some
parenting style called Helicopter Parenting. It refers to parents
freedom and personal space for me to be an adult would be much
who pay extremely close attention to their children, to the
appreciated
point where they are over-focused and over-controlling about
Illu s t r a t i on b y: Ch l o e Gra ci e
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So You’re Having a Quarter Life Crisis
Chris McKay
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Hey, congratulations! I hear you’ve just
what you’re doing. This is the eponymous
contributing to society, it has become
turned 21-25! Don’t you feel old? Clarissa
‘quarter-life crisis’ we’re here today to talk
a way to complain that society won’t
Explains It All isn’t even on TV anymore!
about. And there is some validity to it. Erik
buckle to your individuality. According to
Which is a reference most of you almost
H. Erikson, respected psychologist and
BuzzFeed (and yes, I will keep using them
certainly don’t get, because Clarissa
owner of an awesome name, proposed eight
as an example because they’re terrible
Explains It All went off air in 1995, and those
crises humans experience, one of which
and once killed a guy; that’s a different
of you who do know it probably only know
tends to manifest around the age of 25.
story) the core ‘crisis’ of being 25 is that
it because BuzzFeed keeps telling you it’s something you should remember if you’re a
people want you to work, but you don’t This crisis, according to Erikson, originates
want to work, you want to travel and ‘collect
90s child… But I’m getting ahead of myself. and isolation. That is to say, during our The concept of a mid-life crisis is well
adolesce we spent all our time and energy
between being insufferable and actually
established; when a person (usually male)
desperately trying to carve out an unique
contributing to society like a goddamn
gets to around 50, they undergo a period
identity for ourselves. That identity and
human being’. Where ‘Quarter life crisis’
of transition, of questioning how they’ve
desire for independence serves us well,
was originally developed to inform people
spent their life and how they wish to spend
right up until the moment we suddenly
undergoing a period of transition, and
the remainder of it. This decision usually
realise we need other people. It’s no
reinforce the importance of crisis in
manifests in a desire to ‘reclaim’ what
coincidence that the ‘quarter life crisis’
development, it’s now used (to paraphrase
they see as their ‘lost youth’, generally
appears around the age people generally
Andrew Lang) like a drunk uses a lamppost;
leading to purchases of fast cars, big boats
start developing intense, romantic
more for support than illumination.
the career ladder. According to Erikson,this
Basically what I’m saying is this: I hope
and skydiving lessons. While the cause and effect can differ wildly, the general reason for the crisis is well established-
you have a great 21st birthday, and realise
after spending virtually their entire life
desire to maintain independence through
developing family and work life, they
connections with other people.
feel they have not spent time working on But here’s the kicker - everything I crisis, this crisis leads to desperation, this
just wrote in that last paragraph came
desperation leads to dating a 22-year-
from the writings of a well-respected
old advertising student named ‘Kenya’
psychologist, which means, despite the
who claims Gaia is her spirit animal.
awesomeness of his name, it is boring. And who has time for actual psychology
Periods of transition are always stressful,
when BuzzFeed can water down the
however, so it’s surely understandable
concept into an easily approachable
that a ‘life crisis’ could appear at any stage
form capable of being conveyed entirely
of dramatic change- like the period in
through Parks and Recreation gifs?
yourself out of uni, thrust into the ‘real
Rather than being about the stress
world’ with no proper idea of exactly
of maintaining one’s individuality and
that ultimately, you’re not special.
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The Standard to be Raised: White Feminism
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Kate Gogolewski
feminism |`f m n z( )m| noun [ mass noun ] the advocacy of women’s rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes.
The idea of Feminism at its core is simple, but, as with anything
feminism, but the truth is that racial issues are always intrinsically
simple, when you categorise people with different ideas,
linked to inequalities between the sexes.
experiences and goals under one banner – it becomes complicated. Because even within groups that face oppression, there are further groups whose oppression is greater. It is not a competition about from Men’s Rights Activists (aka MRAs) or the general populace are
“who has it worst,” but this concept is one that tends to be ignored
“why do you hate men so much?” or “why do you think women are better than men?”. (a common argument). Men who identify as feminists are at two ends of the spectrum and are often either treated like gods or are told they “cannot be
No.
feminists because they’re men.” This is not the case stretched to the LBGTQ community in general) either confuse both
Why are women of colour becoming disillusioned with feminism, or
sides of the argument for gender equality, or face rejection.
‘white feminism’?
And women of colour, whose voices have so often been silenced in
Exactly because of this reason – because their rights are not set as the standard that has to be raised.
This is where something called ‘white feminism’ comes into play. You might ask yourself how skin colour has anything to do with
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black woman to win the Primetime Emmy Award
Artwor k:
for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series – stated in her acceptance speech:
Ange la Ta m
different forms, “You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.”
and is something that needs to stop.
Women (ie. white women) do not have many lead roles where their
This article barely scratches the surface of these issues.
characters are given depth, scope, and are something more than a plot device. But women of colour? These roles for them are almost
to be conveyed in a 700 word article. If you would like to do
non-existent. In a more local setting, the differences between the rights of
everydayfeminism.com which give more well rounded, and
women of colour and white women is smeared into our history.
in-depth accounts from women of colour themselves.
Australian women won the right to vote in 1902, perhaps - but not all women. Aboriginal women were unable to vote in federal elections freely and completely with the same rights as white
of colour, and is perhaps not the best person to write this
women until 1983.
article. However, in order to write this piece to the best of her ability, she did a large amount of research
That’s 81 years until women of colour reached the same rights of
and consulted with women of colour to try
white women. This is perhaps one of the best examples of the way
and get the best understanding of these
“white feminism” works. It is something that continues today in
issues as she could.
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KIEN LE BOARD
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I. The post announcement phase For everyone that doesn’t know, can’t remember, or honestly
On the surface, Monday September 14th was a Canberra day like any other. No glitz, no glamour — just politicians whiling
was the leader of the Liberal party in 2009 after Peter Costello
away the time before their next Q&A appearance. The calm
failed to make an impression in a post-Howard world. Those were
before the storm.
different times when the Rudd Bot was on a roll, Julia hadn’t quite entered the scene and the Liberal party were reeling.
A text, a phone call behind closed doors and suddenly one grey
Unfortunately for Malcolm, an untimely incident with a treasury
haired sexagenarian fronts the cameras announcing that the race is on. Speeches are made and politicians begin to enter buildings
surf lifesaver named Tony to seize the leadership.
without talking to the media only to exit hours later with shifty looks that say even less. Those of us that care are glued to our
The stage therefore is set for drama. Will Turnbull be successful
screens and are told by sweaty reporters that it will happen at
in returning to his rightful place as King after being ousted by
9.30pm. It’s going to be close.
Abbott? It is 1pm now and the journalists will have their work cut out for them, recycling threadbare material in an attempt to paint
But what really happens in a leadership challenge?
a vivid story about politics. Every possible theory, conspiracy and political factoid they can think of will be trotted out in a desperate gamble to keep people interested
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To consider what a spill is, imagine the most popular group at high school...
II. The Spill itself
III. The aftermath
To consider what a spill is, imagine the most popular group at high
To the cynical observer, Turnbull is a Prime Minister who speaks
school. The hottest and funniest and coolest kids of the year plus
more eloquently than Abbott and is less likely to make terrible
that jock with no acne, have banded together and claimed a spot
gaffes on camera. This inevitably will make him more likely to win
on the hill in the sun. Everyone who is anyone wants to be part of
the next election which can either be a positive or negative.
the group. Life for those chosen few has never been better. Asylum seeker policy (if you can call it that) and many other Liberal But oh no, what’s this? Self-appointed alpha-male Tony is having
party positions unfortunately/fortunately remain the same.
a big row with Malcolm about what happened at a party last weekend and it’s dividing the group. Apparently Tony threw up
Had Abbott remained PM for three days more, making 2 years as
all over Malcolm’s carpet and hasn’t even offered to pay for drycleaning. Tony’s bestie Joe decides, now that everyone is looking
in his prime ministerial pension. As such he will “only” receive
at them meanly, to strut away from the group in anguish, leaving
a measly annual pension of $307,542 to go with his undisclosed
the haters behind. Two days pass, the wheel turns and two new
travel and staff entitlements. At least, as the sage former treasurer
faces are sitting in the sun on the hill. Without Tony. He’s gone
took pains to remind us, the Age of Entitlement is over.
on holiday to Bali. In essence, this is all a spill is. A high school popularity competition with a Survivor-style vote at the end.
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Heteronormative Binaries in Queer Media
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security and risk to the local economy alike, Minerals Council of Australia coal
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leaders for action and encouraging them
dialogue surrounding a greener future of
affect Australia’s coal industry – furthermore instilling the need for a more
consider changing legislation surrounding
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Tell me about your [+u] campaign and where that all started?
You’ve gone so quickly from receiving your diagnosis to campaigning. Have
There has only been one person who
people who are already positive, what they
has been cured of HIV. He was suffering from relapsed leukaemia in 2006, and underwent bone marrow transplants that rendered him genetically resistant. From your experience, do you think people realise that this man was actually the exception, and not the rule? Is it lack of funding, or a lack of community awareness that’s holding
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u What would it mean to have a drug like PrEP, which is used as a preventative option for people at high risk of contracting HIV, easily accessible in Australia? Have you experienced any negative stigma surrounding HIV?
How important is medication and lifestyle in maintaining the ‘undetectable’ status?
What advice would you give someone who has received a positive diagnosis?
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Rhiona-Jade Armont
As you get older, you start to like things like blue cheese and olives, and you start to understand red wine and strong coffee. You start to see the world differently. Your fear of the dark slowly comes to light, and things like corporate hierarchies begin to make sense. But no matter how old I get, in the 18 years I’ve been on this planet, there are a few things that still do not and never will make sense to me. Like the reason why Billie Holiday’s voice makes me feel sad or why brussel sprouts taste so terrible, or the reason why we still struggle to empathise with people just like us. Very few things have been left unsaid when it comes to the issue of refugees. Except, perhaps, that this is not a “refugee” emergency or an issue of “migrants”, but rather a crisis of humanity that concerns all its individuals. We have chosen to separate ourselves beyond the six degrees of safety and
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familiarity. We have chosen to make this their problem, not ours.
that will ever tread lightly on the issues that mean something to us;
When it was that humanity splintered off into the fractured
and it shouldn’t. It has thrust itself into the space that we designate
carcass of compassion it is today, I cannot tell you. Some blame
untouchable, and so this is uncomfortable - as it was intended to
capitalism, others religion. Some turn to Westphalia, others the western world. Rarely is it though, that we blame ourselves and not
afraid of the realities they were inspired by.
the structures or systems that someone somewhere else created. This time it was Aylan Kurdi, whose body lay on the sands of Turkey While our new Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull – at last, a rich
with his back to the world. In that moment it was clear that we
white man! – nestled into his seat mid-last month, French satirical
had abandoned him. He lay on the sands while we looked on from shores of shame, and the love for a little boy, the hope he
published a front-page cartoon of a dead, three-year-old Syrian
represented, was lost along with his life.
refugee with a billboard in the background reading, “Promo! Two menus of children for the price of one!” Another editorial titled
It unsettles me that it took Aylan’s lifeless body to show us what
“The Proof that Europe is Christian” featured a cartoon with a
we’ve known for so long. We did not discover a new breed of
drowned child next to Jesus Christ standing on water captioned,
human suffering, or unearth a reality we weren’t already aware of.
“Christians walk on water, Muslim kids sink.” It’s been 70 years since the end of World War II, and we still do not Australian social media was a little distracted by the delightfully
have the systems in place to cater for the plight of refugees. But
entertaining #libspill, but worldwide people were outraged at the
here I go again, blaming someone else. I won’t comment on our
macabre and indiscriminate humour of Charlie Hebdo. People who,
government’s response or the choices of the UN, not because I
in January this year, leapt to defend the actions of Charlie Hebdo in
can’t or have nothing to say, but because it no longer seems
the name of ‘free speech’ have now swiftly turned their backs with
relevant. This is about people like us, and how we choose to treat
little to say but “Je ne suis pas Charlie.”
each other. It is people that make up organisations, institutions, structures and systems, and it is people who make decisions that
so freely. They called us out. They blamed us. You and me both, and it was not
what is truly important to us, and to identify what role we play in
delicate, or sensitive, or kind.
the things that matter.
Although I deemed that print intensely inappropriate, much like
As university students we seem to be left with a dilemma: we care
their cartoon of the prophet Mohammed that lead to the deaths of
but have no means of active change. Our voices never seem to be
12 staff members this year, it is clear that satire is not something
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authority. I guess that boils down to perspective – we will always seem small compared to a government, but as well as “joining the conversation,” we should also aim to disrupt the dialogue we know is wrong. Charlie Hebdo pinpointed our passivity, a position we have not only been placed into, but also one that is easy to relax into. So as you mull over your blue cheese and olives, or red wine or strong coffee, consider the capacity of those around you to create a change. It’s important to not only surround ourselves with like-minded leftist bleeding-heart university students, but also with people we don’t agree with.
in which it unfolds.
minutes of real conversation. That means understanding their perspective and engaging with it, head on. When you do that, you unlock something. You target something. You connect with something. You empathise.
conversations away from change. Of course, I say in theory, because I’ve had many more than six conversations over the course of a lifetime, but maybe it does boil down to connection. Perhaps all it takes is six degrees of understanding to have a chance at change.
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Committing to a Climate of Change Harley Lewington
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Paris COP21 and why it’s important
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What are the expectations?
countries and 50,000 delegates to discuss a new global agreement
international agreement, Australia is the only country to abolish a
for the effects that are already out of our control. Finally, these
Why is this any different?
committed to laying their climate action commitments on the table well before the summit for the world to assess their ambition, and
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Knowledge is power, and $ power is dead
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of mysteriously distant territories. In short, the world is a world in their own name.
we thought we did.
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Introducing: the internet.
and walking miles for almost drinkable water.
interesting adjacent, myself and the rest of Australia feeling more connected to the rest of the world seems to ignite a
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Student Life 31 - Andrew and Laura Tolley Interview 34 - Coda Conduct Interview 37 - Ice Cream Pudding Recipe 38 - Creamy Corn Dip Recipe 39 - 25 Years of Vertigo 42 - The Malcolm Turnt-bull 43 - ‘How to’: Anniversaries 44 - Tall Tales
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Andrew and Laura Tolley Interview Christopher John Quyen Dinh Brother and sister, Andrew and Laura Tolley, tackled on Vertigo in 2002 and have now gone on to own one of England’s largest coffee franchises. From words to coffee beans, Chris interviewed the duo to see what their experience was like editing Vertigo in 2002 and where they have both gone beyond their time as a Vertigo editor.
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What were you studying in UTS?
What sort of image were you trying to
Tell me about your successful business
Andrew: Environmental Biology
create with Vertigo in 2002?
venture into coffee with your franchises,
and Business.
Laura: Well I was just trying to do something
Taylor St Coffee and Harris and Hoole?
Laura: Visual Communications.
funky and cool and different!
Andrew: When my brother and I came to
Andrew: She actually tried to redesign the
London together to work we both realised
How did you feel about winning Vertigo?
entire magazine! Well…in a way we did!
that we really didn’t want to work for
Andrew: It was quite nerve-wracking to be
Vertigo before 2002 used to be very right-
anyone so we thought we would start our
honest since we both had no experience
wing because it was run by the same group
own business. Unfortunately we didn’t
in running a magazine, but we sort of took
of people for a few years. We wanted to
have any credit history so we thought we
charge once we got in.
make sure it was balanced and a wider
should set up small espresso bars in other
Laura: We didn’t even expect to win. When
range of views were represented.
people’s shops which we called Taylor St Baristas.
we won we were kind of like… now what? What life lessons did you learn from
Laura: After a couple of years we opened
What were your roles in Vertigo?
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our first café which resulted in the
Andrew: My role was more operational. I
Laura: I was able to really use the skills in
Starbucks opposite our café closing shop
edited and coordinated the copy to make
Photoshop and Illustrator that I learnt in
in six months [laughs]. Then in 2012, Tesco
sure everything came in on time and
my course at a more faster pace. In the
approached us to buy Taylor St Coffee,
spent a lot of time trying to support Laura
environment I was working with I guess it
but we decided to come up with an
and Mani, a very enthusiastic mature age
helped me think faster on my feet as well.
alternative franchise for them, which is
student who wanted to make Vertigo more
It sounds cliché, but it really changed my
now Harris and Hoole.
beautiful and balanced – a vision I think we
life because when you’re pushing yourself
all shared. They were the workhorses of
and you’re sitting there at 4 in the morning
What sort of coffee do you drink in
the whole thing!
thinking “what the hell am I doing with my
the morning?
Laura: What worked well for us is that
life?” but you still push through, it really
Andrew: I’m drinking a coffee from El
we all had our own areas and roles. I was
makes you stronger.
Salvador and its natural processed so
good at design so I focused on that while
Andrew: Time management, working in
there’s a nice strawberry and blueberry
Andrew handled all the other stuff. I think
teams, managing stress with your other
flavour with a chocolate-y undertone to it.
it’s better when everyone has a designated
responsibilities… there’s so much that you
Laura: I’m not going to lie… I’m drinking
role so you don’t end up stepping on each
learn that is so applicable in your life.
instant coffee at the moment.
other’s toes.
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To celebrate 25 years of Vertigo, we met up with some editors from previous years to see where they are now.
Sally Coleman edited Vertigo in 2013, and has since formed the successful hip-hop duo ‘Coda Conduct’ alongside Erica Mallett.
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How did Coda Conduct come into
You talk about it so casually, like ‘yeah,
conception?
we like hip-hop and we’re going to be
unexpected perspective. And that was
rappers!’ Did you ever imagine it to be
about bringing that idea of women’s voices
something this huge?
not always being heard, but doing it in a way
Sally: Erica and I are both from Canberra originally. We crossed paths because we
that was funny and likely to engage people,
both worked for the same home-made chai
Erica: I don’t know if I ever had any
brand for a little while and we had some
expectations. I didn’t really fully grasp what
mutual friends…
we were doing, it was more just like ‘let’s
Erica: Not an in your face ‘females aren’t
try and make some words rhyme, and then
heard in hip-hop’, but like a sneaky head
Erica: But it wasn’t until we were travelling…
maybe record something’. And as always,
nod to anyone who picks it up.
I was in Europe, and Sally and my cousin
your expectations adjust as you go along;
Edgar were in Europe…and they were like
like, back before we’d recorded anything,
What are your thoughts on female
‘we should meet up!’ So I came along, and
it was like ‘maybe we’ll record a track one
representation in hip-hop? Do you feel
met Sally.
day’, and ‘maybe we’ll be able to speak into
that there is already a strong female pres-
a microphone one day’, and that would be
ence, or is that one of the reasons why you
the pinnacle.
wanted to form Coda Conduct?
Sally: We met and we were like, ‘you like
rather than make them feel intimidated.
hip-hop,I like hip-hop - let’s be rappers!’
was ‘The Waitress Song’; a parody of Seth
hip-
Sentry’s song by the same name. Were
hop has been around for like forty years
there any underlying themes or issues that
now, and female representation has gone
you were trying to address through this
up and down a lot in that time…and it’s not
parody?
feel like when hip-hop started…and maybe nostalgic…there
actually the initial brainchild of the song;
were more women involved at the inception
she kept coming to me with this idea about
of hip-hop.
how females are often spoken about in
but
they never get to tell their own story.
It’s always been male-dominated, but there’s a lot of female pioneers in the genre. Whereas if you look at who was active
Sally: Seth Sentry actually did a verse on like
ten years ago, there was a massive drop-off
a Horrorshow remix track that was the ex-
in the 90’s and early 2000’s especially, so
tended Waitress Song, and I think we both
there’s sort of waves of women who are
heard that and were like ‘that’s really cool, I like that he’s picked up that story’. But then
they go. And that’s almost sadder than
we thought, ‘what if there is more to the
seeing a gradual lifting of quotas, it’s the
story?’ And after that it got quite silly, and
fact that quotas can go down again if peo-
if you’ve listened to the song you know that
ple aren’t proactive.
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I like music and you like music too,
‘Hi,
Erica: And I’m not sure if it’s because we’re quite engaged with the Australian hip-hop
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particular working class, heavy-accented, stigmatised. Many people argue that hip-
community at the moment, but it seems to
‘ocker’ kind of hip-hop is looked down upon as not
me that since we started, there have been
hip-hop isn’t entirely representative of
a lot more females who have popped up.
this. Do you think that it’s been harder for
I’m not sure if that’s a sign of something
you to pursue the genre because of this
Do you have any advice for other uni
happening in the scene, or just me knowing
stigma?
students who may be aspiring artists and
about it more.
who want to get their own work out there, but aren’t entirely sure of how to proceed?
Sally: There’s people like TKay Maidza, and
I actually think that it’s changing, or that it’s
in Australia there’s a big feeling of solidarity
quite old and tired. They used to call it
Erica: Reach out to people. Even people
with other women…even if people want to
‘barbecue rap’, which was a derogatory
that you don’t know. Just say, ‘hi, I like mu-
pitch you against each other as competi-
name for really Australian accents on top of
sic and you like music too, let’s talk.’ That’s
tors, I haven’t come across that ever with
beats… Now we’ve got artists popping up
all that needs to happen.
stereotype.
another woman who is a rapper. It’s always been completely enthusiastic and positive,
People like One Day, Tuka and Sampa The
Sally: For us, the people we’ve met have
which is amazing.
Great.
been through going to gigs or just buying
It’s a promising time for women
Sally: It is also interesting, that idea of
telling them that we like it. Engaging on a
in hip-hop and women in music, especially
‘struggle’, because hip-hop is a genre that
human level with creative people, because
if you look at the awareness being raised
is associated with oppression and speak-
you can’t do it by yourself. You do need
about things like ‘how many women are in
ing about your struggles, but at the same
support, and swapping knowledge with your
the
time, in Australia, working-class hip-hop
friends is the best thing you can do. Find a
Hottest 100 this year?’, or ‘how many wom-
is still the most frowned upon or stigma-
community of people who love what you
en are there in the line-up of your festival?’
tised. Which is really interesting - that the
love and stick with them.
other people’s music and listening to it and
let’s talk.’
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Allison Bermingham
As the weather gets hotter, staying cool becomes a priority. Ice cream pudding is perhaps one of the most amazing inventions on earth, and the best part is that it’s completely customisable to your tastes. So, get your party on with an ice cream pudding - great for parties or Christmas lunch.
Ingredients 1 x tub of vanilla ice cream (as much as you want) 1 bag of bite size Cherry Ripes 1 bag of marshmallows 1 bag of bite size Twix 1 bag of bite size Crunchie 1 bag of gummy bears
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Remove your ice cream from the freezer and allow it to melt slightly.
2.
Whilst the ice cream is melting, chop your chocolate and lollies into small chunks and put aside.
3.
Remove ice cream from container and place in a large mixing bowl. Slowly add lollies and chocolate, mixing throughout.
4.
Once ingredients are mixed through, put ice cream back in its container and return to the freezer.
5.
Serve on a warm summer’s day or at your Christmas lunch!
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Creamy Corn Dip Allison Bermingham With summer on the near horizon, everyone is looking for the fresh new flavour to tantalise their tastebuds. This creamy corn dip will have you coming back for more. You can always add some chillies or spices to give it that extra kick - like the Spice Girls once said, ‘Spice up your life!’.
Ingredients 2 cups of shredded cheddar cheese 2 cans of yellow and white whole kernel corn, drained ¾ cup mayonnaise ¾ cup of sour cream ¼ teaspoon sugar ¼ cup chopped spring onions
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In a large bowl combine corn, cheese and spring onions.
In a smaller bowl, combine the mayonnaise, sour cream, and sugar.
Combine all ingredients into the larger bowl and refrigerate overnight.
When ready to serve you can sprinkle additional spring onions.
Serve with your favourite corn chips or rice crackers!
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A DANCE IN SUMMER Harry Goddard
I threw down my cigarette and stomped it out, sparks erupted as they were caught by the wind. I watched them swirl until they were extinguished by the rain. I had been working all day in my office near King Street. I spent my time alone, either at my desk or outside in the car park smoking. Because I spent all day in solitude my breaks were really breaks from myself – with a cigarette I could stop thinking. I went back inside, sat at my desk, moved some papers aside and turned my attention to a blank page, zero words, a waste of a working day. My phone started vibrating, I pulled it out of my jacket
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and was surprised to see that the call was from my friend, Karl. I
“I don’t know how many people are coming. Probably won’t be a
hadn’t been keeping up with people recently as I was always too
lot,” he said.
busy with writing. I barely even saw my wife, who was expecting our child in a little over a month and spent most of her days at home.
I hadn’t seen her in over a decade. She had her own life, a hard one, but she had pride in what she believed. She told me about
I answered the phone.
pucas, things that could disappear behind parked cars and travel into the world of books. She was an expert on the unseen; I wasn’t,
“Karl?”
she could never reciprocate my feelings for her.
“Hi,” he said. “Yeah, it’s me. Something’s happened. Yeah… what’s
“Okay.” I said. “I’ll drive down on Wednesday.”
happened is that…” After the call I drove home through the traffic of Victoria Road, “Yes?” I prompted. I had stood up from my desk and had moved to
skirting past the city and into the suburbs. I didn’t feel the way
look out a window.
I thought I should feel. Meta-thoughts — that I was driving home to tell my wife about my dead friend while thinking about driving
“Darcy’s died.”
home to tell my wife about my dead friend — took over.
“Oh,” I said.
Reality set in as I drove: All this time I had only tried to control a woman who thought faeries existed and yet thought nothing of me
“Colin just rang, says he found her in a chair this morning.”
at all. What was I to her? An observer only, a man with misplaced attraction. In my poem I called her a ‘summer dance’, but now I
“What was it?”
suspected I had no right to call her anything at all. The person I depicted in my poem was not her, but what I came to imagine her
“I don’t know, probably heart… I don’t know.”
as. Darcy left me with nothing but my changing mind. The only things that lasted hung on the edge of sleep, and then became
There was only one window in my office. The street outside was
memories of themselves.
dark, and I heard water gurgling in the gutters. I could see my reflection in the window but it looked as if I was standing outside
When I got home I was sick of listening to my thoughts, so I stood
and my face seemed older, far away.
in the yard and lit up again. It had stopped raining since I had left work, but drops of water from a Jacaranda tree kept landing on my
“Is everything alright?” I asked. “Do you need help with the funeral?”
jacket, leaving damp splotches on my shoulders. I called Karl back, and said I couldn’t make it, work was too much.
“Colin’s organising everything but he wants you there. Can you get here by Wednesday?”
“You’re no good to anyone,” he said.
I wrote a poem about Darcy when we were in university together. I
He was right, but I didn’t belong at that funeral. I belonged at
thought I had been in love with her, but I had only been impressed
home, stuck listening to myself think.
with her paganism. My poem spoke with authority I didn’t have, but it did well, it got published and she never forgave me.
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The air had turned cooler without Ovid
She followed his gaze. “Many have spent
noticing, a breeze that caressed his
their entire lives below ground.”
body in the pantomime of a goodbye. The mechanical thumps and whirs of jumper cables echoed from inside his ship – then a wave of cheers as the Top-
to the warmth of sun creeping down their necks – how fresh air would taste against
thumb stroked the device in his hand,
their tongue, rain tapping on their bare shoulders, sliding down their skin. They had so much left to experience.
and eradicate the terrible-beauty of humankind’s desperation? Could he
With a crinkle of her eyes, the woman
kill the Top-Dwellers, just to save the
turned to slip away to her people. Ovid
Underground?
grabbed her hand. “Wait,” he paused. “I didn’t catch your name.”
“Ovid?” The woman in front of him smiled, her face streaked with grime. Behind her,
She laughed, patted his hand. “Julia. And
the Underground people had gathered.
you, Ovid, are our saviour.” She looked
Their eyes turned towards the stars, the
down at the beeping device in Ovid’s
glow of the moon highlighting their sharp
hand, and her mouth twisted. “You know
cheekbones and jutted chins. They were
what to do.”
laughing, their feet kicking in dirt, their hands stroking the dusty ruins that had
Leaving a gentle kiss on his cheek, she
waited through time for them to return.
turned to the people she loved enough to
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device beeped once, twice, three times
plant them carefully in the ground, to layer stones piece by piece until they became a roof, and to start over. Always, to start over. The engine roared as the ship began to lift – victorious exclamations from of solar-powered lights, the hum of circuitry
Top-Dwellers matching the gasps of the
and the tangy aftertaste of chemically
Underground as the ship hovered – waiting.
treated air. But mostly, he thought of the
Ovid felt the urge to leap down and rest
Mother whose DNA he’d sprung from. And
amongst the living. To feel the Earth turn
of Virgil’s grave, still and silent amongst
beneath him. To take Julia’s hand. But who else knew how to drive a ship into a
monsters whose desperation caused them
black hole, and come out the other side at
to rebuild themselves piece by piece.
home? Who else could give a spark of life to the Top-Dwellers?
With a sudden leap, Ovid mounted the steps to his ship. Sadness caught in the
Ovid turned to address the Underground
back of his throat as he looked down at the
below him. Some were sheltered by
device. Life or death. Life or death? Ovid
buildings, some faced the sky, and others
knew that he didn’t have power over either.
rested beneath the surface. But no
With a smile, he gently swiped right and the
matter where their feet landed, all felt the
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vibrations of change shudder along the
approached Ovid. Beside him, a boy
ground, and turned towards Ovid’s space
with wired ligaments stretching down
ship – their arms outstretched.
his forearm took Augustus’ hand, his mechanical eye swivelling in its socket.
“Earth is yours once more, and history is yours to claim.” Wind whipped through
Augustus bowed his head, the platinum
his hair, and tears sprung to his eyes.
parietal glowing in the eerie blue of
“Treat it well, and my laborious work will be complete. But don’t forget the forms
child next to him, then all the children
changed into new entities – as they are
whose twisted bodies convulsed around
a reminder and a warning. For I will not
jumper cables and sparking sockets. Life
forget the metamorphoses of humankind,
or death? There was only ever one choice
and the beauty of an Earth reborn.”
and one inevitability.
Ovid’s eyes caught Julia’s. “And when you
Ovid strode towards the controls of the ship, and with a sigh, urged them forward. As he gazed at the distancing curve of
Ovid opened the doors of his ship and
Earth, the hint of sun beneath the horizon
stepped inside. The gnarled, motorised
and the wave of arms outstretched
faces of the Top-Dwellers had slackened, and Augustus’ eyes glowed blue as he
the future.
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And ever y time it ends it begins again
From the start in the same skin
Winter is on a killing spree so you paint the windows shut You build a temple with the living room set Mustard yellow wine stained But the wine went dr y last winter so you tr y to get high Off the marrow in my bones
Picking at the scabs on my knees
You crawl the highway lined with wreaths Searching for a place where nobody gets a tomb Instead a pink motel a dark green pool Where new life descends quietly into the masquerade And the wallpaper peels to reveal bullet holes
The parade entirely in our minds Ever y stor y ends with Lazarus for you With rising Ever y spring begins with frozen thistle teeth Biting down Into fresh apples with taut skin Like the skin constricting your fingertips Bite to break the core crack the spine Then the leaves, red and boiled and crisp Then the streets, dark and cold and aching Tomorrow never cheats the ending And then tomorrow when we turn up 6 feet of soil Waiting for Lazarus to die again
This time mortal going cold
The widow dusts off her funeral clothes and skin Waiting for it to be so much worse The second time around
053 G o back to the cave-side Take the stone you rolled away from the tomb L ay it flat in your hand It is only a pebble there is no rising again G o back to the grave site Three days of a tempest on your tongue L ay the stone down on the over turned ear th Apologise for disturbing it this business leaves none undisturbed G o back to morgue This grief cannot ever bur y you If you refuse to turn the f irst shovel of soil Let the ear thquake shake you down be as strong as the af tershock G o back to the cemeter y There is nothing in bloom in winter The under taker on his knees Prays the snow may melt before he wakes
and does not sleep at all G o back to the la dy of Magdalene Tell her not to imagine the drought Breaking her For the dea d have no feelings Lef t to love her with forgive her all her sins G o back to Pilate’s throne Imagine the men of Rome believe It is easier to give in to the halcyon Than hold the world with gentle hands in all its quiet darkness.
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G o back to the brown eyed girl Do not ask her to make wholeness In the holes of your hear t or you hands, Let her show you there is peace in turning your grief to grace
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Second year design in visual communications student
Observations of nature and patterns provide inspiration for many of my works. movement of these observations through different styles, never adhering to one.
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