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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DEAR ANU, Welcome back to another semester of slog and sunshine in our vibrant and multicultural sandbox of learning! Enclosed in these pages are an array of activities for the fresh or fading student alike to invigorate oneself with the awesomeness of the ANU. Also, in these pages is our lift-out on Drugs and Alcohol. The university administration is pushing to erase harmful alcoholism from the student dialogue of interaction. There is some merit to their Drug culture is ingrained into our development. It is universally understood that our formative years of coming into being are absorbed by a familiar rite of initiation: sloshing our internal organs with enough liquor to immobilize and incapacitate. It is a game that we play with our peers, The article on alcohol anxiety illustrates the potential for harm on the body. According to data by the National Drug Research Institute, between 1996-2005, an estimated 32,696 Australians aged 15+ died from alcohol-attributable injury and disease caused by high-risk drinking. An estimated 813,072 Australians aged 15+ were also hospitalised. It is a game we play with our lives. Rubber-band resilience is a mast to which we anchor an unshakeable faith in recovery. Whether it be a false platform or not, it is necessary to separate knee-jerk reactions from paternalistic assumptions of the student psyche. There has been no meaningful consultation of policy with the students that the university aims to protect. The Bush Week Edition of Woroni aims to provide this consultation. Historically, Prohibition will trigger pockets of rebellion and resentfulness. Stringent policies and dictatorially enforced procedures are after-the-fact band-aid solutions for fragmented nerves although intoxicating, is not necessarily the impetus behind self-intoxication. The articles in these pages on study drugs, the comparative study of alcoholism in the UK and the celebration of classy establishments that provide alcohol emphasise that a more nuanced approach to drugs is necessary. There is no doubt that binge-drinking is an anathema to growth. Relying on alcohol to lower landscape of contact. However, if we want institutional change, it is the wider community of role models, pioneers and professionals that need to encourage alternative lifestyles. If the politics is the enforced alcoholism in social behaviours.
Sex on drugs is fantastic.
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THE A N U D RO P S D OW N SIXT Y-F OUR PL ACES IN UNIVERSIT Y RANKING
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The ANU’s obsession with university rankings is about to be dealt with a major blow by the Centre For World University Rankings. Woroni Editor, Alex Catalan-Flores, explains. On Thursday 16th July, the Centre For World University Rankings (CWUR) released their 2014 edition of their annual publication. The Australian National University was ranked 160th in the world, a considerable drop from their previous 96th spot. This new ranking places
ALEX CATALAN-FLORES, EDITOR including academic-related and non-teaching the quality of teaching.” Similar criticisms were made of the Shanghai Ranking. The explanatory paper attests to the suitability of its indicators in that they are objective and perceived to be robust against manipulation. Namely, the indicators used are quality of education (number of alumni who have won major international awards relative to the university’s size), alumni employment (number
followed by the University of Melbourne, the University of Queensland, UNSW and in 5th place the ANU. Their website describes CWUR as “the only global university ranking that measures the quality of education and training of students as well as the prestige of the faculty members and the quality of their research without relying on surveys and university data submissions.” According to an explanatory paper of their methodology, available on their website, the subjectivity of student surveys is the one of the main drawbacks of other university rankings such as QS and Times. The Shanghai tRanking is the only other major publication that does that instead Shanghai places excessive weight on research-based indicators without properly assessing the quality of education and training of students. The CWUR also criticises the capacity of certain indicators to be manipulated. In reference to QS, where the ANU is ranked the highest, the CWUR said that “another shortcoming is the faculty to student ratio indicator, where
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of alumni who currently hold CEO positions at the world’s top companies relative to the university’s size), quality of faculty (number of academics who have won major international awards), publications (number of research papers appearing in reputable journals), of highly-cited research papers), broad impact (university’s h-Index) and patents (number of
ANU placed second-last in quality of education,
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and last in citations, broad impact and patents. In comparison to other rankings, the ANU is currently placing 27th in QS, 48th in Times and 66th in Shanghai. Nevertheless, these standings still indicate a downward trend across the rankings, with the ANU having placed 24th in QS in 2012, 37th in Times and 64th in Shanghai. This year’s edition of these rankings have not yet been published. Ian Young, Vice-Chancellor of ANU, was contacted by Woroni for comment on the new ranking. In response to our question, ViceChancellor Young said, “I have never heard of this ranking so can’t really comment.”
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In Brief. Numbers & Figures
On Wednesday, the 16th of July, a scientist was sent to investigate a mystery giant hole almost 100 ft wide and 130ft deep appeared in Siberia. The ovular expanse also has an icy lake at its bottom. No one is sure as to what caused this phenomenon. On Thursday, the 17th of July, Israel began its ground invasion of the Gaza Strip. The latest military campaign and missile retaliation was instigated by the alleged kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers by Hamas. On Tuesday, the 29th of July, ANU Chancelry will hold the second event in its “Blow Up the Lecture� Series, which aims to promote dialogue on innovating the delivery of higher education. The key note speaker will be Sanjay Sarma, Director of Digital Learning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
100+ Leading AIDS researchers and activists died in the MH17 tragedy.
11% Loss in Malaysia Airlines stockmarket value following the MH17 tragedy.
Thank You! Kacy Cantazaro (above),
39 to 32 Vote in the Senate that passed the bill to repeal the carbon tax on the 17th of July.
1st
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$580,000
The median house price in Australia as of 2014, according to Rismark Daily Home Value Index data
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SASS SECRET GARDEN BALL
Bush Week is a week for meeting up and partying up with friends again after a long holiday, and for attending introductory lectures with a hangover (it’s all just administrative
Following the disaster of Law Ball’s ticketing system, SASS (Society of Arts and Social Sciences) is proud to present their annual ball, ticket hassle free. Aptly themed The Secret
by now). For new students, it’s a week to get your self familiar with the University and its bizarre Canberra ways. Make sure you hang around Union Court for events held by ANUSA and PARSA, the ANU’s student representative bodies. Like all orientation weeks, there will be freebies especially on Market Day (Wednesday, 21st of July). Check out the ANUSA and PARSA
lovers alike, the 2014 ball is set to be held at the recently opened National Arboretum on
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students, and other social events. For more information, get to the SASS Facebook page.
organised President, Ashley Gill, and Events rival the success of the 2013 Blitz Ball. Even if you missed out on tickets, SASS also runs a number of other events including public
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Kinloch and Warrumbul Common Rooms, the to celebrate the end of Ramadan, the month of fasting for Muslims. There will be manyv student organisations participating in the event including the Arabic and Middle Eastern Society and the ASEAN Society, just to name a few. The event will include food and drink stalls, cultural and musical performances, henna painting, calligraphy, a photobooth, information booth, trivia competition and charity collection. We are very excited about organising this event, and are looking forward to making it really amazing.
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ENTREPRENEURS!
$2500 GRANTS FOR STUDENTS TO START UP THEIR OWN SMALL BUSINESS ANU Students’ Association (ANUSA) has announced the launch of START, a small business startup program for ANU
CAMPUS NEWS /ANUSA PROGRAMS
The program’s application process requires a one page
teams of students will start a new Canberra business.
10 minute ‘pitch’ to a panel.
mentoring with successful Canberra businesspeople, opportunities to collaborate with other participants, and a business grant of up to $2,500.
marketing,
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publishing a series of articles showcasing existing and alumni.
traditional student jobs in retail ANUSA. ANUSA is the peak
Our aim is to encourage students to pursue business social purpose. ALEK SIGLEY Korea (see Page 18). piece on DR. SAM PRINCE, ANU Medicine Alumni and founder of Zambrero Fresh Mex Grill!
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IN THE SCHOOL OF POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS.
Earlier this year, reports featured in Woroni revealed a series of disconcerting developments in the School of Politics and International Relations (the School), with almost a full third
tripping over itself to have the public record set straight on the
departing at the end of 2013. This was followed in January 2014 by extensive cuts to courses
said that they are investigating the complaints. Outside of this, they have refused to provide any further comment whatsoever on the extent and severity of the situation. On the one hand, this is understandable, there are very serious privacy and legal concerns that mean that the issue must handled with great care. On the other hand, the details revealed about the issues facing the School suggest that the Vice-
and philosophical perspectives on politics and international relations. At the time, the then Acting Head of School, Professor Ian McAllister, claimed that of the natural “turnover in
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Retirement
time ago and has either failed to
However, a series of articles
redress, or those he has delegated to do so have failed.
last month have revealed that “a the School is largely to blame for the mass exodus, with complaints ranging from intimidation and harassment to deteriorating working conditions and issues of gender discrimination. The articles portray a School in crisis, with seven formal complaints which were found in favour of the academics who brought their complaints forward. If the truth is painful, then the
If there were inaccuracies or if the issue had been resolved,
“A “toxic culture of bullying” within the School is largely to blame for the mass exodus, with complaints ranging from intimidation and harassment to deteriorating working conditions and issues of gender discrimination.”
intimidation and harassment. In addition, the investigation must establish the kind and extent of these breaches of duty. In such situations, incompetence, negligence or complicity would be the usual suspects, the situation as depicted by the of all three. Meanwhile, a PhD student has told of how an academic recently explained to them that they were having panic attacks in from a professor and manager in their school, but that they were too afraid to complain because their family depended on their income.
some academics taking up an Voluntary Scheme.
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Furthermore, another former PhD student, who wishes to remain anonymous, has said that “Post-graduates are reluctant to speak publicly because there is a history of making life hard for those who speak out, they’re
The fact that many, if not all, of these complaints have failed to be addressed up to a year after the incidents themselves should give us an appreciation of how much of a debacle the
sentiment was seconded by a current PhD student who, having witnessed and personally experienced some of the bullying
situations, the problem is never just a single individual. And, with so many complaints being
a serious grievance about an abusive manager during an
that the situation in the School is far from resolved, the student who had voiced opposition to the bullying and its handling has recently been threatened with potential disciplinary action for
ongoing silence on the matter is not only disconcerting, but damaging. Even if they manage to ‘wait out the storm’, the issue has become a public concern and their failure to provide any further details about how these problems are being addressed means that serious doubts over the integrity and character of the School’s workplace will continue to linger. If, however, it comes to light that there are more issues yet to be unearthed won’t just be facing a handful of newspaper articles, but a full blown scandal. In either case, it will not be enough to simply hope that the issue goes away with a scapegoat. For the sake of
are afraid to speak out. They’ve seen how those who stand up for themselves become victims of
presume that the senior managers of the School – and those to whom they answer – could have been unaware of the behaviour of the individual alleged to be at the centre of the complaints. In view of this, it is vital the
The PhD student went on to complaints and failed to act on the situation, “I have personally
the primary task of identifying where and how the School, the
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needs to be a serious redressing for those who have been harmed over the past year and also a public record explaining how such a hostile work environment was allowed to thrive and how such situations will be prevented in future.
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As a member of ANUSA, it must be questioned why we are heading into second semester without adequate budget negotiations, after a preceding semester of
of the departments and their autonomy?
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determination about how much money to
for the students represented by those groups, and then prioritising between
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ERIN GILLEN be allocated. The requirement for the provision of a budget, which will be used as a basis for determining the total amount interference into the autonomous nature of departments. The provision of a budget to the ANUSA executive opens up department expenditure to unnecessary oversight, and allows the possibility that the executive will disapprove of certain expenditure which will impact the amount of funding a department receives. I refuse to accept that decisions made about increasing the safety and wellbeing of these groups should be taken from them, and I am not alone in this. Three of the four departments who provided feedback strongly disagreed with this proposal, however the executive have decided to proceed regardless. Simply stating that a model respects the autonomous decisionmaking processes of collectives (as the executive have persistently done) does
“Why does ANUSA continue to completely disrespect the core, fundamental principles of the departments and their autonomy?” not make it so. The purpose of allowing us control over our budgets is to ensure that the interests of oppressed and minority groups within the university are adequately catered for and are not interfered with by any ANUSA executive. Without control of our own budgets, departments are unable The executive’s approach to department disrespect for the work that departments do and the importance of our place within the ANUSA structure. The ‘consultation’ process has disregarded the collective experience of this year’s department accountable, to give full discretion to further funding for collectives to one individual man? Did ANUSA President Cam Wilson alone has the authority to decide what events were appropriate for the Women’s Department to run? Is this an avant-garde art piece in which he is the representation and embodiment of the patriarchy? Sure, we have a straight white male as our Federal Minister for Women, but I don’t believe there’s any evidence to suggest this is a model worth replicating amongst our student representatives.
My concerns here are not simply speculative. These policies have already revealed funding campaigns and events intended to increase the safety and wellbeing of women on campus. Under the semester one funding model ANUSA President, Cam Wilson, vetoed the provision of funds for Domestic Violence Crisis Service training
Students should always feel as if they can demand better of their representatives, and this executive could do much better by the student body.
has been run previously as part of the 2013 ‘Not a Wife Beater’ campaign with great success and resulted in a shift of policy in relation to domestic violence within our university community. The executive’s obsession with ‘necessary oversight’ of department spending is absurd, particularly in a year where ANUSA is expecting a surplus. The ANUSA Constitution already implements measures to keep a check on department funding a spending report at each SRC and are the end of their term. These are adequate implementation of the constitution. Departments are important autonomous entities within ANUSA because they represent groups on campus that face distinct barriers to accessing higher advocate for students whose experiences may be distinct from the ‘norm’. Because of this, at times the aims of departments may be at odds with those of the executive. in opinion regarding policy does not impact on the ability of departments to campus. I believe that the approach this year’s ANUSA executive have taken to funding departments will impede on this autonomy, and therefore their respective safety and wellbeing of the students they represent. I support the provision of a single sum at the beginning of the year. This sum should be the same for all departments. This model, which has worked well for many years, protects the autonomy of departments and ensures that any potential biases of current and future ANUSA executives do not interfere with the allocation of funds to For those who might be asking their own questions right now, like why Woroni is being used as a platform for this discussion - the ANUSA executive are students that were not only elected to represent the wider student community, but are getting paid well to do it. If the ANUSA executive and limiting policy, then I am prepared to straight up Leslie Knope that situation.
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ANU UNION CONTACTS WORONI: ADMITS FAILURE SATIRE
TARA SHENOY, EDITOR -IN-CHIEF
ANU Union Chair, Josh Orchard, visited the Woroni July to discuss plans to dismantle the Union and its subsidiary bodies. This has been cited as the result of an inability to bring Brodburger to campus.
that a deal is being signed with Brod-Kale. The website has not been updated to this
In exchange for positions on the Board, all members will be given the opportunity for positions of a missionary character. It is
When asked for comment, Josh Orchard broke down and started singing My Chemical Romance lyrics as he ran naked across North Oval.
assets will be ear-marked for the Palmer United Party. According to Gary Oldman, Arts/Law student, “The Union is shit.”
intimated that he just never had the technological aptitude for Facebook.
Orchard intends to resign from the Union to take a job in the Brod- Kale parking lot in worship of his Election promise. Or at ANUSA, which is essentially the same thing.
The Union has made a statement
Experience ANU events.anu.edu.au
Featured events Wednesday 23 July, 4.15pm
Linking serial verb constructions in White Hmong
Leonard Huxley Lecture Theatre, Mills Rd
Dr Nerida Jarkey, University of Sydney
Framed? Julia Gillard & the gender wars
Seminar Room, Baldessin Precinct Building, Ellery Cres Wednesday 23 July, 7.30-8.30pm
Thursday 24 July, 4-6.30pm
Historic dance experience
At the speed of volcanic eruptions
A ‘cultural time travel’ dance event presented by the ANU Creative. Arts Learning Community Bruce Hall Dinning Hall, Daley Rd
Professor Terry Plank, Columbia University Leonard Huxley Lecture Theatre, Mills Rd
Landscape transformation: Impact on butterflies & beetles in South-Eastern Australia
Concerts
Nici Sweaney, ANU
Tuesday 5 August - Saturday 9 August
Fenner Seminar Room, Frank Fenner Building, Linnaeus Way
Winter Jazz Week
Dr Rodger Shanahan Weston Theatre, Level 1, JG Crawford Building, Lennox Crossing Monday 28 July, 6pm
Blow up the lecture?
Research intensive degrees information session
Technology is opening up new ways to teach & we want your opinion on what the classroom of the future might look like. Auditorium, Centre on China in the World, Fellows Lane
Representatives will be available for one-on-one discussions. The Drawing Room, University House, Balmain Cres
How does the media frame women in public life? Law Link Theatre, Fellows Rd
Sectarianism: The threat to Australia
Wednesday 6 August, 4-7pm
Friday 1 August, 4pm
Thursday 24 July, 1pm
Thursday 24 July, 5.45pm
Tuesday 29 April, 5.30pm
Dr David Campbell, Director for Plasma Operation, ITER Organization
Milestones in Music - Pop eats itself: The Impact of the sampler Dr Samatha Bennett, ANU Theatre 3, Level 5, ANU School of Music
Bringing together acclaimed jazz virtuosos & educators with ANU School of Music students. Larry Sitsky Recital Room, ANU School of Music, William Herbert Pl Admission charges apply
Exhibitions
Gaming night ANU Anime and Gaming Society Maning Clark Centre foyer Tuesday 29 July, 5-7pm
Book launch: The economics of just about everything Written by The Hon Dr Andrew Leigh MP ANU Commons, Lena Karmel Lodge, cnr Barry Drive & Marcus Clarke Street, Canberra
The ANU campus is always alive with plenty to see, hear and do. All events held on the ANU campus unless otherwise indicated. Schedule is subject to change, please check website closer to the date to ensure event information is correct.
Tuesday 29 July - Sunday 9 August
Step into the Limelight Exhibition includes works from Pre-School to year 12 across a wide variety of media and styles ANU School of Art Foyer Gallery, Ellery Cres
Thursday 31 July, 12pm
Progress towards fusion energy at8 ITER
Monday 28 July, 6pm
Other
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STIGLITZ STICKS IT TO UNIVERSITY DEREGULATION CAMPUS NEWS Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Peace Prize-winning economist from Columbia University, visited this year. As a strong critic of deregulation and the American university system, his visit was extremely pertinent given the Government’s plans to deregulated university fees and cut Commonwealth contributions to the higher education. Nina Haysler reports on his speech for the 2014 Crawford School Oration.
On Monday the 30th of June, Nobel Prize Laureate economist, Joseph Stiglitz, gave an inspiring lecture at Llewellyn Hall for the 2014 Crawford School Oration. Stiglitz has spent the past two weeks touring Australia, sponsored
In his speech, Stiglitz stuck it to university deregulation while Marnie Hughes-Warrington, the Deputy Vice Chancellor, sat next to him on the with a frozen smile on her face. Stiglitz did not bring out big guns against university deregulation until question time. An audience member highlighted how Christopher Pyne, Australia’s Education Minister, had the goal of making Australian universities follow an American model and how our Vice Chancellor, Ian Young had been, the “poster boy of university deregulation in Australia.” Then, the audience member asked, what Steiglitz thought University deregulation could bring to the higher education sector.
NINA HAYSLER With regard to universities, Stiglitz replied that we should be regulating more, rather than less. Stiglitz declared that “almost all of the successful universities in the US are stateHe stated that private universities excel at one thing - “exploiting poor people”. Referring to information asymmetries, the concept for which he won his Nobel Prize, is that people do not have the necessary information in order to know what they are purchasing. Thus, people, and in particular socioeconomically disadvantaged people, are often exploited by universities. “Crisis averted? Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis” was the title of Stiglitz’s 50 minute lecture that provided current Australian political discourse with a refreshing taste of what the new budget, and more deregulation, threatens to generate. Stiglitz spoke of how government regulation brought us out of the Great Depression. He pointed out the failures of neo-liberal laissezfaire policies. Rather than championing the ‘American Way’, he questioned Australia’s current budget and the government’s current direction, which is on the path to being more like the United States. A key theme of the lecture was how market deregulation can potentially lead to greater levels of inequality and stagnated growth.
Stiglitz raised his voice on how the United States failed to deal with the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and revealed how the economy “is not back to health”. The lecture also criticised the moves by the United States government to give money to banks rather than the individuals evicted from their homes and forced into poverty. At the end of the lecture,, Stiglitz stayed around for an extra hour signing copies of his books celebrity status.
Stiglitz stated that private universities excel at one thing - “exploiting poor people”. You can watch the 2014 Crawford School Oration given by Joseph Stiglitz on ANU’s Youtube Channel, ANUchannel.
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PROFILE
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There is only so much you can learn from write about. holds – it has been almost impossible to name to negative comments about the big of the man himself. Young does not talk much about himself (unusual for people in his position), and he is not convinced about he made known when asked about a recent article in Honi Soit, the student newspaper at the University of Sydney, on their Vice Chancellor Dr Michael Spence. This will be the most detailed piece written about Ian Robert Young that has ever been published. ******** The private side of Young is exactly that, quite private. In interviewing him, he was more interested in talking about higher education issues and the future of ANU than himself, and most of the other people anything about his family. Born in Cunnamulla, a small town in South Western Queensland in the late 1950s, Young is still a relatively young vice chancellor despite being in the role for over ten years (seven at Swinburne University of Technology and three so far at ANU). Young’s father was a teacher in the Queensland State education system at a time when there was a desire to get good teachers into remote parts of the State. It was also the pathway for promotion within the system and as a result, Young’s parents made 17 moves in 21 years. As the youngest of three children, Young arrived
towards the end of these moves. At age 1, Young’s family relocated to Stanthorpe, where they stayed for a year before moving to Mackay. They moved from Mackay to Townsville when Young was 5 years old and by this time his father was principal of one of the largest State primary schools in Queensland. Young says he can still remember his father saying “OK! That’s it, no more moves”. As a result, he grew up in Townsville and went to James Cook University where he completed all three of his degrees in engineering, also
One college dean said that Young had done exceptionally well to come from a modest background to lead one of the great universities in Australia. “He doesn’t come from privilege. He’s a self-made man. He clawed his way to the top and good on him”. spending time in California and Hamburg to undertake research. While Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic) Professor Marnie-Hughes-Warrington was able to reveal that Young loves Monty Python (he was seen with his wife attending the ANU Inter-hall musical, ‘Spamalot’, last month), most people could not identify any interests he held outside of work. While most of us use the weekend to catch up on odd jobs around the house or to relax, Young sees weekends as a great time to do research in his specialist area of oceanography. He spends a few weeks each year travelling interstate and abroad but it is almost always for work, “he is not really big on holidays and is always in contact by
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said that Young had done exceptionally well to come from a modest background to lead one of the great universities in Australia. “He doesn’t come from privilege. He’s a self-made man. He clawed his way to the top and good on him”. Young has been married for 29 years. He and his wife Heather, a warm, softly-spoken, somewhat shy person, live on campus in the Vice Chancellor’s residence, a large house near the Research School of Earth Sciences that is sometimes used to host dinner functions for special guests to the University. They have one daughter, based in Melbourne, who with friends founded her own theatre company. Described by a colleague as a devoted father, Young goes to Melbourne to spend time with his daughter and on one trip, apparently, spent his time mowing the lawn for her. Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), Professor Margaret Harding, well known for her quirky sense of humour, says that one thing people might not associate with Young is humour. “He actually has a good sense of humour. I play the odd practical joke on him now and again and he has a good laugh”. ********
then moving to University College ADFA at the University of New South Wales for over a decade (apart from a six month stint as Humboldt Fellow at Max-Planck-Institut fur Meteorologie in Germany), then to the University of Adelaide as a dean and then later as Pro Vice-Chancellor (International) before becoming the chief of Swinburne. Since March 2011, Young has been at the helm of the ANU and in that time he has
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‘Ceci n’est pas Ian Young’ illustration by ********
The further you go from the Chancelry, the less positive the reviews. One senior academic said that Young is “a metrics man” who represents a corporate style of leadership that “does
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almost 500 folowers. His tweets tend to cover the following themes: #ANU #research #highered #science #oceans.
when he could probably have pushed to be paid nearer the top. Young also took a slight pay cut when he came to ANU.
hysteria, the VC’s [Young] argument made some sense”. A Woroni source claims that Professor
Young is not your typical vice chancellor. An unassuming man who wears tidy but plain clothes, drives a mid-range Mazda that he has had since he started in the role, does not exude an air of power and
Evans says that “Australia’s national and
when Young applied but nobody was able to verify this. ******** An undergraduate student, who has had interactions with Young over the past year and a half, said he felt Young was so focussed on research that “it feels like he doesn’t care about education and teaching”. Young himself told Woroni he has three major interests “my science
expect of one the nation’s most powerful vice chancellors. If you walked past him in the street, or if you saw him running seen to do, you might not even notice this man who earns close to $900,000 a year. On that note, Woroni asked Professor Young how he felt about his large salary package and in response he acknowledged that Australian vice chancellors are well paid [note: Australian VCs are paid the US, UK and NZ] and when asked if he was embarrassed about this, he replied: “I guess I am a little embarrassed, I believe I am a fairly unassuming person. However, my salary is not an outlier in Australia and it seems this is what the sector has decided is appropriate”. Young announced during budget cuts last year that he would gift back $50,000 of his salary to ANU. On his role and pay, Young says that:
Young”, and the Chancellor was supportive of Young’s call for student fee deregulation because, he says, it is in ANU’s long-term interests. Would he re-appoint Young if “Of course! He’s done an outstanding job. There is real heart and soul in this VC. He has real passion for this institution and real passion for excellence. Make sure you acknowledged Young’s role as chair of the Group of Eight, which he said shows that Young is recognized by his peers as a highperforming VC.
“My dream job is still science scientist but my research intersects with climate all
at ANU he would like to go back to a combination of teaching, research and engineering consultancy. “However, my dream job is still science my research intersects with climate all the time. Global warming is the biggest problem humanity faces and I think we have the solutions all wrong. We seem to have decided that the solutions are in the
technology. New alternative energy systems carbon based energy that it will gradually
hours are long and sleep is always limited, you are always in the public gaze, you need to juggle many things - education,
fund raising, political lobbying, capital development and even car parking. Having said all that, it is a great job!” Young reports to the University Council, ANU’s governing body made up of 15 members including two students and headed by the Chancellor, Gareth Evans, who described Young and his predecessor Chubb as chalk and cheese. “Chubb is a force of nature” with many skills that drove ANU forward. “But nobody should ever underestimate [Young’s] passion and the steeliness of his resolve in achieving ANU’s interests”. Evans himself is not particularly comfortable with some of the very high salaries in the public sector and he accepts that VCs are paid extremely well but says “the reality is that we are stuck in a market”. Evans stresses the point that Young was paid in the median of the Group of Eight
******** Woroni recently hosted a forum “The Great Debate” on student fee issues arising from Budget 2014, where Young was invited to speak alongside his University of Canberra counterpart Professor Stephen Parker, who is a strong opponent of student fee deregulation. Parker is on the record criticizing Young’s position, and claims that this particular government policy is the worst he has seen in his 26 years in Australia. During the debate Parker and Young sat next to each other looking slightly awkward as Parker, who was invited humorous speech targeting Young and appealing to the largely student audience. When it came time for Young to speak, he admitted he had a “tough gig” but went about explaining his position in his usual calm and reasonable manner. While not gaining a standing ovation as Parker did, Young received respectable applause from an audience that shared little love for his position. One student tweeted that he proposed a VC swap between ANU and UCan, while another said that “amid all the
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also believe that we will need to eventually develop technology to “scrub” CO2 from However, when this becomes science fact it will be science and engineering on an enormous scale. This would be an enormously exciting activity to be involved working life.”
one person close to Young, when asked to hazard a guess as to what the VC might do when his time at ANU comes to an end, had a rather unusual prediction. While most people predict that Young will go back to his research passion and perhaps take on board directorships in the area of education or research, this particular colleague said she heard Young was likely to be the next Doctor Who. “As in the character on the a shoo-in”.
For the full version of this article, go to the Woroni website: www.woroni.com.au
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Above, left to right, Dr. Sean Kerins, Dr. Inge Kral, Jessica Rogers and Bhiamie Eckford-Williamson
NEW INTRODUCTORY INDIGENOUS COURSE PASSES WITH FLYING COLOURS COMMENT
“A great introduction into a culture which is so close to home…it is
JESSICA ROGERS culture, governance or policy.” High levels of student interest and engagement in INDG1001 second and third year students from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds.
same time discover another topic
Last semester, Areti Metuamate reported in his piece “ANU Now Has Indigenous Studies Major” (Woroni, March 11, 2014), on the introduction of a new course (INDG1001) in the Indigenous Studies program. Piloted at the ANU in Semester 1, the course was convened by Dr Sean Kerins and Dr Inge Kral through the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR), and has since been delivered by an impressive list of visiting and ANU-based Indigenous and non-Indigenous academics and guest lecturers. Two Indigenous tutors, Ms Jessa Rogers and Mr Bhiamie Eckford-Williamson, delivered weekly tutorials. At the completion of the course, feedback received from students shows that the potential of Indigenous Studies as a major at ANU has never looked brighter. Kerins and Kral say the course achieved its aims. Student feedback described INDG1001 as “a great package in order to begin a journey of learning about Indigenous peoples and their culture…. I believe ANU graduates having this background and training would place them in higher standing…more rounded educationally and more employable.” Students reported gaining a “deep and thorough understanding of Indigenous peoples, populations and communities in contemporary Australia and in the past.” “It has inspired me to further study Indigenous issues…I recommend this course to anyone with an interest in social science, history, environment,
Previously in Woroni, Kerins spoke of the importance of the course, highlighting its relevance to the interactions Australians will have with Indigenous people throughout their professional and personal lives. INDG1001 students appear to have recognised this
“The level of discussion and engagement from the students, tutors and lecturers I’ve done…it made it that
relevance, as one student described: “I feel I better understand how to approach Indigenous issues as a non-Indigenous person,” and “This course should be compulsory for every Australian…every ANU student, or CASS student at least…the information in this course is so critical to having an understanding of the original owners of what is now Australia.” Another said, “This course helped me understand the ways in which Indigenous incorporated…this is the side of Australian
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history we should be teaching in schools and I would recommend this course to students from any and every discipline.” Students described their learnings as “valuable insights,” “new perspectives that I had never seen before” and “an excellent overview of Indigenous culture, people and issues.” INDG1001 is described as encouraging students “to think critically about the current situation in Indigenous communities.” - “It improved my knowledge on the diversity of Indigenous One student stated, “before the course, I think I was guilty (through ignorance) of sort of just assuming all policy to do with Indigenous peoples was the same…my fundamental understanding has shifted.” Such insights demonstrate the success of the course in achieving its aims. It appears the combination of Indigenous tutors, and Indigenous and non-Indigenous lecturers was well received. “Lecturers and tutors are great support and encouraging. Do the course, you will love it.” “It was an open, safe space. Guest lectures were always fabulous and insightful.” “The level of discussion and engagement from the students, tutors and lecturers was unlike any other course I’ve done…it made it that much more enjoyable.”
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DEREGULATION: A MATHS LESSON FOR IAN YOUNG
HIGHER EDUCATON/ECONOMICS University fee deregulation has incited unrest amongst students across Australia since proposed by the Abbott government in May. But what does deregulation really mean for students at the ANU? Hannah Bull explains.
The debate surrounding the government’s proposed deregulation of university fees has been clouded with obscurity, despite the fact that modelling the changes to university fees is a simple exercise in high school arithmetic. As Vice Chancellor Ian Young has correctly observed, “we can need to actually work logically through the mathematics”. Fee deregulation advocates computations, so some of ANU’s own mathematicians have done Young’s maths homework and modelled future university fees. The result, an online HECS Debt Calculator*, was developed by lecturers and students from the ANU mathematics department. The calculator computes the cost of an undergraduate education as well as the number of years it will take to repay the acquired HECS debt both before and after deregulation, using completely transparent methodology. The aim of the HECS debt calculator is to let the public make an informed decision on whether or not to support the proposed radical changes to higher education. Thus, the calculator allows the user to choose their own assumptions within feasible ranges in order to determine the best and worst case scenarios for themselves. Recently, both sides of parliament have
HANNAH BULL made numerous assumptions regarding future university fees and the interest rate on HECS debt to argue a variety of claims.
and future students will see their HECS debt grow alarmingly quickly. Of course, if interest rates stay low and if
future cost of university education, and it is not hard to determine a plausible range for both. There is an obvious range of possible university fees after deregulation. Fees must rise in order to compensate for the cuts to the Commonwealth contribution. The minimum fee used by the calculator is hence the amount the university must charge in order to break even under the new funding arrangements. On the other hand, fees cannot rise above the international rate. Currently, HECS debt does not accrue interest but is indexed to price index. Under the government’s proposed deregulated university fee system, HECS debt will accrue interest at the rate of the 10-year Treasury bond rate, capped at 6%. This is an interest rate at which the government borrows money. At the moment, the 10-year Treasury bond rate is 3.8%, but over the past decade has averaged at 5.0%. Using the HECS debt calculator, we can understand the changes to fees under various potential scenarios. (See worked examples on opposite page). The maths lesson to be learned here is bleaker than high school calculus. It is conceivable that some ANU students will end up with $100k degrees or will never repay their HECS debt under the proposed scheme. Furthermore, if the 10-year Treasury bond rate rises above 6%, current
*You can check out the the online HECS Debt Calculator at:
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after graduation, there are scenarios in which students can repay their debt after a decade or two. However, under the proposed fee changes, for most students and under most assumptions, fees will increase and will take longer to repay.
“The maths lesson to be learned here is bleaker than high school calculus.” Find the worked examples and graphs on the other side of the party lift -out.
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Worked Example 1.1: The $100k degree Ian completes a Bachelor of Science degree with Honours over 4 years. His university fees are the minimum fee the university must charge in order to break even, i.e. the current university fees for science, plus the amount of money the government is cutting from the Commonwealth contribution. the current rate, and the interest rate is
his undergraduate study, Ian does not work
How much will his undergraduate degree cost, including interest, and how many Above, graph for Worked Example 1.1
his debt at the minimum repayment rate?
“Furthermore, if the ten year Treasury bond rate rises above 6%, current and future students will see their HECS debt grow alarmingly quickly.�
Answer:
Worked example 1.2: The self-employed artist
Below, graph for Worked Example 1.2 per annum, the average of the amount the university needs to charge in order to compensate for a loss of government funding and the international fee rate.
on the streets of Paris. He then returns to Canberra, initially scraping together an changes to university fees, will Joe ever pay Answer: No.
of outstanding debt. This is in contrast to the current university fee scheme, in which
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T U O T F I L L O H O C L A D N A S G U R D
FROM THE RITZ TO THE RUBBLE: AN ACCOUNT OF THE DRINKING CULTURE AT ONE ENGLISH UNIVERSITY BEATRICE SMITH, EDITOR
FEATURE While on University Exchange, I stayed at a Residential Hall that was one of the oldest buildings on campus - a stately group of long, dark brick buildings three stories high, framing open
My Hall in England housed 350 people, but due
squares of prohibited grass.
The most important thing to know about English freshers is that most don’t have a personal income. Similar to America, there’s a tradition of going to University somewhere other than your hometown. What this means is that most students spend September to June at University and then return home for the summer, making
One night in October, I had gone to bed and was lying awake when I heard people yelling outside. This was normal; my room faced onto the echoey central Quad, but tonight, someone was running on the grass and screaming for the Porter. I climbed quickly out of bed and stuck my upper body through the open window. The windows of our Hall were the original, old-fashioned wooden and glass windows from when the Hall was built in the 1950s and the sashes could be pushed up fully. Suddenly, someone started screaming – the highpitched screams of a young man in life-threatening pain. “Get a belt!” someone yelled, and I realised that somewhere out on the frigid Quad, someone was losing a lot of blood.
year, which meant that the population consisted
The next morning at breakfast there was no announcement or ‘press release’ by an authority doing. To my knowledge, no mention of the accident was made in our weekly newsletter, no email sent and most of all, no hint that the loose alcohol regulations of our Hall might be to blame. I heard, through rumours, that the guy survived the incident but almost lost his arm. He would miss exam period and the rest of the semester. I know he lived, but I never saw him around our Hall again. This is one of the incidents that comes to mind when people ask me about the drinking culture on campus at my exchange University.
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In short, the Halls at my exchange University were essentially 350-person summer camps where everyone was 18, had a magic ATM card with (seemingly) unlimited spending money and less pressure to achieve high grades. There was no natural hierarchy of older students, no cute traditions to learn or strong
“The fresher who collected the most money would be rewarded with a magnum of cheap sparkling wine while the punishments for being the lowest collector ranged from having ‘CHEAP C**T’ written on your forehead with a Sharpie, to being made to eat dog food. ”
At our Hall, pre-drinking didn’t happen in our Hall Bar. It happened in the corridors of your ‘block’ with the other 17 people with whom you shared a door code and three bathrooms. During pre-drinks that night in October, in a block down the Quad from mine, someone had gotten drunk and, in a moment of geared up enthusiasm, had put their arm through one of the windows. The vintage charm of our windows had yielded to their lack of safety mechanisms and the upper sash had collapsed, severing the veins in his upper forearm.
be given a chance to familiarise themselves with their degree.”1 Personally, I’d love to see someone put those arguments to the ANU College of Law.
place. The English government has accommodated usually repaid after graduation. This is an agreement whereby a student will receive a £3000 loan (roughly $5400AUD) on a bankcard at the beginning of each semester. The second interesting point is that almost no one takes a Gap Year, which means that the median age at Halls is 18. The third, and perhaps most important point, is that in most your overall degree (Medicine being a notable exception). Instead, a student’s grades from second and third year make up your overall this might be argued as being an equaliser to the fact that there is Honors built-in in most undergraduate degrees – a 10,000 word dissertation due at the end of third year. In a survey of undergrads mentioned in a Guardian article on whether or not this system year should never count towards your degree as “young people might need time to settle in and get used to living away from home” and
chances to prove oneself a ‘top lad’. As my fellow ANU exchange student Danny Fox put it, “I don’t think I heard the term ‘straight-edge’ or ‘I don’t drink’ while I was there.” Being a ripeold 22 years of age at Halls helped me realise that this ‘Fresher’s Wonderland’ was missing a few things – like limits and people who cared. Every Hall had ‘Tutors’, who were a proxy of the Resident Advisors, Senior Residents and Community Advisors at ANU Colleges. My Hall was divided into ‘blocks’ and lettered A to V. Each block had 18 rooms and Tutors were assigned 3-5 blocks each, making it a 54:1 ratio in terms of pastoral care. A couple of weeks into my exchange, my block were invited to a ‘Wine and Cheese Night’ held in the Hall’s library for a chance to mingle with our Tutors. My Tutor made no move to interact with me, or any of my block mates. Instead, all the Tutors stood in a little circle and talked amongst themselves while we got supplied. The only time a Tutor (not my own) approached me that evening was when he side to side. Tutors sat at their own, reserved, dining table at meal times. If my Tutor had known my name or that of anyone in my block, I would have eaten my hat. To accompany this lack of pastoral care, our University had a drinking culture that would put Uni Games to shame. A rite of passage for freshers was attempting the ‘Campus 14’, a bar crawl to each of the 13 college bars (plus the Union bar) in which each person had to have a pint or a double at every stop. To complete this properly, you would have to drink around 28
ALCOHOL
ANXIETY PHOEBE ROCK
PSYCHOLOGY/FEATURE
Alcoholism, a study of 1400 hungover Dutch over the duration of a hangover.3 Additionally, more than a third reported disorientation and half reported feeling agitated over the subsequent day. those with a predisposition to these emotions, It’s the dreaded Friday morning. You wake hungover. You’ve had plenty of practice all from hell, the desert mouth and feathery breath; the sucker punch of nausea as you taste that last jaeger bomb that seemed like a good idea at the time.
brain after it has left the body, secondly; less likely to notice their anxiety is a product of prior binge drinking and lastly; don’t realise their symptoms are severe until they become debilitating.
However, if you also wake with a racing pulse, tight chest, breathlessness and intense feelings of panic, you are likely included in the 10% of
consistent with binge-drinking it’s probably time you go cold-turkey or cut back to relieve the severity of your symptoms.
anxiety” after a night of binge drinking. 1
But what should you do if you are currently experiencing hangover anxiety and reading this? Focus on your breathing and aim to remain calm until feelings of panic subside.
So what ever happened to TGIF? ‘Hangover anxiety’ is the occurrence of typical symptoms of anxiety that arise after a night or extended period (months or years) of binge drinking. We’re talking more than the sober regret when reminded of your not-so-subtle hookup at Acadz. If your regret is accompanied by paranoia, social isolation or induces a panic than just your physical health. Feelings
of
anxiety
and
depression
are
drinking. While here in Australia 80% of alcohol consumed by 18-30 year olds is in unhealthy quantities,2 this excessive consumption can disrupt the balance of chemicals and nutrients in the brain and body and prove more detrimental than alcohols’ signature headache.
body with foods that stabalise your blood sugar and most importantly, seek help from friends, peers, family or ANU medical center if you Once recognised, alcohol-induced anxiety is easily eliminated and will ensure you enjoy every night out without enduring the hangover equivalent of hell. You’ll forget spending the day sweating under bed sheets in the foetal position, binging on TV shows and dry-retching after a mouthful of Listerine that seemed like a good idea at the time. But hey, doesn’t everything?
According to the journal of Alcohol and 1
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 2010. Drinking patterns in Australia, 2001-2007.
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CRACKING
COCAINE
SCIENCE RESEARCH/FEATURE
Cocaine is a powerful nervous system stimulant that, according to Wikipedia, has a wide variety between 15 minutes to an hour. It is also quite addictive and getting addicted to something, whether it be drugs, alcohol or Game of Thrones, can be harmful to someone’s health. Often because it can lead to overdosing (‘ODing’). Scientists have been working on ways to counter the addictive properties of drugs and to prevent people overdosing. In a paper published in Chemical Biology a team of researchers may have come up with a way to do just that. Researchers from the University of Kentucky altered a naturally occurring enzyme (a large protein molecule) that breaks down called ‘Cocaine esterase’ (CocE). To be more precise, CoCE is a catalyst, meaning that it causes and accelerates a reaction , which results in cocaine being broken down. Cocaine esterase is produced by bacteria living in the soil around coca plants (where cocaine comes from). Scientists have been investigating this protein as a possible candidate for cocaine addiction therapy for a while. However, it is very unstable in the human body and stops working in just under 12 minutes, making it all but useless for treating addicts.
JAMES ANSELL But the alterations the University of Kentucky researchers made to CocE improved its stability
The researchers ran computer simulations to model which parts of the enzyme were most
has led them to believe that this enzyme could potentially be applied as an emergency treatment for cocaine overdose and possibly even for cocaine addiction.
further alterations to those areas. These models revealed that with just two more alterations – and isoleucine for cysteine – stabilized the structure of the enzyme. The CocE enzyme’s half-life at body temperature
“Scientists have been working on ways to counter the addictive properties of drugs and to prevent people overdosing. In a paper published in Chemical Biology a team of researchers may have come up with a way to do just that.” into the CocE enzyme extended its ‘half-life’ (the time it takes for the activity of the enzyme to reduce by half) to around 6 hours. This could of the drug in someone experiencing an cocaine overdose. Unfortunately, this isn’t enough time to be To treat addiction, CocE would need to stay in the body for days, preferably weeks, thus preventing the user from getting high at all and
The team then employed a method used in drug design to increase the amount of time that the drug remains in the circulation called ‘PEGylation’. This process involves adding chains of the polymer polyethylene glycol (PEG) to the enzyme. These PEG chains then protect the molecule from the human immune system and slow down the rate at which the kidneys remove them from the body. In other words, and last for longer in the body. The researchers found that it fully protected them from a lethal dose of cocaine for at least three days. The researchers have declared that, with further development, this enzyme could soon be used as an invaluable tool for the treatment of cocaine abuse. However, much more work still needs to be done in order to see whether the enzyme will act fast enough to prevent cocaine from exerting
KETAMINE
KARMA SUTRA FEATURE.
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We all know drugs are bad. They’re the root of millions of individual’s problems, array of social stigma; heroin addicts are on the dole, pot heads are only good for testing the duration at which the human body can remain stationary on a couch and your local eccy ferrit will always be the one guy at a party who has no perception of personal space. However, drugs are not the only things we perceive as bad in our rather privileged microcosm. Like so many things – your lecturer,
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impression, and that is where the other side of drugs needs to be considered. Despite the fact that your grandma is probably never going to buy you a crack pipe as a birthday present, there are certainly some avenues of drug use that we shouldn’t accept blindly as being negative. For this not infrequent practitioner of the carnal arts, drug use has, at times, acted as an avenue to a new realm of intimacy. But why and how, you might ask, do these situations arise? I’m not suggesting that to spice up your sex life you start shooting up* in the backroom whilst your partner freshens up, or even have a bump* to get you through date night.
For those of you, however, who wish to enjoy the occasional recreational experience of an illicit variety, knowledge is power and thus, here is one students guide to banging on blow, humping on heroin and, most commonly, the horizontal jagermeister fuelled tango. As a quick disclaimer, this author neither condones drug use nor encourages it. It is a personal choice and these musings are merely an amalgamation of anecdotal evidence. Be safe, be smart, but for the love of your respective higher power (mine is Nicholas Cage) – don’t be boring. ALCOHOL So lets start the evening slow. You’ve had a few drinks and you and your partner are exploring one another’s more sensual sides, whether the location is a dimly lit lounge room, with nothing but 2 of home made massage oil on the table or whomevers room is closest when the college bar shuts and you realise standing isn’t going to be an option for much longer. The most common and the most legal of the intoxicants we will be describing this evening is also one of the least complimentary to any form of lovemaking. Whilst we may be a generation of drinkers, this has not made us a generation of alcohol does not aid the more subtle nuances of sexual exploration. But let’s get to the nitty gritty. Why, if something doesn’t help the act, do we include in the performance at all? Just as a poorly lit community hall is the best place
“...After acquiring your ‘natural love drug’, you and your partner might expect to take a couple of caps and be transported to with a far more voyeuristic Mr. Tumnus. “ to see amateaur theatre, the less we see, the fewer faults we might concern ourselves with. Alcohol is a depressant; it numbs the senses, lowers inhibitions and for the truly inebriated, paints upstairs Moose as your ‘Fair Verona’. It cuts through the insecurities, whilst also cutting through the common sense. In contracts tute, shyly smiling all term. However, when you cross the line – and rarely do you notice that you have – it will contort your witty banter into a slurred mess of barely intelligible vowels. If your respective partner also speaks this dialect then you are in for a night of awkward repositioning as you slowly admit to yourself that maybe 12 pints wasn’t quite the aphrodisiac you had hoped for. If you want to be the cassanova then deep down you’ll know you should keep the drinks to a minimum and encourage your partner to do the same. Sex is about mutual enjoyment and experience; set the mood make yourselves comfortable and regretfully, put away the tequila. The Setting: Wherever you choose to imbibe. The Duration: About as long as you can
stay awake before falling asleep atop your unimpressed partner. The Relationship: More often than not, alcohol is the wingman of the one night stand. Just remember no one likes be called ‘hey you’ the morning after. MDMA When considering drugs in our modern understand we live in a country largely isolated from independent narcotics production. We get the majority of our drugs from international producers and pay a premium for a lesser product, so when speaking about the second most common illegal, non-pharmaceutical narcotic in our island nation – Ecstasy – we are talking almost exclusively of MDMA, the psychoactive ingredient our little happy pills. So why would you have sex after taking ecstasy, some of you might ask, Well to put it simply – its amazing. Often labeled as a club drug, more and more people are the sensation of touch, relieves ego, fear and anxiety and creates a sense of loving euphoria, although this can often result lamppost at 4am because “it just feels so good.” When two parties use ecstasy for its sexually it can make every breath softly brushing past you a wave of pleasure. The Setting: Somewhere calm you know and feel comfortable, big distractions can be the end of your night of wonder. The Duration: 3-5 hours and, if you are well hydrated, you and your partner can last just as long. The Relationship: Someone adventurous but close to you, this level of intimacy is not for the faint hearted; it’s an experience. MAGIC MUSHROOMS Magic mushrooms have been a prevalent hallucinogen for thousands of years. With over a 180 species of mushrooms containing psilocybe – the active hallucinogenic agent – choosing a mushroom is nearly as hard as selecting what variety of glowing, ribbed,
pleasure inducing, fuel saving, solar be using. Although there are several species of mushies that contain the active ingredient, activity as many other species can also cause life threatening poisoning; much, much less of a mood setter. However, after acquiring your ‘natural love drug’, you and your partner might expect to take a couple of caps and be transported to your voyeuristic Mr. Tumnus.
causes an explicit increase in sexual arousal, so don’t be surprised if, as you have bump after bump, your fellow patrons begin to seem more and more attractive. So as you grab your partners hand with extreme focus, and undress at a pace that notice your eagerness to please drastically increases to the pace of a 25 year old growing rush can sometimes overwhelm the situation, so breath deep and remember of harder, faster and harder again. The Setting: Wherever your local well-
on individuals, ranging from the changing of colour, sound, and your personally contorted reality, to a near life shattering encounter with a demoralising lampshade. For mushrooms, mood is everything. If you set the mood appropriately and maintain a positive mindset you can expect to enjoy feelings of insight into every facet of your sexual partners being, comparable only to that one guy in 1st year Philosophy who insisted he really understood what Nietzsche meant.
table. The Duration: As a rough guide; about a breaks. The Relationship: Cocaine isn’t a soft drug nor should your partner be a meek individual. KETAMINE So we’ve gotten to the end of our guide, and of our illicit substances.
From there, the moans, shudders and thrusts of your partner can open a new doorway into your trips passage. Be careful to be responsive to your partner throughout the experience though, as a bad trip is something no one wants to go through; particularly your housemate as you charge through the living room naked, screaming that the gnomes have stolen your erection. The Setting: Any sort of mud soaked festival, preferably in a tent The Duration: 4-6 hours by the clock, but the trip sets in. The Relationship: Pick someone you don’t mind seeing melt into a secondary form, or
Ketamine is a tranquilizer and as, such more of a circumstantial sexual narcotic than one many would actively utilise. For those cumbersome occasions in which a heavy depressant is mixed with sexual intercourse, more often than not your performance will suit the drug. So to avoid restricting yourselves to merely enjoying one another’s stationary and concerning-ly unresponsive company, keep the dose light and the mood cheerful. Ketamine leaves you feeling like a marshmallow covered in a cloud so try your best to ensure the feeling is the only soft and motionless part The Setting: Somewhere calm and familiar, without any looming responsibilities.
COCAINE The most expensive of our listed narcotics, this grainy white powder is out of budget for many lifestyles, however, on the rare
Bateman-esque kid at the bar of Meche, your evening is in for a rapid shift. Nose Candy is one of the few stimulants that
The Duration: The total experience only lasts an hour or two, so make it count. The Relationship: Someone you don’t mind being warm and fuzzy with.
GET CRAFTY FOOD & WINE/REVIEW Faced with the current state of alcoholic debauchery at the ANU, the connoisseurs at the ANU Beer and Brewers Club expound on the of extraordinary imbibers. The Beer and Brewers club is an inclusive society which aims to promote collaboration amongst students over brewing, to share knowledge about beer, mead and cider, and (hopefully) to keep uni students classy through the enjoyment of craft beer. 1. Know your limit - Katelyn Kummer problem. Somewhere between the rum riots in the 1800s and the goon glut of today it became okay- somehow even cool- to drink to the point that you end up shoeless in a puddle of whatever $3 concoction you’d been drinking that night. But never fear, there is an alternative where you can “partake in the libations” without getting alcohol poisoning : craft beers.
KATELYN KUMMER, FRAZER BROWN, JACOB CALUZZI & JOEY JULIAN to see straight.
about when we think of what goes into a great beer. The quality, acidity and mineral content
2. Know your beer Craft beer is a beer which is not owned by the big beer monopolies. Craft brewers tend to
Next comes the malt. Malt is derived from grains, which are in essence tiny energy
quantity in their brewing. Formerly craft beer was called microbrew. Beer made on a small
in the form of sugars, grains are partially germinated and roasted to varying degrees to create malt. With the right blend of sugars, some will turn into alcohol, others will remain in the beer for sweetness. Hops are paired with the malt. Despite looking like green pinecones,
“The Beer and Brewers club is an inclusive society which aims to promote collaboration amongst students over brewing, to share knowledge about beer, mead and cider, and (hopefully) to keep uni students classy through the enjoyment of craft beer.”
oils and bitter acids in the petals. There are
Finally: the yeast. A single celled organism that consumes sugars to create alcohol and carbon dioxide in the process called most environments, brewers yeasts have been captured and bred over time to produce the
scale was once the sign of a great beer that has been lovingly crafted. As the craft scene has grown, the scale of the batch has come to be less
With some stouts clocking in 6-10% ABV, your average craft brewer is not opposed to getting a buzz going. Still, the magical qualities that yeast brings to barley, hops and water is something to be enjoyed around friends and in moderation. There is something whimsically enjoyable
The craft beer world is one full of semantics, myths and often, unfortunately, the egos that come along with heated pub debates. Understanding the terms will give you one foot in the door to learning about what you like and how it was made.
enjoying the moment. In part because it cost you $10, too much to not enjoy every warm, fuzzy drop, but it’s also kind of nice being able
The Big Four Water- 95% of most beers- is often forgotten
temperatures, meaning that it hangs around the bottom of the fermentor. Ale yeasts brew at warmer temperatures and loiter towards the top of the fermentor. The higher temperatures
Pale ale : Made with ale yeast and paler (lightly roasted) malts. The American Pale Ale (APA) is a popular variation of this, with more citrusy
STAY CLASSY Notable examples: The Bent Spoke’s Barley Notable examples: Coopers Pale, Fat Yak, Little Creatures Pale Ale Indian Pale Ale (IPA): There are some interesting histories about the preservative qualities of hops and their subsequent use for long trips from England to India, but it’s basically just a really hoppy beer, usually with higher alcohol
Plonk: A bottle shop located at the Fyshwick Markets, it has one of the best collections of
Wort (Said “wert”): The unfermented sugary mixture of steeped barley malt, hops, adjuncts Finally, sometimes pool tables and karaoke Trub (Said “Troob”): The gunky yeast sediment Nathan - who own around 40% of the beer market in Australia - are catching onto the fact that we want more than bland, tasteless
Examples: Crank shaft (Bent spoke), Venom IPA (Wig and Pen)
and Mad Brewers have been bought out and Stouts and porters: Interchangeable- though this is a point of controversy- both are dark,
Wheat beer/weizen: As opposed to barley which is the main malt of most beers, wheat (duh) and wheat yeast is used to create a cloudy and fruity brew which is sometimes soured
Wig and Pen: Whilst not the most accessible of joints for the beardless or cashless, this is the craft beer joint in Canberra with a plethora of Whatever your tastes, a $7 snifter of the Russian
“Brewing is as simple or complicated as you want it to be” - Frazer Brown
Bent Spoke: $11 a pint may be out of the ballpark for most uni students, but there is no denying the friendly atmosphere, recycled wood decor, not to mention the former Wig and Pen head
A lot of people enjoy craft beer without needing to make it themselves but making (or trying to make) a good beer at home can teach a lot about the fermentation process, and potentially create a whole new appreciation of the work that goes
*Bonus round*
The good news: everything on this menu is
Adjuncts: Unique additions to beer which
any stout-loving beer veterans): an IPA is the
also gives you the opportunity to make exactly describe unmalted grains which were added to evolved to include sugars (honey, maple syrup,
Transit Bar: Transit has evolved from being “that bar underneath the backpackers” to a many
and texture in the beer, or a lower cost beer, depending on the adjunct used and the goals
Honkytonks: Centrally located, these guys regularly rotate a tap with local brews, as well
The ANU Beer and Brewers hold workshops throughout the semester and are always happy beers we have made, our kegs and us will be making a special appearance at the Engineering facebook!
LSD SCHADEN FREUDE
The hallucinogenic drug known as LSD has been used recreationally since the 1960s. No small amount of into investigating its properties of its ingestion upon the body. Meanwhile, it has acquired a reputation as a “hardcore” drug, a dangerous drug you’d have to be crazy to take. But do the dangers of LSD live up to their reputation, or is it all hype? Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), or acid, was discovered in 1938, by the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann. In 1943, Hofmann accidentally absorbed and discovered its psychoactive 1950s, the US government thought the drug could be used for mind control and investigated by administering it to unknowing subjects (yes, their malevolence isn’t recent). set of experiences of altered perception, and for some, vivid auditory and visual hallucinations, that last for several hours. It’s highly potent, so a moderate dose only consists of around 100 micrograms
(that’s 0.0001 grams). The hallucinations it causes can be pleasant or unpleasant, depending on environmental factors and the brain structure of the user.
power was in full bloom. The counterculture of the swinging sixties involved love, peace, music, and ingesting altering drugs. By 1966, the American public viewed LSD as corrosive to social values, and the government, in response, prohibited its use. Other governments around the world followed suit. But is LSD as dangerous as other outlawed
but quantities of this size are unlikely to ever be encountered outside a laboratory. For mentally healthy people, even habitual usage has no ill physically. There’s no evidence that it is addictive. Some say acid cause people to harm themselves or others by mistake. However, my “research” hasn’t turned up an instance of this, and I don’t believe there are any known to scientists. free, and there are good reasons to avoid it. Schizophrenia and depression may worsen after its ingestion – but there is no unambiguous research on the matter.
You’ve probably heard colourful rumours of the dangers of LSD.
More rarely, users may have traumatic bad trips under its
trips gone wrong. However, many of these dangers just
for days, and occasionally give them chronic mental symptoms. One symptom frequently talked
literature. For example, it’s virtually impossible to overdose, and no fatalities have ever been recorded from it. Extremely high doses of LSD (tens of thousands of times as much as a regular dose) can cause hyperthermia, respiratory arrest or seizures,
spontaneous and unpredictable return to the trip, which can reoccur randomly for days, weeks or months. Various as “Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder” (HPPD),
and it normally dies down with time. HPPD is also thought to be extremely rare – so your mate, whose mate’s mate took LSD once and now unceasingly hears ghostly screaming, may be mistaken. So how did acid acquire such a nasty reputation? Well, this may in part be explained by legislation. LSD is a Schedule I substance in the States, prohibited in every way. It’s only natural that we should assume that there is a good medical reason for its legal status. Additionally, many cases of drug toxicity are mistakenly attributed to LSD, since anything could be sold as LSD without warning. Possibly the biggest danger is that what has been purchased is not LSD, and contains unknown
mental health issues should, as for any drug, be wary, the reality of LSD doesn’t match public opinion. It’s easily safer than alcohol, tobacco and cannabis. On the other hand though, there’s no way to ensure that any LSD you obtain is genuine, and not a more dangerous chemical – this is the real danger – so you can never be too careful.
THE PARTY IS OVER:
USING DRUGS TO ENHANCE STUDY
Students have increasingly turned to prescription drugs - such as Ritalin whilst they study, and in 2013 new research has been conducted in an Australian context. After many nights of partying during Bushweek, students will inevitably turn to all kinds of stimulants to stay awake supplements such as Ginkgo Biloba. Along with these over-the-counter stimulants, university students are increasinglvy turning to ‘study drugs’ to stay awake and to focus on their study.
is prescribed as treatment for narcolepsy, shift-work sleep disorder and sleep apnea. It is also used by the US Military and astronauts on the International Space Station.
fatigue. The average full-time university hours per week and works part-time for up to 20 hours per week. Fatigue is thus
and low euphoregenic or abuse potential. the one hand, yes, I think there are people United States found that the addictive potential is non-negligible. Virtually every drug that increases dopamine levels in the brain has a potential for addiction.
for safety reasons... On the other hand, due a form of self-medication that corrects for
that students thought that buying and using ‘study drugs’ was neither moral nor immoral. Furthermore, many researchers
‘Study drugs’ are legal prescription stimulants used for non-medical purposes by healthy individuals to enhance cognitive functioning. Popular ‘study
performance enhancement such as hiring copy-edit an assignment or coming from a wealthy family. only 8.5% of Australian students use ‘study drugs’, but these rates are higher than in the indicated by the survey is limited due non-medical use of prescription stimulant across studies.
is still much less potent that other stimulant drugs with regard to addiction liability. upon discontinuation, unlike with other amphetamines. periods of study around assignments
which arrives in the mail with a prescription from a doctor in Canada which costs him around one dollar per pill.
sleep for a very very long time - around like shit... But I do feel that it improves my Allegations of academic doping as cheating arise from the assumption that students take study drugs to give them an academic edge over their peers and to improve grades,
wakefulness, improves memory and brightens moods by increasing dopamine availability in the brain for 15-20 hours. It
were more likely to be self- medicating for
Some performance enhancement researchers also argue that, if appropriately medically supervised, the use of study They argue that a debate on such potential sensationalism that surrounds news stories of drug doping and cheating.
not have a formal policy on ‘cognitive don’t endorse the use of illegal substance nor the inappropriate use or prescription *The name of the student in this article has been changed.
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I NEED HELP If you are concerned you may have a drug or alcohol dependency, there are various services that can help you get back on track. ANU Counseling Centre
Crisis Hotline
The Centre’s opening hours are from 9:00am to 4:45pm weekdays, closed from 1:00pm to 2:00pm for lunch. To make an appointment you can visit the Centre which is located immediately above the Health Service on North Road (near the sports centre and the bridge). Call 6125 2442 (ext 52442).
Call the Crisis Assessment and Treatment Team (CATT). The CATT team provides assessment and treatment of mentally ill people in crisis situations 24 hour a day, seven day a week. Call the Triage Unit on 1 800 629 354 (24 hour service) or phone (02) 6205 1065. Beyondblue
University Health Service The Health Service has daily appointments for urgent conditions. To obtain an urgent appointment please contact the reception – 61253598. It is located underneath the ANU Counseling Centre. ACT Mental Health Mental Health ACT provides specialist treatment and support to those people experiencing a moderate to severe mental illness. The City Community Health Centre is located on:
All calls and chats are one-on-one with a trained mental health professional, and
general details, you can let them know if you’d like to remain anonymous. Call 1300 22 4636 at any time in the day or night. Chat online between 3pm to 12am 7 days a week. Check out www. beyondblue.org.au. Lifeline :13 11 14 Suicide Call Back Service: 1300 659 467 MensLine Australia: 1300 78 99 78
Level 2, ACT Health Building 1 Moore Street (Cnr Alinga) Canberra City. Call (02) 6207 9977. You don’t need a referral, you can walk right in if you feel like you need to talk to someone and get an assessment. The Drugs and Alcohol Team is also located in the same building. They are friendly and they want to help.
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DEREGULATION: A MATHS LESSON FOR IAN YOUNG
HIGHER EDUCATON/ECONOMICS University fee deregulation has incited unrest amongst students across Australia since proposed by the Abbott government in May. But what does deregulation really mean for students at the ANU? Hannah Bull explains.
The debate surrounding the government’s proposed deregulation of university fees has been clouded with obscurity, despite the fact that modelling the changes to university fees is a simple exercise in high school arithmetic. As Vice Chancellor Ian Young has correctly observed, “we can need to actually work logically through the mathematics”. Fee deregulation advocates computations, so some of ANU’s own mathematicians have done Young’s maths homework and modelled future university fees. The result, an online HECS Debt Calculator*, was developed by lecturers and students from the ANU mathematics department. The calculator computes the cost of an undergraduate education as well as the number of years it will take to repay the acquired HECS debt both before and after deregulation, using completely transparent methodology. The aim of the HECS debt calculator is to let the public make an informed decision on whether or not to support the proposed radical changes to higher education. Thus, the calculator allows the user to choose their own assumptions within feasible ranges in order to determine the best and worst case scenarios for themselves. Recently, both sides of parliament have
HANNAH BULL made numerous assumptions regarding future university fees and the interest rate on HECS debt to argue a variety of claims.
and future students will see their HECS debt grow alarmingly quickly. Of course, if interest rates stay low and if
future cost of university education, and it is not hard to determine a plausible range for both. There is an obvious range of possible university fees after deregulation. Fees must rise in order to compensate for the cuts to the Commonwealth contribution. The minimum fee used by the calculator is hence the amount the university must charge in order to break even under the new funding arrangements. On the other hand, fees cannot rise above the international rate. Currently, HECS debt does not accrue interest but is indexed to price index. Under the government’s proposed deregulated university fee system, HECS debt will accrue interest at the rate of the 10-year Treasury bond rate, capped at 6%. This is an interest rate at which the government borrows money. At the moment, the 10-year Treasury bond rate is 3.8%, but over the past decade has averaged at 5.0%. Using the HECS debt calculator, we can understand the changes to fees under various potential scenarios. (See worked examples on opposite page). The maths lesson to be learned here is bleaker than high school calculus. It is conceivable that some ANU students will end up with $100k degrees or will never repay their HECS debt under the proposed scheme. Furthermore, if the 10-year Treasury bond rate rises above 6%, current
*You can check out the the online HECS Debt Calculator at:
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after graduation, there are scenarios in which students can repay their debt after a decade or two. However, under the proposed fee changes, for most students and under most assumptions, fees will increase and will take longer to repay.
“The maths lesson to be learned here is bleaker than high school calculus.” Find the worked examples and graphs on the other side of the party lift -out.
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ABIGAIL WIDIJANTO, EDITOR
For those of you who have forgotten the Budget Solutions Forums that were held in June last year, this article may just remind you of what it’s all about. It is an account of one of the two Forums
factors. This included an improvement in investment markets and an increase in bond rates in the second half of 2013. An additional $6 million of funding from the ‘China in the World Program’ contributed to the surplus.
served as an update on the progress of various measures implemented as part of Budget Solutions.
Finally, the cost of early-retirement schemes had been overestimated by several million dollars. The number of early-retirements by academics had also been overestimated.
Solutions Forum on Thursday, 26th of
June 2013. Grange states that small surplus
increase in the international undergraduate student load. The domestic fee-paying Other sources of increased revenue included an additional $800,000 in revenue, and the in trading units for student accommodation and University House.
hundred people attending. Extra chairs remain standing. Executive Director of Administration and Planning, in charge of developing and began in June 2013.
OVERVIEW OF THE OBJECTIVES OF BUDGET SOLUTIONS
implementation of Budget Solutions, the resulting outcomes thus far, and to give
Budget Solutions 2013 had four main
regard to Budget Solutions.
1. To increase revenue
FINANCIAL OUTLOOK outlook. Grange reported a $19 million
employee expenses and administrative processes INCREASES IN REVENUE
SAVINGS IN NON-SALARIES AREAS Savings in non-salaries areas reported mixed results. The ANU successfully renegotiated its electricity contract, saved
Furthermore, the ANU needs to pay an additional $2 million due to increases as announced by ComCare in April. This increase in premiums is attributed
the university to make a loss of $6 million. The surplus is attributed to several
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for the early-retirement scheme with 166 early-retirement scheme was not a savings
“Grange took the opportunity
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cuts and reductions. He also reiterated that the pressure has been applied equally in Grange praised “the goodwill” between colleagues, which he states as being “better than what it’s been historically.””
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NORTH KOREA THROUGH A DIFFERENT LENS When compared with a country like Mozambique, which boasts a population and specialists and the world’s only North Korea North Korea garners a disproportionate degree of media coverage. Here are a couple quotes from some of the most popular stories of recent years: “the North Korean Central News reported that Hung Il Gong, 17, has become “Male university students in North Korea are now required to get the same haircut as their and “Pyongyang media reported that Kim Jong-
each portray North Korea as a place that is impervious to rationality, perhaps suggesting that its people are just so brainwashed that they’ll do or believe anything, which makes sense when most of the images we see from North Korea are of things like goose stepping soldiers and mass gymnastics.
each share in common, the other being that they are false. Nor are they alone in this respect, and together with a plethora of other stories which may not necessarily be false but are greatly exaggerated, they have shaped in the public mind a shallow caricature which constitutes an obstacle to our better understanding of the country. As for why such a phenomenon exists, it’s simple to say that sensationalism sells. Combine the closed nature of the country with a dash of Orientalism and we end up with a volatile mix.
a more nuanced understanding of the so called hermit kingdom among the Australian public. and their warmth, inquisitiveness, humour, yes acutely missing from the mainstream narrative of North Korea, which portrays North Koreans as other, lacking in individuality or agency.
generally used in reference to the division of Australians and North Koreans together in the spirit of exchange. Given the closed nature of the country, the value of person to person exchange between Westerners and North Koreans cannot be understated. Just as much as we need to learn more about them, North Koreans need to learn more about us, and tourism can be a small step towards achieving this. At this point you might feel skeptical, asking, “How can a tourist really learn more about the country when they are shown a Potemkin when tours are accompanied by government and are only the mark of a critical mind. With
itineraries, but this doesn’t mean that the astute observer cannot pick up a lot during one week of travelling the country from East to West. And with regard to second the question, the previously mentioned aspect of the tours does somewhat restrict interaction, but tourists are generally surprised at the degree of interaction that does occur along the tour route - some recent examples from our tours include the bit of conversation on a trainride, being invited to dance with local university students at a National Day celebration and many more. Admittedly, engaging with North Korea is a complicated, multifaceted issue and it is virtually impossible to explore its many any of this interests you, you may join one of our tours to discover a North Korea that is more complex and dynamic than you perhaps initially presupposed. We are also proud of the fact that our tours have a more academic bent, led by some of the world’s best experts on North Korea. Alek Sigley is an undergraduate student at ANU and Director of Tongil Tours, a company that takes students to North Korea to promote deeper engagement and understanding of the country. Tongil Tours organises an annual study tour for ANU students each September mid-semester break, for more information, visit: www.tongiltours.com
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THE CARBON TAX IS ROSS CALDWELL, DEPUTY EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
AUSTRALIAN POLITICS After years of opposition, last week the ‘Carbon Tax’ was repealed with the Palmer United & Australian Motorist Enthusiast Parties in the Senate voting with the Government for its repeal. While the evidence continues to pile up that countries around the world should be taking
action in Australia.
action, Australia has erred and taken a step back.
While it is tempting to claim that such a step is at odds with public opinion on climate action, polling released by Essential Media on the 1st of July indicates that public support was against keeping the Carbon Tax. 64% of people supported replacing or removing the carbon tax, with just over half of those supporting removing it and not replacing it at all.
got to this point. The Carbon Tax was a divisive issue at the 2010 election following the failure of the Rudd-Labor Government to bring an emissions trading scheme into law. This scheme, known as the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, would have required companies in certain industries to purchase a permit for every tonne of greenhouse gas emitted and would have allowed companies to trade permits amongst each other. Capping the number of permits available each year would create a market and force companies of reducing emissions rather than competing for carbon permits. Alas, the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme was not to be and in 2012 the Gillard-Labor Government brought in a carbon-pricing scheme that became known as the ‘Carbon Tax.’ This scheme would place a which would raise by 5% annually until transitioning to an emissions trading scheme in 2015. It is this carbon-pricing scheme that has now been repealed and a question mark hovers over the future of climate
to save the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, while both Muir & the Palmer United Party voted down the repeal bill when they were allegedly double-crossed.
With the support of the Palmer United & Australian Motorist Enthusiast Parties to repeal the Carbon Tax, it seemed nighimpossible for the Carbon Tax to live
Palmer alleges that the Government failed to circulate their redraft of Palmer’s amendments to the repeal bill on the morning of the vote, causing his Party to withdraw their amendments and vote against the repeal as they had been “doublecrossed”. According to some reports, however, the Clerk of the Senate Dr. Rosemary Laing had advised the Palmer United Party that their amendment was unconstitutional as the penalty on electricity producers that that fail to pass along savings from the repeal could be viewed as a tax. Under section 53 of the Australian Constitution, such a tax must originate in the House of Representatives.
Yet there appears to be an apparent silver lining, as Clive Palmer has indicated that he desires to see an emissions trading scheme brought in to replace the Carbon Tax. While this appears to be even more popular than replacing the Carbon Tax with the Liberal’s “Direct Action” plan (as only 9% of Australians support such a move compared to the 22% that support Palmer’s plan) questions still remain and this silver lining may yet be just a mirage on a long stretch of a desert highway. Palmer & his Senate compadres face an Abbott government that has been repeatedly embarrassed by manoeuvres in the senate that have delayed the repeal. Ricky Muir of the Australian Motorist Enthusiast Party managed to defeat an attempt to prematurely end debate on the repeal bill in order
marginal electorates and capturing those undecided voters can be the ceremony at Government House and a pride-swallowing concession speech on national television. must now be asking is how the electorate would regard a failure to replace the Carbon Tax with an ETS or even the “Direct Action Plan.” Would climate change be a decisive issue for voters who would otherwise vote Liberal and would a failure to act lose more votes than it might gain? The debate on climate action, both in Australia and globally, is nowhere near over. We are confronted with the depressing reality that manmade climate change is already so, even if we act now.
While the true reason for its rejection is unclear, the bill was voted down in the Senate, delaying its repeal until last week and clearly demonstrating the Abbott Government’s dependency on the Senate crossbenchers. While the Government may indeed support Palmer’s plans for an ETS, looking towards the next election, however, it may put the government at an electoral disadvantage.
One can only wonder what future generations will see when they look back on the recent years. We can only hope that they don’t see it as a time when their parents and grandparents had a chance to help future generations but looked around, shrugged their shoulders, and sat back down on the couch as the coastal waters slowly approached.
While a mere 9% of people overall support replacing the carbon tax with Abbott’s “Direct Action” plan, 49% of people who indicated that they do not vote Labor, Liberal/National or Greens support not replacing the carbon tax at all. Elections can be won or lost on small swings in
Ross Caldwell works as a Campaign Assistant for the Australian Labor Party and is expecting at least one angry email in response to this article. This article is views or policy.
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SIOBHAN NEYLAND delicious bowl of laksa or a plate of herb-y risotto; delicious and varied hot meals were served up three times a day. While the conference was a forum for ideas, networking and strategy, it was also just heaps of fun. Every night there was great entertainment, including improvised theatre,
and power structures, which led us to the conclusion that it was futile and wrong to push for environmental protection and climate change aversion without including and engaging the whole community, recognising that the ‘environment’ was not just for the environmentalists. That we all have more in common
performances. One night at the ANU food co-op, we sat and watched artists paint and
ground we can also begin to recognise the way capitalistic and patriarchal systems oppress all
and dragons on the plain white wall, while funk-electro duo Mondecreen serenaded us, before we cleared away all the
ways. Building these bridges will make the movement stronger and more democratic. The SoS Ideas and Arts Festival struck the right balance in instilling a sense of urgency and a need to take action, while at the same time engendering a sense of hope for the future, a sense that
started a massive dance party. The overall message of the conference was that we can and should be critical and hopeful at the same time. We should question the status quo and challenge it in creative and collaborative new ways. The themes encouraged discussion of strategy, of community engagement and a just transition away from fossil fuels. Participants were encouraged to see all issues in the broader context of oppressive systems
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Siobhan Neyland was on of the MICHAEL KUBLER 1 One of the many artworks and installations on the theme of environment 2 Indigenous Sovereignty and Solidarity Plenary, held at the Tent Embassy 3 Gathering outside Old Parliament House as part of the Indigenous Sovereignty and Solidarity Plenary
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COMMENT Protests always seem to be marred by the
Strong emotional display is forbidden. When
of the Education Action Group (EAG), most notably two attempts to vocally object to the presence of Julie Bishop on the ANU campus, have refocused most criticisms towards the issue of violence. We, as the fairly sheltered kiddies we are (though I dare not presume to speak for the entirety of the student body), have a woefully low threshold for what constitutes violence. Shouting and interruptions seem to be the line for at least some in the student
of the parties will say something sarcastically propitiating (“whatever” often does it) and slouch away.”
They feel hideously unproductive. For some reason we assume a considered opinion will be delivered in soft, dulcet tones. However just because there is belligerence and tension, about an Australian ambassador who used to
Edmundson relates this to an expanding consumer culture (he was writing in 1997), in which cool, disinterested, non-invested and laconically ironic characters dominate television and advertisements focus on
Passion, anger, etc, may not be endearing. It However, this is a two way street, you can
appearance on the ANU campus on the 18th of June found the Facebook page for the protest methodology. That methodology tends to involve presence, vocalisation (being loud), either soft or hard picket lines and generally being a menace. The EAG have a history of interruptions and occupations – interrupting occupying the ANU Chancelry, etc. I think when people talk about violence this is, coupled with
“What we need to do is between not marginalising emotion and those who not marginalising reason
violence – disruptions, noise, occupations, are all a kind of violence, but it is unclear they are a morally bad kind of violence as a oppose to a purchasing something to be something, “buy However what I am concerned about is that these accusations of violence are the result of something far more insidious. In a long forgotten article, Mark Edmundson, then a lecturer at the University of Virginia, pinpoints a loss of displaying emotion, of getting too
display a light, appealing glow; on bad days little passion to be found. “This point came home to me a few weeks ago when I was wondering across the university grounds. There, beneath a classically cast portico, were two students, male and female, having a rip-roaring argument. They were incensed, bellowing at each other, headstrong, this kind of full-out feeling in students anymore.
that stem from this, about people being trying was emerging in 1997, but rather a fact about modern western society. However his point about our lacking of displaying emotion is what I want to highlight. It seems that many of the criticisms levelled at the EAG and protesters are not so much about violence, they are about displays of emotion, and our revulsion is to a thing we have long rejected – people who are invested. Thus it seem the accusation people are levelling against the EAG is one of having passion.* Of course there are psychological reasons we avoid these displays of emotions. Heated, ‘rip– they are uncomfortable, upsetting, enraging.
to suppress getting too excited, or angry, we can learn to think through our response to those showing passion and anger, to suppress our feelings of alienation, to suppress getting disheartened. between not marginalising emotion and those who are angry and vocal and not marginalising
“Just as reason can be marginalising to students who have legitimate concerns, anger can also be alienating and destructive. Just as there is a violence of reason, an exclusionary violence that silences voices of those who are deemed irrational, there is no less dangerous violence of anger.” between emotion and reason, and not lose either into an abyss. To think through each step those who protest fee deregulation (and protest in general) are taking, without dismissing them. with the ANU Chancelry, or people who object to the methods of the EAG, while remaining sceptical of the how and why upon which those engagements are staged. *I understand I am making sweeping claims, and some disagreements have more substance than I am suggesting, however I am seeking to engage with a general gripe of several comments. Something is bound to be lost in the detail.
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Cuts to Australian research funding with the axing of several unique
The project was undergoing its This opinion is further reinforced
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federal arts projects at this point in
whether such an innovative research
of project that the Vice-Chancellor is
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The technical term for this being, of course, ‘splash-back’. A copy of the manifesto underpinning this paradigm-shift in university administration is currently being recorded as an audio-book by the Vice-Chancellor himself, according to anonymous and mostly non-existent sources. The working title for this magnum opus is reported to be I Once Talked To Brian Schmidt Once, You Know, And He Said... 1 2
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Pictured above, the Todd Carney Perpetual Motion Scheme.
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WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO SERVE? NICHOLAS SIMOES DA SILVA All too often in the news I hear of our ‘servicemen and women’, referring only to those who serve in our army, navy, or air force. These people undoubtedly do serve our society, they are in every way worthy of the term ‘service’. Yet they are not the only ones deserving of that title, or the respect and adulation that it entails.
of a car crash, who is greeted by screams of agony and fear? Or the later with the Jaws of Life, and who pulls the mangled child out of the car? The paramedics who try to keep that young girl alive so that the nurses and doctors in the hospital can save her life? These
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dangerously overworked. We would not dare to cut the defence budget, or leave our defence force Yet that is exactly what we are doing to the other sectors that protect and serve our society and our people. We are asking more and more of our service men and women every day. We ask our declining police force to patrol Kings Cross, and stop the people who seek to break the locks on doors.
by failing to respond to climate change. We ask our paramedics to clean up the glass wounds on the young man’s face who the understrength police were unable to protect at the Cross. We demand that our nurses and
and they save our lives. They soldiers do, both physically and psychologically. They work late nights, in dangerous and stressful circumstances. Every day they see scenes we can never imagine, that we can never hope to comprehend. Many, like those who serve in our armed traumatic stress. We have memorials and statues for our defence personnel, we look after them long after their service has ended, as we should. society in lives protected or saved, we should also look to our police, as we look to those who fought in the mountains of Afghanistan or the deserts of Iraq. Our current government has slashed funding for healthcare, and our Photo: Shutterstock
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each, at any moment, and do it for twelve hour shifts in public hospitals that are woefully underfunded. We, as a society, need to reassess makes somebody a serviceman or woman. Furthermore, we need to stop failing those who serve our society, by no longer threatening their penalty rates, or demanding that they work extra hours simply because we are unwilling to adequately fund the often wonder on the fact that a banker on Wall Street can make ten million dollars a year, while the nurse who saves his life makes only a fraction of that. What does that say about our society?
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ARTS & CREATIVE WRITING THE TRUTH ABOUT SUBMACHINE GUNMEN REG NAULTY Hardly a day goes when we don’t see sub machine gunmen on TV, clutching their sub machine guns proudly to their chests. It’s time we got real about this: they’re in the grip of an adolescent male power fantasy. There’s nothing ‘big deal’ about them. They were the boys at school who resented other boys being able to kick the footy further than them, and being able to recite the twelve times tables a couple of years before they could, and they’ve never got over it. They’re sick of being second best. Well, now they’ve got a sub machine gun in their hands, they’ll show they’re no pushovers. They’ll be able to put those sporting heroes and mathematical geniuses in their place. They won’t. They’ll spend all their time being told what to do by over-weight men who wear suits all the time, and who don’t give a damn if a few thousand sub machine gunmen get killed, as long as they get into power. They’re jumping straight out of the school yard into the grave yard. So what do I tell my best friend who wants to be a sub machine gunman? Tell him to forget all
about the glory boys at school – they’ll probably rot in a bog of security and easy living. Tell him to get stuck into the perilous joys of the bold instead. Does that mean jumping out of planes and climbing up skyscrapers? Not necessarily. Things like dating Miss Universe, wearing a Pommy Bastard T-shirt in the House of Lords, or launching an advertising blitz in New Zealand aimed at stopping the Kiwis from dropping their vowels. There’s another thing he can do. Everyone uses the same expletives. BORING! What about some originality? So tell him next time he`s on a crowded bus or plane, to go down to the front and announce: “Passengers, this is an expletive invention competition. All entrants get a Minty, and a packet of potato chips goes to the winner!” Then hand out cards and pencils to the passengers, and collect them as they leave. When he has a good collection, he can start an online new-expletive sales business. That’s better than being a sub machine gunman.
Reg Naulty is an eternal student who tutored in Philosophy at St. John XXIII College in 1969.
[52] SAMUEL GUTHRIE ‘fuck. how’d we even get here ?’ I don’t know. over the schuylkill? through northerdawns & bleeding jetlag hippocampal petrifaction– or maybe it was that lefthand turn back there at the gas station as the consequence of some government program I didn’t understand, and we hurtled down Monmouth Rd past the frightened trees and weatherbeat saltbox houses wilting at the intersection ….
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THE IMPORTANCE OF MOBILITY SPORT/HEALTH & FITNESS In 2002, Kelly Starret posed a very simple challenge to the viewers of MobilityWOD, which has now blog in the world - can you get into a full hamstrings-resting-oncalves squat and stay there for 10 minutes? At least 10 minutes in this position constitutes normal mobility. Much of Africa, India and Asia would have no problem doing this. For anyone living a predominantly seated, indoor we grow that it’s a battle just to get to the bottom of a full squat to begin with. This is not healthy. of motion for every joint in your body. Most of us don’t need to be even half as mobile as a gymnast or an Olympic weightlifter for the purposes of general exercise. However, most gym goers view mobility as a short but necessary coda to their workout at best and, at worst, a complete waste of time. Either way, everyone should be doing more mobility. Mobilising does not mean just doing the odd stretch. There are lots of ways to mobilise, and lots of tools you can use: resistance bands, barbells, massage balls, hockey balls, theracanes, wooden dowel etc. The principles are straightforward. First, if you want long-term soft tissue adaptation, two minutes per position is the minimum. Second, always start with your spine, then move to move down along a given limb. Third, mobilise purposefully i.e. to improve your running gait or deadlift set up.
JOHN GOLDIE So why mobilise at all? First and foremost, improved mobility dramatically decreases your chance of injury. If you have ever pulled something in your lower back picking something heavy
When most gym-goers stretch their hamstrings they’re seated on the ground, with their core as far forward as possible. Your hamstrings are not attached to your back; they’re attached to your pelvis. Functionally mobilising your hamstrings means imitating the movements you’re actually trying to improve. Try lying on your back with one leg in the air and a towel wrapped around the base of the foot.
tight hamstrings. If you’ve ever had pain in your knee after a long run, it’s often your hips that neck, you might need to work on your upper back. The list is endless and pre-habilitation is always easier than rehabilitation. Second, conventional stretches often involve assuming bad positions for the rest of your body. One of the main reasons to stretch your hamstrings is to improve your hip hinge for jumping, running, deadlifting, and squatting. In all of these movements, your core is
Third, achieving better positions means more power. For example, if you raise your arm from your side to directly overhead, your shoulders provide about 165 degrees of motion, whilst the remaining 15 degrees comes from your upper back. If you
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encouraged to take an interest in as many topics as possible and explore as widely as possible. I know that some want to get their degrees and get out quickly, but surely a love of learning beyond your degree isn’t so unusual? Surely it isn’t weird for someone to have a diverse range of interests? Heck, half of us are doing double degrees! The most interesting people I know are the ones who can hold at least a semi-informed conversation on a broad range of topics. They’re the ones you’ll spend two or three hours with discussing everything from music, art history, politics or literature to the latest research on free market organ donation,
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or the comparative merits of the American and Australian legal systems. Of course, the Renaissance ideal of the polymath is well and truly dead – you could spend a lifetime studying
giggles and the gossip with your best friends and have a good argument about models of third world development or the merits of transitioning to a zero-growth economy.
alone multiples – but that doesn’t mean we can’t aim for breadth of knowledge.
In my, admittedly limited, experience, people will almost always surprise you with what they know. Almost everyone will have some weird little quirk or secret interest. There will always be something you’re passionate about and when you start on that
Next time you meet someone, next time you have a chat with a friend you sort of know, don’t assume that they’ll only know about the obvious thing. Don’t assume that the law student just wants to talk about law. Find out about that physicist who happens to be a fantastic percussionist and rock drummer. Talk to the jock who bakes or the one who takes photographs with a breathtaking, lyrical beauty. Get beyond the
eyes. So challenge yourself and never stop learning from the passions of those around you. And challenge me – I’ll try and write about in every column...
WITH A MUTUAL HATRED OF WHISTLEBLOWERS Germany’s smashing victory of 7-1 over Brazil was always going to be exploited SATIRE BY SATYROS as subject matter for satire. THOMAS ANTIOCH Here, Thomas Antioch milks it for what it’s worth. Last week my roommate died at a rather inconvenient time. I was watching Brazil vs Germany when he stumbled from his bedroom, collapsed on the blood. Naturally I immediately called the ambulance, and by immediately I mean as soon as the game was over. As his body was carted out of the house I took a deep breath and phoned his mother to tell her the news.
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I know how she responded. It was with one of those sideways mouth smiley things. It’s hard to put into words how much my roommate meant to me, mainly because he didn’t mean much at all. It’s not that I didn’t like him – on the contrary, I tolerated him so hard I almost forgave him for being a computer scientist. The problem was that he didn’t like football (or ‘soccer’ to you fucking squares). He preferred a more pseudointellectual sport: politics.
“7-1?!” she exclaimed. replied
Now, it would be nice at this juncture to try and engage in
She – a lifelong Brazil supporter – broke into tears. I can’t imagine how she responded to the text saying her son died. Actually,
politics to football, but to be honest they’ve got nothing in common. A bunch of grossly overpaid men engaging in a pointless back and forth while
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mindless devotees cheer them on from the sidelines is nothing like football. Nor would I be capable of writing something political1 – I’m about as switched on as Mother Teresa’s vibrator. What I will say is this: I think by the end he wanted to go. Not consciously (during half time I remember seeing him rolling in a pool of his own sicked-up blood whimpering “I don’t want to die”) but subconsciously. I say this because recently politics had started to make him nothing but angry. His naïve idea of making the world a tolerant and accepting place had long been replaced by scrawling manically on his wall the phrase “Christopher Pyne must be murdered.” After this year’s budget he curled up into a ball of hatred, trying to compress his body so much that his rage
would collapse in on itself and suck in other livid left-wing twentysomethings. He wasn’t necessarily wrong to do these things,2 but it was just a shame to see him like that. He’d become trapped in the futile activity of shouting at a gust of trying to vote in a completely promised to preserve the sanctity of hats. He was caught up in a distraction from the important things in life like sport. And so as I sit alone in my house with the cold corpse of a friend on my mind I come to a realisation: we’re hosting the Cricket World Cup next year. Surely that will numb the pain.
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Author’s note: if this person really were a football fan they wouldn’t even be capable of writing their own name without drawing some of the letters backwards. If you ever see someone watching football walk away before they start begging you to tell them
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After much deliberation and even the threat of a double dissolution, last Thursday the government successfully passed their proposed repeal of the carbon tax. This Monday, Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced the PEARL Act, or the Pacifying Environmentalists And Reefs Levy Act. “This is not a tax,” said Prime Minister Abbott upon questioning of how this was the ETS. A Sky News reporter quickly followed up with “What is it then?” to which Mr Abbott replied, “This is what a tax is not.” A spokesperson from the Department of the Environment was contacted to elaborate on
it would entail for the Australian people. “The essential idea is that the revenue accrued from the levy, which is not a tax, would go towards a research fund, namely the Governmental Operations Legal Fund (GOLF). The money going to GOLF would be used for the exploration and development of new initiatives climate change. We estimate that over the next two decades GOLF will counteract damage to the environment by 50%.” The Department of the Treasury declined to comment on the Act, although Treasurer Joe Hockey was spotted stumbling in the car-park in a banana suit with Passion Pop bottles taped to his hands.
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