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When can writing be used as an instrument of justice, a method of holding crime within society to account, a deliverance of punishment? A survey of modern literature does not endow its reader with much hope concerning those platitudes so often touted about the power of writing. But writing has changed the world and confronted injustice in the past. It will achieve this again....

The May meeting of the Students’ Representative Council saw eight motions on the agenda carried, the appointment of Sophie Wishart as the editor of Honi Soit for 2026, and sustained pressure placed on NSW Labor Students (NSWLS) came under sustained pressure from both Socialist Alternative (SAlt) and Grassroots. The meeting was ultimately declared inquorate at 9:26 pm followin...

Thirteen years ago, there was a massacre in the city of Tadamon, a suburb of the Syrian capital, Damascus. Only now is one of the perpetrators being brought to justice.

Tadamon is a neighbourhood in the southern centre of Damascus. It has a makeshift character, home to many people displaced from the Golan Heights after Israel’s occupation in 1967, where they built ...

CW: Sexual assault.

My friend was recently sexually assaulted while walking to her local train station. It was 11am, the sun bright, the streets fairly packed. After my friend’s multiple attempts of distancing herself and rejecting a man’s innuendos, he decided to put his hands on her backside and pull her forcefully towards him. As she retold the experience, I noti...

On the 22nd of April 2026, Mark Butler and the Albanese Government announced plans to cut spending for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), while the military budget is expected to inflate by 3 per cent. Citing the growing expenses and expected increase in disabled patrons getting on the scheme (of which 760,000 Australians are currently on), the cut hopes to curb...