Author: Brittney Rigby – 2017 Tharunka Managing Editor
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Reviewing: NUTS’ Infidelity and Enlightenment by Lauren Bonner
By Bella Olsson Sitting outside of Studio 1, waiting to go inside to see Lauren Bonner’s self-written play “Infidelity and Enlightenment”, I was struck by two things. Firstly, millennial pink was an excellent colour choice for their publicity. Very striking. Secondly, I felt apprehensive. A new show is a scary thing, for both audience…
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Reviewing: Lady Gaga’s Five Foot Two
By Sophie Hodge The final years of school are supposed to be the best times of your life. That wasn’t true for me – I was in a world of pain. I woke up every morning to legs unable to hold my own body, persistent aches down from my head to toe and a…
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Letter From the Editor: On the End of the Year, and Tharunka Elections
By Brittney Rigby, Managing Editor Goodbyes are the strangest thing. Five years ago, I said goodbye to my hometown to move to Sydney. Fast forward, and here I am saying goodbye to my final year here at UNSW, and goodbye to my editorship of Tharunka. I am proud and humbled to have been trusted…
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I Hate Adani and You Can Too
By Bella Olsson I’ll be honest with you – when I first heard that an enormous, foreign owned, emissions-spewing, water-contaminating coal mine was being proposed for central Queensland, my initial reaction was, “This sounds like a truly awful idea that will drive the Great Barrier Reef into the grave, drastically increase our reliance on finite…
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The Dangerous Idea of Universal Basic Income
Can unconditional welfare payments finally provide the solution to working poverty in Australia? By Christopher Valencic Universal basic income (UBI) has been heralded as the future of welfare and a way to finally bring equality to societies with more than enough money to go around. Anyone who has shared the pleasure of dealing with the…
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Charity Starts at Home
By Carrie Lee In recognition of Anti-Poverty Week, we bring you this piece in collaboration with UNSW’s Social Justice Project. Four months before I made my final HSC rite of passage, my mum caught a plane to Papua New Guinea and trekked through the jungle, vaccinating communities with no running water or electricity.…