Category: Features
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Your version of the Bali Paradise is sold to you with an eye-gasm
Your ‘For You Page’ is not only your seller, but your life manager now. It tells you where to go, what to do, and how to interact. Doomscrolling has not only become a thoughtless dopamine-inducing hobby but my most reliable dopamine hit. Lately, though, the algorithm has lost its grip on me. My dear…
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“It’s for the love of the game”: How AtomCraft is redefining student education at UNSW
Editor’s note: While some may have heard, here and there, names of other big, reputable student-led engineering projects such as Sunswift Racing or Mending Broken Hearts Club, AtomCraft is yet to get the spotlight they deserve. Earlier this year, I sat down with its president and two of its team members. What follows is our…
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Inside the Manosphere: A Review of Louis Theroux’s Netflix Documentary
Louis Theroux explores the rise of online male influencers and their misogynistic, male-supremacist beliefs in his documentary Into the Manosphere. Source: Netflix In an era where masculinity is becoming uncannily defined by the discourses online, Inside the Manosphere offers a timely, if unsettling, peek into a digital world that portrays a narrative of deep insecurity…
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“Don’t go to uni” – a current university student’s take on why Australian universities are in crisis
“Don’t go to university next year.” What was Jenna Price, a columnist at the Sydney Morning Herald said. On the surface, it sounds like poor advice in our current knowledge-based economy. How else to move up the sky-high career ladder without this rite of passage? Yet in 2026, this sentence reflects a growing worry among…
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The dangerous art of treating yourself when cost of living bites, I present to you… ‘Treatonomics’
Lets not pretend otherwise: Gen Z are facing economic uncertainty. In 2023, nationwide research released by ASIC’s Moneysmart program seven in ten (68%) Gen Zs had finances as a major cause of concern, more than any other age group (57% of non-Gen Zs). From battling the HECS debt, the housing crisis, AI in the job…
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With the Oscars just behind us, is online film culture ruining the movie watching experience?
From hot takes to celebrity “favourites”, today’s film culture taps into something deeper than reviews: the urge to be seen watching. Most people feel compelled to review a film if it was very good- or very bad. Case in point: what if this supposedly quick side activity starts to be taken too seriously? As an…