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Aug 11, 20204 min read

Surge in young Australians reaching out to eating disorder helplines during COVID-19

Photo: Unsplash Following Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews’ recent announcement of a gruelling six-week stage-four lockdown period for...

Heather Broadbent

Jul 15, 20202 min read

Stalls For All

University of Melbourne Student Union' campaign to improve bathroom accessibility. Photo by Heather Broadbent. (From The Swanston Gazette...

Comfort food: plant-based recipes by Leah Itsines

April Austen

Jul 13, 20203 min read

Comfort food: plant-based recipes by Leah Itsines

Interview and recipe from the self-taught cook and food-blogger! Leah Itsines is a self-taught cook and food blogger. She is the author...

Elise Lange

Jul 10, 20203 min read

A Novel Time: Authors In Isolation

Designed by Macklin Leslie. The world is living through the weirdest time in its globalised existence. "Unprecedented" and "never before"...

Should we look to sports for role models in the time of the Coronavirus and Black Lives Matter?

Caspar McLeod

Jul 10, 20206 min read

Should we look to sports for role models in the time of the Coronavirus and Black Lives Matter?

Photo by Vienna Reyes, Unsplash. Last year, I wrote an article exploring whether or not we should look to athletes as role models. A lot...

Gabriela Caeli Sumampow

Jul 8, 20205 min read

“Brand New Brand You”

Author Garry Browne on building a personal brand in a pandemic The past few months saw video-calling platforms like Skype, Zoom and...

How do you date during a pandemic? (Podcast)

Raffa Athallah

Jul 3, 20201 min read

How do you date during a pandemic? (Podcast)

If there's one thing the coronavirus hasn't gotten rid of, it's love. Now more than ever, dating is dependent on the internet. While...

Melbourne street violinist dreams to build Australia’s economy

Joanne Amarisa

Jul 2, 20203 min read

Melbourne street violinist dreams to build Australia’s economy

The musician: Shen and his erhu outside of Melbourne Central Station. Photo by Joanne Amarisa. (For The Swanston Gazette print edition...

Inside the company you’ve never heard of: Behind TikTok, Gen Z’s biggest app

Caitlin Cassidy

Jun 29, 20206 min read

Inside the company you’ve never heard of: Behind TikTok, Gen Z’s biggest app

Caitlin’s Masters cohort in ByteDance’s office in Shanghai. Photo by Caitlin Cassidy. In August of last year, I stood in the lobby of a...

Examining exam prep: An international comparison

Yu Jin and Isabella Krebet

Jun 25, 20204 min read

Examining exam prep: An international comparison

A conversation between international and local students. (For The Swanston Gazette print edition one, 2019) At the start of 2019, Yu Jin...

Fee hike unjustified: employers increasingly seeking out Arts graduates

Georgia Bennett-Murphy

Jun 22, 20202 min read

Fee hike unjustified: employers increasingly seeking out Arts graduates

Photo by: Philippe Bout, Unsplash Last week, Education Minister Dan Tehan announced changes to university fees designed to steer students...

Jaci Hicken

Jun 22, 20201 min read

Comfort food: buttermilk pancakes

Jaci shares her childhood recipe I grew up on a dairy farm in Gippsland, Victoria, just outside the town of Loch, and spent my childhood...

Bushfires force glossy black cockatoos back to Melbourne after 150 years

Elise Lange

Jun 16, 20202 min read

Bushfires force glossy black cockatoos back to Melbourne after 150 years

Photo by Bruce Wedderburn. They haven’t been spotted in Melbourne for more than 150 years, but the return of the glossy black cockatoo is...

Cricket match to bring RMIT first year students together

Ben Tenaglia

Jun 15, 20203 min read

Cricket match to bring RMIT first year students together

Illustration: Cindy Chen The cancellation of sport due to the Covid-19 pandemic has been a tough sacrifice for many sports fans including...

Victorian State Library lit by candlelight as hundreds remembers victims of Tiananmen Square protest

Oliver Lees

Jun 7, 20202 min read

Victorian State Library lit by candlelight as hundreds remembers victims of Tiananmen Square protest

One of many signs displayed on the steps of the Victorian State Library, June 4 2020. The recently proposed national security laws in...

Photo Essay: Scenes from Melbourne’s Black Lives Matter Protest

Jeremy Gan

Jun 7, 20201 min read

Photo Essay: Scenes from Melbourne’s Black Lives Matter Protest

Clad with face masks, huddled shoulder to shoulder in front of the steps of Parliament House. Thousands across Australia defied social...

'We can’t breathe. Get off our backs!' - Black Lives Matter protest swamps Melbourne CBD

Caspar Mcleod

Jun 6, 20202 min read

'We can’t breathe. Get off our backs!' - Black Lives Matter protest swamps Melbourne CBD

A sign reading ‘Our Voices Will Be Heard’. (Photo: Caspar McLeod) Thousands marched on Nicholson Street in Melbourne’s CBD today in a...

Caspar McLeod

Jun 5, 20206 min read

Are we living in 2020 or 1920?

Are we living in 2020 or 1920? Because it’s honestly difficult to tell the difference between the two in recent months. Discrimination...

New York Times reporters stage a protest of their own

Riley Barber

Jun 5, 20203 min read

New York Times reporters stage a protest of their own

New York Times journalists spoke out against the publication over a controversial opinion piece calling for Trump to “send in the...

Mherhean Giray

Jun 4, 20203 min read

Mental Health Through Connection

Nicole Scott in a video call with Mherhean Giray. Photo by Mherhean Giray. Connection is what defines The Kindness Warriors. Together...