Monique O’Rafferty
8 August 2016Authors
Top Five Songs of the Melbourne Reputation Tour
Taylor Swift Reclaims Her Reputation at Melbourne Stadium Tour
GSA Reforms Fail to Pass at SGM
The proposed governance changes to the Graduate Student Association’s (GSA) structure have failed after being put to a vote at their special general meeting (SGM) on 22 March. The meeting was attended by 151 graduate students, of whom 67 students voted up the constitutional reforms and 56 voted them down.
“Neo-Nazis” Escorted Off Campus on First Day of 2018
Content warning: racism, anti-semitism, homophobia
BREAKING: Two men have been escorted off Parkville campus for allegedly harassing students and handing out flyers saying “it’s okay to be white” at the Baillieu Library.
Macca’s – a word so familiar to the everyday Australian that it’s practically part of the culture. Whether it’s ten nuggets at 2am after a night out, an epic 8th birthday party or a drive thru ‘Macca’s run’, the Macca’s golden arches are universally recognisable.
How To: Exploit the Uni for All It’s Worth
Does anyone else pay their SSAF at the start of the year and completely forget to take advantage of the free goodies provided by the university?
How To Deck Out Your Uni Pad For Free
Dating Advice From The Bachelor(ette)
Winter is over. It’s time to put away the onesie and venture outside into the dating pool.
Monique O’Rafferty is proud of her passion.
Getting ingredients from your front yard.
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It has become more or less axiomatic that if women want to achieve equality in our time, we must first strip ourselves bare—revealing our worst shames, heartaches and sins so that we may be seen as utterly human. To be a woman in public these days is—more often than not—to be in the business of confession.
“You’re probably going to paint this room a fluorescent green. Then the couch won’t match. It’ll look odd.” Jules groans. “Who cares? It doesn’t have to match! Some things just don’t match!” Like us, Mary wants to say, but she doesn’t.
Do you remember being five years old and making yourself sick on too much chocolate? Remember learning for the first time that there is such a thing as too much? It must have seemed like such a strange idea before that moment, that you could have too much of anything. We were born needing.
wear the sun as a face mask,
as in what everyone else is doing,
but also do what you have to,
as in put what you are asked to do first
Tide coming in, sun coming out. Rotten coconut skull cracked open on the clay earth. Scarf off jacket off, thin layers of fabric revealing inky skin. Snake tattoo looks like he’s swimming through yesterday’s shells.
The snowberry clearwing doesn’t just look like a bumblebee—its behaviour is also remarkably similar. Like bees, it consumes nectar from flowers, and unlike other moths, it flies diurnally. Their main distinguishing factor is their flight patterns; bees move their wings far more swiftly than moths do, making the moth look slightly clumsier in comparison.
Top Five Songs of the Melbourne Reputation Tour
Taylor Swift Reclaims Her Reputation at Melbourne Stadium Tour
Taylor Swift Reclaims Her Reputation: A Photo Essay
UMSU Electoral Tribunal Rejects More!’s Appeal
On Friday, the University of Melbourne Student Union (UMSU) electoral tribunal rejected More!’s appeal for a re-election for the general secretariat and women’s office. The appeal made allegations against the returning officers over defective conduct of the election.
Campus News Briefing: Election Results, SSAF Grants, Turnitin
Your latest campus news briefing.
Survey Shows High Rates of Sexual Abuse in Academia
Academics and PhD students experience a high level of sexual harassment and gender discrimination in Australian universities, according to a recent survey conducted by Australian Women’s History Network.
Campus News Briefing: Cadmus, Tastings, Safety
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University Square Being Redeveloped
University Square, the prominent garden and thoroughfare, located between Grattan Street and the Law School, is currently in the process of being redeveloped in an association between the University, the City of Melbourne, and the Victorian Government.
History is more than just the study of great men, great ideas and great events. Race, gender and class are not reductive categories in the study of history, and many of those crucial events they laud the study of cannot be properly understood without these lenses.
Campus News Briefing: 1 August, Boycotts, Creswick
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Tribunal Rejects Appeal of GSA Election Results
The Graduate Student Association (GSA) electoral tribunal has rejected an appeal from candidates of Better GSA about the recent elections, which made allegations against GSA staff, the returning officer and members of rival ticket Renew GSA.
Groovin the Moo 2018: A Photo Essay
Lady Powers Of Groovin The Moo
Vera Blue closed her set with her powerful track, ‘Lady Powers’, and I couldn’t think of a more fitting song.
Men’s Fashion: A review of VAMFF GQ Australia Menswear Runway 2018
The show was coming to a close, with the models make one final walk down the runway. This was our opportunity to pounce on Sophie Monk. Monique and I marched up to her, and patiently waited for Queen Sophie to take photos with the other peasants that were fawning over her. We eventually got our turn.
GSA Reforms Fail to Pass at SGM
The proposed governance changes to the Graduate Student Association’s (GSA) structure have failed after being put to a vote at their special general meeting (SGM) on 22 March. The meeting was attended by 151 graduate students, of whom 67 students voted up the constitutional reforms and 56 voted them down.
Fossil Free Hangs Out The University’s Dirty Laundry
Today students from Fossil Free Melbourne University (FFMU) hung up their dirty laundry outside the Raymond Priestley building to put pressure on the University to divest from fossil fuels.
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