WEEK 13, SEM 1 2022 UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
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FREE STUDENT NEWSPAPER
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NEWS, CULTURE & ANALYSIS
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Susan Wakil most COVIDridden spot on campus - p. 11
abor leader Anthony Albanese has become Australia’s 31st Prime Minister, signalling a left-wing turning point in national politics after almost a decade of Liberal rule. The Greens and Teal Independents have also secured an impressive number of
seats, bagging several wins against Labor and Liberal incumbents. This surge against the two major parties cements climate policy as one of the defining issues of the 2022 election, with the LNP and ALP taking considerably modest emissions reductions targets into this election.
Zara Zadro and Khanh Tran analyse Australia’s watershed political moment - p. 6
hen it comes to Prime Ministers, Australia has had some real shockers. No one who came of age in the era of Tony Abbott’s raw onion consumption can be under any illusion that dignity and sanity are inherent to Australia’s highest political office.
Ellie Stephenson referees the race to the bottom - p. 7
Do the Quad bells take requests? p. 8
Public housing policy: Social warfare over social welfare - p. 13 A defence of the Ibis - p. 19
