Erin Kavanagh writes Is Rage Just Guilt Disguised, a window into the reality that is women's healthcare rights. Tick. Tick. Tick.  I shut my eyes tight, hoping that would somehow block out that damn clock. It’s not enough that the lady next to me is bouncing her leg up and down, shaking the couch we’re sitting on, or that the pregnant woman across the room is flipping through a magazine in the loudest way possible. It isn’t enough that this clinic seems to be the absolute hot

Ashleigh Illingworth writes The Day He Said I Do, a sombre story about watching your dreams fade before your eyes. She sits at the table across the room, the world passing her by. Her stunning, satin, lavender dress, draping over her statuesque figure. People thriving in conversations that she couldn’t be further away from. The guests are walking past, dancing, enjoying the festivities, but she seems to be floating in space. Travelling to another planet, maybe even another u

Dreams have come true as Australia's first-ever Paralympic three-on-three basketball team has touched down in Puerto Rico, Daniell Allen reports. Special Olympics Australia and the Eltham community have joined forces to send off Australia's entry to the first-ever three-on-three basketball World Cup: Enter, the Eltham Wildcats. The Wildcats are shooting for gold this 3x3 Basketball World Cup. (Image: Supplied) Touching down in San Juan, Puerto Rico, today, the Wildcats have

Amy Anderson captures the quiet moments where we wonder when we left our inner child behind in Before August. We race to grow up and then wish we never grew (Image: Adobe Stock) During that summer when I was nine years old, I would ride my second-hand pink bike around the neighbourhood. The other kids in the street would join me. We knew nothing of the world, and the world knew nothing of us yet.  It was always Abbey’s front yard where we’d leave our bikes all over the lawn,

Genevieve Spiteri reviews Australia's fourth run of Charles Dickens' beloved Christmas tale. Heavy spoilers ahead for the novel and light spoilers for this production! (Although if you don’t know how the story goes by this point, that’s kind of on you)   Premiering to London audiences nine years ago, Matthew Warcus and Jack Thorne’s production of A Christmas Carol  has been praised as one of the greatest theatrical adaptations of the source material, and after experiencing it

Amy Anderson writes Broken Bones for the Prose Poetics unit, a story on love and heartbreak. Some broken things never mend (Image: Adobe Stock) She’d broken her arm the day after we broke up. Karma, I’d say. ‘Get up.’ She says it coldly, standing over me. I must've fallen asleep. ‘Fuck off, B.’ I mumble it out, enjoying the damp grass on the bottom of my back. I close my eyes, and she kicks me in the arm. ‘I said fuck off, B,’ I say a little louder. ‘Jamie, stop being a prick

Bea Lovatt rewrites the classic fable The Tortoise and the Hare in three variations for their Reading Writing Genre unit. Stories from generations ago continue to shape our literature today. How many ways can we rewrite these classic tales to speak to our modern world? (Image: Wix) Not Lovers, But More Than Friends. The annual community fun run had always been more about the raffle tickets and fairy-floss than competition. But for Tilly and Harrison, it was another stage for

Cassandra Wylie writes Sixty-Four Days , a tragic romance set in the apocalypse. Can love bloom at the end of the world? (Image: Wix) Thirty-six days after the apocalypse. It was ugly. A mess of splattered flesh and bone that had peeled onto the mud. A wet stench of pus drooled out with whatever life it had been clinging to, if you could call it life. Mila stood over a creature that was not quite a zombie, not quite a human.  When she was young, her father would take her on c

Swinburne students will be taking the stage at the Leadbeater Hotel for the third annual Inter-Varsity Battle of the Bands this Friday, Ella O'Neill and Matthew Parkhill report. Melbourne's music gig scene is not exactly rock n' roll. Musicians are expected more than ever to fork out cash for gigs themselves and create their own brand, playing a game of 'who you know' to get the ball rolling. Since COVID, venues have seen running costs soar, passing on some of those demands t

With antibiotic resistance on the rise, experts warn of associated dangers with surgeries. Associate Professor Andreea Molnar from Swinburne University's School of Science, Computing and Emerging Technologies said, "Without effective antibiotics, even routine surgeries could become dangerously risky to perform." Image: Wix

The World Health Organisation states that the increase in antibiotic resistance naturally occurs based on genetic changes. However, the main driving factors for antimicrobial resistance are the abuse and overuse of antimicrobial drugs. Image: Wix

WHO reveals antibiotic resistance is highest in Southeast Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean, where a third of infections are drug-resistant, posing severe threats, especially in regions with weak healthcare. Image: Wix