UNSW's Ivory Towers: 215B Anzac Parade
Luke discusses the updates to the Anzac Parade accommodation development.
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Your Guide to the Upcoming Trimester Changes
Afnan provides an overview of the potential changes to the UNSW Academic Calendar.
Survival Day, Gadi, 2025
Mia reflects on the ongoing impact of colonialism and so-called “Australia Day”.
Disability and Activism
SRC Students with Disabilities Officer Conroy explores the issues around accessibility in activist movements.
Make Some Noise Season 2 Episode 1 - O Week 2025
With a new host and a misguided belief that we'll start going to class, the Noise team has returned for a new season of the podcast!
The Cell’O’Park Saga
After a year of chaotic AGMs and coup attempts, the last thing we expected was for UNSW’s parking lots to meet the same end.
Sydney Storm Hits UNSW
Main walkway smashed and light rail partially closed by storm after sweltering hot day, no injuries have been reported.
December 2024 SRC Wrap Up
The 2025 SRC’s first meeting highlighted just how different this SRC is from the ones we’re all used to. The SRC’s of old could be so easily taken for granted when all was working well, but a swell of other new tickets contested at this recent election.
Cops Out and BDS Motions Fail at Mardi Gras AGM
10 of the 12 total resolutions failed to pass, including resolutions on Cops Out and BDS Motions
UPDATE: Game Development Society Disaffiliated from Arc
The chaos continues from last week's Extraordinary General Meeting, with GDS being disaffiliated from Arc due to administrative issues.
How not to run an EGM: A case study of the Game Development Society
Joseph examines what went wrong at this trainwreck of a meeting.
UNSW Pauses International Applications for 2025 Intakes
UNSW has joined the University of Sydney in pausing applications for international students applying to study in 2025.
Why Him?
Billy explores the lessons of the US election result for the 2025 Federal election.
My experience with myExperience
Luke explores the strengths and shortcomings of UNSW’s end-of-term survey.
Autistic joy and truth in The Assembly
ABC's new program featuring young autistic journalists is brilliant.
Rainbow Politics: Pose for the Camera’s, Ditch the Policy
Labor has failed the queer community, posing for the camera’s, then abandoning us
US Politics
Abortion in Australia
CONTENT WARNING: Discussions of abortion, newborn and infant palliative care and death, and birth trauma
UNSW SRC
November 2024 SRC Wrap-Up
As the academic year begins to come to a close, with students scrambling to their few remaining lectures and preparing to cram for their final exams, you would think we would find a similarly stressed energy in this month’s SRC meeting. Beyond the usual anxieties that plague every university
Elections
UNSW's Race for Academic Board
While the US election dominates mainstream news, voting opened this morning for some of UNSW’s highest student positions.
Arc Clubs
Club Attendance Grants Slashed Without Notice During Executive Handover Period
On-campus attendance grants now only pay $1 per attendee - a disappointing change for the clubs community
US Politics
Margin of (T)error
For a race that feels so consequential, that will make history whichever way it goes, it is very, well, spooky, to have no real idea who will become President.
UNSW SRC
2025 SRC Election Results
After several weeks of tireless campaigning from eager SRC nominees, the numbers from last week’s polls have finally been counted, and the votes are in. So, here are your SRC office-bearers for 2025! PRESIDENT: Diya Sengupta (365 For SRC) GENERAL SECRETARY: Akash Nagarajan (Together Again) EDUCATION OFFICER: Jamie Tyers
NUTS' Pride & Prejudice: Review
To this author, Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice may be one of the most poorly interpreted classical texts in theatre. Modern creatives seem to have this ongoing tension between the ideas of authenticity and accessibility when it comes to this regency text – Jane Austen writing an interplay of comedy
365 is missing the mark on Palestine
Guest Author – Josh Chen On 25th September 2024, UNSW Students for Palestine (SFP) convened an SGM at UNSW, amassing over 500 students, who overwhelmingly voted for UNSW to divest and cut partnerships with weapons companies, and to stand for a free Palestine. The next morning at 9:00 AM, 365
Acknowledging Our Bias
One of the biggest hurdles any journalist must overcome is personal bias, and the editors at Noise are no different. In our last seven months of reporting and, in particular, in the last few weeks as we gear up for our coverage of the 2025 SRC elections, acknowledging our personal
Double Double, Vodka & Trouble
NUTS’ Drunk Macbeth was a celebration of absurdity, chaos, and shots.
“A Lot of Posturing” - September SRC Wrapup
With the SRC election season looming over us like storm clouds foretelling a great flood, you might think the 2024 SRC would be washed away without a second thought. But this week’s meeting – which constituted both their postponed September meeting, and pushed-forward October meeting – proved that this council still
Introducing the Noise Constitution
On Thursday the 19th of September 2024, the Noise editorial team approved a final version of its constitution, which has been drafted in various forms and reviewed since April of this year. Significant portions of our constitution have been lifted from the 2023 proposal to overhaul the Charter of Gamamari,
Five Noise Editors stepped down last week to run for top SRC positions
Noise Co-founders Diya Sengupta and Pepsi left the publication after nominating themselves for top SRC positions. Sengupta is running to be SRC President while Pepsi aims to become her Genreal Secretary, after initiating a third-party ticket intending to challenge the ‘major parties’ of the UNSW SRC, currently run by the
Political rival of Students for Palestine calls their own General Meeting
A petition with over 60 signatures has been submitted to Arc by the 365 ticket in this year’s SRC election calling for sweeping change to the Arc Constitution, forcing the company to disclose its expenditure and cut ties with weapons manufacturers. It comes in the immediate wake of a
The Constitution of Noise@UNSW
1. Definitions & Nature 1.1 General Definitions Unless stated otherwise, in this document: Noise, Noise@UNSW, and The Journal all refer to the publication named Noise@UNSW. The Website means the website https://noiseatunsw.com, as well as any of its subdomains. The Editorial Team refers to all Students
Global Politics
Police Brutality and the Landforces Expo
The recent military industrial expo held in Melbourne has seen significant violence from the Victorian police.