Chances are if you’re reading this, Joe Hockey has just delivered the latest budget. All #auspol inspired jokes and memes aside, there are some very vulnerable sectors of society that have missed out. Earlier this evening on Network 10, the Project’s Waleed Aly issued a powerful call to arms to end domestic violence. In doing…
The Queen of all that is Holy, Amy Schumer, has bestowed a new parody upon the humble world. Last week, Schumer hit very close to the bone in her “Last fuckable day” clip ridiculing the need for professional women to be beautiful in order to be taken seriously. Her latest “Inside Amy Schumer” clip is a hilarious…
In the wake of the final cruel hours before the sentenced deaths of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, all bids for clemency and all legal appeals have been exhausted. All that awaits these men, and seven others, is to stand down the barrel of the flawed Indonesian Criminal Justice system as a bitter conclusion to…
Trigger Warning: This article contain information about sexual assault and/or violence which may be triggering for some people. I was not always an excellent feminist. I know- quelle surprise! Basically, I spent far too much of my life listening to what the media and culture was saying about feminism and feminists, as opposed to what…
That formidable chill has crawled its way across our skies and begun to put a dampener on everything we love. The leaves dangle lifelessly from the trees and the colour of the sky is no longer a reason to leave the house – it’s a reason to stay inside. Brace yourselves. Winter is coming. We’re…
On the twelfth of April, the Federal Government announced that it would be removing the ‘conscientious objector’ exemption category which requires recievers of child care benefits to vaccinate their offspring. Many commentators, including Bill Shorten who, let’s be real, has built most of his appeal so far on the fact he’s not Tony Abbott –…
Entering your twenties can be a crazy time. You’ve left teenagehood and you’re entering a whole new realm of emotions and life experiences. Luckily the creatives of our generation are right there to capture these feelings; packaging our anxieties into cinematic like songs, that we can all relate to. 20-year-old Perth artist, Morgan Bain, is doing…
A little while ago, I pitched an article on how to pick-up your Twitter crush. I got about two lines in to writing it before I realised: I was doing a terrible, horrible thing. Not because my advice was bad, but because the last thing I wanted to do was give men more impetus to…
It’s Monday, which isn’t ideal. Luckily there are some rad new tunes from some rad acts to make up for dem start of the week blues. Birds of Tokyo haven’t really been seen (or heard) much for the past few years. They had a string of moderately successful hits, with the likes of ‘Wild at…
If there’s one thing I’ve come to learn in stumbling through adulthood, it’s that the mental battles you’ll fight will be just as tough, if not infinitely more so, than the physical ones. Mental health is a complex issue. It’s one that everyone will battle with, in some way, in their lifetime. It’s as simple…
Ah yes, it’s that time of year again. The time when your Instagram feed is flooded with Valencia-filtered, shrunken down line-up posters; when music snobs across the country take part in their own unique pissing contest to see who can throw out the biggest ‘MEH’ face in all the land. Wait, so Splendour’s exclusives are…
Last year, within the span of three weeks, three of my female friends were attacked by men. First I saw a Facebook post from a girl I went to high school with, describing how she had been pulled off a main road as she walked home from lunch. In an alleyway behind a shop, a…
As far as inceptions for high fidelity music streaming services go, the launch of Jay Z’s pet project Tidal has been pretty messy. The service was bought by the media mogul in March, with a public campaign including a high profile press conference and a hashtag, #TidalforAll- Complete with matching profile photos for each of…
Australian women have today taken to Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to honour murder victim Stephanie Scott, after her body was discovered on what should have been her wedding day. By uploading photo’s of their own wedding dresses, or other special dresses, they do so in solidarity with not just Scott, but the 30 other women…
Mumford and Sons dropped a new track this morning, continuing with the new banjo-less sound they’re trying out. It’s titled ‘The Wolf’ and it is pretty bloody good tbh: It’s set to be a part of their new album Wilder Mind, due out May 1. Keen as. In other news, Brand New have played a…
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