A student was refused entry into last night’s ‘A Moment of Truth’ talk
Words || Max Lewis
Last night the Macquarie University Liberal Club held an event titled 'A Moment of Truth: Is it the new hate speech?"...
The News is Broken: How social media journalism is perpetuating dangerous news consumption
Words || Christina Athanasopoulos
The media is in crisis. The news is fake. Nothing can be trusted. We are stuck in a perpetual echo chamber and...
Fuzzy Feedback: How TV journalism may be impacting our laws with questionable consequences
Words || Katelyn Free
I love Sarah Ferguson. She has serious earned real-estate in the professional girl crush section of my heart. The show she...
Labor VS Liberal: Should Australia have stronger censorship laws?
A LABOR PERSPECTIVE - Lachlan McGrath
The greatest strength of our democratic system is that governments are held to account by the people, and if...
Show’s over, go home: Trump’s achieved world peace and everything is fine
Words || Katelyn Free
‘The media. This is a big gathering of media, I will say. Makes me feel very uncomfortable’. President Trump never really...
Suck it up: Are single-use plastic bans pointless?
Words || Lucy MacCulloch
On 1 July 2018, Coles and Woolworths joined the likes of Aldi and IGA and banned plastic bags from all NSW stores....
Previously on Grapeshot
Words || Katelyn Free
Welcome back to another beautiful semester at Macquarie University. There’s the sweet scent of mass construction in the air, the new...
STATE OF ALARM: Newly released research finds a link between State of Origin and...
Words || Erin Christie
I’d be one of the first to say that sport, in some ways, can be pretty great. It was a...
A Weighty Problem: On Disempowered Groups in Science, Study and Research
Words || Ursula Huxtable
Recently I was catching up on a psychology lecture which opened with some information on public health campaigns. Great, I thought, we’re...
Soy Boys, the Palmy Army, and Degenerates: On Australian Fascism’s Young New Wave
Words || Cameron Colwell
Clive Palmer is often called a meme, and, like a meme, he is inherently changeable. His ‘Palmy Army’ Facebook group has...
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Words || Tits McGee
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Words || McKenna Uhde
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