Melbourne Uni’s Menzies Institute opens despite student union protests
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The Menzies Institute opened on Thursday November 18 at the University of Melbourne despite student unions protesting against it....

April Austen
- Jul 13, 2020
- 3 min
Comfort food: plant-based recipes by Leah Itsines
Interview and recipe from the self-taught cook and food-blogger! Leah Itsines is a self-taught cook and food blogger. She is the author...

Gabriela Caeli Sumampow
- Jul 8, 2020
- 5 min
“Brand New Brand You”
Author Garry Browne on building a personal brand in a pandemic The past few months saw video-calling platforms like Skype, Zoom and...


Yu Jin and Isabella Krebet
- Jun 25, 2020
- 4 min
Examining exam prep: An international comparison
A conversation between international and local students. (For The Swanston Gazette print edition one, 2019) At the start of 2019, Yu Jin...

Jaci Hicken
- Jun 22, 2020
- 1 min
Comfort food: buttermilk pancakes
Jaci shares her childhood recipe I grew up on a dairy farm in Gippsland, Victoria, just outside the town of Loch, and spent my childhood...

Amy Ross
- Jun 1, 2020
- 3 min
Moving to Melbourne during the COVID-19 pandemic
Moving states can be a stressful and hard time for anyone, but doing it during a global pandemic has been a very interesting experience....

Sophie Raynor
- May 22, 2020
- 2 min
Comfort food: vegetarian feijoada
Recipe for a traditional Portuguese bean-and-pork stew. It’s five pm, nine degrees, dark already, home, still. You were thinking about...


Maeve Bannister
- May 7, 2020
- 1 min
Comfort food: baked potatoes
A recipe to keep you company. Call it the change of season, call it the isolation, call it the strange time everyone in the world is...

Nieve Walton
- May 5, 2020
- 3 min
Five free ways to stay fit in iso
If you still haven’t mastered that isolation fitness routine, Nieve Walton provides five easy and free ways to keep fit until...


April Austen
- May 1, 2020
- 4 min
Baking tips and tricks
Everybody’s looking for new isolation hobbies and for many, that comes in the form of baking. Baking is great because it’s something you...

April Austen
- Apr 14, 2020
- 3 min
How RMIT students are making an impact in the aerospace world
From RMIT campuses in Melbourne to Silicon Valley in California, RMIT’s engineering students are making a big impact on the aerospace...

Tyson Whelan
- Jan 8, 2020
- 5 min
Let's talk about transparency
(Originally published in The Swanston Gazette print edition one 2019) At an institution which prides itself on a world class journalism...

Lloyd Connolly
- Sep 16, 2019
- 1 min
RMIT University Student Union election: The results are in
Results explained.

Lloyd Connolly
- Sep 12, 2019
- 1 min
Who's running in the RUSU elections?
Lloyd Connolly talks with the election candidates.


Lloyd Connolly
- Sep 9, 2019
- 1 min
The RUSU election explainer
Video: Lloyd Connolly explains why tomorrow's RUSU elections are important, how you vote, and who the running parties are!

Ayden Dawkins
- Aug 28, 2019
- 1 min
Four Teams to Contest Student Election
Four teams have nominated candidates to contest the upcoming RMIT University Student Union election, set to take place during Week 7 (9 -...


Claudia Forsberg
- Aug 8, 2019
- 4 min
Melbourne Press Club - Where's your anti-discrimination policy?
Do you know why I hate writing articles about disability and accessibility? Because each piece highlights or creates a divide between me...

Riley Barber
- Mar 27, 2019
- 1 min
Students demand action on climate change
Photo Credit: Youssef Saudee Thousands of Victorian students gathered in front of Melbourne’s Old Treasury Building last Friday demanding...


Lisa Favazzo
- Mar 27, 2019
- 1 min
No shortage of single-use plastic at clubs week
Single-use plastic were widely used at the normally environmentally conscious RMIT University’s clubs week this month. Thousands of bags...
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