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Mightier than the sword: A history of student journalism at USyd
For decades, student journalism has served to expose the horrors that lurk beneath the surface of an otherwise innocuous campus. Source: University of Sydney Archives
One of the first stories I ever heard about
Honi Soit was a bizarre tale of censorship. In 1979, Tony Abbott was President of the Students’ Representative Council (SRC). The story goes that Liberals on campus would request archived editions of
Honi Soit from the Rare Books section of Fisher Library. Then, they would cut the pages out of them, graffiti over them, and tear them up. There are even rumours of