Sarah Liversidge

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A selection of my recently published work.

Mail Online •

Young Australians struggling amid cost of living crisis

Young Australians have revealed the heartbreaking choices they are being forced to make as a bombshell report reveals many are living on just $13 a day.

Students told Daily Mail Australia they are forgoing medical treatment to buy food and begging family and friends for 'donations' while being crippled with anxiety as money pressures pile on top of study commitments.

Homelessness Australia this week released the findings of a study that revealed the average student tenant on Youth Allowance is
ArtsHub Australia •

Theatre review: Julia, Sydney Opera House

This is what happens when a playwright, an actor, a director and a creative team, all at the top of their game, come together.

The play is about Australia’s first, and so far only, woman Prime Minister, Julia Gillard. It begins and ends with what has become recognised as Gillard’s defining parliamentary performance – the famous 2012 misogyny speech. It traces her personal and political life from her childhood in Wales, to her ascension in politics, and the influences that shaped and guided her
Mail Online •

Read the 'inappropriate' text messages uni Professor sent student

A university professor who was sacked for inappropriate conduct including sending a series of text messages to a student has had his unfair dismissal claim thrown out.

Associate Professor Aaron Harwood was fired from the University of Melbourne in September last year, following an independent investigation over his conduct.

The investigation upheld allegations of inappropriate workplace behaviour, finding that he was 'pursuing a relationship' with a research assistant and former student in 201
ArtsHub Australia •

Dance review: Ascent, Sydney Opera House

The Opera House is jam-packed for the much anticipated opening night of Sydney Dance Company’s (SDC’s) latest offering, Ascent. The evening starts off safely with a piece choreographed by SDC’s artistic director, Rafael Bonachela. I Am-ness is the usual expected display of skill, training and artistic excellence from the company.

The ensemble demonstrates a powerful intracorporeal energy affecting and transferring those energies between each other amid a delicate soundtrack of strings by Latvia
The Standard •

'Grey army' flocks to city's aged care sector

REWARDING WORK: Carers Sandra Meehan and John Benington at a Christmas in July lunch. They said they enjoy giving back to the community by working in aged care. Picture: Morgan Hancock.

"We've had an influx of people in their late 50s and early 60s coming to work for us. They are the most wonderful people," she said.


"After what we've seen during the pandemic, no one wants their loved ones inside a residential aged care setting if they can help it," she said.

A majority of Australians aged
The Standard •

Mortgage pressures hitting hard later in life

Almost 37 per cent of private dwellings in Warrnambool in 2021 were owned outright compared with 41.6 per cent in 2001. Victoria-wide there was an almost 11 per cent drop in outright home ownership since 2001.


Significantly, the amount of 55 to 64-year-old Australians with a mortgage more than doubled from 15.5 per cent to 35.9 since 2001. The number of people of retirement age with a mortgage increased to 9 per cent.


Warrnambool mortgage broker Rod Donnelly said he had witnessed a socio-d
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Australia's house prices are through the roof. How did we get here?

How did we get here?

The most lauded of all Liberal prime ministers, Sir Robert Menzies, in his famous Forgotten People speech of 1942, speaks of “homes material, homes human and homes spiritual”. Menzies positioned the home as a symbol of moral character, expressed though the virtues of “frugality and saving”.

This established the home at the ideological heart of post-war Australia. For Menzies, the home was also the bulwark against the evils of trade unionism and socialism. Economist Richard
The Swanston Gazette •

Federal Court decision puts academic freedom in the spotlight — The Swanston Gazette

In the previous case last November, Federal Court judge Thomas Thawley upheld the university’s decision to terminate Anderson’s employment on the grounds he had engaged in serious misconduct.

The judge ruled Anderson’s social media posts were “deliberately provocative”, but did not amount to a “genuine exercise of intellectual freedom” and so were not protected under his employment contract .

Curtin University lecturer in law Pnina Levine, said the case brings into question what power, if any,

News articles

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The City Journal •

Data journalism: Indigenous homelessness remains critical in the Northern Territory

In the past month, three significant national events have occurred: the census, Homelessness Week and an announcement regarding the government’s Closing the Gap strategy. The intersection of these events brings the issue of Indigenous homelessness in Australia into focus. According to the most recent census data from 2016, 22 per cent of all homeless people in Australia were Indigenous, despite accounting for only 3 per cent of the population. Although there has been a decline in Indigenous home

Features

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Australia's house prices are through the roof. How did we get here?

How did we get here?

The most lauded of all Liberal prime ministers, Sir Robert Menzies, in his famous Forgotten People speech of 1942, speaks of “homes material, homes human and homes spiritual”. Menzies positioned the home as a symbol of moral character, expressed though the virtues of “frugality and saving”.

This established the home at the ideological heart of post-war Australia. For Menzies, the home was also the bulwark against the evils of trade unionism and socialism. Economist Richard
The Swanston Gazette •

The heritage-listed Nicholas Building is up for sale - here's why it means so much to the local creative sphere —

On quiet weekend afternoons, Bronwyn Kamasz likes to take her shoes off and walk through the corridors of the Nicholas Building. She likes the feel of the cool, undulating surface on the bottom of her feet. Sometimes she dances.

“I can totally just be myself there,” she said. “It’s like a second home.”

Kamasz is an artist and dancer from Melbourne who has rented studio space at the Nicholas Building for several years.

She uses it for her art practice and as a place to connect with other artis
The City Journal •

Women's trauma, the body and the failure of language

Laura Hartnell’s eyes shift from left to right as she gathers her thoughts. It is as if she is searching inside her mind rather than looking outward. She stops and looks straight at me. “There’s still a real lack of tolerance in public for women’s experiences of trauma that doesn’t fit into a certain shape.” Hartnell has spent years researching female trauma. The 28-year-old PhD candidate is using feminine writing. It is a technique from feminist philosophy to explore new ways of dealing with fe

Academic and Journalistic Essays

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