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Farrago
Issue 8 2016, front cover
TypeStudent publication
FormatMagazine
Owner(s)University of Melbourne Student Union
EditorJosh Davis, Carmen Chin, Xiaole Zhan, and Weiting Chen
Founded1925 (1925)
Political alignmentCentre-left to Left wing
LanguageEnglish
HeadquartersParkville, Victoria, Australia
Websitefarragomagazine.com

Farrago is the student publication for the University of Melbourne in Melbourne, Australia published by the University of Melbourne Student Union. It is the oldest student publication in Australia.[1] It was first published on 3 April 1925.[2]

Name

The term "farrago", from Latin 'mixed cattle fodder',[3] means a confused variety of miscellaneous things. It has been used by Edward Tylor in his book Primitive Culture.[4] The name is included in the motto (drawn originally from the Satires of Juvenal) Quidquid agunt homines nostri farrago libelli est – "whatever men do forms the motley subject of our page" which was written on the first issue of the famous eighteenth-century periodical Tatler.

History

The publication was founded in 1925 by Randal Heymanson, who was the first editor,[5] and Brian Fitzpatrick, who was the first chief of staff.[6][7]

For a number of years, Farrago was published in a newspaper or broadsheet format.[8] In the 2000s, Farrago switched to a magazine format, which it continues to use today.[9]

Organisation

Up to four editors are elected annually and hold the shared title of Media Officer at the University of Melbourne Student Union, with the union secretary being the legally defined publisher. The editorship has been highly politicised in the past, and election campaigns are vigorous.

Archives of Farrago are available at the Student Union's Rowden White Library and the University of Melbourne's Baillieu Library.

Noteworthy past editors include Cyril Pearl, Geoffrey Blainey, Amirah Gust, Claude Forrell, Ian Robinson, Morag Fraser, Henry Rosenbloom, Garrie Hutchinson, Ross McPherson, Colin Golvan, Lindsay Tanner, Peter Russo, Louise Carbines, Jim Brumby, Pete Steedman, Arnold Zable, Kate Legge, Nicola Gobbo, Cathy Bale, Christos Tsiolkas, and Nam Le.[10]

Voluntary student unionism

The implementation of voluntary student unionism in 2006 had a significant impact on the viability of student publications across Australia, as compulsory student union membership fees had been the major source of income for most. "Christos Tsiolkas was editor in 1987, and he had a budget of $280,000; we have a budget of $58,000, and $55,000 of that will go on printing. We're quite lucky, we're a well-funded institution, and the University has provided transitional funding", said Farrago editor for 2009.[1]

Aims and content

Farrago is a magazine whose content is produced and edited entirely by students, which aims to be a voice, creative outlet and source of information for those who attend the University of Melbourne – irrespective of age, course and interests. Farrago encourages contributions from students in both written and/or visual forms, because without these it would not be an accurate representation of students at the university.

Farrago contains the following sections: News, Non-Fiction, Creative. It previously contained a Science section, which was discontinued in recent years. Farrago also features regular columns from several student writers.[11]

Current and past editors

Year Name Ticket
1925 Randal Hermanson Unknown
Brian Fitzpatrick (Chief of Staff)
1946 Portia Ferguson, Arthur Watson, Abner Shavitsky[12]
1973 Simon Marginson
1974 Stephen Mills
1975 Richard Cooney, Rob Nowak, Imre Salusinszky and Sandy Thomas.
1976 Colin Golvan and Campbell Smith
1977 Lindsay Tanner Unknown
Peter Russ
1978 Mick Earls and Andrew Liston Independent
1979 Louise Carbines and Jim Brumby Independent
1980 Kate Legge and Nic McLellan Independent
1982 Simon Bailey and Sara White Independent
1983 Kathy Bail, John O'Hagan, Bruce Permezel[13] Independent
1987[14] Christos Tsiolkas Unknown
1990[15][16] Kylie Hansen Independent Media
Elise Mooney
Keir Semmens
Tim Richardson
2005[17] Clare Chandler Independent Media
Zoe Holman
Tom Rigby
Jim Round
2008[18] Zoë Barron Independent Media
Simon Lilburn
Hagan Matthews
Benjamin Riley
2009[19] Gillian Kilby Independent Media
Bhakthi Puvanenthiran
Zoe Sanders
Yoshua Wakeham
2010[20] Rachel Baxendale Independent Media
Sarah Laing
Ellena Savage
Lucas Smith
2011[21] Tim Forster Independent Media
Erin Handley
Geir O'Rourke.
Elizabeth Redman
2012[22] Max Denton Independent Media
Ella Dyson
Vicky Smith
Scott Whinfeld
2013[23] Emma Koehn Independent Media
Sarah McColl
Meg Watson
Sally Whyte
2014[24] Zoe Efron Independent Media
Kevin Hawkins
Michelle See-Tho
Sean Watson
2015[25] Maddy Cleeve Gerkens Independent Media
Marty Dittman
Lynley Eavis
Simon Farley
2016[26] Danielle Bagnato Independent Media
Sebastian Dodds
Baya Ou Yang
Caleb Triscari
2017[27] Alexandra Alvaro Independent Media
Amie Green
Mary Ntalianis
James Macaronas
2018[28] Ashleigh Barraclough Independent Media
Esther Le Couteur
Monique O'Rafferty
Jesse Paris-Jourdan
2019[29] Katie Doherty Independent Media
Carolyn Huane
Ruby Perryman
Stephanie Zhang
2020[30] Bethany Cherry Independent Media
Amber Meyer
Sarah Peters
Tharidi Walimunige
2021[31] Ailish Hallinan Independent Media
Pavani Ambagahawattha
Lauren Berry
2022[32] Joanna Guelas Independent Media
Nishtha Banavalikar
Charlotte Waters
Jasmine Pierce
2023[33] Josh Davis Independent Media
Carmen Chin
Xiaole Zhan
Weiting Chen

The Fitzpatrick Awards

Every year, the Media Office holds the Fitzpatrick Awards ceremony to celebrate and acknowledge the publication's contributors and volunteers. The first annual Fitzpatrick Awards were held in 2009 at Dante's Emporium and Cafe in Fitzroy.[34] The ceremony is named after the publication's first chief of staff, Brian Fitzpatrick.

In addition to editing Farrago, the University of Melbourne Student Union Media Officers oversee several related projects.

Above Water

Above Water is an annual creative writing anthology published in collaboration with the University of Melbourne Student Union's Creative Arts department.[35] It publishes a variety of creative forms including fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction.[35] The first edition was published in 2005.[35]

Unlike Farrago, the contents of Above Water is selected via competition, with prizes for the winning entries.[36]

In 2017, the publication received almost 300 submissions, of which 17 were selected for publication.[37]

Radio Fodder

Radio Fodder is the University of Melbourne Student Union's student radio station, produced by the student union Media Officers.[38] The name originated from a discontinued section of Farrago titled "The Fodder".[39]

Farrago Student Union Election Guide

According to the University of Melbourne Student Union's constitution, each year the Media Office is required to print a student union election guide containing the names and statements of all candidates in the student union elections.[40]

In most previous years, the election guide has been included as a section in an edition of Farrago, sometimes appearing as a perforated, removable booklet.[40] In 2017, the editors opted to print the guide as a separate booklet entirely, which was then slipped into editions of Farrago on stands around the University of Melbourne campus.[41]

Controversy

Despite the magazine's commitment to providing a voice to a diverse range of contributors regardless of political persuasion, the editorial partisanship of the publication has varied under different editors. Zoe Efron, one of Farrago's 2014 editors, noted that the front cover of a 1974 edition of Farrago consisted of an ad for the then-Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. She also noted that overt partisanship was still visible more recently, with a late 2013 edition of Farrago featuring a cover illustration of Tony Abbott with the caption "WE'RE FUCKED".[42]

In 1992 Pennsylvania State University student James Panichi labelled Farrago as "leftist crap ... the product of politically opinionated hippies" in an article for The Daily Collegian.[43]

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  2. ^ National Library of Australia. "Farrago / Melbourne University". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 27 October 2009.
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  4. ^ E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Theories of primitive religion. Oxford 1966:22.
  5. ^ Humphries, Michael E. (2007). "Heymanson, Sir Sydney Henry (Randal) (1903–1984)". Australian Dictionary of Biography.
  6. ^ Serle, Geoffrey (1996). "Fitzpatrick, Brian Charles (1905–1965)". Australian Dictionary of Biography.
  7. ^ Selleck, Richard Joseph Wheeler (223). The Shop: The University of Melbourne, 1850–1939. Melbourne University Publishing. p. 662. ISBN 9780522850512.
  8. ^ "Newspaper – Farrago, 4 Apr 1951". Museums Victoria Collections. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
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  10. ^ Marc McEvoy (16 May 2009). "A brilliant way with words". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 1 November 2009.
  11. ^ "Farrago". farragomagazine.com.
  12. ^ "Girl editor of newspaper" Advocate (Burnie), 16 March 1946, page 4.
  13. ^ Gill, Ray. "Good stories, good times…and the odd angry shot". 3010 Melbourne University Magazine. University of Melbourne. Retrieved 6 July 2022.
  14. ^ "MUSSE » A bit of a Farrago". 8 October 2009. Archived from the original on 8 October 2009. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
  15. ^ "1990 Intercampus Edition" (PDF). monash.edu.au. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
  16. ^ "Kylie Hansen a class act all the way". www.heraldsun.com.au. Retrieved 3 March 2019.
  17. ^ "Farrago » 2005 Edition 1 Editorial". farragomagazine.com. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  18. ^ "Report of the Returning Officer" (PDF). p. 18. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  19. ^ "MUSSE » A bit of a Farrago". 8 October 2009. Archived from the original on 8 October 2009. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  20. ^ "UMSU Annual Election 2009" (PDF). p. 19. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  21. ^ "University of Melbourne Student Union 2011 Annual Elections 5 – 9 September 2011 Report of the Returning Officer" (PDF). p. 10. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  22. ^ "Edition 4". Farrago Magazine. 2012 – via Issuu.
  23. ^ "UMSU Annual Election 2012" (PDF). p. 19. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  24. ^ "UMSU Final Election Report" (PDF). 2013. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
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  27. ^ "Edition 1". Farrago Magazine. 2017.
  28. ^ "Vote [1] Independent Media". www.facebook.com. Archived from the original on 26 February 2022. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
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  32. ^ "2022 Edition One by Farrago Magazine - Issuu". issuu.com. 13 March 2022. Retrieved 29 May 2023.
  33. ^ "2023 Edition One by Farrago Magazine - Issuu". issuu.com. 9 March 2023. Retrieved 29 May 2023.
  34. ^ "MU Student Union Online – Farrago – 2009 Inaugural Fitzpatrick Awards—The Results". 5 April 2010. Archived from the original on 5 April 2010. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
  35. ^ a b c "Above Water 2017". issuu. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
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  38. ^ "Radio Fodder – University of Melbourne Student Radio". radiofodder.com. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
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  43. ^ Panichi, James. "Collegian's content reflects a conservative readership". The Daily Collegian. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
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