Farrago (newspaper)
Farrago, Issue 8 2016, front cover.
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| Type | Student publication |
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| Format | Magazine |
| Owner(s) | University of Melbourne Student Union |
| Editor | Mary Ntalianis, Alexandra Alvaro, Amie Green, James Macaronas |
| Founded | 1925 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | Melbourne, Australia |
| Website | www |
First published on 3 April 1925,Farrago is Australia's oldest student publication.Farrago is published by the Melbourne University Student Union.
The term "farrago", from Latin, meaning "mixed cattle fodder", means a confused variety of miscellaneous things. It has been used e.g. by Edward Tylor in his Primitive Culture. 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.
Up to four editors are elected annually and hold the shared title of Media Officer in 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 in the basement of the Baillieu Library on campus.
The publication's founders in 1925 included Randal Heymanson, who was the first editor, and Brian Fitzpatrick, who was the first chief of staff. Noteworthy editors in the past have included Geoffrey Blainey, Amira 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 in 1987, and Nam Le in 1999.
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