Pelican (magazine)

Pelican

Type	Student newspaper
Format	Magazine
Owner(s)	University of Western Australia Student Guild
Founded	1929
Language	English
Headquarters	Perth, Australia
Website	UWA Guild publications

Pelican is the University of Western Australia's student magazine. It is financed by the UWA Guild, but maintains complete editorial independence. 2000 copies of each issue are published and distributed across metropolitan Perth, as well as to Notre Dame, Murdoch, Curtin, ECU, and Central TAFE. It is Australia's second oldest student paper, having begun publication in 1929.

Pelican is published 8 times a year, roughly coinciding with each month of semester at the University of Western Australia. In 2015, it launched its new website to achieve dual platform status. Easily distinguishable by its satire and professional design, Pelican has a readership of around 10,000 per edition and is aimed at Perth's tertiary students and young people aged between 17 and 27 frequenting the inner metropolitan area. Each edition is centred on a theme and includes regular reviews (books, music, television, film, and arts), opinion pieces, campus events listing, and current affairs analysis.

Founded in 1929, Pelican lays claim to being the country's second-oldest student newspaper, after Farrago. Originally, Pelican took the form of a weekly current affairs broadsheet. It then evolved into a monthly newspaper, and was later transformed into a "tabloid" sized magazine by editor Elizabeth Shaw. In 2007, Magda Wozniak introduced a glossy cover which continued throughout 2008 as well as the first edition of 2009. Due to the 2009 recession, Pelican was forced to revert to a newspaper print cover.

It has become an ongoing tradition that the Pelican editor appears naked on the front cover of the final edition, although it is unknown when this tradition began. Research by former Pelican editor Henry F. Skerritt, published in his final editorial of 2000, suggests that this tradition began in 1972.

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