In mid-2024 the publication changed its name to Gamamari after concerns about the name Tharunka, which was thought to mean "message stick" in a Central Australian Aboriginal language, being potentially stolen or made up were raised.

[5] The magazine temporarily ceased publication at the end of 2023,[6] after its editors expressed concerns that the term "Tharunka", although it did not appear to be an actual Indigenous word, had not been chosen with "appropriate permission or consultation".

[9] In early 2024, the independent student publication Noise@UNSW (of no affiliation to the Arts Faculty Society paper in the 1960s) was formed in protest of this shutdown.

Gamamari's at times irreverent approach has seen copies seized by police, destroyed by political opponents and censored by the student organisation.

As the journal of a political organisation, Gamamari's editorial direction was often influenced by the dominant faction within the student body at the time.

In November 2004, the Guild was attacked by Daily Telegraph columnist Michael Duffy for attempting to prevent the expression of support for voluntary student unionism at UNSW.

The edition had originally included an article on the subject of BDSM sexual practices, which the CEO of Arc refused to publish.