The proposed package would also force students to pay back their debt sooner.

Mary Ward, Victoria Zerbst, Alexandros Tsathas and Max Hall report from a Canberra bunker.

Nabila Chemaissem and Justine Landis-Hanley report

Christina White reports on a second push to hold a meeting of Convocation at the University of Sydney.

We were all speakers at the University of Sydney Town Hall meeting; we are undergraduates, postgraduates, general staff, academic staff and alumni. Together we form a diverse cross-section of the university. We note that speakers were selected by a chair appointed by university management itself for the stated purpose of representing a full range of backgrounds…

University management doesn’t speak for the USyd community, argues Timothy Scriven.

Georgia Behrens reports on the University of Sydney’s historic Town Hall meeting.

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The University of Sydney Senate has nixed calls for Convocation as The University’s highest governing body will instead hold a “town hall style gathering”, reports Christina White.

Sydney University’s Alumni Council has voted down a proposal to hold a meeting of Convocation, reports Mary Ward.