To only peer into the Chancellor’s Office over the past decade provides a myopic and warped perception of its history. Colonialism, corporatism and militarism — alongside all the racism, elitism and misogyny they bring — are etched into the Quadrangle’s original mahogany desks.
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Brennan then spoke noting that “everybody that turned up knew the risk… we put our bodies on the line.” Brennan kicked the hornet’s nest, and specifically called out one faction: “I want to call out Socialist Alternative here, you guys weren’t there.”
A new report by The Australia Institute reveals that last year, Australian universities and research institutions spent over $322 million on journal subscriptions and a total of $1 billion on academic publishers.
Open letters written by staff and students have called on the University of Sydney to cut institutional ties with Israeli universities and companies that directly arm Israel or collaborate with its military.
The National Party held the keys to power for almost a decade before 2022. They are the only major single-constituency party in Parliament, representing exclusively regional and rural interests, and yet essential services in the Bush continue to suffer from neglect and underfunding.
Often the statement, “no, my parents didn’t go to uni” is met with an uncomfortable glance, as if one has just bared their soul, or at the very least, their income bracket. Aside from social stigma, structural prejudice means that adjusting to university administration and bureaucracy proves an additional challenge.
It is absurd that USyd has been kept out of arm’s reach from railway stations for so long, especially considering UTS’ close proximity to Central, or UNSW having their very own light rail stop.
To truly understand where the university stands in terms of offering its students employment opportunities post-graduation, we compared the university to its other Australian counterparts from the Group of Eight which are seven other equally large and research-intensive universities.
A historic building owned by the University of Sydney has been sold for $16.5 million today after a successful bid by a private developer. A bidding war saw prices escalate from $9 to $16.5 million in just over ten minutes.
The post generated a flurry of responses. While specific experiences varied, the overall picture was of poor or no reception across mobile networks in the surrounding area, whether living on the Petersham-Stanmore border, or travelling between Petersham and Newtown, or some other variation – the most extreme was travelling all the way from Strathfield to Redfern.
