Prudence Wilkins-Wheat (Switch) has been elected as the University of Sydney Union (USU) President. She will be joined by Ruby Lotz (NLS) as Vice-President, Ben Hines (Libdependent) as Honorary Treasurer, and Vikki Qin as Honorary Secretary
Wilkins-Wheat was nominated by Lotz, Lotz was nominated by Wilkins-Wheat, Hines was nominated by Wilkins-Wheat, and both Thomas and Qin were nominated by Wilkins-Wheat.
All executive positions were uncontested except for Honorary Secretary.
While Belinda Thomas did not secure an executive position, it was suggested that a new position would be made for her, with incoming-president Prudence Wilkins-Wheat saying that “no one will be left out of this executive.”
Non-executive committee positions
Isla Mowbray (Switch) and Nicholas Comino (Mod Lib) were elected as Directors of Student Publications uncontested.
David Zhu (Liberal) was elected as Deputy Chair of the Finance Committee uncontested.
Telita Goile (Switch) was elected as a non-executive director on the People and Culture Committee uncontested.
Nicholas Comino (Mod Lib) was elected as a non-executive director on the Electoral Committee uncontested.
Isla Mowbray (Switch) was elected as a first-year director on the Awards Committee uncontested.
Cole Scott-Curwood (Engineers for SRC) was elected as Deputy Chair of the Clubs and Societies Committee uncontested.
Cole Scott-Curwood (Engineers for SRC) and David Zhu (Liberal) have both been nominated as non-executive members of the Governance Committee. David Zhu was elected.
Portfolio positions
Telita Goile (Switch) was elected to the Wom*n’s Portfolio uncontested.
Nicholas Comino (Mod Lib) was elected to the Queer Portfolio uncontested.
Isla Mowbray (Switch) was elected to the Environment Portfolio uncontested.
David Zhu (Liberal) was elected to the Ethnocultural Portfolio uncontested.
Yining Du was elected to the International Student Portfolio uncontested.
The Disability Portfolio received no nominations and the position is vacant. The portfolio will be filled at the next board meeting.
Miscellaneous notes
- Everyone was guzzling their Santa Vittoria. Today it was still.
- Telita Goile lent Prudence Wilkins-Wheat a phone charger. Besties or baddies?
- Ben Hines gave me his bottle cap. I am not sure how to feel.
- Connor Wherrett is giggling in the corner. What about? We simply do not know.
- Both Ben Hines and Telita Goile are wearing their glasses today. It truly is a scholarly board.
- Prudence Wilkins-Wheat, current Environment Portfolio holder, said what sounded like “Coal”. This might have been in reference to Cole Scott-Curwood, but Honi remains unconvinced.
