Author: Angus McGregor

Legislation introduced in November 2023 to reform the Australian Research Council (ARC) passed through parliament today. The reforms were in response to the recommendations of last year’s review into the ARC Act.

While exciting and filled with large performances, the urge to force the dominos to fall causes the show to lose a strong thematic or aesthetic focus. The published synopsis lauds that the play “starts with a bang and races on like a runaway train.” If only it took a moment, especially at the start, to step on the brakes.

Australia is set to resume funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the key UN aid agency that supports Palestinian refugees, while also committing millions more in funding for civilians in Gaza.

A SRC and SUPRA e-petition to expand travel concession card access to part time and international students has reached the required 20,000 signatures to be tabled for Parliamentary debate on May 9th at 4pm.

We still live in a country where the police are given the benefit of the doubt despite decades of violence and brutalisation of queer and First Nations communities.

The University of Sydney announced today that David Thodey, a former telecommunications executive, has been elected as the 19th Chancellor of the University after the end of Belinda Hutchinson’s third consecutive term.

After an internal review and years of concerns from staff and students, UNSW is likely to end its controversial trimester system and return to a semester timetable in line with all other Australian universities.

For these three and a half hours, Honi Soit watched on with shock, horror and some admiration for the 37 councillors gathered in New Law Lecture Theatre 026.

A new payment system adopted by Griffith University failed to pay many casual workers on March 7 leading to a dispute with the NTEU.

A casual academic working at the University of Melbourne has received a public apology in Federal Court and compensation after the university admitted she was unfairly refused work after asking for increased hours.