This move is a significant step for student carers, who have historically been left with no formal academic support at the University.
Author: Caitlin O'Keeffe-White
What do you get when you mix septuagenarians, an RSL, a dead friend’s house and dog?
The vomit has scared students trying to run for their bus.
In the last state budget, NSW Police were given $5.5 billion of taxpayer funds. Mental health funding across the state sits at $2.9 billion.
Housing, opposing war, and standing up to bigots — the June Council showed that maybe, just maybe, student politicians aren’t just power hungry.
Our futures are radical, and they are dreamed into existence by us.
Tame writes of a life shaped by trauma, but by no means a life defined by it. Instead, a message of love, humour and connection — coexisting with, and overwhelming, the ongoing impacts of child sexual abuse and grooming — emerges.
The bureaucratic processes that students with additional caretaking responsibilities are offered at the University are clunky at best, and traumatic at worst.
As young people, it is incumbent upon us to dream of alternate possibilities for the Budget, for a system of government with radically different priorities.
Honi attended Budget lockup to assess what the Budget included for students.