“Fightback,” a militant caucus within the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) launched a petition to oppose job cuts and hiring restrictions on Tuesday, August 13 in response to a letter Vice Chancellor Mark Scott sent to staff on the same day.
Author: Ella McGrath
Swinburne University campus security have allegedly reported pro-Palestine students to the police for leafleting and collecting signatures to call for a Student General Meeting (SGM).
The National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) has demanded “major changes to university governance” after the Swinburne University of Technology conceded to $2.85 million in wage theft between 2017 and December 2023, impacting around 1,800 staff.
“There’s a lot of very deliberate misdirection in the film. We look at the trailer for Heart of the Man and we think boxing! Tough! Men! But ‘heart of the man’ is really that vulnerability that stems underneath.”
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.
According to Foley, the University caved to pressure from lobbyists affiliated with external institutions, including the Australian Museum and the land council, who “sought to discredit the oral history.”
