Bryson Constable (Liberal), Julia Lim (Independent), Grace Wallman (Switch), Ben Hines (Libdependent), Grace Porter (Unity) and Sargun Saluja (NLS) have been provisionally elected.
Author: Katarina Butler
Working with states and territories, vape sales in convenience stores will be prohibited. Prescriptions for products to help with nicotine addiction such as nicotine vaping products will be easier to obtain, and vaping products sold in pharmacies will be held to a higher quality standard.
“In terms of Drag itself, the only thing it’s really made me do is become even more determined to piss people off.”
Audits and elections and investments, oh my!
The NTEU is campaigning on many of the same issues as at the University of Sydney: academic workloads, casualisation and pay. They want management to maintain the 40/40/20 model of academic workloads and create 150 extra permanent positions for current casual staff by 2024.
Two councillors moved an urgency motion demanding that the decision be reversed in solidarity with Palestinian community members. The motion failed, and the flag will fly on the 26th of April.
Applications have surged post-COVID, and are now on track for the largest intake of Indian students ever seen. However, universities have deemed that many applications are not from ‘genuine temporary entrants’ per Australian visa requirements, and that many are at risk of overstaying their visas.
Remembering Henrietta Lacks, and locating her within the wider system of medical and structural inequality in America, is essential.
Management at Deakin University are pushing ahead with a non-union deal following five months of enterprise bargaining.
In place of the Wednesday strike, the NTEU will strike again during Week 7 — unless an acceptable offer is proposed before then.