Impersonation and scam calls are among some of the issues facing students in the city, with ever more complex tactics deployed to bypass suspicions.
Author: Khanh Tran
Previous unpublished plans of the Quad, Carillon Bell Tower and Physics Building shows us drastically different visions of what the University of Sydney’s campus may have been.
The penultimate meeting of the 94th SRC saw advocates launching a campaign against the University’s Confirmation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Identity policy and support for Week 10’s student and staff strike.
Academics and members of the community are fiercely pushing back on UTAS’ relocation plans to Hobart CBD, academic freedom, job losses and governance structure.
Against this backdrop, the purpose of the SRC as a student union is to raise students’ voices and agitate for a vision of higher education beyond the bottom line of University finances.
Eight candidates are running for the Senate this year in what can be expected to be a fiercely contested election.
Student representatives wrangled over access for low SES students, police brutality, mental health provisions and a campaign against deadnaming amid the SRC’s famously colourful election season.
The event, featuring the former Liberal Prime Minister, was forced online after dozens of activists from the SRC Education Action Group occupied New Law Foyer.
Disability is often relegated to “second-class” status in student activism. More effort, listening and discernment is needed from other activists to build a genuinely inclusive student movement.
The dire lack of knowledge about our major religions risks driving religious debate into a conservative silo.