While some may blame Leach’s loss on the locale’s left-leanings, Honi suspects the reason for Leach’s poor showing lies in something more sinister: the 2022 criminal law exam.
Author: Luke Cass
The National Tertiary Education Union members’ vote came after the University made an updated offer to staff this week.
The University justified this to staff on the basis of ‘safety’, implying the protest — in support of Student Centre workers — poses a danger to Student Centre workers.
We are often criticised for being too negative, but what is the point of Honi if it is not.
Only sustained, widespread anger is enough to break the complacency that holds Australian housing policy in a perpetual state of inertia.
The University and the NTEU are now into the 20th month of negotiations for a new Enterprise Agreement, due to the University’s failure to meet the Union’s demands for fair pay and conditions.
The slow death of the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations is not entirely unique: it follows 15 years of student unions being underfunded and undervalued, despite their ability to transform education — and society — for the better.
The strike was held 20 months into ongoing Enterprise Bargaining negotiations between the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) and the University. This is the longest period of enterprise bargaining in the University’s history.
The Faculty of Arts and Social Studies Honours units would be replaced by ‘interdisciplinary’ alternatives, operated by the Faculty’s various ‘schools’.
A critical failure of a train radio system halted the entire Sydney train network on Wednesday afternoon.
