You wanna talk trauma? Try waking up on a bed in the vet with no balls.
Author: Luke Mesterovic
The increasing mistreatment of staff in the tertiary education sector is symptomatic of a larger evil: university degrees become increasingly commodified, and universities themselves become corporatised.
Despite rumours of contestation between Madhullikaa Singh and Ben Hines for presidency, they seem to have landed at the middle ground of electing Naz Sharifi.
Casual staff had not been paid for all hours worked, and nearly half were afraid to ask for their entitled pay.
The University admitted to the Fair Work Ombudsman that it had underpaid casual staff between 2014 and 2021.
The rally was organised by the National Union of Students to address rising rates of student poverty.
Honi recaps the highs and lows of the USU’s annual political circus.
This leaves ten candidates to scramble over the six available positions on the USU Board.
Audits and elections and investments, oh my!
Voting opens on Monday 8 May.