According to the University of Sydney’s Annual Financial Report, the educational institution recorded a surplus of $351.8 million in 2023. In 2022, the recorded surplus was $298.5 million. Both numbers pale compared to the COVID-19 2021 surplus of $1.3 billion. USyd reports that this is the sixth year in a row reaping a profit.
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The University of Sydney has successfully appealed a Federal Court decision that the 2019 termination of former lecturer Tim Anderson constituted unfair dismissal.
The University of Western Australia has admitted to underpaying $6.6 million of employee superannuation after an internal review discovered that the 17% superannuation entitlement had been calculated incorrectly.
Federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton argued in his budget reply speech that migration should be capped at 140,000—much lower than the government’s current target of 260,000 by 2026.
USyd encampment organisers have set out two counteroffers to University administration:
“An open meeting at our encampment, where all those attending the camp will have the right to witness the meeting or, a town hall meeting open to all staff and students, which takes place at a lecture theatre on campus.”
When asked about the chant “from the river to the sea” heard at many student-led rallies and encampments around the country, Albanese stated that “if you asked those people chanting it, heaps of them… wouldn’t be able to find the Jordan River on a map.”
Following further management interference at their encampment, Students 4 Palestine organised a snap rally, attended by students and members of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU).
Honi Soit arrived at the encampment minutes before the protestors entered via University Avenue, and the encampment organisers were pleasantly surprised by the energy of protestors, their chants clearly audible from the Quad lawns.
At 1pm on Tuesday May 14, students from the Gaza solidarity encampment marched down Eastern Avenue to the Australian Centre for Field Robotics (ACFR) in protest of a new engineering scholarship funded by weapons manufacturer Thales.
On the morning of May 10, pro-Palestine activists blockaded the premises of Bisalloy Steels in Unanderra for their role in arming the ongoing genocide in Gaza. The picket, organised by Wollongong Friends of Palestine, targeted Bisalloy due to their contract with the Israeli firm Rafael Advanced Defence Systems.