We are so back.
Brace yourselves for the 2024-25 Budget overview.
We are so back.
Brace yourselves for the 2024-25 Budget overview.
How does this impact students? How do the cost-of-living reforms affect the student demographic? Check out this guide to the Budget for how it affects tertiary students, and where it fails us.
On Saturday May 11, an emergency rally centring around divestment was held at the USyd quad lawns, where the encampment has remained for the past 19 days. The Quad lawns are expected to fill up tomorrow as protestors march from Belmore Park to the USyd encampment.
Campers are enduring the muddy lawns on the quad, while management has instructed that they are not permitted to pitch tents on wooden pallets.
On May 9, Sydney Law School announced that there would be no Winter intensives taking place in July 2024. This announcement was made via the Professional Law Program Newsletter and by the Sydney University Law Society’s (SULS) Education subcommittee on social media.
Georgia Zhang (Switchroots), Shirley (Zixuan) Zhang (Independent), James Dwyer (Unity), Ethan Floyd (Switchroots) and Phan Vu (Independent) were all provisionally elected.
Day 17 at the University of Sydney’s Gaza solidarity encampment saw participation in the Student Strike for Palestine and attendance at the National Tertiary Education Union’s (NTEU) Sydney Branch vote on a motion to “endorse the institutional academic boycott of Israeli universities, and to cut ties with the war industry.”
After marching from the USyd Quadrangle to the UTS Central Building, the rally escalated. Following the speeches, students stormed Broadway and occupied the Broadway Shopping Centre.
On April 9, a mostly-empty New South Wales Legislative Assembly debated whether student concession fares should be extended to international and part-time students. The debate was triggered by a petition started by the SRC and SUPRA late last year when it reached 20,000 signatures in March.
At the two-hour forum held at the Arts and Cultural Exchange in Parramatta, the panelists highlighted their significant concerns behind Israeli-based technology like HP, as well as the silencing of pro-Palestinian voices in the public sector, particularly teachers in NSW schools.
We acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. The University of Sydney – where we write, publish and distribute Honi Soit – is on the sovereign land of these people. As students and journalists, we recognise our complicity in the ongoing colonisation of Indigenous land. In recognition of our privilege, we vow to not only include, but to prioritise and centre the experiences of Indigenous people, and to be reflective when we fail to be a counterpoint to the racism that plagues the mainstream media.