You may have noticed construction fences and “don’t enter” signs littered around campus. Or maybe you’re hearing rumblings of building demolitions? From Cadigal green to Manning house, it is clear the University is implementing several construction projects. What are they? How long will they take? And which parts impact you? Let’s talk about it.
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Brennan then spoke noting that “everybody that turned up knew the risk… we put our bodies on the line.” Brennan kicked the hornet’s nest, and specifically called out one faction: “I want to call out Socialist Alternative here, you guys weren’t there.”
The University of Melbourne has admitted to multiple breaches of the Fair Work Act and been ordered by a federal judge to pay $75,000 after threatening to punish two casual academics for working outside their contracted hours.
Honi Soit has accessed a document, “FASS Guidelines for Applying M03 Marking Paycode”, which advises Arts and Social Sciences tutors on how to apply different marking levels. The document lists the rationale that “The Faculty is seeking to develop an approach to marking classification that is consistent with obligations to staff under the Enterprise Agreement”.
The USyd Business School has stopped using the data intensive assessment program Cadmus after a decision made by the eTools committee in Semester 2 last year.
A new report by The Australia Institute reveals that last year, Australian universities and research institutions spent over $322 million on journal subscriptions and a total of $1 billion on academic publishers.
In a joint statement through the Australian Tertiary Education Network on Disability (ATEND), ten advocacy and representative groups requested an “immediate retraction of ableist language used in the Accord and a recalculation of the target participation rate for people with disability to be inclusive of all people.”
Students Against War (S.A.W.) and Stop War on Palestine organised a snap rally on Thursday 4 April at the Sydney office of Department for Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) in response to the death of an Australian aid worker in Gaza, Lalzawmi ‘Zomi’ Frankcom. Zomi was amongst seven World Central Kitchen workers killed in their convoy by an Israeli military air strike, announced on April 2.
In an open letter, civil rights organisations have called for the government to repeal “anti-democratic” NSW anti-protest laws, or failing that, introduce “a community consultation component into the statutory review of the 2022 amendments.”
The rally centred the fight for trans liberation, stating that trans visibility requires political action.
