Successful candidates will have a guiding influence over the strategic direction of the USU and in turn how campus life will look like for all students.
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No matter how you vote, Honi implores you to interrogate the policies and promises of the Board hopefuls, and for you to hold them to account if they are elected.
Wang’s policy ideas are solid, and her knowledge of the USU and the university was also passable. However, her positions on politics, the structure of the USU, and the VTeam make Honi wonder whose interests Wang really puts first.
Wang’s policies are comprehensive and admirable, with some policies such as digital accessibility measures eminently achievable and having immediate impacts.
Overall, Wolifson’s USU knowledge is unfortunately middling. Where he shines best is his policy proposals, which, despite their ambitious nature, succeed in outlining concrete mechanisms for achieving progressive results on USU Board.
Chowdhury was notably the only candidate that had a First Nations focused policy. In her policy statement, she included a section dedicated to anti-racist and decolonisation policies.
Similar to Zhang from 2024, Choy has lived experience as an international student and is campaigning on a suite of well-intentioned policies relating to international student welfare.
Overall, Sally Liu is running on a platform of popular policies and will draw from the international student community backed by the renewed campus stupol heavyweight faction Penta.
Honi wonders if Mansour possesses a delusional amount of self-confidence or whether he received a mandate from God? We cannot think of any other reason why he would embark on such a slapdash campaign.
He has more knowledge of campus than anyone else, more policies than anyone else, and perhaps more idealism.
