To only peer into the Chancellor’s Office over the past decade provides a myopic and warped perception of its history. Colonialism, corporatism and militarism — alongside all the racism, elitism and misogyny they bring — are etched into the Quadrangle’s original mahogany desks.
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The University of Sydney announced today that David Thodey, a former telecommunications executive, has been elected as the 19th Chancellor of the University after the end of Belinda Hutchinson’s third consecutive term.
Hutchinson is Chairman of the Australian arm of Thales, a French weapons manufacturing company waging waging a vicious campaign against its unionised workforce at Garden Island.
In recent months, staff-led campaigns at RMIT and the University of Newcastle have pushed out Chancellors who respectively chaired gambling…
Chancellor Belinda Hutchinson says that universities are less left-wing and ‘politicised’ now.
These cars cost more than most of our degrees.
PJT Hall remembers a colourful USyd identity
Nina Dillon Britton asks why Universities
continue to line the pockets of the most privileged
Nick Rowbotham and Subeta Vimalarajah report.
Following last week’s feature ‘Make Her Life Hell’, Georgia Kriz went to a USyd Senate meeting and met with university management to discuss sexual violence on campus. With additional comments by Christina White.
