The announcement is a major victory for the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU), which has consistently pushed for governance reform across Australian universities.
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Jews Against Fascism concluded by saying that “more work needs to be done to combat fascism and racism on university campuses” and that “it is evident that this Commission of Inquiry will not deal with these incidents.”
Philosopher and science writer Tim Dean has been selected to fill in for Scott.
After the massive turnout at the University of Queensland SGM, the USyd students maintained an invigorated ambition to combat the disconnect between management agenda and student interest.
Following an initial meeting between the two parties on Friday last week, University management has pledged to “initiate a representative working group to investigate our research engagements and return recommendations to the University Senate by the end of this year.”
“We work, teach, and research at these Australian universities, and we equally condemn the violence against these peaceful encampments, the relentless media campaign to demonise student protestors, and the refusal by university leadership to engage with the reasonable and urgent political demands of the liberation camps.”
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.”
On the morning of day 16, Wednesday 8 May, it was clear that the encampment had remained resilient despite the…
Besides a few attempts by Zionist supporters to verbally intimidate, there was no escalation. The encampment chanted non-stop until Zionist protestors voluntarily left university grounds soon after.
When I first entered Mark’s office (he has permitted me to call him Mark), I felt a little underwhelmed. His…
