At a Student General Meeting (SGM) on the 26 September, Students overwhelmingly endorsed three motions, ‘that UNSW disclose and divest from the $2.973 million in financial investments in weapon companies’, that ‘UNSW cuts its research partnerships with weapons companies’, and that ‘Students stand for a Free Palestine’.
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We can’t look away and pretend as if genocide is normal, which is what universities, the government and the media would prefer.
In landslide votes, they each called on their respective universities to endorse an academic boycott, divestment from weapons and arms manufacturers and end its relationships with Israeli universities, in accordance with the demands of Palestinians.
The development plan remains currently “under assessment” by the Sydney Eastern City Planning Panel, an independent panel created by the state government to resolve large and controversial developments.
Pending regulatory approval, the University of Sydney will offer a Bachelor of Politics Philosophy and Economics in 2025, following nine other Australian universities who now offer the degree founded by Oxford University in 1921.
On March 25, the editors of Noise, UNSW’s independent student publication established earlier this month, received a “cease and desist” email from Arc @ UNSW’s Director of Marketing & Experience, Mitchell McBurnie.
Neale posted a statement to his public Instagram account, stating that the two Returning Officers who recommended his nomination’s rejection are Arc employees.
After an internal review and years of concerns from staff and students, UNSW is likely to end its controversial trimester system and return to a semester timetable in line with all other Australian universities.
Arc @ UNSW, the student life organisation at the University of New South Wales and publisher of the student publication…
The Fair Work Ombudsman said “We are committed to driving cultural change in the university sector.”