The proposal has sparked an internal debate inside the USU and would be the largest governance change in the Union’s history.
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What is the point of going to these meetings if the only thing we are allowed to report on is how they praise each other and their boring reports? This was the main question on our lips. But alas, in between all the procedural matters we didn’t have time to contemplate.
The current executive should be taking more risks and consider the full range of ideas that were contested in this year’s election, even more radical ones that are traditionally outside of the USU’s scope.
After Grace Wallman (Switchroots) turned in her resignation as Treasurer following the University of Sydney Union (USU) Executive Board vote on June 3, the vacant position was filled at a July 5 Board meeting.
Bryson Constable (Liberal), Ben Hines (Libdependent), Julia Lim (Independent), and Grace Wallman (Switchroots) were elected as the new executive.
Georgia Zhang (Switchroots), Shirley (Zixuan) Zhang (Independent), James Dwyer (Unity), Ethan Floyd (Switchroots) and Phan Vu (Independent) were all provisionally elected.
Egregiously, there were no Indigenous students present at the forum, meaning that Macourt had to undertake significant labour in explaining Indigenous Australian issues, particularly to international students who did not grow up with basic education on these discourses.
Honi enters the (soap)boxing ring and emerges relatively unscathed
The USU Board elections are upon us again!
Honi has quizzed and interviewed the candidates.
Daniel Park is running as an independent candidate who centres his campaign on making USyd more fun and more inclusive. Drawing on his own experience as an expat, Park said he was motivated to run for the board because he has “always been surrounded by different cultures” and wants the university to be a vibrant space that reflects its diversity.
