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According to Foley, the University caved to pressure from lobbyists affiliated with external institutions, including the Australian Museum and the land council, who “sought to discredit the oral history.”

“The entire structure [of residential colleges] is irredeemable. For the most part these are old institutions whose forte is predominantly old school types. Whenever there were challenges to that culture, whether it was rape culture, doing anything that went outside the line of tradition, there was all sorts of obfuscation.”

Life as a USyd student means arriving to a 9am class late and savouring a soy latte from Courtyard while embracing the moments with those people who make our everyday experiences here — those little ‘vignettes’ — worth every second.

Despite these shaky beginnings, the Jacaranda eventually became a sight synonymous with the Quad and a marker of the passage of time.

The Report’s figures, from chronic under-reporting to the over-representation of international students, don’t come as a surprise to student organisers. The Report provides nothing novel to analyse; there are no new proposals that have not long been championed by advocates at USyd and beyond.