By Anna Ho Megan* is one of the permanent artisan potters living at Pilliga Pottery and Farmstay. This is located on Gomeroi Country in the heart of the Pilliga Forest, a half hour drive from the centre of Coonabarabran, the nearest town. She’s invited me to watch her freehand carve …
Read More »Redundancies Strike UNSW Mental Health Services, But Pre-approved Extra Funding Will Offset Potential Loss of Care
By Marc-Daniel Sidarous Ten psychologists at UNSW Counselling and Psychological Services (CAPS) have accepted voluntary redundancies as part of cost-saving measures at the university. The psychologists, who equated to 5.8 full-time positions, agreed to leave when revenue shortfalls brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic led the university to extreme cost-saving …
Read More »Returning Officer Penalises Left Action SRC Ticket by Deducting 10% of Votes Cast for the Campaign, Delaying Election Results
By Kat Wong and Henry Chen On Thursday 22 October, the last day of the 2020 SRC Election, Left Action received an email from the independent Returning Officer appointed by Arc which stated that “all Left Action candidates will be penalised 10% of whatever primary votes they receive at the …
Read More »Here’s What Your SRC Candidates Want You to Know
By Juliet Manolias and Henry Chen With this year’s SRC elections closing on Thursday this week, Tharunka gave all candidates the chance to respond to written questions. About half of them took up the opportunity. To see what the office-bearers said, as well as a run-down on what all …
Read More »SRC Elections 2020: The Lay of the Land
By Juliet Manolias and Henry Chen Another year rolls by, and the SRC elections are upon us once more. Despite the absence of physical campaigning, this year is shaping up to be a hotly contested election, with two emerging student-centric tickets challenging the dominance of three progressive political factions. There …
Read More »What You Need to Know About the New Faculty of Arts, Architecture and Design
By Shajara Khan On 22 July 2020 Professor Claire Annesley, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, held a faculty-wide Town Hall regarding the ‘merger’ of faculties. This comes after the announcement by Vice Chancellor Ian Jacobs that due to budget constraints, the current eight faculties will be …
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