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By Sharon Mo   CW: sexual assault, sexual harassment     Last Thursday, just two days after the Australian Human Rights Commission released its landmark report on a national student survey of sexual assault and harassment at Australian universities, the Australian Human Rights Centre launched On Safe Ground: A Good …

By Dominic Giannini, Online Sub-Editor Yesterday, Tony Abbott gave us his latest pearls of wisdom. Writing a column for The Australian, Abbott went on to blame Bill Shorten and the Labor-Green left coalition for the delay of any same-sex marriage legislation. Bill Shorten is the real villain of this imbroglio, …

  Dear Brittney and Tharunka Team I wanted to firstly congratulate you on the Semester 1 Tharunka that so directly and relevantly highlighted the issues of mental health and students with disabilities at UNSW.  In particular, the article by Annabel Green and Annabelle Thorne was revealing (“Mental Health at UNSW …

By Charlotte Guthleben Introduction by Dominic Giannini, Online Sub-Editor Campus Morning Mail last week revealed that women who study science, engineering and IT are more likely to work in sales than their respective fields.   The Australian Council for Educational Research crunched data for 142,000 graduates from 2013/14 and only …

By Dominic Giannini, Online Sub-Editor It has been announced that UNSW plans on “disestablishing” 236 jobs in finance, external relations functions and at the Australian Graduate School of Management.   UNSW hasn’t elaborated on what “disestablishing” means, claiming: “UNSW has an ambitious strategy to 2025 which will create 8% more jobs at the university. …

Words and photographs by Grace Miner   CW: sexual assault, sexual harassment, rape   We will no longer be ignored.   This was one of the main messages at yesterday’s protest against rape on campus. The day after The Australian Human Rights Commission released its report on sexual assault and …