Category: Features
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Spotlight On: Adrian Agius
By Alicia D’Arcy Adrian Agius is a combined law and commerce student, majoring in Information Systems. Adrian has been significantly involved in bringing “Hackathons” to the Law School at UNSW, and was recently nominated for the LawyersWeekly Australian Law Awards as Law Student of the Year. We chatted to him about coding, Hackathons and the…
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Reaching Safe Ground: Addressing Sexual Assault and Harassment at Universities
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 Practice Guide for Australian Universities.…
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My Heartbreak Warrants Breaking a Promise
By Jack McNally Last night, the Liberal Party caucus voted 27-7 against offering a conscience vote to MPs and senators on marriage equality, resolving to put the question of the plebiscite to the Senate another time and, failing that, explore the option of a postal plebiscite. Though many of us in the LGBTIQ+…
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The SSM Suppository – Tone Edition
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, Abbott so boldly explains in…
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Why STEM Degrees Aren’t Delivering For Women
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 12% of STEM students are…
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UNSW “Disestablishes” 236 Jobs
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. Indeed, since we began implementing…