Features

By Alex Linker   By now, everyone knows about the current struggles with Sydney’s public transport system, particularly when it comes to getting to UNSW. However, for students with disability, getting to uni has been a struggle since long before this year.   Like many people with disability, I find …

By Twoey Jones   Somewhere out there, an alternate universe exists. UNSW has always had a trimester model, and is currently switching to a new model with two teaching periods each year that they call… “semesters”. In this alternate universe, one thing remains the same – the SRC is up …

By Sarah Hort   In news that may have escaped your attention thanks to extensive coverage of lengthy airport queues, NSW Labor voted at their conference last weekend to increase the party’s policy on paid domestic violence leave from 5 to 10 days per year.   If Federal Labor were …

By Alicia D’Arcy, Features Sub-Editor   The phrase “Foundation Day” is not one that, on its face, sparks excitement. It sounds archaic and stuffy, the type of thing Tony Abbott would love to celebrate with the Queen whilst surrounded by Churchill biographies.   The history of Foundation Day at UNSW …

By Alicia D’Arcy, Features Sub-Editor   CW: sexual assault, sexual harassment   Today, the Australian Human Rights Commission released the Change the Course report into sexual harassment and sexual assault at universities.   Since management of all 39 Australian universities had access to this report a week in advance, they …

By Alicia D’Arcy, Features Sub-Editor   CW: sexual assault, sexual harassment   UNSW has released university-specific findings for the results of the Australian Human Rights Commission’s Change the Course report.   Key findings are as follows:   5 per cent of UNSW students were sexually assaulted in 2015 and 2016, …