By Kabir Chisty Ayush Gupta is contesting the International Student Officer role in tomorrow’s SRC election. Gupta is an international student from India, participating in the election with the ticket Unite!. According to Gupta, the ticket is a collaboration of executives from various societies at UNSW. Gupta brings a set …
Read More »Here’s All the Undergraduate Candidates for the 2020 UNSW Council
By Jo Bradley Voting for the UNSW Council ends tomorrow (Monday the 29th, at 4pm). If you’re a UNSW student, you are probably vaguely aware of the elections because of the scandalous outing of then-candidate Claudia McDonnell’s racist social media posts via the UNSW Discussion Group (McDonnell has since exited …
Read More »Arc Censors Tharunka Over Reporting of Arc Board Elections
By Alicia D’Arcy, Features Sub-Editor On Monday, 1 May, Arc removed an article published by Tharunka in which each candidate for the Arc Board elections was asked the same five questions and their unamended responses published. The article was republished late Wednesday afternoon (voting closed at 4pm on Thursday), …
Read More »We Asked Your Arc Board Candidates The Same Five Questions
By Alicia D’Arcy, Features Sub-Editor On 1–4 May, elections are open via email for the election of four new board directors to Arc, UNSW’s student union. Two of these elected directors must be women and, if successful, candidates would have a term of two years. Arc is worth just under …
Read More »Donherra Walmsley: Open letter to UQ
We are writing as leaders of student unions and representative organisations from around Australia. We have watched as the UQ Union has abused due process and the principles of free and fair elections to maintain control by the incumbents.
Read More »“Voice” Wins Presidency in SRC Vote
Ross Willing has been elected President of the Student Representative Council (SRC) next year, with the “Voice” ticket securing 56% of the vote ahead of “Stand Up!” “Voice” elected four of the seven delegates to the National Union of Students (NUS), with the remaining three places going to “Stand Up!”
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