In a media release, NUS Education Officer Luc Velez wrote, “this is NOT a summit of universities, it’s a meeting of university bosses and their corporate allies. Students and staff are the real universities,” it read. Pictures of the protest showed students holding signs saying “cancel student debt” and “cut …
Read More »
By Anna Ho and Gina Elias ‘The water is rising, no more compromising!’ Lismore was ready with chants like this when Scott Morrison appeared at a press conference on March 9. The Prime Minister was ready as well. His car was escorted to the council building’s back entrance, lest he …
Read More »
Tharunka contacted UNSW for a statement in regards to the recent hostile treatment of Cancel Trimesters activists by campus security guards. (Read more about the incident in Shovan Bhattarai’s report.) A UNSW spokesperson responded to the incident: “UNSW regrets that security officers asked students not to hand out leaflets …
Read More »
By Courtney Thompson On Sunday, I attended what was probably my most intense rally-going experience yet. While “pro-life”, anti-choice group, Family Life Australia, and its supporters attended mass within St Mary’s cathedral for its “Day of the Unborn Child” (read: day an unborn, undeveloped foetus means more than the physical, …
Read More »
Thom Mitchell [twitname]Thom_Mitchell[/twitname] Last Thursday activists won a battle in their years-long war against a new coal mine in the Leard State Forest. The Maules Creek Community Council successfully sought an injunction in the NSW Land and Environment Court to stop clearing, which began on May 27. The proponent, Whitehaven …
Read More »
The Islamic Society on Campus (ISOC) distanced itself from violence-marred protests against an Islamophobic video earlier this week, signing a statement that was released by an umbrella body of Islamic associations in Australia in response to the protests. A violent clash between police and Muslim protestors occurred in Sydney on …
Read More »
Tharunka UNSW Student Newspaper