Tag: Protest

  • Magistrate drops bail conditions for UNSW’s SRC education officer Cherish Kuehlmann  

    Magistrate drops bail conditions for UNSW’s SRC education officer Cherish Kuehlmann  

    Student activist and SRC education officer, Cherish Kuehlmann, has challenged her bail conditions in court this morning and won.   In late February, Kuehlmann was charged with ‘aggravated entry on enclosed land’ after participating in a 30-person protest at Commonwealth Bank. The charge carries a maximum penalty of $5,500.   Magistrate Clare Farnan dismissed her bail…

  • Earthquakes rock Türkiye and Syria: Syrians forced to fend for themselves 

    Earthquakes rock Türkiye and Syria: Syrians forced to fend for themselves 

    Death toll rises up to 47,000, while the Syrian Civil War and Western sanctions prevent aid delivery to millions of victims in Syria A magnitude 6.4 earthquake rocked Türkiye and Syria last Monday February 20th, only a fortnight after the region was devastated by a 7.8 tremor. More than 47,000 deaths have been confirmed so…

  • NUS Protest Outside Higher Education Summit 

    NUS Protest Outside Higher Education Summit 

    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 Vice-Chancellors Salaries. Not Staff!”  UNSW…

  • Why you should join the Climate Strike on March 25

    Why you should join the Climate Strike on March 25

    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 grab a protester’s hand and…

  • UNSW responds to fury over student protest crackdown

    UNSW responds to fury over student protest crackdown

        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 on campus.  This should not…

  • Not the Church, Not the State, We Will Decide Our Fate: Reflecting on Sunday’s “Day of the Unborn Child” Counter Protest

    Not the Church, Not the State, We Will Decide Our Fate: Reflecting on Sunday’s “Day of the Unborn Child” Counter Protest

    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, psychological and emotional safety of…