A report delivered to the UNSW Chancellory’s Student Safety & Wellbeing Committee has shown several incidents of assault and robbery, including students threatened with knives. The Student Incident Summary Report, obtained by Tharunka through Freedom of Information legislation, focuses on campus incidents from January to August this year.
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We all do things we’d rather not have others know about. It’s part of being a human being, what goes on between our ears is our own business. We deserve and expect privacy in what we do as a cultural norm. What we do in the comfort of our own …
Read More »Hoover’s Dress: Reading the Stratfor Files
On February 27, the counter-cultural zeitgeist Wikileaks began releasing its 200 gigabytes of classified materials from the private U.S.-based security intelligence agency ‘Stratfor’. These internal documents, leaked by Anonymous, are slowly being digested, but the anaemic public is impatiently telling media outlets to synthesise, synthesise, synthesise.
Read More »O-Week Confrontation between ANZ and Activists
Student activists protesting in front of the ANZ O-Week stall were asked to move on or be removed from campus, according to several accounts of the incident received by Tharunka. The activists were attempting to raise awareness of ANZ’s investment in the coal industry on Wednesday February 22, before ANZ …
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