By Alayna Bourke As the ACT lockdown is due to lift on 14 October at 11:59pm, COVID regulations are set to ease across residential halls. This update will be welcomed by many on-campus students as they have been subjected to […]
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By Xanthe Murrell On 17 September, an ANU student shared a portion of the feedback that they had received on an assignment to ‘ANU Schmidtposting’. The student had been marked down because their wearing of a nose stud was considered […]
By Tom Kersten Nearly 19 months after Prime Minister Scott Morrison closed Australia’s International Borders, on October 1, Morrison declared “It is time to give Australians their lives back”, announcing the re-opening of the International borders from November contingent on […]
By Declan Milton John XXIII college is the most vaccinated ANU residential hall, according to vaccination rates of on-campus students revealed to Observer by the ANU COVID Response Office. The data was collected through a student survey of on-campus […]
By Tom Kersten Disclaimer: The University Performance Team does not collect data of non-binary students. Using data collected from the University Performance Team, Observer takes a look into the demographics of ANU. As of 20 September, 24,767 students […]
By India Kazakoff The passing of Motion 6.1 – colloquially considered the ‘lockdown to zero motion’ – in SRC 6 last week obliged ANUSA to become a public signatory to the ‘NSW Lockdown to Zero campaign’, and to support […]
By Xanthe Murrell SRC 6 was not without its drama. Meetings such as the SRC show a side to student government largely unknown to the wider student body, for whom the workings of ANUSA are generally confined to a […]
By Sharlotte Thou & Tom Kersten TW: Mentions of sexual assault and self harm On Saturday morning, ACT Police confirmed 20 year old Alexander Matters was arrested at Burgmann College after members of the Sexual Assault & Child Abuse […]
By Tom Kersten Content Warning: Mental Health At ANU, domestic students have access to a free counselling service, ANU Counselling. ANUSA General Representative Catherine Yeong recently published a report from a meeting she had with ANU officials, including the acting […]
By Sharlotte Thou ANUSA President Madhumitha Janagaraja announced on ANU Schmidtposting on Tuesday afternoon that the proposed one week teaching pause will not go ahead. This comes a week after the change.org petition – which has 5186 signatures at the […]