By Sharlotte Thou Four candidates will be competing for the position of Education Officer in this year’s ANUSA elections: Blake Iafeta, Beatrice Tucker, Grace Carter, and Lucy Skelton. Education Officers deal with higher education policies and are responsible for organising […]
By Darlene Rowlands CW: mental health, mentions of eating disorders. Four candidates will contest the newly created position of ANUSA Welfare Officer this election. They include Sebastian Tierney from ‘Seb for Welfare’, Sinead Winn from ‘Get Sh!t Done for ANUSA’, […]
By Nathan Bow Despite launching on Tuesday, Ben Wicks and Elijah Smith have officially withdrawn their ‘Divorced Dads for ANUSA’ ticket after it was criticised as “misogynistic” and “classist” on several Facebook comments. Wicks and Smith have also taken down […]
By Darlene Rowlands CW: SASH, racism Two candidates are running for ANUSA Vice President this year. The candidates are Chido Nyakuengama from Grassroots ANUSA, and Blake Iafeta from Do Better! with Blake Iafeta. The Job The ANUSA Vice […]
By Nathan Bow This year’s ANUSA Presidential elections have seen the nominations of only two candidates: Blake Iafeta and Christian Flynn. Iafeta is running on the ticket ‘Do Better! With Blake Iafeta’ and Flynn on the ‘Grassroots ANUSA’ ticket. Last […]
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 […]
By Darlene Rowlands There are 600 ANU students currently interstate and unable to return to Canberra. Those among them who usually reside on-campus continue to be financially liable for rooms they cannot return to. As the ACT lockdown damages the […]
By Sharlotte Thou 2021 Science Society President Su-En Hia (she/her) has announced she will run for Clubs Officer in the 2021 ANUSA election. Hia’s experience in the Science Society executive since 2019, namely holding the General Representative, Social Officer, Vice […]
By Tom Kersten UPDATE: Warrumbul has since been announced as a Casual Contact Site and all residents are to isolate until they return a negative test result. Yesterday evening, the University became aware of a positive COVID-19 case on-campus, making […]
By Nathan Bow & Tom Kersten Since Canberra entered lockdown last Thursday, many students at residential halls have been feeling the strain of stringent lockdown measures. Reports of declining mental health among these students have been widespread, with many having […]
