By Eleanor Ellis On Friday 14 October, Residential Halls notified students of updates to the ‘COVID-19 Safe Behaviours’ documentation. The biggest change is the removal of mandatory isolation for students who test positive for COVID-19. This change is in accordance […]
By Eleanor Ellis, Photography by ‘No Cuts at ANU’ On Tuesday 4 October, students from the School of Art and Design (SOAD) staged a sit-in demonstration. On the protester’s agenda was the limited studio access hours since the beginning of […]
By Orietta Fitzsimmons CW: contains mention of transphobia The 6th SRC meeting was held on the 21st of September. Executive Reports The opening item was ANUSA President Christian Flynn’s report. Flynn highlighted ANUSA’s recent announcement that it would make constitutional […]
By Brianna Elliott The National Union of Students (NUS) released a report on 5 October to the Australian Government to lower Centrelink’s Age of Independence from 22 to 18 years old. This would allow for 467,419 new students to […]
By Darlene Rowlands About 1200 people gathered last week for the first ANUSA Friday Night Party (FNP) since 2020, headlined by Skegss and Confidence Man. Despite pre-COVID Friday Night Parties being held in O-Week of Semester 1 rather than Week […]
By Eleanor Ellis At 1:35pm today, ANUSA released a statement affirming the validity of Rex Michelson’s nomination for Environment Officer on the ‘Power in Community’ ticket. This announcement came three days after Hayden Mendoza from the ‘Jedi Council for […]
By Hannah Farrow The Jedi Council has officially launched their ticket for the 2022 ANUSA election. The Jedi Council’s platform is based on encouraging significant change to the status quo of student politics on campus, stating their goal is […]
By Ethan Schultz Recently, the ‘ANU Mining Society’ in conjunction with the ‘ANU for Environmental Action’ have released Facebook and Instagram ads targeting ANU students as a smear campaign against the ‘Power in Community’ ANUSA ticket. Observer understands the campaign […]
By Brianna Elliott On 17 August, the Australian Government announced it will fund an extra 20,000 university student places. The Labor Party’s stated intention is to boost university attendance numbers from underrepresented groups and to target “areas of skill […]
By James Day There are four candidates running for the ANUSA Welfare Officer position this year: Isabella Harding (She/Her) from ‘ACTION! For ANUSA’; Luke Harrison (He/They) from ‘Power in Community’; Leo Hadley (He/Him) from ‘Jedi Council for ANUSA’; and […]
