Students stand with Palestine
Students have raised the Palestinian flag on university campuses across New South Wales in protest against the murder of 40 peaceful protesters in Gaza over the past two months. Rallies at the University of Sydney and University of New South Wales gathered students in solidarity with those...CONTINUE READING
Designs against humanity
Homelessness is on the rise across the country; every night roughly 8,200 people are forced to fend for themselves on the cold and dirty streets of major Australian cities. This social crisis is not being met with more beds, welfare and compassion from those with the money, resources and l...CONTINUE READING
The day they stole Kerry’s baby
“I thought it was just all a joke. I never thought I would ever live through something like that. I never thought they had the right to come in and take my child on false allegations.” Kerry is talking about her nightmare dealing with the NSW Police, the Department of Family and Community...CONTINUE READING
End of an era as last public housing tenant evicted from Sydney’s Sirius building
Last month the lights were finally switched off for Myra Demetriou, the last remaining resident of inner-city Sydney’s Sirius building. Sirius was once home to more than 100 residents in 79 units, but now the last remnants of affordable public housing in the city are to be sold to develope...CONTINUE READING
Wollongong Uni overturns election result, throws out left
The University of Wollongong has just overturned the results of a democratic student union election which saw the biggest voter turnout in a decade. Chloe Rafferty was elected President of the Wollongong University Students’ Association (WUSA) in October after receiving majority support am...CONTINUE READING
Why governments hate public housing
The Sirius building has always been controversial. Is it an eyesore? A brutalist masterpiece? A concrete blemish on Sydney’s skyline? What many don’t know about Sirius is that, for its architect Tao Gofers, the building is much more than a place for 200 low-income tenants to eat and sleep;...CONTINUE READING
Time to fight back against the war on young people
Declining living conditions, exorbitant university fees, the demonisation of welfare recipients and skyrocketing rental and property prices amount to a war on young people. This is not the result of a feud between baby boomers and millennials, it is a concerted attack by successive governm...CONTINUE READING
Student protest can turn the tide against education attacks
Australia tails the US in everything from culture to war. Think of reality TV, fast fashion and the Middle East. Over the past few years, the Coalition government has been trying to import another well-known (and much hated) aspect of US society – its debt-fuelled, class-divided higher edu...CONTINUE READING
Who knew the Liberals had such short memories?
It was only three years ago that the Liberals last tried to wage war on university students. Prime minister Tony Abbott and his weasel-faced education minister Christopher Pyne set out to deregulate university fees – a measure that was predicted to saddle students with as much as $100,000...CONTINUE READING