Media Appearances 2021
ABC News: No more working cap for international students on COVID-19 frontline. Is that exploitation? (17/09/2021) – Article PDF
The Age: Students, academics battle opening of Liberal-backed institute at Melbourne uni (22/7/21) – Article PDF
The Epoch Times: Melbourne University’s New Gender Affirmation Policy a ‘Violation of Conscience’: Expert (23/6/2021) – Article PDF
Star Observer: University of Melbourne Proposes Ban on Academic Transphobia (23/6/2021) – Article PDF
The Age: University head says free speech does not override transgender safety (15/6/2021) – Article PDF
The Guardian: Universities promise to ramp up face-to-face learning as student frustrations grow (13/6/2021) – Article PDF
Star Observer: Melbourne University Students Protest Lecturer’s Transphobic Website (3/3/2021)– Article PDF
Pedestrian: Over 1,000 uni students & staff have condemned a ‘Transphobic’ site made by a Unimelb academic (28/2/2021) – Article PDF
The Guardian: Australian universities plan to ramp up in-person learning in early 2021 (20/1/2021) – Article PDF
ABC Melbourne section begins around 1:41:00 https://www.abc.net.au/radio/melbourne/programs/breakfast/breakfast/13310854
Media Appearances: 2020
Pedestrian: What If My Internet’s Shit? And All Your Other Qs Answered If You’re Trying To Do Online (1/5/2020) – Article PDF
The Guardian: Coronavirus more than 4,000 students sign petition to delay start of university (5/2/2020)– Article PDF
The Age: Free supermarket feeds 2000 students a week (11/11/2020) – Article PDF
Media Appearances: 2019
The Australian: Victoria police poised to crack down on Spring Rebellion Protests (3/10/2019)
Green Left: Support builds for mass civil disobedience at mining conference (15/9/2019) – Article PDF
Lad Bible: White Male Students Encouraged Not To Speak During University Of Melbourne Seminar (24/4/2019)-Article PDF
Daily Mail: ‘White males’ should be BANNED from speaking during university classes so women and transgender students are more willing to contribute to discussions, seminar suggests (23/4/2019)-Article PDF
The Australian: Ban on ‘white males’ speaking suggested at Melbourne University seminar (22/4/2019)
The Guardian: Australian students launch national campaign to pressure MPs to allow pill-testing (16/1/2019)-Article PDF
Media Appearances: 2018
Honi Soit: NUS NatCon 2018: Policy (10/12/2018)-Article PDF
The Age: Fake doctors blamed for spate of University of Melbourne expulsions (26/7/2018)-Article PDF
The Australian: Satirical ‘kill list’ upsets Melbourne Uni’s young Libs (4/7/2018)
The Sydney Morning Herald: Why ALP backbencher Kimberley Kitching may become a household name (2/3/2018)-Article PDF
Herald Sun – The best university clubs and societies to join (23/2/2018)-Article PDF
Daily Mail: From drinks at the bar to back at her house: The new 90-minute sexual consent test Australian university students must pass before they are allowed to enrol (9/2/2018)– Article PDF
The Age: ‘Enthusiastic Yes’: Melbourne Uni makes sexual consent course mandatory (8/2/2018)-Article PDF
Australian Book Review – Dissent: The student press in 1960s Australia by Sally Percival Wood (1-2/2018)-Article PDF
Media Appearances: 2017
The Guardian – Australian news quiz of the year 2017 (27/12/2017)-Article PDF
Honi Soit – NUS ACT branch to be dissolved (15/12/2017)– Article PDF
Domain – Melbourne rents: $150 a bed ads raise concerns of overcrowding and exploitation (23/7/2017)– Article PDF
The Daily Mail – University Holds ‘Privilege Workshop’ to tell students to cut the Australian banter, stop showing off and for men to learn to ‘talk like women’ (19/5/2017)Article PDF
De Minimis – Should Law Students Care About UMSU (4/4/2017)– Article PDF
Media Appearances: 2016
The PIE News – Mentor wins top award from Melbourne Uni (22/11/2016)– Article PDF
The Age – Students angry about missile-maker Lockheed Martin’s lab at Melbourne University (26/9/2016)– Article PDF
The Age – Student union to hand out drug-testing kits at University of Melbourne campus (20/9/2016)– Article PDF
VICE – Melbourne Uni’s Student Union Will Soon Hand out Free Drug Testing Kits (16/9/2016)– Article PDF
The Sydney Morning Herald – The new way university cheats are being caught (18/8/2016)– Article PDF
Medium.com – Why is Union House Theatre closing down? (10/6/2016)– Article PDF
Solidarity.net.au – Union House facing demolition as University expands corporate vision (21/5/2016)– Article PDF
Media Appearances: 2015
ABC – Stopping dropouts: how can universities keep hold of their first years? (13/5/2015)– Article PDF
Media Appearances: 2013
MeldMagazine.com.au – Melbourne University: Student Council passes motion to celebrate Thatcher’s Death. (15/4/2013)– Article PDF
The Herald Sun – Melbourne University union officials pass motion to celebrate the death of Margaret Thatcher (9/4/2013)– Article PDF
Media Appearances: 2012
Crickey – Stars lash ‘flawed’ Melbourne Uni Theatre restructure (12/11/2012)– Article PDF
Herald Sun – Furore At Uni’s Live Sex Show (6/5/2012)– Article PDF
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