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1 Welcome! In welcoming you to Education Conference, we acknowledge the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation on whose traditional land we are gathered. We acknowledge their elders, past and present as the custodians of this land. The land we are gathered on for the duration of the conference was stolen and never ceded. Always was, always will be Aboriginal Land. CONTACTS NIGHT EVENTS UNSW security Monday Night: Registration/Check-in In an emergency 9385 6666 Join us at the Roundhouse from 4pm to Everything else 9385 6000 register for the conference.Each conference accommodation attendee will need to pay a Hannah Smith (conference organiser) $50 key bond to receive their key. 0413 041 083 Tuesday Night: Conference Mixer Billy Bruffey (conference organiser) Join us at the Roundhouse from 6.30pm for 0430 780 774 a social evening. There will be a DJ, food and drink vouchers. Rose Steele (NUS President) 0405 000 680 Wednesday Night: Film Screening NUS and the NTEU will be coming together to Tom Nock (NUS General Secretary) show a special conference screening of “The 0432 216 150 Ivory Tower”- a film exploring the neoliberal- isation of university education. Join us in the Sophie Johnston (conference organiser) UNSW Hall cinema room from 6.30pm. Note 0476117373 that this is a dry event. CHECKOUT Checkout is on Friday from 8:00AM until 1:00PM at the Columbo Theatre complex. You will need to produce your key to receive your bond. 1 Tuesday Schedule Welcome to Country - 9.30-10.00 Introduction from NUS organisers Mechanical Eng G03 Introduction to NUS by President Rose Steele 10.00-10.30 Mechanical Eng G03 Keynote address - 10.30-11.00 Amanda Tattersal Mechanical Eng G03 11:00-11:15 Break Break Break Break Break Break Break State Politics is More important than Federal Politics Winner Never takes All: Taking on Power & Winning Yarn Workshop Why you should get involved, and how you do it. Why you need friends to gain long lasting change - - - - Alison Rudman Warren Roberts 11.15-12:00 Eamon Waterford Lyndon Schneiders Colombo Theatre B Colombo Theatre C Colombo LG01 Colombo LG02 How our organisation Autonomous Queer Tasmanian education NSW Education Cam- Student and Staff Democracy 101 works: The Constitution, Education and the The Campaign for Social Model 101 Workshop campaign workshop paign Workshop representation and Uni Methods of Election & Rules, and Regs market: The real cost Marriage Equality - - - - council How to Count Votes - - - Andrew Day Isaac Foster & Danica Hannah Smith and Heidi Chloe Smith and Ridah - - 12.00-1:00 Tom Nock and Brendan Lauren Saunders Clare Francis Cheesley La Paglia Hassan Rose Steele Jason Giancono Spackman-Williams Mechanical Eng G03 Goldstein G03 Goldstein G05 Colombo Theatre B Colombo Theatre C Colombo LG01 Colombo LG02 Goldstein G04 Colombo Theatre A 1.00-1.30 Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Media Panel - Featuring Alex McKinnon (Junkee), Susan Templeman (Communications trainer), Chris Graham (New Matilda), 1.30-2.30 Michael Koziol (Fairfax), Lucy Watson (Archer Magazine) Mechanical Eng G03 Activist Plenary: Free Education Plenary: Students money to students What does it look like and how do we get there? Exploring alternative student Union revenue streams - - 2.30-4:00 Ridah Hassan and Declan Murphy Luke Chapman and Izzy Manfield Mechanical Eng G03 Colombo Theatre A 4.00-6:30 Conference Mixer 6.30 - Late - Roundhouse 2 3 Wednesday Schedule Acknowledgement of Country Housekeeping 9.30-10.00 Mechanical Eng G03 Keynote address - 10.00-10.30 Luke Hilikari Mechanical Eng G03 Constitutional University On Campus Safety - What WA education Change: What The hidden history Meeting procedures Organising on Regional restructure I’ve learned in my time ATSI Workshop Education under occupation: campaign work- do the members of students in Central to what we do! The Campuses Decoding the elite attending a poorly lit Indigenous Tertiary Education university in Palestine and the shop want to see Australia nitty gritty of how to have - universities university in the middle of including ITAS and retention rates BDS campaign - - - your say and make it count Heidi La Paglia, Dan - a forest - - 10.30-11.15 Hannah Smith and Rose Steele and Elliot Downes and - Westbury David Shakes and - Bridget Cama Tom Gilchrist and Jack Crawford Jake Wittey Tom Nock Lia Vassiliadis Clare Swan Blythe Worthy Steph Kameric Mechanical Eng G03 Goldstein G03 Goldstein G04 Colombo Theatre A Colombo Colombo LG01 Goldstein G05 Colombo Theatre C Colombo LG02 Theatre B 11:15-11:30 Break Break Break Break Are you cutting through? An Introduction to YARN Health promoting universities Equal Pay today a crash course in Social Media - - - - Warren Roberts Elly Howse Diane Fieldes 11.30-12.15 Courtney Sloane Colombo Theatre A Colombo Theatre C Colombo LG01 Colombo Theature B Student control of funding SSAF Scholarships: Neoliberalism in Berkeley in the 60s: SA education campaign and spaces: Funding and Welfare Offi- The Swedish Model: Democratic This workshop is Just how acces- NUS ‘Talk About It’ Universities: Beyond Running and Organis- Student radicals workshop occupancy agreements and cer’s Meet up socialism or neoliberal success aimed at campus sible are they? survey the Fee ing a State Branch and the free speech - why we should be wary - story? presidents - - - - movement’ Hannah Smith and of them Dean - 12.15-1:00 - Sinead Colee Jess McLeod Mali Rea and Sarah Jake Wittey - Alison Taylor - D’Angelo Angelica Fernandez Rose Steele Spivak Ridah Hassan Lizzy O’shea Colombo Colombo Theatre C Goldstein G03 Mechanical Eng G03 Golstein G05 Goldstein G06 Colombo Theatre A Theatre B Colombo LG01 Goldstein G04 Colombo LG02 1.00-2:00 Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Political Panel - Featuring Rose Steele (NUS President), Sue Lines (Labor Senator for WA) 2.00-3:00 Lee Rhiannon (Greens Senator for NSW), Nat O’Brien (GetUp!), Paul Kniest (NTEU) Mechanical Eng G03 Protest Student union structures in a post VSU environment What works and what doesn’t - - Hana Dalton and Jason Giancomo 3:00-4:00 Abena Dove and Jess Lenehan Colombo Theatre A Mechanical Eng G03 4:00-6:00 Movie Night: Ivory Tower 6:00-Late - University Hall Movie Theatre 4 5 Thursday Schedule Acknowledgement of Country Housekeeping 9.30-10.00 Mechanical Eng G03 Keynote address - 10.00-10.30 Tom Swann Mechanical Eng G03 Union Panel - Featuring Rita Malia (CFMEU), David McElrea (United Voice), Angus McFarland (ASU), George Simon (AMWU), Denis 10.30-11.30 Fitzgerald (Teachers’ Federation) Mechanical Eng G03 Building a Diverse Education How students can exploit elec- QLD Education campaign Victorian Education Bjorn Again: Kicking out Bjorn Running an Effective Campus in a Your Rights at Home, Movement and Inclusive toral politics: Demographics The Spoon Theory workshop campaign workshop Lomborg at UWA and reviving Hostile Environment Uni, Work Campaigning and targeting our message - - - activism on campus - - - - Alison Taylor Hannah Smith and Carl Declan Murphy and - 11.30-12.15 Peter Munford Jasmine Ingram Dean Mattar and Tessa-May Tom Nock Jackson Rose Steele Lizzy O’Shea Zirnsak Colombo Theatre A Colombo LG02 Goldsteain G03 Mechanical Eng G03 Colombo Theatre B Colombo Theatre C Colombo LG01 Goldstein G04 Effective The first revolution is internal” People Power organising of Movement Militancy in the union Adding Community Organising - volunteers Action Plan movement to the tool box Ella Weisbroit - - - - AYCC Ariane 12.15-1:00 Fred Stark Danny Cain David Barrow- Psomotragos Colombo Colombo LG01 Colombo LG02 Colombo Theatre A Theatre B Colombo Theatre C 1.00-2:00 Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch Lunch NUS Office Bearer Reports 2.00-2.45 Mechanical Eng G03 Plenary on the Education Campaign - 2.45-4:00 Elly Morley and Jasmine Ingram Mechanical Eng G03 6 7 Friday Schedule Acknowledgement of Country Housekeeping 9.30-10.00 Mechanical Eng G03 Your rights as an activist - 10.00-10.30 Sydney University SRC Lawyer Mechanical Eng G03 Exclusive Documentary Preview: The Hunting Ground 10.30-11.00 Mechanical Eng G03 Higher Education Lobbying and Activism Policy and Funding. Education Councils Women and the on your campus: How Anonymous How the last ten years and Faculty Societies Federal Budget Black lives matter: the fight Problem Solution Action Managing the Management - to make an impact Marking Anti-Poverty Week of decisions will leave - - against racism in the US - University Relationships - - - you with 10 years Tom Beyer, Nellie Jess McLeod - Amy Knox and Jasmine - Amelia Veronese, Shanley Price Dean D’angelo 11.00-12:00 of debt Monatgue and Betty and Danica Hamza Ingram Brendan Spackman-Williams Brianna Colgan & - Belay Cheesley Shannon Colee Colombo Goldstein G04 Rose Steele Colombo LG02 Goldstein G03 Goldstein G05 Theatre C Colombo Theatre B Colombo LG01 Mechanical Eng G03 Colombo Theatre A Conference Close 12.00-12.30 Mechanical Eng G03 8 9 She was a Greens MP in the NSW Upper House Sue Lines from 1999 -2010, actively pursuing reform in Sue joined the WA Branch of the Australian Speaker areas like the environment, public education, Labor Party in 1983 and began working at transport and industrial relations. Before work- United Voice (formerly LHMU) in 1987 as an ing with the Greens Lee co-founded and spent organiser. In 2000 she became the Assistant Bios five years as Director of AID/WATCH which Branch Secretary of United Voice WA and then scrutinises Australia’s overseas aid program. the National Assistant Secretary in 2007. She MEDIA PANEL Hub community newspaper group, a reporter She was co-ordinator of the NSW Coalition for has also worked as a teacher and a commu- at PolitiFact Australia, an editor at Sydney Gun Control and member of the NSW govern- nity organiser.