Hey!! How are you?? Loved meeting you in the ECOP1001 tute!! So fun!! Me and some friends are running for SRC and it would mean so much to me if you voted. Anyway sorry to be such a hack!! It’s such BS lol. I’m so embarassed I just might DIE!! Anyway you can see all our policies in this week’s Honi Soit Seen at: Election Edition, Semester 2, 2020 / First printed 1929 ELECTORAL OFFICER’S REPORT Acknowledgement of Country Electoral Officer’s Declaration Honi Soit is published on the stolen land of the Gadigal People of the Eora Nation. For over 230 years, First Nations people in this country have suffered from At the time of printing, the nominations Any gaps in Group Letters is due to elections are being conducted online srcusyd.net.au/elections/ webpages the destructive effects of invasion. The editors of this paper recognise that, as a team of settlers occupying the lands of the Bidjigal, Darug, Gadigal, Wangal and contained on pages 4 to 37 have been Groups/Candidates withdrawing and this has resulted in considerable which contains relevant information Wallumedegal people, we are beneficiaries of these reverberations that followed European settlement. As we strive throughout the year to offer a platform to the voices received and have been provisionally between the ballot paper draw and changes in various electoral processes about how to contact me , the Electoral mainstream media ignores, we cannot meet this goal without providing a space for First Nations people to share their experiences and perspectives. A student paper which considered valid by the Electoral opening of polling. The reason that due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Safety Legal Arbiter, Voter Registration, Officer for this year’s Annual Elections they provisionally considered valid, of all participants (voters, candidates, Voting, and all other issues regarding does not acknowledge historical and ongoing colonisation and the white supremacy embedded within Australian society can never adequately represent the students to the 93nd Students’ Representative is that there exists several key dates campaigners) and that of other this election. These webpages will be of the institution in which it operates. We seek to resist colonial violence and the racist power structures that serve to oppress those who are Indigenous to this land. Council (SRC) of the University of due to two Semester and Census dates students, University staff and the public regularly updated as required. Sovereignty was never ceded. Always was and always will be Aboriginal land. Sydney. This includes the nominations and to have the early date is an unfair is paramount. I strongly encourage all eligible for the 35 Representatives to the 93rd disadvantage to those students whose In-person campaigning is permitted students to make their voice heard Students’ Representative Council, and Census date is Monday 28th September subject to the approved processes through voting in this year’s Annual the 7 delegates to the National Union 2020. Candidates whose nominations being followed. These processes will Elections. Best of luck to all candidates! Contents Editorial of Students (NUS). The order that are rejected and those who withdraw be published on the srcusyd.net.au/ the candidates have appeared in this prior to polling, will be removed from elections/ webpages and will be sent to G. Field Policy Statement: good. And not bad. In fact, students newspaper is the same order in which the online ballot paper. all campaign managers. SRC Electoral Officer Editors: Nina Dillon Britton, We are passionate about students, are very cool. And student issues they will appear on the online ballot. This is the first year that the SRC I strongly suggest that you view the 2020 Annual Elections Electoral Officer’s Matthew Forbes, Zhiquan student issues, and student life. We are very important, and we are very Gan, Robbie Mason, Angad want to make the student life better, by passionate about them. And also Report / 3 Roy, Lara Sonnenschein, improving student issues and student not student issues, but also student How does voting work? How does optional Ranuka Tandan, Chuyi Wang, passion. We became passionate about life of which issues are a part. We Madeline Ward, Lei Yao students through our experience of have found our time as being for Voting Requirements you to vote. The Electoral Officer is NUS Tickets / 4 being students, and believe that we and by students, with them too, has To vote, you must: implementing a provisional voting have a unique experience that will been tremendously passionate. We 1. Be a currently enrolled process for those who did not register preferential voting work? SRC Tickets / 8 help us passionately improve student would love to be students, forever, (including deferred) undergraduate or prior to 6:00pm AEST Monday 28th life. We hope that you will vote for if possible. And we are passionate diploma student. September 2020 and this information All the elections will employ the (second ballot), you may vote by either: us, so that we can bring our passion about students, student issues and 2. Have Registered to vote via will be available on srcusyd.net.au/ optional preferential voting method. 1. placing preferences (at least a number SRC Reports / 38 for and of students into the students’ student life. We want to make the http://srcusyd.net.au/elections/ elections. The mail from BigPulse will This means that you must indicate at “1”) to the left of the solid line on the passion. Student life is another student life better, by improving 3. Not have voted before in this contain a link for you to access the SRC least one candidate (marked with a “1”) online ballot paper for a grouping of important part of our platform, of student issues and student passion. year’s SRC Annual Elections. Election page on BigPulse. that you wish to vote for your ballot to be candidates commonly known as Above which we are very passionate about. We became passionate about students There are two different elections Voting opens 09:00am AEST counted as valid. You may then number the Line ; OR 2. placing preferences Students are the lifeblood of student through our experience of being occurring at the same time, being 35 Tuesday 29th September 2020 and (“2”, “3”, and so on) other candidates (at least a number “1”) to the right of Representatives to the 93rd Students’ closes 6pm AEST Thursday 1st October life, and we are passionate about that. students, and believe that we have a according to your preferences, but you the solid line for individual candidates Representative Council, and the 7 2020. We can only hope that students will unique experience that will help us do not need to number every box. commonly known as Below the Line. delegates to the National Union BigPulse is used for USU and see how much students we are like passionately improve student life. We of Students (NUS). Voting for the Senate Elections and should be You cannot use the same number BigPulse will only permit a single 1, so them, and students will let us student hope that you will vote for us, so that President and Editors of Honi Soit is familiar to those who have voted in more than once and the system will not you must choose whether you vote what with them. Passion for students and we can bring our passion for and of not required due to the nominees being these elections previously. The only let you miss a number. In the election is commonly known as “Above the Line student studenting is the utmost students into the students’ passion. provisionally elected. difference is the number of groups for the 7 delegates to NUS (first ballot) “or “Below the Line”. priority of our student life, and we Student life is another important All electors who have registered and candidates contesting the ballot. and the 35 councillors to the 93rd SRC have a lot of experience (as students) part of our platform, of which we are correctly to vote prior to 6:00pm You will be prompted to vote for the living, being and passioning about very passionate about. Students are AEST Monday 28th September 2020 election of 7 Delegates to the National students, and student life. Ultimately, the lifeblood of student life, and we will receive an email from BigPulse Union of Students (NUS) and then 35 we are students, who care and have are passionate about that. We can (online election system) on at 9:00 am Representatives to the 93rd Students’ passion for student issues (all of only hope that students will see how AEST Tuesday 29th September inviting Representative Council. them) including but not limited to much students we are like them, and improving student life. We hope students will let us student with them. that we have convinced you that as a As a student, we have found many student, you should vote for students dark secrets in the University’s tunnel How will my vote be counted? like us, because we too are students system. Truly maleficent forces, For the election of multiple positions, of votes such that no more candidates quota-achieving candidate’s votes are retain the preferences for an eliminated like and for and by and with you. threatening student life, and also i.e. the 35 councillors of the SRC and the than available positions can reach distributed per preferences at a reduced candidate in the way there is for an Finally, we would like to make sure student passion. They include such 7 delegates to the NUS, a proportional this number. If a candidate achieves a value depending on the surplus. elected candidate from quota. If there are you understand that students are evil things as... [TRUNCATED] representation method will be used to surplus over quota, they are declared Distribution of votes will occur firstly no other preferences marked on a ballot calculate elected candidates. This is like elected, and then a “transfer value” of with candidates who fulfil quota; after preferring an eliminated candidate, Disclaimer: Honi Soit is published by the Students’ Representative Council, University of Sydney, Level 1 Wentworth Building, City Road, University of Sydney NSW 2006. The SRC’s the method used to elect the Members that candidate’s votes is calculated with this, elimination of the candidates with then the vote is exhausted and removed operation costs, space and administrative support are financed by the University of Sydney.Honi Soit is printed under the auspices of the SRC’s Directors of Student Publications: of the NSW Legislative Council (the the following formula (retaining any the least number of votes will occur. from the counting process. This process Maia Edge, Peiqing Fan, Nina Mountford, Roisin Murphy, Mikaela Pappou and Maxim Vishney. All expressions are published on the basis that they are not to be regarded as the opinions Upper House), and the Australian remainder): The reason for working out The transfer of votes from eliminated continues until all 35 councillors to the of the SRC unless specifically stated. The Council accepts no responsibility for the accuracy of any of the opinions or information contained within this newspaper, nor does it endorse any Federal Senate. In counting the votes a transfer value is that once a candidate candidates occur at their original value SRC and all 7 delegates to NUS have of the advertisements and insertions. Please direct all advertising inquiries to [email protected]. for these elections, a quota is used (more reaches quota, it is indeterminate as i.e. counts for an entire vote for the been duly filled. precisely, the Droop quota) to determine to which ballots actually elected the next preferred candidate marked on the similar manner the clue for 16 Down Nudes, declarations of whether candidates have been elected candidate and which ones are “surplus”. ballot, unlike the surplus from quota. “Not Easy” in fact fits into the space Where is he? Has Letters affection and hate mail (discarding any remainder): This So, to best capture the preferences of Hence there is no “transfer value” for 16 Across. This error is replicated anyone actually quota exists as the smallest number the greatest number of voters, all the calculated because there is no need to If we’re murdered in every clue, the Down and Across may be sent to: columns being unforgivably switched seen him? [email protected] in the next week around. Which regulations should I know? Alas, being unaware of the above please start issues, I marked the page with a black Regulations affecting SRC Elections who wish to vote (candidates, campaign form of polling material in a language other than pen, and being unable to retract said Write, create were amended on Friday 31st July managers and campaigners) need to be • Hinder the conduct of polling English. (All election material is to investigations marks, my singular hour of peace for 2020, with nominations opening on an elector • Incite others to hinder the conduct be published in English first with the week has been obliterated. I lay Wednesday 5th August 2020 and closing • The Electoral Officer is impartial of polling a translation to another language here: the blame at the feet of the editorial and produce on Wednesday 26th August 2020. • The Electoral Officer’s duties • Use SRC resources in anyway alongside.) Candidates and Campaign Managers are subject to the Constitution and during this election, including store • Preparation and distribution of My dear editors, team, though I do not excuse the initial blunder of “Cloudrunner” -needless to should familiarise themselves with Regulations, to provide for the fair and materials on SRC premises any publication, including any material for Honi Soit these regulations which can be found efficient conduct of the election. • Damage. Destroy or deface any published electronically or on the Regarding the Week 3 Edition of Honi Soit, say I would very much like to contact them and discuss their buffoonery. at srcusyd.net.au/elections. Important A person must not do any of the public or private property inside or internet, commenting in any way on any I would like to bring to your attention to a Interested in reporting or making information on how to contact the following: outside the University election held under these regulations certain error, a quite significant error, in the art for Australia’s only remaining This is your first strike. Electoral Officer, Electoral Legal • Vote if they are not an elector • Engage in Dishonest, Untrue, without having the name and student construction of your “barred crossword.” weekly student newspaper? 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Lauren Lancaster Swapnik Sanagavarapu QLDer locked out of heaven (Arts/Laws I) (Arts/Laws III) D Loves a tiktok @newtkimono A B Once saw Girls Generation live at Tokyo Dome Rain SWITCH for NUS Power for NUS TIME for NUS On Me Policy Statement: Policy Statement: Policy Statement: BLACKPINK in your area

SWITCH for NUS wants a progressive, The National Union of Students (NUS) is VOTE [1] TIME for NUS Matthew Harte accountable, accessible and democratic the peak representative body for all under- VOTE [1] TIME for SRC (Economics I) National Union of Students. graduates across Australia. With the Uni- We believe that a truly effective NUS is Conservative attacks are occuring on versity sector deteriorating before our eyes, an NUS that puts the needs and interests of students across the country. SWITCH for and student welfare on track to further de- all our students first, not just those who are NUS wants a feminist NUS that fights for cline over the coming months, we need an CV: political hacks and hangers-on. consent and choice. We will also take the fight NUS that’s willing to embrace strategies • Delegate, NUS National Conference That’s why we believe it’s TIME for an to the Ramsay Centre and attacks on free which engage our collective Power. Power (20190 NUS with hardworking, competent students speech affecting USyd and other campuses. CV: for NUS will push for a radical NUS, which • Vice-President, USyd SRC (2020) with cool heads and compassionate hearts. In response to the COVID crisis universities • Vice President of USYD Democratic embraces the courageous strategies that • Councillor, Usyd SRC (2019) It’s TIME for an NUS that works towards and governments are cooperating to cut Socialists (2020) have won students power all around the • President, Education and Social Work creating a better campus for all our students, costs - putting their profits over the quality • Vice President of USYD world, including, in years gone by, at the Society (2019-2020) especially those who are struggling in these of our education by putting up legislation Internationalist Society (2020) University of Sydney. • President, Democratic Socialist Society difficult times. that will add barriers to low-socioeconomic • Secretary of STARSOC; the Astrology We will push NUS to take a more con- • (2019-2020) It’s TIME for an NUS that works for and disabled students from accessing Society (2020) frontational approach to the campaign Thomas Williams • Social Secretary, Sydney University funds that actually help students right across HECS-HELP. These same institutions are • Member of SASS (2019-) CV: against the Morrison government’s attacks (Science III) Dramatic Society (2019-2020) campuses in our country. also collaborating to evade responsibility • Member of SUGS (2020-) • USYD Enviro Collective member and on the higher education sector and the peo- • Failed candidate (2018) IT’s TIME for an NUS that isn’t for their role in the degradation of the • Member of SUDS (2020-) enthusiast (2020, aggressively ongoing) ple who constitute it. Among other things, Altay Hagrebet a political mouthpiece, but rather a environment. Universities and governments • Member of Drug Law Reform Society • Grassroots, member (2020, also we will push for more frequent National (Arts III) Hektor Vineburg constructive forum that acts with decently should be divesting from fossil fuels and (2019-2020) aggressively ongoing) Days of Action, collaborate with rank and (Arts III) and civility to achieve common goals. funding research into a just transition to • Member of Sydney University • Australian Student Environment file workers pushing for strikes, and push for TIME for Responsibility. TIME for public renewable energy and other public Women’s Collective Network ASEN, member (2020) NUS to resource campuses with smaller or- Roisin Murphy civility. TIME for NUS. renewable infrastructure. • Member of Sydney University Enviro • Owns platform docs, thus police profile ganising bases, with a view towards action (FASS II) VOTE [1] TIME for NUS CV: We want the NUS to take on these Collective me as an anarchist which is mass, action which is disruptive, VOTE [1] TIME for SRC • 18 year old boomer institutions both on the streets and also • Member of Sydney University • NSW Education Action Group, Clubs and action which is grassroots. • Find me at the local pub every Friday in the rooms where decisions are made. Education Action Group against the Cuts and GOVT Against Moreover, in the face of runaway cli- Maia Edge night The NUS should run engaging campaigns • Councillor of the 92nd University of the Cuts organising + protests BLM mate change—by far the biggest threat to (Science II) • Consider baked beans and spam on with the input of students collaborating Sydney SRC (2020) organising and protests (within ASEN) the long-term welfare of young people—we toast a delicacy across campuses. SWITCH for NUS will • SRC Director of Student Publications • SASS, SUDS, Photosoc, Food n Wine need an NUS that will prioritise the existen- • Flat white sob consistently pressure universities and (2020) • Pru for USU Campaigner (2020), tial struggle for ecological justice. Power for governments to allow trans and non- • National Union of Students National • SRC Mutual Aid deliveries (2020), NUS will push for the reintroduction of the binary students to allow both name and Conference Delegate (2019) • Writer for Honi Soit 2020 a couple of NUS’ Environment department as an au- Alexander Back gender changes. This will promote ease • Secretary of Reclaim the Night: Sydney times tonomous responsibility of the Australian (Arts and Social Sciences II) and accessibility for these students when (2019) • Mediocre debater (2014-18) Students’ Environment Network (ASEN), accessing a range of student services • Slightly better debating coach including empowering them to elect an CV: and spaces as well as ensuring a safe and (2019-current) NUS Environment Officer. • Co-Curricular School Captain, 3x inclusive campus. Prudence Wilkins-Wheat • Nationals Cross Country and All For too long the NUS has been the play- member of Student Council, House SWITCH for NUS also wants the NUS to (Arts/Laws IV) Schools Triathlons thing of Labor hacks who lack the imagina- Amanda Dheerasekara CV: Leader/Prefect etc., elected to 2018 campaign for better access to properly-paid • Makes a mean halloumi burger, tion and bravery to go to war for students. (Arts V) • Archivist, SUDS (2020) National Schools Constitutional employment, affordable and quality housing, feminist and anti-capitalist Power for NUS are a dedicated team of ac- • Secretary, Democratic Socialists Convention, has served on the and cheaper public transport - especially for • Hates sound of people chewing, tivists who are independent of major parties Society (2020) Executive of 2x USYD clubs/societies international students. SWITCH for NUS worker exploitation, First Nations and have a proven record of putting the fight • General Executive, Drug Law Reform • Sports Legend: Former Swimming Age will fight for better access to education injustice and climate inaction. Loves for students ahead of their careers. So this Society (2020) Champion, once placed in a school for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander a good party, live gigs, the ocean and September 29, 30, and October 1: C • General Executive, StarSoc (2020) cross country by getting lost, taking students, for more Indigenous courses that olives on pizza! Vote [1] Power for NUS • Member, WoCo (2020) a wrong turn and skipping a lap and are taught by Indigenous academics, and Swapnik Sanagavarapu is President! • Reporter, Honi Soit (2019-2020) CV: plays cricket for social justice for Aboriginal and Torres Lia Perkins • Contributor, PULP Media (2020) Director of Student Publications, 92nd SRC • 50% Sri Lankan, looks 100% white kid Strait Islander communities. We need to (Arts I) PUMP for NUS • Almost Honi Candidate (2020) Moderator, Minecraft Society (2019-present) • Proud Westie (What actually is any- both decommodify and decolonise our Liam Donohoe Secretary, Women in Technology thing east of Blacktown?) Policy Statement: universities. We also want to improve access (Arts V) Vivienne Goodes (2019-present) • Musician, plays several instruments to mental health services like Counselling (FASS II) National Youth Science Forum 2018 (with *varying* degrees of proficiency, This year, having a strong NUS has and Psychological Services which are alumna 40 hours each) been more important than ever. PUMP currently capped at 6 sessions. CV: Lactose intolerant (2018-present) • Motto: Why run when you can walk? • SRC Environment Officer (2020) representatives in NUS have been essential Cheese aficionado (2001-2018) • Road work ahead? Sure hope it does. to making sure our union is committed to Shreyaa Sundararaghavan • SRC Councillor (2019) Supported Everton FC since birth so I can what matters most to students. We were (B. Arts / B. Advanced Studies I) • Fern lover (1998) cope with losing central to the campaign to get Austudy Knows every word to Soph Aspin Send by and Youth Allowance included in the Millie B Ellie Stephenson Coronavirus supplement, and we’ve been E (Bachelor of Arts/Advanced Studies III) fighting the federal government’s cuts to Nicholas Comino tertiary education every step of the way. (FASS II) The attack on university students won’t stop next year, and neither will we. Aladeen (End White We’ll PUMP UP ENGAGEMENT by making sure NUS campaigns are present at Supremacy) Drew Beacom USyd, fighting for Usyd students to have a (Bachelor of Arts/Advanced Studies voice on a national level. We’ll also build CV: the power of NUS by engaging new students • SRC General Executive (2020) (International and Global Studies) III) Policy Statement: and campuses into the national union. • SRC Councillor (2020) CV: We’ll PUMP UP ACTIVISM by keeping President, USyd SRC, 2020 Democracy sucks! If Democracy existed • up the fight against fee hikes, as well as Thomas Sargeant Editor, Honi Soit, 2018 in NUS, there would be representation of • engaging NUS with other campaigns for (FASS II) safety on campus and climate action. We’ll all students which will screw the worthless bring NUS into the campaigns against staff parasitical Hacks and NUS conference will CV: Meredith Eicherly cuts and course cuts at USyd. be more than a dog’s breakfast of a few • Drug law reform society (Arts and Social Sciences II) We’ll PUMP UP YOUR NUS by factions. • SASS engaging next year’s SRC on the campaigns Democracy would mean: • Democratic socialist society that NUS runs, and making sure that it fights Affirmative Action to ensure half of the • Political society for you! If you want an active, energetic, NUS Office Bearers and Executives to be • Star soc CV: and engaged NUS: consisted of Women, 1/3 of the International • Bachelor of arts/advanced studies • SRC Councillor 2019 Vote [1] PUMP for NUS! students, and 1/3 of the people of color and (politics and international relations), • Welfare Officer 2019 CV: Vote [1] PUMP for Students! religious minorities. first year • Pulp Editor 2020 2019/2020-SRC Councillor - COLLEGES Vote [1] Swapnik Sanagavarapu for Campaign for Covid-19 support for • Still doesn’t know how to pronounce • FASS Italian Department Rep 2018 FOR SRC President! International Students. their own last name St Pauls College Resident All Office Bearers must be paid equally Agricultural Economics/Politics Student Felix Faber NOBs and executives to be chosen from Mikaela Pappou Politics Society Exec (Arts/Social Work III) the NUS delegates only (excluding the (Arts II) Palladian Dance, Vocal (Robbed) non-affiliated campuses).

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Naziul Khan care industry to ensure proper care for the Homophobia and Community CV: CV: CV: education system. Joel Jenkins (Science/Law II) elderly. Action for Rainbow Rights activist, Communist, 2020 • Revolutionary Marxist, 2018-present • Revolutionary Communist, UNITE will work with the NUS on (FASS/Economics I) 2019-present Education Action Group activist, 2020 • SRC Social Justice Officer, 2019-2020 2018-present education campaigns, and bring NUS Jack Mansell • Protested against the Religious Promoted the Sydney Black Lives Matter, • Black Lives Matter activist, 2019-2020 • Social Work student and wrote the efforts to campus, to ensure the security of Mattia Dolera (Arts III) Discrimination Bill and campaigned 2020 • Tear gassed at Yellow Vest protests in petition against the sacking of 30% of education in the future. UNITE will fight (FASS I) against Mark Latham’s transphobic Michael Spence makes 7 figures a year Paris, 2018 Social Work staff against all fee increases which ultimately Parental Rights Bill, 2019-present and doesn’t event teach, 2020 • Education Action Group activist, • Students for Palestine activist, target low-SES students, and campaign CV: • Education Action Group activist, 2019-present 2018-present fervently against attacks on HECS to ensure • International Student 2019-present • Fought against USYD course cuts, • Palestinian Solidarity activist, an accessible education for all. • Passionate learner • Hates capitalism, 2018-present 2020 2018-present UNITE to RAISE NEWSTART • History of leadership in extracurricular G • Campaigned to Sack Scomo during University students and staff were left activities Kimberley Murphy summer bushfires, 2019-2020 Yasmine Johnson behind on the JobSeeker and JobKeeper • Professional history of working in (Arts III) • Art History student who quotes John (Science III) payments for far too long. NUS played communication Berger too much, 2018-present a transformative role in the inclusion of • Advocate for the Arts Grassroots for NUS • Dropped Philosophy, 2020 university students on government welfare • Fluency in 4 languages payments, to ensure students had financial Lilian Campbell Madeleine Powell stability during the course of the pandemic. Charlotte Bullock (Arts III) (Arts II) UNITE will continue this advocacy and (Arts/Laws III) CV: support the raising of Newstart and Youth • The last great dictator. Allowance to ensure that no young person CV: • Will end White Supremacy. has to worry about where their next meal is • Activities Officer Shades (2019-) • Will end Domestic Students coming from. • Secretary ALP Club (2019-) Supremacy. UNITE for CLIMATE ACTION • Vice President SRC (2020) • Will Aladeen all Hacks. CV: Climate change is the biggest issue • Hacks looking for jobs can Aladeen. • Revolutionary Marxist and Red Flag facing our generation. UNITE for NUS will Emma Hogan • Only merit will Aladeen. salesman, 2017-present continue to create and aid in campaigns to (FASS I) • Aladeen Aladeen. • SRC Education Officer, 2020 call for climate action, and lobby universities • Aladeen of Straya , Aladeen of Wadia. • SRC Councillor, 2020 all over Australia to divest from fossil fuels CV: • NUS National Conference Official CV: and invest in renewable energy research. • Member, ALP Club Observer, 2019 • Proud National Tertiary Education UNITE will also work with NUS to liaise • NUS Education Conference CV: Union member at the USU, 2019-2020 with disability organisations to ensure participant, 2017-2020 • Revolutionary Socialist, 2016-present • Revolutionary Socialist, 2019-2020 accessible, safe, and inclusive climate action F • NUS Education Conference workshop • Students for Palestine activist and • NTEU Fightback activist against cuts for all students. facilitator 2018-2020 organiser, 2017-present to staff conditions and pay, 2020 • Played a leading role in the current • Anti-racism activist, organised anti- CV: • Education Action Group activist Angelina Gu Left Action for NUS campaign against uni fee hikes and uni far right rallies on and off campus, CV: • Community Action for Rainbow organising against course cuts and fee (Arts II) cuts, 2020 2017-present • Revolutionary Socialist, 2016-present Rights activist against homophobia hikes, 2020 • Education Action Group activist, • SRC Councillor 2017 and transphobia, 2017 - Policy Statement: • SRC Education Officer, 2018 • Designed a guillotine that struck fear 2017-present • SRC Social Justice Officer 2017-2019 • Murdered the racist Ramsay Centre for • Sydney University Education Action into the heart of VC Michael Spence, • NTEU rank and file activist, 2019 • Education Action Group activist, Group activist, 2018 - 1. Abolish the police. The police are the Western Civilisation, 2018 2020 • Stood with striking staff on the picket stood on picket lines with striking staff • Building BLM solidarity protests in footsoldiers of the rich and powerful, • Certified enemy of Western • Extinction Rebellion activist, 2019 lines at USYD, 2017 and campaigned against course cuts, Sydney, 2020 existing to protect private property and Civilisation, 2018-present • Uni Students for Climate Justice • Organised massive Sack Scomo rallies 2016-present • Organising rallies for climate justice repress protest. • Yelled at Bronwyn Bishop on Sky member, organised demonstrations as a part of Uni Students for Climate including the Sydney Uni Climate 2. Permanently extend increases to News, 2018 around the bushfires, 2020 Justice, 2019-2020 Edwina Stephenson Strike walkoff, 2019 welfare. Welfare recipients should not go • Unlawfully jailed for 27 hours for • Former Stop Adani and XR activist (Arts III) • Organising in the campaign for back to living close to or below the poverty protesting the climate crisis, 2019 abortion rights including countering line. • SRC Environment Officer, 2020 Madeleine Clark the anti-choice Day of the Unborn H 3. Make education free again. We support • National Union of Students LGBTI (Arts II) Child, 2017 - free, publicly-funded university education. Officer, 2019 We oppose Den Tehan’s exorbitant fee • SRC Welfare Officer, 2017 Holly Hayne hikes and his punitive attempts to revoke • Studies history in spare time, UNITE for NUS (Arts II) HECS loans from failing students. We 2016-present oppose the exploitation of international Policy Statement: students that administrations have used to Ellie Wilson line their pockets. (Arts V) UNITE for NUS 4. No uni cuts. Left Action activists have The National Union of Students CV: been spearheading the campaign against (NUS) is the peak representative body for • General Executive, National Union of the university’s attempts to slash courses. all undergraduate students in Australia. Students All courses that have been cut should be UNITE believes in the power of the NUS • SRC Councillor 2020 reinstated to make progressive change for all students. • Socials Director, SASS 5. Support for protests. The SRC We know it’s important to have a strong • Secretary, Minecraft Society should be a proudly left-wing, activist representative body advocating for student • Participated in National Conference body, and Left Action councillors will use issues on a national level, from campaigning last year, as well as Education their positions to build protest movements against fee hikes to advocating to raise Conference in 2019 and 2020 wherever we can. Newstart and Youth Allowance. The CV: CV: 6. Fight racism. Fight the UNITE team will maintain the integrity of Ben Jones • Revolutionary Socialist, 2018-present • Revolutionary Socialist, 2019-present disproportionate rates of police violence and your student union, and ensure that USyd (Arts/Laws II) • SRC Welfare Officer, 2019-present • Witness to capitalism™s historic imprisonment that Indigenous people face. students get their say in the policies and • Stop Adani activist, 2018-2019 economic, social and ecological crisis, CV: Abolish Australia Day. Solidarity with the campaigns that the NUS puts forward. • Community Action for Rainbow 2020-indefinite future • Revolutionary Marxist, 2018-present Black Lives Matter movement in America. This is why we’re running candidates that Rights activist, organised protests • Education Action Group activist • SRC Global Solidarity Officer, Fight racism against international students. believe in strengthening and empowering against the Religious Exemptions Bill against uni fee hikes and uni cuts, 2019-present 7. Fight the climate crisis. Transition the union so they can continue the activist and Against Mark Latham’s Bill, 2019-present • Education Action Group activist to 100% renewables by 2030 and tax the CV: and advocacy work they do, while also 2019-present • Uni Students for Climate Justice campaigning against fee hikes criminals responsible for the crisis to pay • SRC Women’s Officer, 2020 ensuring that our student voices are being • Helped promote Black Lives Matter activist, organised massive Sack Scomo and attacks on higher education, for it. • SRC Ethnocultural Officer, 2019 heard. Electing the UNITE team as your solidarity demonstrations, 2020 rallies, 2019-present 2019-present 8. International solidarity. Support • Convenor, Autonomous Collective delegates to National Conference ensures • Extinction Rebellion member, 2019 • Helped organised USYD Climate international protest movements against Against Racism, 2019 that we can support experienced candidates Grace Bowskill • Occasionally found in a Latin or Strikes, 2019-2020 injustice and authoritarianism, including • Observer, National Union of Students’ to NationalOffice and push a progressive (Arts II) History class, 2018-present • Students for Palestine member, those in Hong Kong last year, and those National Conference, 2019 policy agenda to keep the Union strong and • Historia omnium societatum priorum 2019-present currently taking place in America, Thailand, on the right track. We need our National est historia certaminis generum Belarus and Lebanon. Free Palestine. Free Deaglan Godwin Union to be a body fighting back against the Sophie Haslam the refugees. (Arts II) war on young people. UNITE believes in Simon Upitis (Arts III) 9. Solidarity with university staff. We an NUS that is focused on real and pressing (Arts I) stand with the NTEU Fightback Campaign student issues, fighting back at every attack against uni management’s attempts to sack on our education. Our UNITE delegates will staff and cut wages. Extend JobKeeper advocate to ensure that the NUS remains eligibility to universities. Staff teaching focused on issues like affordable housing, conditions are student learning conditions. student poverty, accessible education,and 10. Increase funding for health care. The climate change. CV: pandemic has revealed the inadequacy of UNITE to PROTECT OUR • ALP Club healthcare systems around the world. We EDUCATION • SASS demand the government increase funding In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, • SULS to hospitals, hire more healthcare workers, more attacks have been directed at our • Minesoc CV: pay for mass coronavirus testing and mask education then ever. The government’s • Revolutionary Marxist, 2018-present distribution, and pay to ensure humane, clear lack of empathy towards young people Charlotte Ainsworth • SRC councillor, 2019-present comfortable quarantining facilities when and attack on education, will result in an (FASS) • Community Action Against they are necessary. Nationalise the aged increasingly inaccessible and classist tertiary

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Margaret Thanos CV: needs met to the same standard as domestic (2020 - present) CV: • Dalyell Scholar (2018-present) Arts III - President of BarberSoc A Cappella (2020) students. We’ll fight for that. • Official Games Master at Fox in a Box • Woolies boy (2016 - ) • HSC distinguished achiever (2019) • Some misc academic prizes including A - Secretary of BarberSoc A Cappella (2019) Listening and Responding to Student Escape Rooms (2019 - 2020) • Almost a Dalyell Scholar • HSC tutor (2020) Dean’s List (2018, 2019) and an - USYD Science Revue cast member (2018, Concerns • Awarded highschool Academic • ¼ vegetarian • Tall (very) Academic Merit Prize (2019) 2019) No two people are the same. Nor are Achievement and High-Level Music • Nice at karaoke • Ironic Liz Lad (2000-present) PUMP for - SUDS Presents: Band Revue cast member their stresses, their mental health battles, Dux • Knows like a few 80’s songs (2020) and nor are their remedies. That’s why • On the winning team of every PM-soc Talan Ramsay Performing Arts - Honi Soit contributor (2020) more than anything else, it’s important to Trivia Night Grace Steriovski Bachelor of Science III listen to everyone. If elected, we pledge to • Went to a performing arts school and Bachelor of Engineering Honours C Phoebe Russell hold fortnightly ‘open office’ hours where still got accepted into engineering (Electrical Engineering) and Bachelor of Policy Statement: Business III anyone can talk about their battles, ask us Commerce I to advocate for specific change, or just be Callum Gapes The performing arts are dying on campus. heard. We’ll fight for a larger, semesterly B.Eng/B.Sci III SWITCH for Student Even before COVID hit, issues with forum to discuss and address systemic and funding, rehearsal and performance spaces cultural problems. and lack of University support had already Establishing a Mental Health Committee Privacy led to a massive downturn in the capacity for on the SRC Policy statement: performing arts to operate. Students deserve There should be an officer prescribed by an SRC that fights for creative, experimental the Regulations of the SRC whose main SWITCH for Student Privacy and accessible theatre, comedy, revues, duty is to advocate for and develop mental Student data privacy has never been more musicals and other performances that are health policy. Mental health is not only important in a world that is increasingly CV: well funded and can put students over profit. legitimately deserving of such a position, reliant on technology for everyday life. As • President of SUDS (2020) As students, we’re still often finding our but as it affects the entire population so the COVID-19 pandemic has forced nearly • Student Representative for Theatre and creative voices and doing so is made near greatly, it’s a wonder as to why the position all student learning to take place online, the Performance Studies (2020) impossible when there’s a bottom line to of Mental Health Officer doesn’t already University has relied on private proctoring • Cellar Officer on SUDS exec (2019) meet. COVID has shown us how much exist. companies such as ProctorU to deliver • Womn’s Revue: Co-Producer (2019), we all rely on the arts industry to keep us online assessments. Sound Operator (2018) thinking critically and entertained. The Riley Vaughan ProctorU collects personal information Yichuan Liang • ARNA Contributor (2020) Australian government is attacking the Engineering (Elec.) and Law II about staff and students, violating their Bachelor of Science III • Has done triple the amount of shows arts and university students from all sides digital and personal privacy. Despite our than the 20 years she’s been alive and it’s up to us to fight back against these CV: warnings and opposition, the university Jack Steel • Agreed to coordinate 200 people in a changes. USYD has long been home to • HSC tutor and lecturer (2020 - ) used this technology for assessments in Bachelor of Engineering Honours 168 hour long improvised show called a thriving and innovative performing arts CV: • Self proclaimed chocolate chip cookie many units of study in Semester 1. (Mechanical)/ Bachelor of Science V MOIST CV: community that many students come to • President, SUMO (2020 - ) expert Recently, it emerged that ProctorU • Spent 30 hours straight at uni for ‘art’ - Producer, Queer Revue (2020) USYD for. The Chasers, Kip Williams (STC • Maths Tutor, Matrix Education (2020 • Too many perfect attendance awards had been hacked and sensitive personal Esher Tyson • Yes I know who Thanos is. No I am - Publicity Officer, Queer Revue (2020) artistic director), Rose Byrne and many - ) • Good with names (learnt everyone’s information of University of Sydney staff Bachelor of Engineering/Bachelor of not secretly purple. Yes I can click my - SUDS member and involved in 4 more notable alumni have gotten started • Educator, CodeSpace Education (2019 name on first year camp) stored by ProctorU had been publicly Medical Science IV fingers for you. productions between 2019-2020 at USYD and want to make sure the next - Cast, Queer Revue (2020) - ) • 5 Star town in Animal crossing (I know leaked. SWITCH for Student Privacy wave of artists have the facilities, funding • Secretary, SUMO (2019 - 2020) how to care for my villagers) are strongly opposed to ProctorU and Jake Parker and support to learn and thrive. We have • Sponsorship, PhotoSoc (2019 - ) support policy changes that make online an opportunity to save the performing arts Arts III • Research Assistant, USYD Centre for Taylah Smith learning private and safe for all staff and culture on campus and invigorate a new Complex Systems (2019) B.Eng/B.Sci students. SWITCH for Student Privacy wave of quality Australian art. B • Marketing Officer, SUMO (2018 - recognises that data privacy has particular We’ll fight to lower Seymour Centre 2019) consequences for already vulnerable people fees and to guarantee spots in the calendar • Treasurer, PhySoc (2018 - 2019) who face public and private discrimination D for students so that Revues and major • General Executive, PhotoSoc (2018- based on their identities. productions can access high quality Engineers for Mental 2019) If elected to SRC, SWITCH for Student performance venues without agonising • Dalyell Scholar Privacy will: SWITCH for SRC over funding. The University operates the Health CV: • Big Mac Chef (2016 - 2019) Continue to advocate for measures to Seymour Centre on a for-profit model, • Events Director, SUEUA (2019-2020) • At least 50% tea protect students’ privacy including the creating a red line for the venue to meet each Polict statement: • Vice-President, Sparksoc (2019-2020) university wide abandonment of ProctorU, Policy statement: year. This means over the years, student- • Can confidently speedrun Minecraft Madeleine Kan for all future assessments. led shows have been forced out of the How is your mental health? sub one hour, working on the record B. Eng/B. Laws I We will oppose any attempts to replace SWITCH for SRC is a progressive ticket performance space that was built for them It’s not a question you’d likely hear from • Social Justice and Equity Committee ProctorU with another private proctoring that is committed to student services. We in the first place, in order to accomodate a close friend, let alone a student in your Member, Sydney University Law service. are a group of students who believe that more profitable shows and companies. cohort - but why? If someone walked onto Society (2019-2020) We will fight for the replacement of all the SRC should not be used for careerist When you pay rent at the Seymour campus wearing a fibreglass cast over their • Sponsorship Director, SUEUA online exams with alternatives which take ends, especially in a climate like this which centre, it goes directly into the University CV: shin, you’d ask them what had happened. Centenary Gala Committee (2019- into consideration student welfare and best requires a competent and activist organisa- of Sydney Bank Account, so why should • Sydney University Dramatic Society You’d ask them if they were alright. You’d 2020) practice education pedagogy. tion. Our SRC can make a real difference in revues and other shows be forking out (Social Secretary - 2019, Vice President ask them if you could help. People who • Terracotta (cafe near Redfern station) VOTE [1] SWITCH FOR STUDENT the lives and struggles of everyday students between $7000 and $20 000 to line the 2020) might wish they could just don a fibreglass deserves your money PRIVAC on and off-campus, and we want to maxi- university’s pockets for just one week? Why • Education and Social Work Society cast over their emotions, those who might • Treasurer and Founder, USYD STEM- VOTE [1] SWAPNIK mize its potential. should students SSAF fees be used to pay (Vice President - 2020) wish that someone would just reach out a Law Society (2019-2020) CV: SANAGAVARAPU IS PRESIDENT We will fight for the rights of students the university for amenities which could • SHADES (Graphics Officer 2020) word or a hand, suffer silently. There isn’t • Faculty Representative, School of • Dalyell Scholar (2020) VOTE [1] SWITCH FOR NUS off campus whose needs are not currently be provided for free? Why should SSAF • Queer Revue (Producer - 2019, Vice a culture of communication about mental Mathematics (2019-2020) • Leadership scholar (2020-) addressed, expanding mutual aid programs paying students and societies consistently President - 2020) health, and that’s what we’ll stop at nothing • Offered free shirts by Ribs and Burgers • Engineering Revue representative Oscar Chaffey and support for international students. need to fundraise to use university owned • Commerce Revue (Secretary - 2020) to change. Any student, any friend, could be for commenting on their posts a lot (2020) Bachelor of Science III SWITCH for SRC will ensure that in- spaces like the Seymour centre? These fees • USYD Revue (Producer - 2020) going through an invisible hurricane, and • Faculty Representative, Faculty of • Peer mentor, Loreto Kirribilli High grained factional interests and the student are unreasonable for university students, • Rewatching Shrek 2 on a biweekly those studying engineering are even more at Engineering (2019-2020) CV: School (2020) politicians that perpetuate them are kept particularly given the small amounts of schedule (2004 Onwards) risk due to the intense nature of their degree. • Engo Peer Mentor (2020) • Red Cross Lifeblood Team Champion, • HSC tutor (2020) honest. A vote for SWITCH for SRC is a funding and grants that revues and societies In spite of this, the engineering precinct is • Engineers Australia Summer School University of Sydney Societies 2020 • HSC all rounder (2019) vote for a fresh perspective. It’s a vote for currently receive. Lower fees will allow Chloe Singleton especially devoid of any mental health Leader (2019-2020) • Head of Student Wellbeing, Kincoppal an honest, progressive and student-focused societies and other student groups to put on Arts IV support. Let’s change that, together, by: Rose-Bay (2018/2019) Tess Taylor SRC. more productions without worrying about Improving the Visibility of Mental Emily Storey • Shaved for the World’’s Greatest Shave Engineering/I SWITCH for SRC has experienced the bankrupting the society bank account. Health Services around PNR Mechatronic Engineering I • HSC All-round Achiever (2019) valuable services the SRC provides first We are committed to facilitating and We want to reduce the size of the hurdle • Still need the lane bumpers in bowling hand. We will attempt to increase the num- advocating for affordable performance it takes to seek mental health advice or (personal best is 42) ber of caseworkers employed by the SRC and rehearsal spaces on campus to allow support. We want to foster a community • High School Tutor and Student Mentor and expand its legal service. We also want students the freedom to create affordable willing to discuss troubles, a community (2020- ) to increase relationships with satellite cam- and high quality theatre. We’ll fight to willing to share each other’s load. Let’s • Addicted to all things chilli puses. renovate existing performance and rehearsal increase the amount of posters and SWITCH for SRC will fight for interna- spaces to finally make them accessible to all billboards with support hotlines around the Stirling Fogarty tional student rights, including concession students. It’s essential that all students have engineering precinct, engage with batyr and B.Engineering/B.Commerce 1 tickets, more services, visa and immigration the opportunity to create and develop art that headspace about running workshops on this help and rent assistance. represents their perspective. However, many side of campus, and make sure all students SWITCH for SRC wants a campus that rehearsal spaces on campus aren’t accessible are made aware of the support network CV: does not tolerate racism, sexism, and queer- and the only dedicated performance. around them at the start of each semester. • A science student that cares phobia. It’s time to SWITCH to an alterna- Fighting for a Multilingual CAPS (2018-present tive and put students first. It takes immense courage to visit any • Organiser in Say NO to ProctorU counselling service, especially the shrouded movement (2020) and to-be-founded Prudence Wilkins-Wheat behemoth that is CAPS; while that’s bad queer scientists society (2020) Arts/Laws IV enough on it’s own, the courage required • Campaigned for Activist Strikeback for to visit CAPS, to share intensely personal CV: SRC and Liam Donohoe in 2019 stories in a second or third language, is • Secretary of AIAA USSB (2020 - CV: • Reporter for Honi Soit (2018-present) far greater. It shouldn’t be. International present) • Treasurer, Engineering Revue Society • Mediocre non-breaking debater students should have their psychological • First year representative of SUWIE (2020-2021) at several USU debating minis

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working conditions for staff. Education is - Hold a semesterly “Equity Forum” • Subcommittee Member, American Sean Auer and this must stop. UNITE will commit to CV: to students in need of legal or financial dependent on its educators. - Gaining feedback from students is Institute of Aeronautics and Bachelor of Engineering Honours lobbying USyd to divest from fossil fuels and • ALP Club services. These services should be offered in On a national level, Grassroots Against imperative to our values of advocacy Astronautics University of Sydney (Aeronautical Engineering) and Bachelor instead shift towards research into renewable • Minesoc a multilingual capacity. Course Cuts will oppose fee increases and and communication. We would hold an Student Branch (2019-2020) of Science (Mathematics) I energy sources. Renewable energy sources • SASS 3. Emergency accommodation advocate for free education through the open forum each semester, with access • Volunteer, Engineers Without Borders are our future, and students deserve to be • SULS caseworker SRC. Corporate universities justify course to specialised minority representatives University of Sydney Chapter (2019- able to trust that their university actually As COVID has caused a huge disruption cuts via federal funding shortfalls, which available to discuss how to best support 2020) prioritises their future. It is therefore Angelina Gu to many students, moving from home has is unacceptable on both fronts. Education minorities as a whole, and to help with any • Daylell Scholar (2019-2020) crucial that the university continues to fund Arts II become a sad reality for some. The SRC must be properly funded. Everyone deserves specific issues students may face. • School Captain, Mater Maria Catholic research into renewable energy and climate should provide students with an emergency an education that is free with a diversity of - Advocate for the publication of an College (2018) change, to provide a better understanding accommodation caseworker who is able courses. “Equity Briefing” • Walking advertisement for pea snaps of our environment and what we can do to to guide students to the right services they Grassroots Against Course Cuts stands - Currently, there is a lack of awareness and birkenstocks (always) save it. Further, the investment in renewable need for accommodation. There are many against cops on campus. The repression of of what resources are available to students energy both accelerates the creation of an charities and not-for-profit organisations democratic protest is totally unacceptable who may be struggling with equity-related Emilia Winzenberg environmentally sustainable society and that offer emergency accommodation, and CV: at an institution of learning. We condemn issues, as well as any information on the Engineering/2017 presents a fantastic economic opportunity the SRC should ensure students are fully management inviting police on campus, and statistics of minority groups within the for USyd and its students. As such UNITE aware of the options available to them. • SRC Environment Officer (2020) will advocate for the safety of students. university. We would establish a publication is committed to ensuring that climate action 4. Textbook loan subsidy scheme • SRC Councillor (2019) VOTE [1] GRASSROOTS AGAINST outlining where to go, who to talk to and by the university administration continually It is about time the SRC implements • Fern lover (1998) COURSE CUTS how to get help if you are struggling, as moves away from a greenwashed approach a university-wide textbook loan subsidy VOTE [1] GRASSROOTS FOR NUS well as information pertaining to the data to more impactful and drastic change, scheme, that does not discriminate a Genevieve Couvret SWAPNIK IS PRES! on underrepresented groups. involving divestment and a commitment to students’ discipline or faculty. Textbooks Bachelor of Arts/Laws IV leading climate research action in Australia. can be expensive and difficult to arrange. Kedar Maddali Isabella Anderssen Fundamentally, UNITE believes that USyd Through a system of purchasing second- Arts III Biomedical Engineering and Computer can do better and that in the midst of an hand textbooks, the SRC should loan Coco Frohlich Science II CV: environmental crisis, Sydney University students with these textbooks or sell them at Bachelor of Arts/Laws IV • Dalyell Scholar (2020) students deserve much more. CV: half the retail price. • Engineering Revue Representative 2. UNITE FOR ACCESSIBLE AND • Arts II 5. Online study library sessions (2020) SUSTAINABLE RESOURCES • Current councillor of the 92nd SRC The SRC should manage an online • Convenor of Engo Bookclub (2020) Sustainability cannot be achieved • Social Justice Officer, SRC library study session over zoom to provide • Currently halfway through Infinite Jest without inclusivity and accessibility. • SASS Socials Director domestic and international students who E • Engo FYC Spirit Hunt Champion UNITE will prioritise the creation of • ALP Club Gen Exec opt for online classes, the opportunity to get (2020) resources (which are environmentally • Minecraft Society Secretary a feel for a virtual library. • High School Mathematics Tutor (2020) sustainable) to distribute during Welcome • General Executive, National Union of • Volunteer at St Vincent de Paul’s Night Week with information on the Climate Students Ibrahim Taha Free Parking CV: Patrol (2019-2020) Strike movement and USyd SRC’s Law III • Second Year Representative, SUABE • Dux of Marist College North Shore Environmental Collective to ensure students Ibrahim Khan (2018-2019) (2019) have accessible knowledge and information BA LAW 1 Policy Statement: • Region Coordinator & School Outreach regarding the climate movement. Further, Volunteer, Engineers Without Borders UNITE will advocate for the increased use Leo Su Who wants free parking at uni? Everyone. CV: (2018) Hugh Barker of sustainable resources by all faculties, as Arts/Law II How can you get free parking at uni? • Director of Student Publications • Class Representative, Human Biology Biomedical Engineering/Commerce I well as continued lobbying of the university Vote for Free Parking. • ACAR Honi editor (2017) to improve recycling facilities, and work Scott Hansford Why is parking at uni so expensive? • Honi Soit Contributor • E12 Scholar with the USU to ensure best practice on Faculty of Engineering II Because it isn’t free!! • Pokemon Society Executive CV: • Endeavour Leadership and Vice- sustainability. Further UNITE will push for Who should vote for Free Parking? • UN society member • Secretary, Sydney University Women Chancellor’s Global Mobility an accessible approach to environmental CV: Everyone. in Engineering (2019-2020) Scholarship Recipient activism and sustainability by advocating • I’m currently studying civil engineering Just make parking free!! Just vote Free Olivia Le Khac • Invitations Director, SUEUA • Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award for the SRC to consult with organisations (2nd year) Parking!! Science III Centenary Gala Committee (2020- Recipient such as People With Disability Australia to • I’m a member of SUCE and SUEUA 2021) • Top-Ranked Tutor, Evolutionary ensure that SRC-led protests and rallies are and have been to multiple events Sam Alexander-Prideaux Ellie Zheng • Revue Representative, SUEUA (2019- Tutoring (2018) as accessible as possible. Arts/Law III Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws III 2020) • Part time vegetarian (trying to get more 3. UNITE FOR A SUSTAINABLE Gus Jamieson CV: • Sponsorship and Marketing Officer, hours dw xx) RECOVERY POST-COVID19 Architecture I • Sydney University Law Society Sydney Uni Food and Wine Society • Full time travel enthusiast The COVID19 pandemic has highlighted Ethnocultural Officer (2019-2020) the need for sustainable recovery measures Fiona Schnitzler • Sydney University Law School Student • Vice President, Engineering Revue Georgia Tovich in all areas of education and university Science II Mentor F Society (2020-2021) Bachelor of Engineering Honours life. A sustainable and inclusive recovery • FASS Mentor • Junior Vice President, Sydney (Mechatronic Engineering) and Bachelor for students is necessary to protect student Roger Chen • Global Citizenship Award University Women in Engineering of Laws I wellbeing. UNITE for Sustainability will Bachelor of Commerce and Advanced Grassroots Against (2019) make COVID recovery a priority for the Studies Cassie Zhao • Dalyell Scholar SRC and ensure that environmentalism and Business School/Y2 • Human Megaphone health are at the forefront of all decisions. Course Cuts • Weirdly good at sudoku Further, the mental health of students is fundamental to USyd’s COVID recovery. I Policy Statement: Shae Ingram UNITE will advocate the increasing of Aeronautical (Space) Engineering II CV services in languages other than English GRASSROOTS AGAINST COURSE • Member of SUEUA to guarantee equitable access to mental CUTS • Volunteer for Foster the Future health services, ensuring that no student is Equality - End Bias Stand Against the Cuts! Stand With • Commerce peer mentoring left behind in the aftermath of the crises. Staff! Oppose fee increases! • Town Hall 10 on Clash of Clans UNITE will fight to increase funding to SM Zunayed Pervez Grassroots Against Course Cuts • Intern at Danthan Industries Counselling and Psychological services to Engineering II staunchly opposes the current course cuts G provide greater and easier access to services. imposed by the university. Degrees ranging The pandemic proved that online learning from politics and history to science have and inaccessible student services were been targeted by the university seeking to detrimental to the mental health of many cut vital courses. This is in line with the Engineers for Equity students - improving on this accessibility by J proposal by the Liberal Government to CV: lobbying for greater coverage is something exponentially raise the fees for said courses Policy Statement: • Social Coordinator, Sydney University UNITE for Sustainability will commit to. CV: as they are “less employable”. Some of Mechatronics Organisation (2020) UNITE will fight to ensure mental health • Secretary of Chinese dancing and the first courses to be cut were Indigenous Engineers for Equity aims to promote • Sports Captain, Presbyterian Ladies training is provided to all SRC councillors, Penta for Progress musical instruments society be diversity and advocate for the rights of studies and courses on fascism, this is College (Perth) who [...] Policy Statement: responsible for planning surveys, giving especially telling of their agenda. minority groups at the University, such • Runner-up Dux, Presbyterian Ladies announcements, planning promotion as women, people of colour, LGBTQ+, Grassroots Against Course Cuts will College (Perth) Benjamin Jones 1. COVID support package materials and posts on social media religious groups and ESL students. We oppose university management, and • Tennis Coach, Sydney University H Arts and Law II The SRC should inform students of and answering students’ questions understand that students who identify with commits to student activism, working with CV: Sport and Fitness (2020) existing support networks and provide • Volunteer under International Officer these groups may face additional struggles the Education Action Group and course- • Co-President, Sydney Women in • Shaved for the World’s Greatest Shave loan subsidy grants for students who are 2020 in SRC not faced by others at university, and aim to specific groups. We will support student Aerospace Engineering (2020-2021) • Completed The Push-up Challenge for struggling from COVID restrictions. The represent them appropriately. If elected, we Unite for actions including walk-offs and protests to • University of Sydney Representative, Mental Health (2020) SRC should play an active role informing Maria Ge will advocate for: ensure there are more courses, not less. It is Australian Youth Aerospace • Took up Fortnite, Minecraft, COC students of their entitlements and rights to Business School Y2 - Establish “Safe Spaces” on the Redfern imperative that the SRC strongly advocate Association (2020-2021) (join “”SUEUA Clan””!) and COD Sustainability Government schemes, such as JobKeeper side of campus for our education. • Engineering Peer Mentor (2020) during Covid-19 Isolation and Newstart. CV: - It is important that minority groups have Staff working conditions are student • STEM Leaders Program - Railius • Successfully got out of the gulag one Policy Statement: 2. Multilingual legal and financial • Have engaged in campaign relative dedicated places to discuss their experiences learning conditions, and every course cut Team Member, Real Skills Education time services activities for 3 times and engage with students facing similar means staff are cut too. Grassroots Against (2020) • Dalyell Scholar (2020) 1. UNITE TO DIVEST FROM FOSSIL Students deserve FREE legal and • Generally an outgoing girl issues. We would establish a Safe Space Course Cuts will actively support the • Outreach Officer, Sydney Women in FUELS financial advice, planning and strategizing. • Guzheng player Room on the Redfern side of City Road, NTEU, the Casuals Network and AUWU Aerospace Engineering (2020) Sydney University invests an average This can be achieved through hiring • Amateur runner mirroring the similarly dedicated rooms on council. We will actively oppose mergers • Treasurer, Windsoc (2019-2020) of $22.4 million in fossil fuel companies, specialist advisors who are approachable • Experienced in design and online and casualisation, and advocate for better currently existing in Manning House. platform 10 11 SRC

• Generally an outgoing girl • Astronomy Society Executive - 2019 representative organisations (such as the Policy Statement: Melissa Jovanovic CV: selection, course replacement, deferring CV: • Guzheng player • Women in Science member CSA) by initiating an ongoing conversation Commerce/Advanced Studies II • President, USyd SRC, 2020 courses, etc., how to apply for subsidies, • 1. Strong communication, facilitation, • Amateur runner • Women in Engineering member between student representatives and the At TIME for Women, we believe that the • Editor, Honi Soit, 2018 and various course-related problems. Such and negotiation skills. • Experienced in design and online • Love my dog SRC. This will allow us to provide resources inclusion and empowerment of women CV: • Councillor, USyd SRC, 2020 measures are implemented in a timely • 2. Outgoing and authentic personality platform that are tailored to each campus’ needs and are of the utmost importance. Our aim is • Member, Sydney University Lawn • General Executive, USyd SRC 2018 manner, on the one hand, it can reduce with strong social interacting ability. Klementine Burrell-Sander to generate awareness amongst satellite to advocate for feminism and for the open- Tennis Club (Feb 2020- present) • Councillor, USyd SRC, 2018 the work pressure of university staff as • 3. NZ photography scholarship winner Ruiqi Jia Science IV campus students of what is available to minded exchange of ideas on the SRC and • Volunteer, Tembisa Hospital (Gauteng, • Councillor, USyd SRC, 2017 well as it is conducive to creating a better (abstract and contemporary arts). BOC Y1 them in times of need. the wider USYD community. Here are some South Africa) (2016-2019) • Member, campaign against fee teaching quality environment. Also, when • 4. Growing stronger as a leader with the Aayush Bhattacharya The centralisation of the Student Services policies we think will help to fulfil our aim. • PASTEL Sage Accounting program, increases and University cuts, 2020 international students are allowed to return ambition in becoming an extraordinary CV: Science III at USYD was a move that disregarded the 1. It’s TIME for more awareness around graduate (2016-2018) • Member, Education Action Group, to Australia to study, this mechanism can leader. • I started up my own “Felted Wool [...] accessing healthcare specifically for women • Debutante, finalist for Deb of the year 2016-2020 still be used. Therefore, establishing a social • 5. Ambition in changing the current Society”, and recruited 17 members. CV: and those with female reproductive organs. (2016) • Member, Grassroots, 2016- platform online assistant is an effective non-stepping forward situation of • Engaged in the whole process of • Member of Grassroots Matthew Carter It’s so important for us to have access to • Kourtney Kardashian wannabe (since • Member and co-founder, Switch, 2019- way to continuously improve the quality Chinese international students in SRC. designing the poster, creating as well as Music III comprehensive information on birth control, she became the most interesting to • Spoke at a bunch of protests, 2020 of university services and accelerate the • 6. Exceptional leadership skillset with editing the introduction film. Lily Mauger STI testing, abortions (especially since its look at - present) • Member, USyd University Executive efficiency of the form. At the moment, our leading experiences. • Responsible for holding the Society’s Arts/Laws I CV: decriminalisation), pap smears and other • Taking sassy to a whole new level (not Education Committee, 2020 university has a WeChat official account • 7. Strong communication, facilitation Festival. • Member of Grassroots-Treasurer of the testing and treatment options. This will help to mention catty) • Member, USyd Academic Board, 2020 with such a good response, but the students skills, and sincere personality • Organise the operation of the activity, Conservatorium Students’ Association women advocate for their own health in a • Member, USyd Academic Standards still have many problems, so it is necessary have enabled me to effectively which demonstrated my ability of 2020 system that will often ignore the complaints and Policy Committee, 2020 to increase the number of such assistant communicating with people that have leadership. L of women until symptoms are extreme. For • Member, USyd Academic Quality accounts in order to solve the problems that various social backgrounds. Alexander Poirier example, 1 in 10 women have endometriosis O Committee, 2020 needs to be solved in time. • 8. I am bi-lingual and can relate Music I but the average delay in diagnosis from 2. Social Networking Cloud smoothly between cultures. UNITE for Fairer onset of symptoms is between 7 and 10 Stuart Rich Social networking is suggested to • K CV: years. This is not an uncommon statistic Arts / Medicine I be held on a regular basis. During the Jieyi Yan • Bachelor of Music (musicology and for other diseases that affect women, which Grassroots for epidemic, students on campus life has Arts III Degrees linguistics) is completely unacceptable and needs to Janek Drevikovsky been restricted, the majority of students • Conservatorium Students’ Association change, and access to healthcare-related Socialism Law IV have been complaining about their boring SWITCH for STEM Policy Statement: • Sydney University Linguistics Society resources will help this. quarantine times at home. Not to mention • MineSoc 2. It’s TIME to see increased accessibility Policy Statement: CV: that long-term absence of socialisation will Policy Statement: A Strong Voice for Arts Education • FrenchSoc to sanitary items at various locations on • Chair, Standing Legal Committee, also affect their mental health. Therefore, Arts education in Australia is under attack. • SHADES main campus and on all of the USYD Surely nothing makes the case for Socialism 2020 by making full use of social software, each Science will never exist in a vacuum. It is vital that we campaign against the • Sydney University United Nations affiliated satellite campuses. This is an as convincingly as the disaster that has been • Editor, Honi Soit, 2018 college and/or faculty can organise their From the atomic bomb to modern liberal government’s changes to fees. As a Society important program for those with periods 2020. With the realities and restrictions of own social networking activities. To be pharmaceuticals, the implementation of music student, I know that my education has • Duke of Edinburgh Award Society who are unable to afford these items or the COVID-19 pandemic limiting profit Imogen Grant more specific, we suggest that each week, science continues to shape our world. As far greater value than the Liberals believe. • Waste Fighters Society even just for those whose period arrived extraction, the global economy totally Arts / Economics VI there will be different themes that can be such, in the age of climate crisis, digital Unite for SRC will fight for fairer degrees. unexpectedly. capitulated, leaving workers, migrants, given by the student council, or students can war and economic crisis, it is more crucial As an active campaigner and activist, I’ve Marcel Kocbek-Malepa 3. It’s TIME to provide female-focused people with disabilities, and other vulnerable CV: fill out surveys for and open suggestions, than ever to ensure science remains donated, written to MP’s and attended Music III leadership and career seminars. Only 1 in 16 groups exposed to hunger, homelessness, • President of the Students’ and everyone can chat, study, etc. together compassionate, for the good of all people protests and will continue to fight from ASX 200 CEOs are female, and we believe and economic ruin. Deterred by lies about Representative Council, 2018 online, which will solve the original lack of and deliberately radical. Switch for Stem within the University to have proper support William Kinmont that helping women to develop these skills scarcity, Capitalist governments around the • Co-Wom*n’s Officer of the Students’ socialisation problem. The problem of social will ensure that a progressive voice for for arts education at USYD during a time of Music III will encourage them to pursue leadership world have neglected those groups, leaving Representative Council 2017 restriction can also help everyone have time science will be heard in the SRC. unprecedented cuts. opportunities within the workforce to them without a substantial or consistent • Councillor of the 89th Students’ to relax in their spare time, and it can also CV: SWITCH for SCIENCE will STAND Musicians have lost confidence in CV: narrow this gap. safety net, while keeping military expansion Representative Council 2017 effectively reduce the usual ineffective social • Global solidarity Officer of the 92rd AGAINST CUTS. STEM is facing cuts of Australia’s arts industry, which has been • Currently studying Bachelor of Music 4. It’s TIME to help develop mentorship and authoritarian repression well-resourced. • Undergraduate Student Representative interactions. Alternatively, this online social SRC-2020: working including travel around 16% to all course funding, and up left to languish under Covid-19 and (Performance) (2018 - 2021) opportunities between women early on in And all this greed—all this misery which to the Academic Board 2017-2018 networking cloud will most defiantly help registration related international to 30% in environmental studies following Government cuts. The prospect of secure, • Member of the Sydney University their degree and those further on in their advantages so few at the expense of so • Co-Convenor of the University of shorten the distance between students. student affairs a summer of ecological disaster. It is crucial long term work has dried up and now Evangelical Union (2018 - ) degrees, in order to make the transition many—is destroying the only thing we all Sydney Greens on Campus 2017 3. The Online Talent Show • FASS student rep that all subjects are properly funded - music education is under attack. I’d work • Casual Trombonist, Opera Australia from high school to university easier for have in common: our planet. • Reclaim the Night Organising It is expected that after the end of the • Undergraduate committee - 2019 especially science. with the SRC to encourage USYD to stand Orchestra (2019 - ) those students. This would be particularly Decisions about a society, and what Collective - 2017 epidemic next year, in order to increase the • Social inclusion committee - 2020 SWITCH for SCIENCE will FIGHT up to the government and work to protect • Trombonist, Australian Youth beneficial for students who are, for example, individuals can and can’t do within it, are • fEMPOWER volunteer, 2016-2017 active atmosphere on campus, joint activities • Student mentor for international FOR CLIMATE JUSTICE. We are at a the integrity of Arts and Music education Orchestra (2019 - ) the first in their families to come to university, a consequence of its politico-economic • Growing Strong Editor 2016-17 between assosciations will be promoted, student in FASS 2019 critical point, and must listen to science to in Australia and prevent the loss of a those from low SES backgrounds, and those system. Capitalism is the name of our • Growing Strong Contributor 2015- and the campus will be truly integrated as a push for renewables, workers rights and generation of storytellers. Thomas Bootes who have had to move away from home to politico-economic system, and it makes 2017 whole. In this [...] Yanjun Fang First Nations Justice. We will work with the The emotional demands on University Engineering I attend university. those decisions based on what owners of • General Editor of ARNA 2016 Arts I enviro collective and advocate for climate students during the Covid-19 crisis have 5. It’s TIME to create community service capital want, which is, normally, more • Presenter of disORIENT Radio on Zeyu He justice on council, advocating for good been extensive and often existential. When CV: programs to help disadvantaged women in capital. Socialism, by contrast, makes those SURG FM 2016 Engineering II CV: science. students are already suffering under the • Began Bachelor of Music (performance) our community through volunteering at, same decisions on the basis of what is best • Wom*n’s Honi Editor 2016 CV: • Major in digital culture The university currently takes large financial and emotional strain of living • But have transferred to Bachelor of and fundraising drives for women’s shelters. for society, particularly its most marginalised • Vice President of the Arabic Language • An internet addict subsidies from fossil fuel and weapons through a pandemic, the University added Engineering (Civil) and Bachelor of Most of those who attend university are members. Under a socialist system, we’d and Cultures Society 2016 • Interested in games, TV series, music, companies for research and scholarships. undue stress to students’ lives by choosing Project Management extremely privileged in comparison to use best-practice health policies to deal with • Wom*n’s Officer of the University of korean pop culture Switch for Science will TOTALLY OPPOSE to administer exams through ProctorU, those who are doing it tough in the suburbs health issues, avoiding the false scarcity Sydney Greens on Campus 2016 • Understand the latest news and trends FOSSIL FUELS AND WEAPONS which not only demands a stable internet Brendan McRae surrounding USYD, and these programs and resource limitations engendered by • Honi Soit Reporter 2015-2016 on the internet particular in social companies determining the direction of connection, but has been demonstrably Music IV would increase awareness of these issues, as Neoliberalism. Under a socialist system, media, such as web and forums science. Science should be for everyone, not vulnerable to cyber attack. I will fight against well as provide support for those who need we’d have no material basis for imperialist • Introverted and shy, but very corporate executives. ProctorU and campaign to encourage a CV: it most. expansion and destruction of the natural enthusiastic about people It is no secret that science is not diverse and variety of neutral examining methods such • 4th Year Bachelor of Music If you think these policies are worth world. Under a socialist system, we’d P • Will keep learning and make progress that is unacceptable. Switch for Science will as take home exams, essay assessments, and (Performance) student fighting for, then from the 29th of September achieve the freedoms Capitalist democracy to enrich myself ADVOCATE FOR REPRESENTATION oral assessments via Zoom. • Treasurer of The Sydney University to the 1st of October, loudly promises, but quietly oppresses. of First Nations people, women, No Campus Left Behind for Mental Musical Theatre Ensemble (MUSE), VOTE [1] TIME for Women VOTE [1] Grassroots for Socialism recognises Anqi Li LGBTQIA+ and marginalised communities Health previously Publicity Officer TIME for NUS that we can do better than Capitalism. We Penta for Belong Arts I at all forums within science. As a student at the Con, I’ve personally • Health and Wellbeing Officer for the believe that a better world—which learns experienced the disconnect between Conservatorium Students Association Georgia Lowden from the mistakes and successes of countries Policy statement: • Majoring in project management and Olivia Smith campuses when I’ve needed to travel for • 4th Year Bachelor of Music Arts II that have called themselves “socialist”, and finance Mechatronic Engineering (Space)/ nearly an hour each way to access CAPS (Performance) student inherits the best aspects of the modern Western Universities are relatively • A minister of the Outreach Department Computer Science services in the Jane Foss Russell Building. • Treasurer of The Sydney University condition—is not only possible, but the scattered and have no sense of collective of the Student Union When you’re feeling anxious or depressed Musical Theatre Ensemble (MUSE), only chance humanity has for surviving this belongings. Therefore, the policy advocated • Formed a band of the school to and need support, this extra mile that previously Publicity Officer century. We believe in Socialism. by individuals hopes to integrate our participate in competitions as satellite campus students have to travel • -Health and Wellbeing Officer for the Swapnik IS Presiden current system and give everyone a sense representing the school. is often enough to discourage them from Conservatorium Students Association Vote [1] Grassroots for Socialism of collective participation. An excellent • As a campaigner for USU and SRC seeking support altogether. This risks Vote [1] Grassroots for NUS campus environment is not built by election students’ lives. This is unacceptable. Student Carla Joy Dobbie individuals but by the results of the joint • Used to be class president leaders cannot, in good conscience, allow Music IV construction of every student who are part our peers to continue falling through these Liam Donohoe of our university. Siyao(Melaine) Liu cracks in the system. I will fight tirelessly CV: Arts V 1. The Q&A Cloud Engineering II CV: within the SRC to seal up these cracks by • Bachelor Music (Performance Jazz) Since most international students are • Freshman lobbying the University to expand its mental • General Exec for the Conservatorium unable to get back to Australia to study • Major in digital culture health services to include regular session Student Association as scheduled, and when they encounter • Interested in photography and Chinese- hours during working days on site at every • Member of USRL CV: problems, they cannot directly contact the debating campus and for every student under this • Arts / Advanced Studies (Media and university or wait for a long time to get • Have ran a WeChat public platform University’s care. Communications) replied by our university hence missing out • Have travelled to 28 countries The SRC provides extensive resources for • Dalyell scholar the best time to solve the problems they are • Live with a dog and a cat CV: students, with services such as legal advice • Vice President (Women) USyd facing. Therefore, social platform online • Vice President, Science Society - 2019- and situation specific caseworkers who are M Students for Liberty (2019-20) assistant such as WeChat, Facebook, etc. 2020 able to support students in completing their • Big fan of SASS, Subski and my dog In this sense, the online assistants from • President, Robotics Society - 2020 degree. Through the SRC I would work to (Poppy <3) our university can then focus on point- • Enviro collective - 2019, 2020 extend these services to compliment the TIME for Women • Black belt in Taekwondo to-point solutions to the problems caused existing work of satellite campus student by the current epidemic: such as course 12 13 SRC

Wilson Huang CV: inadequate for students needing help. Also, CV: Regrettably, the Arts is under attack - Waste Fighters Society exploitation happened in private spheres. Science/Advanced Studies III • Queer Officer and USyd QuAC If someone needs additional treatment • Inspired to become an architect after from both the Government and USyd. The - Enviro Collective Q Convenor, 2020 beyond the prescribed program, there is seeing my wog parents decorate the Government’s cuts to the Arts industry - French Society Tianyue Chen CV: • Member of Grassroots, WoCo, ACAR, headroom and flexibility with minimal childhood home during COVID-19, as well as their neglectful Arts II • USyd SRC Disabilities Officer 2019 QuAC, Enviro, EAG, ASEN, 2019- stress. • Parks and Rec > The Office approach to tertiary education, illustrate Ella Finlay Milktea • USyd SRC Interfaith Officer 2020 2020 2. TIME for Increased CAPS Funding. • Will discuss obscure vine references a dismissive and elitist attitude towards Arts/Advanced Studies (International and CV: We will advocate and lobby the university with you research, education and communication in • Honi Soit Reporter 2018-2020 • Editor-in-Chief for Queer Honi 2020 Global Studies) III for a review into current CAPS funding, • English Prefect 2019 Arts fields. The University’s gruesome cuts Haoyu Wang • Gay • Editor for Women’s Honi 2019, 2020, and call for a palpable increase in its budget. to Arts and Humanities subjects will worsen Science III and ACAR Honi 2020 Arin Tornyi-Aydin • Publications Designer for the Young This is especially important given current Benjamin Dibdin students’ education and punish uni staff. Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Scientist Journal circumstances, and is the basis in which our Medicine and Health/1 As students, we should be ready to resist cuts V Advanced Studies III other policies can be achieved. We believe it to staff jobs and threats to our education. Isla Mowbray is pivotal to increase CAPS funding, as this We need to defend the Arts from policies R Arts / Law II will offer greater quality services to students like the Liberals’ fee hikes and USyd that are personalised and cater to everyone. management’s austerity. These are attempts Phoenix for Girl S 3. TIME for Greater Patient-Client to restrict an Arts education to the uber-rich Flexibility. Under the current system, after and to limit courses which encourage social Power 6 sessions the patient (student) is referred to critique and social change. Switch for Disability an external system, whether that be private If elected, we will: Policy Statement: Grassroots for or part of Medicare. We believe students Strongly support the protest movement Justice should be given the choice to stay with their to defeat the Government’s destructive Vote [1] Phoenix for the voice of encouraging current mental health professional, as trust education reforms internationalism in council -To build a Mutual Aid and the willingness to confide improves Advocate for the University to support Policy Statement: campus that has stronger connections • The University of Sydney-International the longer a patient speaks to their current the Arts and reverse course cuts - Always Student Leader Policy Statement: therapist. CV: defend staff’s workers’ rights and back staff between local and international students. SWITCH for Disability Support recognises • The Univeristy of Syndey-Peer Mentor 4. TIME for Greater Access for Students • Stereotypical bogan collective action - Collaborate with groups Phoenix for Internationalism acknowledges Yale Univeristy-Research Project that people with disabilities are continuously “In the long run the practice of solidarity • Abroad. Despite Covid-19 keeping many • Won’t shut up about my Commodore like Clubs Against the Cuts, SASS and the our important role in helping both domestic Assistant harmed by the eugenicist, capitalist and proves much more advantageous to the domestic and international students away • Owns the worlds strangest Border Con Students Association to strengthen and international students embrace a more China Securities Co.,Ltd-Private neoliberal belief systems that devalue their species than the development of individuals • from campus, we cannot forget about Collie support for the Arts Equity-Part-Time Assitant lives and suggest they are expendable. endowed with predatory inclinations” - diversified campus, regardless of students’ their wellbeing, wherever they are. TIME • Mitochondria is the kitchen of the cell Fight the corporatisation of University Strong learning ability, adaptability This has never been more prevalent than Pyotr Kropotkin CV: nationality, background, age or gender. • for Mental Health will advocate for easier - things like OLEs and Interdisciplinary and communication skills, willing to during the COVID-19 pandemic, where Students have always faced deep • SRC General Executive, 2020 Free legal service platform for all phone and text message services for those James Skibinski Impact Units sacrifice the quality of our get in touch with new things, good at people with disabilities are stripped of their structural vulnerabilities under capitalism. • SRC Councillor, 2020 who are not on campus with international Science III degrees for vague promises of employability international students: We understand that teamwork; agency and seen as inevitable casualties of The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened hotlines. VOTE 1 SWITCH FOR ARTS in this unique period, international students, Serious and responsible, positive coronaviruses. these existing inequalities, heightening Amanda Dheerasekara • VOTE [1] TIME for Mental Health VOTE 1 SWITCH FOR NUS being isolated thus vulnerable, are targeting by and aspirant, cheerful, honest and SWITCH for Disability Support values the necessity for programs which address Arts V VOTE [1] TIME for NUS SWAPNIK IS PRESIDENT predominantly high rate of housing dispute trustworthy, willing to help others, a community-based approach to disability student wellbeing. Therefore, the existing support that respects the agency of all CV: and work-place exploitation. We are aware of good at listening SRC programs which address inequalities Matthew Harte Ellie Stephenson people with disabilities and their caregivers. must be expanded and made more readily • Full time bad ass, 1997-2020 countless cases of international student having Economics I Arts/Advanced Studies III Rita Wang We see our campus as a place where such an known, to reach students in need. • Part-time student, full-time legend, to bear through illegal extortion from their Science II approach can be implemented. GRASSROOTS for MUTUAL AID 2016-2020 landlord or head-tenant due to inaccessibility CV: If elected to the SRC, SWITCH for is committed to ensuring the SRC fights of legal help. This is utterly unfair, and we Disability Support will commit to the Seth Dias for the rights of all students and ensures decide NOT TO LET THIS HAPPEN following: equal access to education. To meet this Architecture Support disability activism on campus: goal the essential needs of students must AGAIN by offering an easily accessible Autonomous collectives such as The be addressed; including food, safety, and digital platform, where international student USYD SRC Disabilities Collective and can acquire professional legal service without housing as well as requiring access to CV: Caregivers Network already advocate supplemental educational tools. - Data Science major spending extra time and money. against the systemic devaluation of the LONG TERM FUNDING: - Australian Taxpayers’ Alliance Mentoring through the pandemic: lives of people with disabilities. This is a GRASSROOTS for MUTUAL AID aims - Simple as Pandemic threatens the connectivity of the necessary resistance that must continue to to extend the SRC’s Mutual Aid Program, be supported. University community. We need to help making it sustainable as a service beyond the Aaron Borg Support and advocate for students each other through, share our quarantine end of the pandemic. To create a physical CV: Speech Pathology I with disabilities during the COVID-19 feelings, and let people know they are not food bank, we would need to allocate • 18 year old boomer pandemic: Students with disabilities alone. Pandemic also posted great challenges specific funding to purchase and distribute • Find me at the local pub every Friday are disproportionately affected by groceries and secure storage space. night CV: for the networking of first years and coronaviruses. We will lobby the University VISIBILITY: GRASSROOTS for • Consider baked beans and spam on - SRC Welfare Officer 2019 graduating students. Through mentoring, of Sydney to release updated information MUTUAL AID will push for the services of toast a delicacy - SRC Councillor 2019 we are encouraging students to build close, about accessing Disability Services and • 2018 Super Brain TV show top 0.0015% the SRC to be increasingly widely advertised, • Flat white sob - Pulp Editor 2020 study support during the global pandemic. CV: supportive relationships, in merit of online • Best debater over 10 times including postering, informational stalls on - FASS Italian Department Representative Reform the NDIS: The neoliberal and - SRC Environment Officer 2017 social platforms, to share advices for university Eastern Avenue, and notifying faculty of Julia Kokic 2018 capitalist structure of the NDIS has never - SRC Councilor 2018 lives, provisions for future placements, and Luyi Yang various relevant programs so that they may Arts III - Professional commuter been more devastating than during a global Commerce III advertise services to their cohort. - Failed renter most importantly, feelings of quarantined in pandemic. People with disabilities should CV: FUND ENVIRONMENTAL - Almost sued for defamation pandemic. We will hopefully boost students’ not be denied the care they need to survive CAMPAIGNS: Climate change necessitates mental health and prepare them for post- because they do not have the money to pay an activist response, and requires an SRC T Telita Golie for it. pandemic activities. Free sanitary products which will put money towards fighting Arts IV Oppose cuts to HECS-HELP loans: systemic inequalities, the cultural genocide in campus restrooms. To help with students’ Students who experience a sudden change life back on campus, we decide to place boxes and dispossession of First Nations people, CV: Sofia Mendes in their health circumstances are particularly filled with tampon and pads in female and and environmental destruction. TIME for Mental - My Poker face fails every time Economics/Laws II vulnerable to losing their HECS-HELP loans EXISTING WELFARE INITIATIVES: - I just got a new haircut unisex restrooms. We believe mentality shall and should not be punished financially for GRASSROOTS for MUTUAL AID - I have the keys to the library...what book not be something limiting the mobility and A current student majored in gender failing units. We will advocate against these supports and will advocate for the Health • do you need? vibrancy of our fellow students. We hope to studies and finance. cuts and lobby for independent reviews improvement of existing programs of Policy Statement: - I drive a Yaris make all staff and student who menstrual to A feminist who believes body is where into University Special Consideration Emergency Loans and Equipment Funding • the revolution starts. proceedings for the suspension of students’ which improve the accessibility of subjects feel safe and supported during their time on CV: An atheist who believes in religious loans to ensure students with disabilities are with additional non-tuition costs. It’s TIME to properly focus on Mental campus. • • Economics and Politics equality. treated fairly. VOTE [1] GRASSROOTS FOR Health. TIME for Mental Health is fully “Talk about Sex” Festival: When sex • SRC Councillor 2020 A communist who is against most MUTUAL AID VOTE [1] GRASSROOTS • committed to supporting student wellbeing • Affectionately described by Honi Soit U is only talked in private spaces, problems existing communist regimes. Jamilla Dempsey FOR NUS SWAPNIK IS PRESIDENT with practical and meaningful reforms that as “Jabbering Julia” appeared: the power imbalance, intimate A non-monogamist who is concerned Arts/International Relations III • will deliver results for you. We are standing • Flat white consumer violence, body anxieties...you name it. You about womens right in marriages. Priya Gupta for policies that are conducive to a post- • I learnt how to sew during lockdown may never be aware of your best friend’s A supporter for worldwide pro- Science/Advanced Studies II SWITCH for Arts • Covid environment, and ones that focus on being hoaxed into unprotected sex by her democracy movements who always the accessibility and effectiveness of current Sofia Aranega Policy Statement: boyfriend until Talking sex is normalized. feel powerless to help. Architecture I schemes. Making talking sex no longer a shame, that Hongtan Wang Our main policies are as follow: A university or a society which does not is what we going to do. On a selected week Economics II 1. TIME for Increased CAPS Sessions. value the Arts and Humanities is a short- Anna Stephenson on campus, we will put up posters with sex Free CAPS sessions should be increased sighted one. We live in a world plagued by Architecture and Environments I organs and sexual tip comics drew in a pop CV: from 6 to at least 12 annually. A standard social inequalities and injustices and we art style. Students are encouraged to wear • Assist partner at entertainment events cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) face unprecedented global challenges; the Isabelle Fox blood stained jeans to celebrate mentality; talk by performing duties program with a trained psychologist is Arts and Social Sciences give us frameworks Arts/Advanced Studies II about female pleasure, sex toys, kink fantasies • Working closely with customers to determine their needs meant to go for 10 sessions before any and inspiration to navigate these issues. to celebrate their sexual identities. We hope to • Answer their questions about our tangible benefits may be accrued. This Exchange and collaboration between CV: achieve sexual liberation and spread safe sex CV: products and recommend the right clearly indicates that the current amount of disciplines is also more important than ever. - Women’s Collective knowledge to fight the invisible sexual • Lurker in club meetings solutions free CAPS sessions is 14 15 SRC

• Being fluent in a second language CV: of the renting process, from obtaining a lease education and livelihood. The only antidote • Climate Striker and BLM protester Ella McCutcheon For a competent, progressive and • SASS, SUDS, Photosoc, Food n Wine Science II dedicated team; (English & Chinese) • Autonomous Collective Against to negotiating with landlords. We believe to neoliberal austerity attacks on students AA • Diligence, initiative, integrity, and Racism member (2020) that students who are wronged should be is a formidable and unashamedly activist • PRU for USU, Campaigner and content VOTE [1] Grassroots for SRC creation 2020- CV: VOTE [1] Grassroots for NUS sincerity • W*men’s Collective member (2020) able to seek legal aid in defence of their led student fight back. In 2020 we wage a • SRC Mutual Aid deliveries 2020- Debater 2013-2018 Swapnik is President! • Be able to demonstrate products • Education Action Group member rights. We support initiatives such as the battle intensified by the pandemic - against Grassroots for Eco • • Cooperative, passionate, friendly (2020) STUCCO Housing Cooperative and will obscene fee increases, staff and course cuts • Mediocre debater 2014-18 • I’m in a few clubs and societies like • Slightly better debating coach 2019-, women in science Swapnik Sanagavarapu • Good sense of insight, good team • Meme connoisseur lobby the University of Sydney to set aside and the rollback of HECS - and broader Revival • Nationals Cross Country and All Primary school captain Arts/Law III player • Token Science kid more affordable rooms for low-SES students. issues such as the climate crisis and the • Schools Triathlon (various years) Big subski fan • High sense of responsibility, full of • Sultana enthusiast Homelessness or housing precarity is a reality global rise of authoritarian brutality and Policy Statement: • energy and passion that many students must face; SWITCH for fascism. GRASSROOTS for Eco Revival wants • Dislikes OLEs, sound of people • Good planning mentality, realize Anie Kandya Housing Justice is determined that students GRASSROOTS for an ACTIVIST a university that takes immediate action on chewing, worker exploitation, First Anusha Pillai working goals in the shortest time not confront this reality alone. SRC are a leftwing cohort of students climate change. We stand in solidarity with Nations injustice and climate inaction Science II • Can work efficiently under pressure VOTE [1] SWITCH FOR HOUSING committed to ensuring the SRC remains and celebrate environmental, anti-racist and • Makes a mean halloumi burger, and challenges and adapt to a new JUSTICE true to its activist roots. As the largest pro-student activism. We want a university feminist and anti-capitalist in progress working VOTE [1] SWITCH FOR NUS student representative council in Australia, that’s for students, not profits. • Use to worked as a volunteer and got SWAPNIK IS PRESIDENT with a $2 million budget, a leftwing SRC The University is currently an George Campbell along well with clients of different ages is the most direct mechanism for enacting environmental hypocrite. Giving out keep- Arts and Social Sciences Year 2 Jack Andrighetto progressive change on campus and beyond. cups, greenwashing and telling us to eat our Jessica Zhang Arts/Law III We are committed to fighting corruption Welcome Week plates while consistently Arts/Advanced Studies within our university and broader society. investing millions in fossil fuels and ACTIVIST SRC: SRC office bearers, weapons manufacturing is an infuriating councillors and collectives have played double standard. pivotal roles in historic and contemporary The institution claiming to prepare us for activist campaigns such as the climate the future is bankrolling its destruction. strikes, BLM rallies and fighting cuts ECO REVIVAL for CV: to higher education. Therefore, we will ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION • General Executive, 92nd SRC, 2020 ensure that collectives are provided with We will fight for immediate fossil fuel CV: • Convenor of the Autonomous Arts/Advanced Studies III full support and funding to undertake vital divestment and commitment to renewable • USYD Quidditch player Collective Against Racism, 2019 campaigns. energy. We will work with the Enviro • Research Assistant under Dr. • Global Solidarity Officer, 91st SRC, CV: SUSTAINABLE CAMPUS: Collective and SRC-President to strengthen Fontana 2019 • Youth Neuroscience Aus. team Editor-in-chief, ACAR Honi, 2019 • 3rd year Media and Communications GRASSROOTS for an ACTIVIST SRC will environmental advocacy and achieve • and Marketing student hold the university accountable to its 2030 tangible change that goes radically beyond • Self-proclaimed Picasso • SRC Councillor, 2018-2020 CV: Mediocre debater Yunrui Yang • SRC Ethnocultural Officer, 2020 goal of net zero emissions. This includes the current Sustainability Strategy. Our • • I threw myself headfirst into SASS Arts/Advanced Studies I • Convener of Autonomous Collective repurposing vacant space into sustainable campuses should be powered by 100% Against Racism, 2020 produce gardens and placing pressure on renewables, have zero water-waste, ban Camp, where I lost my voice belting Matthew Neal out pumped up kicks AB Arts / Law II CV: • Editor-in-Chief of ACAR Honi, 2020 USyd to divest its current $22.4 million in single-use plastics, expand community • I joined a heap of societies such as • Established the Moot Court club in • Editor of Queer Honi, 2020 CV: fossil fuels. gardens and introduce food recycling the food and wine society and SUDS, Maya Eswaran high school. • Contributor to Honi Soit, 2019-present • Arts/Law student STUDENT AID: GRASSROOTS for an programs. before COVID rudely put an end to Arts/LLB III • Had study experience in Germany, • Active member of W*men’s Collective, • Experience working with property ACTIVIST SRC will work hard to ensure ECO REVIVAL for STUDENT Grassroots for SRC America, and China. Autonomous Collective Against managers and tenants for five years the SRC continues to provide essential ACTIVISM them Policy Statement: • Used to be the leader of the class in Racism, 2019-present • Campaigned with switchroots in 2019 assistance to students through initiatives We will increase funding to the • I’m currently studying a Bachelor of Lachlan Dunk high school for 6 years. • Recovering college students such as the mutual aid program which collectives and support their presence on all Arts majoring in Design Commerce III Grassroots is a team of student activists and • Used to be the officer of the student Nida Tahreem provided free groceries to students during campuses (main and satellite) to advocate • I’m a bit of a beach fiend so please stop advocates that stand for progressive values. union in high school. Bachelor of Education and Bachelor of Marguerite Nicholls lockdown and assist with the creation of a against bigotry, injustice and inaction. offshore oil drilling. Oily kegs are no Sam Trotter We are politically independent, which • Organized activities such as Art Science II Arts/Advanced Studies I permanent food bank in 2021. The University’s executive and Student fun for anyone Economics/Advanced Studies III means we run for SRC to make students’ Festival, Anniversary, and International VOTE [1] GRASSROOTS FOR AN Life Committee must be more involved • Follow my soundcloud, I make shitty lives better, not to climb a party ladder or student communication in secondary Steffanie Lai ACTIVIST SRC with the collectives to achieve long-term techno in my spare time CV: stack our CVs. We’ve been working hard school. Bachelor of Science and Master of VOTE [1] GRASSROOTS FOR NUS transformative change, particularly • Successfully predicted Biden winning this year on a variety of important causes, Nutrition and Dietetics II regarding environmentalism, sexual Tiger Perkins the primary after Iowa and New and we’re going to continue working hard Chi Fang Paola Ayre violence, racism and LGTBQ+ rights. Arts/Advanced Studies I Hampshire next year to make sure that university is Science I Natalie Tseung Arts II ECO REVIVAL of CAMPUS LIFE • Never had a weird high school equitable, safe and democratic. Bachelor of Science / Advanced Studies COVID-19 has written off campus libertarian phase Standing up for students CV: (Dalyell Scholars) I culture this year, and we want to reignite • Debating hack It’s clear that the corporate model of • I came to Australia in 2018 it. This means panels with radical thinkers, higher education has failed students. Free, • In the process of getting a deeper Laiba Jamal music, art-making, parties and performance. Daniel Yim publicly funded and equitable education understanding of Australia and Sydney Bachelor of Science (Medical Science) II These will platform diverse voices, and Arts / Law II should be guaranteed for every student. • Majoring in environmental studies and reject traditionalist, colonial approaches to We’re going to: Global Studies(advanced studies) Fatima Ibrahim student culture. There is no environmental CV: Strongly oppose all cuts to tertiary • Studying abroad to me is a journey but Bachelor of Arts / Bachelor of Law III justice without Indigenous justice, and • University Ghoster education and fight to prevent cruel policies more of cultivation the SRC should centre the pursuit of • Wage Cuck like the increase in course fees and the • Inner egalitarian. Support for women’s sovereignty and address the shortcomings punitive approach to failing students rights to narrow the social status of our colonial institution. Advocate for greater support for low- gap between men and women, do David Wilson Vote GRASSROOTS for Eco Revival to CV: SES students, through policies like housing not support any view that intensifies X Bachelor of Engineering III prioritise the environment and student life! • Bachelor of Arts/ Advanced Studies subsidies AC conflicts and hatred VOTE [1] GRASSROOTS FOR ECO • Majoring in Psychology and German Work with the Education Action Group, Justin Lai REVIVAL • Enjoy arguing with conservatives who USyd Casuals Network, National Higher Jiazhi Teng Bachelor of Laws/Bachelor of Arts II VOTE [1] GRASSROOTS FOR NUS hide behind the thin veil of “civil SWITCH for Education Action Network to guarantee Economics III SWAPNIK SANAGAVARAPU IS debate” UNITE for the Con secure employment for all university staff CV: PRESIDENT • !Climate Policy! Improve consultation with students in Policy Statement: CV: Housing Justice • SRC Queer Officer, 2020 • Never says no to a shoey (second hand Y student accommodation - Marketing specialist internship for two • SRC Councillor, 2020 Lauren Lancaster shoes only bc, you know, fast fashion) Policy Statement: Increase hardship support for students, UNITE for the Con months with a Linghang Groups, based in • Editor, Queer Honi, 2020 Arts/Law I including rent reductions & a fee waiver The separation of Conservatorium Sydney. Alexander Whitehead scheme students from main campus has been an SWITCH for Housing Justice believes that Goodbye Michael Dorothy Symons Arts I Demanding that the government give ongoing, long-term, and unresolved issue there are few things more important than Arts (Honours) V international students JobKeeper and revise that has resulted in Con students being CV: W having a safe place to live. We are often Spence their VISA conditions isolated from main campus and the main CV: • Unofficial member of just about any subject to circumstances beyond our control, Continuing the fight for international campus experience. More importantly, • 2017 & 2019-2020: co-convenor and club whose representatives were nice whether that be a rental market that favours Liam Thorne student opal cards this isolation has resulted in underfunded baker-in-chief of Sydney University to me. Yes, including SAlt. No, not the landlords, dodgy housing or even leases Bachelor of Arts V Ensuring that the recommendations services, inaccessible approaches to online Greens on Campus. evangelicals. (sorry evangelicals). SWITCH for from the Thematic Review Into Language learning, and a disconnect between staff which flirt with illegality. The recent crisis • 2015-2020: member of Sydney Uni • Naive first year Arts student from South Support are implemented to improve and students on both campuses. Over has brought further challenges including a Symphony Orchestra, German Klub, Africa, just looking for some healthy laguage support for ESL students the last few years I have been heavily Decolonisation tough job market, reduced tenant bargaining Arabic Society. Uni reforms! (divestment, no fee hikes, Provide SRC support for First Nations involved in the Conservatorium Students’ • 2017: Law Society refugee program staff or unit cuts in vital faculties). Aziza Mumin power and looming rental increases. These Z struggles through collaboration with Association (CSA,) which has given me a tutoring. • Wrote a useless piece for Honi once so Science III are issues that impact all students who are organisations like the Indigenous Social detailed perspective of the inner workings • 2011-17: all Australian Federal, NSW does that make me a reporter?? currently renting or plan on signing a lease Justice Association of the Con. More than ever, I see it as my and local election campaign leafleting CV: • SRC rep in High School (the peak of in the next year. We believe that the SRC has Support collectives opposing racism, duty to make the Con a better place for all (For the 2019 Federal election I • USYD Enviro Collective member and my career) Grassroots for an such as ACAR and the Refugee Action students so that we can have an advanced a responsibility to ensure that students are was away and had to have a (vegan) enthusiast 2020- • passion for history and politics Collective environment that can work and adapt for all. not only informed of their rights as tenants democracy sausage and vote at the • Grassroots, member 2020- • I’ve seen every Contrapoints video so Activist SRC Support the Environment Collective, the Our degrees at the Con are very intricate; but are protected against the harsh and Berlin embassy). • Reporter, Honi Soit 2020- am a leftist authority/ intellectual. Australian Student Environment Network, you don’t fully understand the system until • Australian Student Environment • Aha vote for Lauren tho xo sometimes pernicious reality of the housing Policy Statement: and student climate activism in general you have personally been a part of it. The Travis Ng Network ASEN, member 2020- market. For this reason, we hope to introduce Demand the University divest from fossil Con needs their own representatives and Bachelor of Science/Bachelor of Arts IV • NSW Education Action Group, Clubs Zahara Jithoo new consultation services and workshops In 8 short months, students have faced fuels having our own voice is long overdue and against the Cuts and GOVT Against Bachelor of Arts/Advanced Studies Year 1 Advocate for green recovery from the undeniably necessary now more than ever. through the SRC. These will cover all aspects innumerable setbacks to the quality of our the Cuts organising + protests COVID-19 pandemic

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Nishta Gupta 1. UNITE for AN ACCESSIBLE CON Caitlin Duncombe the succinct delivery of information about Tom Cleary • Refugee rights activist and organiser Raul Haagensen Arts/Law I The current COVID-19 pandemic has Bachelor of Music Performance 3rd Year services. When students are looking for Commerce I 2015-2020 - Campaigner against Arts III highlighted the need for accessible online legal aid or seminars on paying taxes they AE university restructures and job cuts at education. Online learning is an essential Caelan Lee shouldn’t have to scroll through paragraphs student and union level 2016-2020 tool to supporting the needs of working Music II of convoluted information. • Indigenous rights activist and more students, long-distance students, and Improving your EMPLOYMENT Keep Left - Fight the recently involved with helping to students with a disability. Online tutorials CV: PROSPECTS - our University is constantly organise Black Lives Matter protests and lectures have been a demand of Con • Member of Conservatorium Students coming up with new ways for us to learn students in the past, and this year has made Association for 2 years as First Year and gain experience before entering the Cuts Sofie Nicolson these options a reality. UNITE for the Con Rep and Secretary ‘real world’, however it can often be Policy Statement: will advocate to ensure that thorough online • Studying Bachelor of Music overwhelming to try and keep up. Time for learning options for students are sustained (Performance) Student Services will implement a system We are a group of activists committed to for students in the future, so that learning • Member of SUWO executive team that connects students with Industry and fighting for free quality education for all. at the Con is accessible for all. With drastic, Community Projects that will increase CV: We are involved in fights against Morrison unacceptable cuts to our performance based Jonah Sirtes their employability, based on reviews and • Semi-retired YouTuber with multiple and Spence’s cuts and the Liberal’s climate subjects due to COVID-19 the quality of Music I feedback from students who have previously videos above 100k views and 3,000 crimes and racism. education at the Con has been diminished. undertaken these units. subscriber This year left activism has been essential CV: Some classes have seen teaching hours CV: VOTE [1] TIME for Student Services • Overwatch gamer to winning back courses at Usyd, forcing CV: • Debating 2020: USU Online slashed in half. UNITE for the Con will • Conscientious VOTE [1] TIME for NUS • Member of the Competitive Online the issue of black deaths in custody onto • Led 2019 March and September fight tooth and nail to overturn these cuts • Teamwork Gaming Society the national agenda with mass protest and Climate Strikes at USYD Open, USU Grandslam; Honi Soit reporter/artist Semester 2 2020; to our education. A hybrid learning system • Hardworking Sarah Halnan • Washed up debater, third speaker confronting the climate fires with class • Member of Solidarity • Campaigned for Prudence Wilkins- at the Con opens up multiple opportunities • People skills Arts II clutch champion conscious climate politics. • Leading activist in campaign against for students and staff to teach, learn and • Pepsi is the superior cola to Coke KEEP LEFT - FIGHT THE CUTS Music course cuts Wheat 2020 USU; communicate more effectively. Our students Belinda Thomas • Guy who yells “”keeper’s”” on the activists have been at the heart of all these CV: • Involved in organising the 2020 Sydney • Contributor for MOSAIC journal, and staff need to receive further support Arts (Music)/Law II football pitch struggles and want to see a fighting SRC • Lead organizer of the 2019 September BLM rallies SULS 2020; from the university, fashioned to be effective that sets out to mobilise students to fight for 20 Climate Strike and member of • Campus tour guide (I know about 4 for our specialist degrees. CV: Jessica Wait change. strike organizing group, ‘Spreading the buildings from my three weeks on 2. UNITE to SUPPORT MENTAL & • Secretary of the Sydney Arts Students’ Business II In 2019 we were at the heart of building Climate Strike’ campus); PHYSICAL HEALTH Society the huge climate strike on campus that • Con student organizing with other AF • Briefly part of Chocolate Society The mental and physical health of • General Executive of the joined 80’000 in the Domain. music students and Con staff against before COVID students of Con students, deserves to Conservatorium Students Association We have also campaigned to defend university restructures and cuts, and be protected now more than ever. We international students facing eviction and member of the campaign group ‘Con Switch Against Yijun Cui know first hand from students in the Con Cate Guirguis unaffordable rent in Usyd housing amid the students Say No Cuts’ Science/Law I community that we lack the resources and Music I Civd crisis. We forced the VC to commit to • 2020 Environment Officer Racism services necessary to address mental and no evictions in Usyd housing and won rent • Refugee right activist involved in RAC Aisha Abdu Arts/Law I physical health concerns. UNITE will fight CV: suspensions and reductions. (Refugee Action Collective) Policy Statement: to improve access to mental and physical • Bachelor of Music (Contemporary CV: With 3000 job cuts threatened at Usyd, • Once shouted at Michael Spence and CV: health services on every campus, ensuring Music Practice) Northern Beaches Council Youth a major economic downturn, a spiralling the arts dean over zoom about plans to SWITCH FOR ANTI-RACISM • • Reporter for Honi Soit that no student is left behind. Currently, • Barbersoc Advisory Group (2018-2019) climate crisis and a racist government we cut jobs and courses in the arts faculty Switch for Anti-Racism stands • Editor for the SULS autonomous mental health services at the Con are • French Society Member, some clubs and societies need a fightback more than ever. We can by 30% for a university which condemns all • publication the MOSAIC Journal limited to the provision of one therapist on • Food and Wine Society (2019-present) CV: fight, we can win. • Involved in organizing 2020 BLM xenophobic actions, institutions and • SULS Ethnocultural Committee campus every fortnight. This is simply not • Mathematics Society Crew Member, McDonalds - Bachelor of Commerce (2019-present) protests in Sydney structures. We want a community • Member good enough. Both students and staff are (2015-present) - Barista (2018-present) Cooper Forsyth • Member of Solidarity that celebrates diversity in its student • Volunteer at UN Youth NSW entitled to have support from the University, Can get you staff discount at maccas - BODYATTACK instructor (2019-present) Arts population and is actively anti-racist. • • Spoken Word Poet; performed at particularly in these challenging times. (present, hmu) - Dog lover xx (3 including my 2 brothers) Manon O’Neill Racial tensions have reached a the NSW Art Gallery and Sydney UNITE will push to increase resources AD Expert Tantrum Soother, Neutral Bay (2015-present) Arts boiling point in 2020, catalysed by a • Writers Festival to the Con, by lobbying the university for After School Care (2019) - Loving the colour pink (2000-present) pandemic that political leaders have greater access to services so that no student Fluent in English (2000-present) and casually referred to as the ‘Chinese virus.’ • Charlotte Toohey is left behind. Further, UNITE will push to Time for Student TikTok audios (March 2020-present) Jordyn Buhagiar Microaggressions against the Asian Arts/Law II Science I publish resources explaining how to access • Read the new Twilight book in 2 days community and International Students (August 2020) have escalated to vicious xenophobic Services Pico Dos Santos-Lee Kristina Sergi CEO, Frizzy Hair Gang (2011-present) attacks. White supremacist discourse has • Arts/Law I Bachelor of Music Performance 2nd Year VOTE [1] TIME for Student Services heightened in both the online and public VOTE [1] TIME for NUS James Ardouin sphere, as well as on campus. Esha Gupta TIME for Student Services is committed FASS IV These are a direct manifestation Arts/Law II to improving and expanding the range of of a system which was built on and services offered by the SRC. We want to benefits from institutional racism. We ensure all services offered by the SRC are Jordan Pardoel are committed to fighting these colonial AG being delivered effectively and are being Arts structures both on and off campus. utilised by all students. TIME for Student CV In particular, justice for Indigenous Services is dedicated to providing practical CV: • Member of Solidarity Australians is at the forefront of our fight. Phoenix for Well services for everyday students, so all students • Organised in Campus Refugee Action • Leading activist in campaign against Indigenous Australians are incarcerated feel supported by their SRC and confident CV: Collective against offshore detention Course Cuts and killed in custody at disproportionately Being that their money is being spent responsibly. • Sales Assistant, Bed Bath n Table • Organised 2019 September Climate • Involved in organising 2020 Sydney high rates, and are continually barred Policy Statement: We will achieve this by: (2019-present) Strike BLM rallies from quality education. In light of this we Introducing a TEXTBOOK RENTAL • Member, SASS (2019-present) • Member of Solidarity • Involved in Stop Adani campaign mustn’t let the momentum of Black Lives Vote [1] Phoenix for the voice of program - every semester many students opt • Have been to 5/6 Disneyland’s • Activist in campaign against course Matter die out. enhancing social responsibility in council. CV: to not purchase their required textbooks, • Trying to revive the Disney cuts Isobel Maish Through the SRC, we want to: Phoenix for Well Being acknowledges Bachelor of Music Performance, dissuaded by high prices and skepticism of CV: Appreciation Society (2020-present) • Involved in organising 2020 Sydney Advanced Studies III Demand an actively anti-racist our important role in helping students • BLM rallies Classical Voice their usefulness. This decision often means • Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of University, educating students on how to have more satisfaction of benefiting YanChin Liu • Elected as CSA Student Wellbeing students are unable to take full advantage Advanced Studies (Economics, identify, prevent and respond to racism others, and build the student leadership in Officer for 2019 of their courses which they are paying Finance) IV Architecture II Kelton Muir de Moore through dedicated compulsory modules aspects such as anti-discrimination inside Arts IV • Elected as CSA Secretary for 2020 large sums of money for. We will purchase • Full-time Hack, 2018- on Canvas. and outside campus, and avoid salary • Prepared and Planned Welcome Day required textbooks and allow students to • Undergraduate Member of the Reinvigorate the campaign to change exploitation at the CON 2019, 2020 rent them for up to a semester, for around Academic Board 2020-present the name of the Wentworth building in a Due to the full-time study load, • Supervised and assisted with CON $10. This policy will not interfere with any • Ex-Officio Councillor, 92nd SRC bid to begin dismantling colonialism. students are less likely to have enough auditions 2018, 2019 existing loan or subsidy programs. 2019-present Demand USyd divests from weapons time to participate in voluntary activities, Ensuring STUDY SPACES are COVID • NUS Delegate 2019-present companies which kill people in the Global which actually encourage young people to Laura Cook safe - now more than ever it is crucial • Admin, Subtle Stupol Traits South. take social responsibility and benefit the Music III students are informed of how busy our 2019-present Recognise and address the whole society. It’s suggested that USYD on campus libraries are to ensure physical • President, USyd Students for Liberty intersectional struggles of LGBT+ and can cooperate with some non-profit CV: distancing and government regulations (SFL) 2019-present low SES people of colour. organizations (eg: Red Cross, AIESEC) Aman Kapoor • Bachelor of Music (Performance) can be complied with. TIME for Student • Secretary, USyd Internationalist Work with Indigenous organisations to develop relevant voluntary programs CV: • Wellbeing Officer with theServices will appeal to campus libraries Society 2019-present Architecture III to fight against deaths in custody and as a study unit. When students enrol in Tutor (2019-present) Conservatorium Students Association to provide students with live updates on • Chairperson, Intercollegiate Collective • enable greater Indigenous access to these voluntary programs, they can not ‘crowd volumes’ to ensure your time isn’t 2018-19 • Aspiring building sketcher tertiary education. only take their social responsibilities (or (2019-present) CV: Ziggy Harris wasted walking across campus looking for • Representative, 91st SRC 2018-19 Reverse funding cuts to University enjoy traveling and making new friends, Most likely to win the lottery but lose • Led the 2019 Climate Strikes campaign Music III a study space. • Residential College Officer, 91st SRC • subjects, especially those about etc.) but also gain their credit points in Increasing the VISIBILITY of SRC 2019 the ticket (2015) • Spoke at both Usyd walk-off rallies and Indigenous history and fascism. their degrees. Owner of demon dog (have a high like a hundred classes passing motions CV: services - it’s been promised by many before • Member, 91st SRC O-week Committee • Fight for the increased inclusion of Mental health becomes an increasing tolerance for mayhem) (yes that guy in like every class) • Bachelor of Music (Performance) and yet many students continue to wander 2020 International Students through dedicated concern in the current society. We will majoring in Classical Voice campus with little to no knowledge of what Member, 91st SRC Electoral • Retired Ice Princess • Leading activist in the 2016 Sydney concession opal cards and more generous create a platform where you can free • College of the Arts 65 day occupation • Social Executive of the Conservatorium the SRC does with their SSAF money, Regulations Change Committee 2020 VISA provisions. your burden and share your emotional Students Association 2020 TIME for Student Services is dedicated to Proud Simp 1998-present and student strikes VOTE [1] SWITCH FOR ANTI- wellbeing with a stranger. • • NTEU member and activist in the 2017 tackling this problem head on. We believe • Thorn in Liam Donohoe’s side RACISM By collaborating with the IT the SRCs social media and website need 2019-present” strike campaign VOTE [1] SWITCH FOR NUS department, establish a website/plaform to be completely revamped, prioritising SWAPNIK IS PRESIDENT called “Say and be Said”. 18 19 SRC

• BostonExO Internship Participant Students can post and answer who suffer. Xiaotian Wang Grassroots for Free Education will Amy Toft (August 2020) Northern Territories. Alev Saracoglu Arts/Advanced Studies I On-campus, little priority and anonymously. Thus gives you a chance to • Volunteered for Australia China Engineering II stand behind Indigenous organisers to • KPMG Industry Partner Community Science / Arts V freely express your feelings and share the Ecnonomics Trade & Culture to set up FIGHT FOR FIRST NATIONS JUSTICE. Project (July 2020) representation are given to the voices and CV: needs of BIPOC: environmental refugees; things you don’t know who to share without the celebration ceremoney for the 47th CV: While education occurs on stolen land • Service Learning in Indigenous Shaan Patel worrying about what others may think anniversary of the establishment of • Education and perpetuates oppressive structures, • First year student whose uni experience Communities (SLIC) Student migrants; and international students. The Commerce / Science IV about you. You may share your happiness, diplomatic relations between Australia • Study a Bachelor of Advanced students cannot ignore the ongoing was sabotaged by COVID Partnership Program (Sem 1 2020) reduced funding of scholarships, resources your worries, your dissatisfaction, and and China. Computing/Commerce, major in struggle of Indigenous people. We commit • Passionate about free education and Summer Innovation Program (SIP) and courses negatively affect their studies CV: my dog • and ruin their experience. anything anonymously with strangers, • Business School Leadership Program Business Analytics and Data Science | to amplifying the BLM movement and Ambassador & Participant of the • SRC Environment Officer & Enviro where you will find your listener, who reads Gold Membership Dalyell Scholar with WAM of 80+ to ending Indigenous deaths in custody. • Experience: poster-child for mediocrity, Crime, Security & Justice on Campus GRASSROOTS against ECO RACISM Collective Convenor 2020 2002-2020” will coordinate with the university to: your story, comforts you, and shares their • Resident Assistant at Campus Living • Volleyball captain at A.B Paterson Always was and always will be. team (January 2020) • Scorpio sun/Cancer moon/Gemini own experience. Viliages. College in 2018, graduated with an GRASSROOTS FOR FREE High School Inaugural Environment Support BIPOC students and the rising; • Autonomous Collective Against Racism Some students are encountering salary ATAR 98.80 | Subject prize for 2 EDUCATION will organise for a university Captain, Forest High School (2014- • SRC Councillor 2019 (still recovering exploitation and not able to get legal Xi Guo subjects for 3 consecutive years at A.B which is publicly owned, free, and accessible 2015) including receiving the Lions (ACAR) by funding and improving inclusive from this tbh) AI spaces like the Ethnocultural space. minimum wages. Even though lots of Commerce 1 Paterson College to everyone. We propose the alternative, Club Leadership Award • Anti-capitalist stuck in a commerce students have such certain awareness of • Cleveland Intensive English High Good University, that can look beyond Face-to-face fundraiser for the Support the intersectionality of BIPOC degree • on campus who: identify as LGBTQIA+, minimum wages, they still paid below CV: School | A member of SRC profits towards a quality education for all. Fundraising People on behalf of • Waste Fighters Society Vice President the standard because of various excuses • Vice Team Leader of Social • Volunteering VOTE [1] GRASSROOTS FOR FREE Switch for Student charities, including Fred Hollows and wom*n and those marginalised for their 2019 (COVID/ skillsets/ language/ ...). Responsibility Practitioners and • Business Development Team Leader in EDUCATION Care (2017) beliefs. Also, prioritising those of low Mamma Mia enthusiast. SES by improving support for disabilities, • Therefore, firstly, the career hub may currently working on providing help for AIESEC, leading a team of 4 and help VOTE [1] SWAPNIK IS PRESIDENT Rights • Volunteer for the USyd Buddhist consider posting more legal part-time job females who suffer domestic violence them to develop professionally and VOTE [1] GRASSROOTS FOR NUS Society (Unibodhi), Greenpeace, the housing, and scholarships. information for students to decrease the • Volunteered in a charity school in personally Policy Statement: Australian Youth Climate Coalition, Improve the representation of BIPOC risk of being paid unfairly. Secondly, try China as a teacher for a month • Volleyball coach assistant for primary Thomas Williams St. Vincent’s, The Greens and other and understanding of eco racism on AK to cooperate with the government, build • Volunteer of Mobile Blood Drive school students at A.B Paterson College Science/Advanced Studies III Switch for Student Rights believes that organisations. campus with more educational, social, and students from all walks of life should have autonomous events. the public awareness of paying legally, and • Part-time assistant at Accenture • Business workshop facilitator in A.B • Humanitarian activist for human make relevant laws about this situation. • Global Citizenship Award (Ongoing/ Paterson College for 15 students in year access to quality, accessible and affordable rights, women’s rights, the rights Collaborate with the Enviro Collective Discrimination and marginalization Getting points) 5 and 6 education, as well as the right to protest. of Indigenous Peoples, Black Lives and Fossil Free USYD to divest from $22 Grassroots for often occur when the international student • A current enrolled student majoring in • Work experience The Liberal Government’s ongoing attacks Matter, individuals with disabilities, million currently invested in fossil fuels that tries to integrate into Australian society, Finance and Design • Front of house team member at Lotus on education and staff jobs, whilst increasing as well as the environment and animal aggravate eco racism. Feminism due to the misunderstanding of the different Dining Group student fees and cutting courses in specific rights. GRASSROOTS against ECO RACISM departments, are simultaneously an attack will fight to decolonise environmental Policy Statement: cultural backgrounds and international Zhihan Deng • Team member at Coles, trained two • Campaigner for the No Cuts campaign students’ unfamiliarity with the new Commerce I new employees on all Students’ Rights to education, civil demanding access to affordable and justice and provide a safer and intersectional ABOLISH THE COLLEGES environment. Parties are encouraged to • Chinese translator for a group of 50 liberty, and political participation. accessible quality education for all. environment for BIPOC students on- build more connections and create diversity CV: primary school Chinese students and Diminished Students’ Rights impacts campus. GRASSROOTS for FEMINISM between international and domestic • Currently enrolled in USYD Bachelor 4 Chinese teachers over a period of 4 all students – not only through larger and Niki Beri demands that USYD’s colleges are students through additional activities such of Commerce, majoring in Business days crowded classes or fewer course options, Arts/Advanced Studies (Politics and Isabella D’Silva abolished and replaced with affordable and as school tours and peer mate programs. Analytics & Financial Economics but also students’ ability to safely address International Relations) Science / Liberals Arts IV accessible student housing. Colleges support For example, pair a second-year domestic • Currently works in the Department of Yutian Lin concerns through protests and activism Alexandra Zogopoulos and protect the rich elite to the detriment of student with an international student. So Public Relations of ACISC (Australian Commerce II on campus. Over recent months we have average students seeking affordable housing. they only have a better understanding of Chinese International Student Club) CV: seen students fined for attending socially College students are 7x more likely to each other and new students can get used to • Luckia Student Help Staff (NZ. CV: • President, USyd Science Society 2018- distanced protests on campus - this is experience sexual violence on campus than unacceptable. Disadvantaged students from new uni life as soon as possible. 2017-2019) which help international • Being volunteer for more than 5 years 2020 non-college students. Reports into sexual students in New Zealand to fit in with so I really knowing how the social lower socio-economic backgrounds will • ASEN member 2020 violence on campus repeatedly demonstrate an unfamiliar culture and lifestyle, and responsibility important. • Reporter, Honi Soit 2020 also be increasingly impacted by attacks on Shanhua Zhou how entrenched the misogyny and elitism Business II solve issues or emotional difficulties • As I am the other clubs vice-chairman • Climate Justice Alliance 2020 Students’ Rights, as well as disadvantaged they encounter. for half year for my uni life. I really • Enviro Collective 2020 groups including Indigenous Peoples, of these sandstone boys’ clubs are. There • Helper in Fo GuangShan Buddhist enjoy to help and work with others to • Education Action Group 2020 LGBTQ+ people, women, and people with is no end to sexual violence whilst the Temple New Zealand. help someone who needs help • Clubs Against the Cuts 2020 disabilities. colleges still stand. Reform has not and will • Help with organising and running big • As a intenrational students I really • Casual research assistant at Sydney If elected, Switch for Student Rights will: not work. GRASSROOTS for FEMINISM events (2018 & 2019) wanted to help all worlds students to Nanoscience 1. Continue to advocate for all students’ demands that these ‘halls of misogyny’ be join in the uni and be responsible fo all • Washed up swimmer rights to affordable, quality and accessible torn down. Meiyi Cao things • Ecology enthusiast education and the right to protest without I FIGHT CAMPUS SEXUAL Commerce II • Questionable music taste threat of police repression. VIOLENCE 2. Support, fund and help to organize Dana Binias GRASSROOTS for FEMINISM fights Josh Lorschy activism which demands quality and Arts III to replace the current ineffective carceral- AH affordable Arts / Law III focused avenues of survivor ‘support’ with CV: education as well as other pressing social CV: Russel Garcia more effective avenues of transformative • Consulting Director, 180 Degrees justice issues. • Publicity Officer, Waste Fighters, 2020 CV: Arts III justice; including: • Participate in Deloitte consulting Grassroots for Free Consulting, 2018-2020 3. Connect, empower and support • Organiser, Enviro Collective, 2020 Abolishing the colleges, as hotbeds of projects as an assistant. Current • Contributor, Pulp Media, 2018 students to learn to protect a range of their Ada Matuassa • Reporter, Honi Soit, 2020 sexual violence and misogyny marketing intern in startup career Education • Peer Mentor, FASS, 2019 rights, whilst actively responding to student Arts IV • Contributor, Enviro Honi “Indigenous platform, trying to providing more • Student Ambassador, Room to Read, feedback to better student’s experiences Violence and Corporate Greed”, 2020 Reinstating and re-funding Rad Sex and possibilities for students. Policy Statement: 2013-2020 VOTE [1] SWITCH FOR STUDENT • Organiser, #GrowBackGreener Consent week • Participate in the marketing process • Volunteer (Media) Amnesty RIGHTS Campaign, 2020 Reforming current consent modules of the top mobile company Xiaomi, Higher education must be for public International, 2018-2019 VOTE [1] SWITCH FOR NUS AJ • Member, Grassroots, WoCo (Wom*n’s under advisement of WoCo and EROC learning how to be a good marketer. benefit and betterment. From staff layoffs • Rotary Youth Leadership Award, 2019 SWAPNIK IS PRESIDENT Collective), ACAR (Autonomous Increasing accessibility to survivor • Marketing officer in the Student CV: to course cuts, exorbitant international fees • John Lincoln Youth Community Collective Against Racism), QuAC specific counselling services (Queer Action Collective), EAG leadership organization AIESEC, • A BOC student of USYD to wage theft, the Neoliberal university has Service Award, presented by the Order Dyana Satya Offering trauma informed mental health failed. Education has been commodified Arts /Advanced Studies III Grassroots Against (Education Action Group), ASEN having interest in exploring the • Advanced Workshop on Management of Australia Association, 2017 first aid training to prepare staff and students “Excellent Student (Awarded by and underfunded to the detriment of • USYD Lions Water Polo, 2018 (Australian Student Environmental diversity of uni life. for interpersonal disclosures Stanford University) students and staff. We must overhaul higher Network), Fossil Free USYD, 2020 • RedCross Community Volunteer for Eco Racism END POLICE VIOLENCE nearly two years, willing to help others • Business analysis intern of Meritco education, prioritising equality, learning Jazz Breen • Member, VegeSoc, 2018-2020 Policy Statement: GRASSROOTS for FEMINISM and enjoy the pleasure of it. Services and research above profits. Education must Arts IV • Member, Quidditch Society and Tamil recognises that there is no feminist liberation • Studying marketing and business • Investment analysis intern of Tencent be free. Society, 2018 GRASSROOTS against ECO RACISM analytics. • Ex CEO&Founder of Bengbu cotton Grassroots for Free Education will • Enjoys chai, creating art, fixing random without prison and police abolition. Police recognises the continuing injustices faced by • A certificated barista enjoying drying innovation trading co., LTD SUPPORT STAFF STRIKES. We things and long conversations with and prisons do not provide justice for marginalised communities in the ongoing flowers and sailing. • Team leader of National Social will work directly with staff and via the toddlers and elderly people, 1999-2020 survivors, but themselves perpetuate sexual Practice in Summer Holiday Silk Road Education Action Group to fight the layoffs, environmental crisis, which include: Bla(c) • Aspiring Indian classical dancer and and domestic violence. k, Indigenous, and People of Colour Xianghao Zeng New China Project: Support Education the ongoing wage theft and the proposed eco-minimalist There have been 432 Black deaths in (BIPOC). Commerce II of Indonesia (China) course cuts. We will directly support • Avid camper and owner of tiny First, we acknowledge that the custody since the 1991 Royal Commission, • The champion of Yonghe cup national industrial action and organise so students compact items university resides on the stolen land of and Indigenous women are the fastest CV: college students speech contest campus can stand alongside staff. the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. growing prison population in Australia. • A current enrolled student major in trials (China) Grassroots for Free Education will Madeleine Rowell We pay our respects to elders past, State violence is deeply gendered, professional accounting and finance FIGHT AUSTERITY MEASURES. These Arts III present, and emerging. We cannot achieve especially impacting Indigenous mothers • Zhonghua CPAs LLP internship Xinyi Huang come in overt and subtle forms, from mass environmental justice without fighting for and community caretakers of children (Auditing Assistant) Arts and Advanced Studies 1 casualisation to OLEs. We must fight CV: Ida Ayu Mertha Indigenous justice. Always was, always will incarcerated or stolen by the racist foster • Huaxi Securities Company (Sales to prioritise staff, students, research and • Student Representative of Government Arts IV be, Aboriginal land. Team) CV: education over profit. Staff should not be CV: & International Relations (2020 - 2021) CV: system. Systemically, BIPOC live in areas of • Zhongxin Securities Company • Arts and Advance study (International fired whilst management sit on 7-figure • SRC Education Officer, 2020 • Humanitarian Affairs Asia Peace • SRC Welfare Officer, 2020 GRASSROOTS for FEMINISM will low-socioeconomic status (SES) coupled Internship (Marketing Assistant) relation&Marketing) salaries. • National social media officer, Ambassador (2020 - 2021) and Relief • Editor, Honi Soit, 2019 fight to replace ineffective carceral avenues with insufficient funding and housing, • Marketing researching program for • Likes to sing, and very outgoing Grassroots for Free Education will Australian Student Environment Web Peacebuilding Challenge Winner • President, People of Colour Revue for survivors with transformative justice, contributing to higher rates of health issues. practera • Sadly I’m allergic to ALCOHOL FIGHT FOR A SAFE CAMPUS. We Network, 2020 at the 2020 UN Peace Summit for Society, 2019 and get cops off campus. Additionally, BIPOC live within disaster- • Global Citizenship Award (ongoing) • Came to Australia since the age of 12 will work alongside the SRC’s collectives • Convenor, Women’s Collective, 2019 Emerging Leaders. • Did I Mention I Went On Exchange, VOTE [1] GRASSROOTS FOR prone zones, areas which continue harmful • Volunteered in Thread together to • Love commerce to oppose systemic racism, sexism, • SRC Sexual Harassment Officer, 2019 • Project Director and founder of the 2018 FEMINISM fossil fuel extraction, and fracking. Their Various autonomous Honi editorial divide clothes donated by warm- • Crazy in hair dye homophobia and bigotry. We will fight for • SRC Queer Officer, 2018 Refugees Are Never Alone (RANA) • VOTE [1] SWAPNIK affordable accommodation near campus start-up at Enactus, the University of livelihoods become severely impacted collectives, 2017- hearted people into different categories • Bubble tea lover SANAGAVARAPU IS PRESIDENT available to all, especially to those who need Sydney (2020-). by these poor environmental conditions. SRC Collectives Hack, 2017- and distribute them to those people • VOTE [1] GRASSROOTS FOR NUS it most – no more colleges. We see this with the current fracking • Cyborg, 1995- in Indigenous communities within the 20 21 SRC

Kimberley Dibben • Designer for the broad left, 2018-2020 CV: Sonya Say CV: VOTE [1] TIME for Commerce CV: inaccessible. The Student Centre is currently Bachelor of Political, Economic, and • Editor-in-Chief for ACAR Honi 2019 • Current Honi Soit Editor Arts/Law IV • University of Sydney Dalyell Scholar VOTE [1] TIME for NUS • Member of FMAA Subcommittee understaffed and slow. Left in limbo because Social Sciences IV and Women’s Honi 2020 • Journalist of GlobalTimes in Australia • Volunteer at the Australian Red Cross - Mary Khoury USYD of unresponsive administration, students Neutral Bay (since 2019) Reality TV enthusiast trying to access the student service system • Editor for Women’s Honi 2019, Queer • Outstanding Student representative of Commerce/Laws I • Honi 2019, and ACAR Honi 2020 gender and cultural study 2019 • Completed Work Experience at the • Exquisite culinary skills can find it difficult to commit to work or plan Royal Australian Historical Society BHHS Captain 2019 for the future. UNITE will fight to properly • Attended NUS NatCon, 2019 • Participated in the Research Topic of • (2016) • Volunteer at UN Youth NSW staff the Student Centre and return to faculty • Reporter for Honi Soit, 2018-19 “The Study of Pakistan’s Experiences • Student Peer Support Leader - North specific student services, and prioritise and Lessons in the Governance of a Sydney Bots High School (2016) accessibility to urgent services such as Multinational Country” supported by • Group Coordinator for High Resolves accessing and changing timetables. UNITE The National Social Science Fund of • Student Social Change Initiative (2014- will fight against ProctorU for alternatives AL China. 2015) that do not breach student privacy. And • General Executive of Sydney UNITE will fight against course fee hikes University United Nations Society/ and the proposal that students who fail half Phoenix for outreach Director of Board Game CV: their courses lose HECS. Society/ Outreach Coordinator of • A Christian AM UNITE to Support Staff And Courses Social Responsibility Practitioner • Faculty Leader of the International Over the past few months, academic Internationalism staff have suffered massive job losses and • A current enrolled student major in Student Ministry (FOCUS) in the reduced hours with potential for even more Eloise Warren Policy Statement: cultural study and politics / Career Evangelical Union (EU) Time for Commerce Bachelor of Arts IV Development Certificate Member of the Linguistics Society CV: in the future. This only adds to the long-time • issue of staff being underpaid (to the tune Global Citizenship Award (ongoing, Fourth year Law and Arts (Media and Policy Statement: Strategy Director at Echo (non-profit Vote [1] Phoenix for the voice of • • • of over 30 million dollars). Stretching staff Stephanie Prevadoras getting more than 100 marks already) Communications) student, majoring in promoting youth economic and encouraging internationalism in council to TIME for Commerce wants to make sure this thin is unacceptable and damaging to Bachelor of Science (Medical Science) II Zhejiang University Social Science and Linguistics financial literacy) build a campus that has stronger connections • that your TIME at uni studying Commerce Former Debating Prefect at Kambala Ryan Borges student learning, as staff do not have the Experimental Centre Intern • Commerce/Laws I time or energy to address student problems, between local and international students. or Economics is well-spent. Whether you’re • Part of the FMAA Subcommittee Layla Mkhayber • G20 YEA casual intern slogging it through BUSS1000, or on that improve or update their courses or mark Phoenix for Internationalism Kwunying Lee (some say corporate sellout, I say Arts IV • LSE / Korea University short term internship-finding grind, we’re here to make assessments with care. This year cuts to acknowledges our important role in Bachelor of Ecomonics and Bachelor of otherwise) CV: exchange sure you’re getting the most out of every courses have already reduced diversity in helping both domestic and international Advance Studies Year 1 • Comm/law so the trek from ABS to Councillor, Student Representative Volunteered in Sri Lanka for one second of your degree. It’s no secret that uni class options and will prevent students from • students embrace a more diversified • CV: Taste is a primary source of exercise month, and built a school with life has suffered over the past semester, so exploring units that interest them or are campus, regardless of students’ nationality, First year Economic Student in USYD • Member of SOPHIA (USYD Orthodox teammates • now it’s more important than ever that we vital to their Honours plans. UNITE will background, age or gender. 2017 - Graduated from Concord High Christian Fellowship) • give our governance the TIME it deserves. stand against all cuts to academic staff and School • Part of the Young Australian Lebanese Promote Opportunities for Cultural TIME to Make Online Exams Safer It’s courses because our education should be Lin Peng 2018 - 2019 UTS (Major in Finance & Association (YALA), so subsequently Exposure: To hold events for cross cultural • TIME for our cybersecurity to be respected protected at all costs. Arts II IT) has many cousins who can sporadically entertainment, intellectual discussion and when taking exams, and that software with UNITE for Working Students Many 2020 - USYD (Major in Economic & be found around campus debates; to allow individuals and groups to • clear vulnerabilities is not made mandatory. students at USyd balance learning with full- FInance) gain a better understanding of each other Cybersecurity concerns materialised in Jason Howe time or part-time work. Currently, support with their differing cultures and cultural the reportedly 444 000 personal records of for working students is at a minimum, Daili Li Commerce/ Adv Studies influences. For example, the celebration of ProctorU users being obtained in a hack with little compassion from the university Bachelor of Commerce III culturally significant holidays and festivals and leaked online in hacker forums. Beyond around timetables and tutorials, forcing could be done together on campus, so these concerns, the added difficulty of some students to go part-time. Even steps as simple as deliberately clashing recorded as to foster a more inclusive, diverse and accessing exams using this software, with CV: lectures with live tutorials are nearly supportive university culture with greater many students experiencing crashes and other computer issues, is severely degrading University debater, high school impossible. UNITE will campaign to ensure Council 2019 appreciation for one another. • the quality of test taking and ruining the debating coach, and passionate about greater flexibility is offered by university • Sexual Harassment Officer, Student Promote Peer Mentoring/Support playing field in exams when TIME counts. arguing administration, with Student Services greater Representative Council 2019 (Cross-Culture): To encourage the partnering Convenor, University of Sydney That’s why TIME for Commerce will be • Sydney University Symphony staffed to help students plan their degrees, • of senior students with junior international Orchestra violinist as well as ensuring working students are Women’s Collective 2019 advocating for your safety and ease in students of similar degrees in the beginning Sydney University Business Society able to access their timetables with greater Member, Environment Collective remote exam taking. • • of the first semester for peer mentoring TIME for Useful and Engaging OLEs Publications subcommittee ease. Further, UNITE will fight to ensure 2017-2019 and support particularly for the period of and Dalyell Units If you’re completing a • Bats 9 and doesn’t bowl all domestic and international students Member, Autonomous Collective CV: • transition. This would allow international Great Books Course that’s strangely lacking • Only knows how to talk too much, be are aware of their rights in the workplace, Against Racism 2017-2019 students to at least be more at ease with • A Christian in great books, or wondering why you can’t socially awkward, eat hot chip and lie promoting this at Welcome Week as well as • Member, Women’s Collective 2017- the University of Sydney environment • A current reporter for Honi Soit get another go of IPP instead of spending SRC-run welfare events. UNITE will also 2019 • Global Citizenship Award (ongoing) hours on unrelated OLEs, you know the Anthony Haddad fight to raise Newstart, Rent Assistance, as initially, and for them to later overcome CV: CV: Member, Disabilities Collective 2019 Member in USYD United Nations feeling. It’s hard not to ponder the utility of Engineering/Business 1 well as Youth Allowance to ensure financial • language barriers and cultural shocks in • A currently enrolled student major in • Excessively passionate about Member, Sydney University Education Society • mandatory OLEs, or Dalyell units, when security for every student. • the transition to university. In this process, Finance and International Business economics Action Group 2017-2019 Volunteered at AIESEC for more than you could have the option to invest time VOTE [1] UNITE for Student Welfare domestic students would also be able to • Korea University short-term exchange • Love singing, not particularly good at it • in a second major or take an internship VOTE [1] UNITE for NUS • Member, Sydney University Muslim half a year Volunteered in Vietnam for one month, • Turned childhood bickering with better understand differing cultural norms • placement, thus developing career skills. Student Association 2017-2019 • Committee member in Evangelical teaching local children English and parents into a high school debating and varying ways of thought and to gain Commerce and Economics students are Grace Hu • Member, Greens on Campus 2019 Union Focus faculty Mandarin career mentoring experience; whilst also serving in entering the employment landscape during Arts/Law 1 Member, Young Australian Lebanese Second year Arts student major in Participated in Model United Nations • Side quest in life is learning languages, • reduction of the extent of influence of an • • the first recession Australia has had in 29 Association 2019 International relations & International summit in China travelling, and making friends across internalised sense of Western-centricity. years. TIME for Commerce will advocate Member, Students for Palestine 2018- business the world • Encourage Establishments of Inclusive for more educational and experience Actively involved in many business and 2019 Feifan “Nate” Zhong • Study Group Environments: To provide related opportunities for Commerce and cultural societies (can’t say no to free Member, Sydney Arts Students Society Xinyi Yu Arts/Law II • a platform to allow help to be given and Economics students to gain the requisite food) 2019 Bachelor of Economics (Economics and received no matter the background; and skills and connections to thrive in changing • Firm believer that a Zinger Box • Member, University of Sydney Womn’s to encourage the voicing of different Finance) Year 2 industries, as opposed to just time-filling constitutes a well rounded meal Revue Society 2018-2019 academic perspectives in a intra-disciplinary subjects. TIME for Improving Online Engagement • Organiser, NOWSA 2019 environment, particularly applicable in CV: Ling Ling Lin As uni continues to be largely online, it’s CV: fields relating to the Arts and Social Sciences • Chinese Academy of Sciences Economics I TIME for the fostering of greater online • Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award Lucy Taylor granted the diverse cultural backgrounds and Research Project - Economic Analysis III Arts on Aviation Tax Beijing (Beijing, engagement with the business school while recipient experiences which international students Edmund Rice camp volunteer China) we’re away from ABS. What this looks like • may bring from all around the globe. Private tutor Ellie Wilson Researcher of Research Project - is the introduction, for instance, of programs • • that give students greater online interface • Member of the Catholic Society Arts/Advanced Studies (Media and China’s Foreign Trade Policy and Belt Lei Yao with successful USYD alumnus during a • Pure blood lebanese Communications) III and Road Initiative Bachelor of Arts and Advanced Study Year period when visibility of the employment • Tech and engineering nerd CV: • Viva La Vida CEO Office Assistant landscape has been significantly reduced. • Meticulous cleaner - Writing Society General Executive (2020) 2 CV: CV: 2019.09 - present TIME for Cheaper Textbooks Although - Reclaim the Night Sydney Treasurer (2020) A happy Arts/Law student at USYD. • Women’s Officer and USyd WoCo • Co-founder of exhibition for vulnerable • using BUSS1030 knowledge to analyse - SASS Member Convenor, 2020 groups in United Nations: Organized expenditure patterns when buying textbooks Victor Ruifeng Liang Ethnocultural Officer and ACAR the information and paintings could be an educational endeavour, it’s AN Grace Lagan • Arts/advanced studies II Convenor, 2019 of disadvantaged children, and TIME for students to not have to shoulder CV: Economics / Law I • Member of Grassroots, Switch, WoCo, conducted psychological analysis and the full burden of expensive e-textbooks that • Member of FMAA Subcommittee ACAR, QuAC, Enviro, EAG, ASEN, interpretation of vulnerable children could be easily purchased on a bulk basis by USYD UNITE for Student the university, or offered at a subsidised rate. 2018-2020 • European Parliament (the office • Expert candle sniffer TIME for Sensible Spending We Oat milk enthusiast • Expert stakeholder consultant on assistant of Susana Solis Perez) • acknowledge that the SRC does not have PLC School Captain 2019 Welfare feminist prison abolition for CLC • Office assistant of Executive President • deep pockets during this period, and thus • Volunteer at Birds of Passage Policy statement: NSW, 2020 Gwenn Sonck --EU-CHINA Business hope to eliminate unnecessary expenditure Lead organiser for Radical Education Association/ Flanders-China Chamber • that is not in the interests of students. The Smrithi Vaithilingam Week at USyd, 2019 of Commerce UNITE for Accessibility The centralisation TIME for Commerce is not limited to the Commerce/Laws 1 of Student Services has meant that even • Youth Mental Health Advocate for present, and thus we will promote the long headspace, 2018-2019 essential services such as timetables and term interests of students at the university advice on degree progression can be through responsible fiscal management. 22 23 SRC

CV: community day focussed on activities such Maia Edge • Education Fee Hikes Organising Lydia Zhou want to reform our university so it becomes Timothy Livingston • Economics / Law I as trivia, raffles and a movie night. The Science II Meetings & Protests (2020 until Arts/Advanced Studies I an institution that fights for us and not Arts IV • Dalyell Scholar proceeds of this fun day will be donated AP Australia gets free education) against us, that acts sustainably, and that • General Executive of the University of charity organisations focussed around • Passionate Protester (2018 - present) Thomas Newham leads on climate and environmental action. CV: Sydney Writing Society providing our favourite drop bears with the • Sydney Uni Dramatic Society, member Science/Advanced Studies I We will instil an activist approach to • Italian Society Secretary 2018 • Member of SULS, EconSoc, SCC, support needed to stay off the endangered (2020) climate change within the SRC, working • Italian Society President 2019 ALP Club, Astronomy Society list. This celebration not only encourages SWITCH for • SUMS, member (2020) - MUSE, closely with the USYD Enviro Collective • Gaius Gracchus Classics and Ancient vast community support and awareness for member (2020) - USYD Theatresports, and environmental groups to enable and History Society General Executive Harry Peters a significant environmental issue but should Education Equality member (2020) support environmental activism. We 2018-19 Arts II be an enjoyable experience, encouraging the • I stage managed some plays will ensure that the Enviro Collective is • Gaius Gracchus Classics and Ancient future health of the USYD environmental and musicals for Squabbalogics adequately funded and its voice is properly History Society Vice President 2019-20 CV: movement. Policy statement: (2018-present, whenever they need me represented in the SRC, providing a voice • Enviro Collective member 2019-present • Bachelor of Arts 6th November- Darling Day- A campus really) for all students on environmental issues. • Lover of environmental justice • Sydney Arts Students Society wide fair that would feature food stalls and SWITCH for EDUCATION EQUITY • Did some public speaking in high Grassroots for Environmental Justice 1998-present • Sydney Uni Drama Society activities such as talent shows, a pub crawl is a progressive, non-hierarchical ticket, school and didn’t suck that bad (2016- will also closely work with the divestment and a Battle of the Bands in order to raise committed to student services, activism 2018) movement and groups like Fossil Free Lara De Rubeis Ricky Rangra funds to support the continued sustainability and EDUCATION EQUITY. We recognise USYD in order to ensure that USYD divests Arts III Business I of New South Wales’ most precious water that we are on stolen, Gadigal land and Kate Woodbury from fossil fuels and other environmentally and ecological resource- the Murray- that ownership was never ceded. SWITCH Arts/Advanced Studies destructive industries, an area in which the CV: Darling Basin. Given the drought last year for EDUCATION EQUITY is focused University lags behind others. We will lobby • Sydney University Italian Society first and a massive ecological disaster, relief CV: on ensuring all students have an equitous USYD to ensure not only ethical divestment, year representative 2018 funds and action against water exploitation • Director of Student Publications, 92nd education that is fair and inclusive, and but also ethical reinvestment in areas such • Sydney University Italian Society are a necessity in order to maintain this SRC free from the limitations and constraints CV: as renewable energy. Complementing this, Treasurer 2019 significant environmental site. We think it’s • Moderator, Minecraft Society that would otherwise prevent students from • First year we will pressure the university to severe • Sydney University Italian Society Vice TIME to protect the Murray-Darling Basin. (2019-present) achieving their desired educational outcome. • Athletics (school 2018-2019, run club ties with unethical corporations, especially President 2020 Climate Innovation competition- An • Secretary, Women in Technology We are committed to providing the most 2020-present), middle-distance runner those present in coursework like ICPUs. interfaculty competition with a cash prize, (2019-present) equitous education possible, despite and with only one pair of running shoes Grassroots for Environmental Justice encouraging students to create practical • National Youth Science Forum 2018 against the mass course cuts, staff cuts and • Football (2008-present) will also hold the University to account on AR and novel solutions to the environmental alumna fee hikes. • Music (trumpet 2010- present, its sustainability strategy and continue to concerns that Australia and the world face. • Lactose intolerant (2018-present) SWITCH for EDUCATION EQUITY is orchestra/wind band 2014-2019, pursue greater targets and the interests of USYD is a hub of innovation, we think • Cheese aficionado (2001-2018) against all uni staff and course cuts and will big band 2014-present, jazz combo our environment and our futures. We will that it’s TIME to focus this innovation in • Supported Everton FC since birth so I continue to advocate, protest and fight for 2019-present) also create a greener campus, pressuring the TIME for Law a friendly and competitive atmosphere and can cope with losing their jobs, rights and equal opportunity so • Member of jazz Soc, avid fan of University to allow students to lead greener channel this innovation into improving our • Knows every word to Soph Aspin Send that they can continue providing the quality alternative rock and jazz fusion, lives on campus through various means Policy Statement: CV: environment. by Millie B education students are entitled to. We will pretend multi-instrumentalist such as waste management and transport • Sydney University Business Society: Waste Reports- Currently there is no way do this through the continuation of activism • Member of scisoc (2020-present) solutions. 1. TIME For Peer Assisted Study Sessions External Relations Portfolio. of knowing the levels of consumption and William Hancock and standing by all staff and students, • Chess (2011-present, member of usyd VOTE [1] GRASSROOTS FOR (PASS) • Reporter at the Honi Soit waste that USYD produces. There are Science 1 supporting them through the mass job cuts CV: chess club), was captain and started a ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTIC PASS has been one of the more successful some faculties at the university where tons and course cuts. • SASS 1978 Poetry Sub-Editor (2020) board game club for some reason VOTE [1] SWAPNIK university initiatives introduced over the Fiora Lee of plastic are wasted every year. Accurate SWITCH FOR EDUCATION EQUITY • Proudly archetypal vegetarian gender • SUMS, physoc SANAGAVARAPU FOR PRESIDENT past few years, offering students with Commerce/Law reporting on the issue would enable will fight to expand and promote SRC studies enthusiast (2019-present) • Longtime (political) philosopher, VOTE [1] GRASSROOTS FOR NUS additional study sessions in a relaxed peer- policymakers to precisely pinpoint areas services. The SRC provides essential • Peaked in high school debating but Rawls devotee and Stan Grant stan assisted setting. Yet, PASS is still limited to CV: of concern in the university and possible resources to students, particularly those will still argue with you with great • Clearly a supporter of Jay’s way Drew Beacom only 2-3 Law subjects a semester and only • University Network of Investing and environmental concerns. experiencing serious financial instability, vehemence Arts/Advanced Studies (International and a few spots are available to those students Trading Subcommittee Ditching Dirty Power- We think it’s TIME especially during the Covid-19 period. • Will bake you biscuits if you vote for Patrick Honnery Cahill Global Studies) III lucky enough to enrol quick enough. • Sydney University Law Society that USYD takes significant action in This encapsulates crucial services such as Jay. Science/Advanced Studies I It’s TIME for PASS to be made available • Sydney University Business Society reducing its carbon footprint, matching the financial advice, legal consultation, and for all Law subjects on a much more frequent climate commitments of its peers. Whilst - most importantly - bursaries. However, Aydin Varol basis. During difficult times like the current Shirley Zhang UNSW has been run on 100% renewables during this Covid-19 period, we will also Science/Advanced Studies I pandemic, academic support and assistance Science/Advanced Studies 1 since June of this year, USYD has been ensuring the maintenance of the mutual-aid is as important as ever and we believe PASS increasing its dirty power consumption program, and ensuring that the students who is a great initiative that should be expanded. Mikey Glover steadily. In 2017-18 for example, the need the help will get the help they need. 2. TIME For Legal Service Commerce/Laws I university increased its energy expenditure SWITCH FOR EDUCATION EQUITY Legal Service is one of the most by 43% and invested $28 million into will ensure that there is constant pressure unappreciated and underused facilities CV: Stanwell Corporation and Origin Energy. CV: on the University to combat sexual assault offered by the SRC and it offers students • Bachelor of Commerce and Laws These companies are primarily run off of • Enjoys listening to music constantly on campus, support efforts to make spaces, with FREE legal advice and assistance. We • Sydney University Law Society gas and coal. We think that it’s TIME that • Dog Enthusiast safer for trans, non-binary students and believe it is TIME to expand these services, Campus Representative for LLB 1 this changed. • No, really, dogs are great aggressively confront racism, sexism, making them more accessible to all students • Member of various clubs, including It’s TIME to help our environment. • Is a real person? ableism and queerphobia. at the University SUBS, USYD Debating, other VOTE [1] TIME for the Environment • New to USyd this year but looking Vote [1] Swapnik for President! Your SSAF fee should be spent on areas Ultimate Frisbee VOTE [1] TIME for NUS forward to seeing how I can help this Vote [1] Switch for NUS that benefit you as students and make your • Member of UNIT, and competed in community be a better place! Vote [1] Switch for Education Equity! experience at University easier. That’s why several case competitions Sebastian Bock • Member of DogSoc, PsychSoc, CV: we believe it is TIME for MORE funding Science I FilmSoc Jayfel Tulabing-Lee • Into protecting students’ rights since CV: toward legal services and we’ll lobby for Arts/Advanced Studies 1 forever • Co-convenor of USYD Greens on additional funding to help the SRC hire a William Waters CV: • Member of SLS and Labor Party (2019 Campus third full-time solicitor. AO Arts and Social Sciences I • A thinker, teacher and student of the - present) • Member of USYD Enviro Collective We would also promote and organise planet • Worked with Solidarity in the course • Member of the Executive of Sydney FREE seminars and workshops for • An avid promoter of benevolent cut protests (2020) University Italian Society students to attend on basic legal rights TIME for the totalitarianism though also a pioneer • Can’t get enough cricket despite being • Makes annual donations to other and responsibilities. Laws are constantly of the anarchocowboyist school of the worst in the world at it societies every O-Week changing and evolving particularly in times thought • Vote Jay because she’s pretty great and • Campaigned for Prudence Wilkins- like now with COVID-19, and so it’s of Environment • Armchair sultanist and opposer of the she kinda cares about students Wheat USU 2020 grave importance that student’s have a 18th ammendment • Rugby fiend basic understanding of their legal rights and obligations. Policy statement: • Full-time propagandist for the Jay Mackenzie McCowan campaign Bachelor of Arts/Advanced Studies II Caitlin Cox 3. TIME For Digital Submissions The Law School remains one of the only TIME for Effective Environmental Policy Arts/Advanced Studies (International and areas of the university which still relies on TIME for the Environment is a politically Nicole Nike Pan Global Studies) III hard-copy submissions for assignments independent campaign of individuals who Arts/Advanced Studies 1 and essays. The onset of COVID-19 has believe in responsibility. We believe that we, AQ CV: provided the law school with an opportunity as students, have a responsibility to reduce CV: • Assistant at Alocuro Medical to observe the efficiency and unnecessary our own environmental impact and the • SASS, member (2020) Consultancy Company nature of hard copy submissions. We think impact of USYD. • Member of Young Greens (2018 - • Online assistant for Amazon Grassroots for it’s TIME for this to be a permanent change. We believe that it’s TIME to institute present) • Assistant at Qantas Chairman’s Lounge 4. TIME For Expanding Study Areas environmental policy not based on party CV: • Played in a few tennis tournaments • Charity Event Coordinator partnered The University has been quick to politics, but instead on intelligent policy CV: • Education: Yes CV: (2018-2019) but now just practice tik Enviro Justice with the Black Dog Institute implement social distancing measures that is backed by science and will have real • Loves partying • Skills: N/A • Enviro Collective, member (2020) toks in my room (glo up) • Volunteer at Radfly Youth Charity across campus to ensure safety for students impacts on the continued health of our • Loves soccer • Work History: Former child. • Women’s Collective, member (2020) • School Strike 4 Climate, member & Policy Statement: • Volunteer at Oxfam during COVID-19 and this has drastically natural environment. This is why we are • Loves good vibes • Ideas: None • Campaigned for Belinda Thomas for student organiser (2018-2019) • Volunteer at Vinnies Australia decreased the capacity of study areas for running as independents, solely accountable • Loves dogs • Huge lover of sports and cats USU, (2020) • Peaked in high school and participated Grassroots for Environmental Justice • Member of the University of Sydney students to the student body rather than a political • LOVES a $9.95 Chicken McNugget • Genuinely passionate about creating • Switch, member (2020 until further in philosophy and debating clubs, did believes in the need for urgent action on the Consulting Society We believe it’s TIME for improved party- a move that will enable us to make feed real change to save our environment radicalisation) musicals and orchestra here and there current climate crisis and the importance • Member of the United Nations Society online systems for a seamless booking effective environmental decisions without • Loves haiku poetry: • Member of SASS, PokerSoc, Chess • AUS Rep for Taekwondo, sparring and was elected prefect in my final year of student activism. As such, we want to at USYD process which ensures students are able the shackles of politics. • I love relaxing, Club, Social Soccer Soc. (2016-present) (2015-2019) create a university space in which both the • Member of the University of Sydney to plan ahead and organise study sessions TIME for Environmental Conservation • But the world changes quickly! • Sydney Arts Students Society, member • Jay’s way, Jay’s way or the highway. environment and student activism can take Business Society across campus - whilst ensuring necessary 2nd of October- Koala Day- A • It needs your help now. (2020) centre stage. Tired of the greenwashing and • Attained a Gold Duke of Edinburgh • USYD Run Club, member (2020) corporate solutions to climate change, we Award social distancing measures are maintained. 24 25 SRC

5. TIME For Special Consideration Joshua Chew CV: CV: TIME FOR A VIBRANT STUDENT CV: Policy Statement: COVID-19 has been a challenge for Science/Masters of Mathematical • Social Work Student • 2019- MUN representative debated in EXPERIENCE • 2018 - 2019 --> volunteer in local all students, with online tutorials and Sciences II • Wage Slave under Capitalism (2015-) Sydney Parliament House Standing for a student-centred approach community; reading buddies, red Grassroots for Student Welfare Policy seminars radically changing the way many • Breed (Different) • 2019- MUN debate team winner to the renewal of life on campus in the shield appeal Statement subjects are taught. Many students across • Just happy to be included • 2018- Best barista in the quarter of the wake of a global pandemic. Ensuring that • 2017 - current --> volunteer at tzu chi Student welfare encompasses the health, the University have been impacted by year all students return to a superior campus foundation (NGO) happiness and wellbeing of individuals the pandemic, affecting their capacity to Keesha Field • 2017- Best barista trainer experience than that we left. With more • 2019 --> student leader in highschool; which allows us to achieve our full potential perform academically. Visual Arts/Advanced Studies III opportunities to get involved on campus, prefect academically, socially, intellectually, We believe it’s TIME for greater special Zihan Shen and sustain the robustness of university life. emotionally, and physically. By definition, consideration in difficult times such as Thomas Sargeant Arts I Demand the allocation of SSAF into Mansi Kamble it is what allows individuals to thrive in these. The University should be spending Arts II the pockets of clubs and societies to renew Arts/3rd Year an environment, and to reach their unique more time and resources assessing special CV: a more vibrant campus life. Ensure that all personal goals. Grassroots individuals are consideration applications and ensuring • Volunteer, Wuhan Charity Association students are aware of and supported by the people who volunteer their time to benefit they take the time to make the most fair and CV: (2016-2018) COVID-19 financial assistance delivered by the general wellbeing of the people who appropriate decisions. • Delegate, NUS National Conference • Microsoft Office Specialist certification the university. E.g. Emergency Bursaries make up the various different communities VOTE [1] TIME for Law (2019) candidate Advocate for as many on-campus, face-to- they belong to. VOTE [1] TIME for NUS • Vice-President, USyd SRC (2020) • Volunteer, TV Asahi (2019) face learning opportunities to ensure the In a fast-changing world of varying • Councillor, Usyd SRC (2019) • Member, Johnny’s Family Club (2019- possibility for a vibrant campus experience ideas, conflicts and movements, one of the Rohan Bhatia • President, Education and Social Work 2020) for all students (in a COVID-Safe manner). greatest challenges for the students of today Law/Commerce II CV: Society (2019-2020) • Stage actress, Youths in Tan Hua TIME FOR AN ACCESSIBLE SRC is maintaining a quality state of mental • 2019 FASS Education Committee • President, Democratic Socialist Society musical (2017) Allowing more students to be actively health. Statistically, Australian youth (18- Student Representative (2019-2020) • Fengwei yu engaged with their university through 24 years old) have the highest prevalence • Proud member of SYNCS, Astronomy • Social Secretary, Sydney University • FASS, Second year standing for the development of clear of mental illness than any other age group. Society, Econsoc, The EU, SUDATA, Dramatic Society (2019-2020) open lines of communication, between Mental health and wellbeing is undoubtedly SASS, - FrenchSoc, German Society, • Failed candidate (2018) Tiancheng Mai students and their representatives on the one of the greatest adversities for both Quidditch, SUAMS and Project Hope. CV: Engineering/IT I SRC. This will ensure that all students are young and mature-aged students, indicating • Proud Malaysian Chinese Heritage Roisin Murphy • Politics and Art History Student able to actively participate in making their CV: it is one of the greatest issues in student • A staunch supporter of Liverpool and Arts II • First Year Officer, Sydney Arts Feiyan Gao university experience the best it can be. • English major and writing studies welfare today. Sydney FC Students Society (2019-2020) Arts Develop an easily accessible minor Through promoting the awareness of • That guy who likes to garden • Treasurer; Galleries, Libraries, anonymous grievance in-tray for all • Volunteer at Sydney Story Factory, and wellbeing and mental health at universities, • Gregarious, composed and proud. Archives and Museums Society (2019-) Harriet Zhao students to communicate safely with their passionate about student literacy this will have a positive impact on students, • Honi Soit Contributor (2019) Arts/Politics II representatives on issues they care deeply • Passionate about social justice and fostering an environment where mental • Devoted C&S Event Attendee (2019-) about. Ensure that the SRC Social Media equality for all health is recognised, maintained and • Twin (2000-) CV: pages are informative, clear and engaging • Harbours a secret unhealthy interest in achieved for students, as well as diminishing AS • Has attempted to buy a Pimms jug at • Debate at Women’s in 2019, funded Advocate for SSAF to be distributed into reality TV the social stigma surrounding the issue. Courtyard before midday (2019) • Ranked #1 Nationally in 2018, in SRC Collectives to promote and engage • Can recite T.S.Eliot poetry verbatim This will ultimately encourage positive the NHSDLC (National Highschool more FASS Students who are interested in mental health and wellbeing in grassroots Jonah Dassaklis Debate League of China) student activism. Jacinda Yang communities at the University of Sydney, CV: PUMP Against the (Primary Education III) • Worked as Academic assistant in the VOTE [1] TIME for Arts VOTE [1] BA (Media and Communications)/ improving access to student welfare • Proud member of ConClub, EconSoc, NHSDLC from 2018-2019 TIME for NUS Bachelor of Laws resources at the University of Sydney both Ekansh IndianSoc Cuts • Fluent in English and Chinese today and in future. • Senior Leader of Academic Life at • Proficient in using PS, Wix, Canva Ben Jorgensen Marist College Eastwood (2018) Policy Statement: AT and -Final cut pro to create campaign Arts/Advanced Studies 1 Lia Perkins Refuse to play any football position • CV: material Arts I other than ‘right-wing’ University students are under attack, and • Archivist, SUDS (2020) Proud Punjabi background we need an SRC that will stand up for us. • • Secretary, Democratic Socialists Lost many hours watching European This year, PUMP has been at the forefront PHOENIX for • Society (2020) AU football in the middle of the night of the fight for fair education. Your PUMP • General Executive, Drug Law Reform Identifies as an anglophile SRC representatives have joined other SRC • Society (2020) Student Services [not so] Secret man-crush on John office-bearers in fighting staff cuts and fee • • General Executive, StarSoc (2020) Howard hikes every step of the way. But the fight Policy Statement: • Member, WoCo (2020) TIME for Arts Battered Fish & Chips Connoisseur won’t end next year. We need experienced • • Reporter, Honi Soit (2019-2020) representatives who are ready to keep up Vote [1] Phoenix for the right of students to Policy Statement: • Contributor, PULP Media (2020) Zac Pitkethley the fight. PUMP Against the Cuts are enjoy better student services in the council • Almost Honi Candidate (2020) Arts/Law II an experienced, diverse, and passionate - To build a campus with more useful TIME TO EMPOWER ARTS STUDENTS team who’ll put everything into keeping workshops and more attractive activities. Championing the empowerment of Arts Griffen Edge education fair. Phoenix for Student Service acknowledges students to not be left out, seen as second or Design Computing III our important role in helping both domestic We’ll PUMP UP ENGAGEMENT by be underrepresented. CV: and international students to have a better continuing the SRC’s work to engage clubs Focusing on EMPOWERING the study • Firm believer in student advocacy for campus environment that is more joyful and and societies in education campaigns. This experience of all FASS students on campus, activating change CV: culturally diversified. year, PUMP representatives led the way ensuring they are SUPPORTED in their • FASS Dalyell Scholar Mentor • SRC mutual aid, volunteer (2020) Enhance the connection for the new in founding Clubs Against the Cuts. Next studies, BOLSTERED in an equal way to • Volunteer with FASS Student Affairs’ • Women’s collective, member (2020) students: Due to the circumstance of year, we’ll run events between the SRC that of other faculties and not as readily CV: Comms Team • Environment collective, member (2020) COVID-19, most of the new students and societies to make sure that the SRC’s dismissed by the university in times of • BA Asian Studies and Adv studies in • Finalist of FASS Students Insights • Education Action Group, member this year aren’t able to attend university campaigns are as engaging as possible. nuance. Politics and International Relations (TEDx Style Competition) (2020) physically, many students lost the chance We’ll PUMP UP EDUCATION by As the largest faculty on campus the • Passionate about the empowerment of • Can sort of do one Tiktok dance • No Course Cuts Campaign, passed to make friends in university. We intend publishing degree and faculty specific empowerment of art students will allow for other young people • Marvel fan (they have the better heroes) motions (2020) to organise some interesting events such information about course and staff cuts. a university culture that no longer scorns • ProvokeWoke Executive • Campaigned for Prue for USU (2020) as board game nights or help sessions Too often, students don’t know how at the stigma of art students but rather • SRC School President Oliver Nicholls • Member of Grassroots (2020) which help new students to immerse into high-level policy changes will affect them – celebrates and respects the multifaceted • You don’t have to ask me twice to give Bsci in Applied Medical Science and • Did many environmental things (2015- the new environment. Organise events we’ll change that by making sure that well- talents that they embolden here on campus. my opinion or converse Biology 2020) to experience the local culture: As lots of CV: researched information is available through Advocate for subsidised textbooks and • Occupied by pushing weights • Aspiring roller derby player (2010-?) students came from overseas, we can have • Second year Law and International SRC publications. associated resources for all FASS students. • Intrigued by horoscopes, ancient CV: • Cares (2001-?) CV: some trips or excursions which will not Relations student at USYD We’ll PUMP UP SOLIDARITY Insist on more exclusive study areas theology and the cosmos • Advocate for equal quality of education • Student Mentor (2020): School of only help international students to involve • Councillor of the 92nd USYD SRC by continuing the SRC’s proud legacy andresearch spaces for FASS students. for all Lara Beatriz Architecture, Design, and Planning in the local community but also facilitate (2020) of working with unions, First Nations Request that the university focus on more Vinea Pho • Member of prefect body in highschool Arts I communities, community groups, and other • Vice President (2019-2020): Sydney in building up a relationship between new • Vice President of the Politics Society exclusive opportunities for FASS students Arts/ First year • Passionate about the study of the University Experience Designers and old international students. Arrange (2020) student unions to fight for a just world. We’ll natural sciences CV: (SUEDE) workshops for practicing social skills: Catch that include internships, career programs and • Treasurer of MineSoc (2020) - keeping leave no stone unturned in searching for CV: • Youth council member for strathfield • Student representative for the faculty • President (2018-2019): Sydney up sessions with some graduated students placement opportunities. Strongly speaking your diamonds safe allies for a fair education and a sustainable • BA International Relations LGA of Spanish and Latin American Studies University Experience Designers or local business managers to build wider out in support against the proposed attacks • The Iced Mocha from courtyard is my future. • Currently reading “”The End of • Spends more time bushwalking than • Lentil as Anything volunteer (SUEDE) connections, as well as panel talk sessions to Fass students and faculty including the life source For an active SRC, on 29 September – 1 Policing”” studying • Wosoc peer mentoring participant which they can share some advice and their proposed 30% cut to staff, Casualisation of • I miss face to face uni but it’s nice to go October: • Working on decolonising my Tasnim Kabir experiences. Moreover, there might be to class from bed Vote [1] PUMP Against the Cuts for Staff - most of whom are tutors, and specific perceptions Simon Peyrachon Social Work I some internships opportunities which help SRC! course cuts in the department. Champion • Preoccupied with everything spiritual Arts / Law I students to practise what they learnt in the Dante Torrisi Vote [1] PUMP for NUS! the direct assistance of FASS students from and mystical actual scenario. Commerce / Advanced Studies II Vote [1] Swapnik Sanagavarapu for Student Services and Amenities – Fees • Talks too much or doesn’t talk at all AV Isabella Van Der Vleit President! (SSAF) to access exclusive scholarships, • Will laugh at anything you say because Arts I Yi Zhuang performative opportunities and subsidised I am confused Science / Engineering II Felix Faber skill-building workshops. Ensure that the • Learnt how to code for 3 hours and Grassroots for Arts/Social Work III now I know how to make a triangle CV: interests of FASS students are represented • An enthusiastic nerd in council and not merely rejected. Develop a strong line of communication between Kylie Ly Student Welfare Bachelor of Advance Computing/Health Gege Shen FASS student representatives and the SRC Science Arts I to ensure strong representation for all FASS students.

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Gilbert Kerr racism against international students. est historia certaminis generum cuts to University staff and courses, engineering, we plan to: CV: Architecture I 7. Fight the climate crisis. Transition 2020 Improve the visibility of mental health • President, SUCE (2019-) AY to 100% renewables by 2030 and tax the Madeleine Powell • Involved in the move to abolish services around PNR • HR & Project Director, Enactus (2020) criminals responsible for the crisis to pay Arts II Australia Day and Australia, Fighting for a multilingual CAPS • Leadership Scholar (2017 - ) for it. 2019-present. Listen and respond to student concerns • Project Delivery & Sustainability 8. International solidarity. Support through a fortnightly forum Intern, City of Sydney (2019-) PUMP for international protest movements against Simon Upitis Establish a mental health committee on • Teacher/Tutor, Matrix Education injustice and authoritarianism, including Arts I the SRC alongside a Mental Health Officer (2018 - ) SUSTAINABILITY those in Hong Kong last year, and those Engineering better support for students • Campus Brand Ambassador, Teach For currently taking place in America, More broadly, we intend to support Australia (2018) Policy Statement: Thailand, Belarus and Lebanon. Free students by advocating for: • Secretary, SUWIE (2017 - 2018) Palestine. Free the refugees. Training for student leaders and society Sports Rep, SUEUA (2017-2018) If elected, PUMP will push the University • to combat the issue of climate change on 9. Solidarity with university staff. We execs • Finisher, Oxfam 100km Trailwalker stand with the NTEU Fightback Campaign Increased technical up-skilling for (2018) a systemic level. Individual action, whilst important, is not enough to forward the against uni management’s attempts to sack STEM students by supporting project-based • Schools Outreach Volunteer, EWB staff and cut wages. Extend JobKeeper societies and student initiatives (2017 - ) widescale change towards necessary to meet CV: eligibility to universities. Staff teaching More opportunities for students to Mentor, QLD PCYC & yLead, (2017 the urgency of the climate crisis. We need • • Marketing Officer, SUEUA (2019- CV: conditions are student learning conditions. develop and design how the University - ) power in student numbers. Sustainability 2020) • Volunteering 10. Increase funding for health care. The CV: supports us Vice Captain, Varsity College (2016) encompasses not just thinking about how • • Leadership Scholar (2019-2020) • Volunteered teaching English at Ma- pandemic has revealed the inadequacy of • Community Action for Rainbow Engineering an improved student Caltex All Rounder (2016) you can reduce your ecological footprint • • Media Director, USYD Rocketry Team liana Polytechnique III High School, healthcare systems around the world. We Rights activist against homophobia experience Will communicate predominantly in today, but what we prioritise in our society. • (2019-2020) Timor Leste (2018). demand the government increase funding and transphobia, 2017-present Leveraging our experience with student memes - chaotic (good) energy It is because of this that we want a fossil • Inaugural Learning Captain, Mount St • This was a ten-day volunteering ex- to hospitals, hire more healthcare workers, • Sydney University Education Action CV: organisations, we will work to: Enjoys doing extreme challenges for fuel free university, not just in terms of the • Benedict College (2018) change, where students lived with local pay for mass coronavirus testing and mask Group activist, 2018-present • Communist, 2020 Improve student access to study and charity (probably just an excuse tbh) + university buildings themselves but also the • Schools Outreach Volunteer, EWB families and ran English classes and distribution, and pay to ensure humane, • Building BLM solidarity protests in • Education Action Group activist, 2020 project climbs!! financial investments the university pursues. USYD Branch (2019-2020) tutoring for students in preparation for comfortable quarantining facilities when Sydney, 2020 • Promoted the Sydney Black Lives spaces including appropriate 24/7 access to PUMP will push the University to • Dalyell Scholar (2019-2020) their university entrance exams. they are necessary. Nationalise the aged • Organising rallies for climate justice F280Matter, 2020 labs Victor Zhuang DIVEST from fossil fuels and weapons • Retired serial temporary hair-dyer • Volunteered as a student ambassador at care industry to ensure proper care for the including the Sydney Uni Climate • Michael Spence makes 7 figures a year Meaningfully reform the unnecessarily Engineering Honours (Civil) / Laws IV manufacturing entirely. SSC Blackwattle Bay Campus. (2019) elderly. Strike walkoff, 2019 and doesn’t event teach--G284 2020 restrictive components of Alcohol Policy PUMP will fight for a far more ambitious • Involved working collaboratively to • Organising in the campaign for 2019 Jess Perchman sustainability strategy. We must do more, organise in-school events, volunteering Lilian Campbell abortion rights including countering Willow Lont Advocate for improved online learning by Bachelor of Engineering (Biomedical) / faster. This strategy should also be part of time at school open days, and repre- Arts III the anti-choice Day of the Unborn Arts I streamlining special cons and opposing an economic restructuring of the university senting the college outside of school. Child, 2017 ProctorU and be a way to hire more staff in a • Special Awards and Achievements Engineering the amplification of the student resourceful way. • Jill Collyer Award for Commitment to Holly Hayne voice PUMP believes we must actively invest in Social Justice award recipient (2019). Arts II We have ideas that are bold and and support the renewable energy industry • Duke of Edinburgh Silver Award uncommon because we value listening over so we can lead the fight against climate (2017). campaigning. We intend to action your change. It is not enough to just passively • NSW Premier’s Volunteering concerns, particularly on areas such as: divest. Award recipient (2018). Financial and administrative support for • Rotary International Sportsmanship student societies Courtney Daley Award recipient (2013). University, SRC, and USU transparency FASS, 4 • Work experience: and consultation • Currently working as a teachers’ aid for Sustainability and climate change students with disabilities at SSC Leich- CV: hardt Cole Scott-Curwood • Treasurer, Sydney University Civil • Campus. (March 2020 - present) CV: B.Eng/B.Sci III Engineering (2019-2020) Bachelor of Medical Science • Currently working as a soccer referee • Revolutionary Socialist, 2016-present • Academic Tutor for various Second CV: for grassroots football at Canterbury • SRC Education Officer, 2018 Year and Third Year subjects (2019- • First year representative, SUABE Referee’s Association. (2018-present) • Murdered the racist Ramsay Centre for 2020) (2020-) • Worked at Target Broadway. (2017- Western Civilisation, 2018 CV: • Site quality control engineer (2019- • BMET1960 CANNES Film Festival 2019) • Certified enemy of Western • 1st year revolutionary socialist, 2020 2020) Award (2020) Civilisation, 2018-present • Education Action Group activist, • Basically a career student (call me the • Maths tutor (2019-) • Yelled at Bronwyn Bishop on Sky campaigning against uni cuts, 2020 Duke of Civil Engineering) • MUGS Solidworks Design AW News, 2018 CV: • Helped organise uni fee cuts campaign • Concerned with engineering welfare in Competition winner (2020) • Pissed off that wet blanket Tony Jones • Revolutionary Marxist, 2018-present from Melbourne via Zoom, 2020 general • Check out chick (2020-) on Q&A, 2018 • SRC Global Solidarity Officer, • Agitated for relief for students in • Too busy to get involved in any other • Deals with basketball mums as a Left Action Against • Unlawfully jailed for 27 hours for 2019-present campus accommodation at beginning worthy positions anyway (as compared referee (2015-) protesting the climate crisis, 2019 • Education Action Group activist of pandemic, 2020 to my other compatriots) • Band nerd (2011-) • Can quote a vine for any situation CV: • SRC Environment Officer, 2020 campaigning against fee hikes • Promoted and built March 13 Climate CV: • Plays Ghandi in Civ5 Capitalism • FASS Mentor • National Union of Students LGBTI and attacks on higher education, Strike as a member of Uni Students for Treasurer, SUEUA Centenary Gala • Taj Wedutenko • FASS Student Rep Officer, 2019 2019-present Climate Justice, 2020 (2020-2021) Nicholas Sargeant B.Eng/ B.Sci, First Year • SRC Sexual Harassment Officer Policy Statement: • SRC Welfare Officer, 2017 • Helped organised USYD Climate Secretary, SUEUA (2019-2020) Engineering Honours (Mechatronic • • Speaker at a number of environment • Studies history in spare time, Strikes, 2019-2020 Chair, AIAA USSB (2019-2020) Engineering, Space Major) 2nd Year • rallies Left Action Against Capitalism ticket 2016-present • Students for Palestine member, Engo Peer Mentor (2019-2020) • • Fought for greater transparency in the platform 2019-present AX Student Ambassador, USYD (2019- • Advanced Study Stream 1. Abolish the police. The police are Edwina Stephenson • Sent food to Belarusian workers striking 2020) the footsoldiers of the rich and powerful, Arts III against the 26-year long Lukashenko General Executive, Scisoc (2019-2020) • Danni Hudec existing to protect private property and dictatorship, 2020 Engineers for SRC Engineers Australia Summer School repress protest. • FASS, 3 Policy Statement: Leader (2019-2020) 2. Permanently extend increases to Alexander Panzarino Student Leader, USYD Outreach welfare. Welfare recipients should not go Arts II • Pranav Reddy Recognising the under-representation of (2018-2020) back to living close to or below the poverty Science, 2 engineering students in University decision- Engo Sports Rep, SUEUA (2018-2019) line. • making, we commit to accountable School Outreach Coordinator, EWB 3. Make education free again. We support • Deborah Prospero leadership that is informed by our unique USYD (2018-2019) free, publicly-funded university education. FASS, 3 perspectives. This means that we will be Treasurer, AIAA USSB (2018-2019) We oppose Den Tehan’s exorbitant fee hikes • transparent as we work to establish the Secretary, Physics Society (2018-2019) and his punitive attempts to revoke HECS • SRC as a true representative council for all Inaugural Treasurer, Space Society loans from failing students. We oppose • students. In this forum, we intend to address (2018-2019) the exploitation of international students AZ challenges such as equity and mental health, General Executive, Windsoc (2018- that administrations have used to line their • CV: which are pronounced in the engineering 2019) CV: pockets. CV: • Outreach Coordinator, AYAA NSW community. Mastered weeks 4-7 #jchan (2018) • Treasurer, AIAA USSB (2019-2020) 4. No uni cuts. Left Action activists have • Revolutionary Socialist, 2019-present • (2020-2021) Engineers for Equity • General Executive, Crossword Society been spearheading the campaign against • Witness to capitalism’s historic • First Year Representative, Physics TIME for First Aiming to promote diversity and Ivy He (2019-2020) the university’s attempts to slash courses. economic, social and ecological crisis, Society (2020) advocate for under-represented groups in Engineering / Science (IV) • Waiter and bar attendant (2019 - ) All courses that have been cut should be 2020-indefinite future • Dalyell Scholar (2020 - ) engineering and the broader university • Prefect (2018) Years reinstated. • Education Action Group activist CV: • Student Delegate, School of AMME community, we intend to • Twin (2000 - ) 5. Support for protests. The SRC should against uni fee hikes and uni cuts, • Champagne-soaked Socialist and (2020) Establish “Safe Spaces” on the Redfern • Loves a good cryptic (Especially Policy Statement: be a proudly left-wing, activist body, and Left 2019-present Cultur/ed/al Marxist, 2019-present • Senior Committee Member, Smith’s side of campus Thursday in the SMH) Action councillors will use their positions to • Uni Students for Climate Justice • Loves long walks on Eastern Avenue Hill High School (2019) Hold a semesterly “Equity Forum” • “Hey lets go CityHeroes?” VOTE (1) TIME FOR FIRST YEARS build protest movements wherever we can. activist, organised massive Sack Scomo at sunset while leafleting, 2019-present • Peer Tutor, Smith’s Hill High School Advocate for the publication of an FOR SRC 6. Fight racism. Fight the disproportionate rallies, 2019-present • Raving inner-city lunatic, having been (2019) “Equity Briefing” Alexandra Maher END THE EXTREME NEGLECT OF rates of police violence and imprisonment • Extinction Rebellion member, 2019 involved in Extinction Rebellion and • Student Delegate, AYAF (2019) Engineers for Mental Health Engineering/Science, 2nd year 1ST YEAR STUDENT that Indigenous people face. Abolish • Occasionally found in a Latin or Stop Adani in the fight for climate • First in Region, Engineering Studies Recognising that COVID-19 has STAND WITH THE FUTURE OF Australia Day. Solidarity with the Black History class, 2018-present justice, 2019-present (TAS CNI) (2018, 2019) exacerbated the mental health challenges SYDNEY UNIVERSITY Lives Matter movement in America. Fight • Historia omnium societatum priorum • Active in the ongoing campaign against • Senior Prefect, Community and SUPPORT ‘BY THE STUDENTS FOR faced by students, particularly those in Development (2017-2018) 28 29 SRC

THE STUDENTS’ Project Management at the University • A Hufflepuff so you know I’m nice :)) CV: VOTE [1] SWITCH FOR NUS! the federal government though - we’ll also (2020) want to grill for god’s sake. To achieve this First years for SRC is the most important of Sydney • Rekindled love for Taylor Swift while • Former Taylors Action Group VOTE [1] SWITCH FOR QUEER fight University management when they • Member of USYD Education Action serenity for divorced dads, Divorced Dads and relevant ticket for the Sydney University • St Paul’s College Resident watching Miss Americana on the way President (elected by a body of 70+ RIGHTS! try to invest in fossil fuels, cut corners on Group (2020) for SRC promises to advocate and attempt committee. We must strip back university • Aspiring Ronnie Coleman but does to Germany to speak at Siemens AGM students and staff) teaching, or take your SSAF away from the • Department of Political Economy to pass these policies through the SRC. politics and focus on what is most important. not hit the gym to stop them supporting • Former International student Mentor Antoine Nguyen Khanh things that matter to you. Student Representative (2020) Have the SRC pay our alimony and child the student. And who has been most affected • Sydney Grammar School Prefect • Adani Australian Youth Climate at the Business school Arts/Laws I We’ll PUMP UP STUDENT support for us by the lack of structure, missing out on the • Can tutor Primary school maths (and Coalition NSW Schools Coordinator • Former International student Mentor WELFARE! Now more than ever, we Jamaica Leech More grills around campus I just want to ‘most amazing time of their lives’, but mathletics) (2020 - present) at the Faculty of Arts and Social know that student welfare cannot be an Arts feed my son the first years, our university FRESHERS! • Committed footballer, high jumper • Have my WWCC I promise Sciences afterthought. We’ll call on the university to Demand from University Management BETTER LEARNING and basketballer (Mum I touched the • In a committed relationship with Ls for • Recipient of the Esprit de Corps provide more mental health services, and more holistic childcare options on campus We will stand against the University’s net) the past 2 years Award for Academic Excellence and provide pill-testing services and drug safety for single parents problematic use of ProctorU for exams • 3x marimba quartet national • Member of collectives e.g. Enviro Leadership education. Cancel compulsory lectures and tutorials We will ensure that the University percussion eisteddfod runner-up • Founded Students Against Fee Increase • Recipient of multiple Leadership Safe housing is crucial is for student otherwise my son Nathan is gonna have to ensures that all course material is fresh • Check out my spotify playlist to campaign against university fee hikes certificates welfare - particularly for low-income, wait an extra 45 at soccer practice and not recycled recorded material from • Seasons food with SPice not SAlt • Excellent Communication skills international, and rural students - so we’ll Amnesty clauses to make sure ex- previous years • Signed up to be an organ donor at 16 • Outstanding Team player fight for affordable student housing for partners don’t find out the seat belts don’t BETTER MENTAL HEALTH • 2019 ATAR of 1300655506 • A great leader who serves others with everyone. We’ll fight for a safe campus by work in the Hilux. My son just kind of sits SUPPORT BA • School Strike 4 Climate leader (2019 - humility, responsibility and selflessness. working with the USU to implement more there without the seatbelt Ensuring that CAPS is fully supported by present), led fun chants • Bilingual and culturally educated. effective sexual assault training in the C&S More Hawaiian shirt options from Uni the SRC, especially in a time where so Switch for Climate • Helped with Pru for USU Campaign Being from a very multicultural program. Merch many have been isolated and alone Tl;dr cares about the environment and background Myself and studying We’ll PUMP UP DECOLONISATION! Advocate for the hit 2000s landscaping CONNECT FIRST YEAR STUDENTS also Harry Styles International Business has allowed The Uni lies on stolen Gadigal land, and show “Backyard Blitz” to become manda- TO THE SRC Justice me to understand and relate fluidly we need to fight for First Nations justice. tory viewing for all enrolled undergraduates between cultures. More Bunnings vouchers Being a voice and ensuring that First Policy statement: Mei He CV: PUMP will call on the Uni to introduce • As a domestic student who was CV: SRC supervises our supervised visits Years who have been neglected have a voice B.Eng/B.Sci I Reporter - Honi Soit, 2020; an Acknowledgement of Country at an international student once, I • • Youth Advisor for Northern Beaches SRC vouches for us during custody hear- and are represented on the SRC. Switch for Climate Justice is about Queer Portfolio member - SULS, 2020; the beginning of lectures and tutorials. understand the different concerns and • Council (2020-) ings Bunnings Snags at Uni every week recognising the intersectional nature of CV: American Studies Student We’ll support the ongoing campaign to needs of all students which should be • • Member of SASS (2020 -) Tully O’Regan the climate catastrophe we are facing. Just • SS4C Central Coast 2019-2020 Representative, 2020; stop celebrating racists by renaming the addressed. • Member of SUDS (2020 -) Hektor Vineburg FASS 1 like the COVID-19 pandemic, climate • Meme Enthusiast 2002-2020 Editorial Intern - Saigoneer, 2018; Wentworth Building, and push to keep • I will strive to make the campus a better • • Published in ARNA (2020) Arts III change does not discriminate but does affect Freelancer - Saigoneer - 2018 - 2020; - cops off campus by reviewing the dodgy place for all students and work towards • UN Youth Australia State Semi some people more than others which must Anna Hobson Rainbow and train geek since 1996; relationship between the Uni and NSW achieving the students’ demands. Finalist (2019) CV: be recognised for a just and sustainable Arts/ Law I • Colour-blind art critic since 1996; Police. • Arts III SURG Executive (2018-) fight. The university has the ability and • Mediocre Debater, 2017; Vote [1] Pump for SRC Vivienne Goodes • Democratic Socialists Society Execu- resources to be part of this fight, it is a Hamish Lewis • Queer Equality Officer (Aberdeen Vote [1] Pump for NUS Vote [2] Arts tive (2019-) centre for innovation and critical thought Arts/Law I University) - 2017; Switch for NUS Vote [1] Swapnik BC • Minecraft Society Executive 2020-2020 and therefore should lead the fight against • Campaigned for Enviro Collective, Sanagavarapu • Divorced Dad with 5 pot plants climate change and support the broader 2020 movement. We understand that there is no Mikaela Pappou Jacob Coorey climate justice without First Nations justice. Switch for Queer Angela Xu Arts II Science III Those voices that are being oppressed must Arts/Laws I be elevated, and these lands decolonised Rights to produce a rapid response to the climate Thomas Lawes emergency we are in. We also recognise the Policy Statement Arts III disproportionate impact of climate change Holla! My name is Antoine and I’m deeply CV: on global society, women, refugees, people from low socio-economic background and passionate about enhancing Queer equality • My name is George (Tully) O’Regan at USYD. We are a large campus (60,000) BF and I am committed to speaking for us, all those in the global south who contribute the least to climate change but are affected and this affords Queer students both vast to driving what we need and restoring opportunities and drawbacks. Hence, forms the founding principals that support the most. If elected, Switch for Climate Justice will of structural queerphobic practices and TIME for Science and amazing first year experience. institutions still exist that hold LGBTQ+ • Currently 1st year studying Bachelor of fight for the following: SUPPORT THE ENVIRONMENTAL individuals back from the best possible Policy Statement Arts / Bachelor of Advanced Studies USYD experience. CV: (Politics and International Relations) COLLECTIVE: We will support groups on Shoilee Mondal Policies: • SRC General Executive (2020) It’s TIME to improve work-study balance. at The University of Sydney campus like the Sydney Enviro Collective BA/Advanced Studies - Switch for Queer Rights unreservedly CV: • SRC Councillor (2020) More than 25% of undergraduate • Rural resident (country Road Take Me and Spreading the Climate Strikes who are supports Trans rights including (1) gender- • Vice President of USYD Democratic • Member of SASS (2019-) students skip classes to keep up with work Home) dedicated to fighting the systematic and Marian Onida neutral bathrooms across all campus Socialists (2020) • Member of SUDS (2020) commitments, as reported by the 2019 • Current St Pauls resident extreme degradation and exploitation of Bachelor of Applied Science (Exercise premises and (2) the ceasing of use of • Vice President of USYD • Enviro Collective Member (2020) National Union of Students Study. To help • Vice President of Sydney University our socio-ecological environment. Physiology) I CV: deadnames in identity documentation. Internationalist Society (2020) students balance work and study, we must Global Youth Parliament FUND ENVIRONMENTAL • Lead Prose Editor - 1978 FASS - Switch for Queer Rights strongly • Secretary of STARSOC; the Astrology Ruth Snelling ensure that the option for online attendance • Mentor of 3 4 5 mentoring (effectiveness CAMPAIGNS: Climate change necessitates Alana Ramshaw Journal, 2020, opposes the Federal Government’s proposed Society (2020) Arts I continues after COVID-19. in question) an activist response, and requires an SRC Science I • Member of KiwiSoc, SASS, SULS, Religious Discrimination Bill [2019] • Member of SASS (2019-) It’s TIME to introduce the Peer Assisted • Cranbrook School Captain that wants to put money towards fighting CLSS - Switch for Queer Rights strongly rejects • Member of SUGS (2020-) Study Sessions for STEM students, similar • NSW State Shakespeare champions systemic inequalities, the cultural genocide Alex Vaughan • Mediocre Sourdough Baker, 2020, the deeply flawed practice of conversion • Member of SUDS (2020-) to those supporting Business and Law (2018) and dispossession of First Nations people, B.Eng/B.Sci I • Overall Mediocre Human Being 2001- therapy. We argue that NSW must go • Member of Drug Law Reform Society School students. This long-running model • State Shakespeare Champion (2019)- and environmental destruction. 2020, further than QLD/ACT by including (2019-2020) has been very successful in improving grades don’t judge DIVEST FROM FOSSIL FUELS: In • Successful Avoider of Catching Covid religious organisations. To this end, we will • Member of Sydney University and academic independence, benefits which • Robert Wikhim Cup for Drama (2018) 2018, USyd invested in $28 million in fossil (So Far) - 2020 work with Interfaith stakeholders to ensure Women’s Collective should be extended to STEM students. It’s • Committed member of Pauls fuel companies. USyd can help prevent that LGBTQ+ students of faith are heard, • Member of Sydney University Enviro TIME for equal representation. The SRC Mummers (lacking athletic ability) catastrophic climate change by divesting Alexandria Watton protected, and empowered. • Collective Member of Sydney has been dominated by students from the • Gimme Gimme Gimme from fossil fuel companies. Arts I - Switch for Queer Rights, recognising University Education Action Group Arts Faculty, resulting in disproportionate • Losing it- fisher (ashamed) VOTE [1] SWITCH FOR CLIMATE COVID-19’s additional hurdles, will • Councillor of the 92nd University of underrepresentation of STEM students.A • King of a late night Yeeros run JUSTICE Darcy William Bull VOTE [1] SWAPNIK campaign for better sexual health and online Bachelor of Liberal Arts/Science I Sydney SRC (2020) greater representation of STEM students in safe spaces. This is in recognition of the • SRC Director of Student Publications the SRC would grant them a way to voice Ben Ainsworth SANAGAVARAPU IS PRESIDENT difficult circumstances of some LGBTQ+ (2020) their unique concerns and give feedback to FEIT 1 VOTE [1] SWITCH FOR NUS students living at home, overseas, and are • National Union of Students National the University. Varsha Yamjan compelled by these conditions to remain Conference Delegate (2019) It’s TIME for transparency from the Arts/Law (I) discreet. BD • Secretary of Reclaim the Night: Sydney University. Very little information about - Switch for Queer Rights recognise an (2019) CV: student wellbeing, student attendance, ongoing epidemic of sexual harassment • Member of SASS 2019 waste management and other important across accommodation providers remains Pump for SRC Tom Martin data is publicly available. Lobbying for an issue as 1 in 4 LGBTQ+-identifying Arts I greater transparency will help ensure that students reported having experienced an Policy Statement: issues within the University are identified BB incident (AHRC, 2018). Switch for Queer BE and can therefore be resolved. Rights will hold the university to account It’s TIME to increase the number of to the “Respect. Now. Always” campaign Uni’s meant to be some of the best years of your life, but at the moment that’s not social events and opportunities for students Humam Othman by continuing compulsory face-to-face in the science faculty in order to further their LGBTQ+ awareness training and further the case. PUMP for SRC is ready to fight Divorced Dads for to make sure that every student is safe and connection to the university and facilitate Policy statement: involvement of stakeholders such as the greater social engagement. It is the current Pride Network and the Queer Collective. supported throughout their education. SRC We’ll PUMP UP AN SRC THAT WORKS norm for STEM students to attend uni 4-5 My goal is to improve the student experience - Following Hardman’s resignation in late Policy Statement: days a week, which greatly reduces the time 2019, Switch for Queer Rights will demand FOR YOU! Whether it’s fighting for a CV: at our university for domestic students as living rate for Youth AllowanceAustudy, available for social activities, hobbies, work, the University to apply a stricter hiring and family. CV: • Will get stuff done even if it means well as international students. We should and Abstudy, calling for climate action, or Divorced Dads for SRC is committed to practices by screening future personnel/ It’s TIME to reduce waste within the • Currently studying a Bachelor of sending a uni application in a cab after be able to influence all the regulations and opposing fee hikes, we’ll hold the federal represent undergraduate students who have being on Q&A rules affecting us students. contractors against internal policies on CV: been divorced during their time at The university by exploring ways in which Mechanical Engineering / Bachelor of preventing LGBTQ+ discrimination. government’s feet to the fire and keep • Member of SASS (2020) • Ran an Ansel Elgort fan page in year 8 Humam Othman your interests first. We know it’s not just University of Sydney. Divorced dads just STEM practicals can become more (we don’t like him anymore) • Member of USYD Enviro Collective 30 31 SRC environmentally friendly, thereby working lead in science. coal, USyd is investing $22 million into CV: Ayden Marzinotto Honi Soit Contributor 2019- Michael Spence and Dan Tehan. minority groups. Indigenous Students for on a local solution to the global waste prob- • Life goal - own a pet penguin and call dirty fossil fuels. • First Year Aeronautical Engineering Arts/Advanced Studies III • Environment Collective member 2019- Platform: Make education free: BLM fights against discrimination in any lem. Each semester, thousands of science him Bob. a) 100% renewable energy powered by Student • Education Action Group member Education is not a privilege. Basic social students undertake biology and chemistry • Very open and caring but also 2022 • High School Strings Leader capacity towards any group and hopes to Thomas Harrington 2019- goods should be free and accessible to all. labs, using a staggering amount of non-re- argumentative b) Divest our $22 million from fossil fuels • Volunteered with Krousar Thmey improve the lives of students on and off Science/Doctor of Medicine III • Union Summer Intern 2019 Our learning should not be commodified cyclable plastic in items such as pipette tips • Will convince you that pineapple ASAP Global Concern campus. We hope and believe in equity • Avid Bionicle fan and sold to us at exorbitant costs. Education and Eppendorf tubes. Help fight for these belongs on pizza. c) Increase investment in clean renewable • Bit of a globe trotter (lived in 3 and equality for all. We are committed to CV: • Monke should be fully funded and free to all important issues for science students, or energy by 50% continents and counting) • Indigenous Office Bearer 2019 students. engaging in real issues and making real our faculty will continue facing these issues Lachlan Shead d) PAID INTERNSHIPS, INDUSTRY • Likes to think I can speak French • AIME mentor 2018-2020 Owen Liu No course cuts: The quality of university from lack of representation. Advance Computing/Science I PROJECTS and PARTNERSHIPS with fluently change in any capacity possible through any Science/Advanced Studies I education should not be subject to cost- VOTE [1] TIME for Science new, innovative, sustainable companies, • Avid video editor medium available. These mediums include, cutting measures and degradation for the VOTE [1] TIME for NUS instead of fossil fuel giants, for future- • I have a keen interest in helping young but are not limited to, activism, protests, sake of profit. All cut courses need to be ready students. STEM students should be Brown girls and those living in more raising awareness and lobbying University BI reinstated and staff set to teach these courses Sepehr Saryazadi connected with sustainable job with USyd rural areas pursue a career in STEM. management via the SRC President. re-hired. Science I internships. Specifically, we want to: 1. Lobby the No staff cuts: No staff should be sacked 2. Rural & Low-SES Accommodation: Ariyana Hossain University to eliminate references to the Grassroots Against or have their conditions reduced due to the University accommodation is expensive, Arts/Advanced Studies II racist coloniser William Wentworth from current economic crisis. It is not the job inaccessible and exclusive. Rural and campus including removing his statue and of workers to pay for the crises caused by low-SES students who need support and CV: renaming the Wentworth Building War the rich. Left Action supports the fightback community the most don’t find it at this • Sitcom enthusiast 2. Participate in broader social campaign in the Nation Tertiary Education university. • Volunteer at UN Youth movements, like the BLM movement and Policy Statement: Union and the battle against job losses. a) Mandatory quotas for rural and low- • Campaigned for Unity, 2019 protesting Indigenous deaths in custody University workers must be given access to ses students at uni accommodation, not • Politics Society, 2020 3. Increase hardship support for GRASSROOTS Against War strongly JobKeeper and fully paid pandemic leave Sydney residents. • Survived Semester 1, 2020 Indigenous students on campus opposes imperialist aggression and the Tax the rich: There is plenty of money b) A scholarship scheme like the one in 4. Fight course cuts and staff cuts, intertwining of educational institutions for free education and to guard students and place for Indigenous students Lydia Fagan including reversing cuts to crucial subjects and the military-industrial complex. Firstly, workers against the economic and health CV: c) A rural and low-SES collective with Arts/Education II about Indigenous history and the history of GRASSROOTS Against War recognises the crises. The richest 1% pay little to no tax, as • Plays piano, violin, bass and sings: SRC funding fascism rich tradition and role of student activism do almost 50% of companies. Their wealth coordinated, and good at wasting my d) Investment and promotion of 5. Push for free, publicly funded within the Anti-War movements, from CV is ill-gotten and should be taken to fund time affordable housing like Stucco education so that people are not deterred Vietnam to Iraq. This is especially important • Sydney University Business Society university education. They should pay for • Great at fake jobs (I do tutoring) 3. Education: Politically-motivated from University because of the exorbitant in a climate of increasing aggression and Member 2018- the crises their system has caused. The SRC • Lots of time spent in the SUEU! - and unfair cuts to courses (targeting costs This year we will be placing a large agitation from politicians and media giants • UNIT Member 2018- should be a fighting body: A radical student Maths and comp sci major “ nerdy“ environmental, politics & minority emphasis on holding the University of towards China through their peddling of • No Longer a Business Student 2020- union is needed. Students have the potential CV: but basically a socialite (always down subjects) are stealing the education we Sydney and the Australian government Yellow Peril and Red Scare narratives. We • Redfern-ABS Speedwalker 2018- to be a powerful fighting layer. Left Action • Manager at KFC, so you know I’m for a dnm) – deserve. Corrupt fee hikes and reduction accountable for their despicable actions need an SRC that can contribute to a mass • MapleStory Player in Current Year has a track record of using SRC positions both ready to lead and to get you dis- • Live in the south west of Sydney, so of government funding, as well as changes towards students, staff, people of colour and Anti-War mobilisation. to lead and build protests for student rights. counts on fried chicken you know I’ve got the gangster life to HECS availability will hurt education minority communities. Grassroots members Secondly, GRASSROOTS Against War Sophie Nguyen • Was involved in charity work for high down access. These cuts will especially hurt rural and people on Indigenous Students for BLM recognises the simple fact that universities Commerce III Jack Mansell school students, so I’m committed to & low-ses students and female-dominated have been closely involved with the Black should be places of education, knowledge, Arts III making life better for university stu- Oscar Ansted degrees. Lives Matter movement and have engaged and public good. Universities across CV: dents Engineering (Hons)/Science a) Increased funding for Universities in continual support for those who need it. Australia are actively participating in close • Autonomous Collective Against • Data science major, so you know I’m b) Demand that the University exhausts For Indigenous justice, progressive collaborations with the arms and defence Racism Member 2019- all about using statistics for problem every financial option before undermining student representatives and support for industries through military research and • VSA NSW Philanthropy Director 2020 solving, and not all talk and walk learning conditions or curricula. BLM: investments. Here at USyd, our Chancellor • Union Summer Intern 2020 • Can play piano and will play it when a Vote [1] Switch for Sustainability Vote VOTE [1] INDIGENOUS STUDENTS is also the Chair of Thales Australia, the • Watches anime on 5x speed piano is detected in sight [1] Switch for NUS FOR BLM subsidiary of the prominent French arms • Partying beast - if you haven’t heard my VOTE [1] SWAPNIK company. Shortly after her appointment, Tuong-Anh Chu name by now in the science faculty, just Manjot Kaur SANAGAVARAPU IS PRESIDENT USyd started closely cooperating with Economics III show up to one of my many organised Arts/Advanced Studies II VOTE [1] GRASSROOTS FOR NUS. Thales. We need an SRC that can fight meetups for STEM CV: against this conflict of interest. • Organiser of History Cuts Campaign Leroy Fernando Thirdly, GRASSROOTS Against War BJ Luke Harris (2020) Arts III sees how these issues are deeply interwoven Science I • Speaker at Education Cuts Protest with the privatisation of our universities and (2020) the destruction of the environment. Our • Environmental Secretary at USyd education is under attack from a torrent of Left Action Against Residence (2019) fee increases and cuts to staff and courses, • Currently experiementing with whilst executive pockets are lined with Uni Cuts soy milk... review incoming (as of hoarded wealth from their death dealing. CV: yesterday) • Revolutionary Marxist and Red Flag Simultaneously, the war industry is also one Policy Statement: CV: • Will reform History curriculum for of the largest contributors to climate change. salesman, 2017-present • Won Kindergarten Spelling Bee diverse, particularly indigenous voices • SRC Education Officer, 2020 The US military greenhouse gas emissions Blurb: Our education is under attack from (2007) (2028) • SRC Councillor, 2020 alone number higher than the emissions of university management and the Liberal • HSC All - Rounders list 2019 • History student that loves tearing down • Played a leading role in the current 140 countries. We need an SRC that can government. MIchael Spence, fat on • Dalyell scholar (2020) history statues (everyday) campaign against uni fee hikes and uni fight attacks on higher education as well as his $1million a year salary, is going on • Will give 50 V-bucks to anyone who • Hates the queen, loves the queen’s dogs cuts, 2020 bring new life to divestment campaigns such the offensive against students and staff. votes [1] TIME for Science CV: (corgis) • Education Action Group activist, CV: as “Disarm Uni’s” and “Books not Bombs”. Courses are being cut across the board • Graduated high school with a 100 • Organiser of GOV/IR Students • First person to ever wear floral pants 2017-present • I’ve been involved in support roles Now, more than ever we need a strong whilst university fees are being hiked and CV: ATAR Against Cuts Campaign 2020 on campus (2018) • NTEU rank and file activist, 2019 and positions throughout my degree anti-war SRC. hundreds of layoffs are looming. University • Maths student, know almost 6 digits of • Researching energy harvesting in fi- • FASS Student Representative (Social • Stood with striking staff on the picket assisting students any way I can in areas VOTE [1] GRASSROOTS AGAINST is at risk of becoming a class divided system Pi bres with the Physics faculty and Political Sciences) 2019 Elizabeth Bowmer lines at USYD, 2017 of engagement, education, welfare, WAR like American colleges, where students are • Ex-physics student, can recite Newton’s • HSC tutor • One of THOSE School Strikers Arts /Advanced Studies) II • Organised massive Sack Scomo rallies financial support, mental health, lower VOTE [1] SWAPNIK faced with mountains of debt and lower laws religiously • Has a habit of hanging out in copies of as a part of Uni Students for Climate SES and COVID support. SANAGAVARAPU IS PRESIDENT standings of education. Class war is being • Done a bit of surf life saving SMH, Harry Lawler Burn Justice, 2019-2020 - Past activist with • These roles include: Residential VOTE [1] GRASSROOTS FOR NUS waged against staff. Already casualised, • Passionate member of the Sepehr fan • REALLY serious about climate action Science/Advanced Studies I Stop Adani and XR Assistant at the Queen Mary Building, overworked and underpaid by millions club, 2020 BG • Campaigner, Pick Nick 2019 Student Ambassador for University of Altay Hagrabet of dollars, staff now face huge cuts to • Campaigner, PUMP for Sustainability Laura Irwin Madeleine Clark Sydney, Student leader for Widening Arts / Advanced Studies III conditions as well as the threat of mass Andrea Daners 2019 Arts II Arts II Participation and Outreach at USYD, sackings. All of this is being carried out to Science I • Child of the Country (Mudgee) 2001 SWITCH for Student Engagement Officer and maximise profits for university bosses. • Sometimes forgets her KeepCup Councilman for the Mana Yura The dire state of university education • Owns multiple #StopAdani Earrings BH Indigenous support team, Student and the severity of the assault on student Sustainability • First-gen Indian-Australian Mentor for Indigenous Students with and staff conditions necessitates a radical • Australia’s Youth Climate Ambassador Policy Statement: Mentoring Our Brothers and Sisters fightback. Left Action against uni cuts is for CUNCR (Centre of United Nations M.O.B.S, SRC Indigenous Office a principled, socialist activist ticket. Our Constitutional Research) 2019 Indigenous Students SWITCH for Sustainability advocates for Bearer, mentor for regional and rural candidates have been leading and building climate action, education and rural & low- students. the fight against cuts and fee hikes. The Sneha Srikanth SES students. We believe our university has for BLM • I have also spoken and participated in SRC must be an activist body, ready to Engineering (Hons) I a responsibility to create a safe future for many Black Lives Matter protests and lead and mobilise students for their rights, every student. forums as well as in support of LGBT+ and in solidarity with staff. This has been Policy Statement: 1. Sustainability: USyd is fueling the and other minority communities. the project of Left Action candidates. We climate crisis instead of stopping it. Our • Organised speeches and held many see that university profits must never come climate is reaching a breaking point, and Indigenous Students for BLM is committed events at USYD and outside of the before student and staff conditions. Voting CV: CV: our university has a responsibility to lead to defending and supporting Indigenous university in regards to Indigenous CV: for us will mean that activists dedicated to • Majors in Physic as well as • Revolutionary Socialist, 2018-present the creation of a safe, habitable and just Affairs. • SRC Ethnocultural Officer 2020 fighting for free education and staff rights Bioschemistry and Molecular Biology- Australians, and contextualising their • SRC Welfare Officer, 2020 environment. Right now, as bushfires burn • Autonomous Collective Against will be in the SRC. Left Action has the great knowledge in all sciences (except struggle in the broader environment of • Stop Adani activist, 2018-2019 Australia, as Bangladesh floods, and as Matilda Langford Racism Convenor 2020 radical and combative politics necessary for geology), so you know I’m ready to resistance to education cuts, fighting renewable energy becomes cheaper than Arts/Laws II • ACAR Honi Editor-in-chief 2020 - the struggle against neo-liberal ghouls like austerity and struggles for justice for all 32 33 SRC

• Community Action for Rainbow Rights Social Work staff and fight for College Officers on the SRC members against their out of touch - Vote [1] for ‘PENTA for International Policy Statement: • Xan entertain you with useless phrases activist, organised protests against the • Students for Palestine activist, who will work with the SRC and its office union bosses from a few dozen languages – Students’. Religious Exemptions Bill and Against 2018-present bearers Ensure that no SRC resources are • Not a fan of SRC resources being used - Keep an eye on ‘PENTA for belong’ & • Engineer at heart, taking law for fun Mark Latham’s Bill, 2019-present • Palestinian Solidarity activist, spent on items used to graffiti or deface our to deface buildings TIME for SRC is ready, willing and able ‘PENTA for Progress’. to set the clock forward and bring on a • Will make you the best stir-fried • Helped promote Black Lives Matter 2018-present Colleges Fight for permanent online voting • Solidarity with Wo*Co for also being noodles if you vote for me solidarity demonstrations, 2020 options for the SRC Elections - making rolled from your OB position at better hour for USYD Students. We want Anne Zhao Freya Mulhall them accessible to all Repselect compassion, dignity and responsibility for FASS III all students. TIME for Compassion: we Alexander Back Grace Bowskill Arts I STANDING UP FOR MENTAL • Needs a bad bleep, uh, Addison Rae, FASS II Arts II HEALTH Lil’ shawty the baddest, yeah and she want all students to feel part of a community In a time when many of us have been got her ways. that accepts and supports them. That’s why removed from our friends and family, • So these lyrics are obviously really we believe that we have to bring compassion mental health services are more important heartfelt to me because I’m Addison in to our SRC, setting a tone from the top than ever. Rae in these difficult times that no one is alone. TIME for Dignity: we want all students in COLLEGES FOR SRC will ensure that • Hates saying it but was supposed to be CV: CAPS is funded and promoted throughout in the video but was in Miami at the our university community to feel respected and acknowledged by their SRC, an SRC • Member of Science Club (2013-2017). campus. time Lead barrister for Mock Trail (2017). • Final movie I saw in cinemas before that fights for their rights and guarantees a • safe university environment for them to be • I enjoy a jam sesh on the bass or Hamish McFarlane COVID was Cats electric and by extension Rockin out to Science II them. TIME for Responsibility: we want our pub bands. SRC to responsibly enact its duties, through • Road trips and mountain bike ride in free time. CV: BL responsible, sensible and relevant spending Global solidarity Officer of the 92rd of its revenue, so that everyone on this • I am qualified to make a killer Big Mac • CV: or Chicken Aioli Wrap for reasons that SRC-2020: work including travel campus can reap the benefits that only a registration related international practical, commonsense and responsibly • Co-Curricular School Captain, 3x will remain undisclosed. SWITCH 4 member of Student Council, House Currently in Latin kindergarten, yet student affairs FASS Undergraduate CV: managed SRC can deliver for them. • committee We believe that it is TIME for decency. Leader/Prefect etc., elected to 2018 that doesn’t stop me from saying • Revolutionary Socialist, 2020 National Schools Constitutional “Vinum rubrum requiro, quaeso.” In • 2019 FASS Social inclusion committee CV: • Education Action Group activist, 2020 STUDENT We believe that the clock hands have 2020 Student Mentor for International moved well beyond hate, discrimination, Convention, has served on the taberna • • Revolutionary Marxist, 2018-present • Built March 13 Climate Strike, 2020 Executive of 2x USYD clubs/societies That’s all for now, In proximum. student in FASS 2019 • SRC councillor, 2020 - Community ACCOMODATION bigotry, fear, mean-spiritedness and nasty, • Head executive of International confrontational student politics. • Sports Legend: Former Swimming • Action Against Homophobia and Corie Sutherland Age Champion (In a crowded field of Department ‘The Jacaranda stock Community Action for Rainbow Arts III We believe that it is TIME for respect. Market Society’ Sub-Committee of Policy Statement: Gone is the hour when intolerance, competitors consisting of myself and... Rights activist, 2019-present myself because that was basically it BN student society ACISC. • Protested against the Religious CV: rudeness and nastiness are acceptable. Policy statement for student accommodation There are those on campus who seek to that year), once placed in a school Discrimination Bill and campaigned • Hi my names Hamish and I’m in my cross country by getting lost, taking a Zhengjie Fei against Mark Latham’s transphobic second year at Sydney. I am interested Affordable, safe and enjoyable places to live divide, to create a sense that it’s ‘us v. them,’ Commerce/Laws II should be available to all students, no matter that we can never be a diverse and open wrong turn and skipping a lap (still not Penta for Parental Rights Bill, 2019-present in building a better relationship entirely sure where that missing lap is) • Education Action Group activist, between the SRC and all students their economic or citizenship status. This is campus. why I am running for SRC, to advocate for We believe that it’s TIME to realise that and plays cricket (I didn’t drop the ball 2019-present I swear, the sun was in my eyes...) International • Hates capitalism, 2018-future Locke Howard policy changes which will improve student we are stronger together than apart, and that • 50% Sri Lankan, looks 100% white kid FEIT II accommodation options and quality. our campus is better for unity and civility Student accommodations are supposed to than it will ever be divided and distrustful. • Proud Westie (What actually is Student Marinella Rose anything east of Blacktown?) Arts/Science I be a lively, energetic, and youthful place We think it’s TIME for change. Policy Statement: where a diverse array of students can come We need community, especially in these • Musician, plays several instruments (with *varying* degrees of proficiency, together, make friends, feel safe and share troubling times. 1. Platform construction and Information their life experiences. Unfortunately, due to That means fostering relationships 40 hours each) - Motto: Why run when you can walk? delivery the devastating pandemic COVID-19, many between students: we might be apart now, - Enhance the efficiency and extend the • Road work ahead? Sure hope it does. international/ exchange students have left but that won’t be forever, and when we platform of delivering useful and timely the student accommodations. Some of return to campus we need to return with a uni information for both international and them having to fly back to their countries bigger sense of community. Ryan Surace CV: Business II domestic students on multi-platform eg. • Activist in campaign against uni cuts, of origin . Others have been priced out of The difficulties of founding a robust WeChat, Facebook, Weibo and Tiktok. CV: accommodation after losing jobs, or simply social life at uni, especially for recent 2020 - Set out more career, academic related • Student mentor at the university of • Dad found no need to live near campus with school leavers, is a deep one that needs to seminars and Information Sessions Sydney classes being online. The decreasing number be tackled. Encouraging connections and Lachlan Croker regarding student visa ,significant news and • 2020 Member of the executive team at Annabel Pettit of residents in student accommodations developing relationships is something we course advice, career development. · Open Jacaranda Society FEIT II need in our wider community. Arts II has turned the buildings into underutilized up multilingual personal consultation about • 2020 Coordinator of activity of and soulless places. Therefore, how to Our SRC is not exempt. academic study, psychological health and ChinaTalk Bitterness. A lack of civility. Division. CV: both reactivate and improve student legal assistance 2019 Volunteer for USU campaign That’s not how you create a community • • History student involved in campaign accommodations has become an important - Summarize and post important 2019 Member of EU Focus leaning that creates progress and makes change. If • against cuts to universities issue. institutions’ obligations and contacts on about Christianity our SRC can’t be a community, than where obvious positions on each official platform. 2019 Vice-chairman of Shenzhen If elected to SRC I will: Advocacy for will the example for our wider campus • CV: affordable housing for all students, especially - Create a speedy guidance on Foreign Language School’s Voluntary • Revolutionary Marxist, 2018-present community be found? administration(important application) Union.-2018 BK those from marginalized or disadvantaged • High school socialist, 2018 Change has to start at the top. process：Covid-19 related problems, online backgrounds. Improved policies and So if you believe that it’s TIME to • Stop Adani activist, 2019 and offline administration for welfare Qingchung Meng procedure around the issues of sexual assault build a better university, if you believe that CV: • Spoke at a rally against the Religious application and financial aid such as 2020 Law I within student accommodation. Advocate it’s TIME for Compassion, Dignity and • Second year Bachelor of Commerce Exemptions Bill, 2018 Colleges for SRC student. travel restriction financial assistance • Education Action Group activist, for changes to student housing policy which Responsibility, look no further than TIME 2. Campus opportunities • Dalyell Scholar (2020 - present). 2019-present Policy Statement: fosters community among residents through for SRC, because the clock is ticking away, - Offering more volunteer/ internship CV: • Member of Macarthur Young Liberals • Read Marx’s Capital, 2020 events, reinvigorated common areas, study and we don’t have TIME to waste. positions during the difficult pandemic/ • “C’est la Vie” VOTE [1] TIME for SRC (2019 - present). VOTE [1] COLLEGES FOR SRC groups and community meetings. The Member of The University of Sydney after-pandemic period (offering official THE ONLY INDEPENDENT • Has probably served you a beer • Sophie Haslam inclusion of cultural events for international Conservative Club (2019 - present). certificate) Arts III COLLEGE TICKET Jonathan Yu - Through panels, networking sessions Nicholas Comino students staying in student accommodation Engineering/Law II • Pokemon trainer (2012 - present). BACKING BETTER ONLINE to increase cross cultural understanding and etc. to offer students opportunities to engage LEARNING FASS II create a sense of belonging. Jenny Zen with dream career experts, HR and leaders COVID-19 has disrupted many Colleges VOTE [1] SWITCH 4 STUDENT Commerce/LLB II in the career path living arrangements and studies this year. As - Offer opportunities to practice ACCOMODATION many of us had to shift to remote learning CV: leadership skills, connect you with NGO, - it is vital that we have an SRC who will Trainee in Tax Advisory, Crowe publicize SRC volunteering opportunities Kristin Miao • stand for remote and regional students, Australasia (2019-present) through social media (offering official as well as those who may be displaced Arts I certificate) • ‘Suits’ watcher (2011-2019) currently because of the virus. Law student (may seek refund, its not 3. Promoting multilingual student COLLEGES FOR SRC will stand • Yiqian Zhao the same as in Suits) life: CV: up against invasive online services like - Collaborate with the Centre for English Arts I • F1 racing enthusiast - Reporter of the propaganda department in ProctorU Ensure that high standards of Teaching(CET)by launching various • Middle child, CEO of sibling mediation learning are maintained and that lecturers engagement and communication activities. a domestic university as a reporter. Hanxiong Qiu (2000-present) - Joined the e-sports club and participated in are not just recycling old material Fighting Personal chauffeur to my friends still - Promote diversity of languages at uni CV: • game competitions. to keep on campus study spaces as accessible Commerce II on their Ls (2018-present) and enhancing the acceptance of non- as possible • Was not trying to imitate the Mona English languages through interesting A VOICE FOR COLLEGE ON THE Lisa in above photo CV: Joshua Dixon activities such as prize-giving competitions SRC • PhD in telling bad jokes regarding relevant video contributions. Shiyue Zhang • Most robbed Palladian entrant of 2019 Student support leader in high school Science (Mathematics and Finance II) CV: Our 2020 college office bearers have BM • - Cooperate with various uni societies Commerce/LLB III been missing in action. Instead of working • COLLEGES FOR SRC Councillor • online business owner • Revolutionary Communist, 2019/2020 (Doing that thing where and encourage peer, cultural and linguistic 2018-present to liaise with SRC groups and collectives • Volunteer STEM mentor, passionate communication. Please feel free to message they did nothing. Relations with the colleges you train your replacement but with a about helping aspiring engineers • Social Work student and wrote the bit more dignity) or contact us later through our Facebook petition against the sacking of 30% of and the SRC have only worsened. TIME for SRC • Love Formula 1 and ping pong, will page &Wechat COLLEGES FOR SRC will endorse • Proudly stood up in council for NTEU happily play with you at uni 34 35 SRC

Racist Statues- All over Sydney are littered CV: CV: for more language representation. CV: monuments to colonisers and enactors of • Revolutionary Marxist, 2018-present • Revolutionary Socialist, 2018-present • The university needs to be more • All India Rank 4, All India Senior genocide against Indigenous Australians. • SRC Social Justice Officer, 2019-2020 • Stop Adani activist against coal mines respectful of our identities and enact strict School Certificate Examination, 2018. Let’s follow the example of those in the UK • Black Lives Matter activist, 2019-2020 and for Wangan and Jagalingou land policies against tutors asking students to • Volunteer at the Each One Teach One and the US, and tear down these statues! • Tear gassed at Yellow Vest protests in rights, 2018-2019 change their names into more palatable Campaign, 2018-2020. We demand the renaming of university Paris, 2018 • Murdered the racist Ramsay Centre for ‘English’ names. • Recipient of the Vice Chancellor’s buildings which currently bear the name of • Education Action Group activist, Western Civilisation, 2018 • There is a need for personalized International Scholarship, 2020. colonisers. Abolish Australia Day- Australia 2019-present • Palestine Solidarity activist, pre-arrival sessions for International • Member of the Politics Society, PopSoc is a fundamentally racist country so what is • Fought against USYD course cuts, 2018-present Students, giving a real picture regarding and (most importantly) the DogSoc, there to celebrate about it? Abolish this day of 2020 • Students for Palestine member, job opportunities and off-campus 2020. Australian nationalism because it’s a direct • Campaigned to Sack Scomo during 2018-present accommodation. insult to Indigenous people! Re-establish the summer bushfires, 2019-2020 • Helped organised yearly Nakba OPAL CARD CONCESSIONS Kritika Rathore Koori centre and keep Indigenous courses- • Art History student who quotes John protests against the establishment of • International students already pay 4 Science III University management systematically cut CV: Berger too much, 2018-present the Israeli state, 2018-present times the fees domestic students pay. Us and underfund courses designed to teach Dropped Philosophy, 2020 not having OPAL travel concessions is a Shrawani Bhattarari - CLSS Marketing Sub-committee Member, • awareness about the oppression and history Lydia Elias huge disservice especially given the high Engineering (Honours) 2019~Present; of Indigenous people. Support networks Yasmine Johnson Conservatorium II travel fares. We need to BUILD, REBUILD, - ACISC Public Relations Department like the Koori Centre have been closed and Science III AND ACCELERATE this fight. CV: Member, 2018~2019; just this year, the uni cut the unit SLSS2064 • We intend to increase participation in • Artist and writer, Honi Soit - Member of the current Councillor and Indigenous Social and Legal Justice. Open this movement, push for inter-university • Year 12 Prefect Global Solidarity Officer’s Campaign Team the Borders and Close the Camps- The actions and state wide collaboration. • Rubix Cube Collector in the 92rd SRC Election use of concentration camps in Manus and AFFORDABLE ON-CAMPUS • Part-time internet sleuth Nauru to unlawfully detain refugees by HOUSING Yiaye Liu both Labor and Liberal governments is a • Subsidise on-campus housing for those FASS I disgrace! We demand the right for anyone in need, including international students. to seek asylum in Australia and receive it Also, make quarantine and post-quarantine BQ and we demand the immediate closure of facilities accessible and affordable. all detention centres, offshore and onshore. Refugee Scholarships- All education should Misbah Ansari be free and welfare should be increased Arts/Law II Legalise it to every student, but additionally those Policy statement: who are on the receiving end of racism from the Australian state should be able You know the drill. Can’t believe we still to access specific programs designed to CV: have to run this ticket. help them. We support the establishment • Revolutionary socialist and activist, of fully-paid scholarships for refugees and CV: 2020 Marcello Neilson their children. Oppose Racism Against • Proud National Tertiary Education • Active in the Education Action Group, Arts/Law III International Students- We oppose the Union member at the USU, 2019-2020 2020 CV: racism on and off campus which is directed • Revolutionary Socialist, 2019-2020 • Attended climate rallies like Extinction Took part in a business competition in towards international students. They should • NTEU Fightback activist against cuts Rebellion and Uni Students for Climate • receive free education and the full work high school, and our team got a gold to staff conditions and pay, 2020 Justice protests, 2019-2020 entitlements and rights. Kick the Far Right Education Action Group activist Member of Students for Palestine, 2020 award. I am responsible for planning • • Off Campus- As anyone who has been in organising against course cuts and fee • I play/ study music in my spare time and making PowerPoint. a tutorial would know, there’s always that hikes, 2020 – A volunteer either in high school and • one racist, that one person who wants to • Designed a guillotine that struck fear Toni Whitcombe foundation. defend colonialism and imperialism. They into the heart of VC Michael Spence, Arts II • Was a bass player in band shouldn’t feel welcome here and that their 2020 • Joined high school SRC . ideas deserve an audience. We support • Extinction Rebellion activist, 2019 STUDENTS’ REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL, UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY • Operating one WeChat official account protests and actions aimed at making racists • Uni Students for Climate Justice CV: • Keep up with current affairs, especially afraid to voice their bigoted filth and oppose member, organised demonstrations • I think I am a soft flower but also women’s rights and the LGBT all events which invite known far right around the bushfires, 2020 angry always. I write, awkwardly community. I would like to speak about figures onto campus to speak. wave at people around the Uni and equality and justice. Owen Marsden-Readford keep showing up at different collective Kimberley Murphy Arts II meetings on and off (my only toxic COPY Wish to cooperate with my teammate, • Arts III trait). help some international students to Member of the Women’s Collective strive for their benefit. At the same • since 2019 time, I could practice myself and • Contributed in Women’s Honi 2019 become more influential to help other PASTE and 2020 better. • Published in Women’s Honi 2019 and 2020, Usyd Anthology 2019, and Cindy Zhou Growing Strong 2020 FASS III CV: Volunteered and smiled at people here SUBMIT • • Black Lives Matter, environmental and and there at the Welcome Week stall of Steven Duan education protester, 2019-2020 the International Students Collective III • Women’s Honi editorial team (Sem 1, 2020) and ACAR Honi (Sem 2, 2020) • Co-producer of a Women of Colour BP Solidarity podcast with Radio Skid BO CV: CV: Row - Revolutionary Socialist, 2016-present • Big fan of revolutions, 2019-present • Also a mushy poet with words in - Students for Palestine activist and • Hates Liberals, forever Australian Poetry Collaboration, Black F organiser, 2017-present • Extinction Rebellion member, 2019 Grassroots for Int Rune Press, The Bombay Literary Left Action Against - Anti-racism activist, organised anti-far • Active in Uni Students for Climate Magazine and so on right rallies on and off campus, 2017-present Justice, 2019-present Students - SRC Councillor, 2017 - SRC Social Justice • Protested against Religious Ashrika Paruthi Racism Officer, 2017-2019 Discrimination Bill, 2019-2020 Arts/Advanced Studies Policy Statement: - Education Action Group activist, • Solidarity with Palestine campaigner, Policy Statement: stood on picket lines with striking staff 2019-present We are a group of international students and campaigned against course cuts, tired of both the exploitation and the Do you need help appealing SRC Black Lives Matter- We stand in 2016-present Gina Elias unconditional solidarity with the rebellion pseudo-inclusion culture that exists in CASEWORKER Arts II a PLAGIARISM or ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS in the US against racist capitalism. Abolish Deaglan Godwin relation to International students within the Police- Worldwide, the police are universities. allegation? ARE NOW Arts III MISCONDUCT AVAILABLE a fundamentally racist institution who We strive for: ONLINE fulfill no useful role for humanity. We are DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION for immediate, substantial defunding of • International students (mostly POC) Ask the SRC! police departments and the total abolition are rarely a part/voice of the collectives, of the police. Justice for Black Deaths in especially those fighting issues like racism. Custody- Since the 1991 Royal Commission We demand a systematic way of creating a space for them in such activist bodies into Indigenous Deaths in Custody, 438 Students’ Representative Council, University of Sydney Indigenous people have died at the hands through recruiting more international students and having one of the executives Level 1, Wentworth Building (G01), p: 02 9660 5222 /usydsrc of police officers and prison guards. 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On Tuesday I attended a student get involved by joining a contingent or packs, moving them from Gosper to thanks to the extended holidays we’re strike assembly organised on Zoom forming their own, and to bring friends Women’s, and preparing them for drop- now basically already half way through which, at its peak, featured 109 people, along too! off / pickup. We have since reached September. For another, the return to one of the largest turnouts to a USyd- But despite all this, protest was not out to all the students who requested class, and, for some, classrooms has specific organising meeting I’ve seen. the only type of education activism on help to let them know about our new been dramatic. But of late the epicness Not to be outdone, Thursday and Friday the agenda for the week. Indeed, for pickup options, and we hope to clear of the early semester, with its arrests saw further meetings to finalise logistics, a lot of the week I was in assignment all remaining packs by the end of this and protests, has given way to a calmer the former through the Education mode as I chipped away at the SRC’s week. Many thanks are owed to the freneticism, with the SRC offering its Action Group and the latter through 16 page submission to the Senate countless volunteers who assisted with usual beneficent services while activists SSNC meeting itself. As it happens, Inquiry into the Higher Education the working bee—if you would like to quietly laid seeds for grassroots action. Friday’s meeting followed a serious Support Amendment Bill 2020. This help, or are in need of help, please do And with this Wednesday’s Day of discussion with University management inquiry, which was the indirect result not hesitate to reach out to the SRC, Action against the cuts likely to mobilise about our plans and how we intend to of grassroots campaigning, has not particularly as we look to initiate a new hundreds of students, I suspect this deal with the likely police presence. only given our allies in parliament an round of provisions and enshrine MAP calm will come before the blooming of I’m pleased to report that, after a bit opportunity to delay the Bill, but has as a permanent program. a rather large storm. of negotiating and explanation, the also given the SRC and other concerned This week also saw the appointment Unsurprisingly, preparations for the University seemed, at least ostensibly, parties an opportunity to articulate their of our new acting Solicitor, Nas Hanafi, REGISTER TO TO REGISTER Day of Action dominated my week. happy for us to protest—with any criticisms and offer recommendations who will oversee the legal service for the For those unaware, the Day has been luck we won’t have to deal with police to the Inquiry / Parliament. Our next 3 months. I am looking forward to organised by the SRC in conjunction repression again. And while I was unable comprehensive and well-researched working with Nas over this quarter, and with the Education Action Group and to help with Wednesday’s massive day submission disputed the government’s thank him for stepping in at relatively the Staff and Students Say No Cuts of leafleting and lecture bashing, I did rationale for the amendments and also short notice. Nas’ arrival will allow (SSNC) campaign. In contrast with prepare resources for activists engaged drew attention to the hardship and the service to satisfy our obligations to previous protests, which have attempted in those activities, including a QR code inequality they would engender. Many existing clients and increase the quality to bring together as many students as which helps advertise and coordinate thanks are owed to SRC Caseworker and quantity of support we provide the possible in a single location, the Day contingent registrations. There are James Campbell, Honi Editor Nina student body. will involve a number of simultaneous many student and staff activists working Dillon-Britton, former Honi Editor The week ahead promises to be but physically separate demonstrations, tirelessly to make the Day of Action a Pranay Jha, and 93rd President Swapnik among the most exciting yet. In with each contingent featuring a theme success—I commend them all for their Sanagavarapu for their help on the addition to Wednesday’s Day of and no more than 20 people. This diligence and, on behalf of the student submission, which should be publicly Action—which may prove even more approach not only ensures compliance body, thank them for their service to our available by the time of print. dramatic than its predecessors—it VOTE! VOTE! with health restrictions, thereby education. Between submission writing and will also feature an Academic Board (hopefully) avoiding police repression, Beyond this, I have also been protest building I also found the time meeting, the second SRC Informs but also allows staff and students to promoting the rally as widely as possible to tend to the operational side of the session at 1pm on Tuesday, and the TODAY TODAY air more specific grievances which to maximise numbers. Aside from the SRC. On Thursday I met up with launch of the Democracy is Essential might otherwise go unsaid at a larger obvious social media solicitations, I representatives from the Foods not campaign at 6pm on Wednesday night, rally. With contingents organised for was also lucky enough to be quoted Bombs program to discuss how we to name just a few. I look forward to law, medical science, the Environment in an SMH weekend feature and to might be able to link it in with our seeing the rich traditions of education Collective, and everything in between, appear on Saturday night’s SBS news, Mutual Aid program. Relatedly, on and rebellion, so steeped in the fabric of prospective attendees are spoilt for sneaking a promo into the former while Monday I participated in a big working the student experience, channelled and choice. in both cases speaking to the rage and bee for the Mutual Aid program, reinvigorated in the days ahead. Education Officers Jazzlyn Breen and Jack Mansell Over the last two weeks, the Education of staff and increases to university will undermined the quality of attend class on the 16th of September, Action Group has continued in its fees. The LNP’s proposed changes to education even further. Staff are already and instead join a social distant protest fight against the LNP Government and higher education and managements overworked, and university is already on campus. We will be organised into REGISTRATION CLOSES: 6:00pm Monday 28th September 2020 2020 September 28th Monday 6:00pm CLOSES: REGISTRATION corporate University managements cost cutting austerity measures will too expensive. These changes will small faculty, society and club based continued attacks on higher education. hurt students. Increases to fees will further entrench the idea that education protests, scattered around campus. As a collective we hosted an open leave students with a lifetime of debt, is a commodity, and that universities These protests will be socially distant, POLLING: Tuesday 29th September to Thursday 1st October 2020 2020 October 1st Thursday to September 29th Tuesday POLLING: student forum ‘How to Fight Campus and the decision to cut off government operate as degree factories to benefit the in groups of less than 20, masks will be Cuts’, with over 40 attendees, and funding if students fail subjects will economy. Education should be valued mandatory and hand sanitiser provided. participated in the Student Strike add unnecessary stress and pain to the for more than it’s economic output, and If you want to get involved but don’t Assembly, where over 100 attendees lives of vulnerable and disadvantaged we have a responsibility as students to know how, please send us a message via voted to engage in a student walk out students. The decisions by university fight against changes which will further our Facebook page “Sydney University on the 16th of September. Students bosses to cut courses and staff (at much undermine education. Education Action Group”. TO REGISTER TO VOTE go to: to: go VOTE TO REGISTER TO are protesting cuts to courses, firing higher rates that dropping enrolments) We encourage every student to not International Student Officers srcusyd.net.au/elections srcusyd.net.au/elections Ziying (Nicole) Huang, Mengfan (Karen) Ji, Mingyu (Moses) Lin, and Kigen Mera The issues that international students decided to reduce their meal intake to heartbreaking to see. To somewhat The event takes place every Thursday face every day are still persistent. A 2 meals a day to combat the financial improve the situation, we have recently at Marrickville. We think that this is an recent study done by Union NSW difficulties. The fact that international been contacting Food Not Bombs, an excellent opportunity for international indicates that 3% of surveyed students contributed so much to the all-volunteer movement that recovers students who are currently struggling international students have lost their Australian economy and are now food that would otherwise be discarded to get food to seek support from this Election Notice Elections for the positions of: of: positions the for Elections Notice Election homes, and an astounding 46% has struggling to feed themselves is quite and provides them to people in need. organization. • Seven (7) Delegates to the National Union of Students Students of Union National the to Delegates (7) Seven • Indigenous Officers • Thirty-five (35) councillors for the 93rd Students Representative Council, University of Sydney. 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