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Whatever students do forms the motley subject of our pages. @UniMelb ’s student publication, since 1925 | editors @farragomagazine .com

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BREAKING: In a press conference tonight, Unimelb for Palestine and Mahmoud’s Hall representatives announced they have reached a deal with the University to wrap up their protest action provided the University formally disclose their funding arrangements.
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Avi Yemini arrives at South Lawn to chants of “Avi Yemini is a wifebeater”.
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At 8:07 this morning protesters participating in a sit-in in Arts West/Mahmoud’s hall were awoken by a message over the intercom notifying them that the building was unsafe, that they were trespassing, and were liable to be face academic sanctions and police intervention.
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UM4P is calling on Chancellor Jane Hanson to refrain from issuing any student protesters with academic sanctions and calls on community members to sign their petition demanding the University not go ahead with any threatened sanctions.
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Staff and students at the University of Melbourne have been advised that today’s classes will not be held in Arts West, which students have renamed Mahmoud’s Hall. Protesters continue to occupy the building until the University meets their demands to divest.
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This represents a win for the protesters on their demands to “disclose”, however the University has definitively rejected demands for divestment.
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CFMEU organiser Mick Myles set to speak at the 5pm NTEU rally at Arts West/Mahmoud’s Hall, with the CFMEU having raised Palestinian flags across CBD construction sites.
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Update from Day 5 at Arts West/Mahmoud’s Hall. Despite the University’s various threats of police intervention the sit-in remains peaceful and in high spirits. Elevators have resumed functioning in a limited capacity.
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The University of Melbourne NTEU Branch have voted in favour of four motions including expressing their support for UM4P, the South Lawn Gaza Solidarity Encampment, and the demands by UM4P of the University to divest and disclose ties to weapons manufacturers.
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“The University’s decision is the result of eight months of pressure to disclose and divest,” says UM4P spokesperson Dana.
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Participants of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment has occupied Arts West building earlier today. UM4P has raised a banner at Arts West renaming it to ‘Mahmoud’s Hall’
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BREAKING: Students are rallying outside the Melbourne Law School in support of Dr. Eddie Cubillo, a Larrakia, Wadjigan and Central Arrernte man who resigned as associate dean last week alleging widespread institutional anti-Indigenous racism in the faculty. #unimelb #auspol
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BREAKING: Duncan Maskell has just resigned as Vice Chancellor of the University of Melbourne
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University has informed protestors that chanting intifada “has crossed the line” Protestors responded by chanting “Intifada, intifada”
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University of Melbourne security has put up a new poster outside Arts West/Mahmoud’s Hall, informing the closure of the building for safety reasons. Protesters have written over the poster indicating the building accessible and welcome to both students and staff.
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Protesters sing “We shall not we shall not be moved. Just like the trees standing by the water we shall not be moved”
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It’s been a week since protesters at the University of Melbourne begun their sit-in at the Arts West building, what they are now calling “Mahmoud’s Hall”. Farrago journalist Mathilda Stewart reports on what has gone down at the sit-in over the last week.
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Wholesome scenes at #NUSnatcon when delegates and observers from all factions dance together on the conference floor. Looks like SAlt are refusing to join in though 😢 #nusnatcon
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Staff are picketing outside The Spot, where a meeting of the University Executive — who are meeting to discuss the University's response to the NTEU's bargaining claims — is currently taking place. #unimelbstrikes #unimelb #auspol #lifeatunimelb
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Security guards and University staff then entered the building and issued notices to those inside.
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Notices around campus gates state that non staff and students protesting or planning to protest on University grounds are trespassing and may be referred to Victoria Police, citing Vice-Chancellor Regulation Section 15 and authorised by Duncan Maskell.
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Legal Observers are present inside and outside the Arts West building instructing protesters on how to interact and talk with police
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Crowds of both students and staff protestors continue to grow and have extended to the back of Arts West building, barricading alternative entrances to the building
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Students have been advised to leave now and that another warning would be issued at 9am. Outside, security guards are attempting to request the student card details of those entering the building. Inside, protesters are organising an emergency rally.
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BREAKING: The installation of the University of Melbourne's 23rd Chancellor Jane Hansen AO on Wednesday has been cancelled due to a "planned protest" — presumably the 2-hour staff strike called by the NTEU yesterday to coincide with the event. More to come. #UniMelb #NTEU
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In a video leaked by UM4P Deputy VC Michael Wesley alleges protesters have crossed “red lines” and “will face disciplinary action and police action” and that management is consulting with police about how to “end the protest and the occupation.”
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Staff at the University of Melbourne will strike from 12PM today, with NTEU members in the Faculty of Arts, Melbourne Law School, VCA School of Art, FFAM Stagecraft division, the University Library and Stop 1 to strike for all of Week 6. #unimelbstrikes #unimelb #lifeatunimelb
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Earlier tonight, the Gaza Solidarity Encampment was attacked with glass bottles, bats and fire extinguishers. Farrago will report further details once we can confirm.
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“I’ve been precariously employed for years by uni after uni… That’s why I’ll go on strike again and again and again, even when it’s cold and the jammies look better.” #unimelbstrikes #nteu
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NTEU members and staff have addressed protestors asking to; -Actively disengage -Police liaisons to only speak with police -Rendezvous at the Conservatorium of Music if protestors are asked to evacuate campus
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Day 7 at Unimelb Gaza Solidarity Encampment on South Lawn. Today, agitators approached the camp, although organisers direct participants to remain unresponsive and peaceful and report harassment to Safer Communities and APAN.
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BREAKING: The University of Melbourne has just announced they will transition all classes online by March 30. Lectures with more than 500 people will go online by 17 March. Mid-semester break has also been extended by a week.
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Communicating with protestors Pip Nicholson has said “Police will patrol through the night… Your peers won’t want this to continue into the morning.” Protesters appear ready to remain in Arts West.
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Police liaison have advised protestors to; -Disconnect devices from University wifi -Remove Face ID -Turn mobile phones off if talking with a police officer (to stop GPS tracking etc)
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Day 8 of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment on the South Lawn of the University of Melbourne. A rally organised by the Australasian Union of Jewish Students is planned to begin at 1pm.
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Gaza solidarity encampment at University of Melbourne has kicked off this morning at South Lawn.
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Cultural Studies Professor Chris Healy: “You are perpetuating some of the very proud traditions of this University.” “Disruption is the purpose of peaceful protest.”
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"Strong unions need strong women" Kate Crossin (NLS) says in her candidacy speech for Women's Officer #nusnatcon
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The @jcgmurphy cover of Seven Nation Army — "More Permanent Jobs" — gets a reprise for Day 2! #unimelbstrikes #lifeatunimelb #unimelb
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NTEU member Conor Brett kicks off the rally, condemns the University’s ties to colonialism and imperialism and its complicity in genocide. A student protester speaks next, rebuking the claim that they are ‘outside agitators’ and unsafe. “We are the University. We are peaceful.”
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Protestors have made way for students exiting Kathleen Fitzpatrick theatre after a lecture concluded at 5:15pm without any major disruptions
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Unimelb for Palestine have reiterated that they organised and endorse the Gaza Solidarity Encampment on South Lawn and that the ongoing building occupation was an autonomously organised student action. Unimelb for Palestine support the autonomous students’ protest action.
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While most students that have joined the staff strikes have done so in solidarity, some—including Emily and Neera—have another reason to join the pickets. They don't just study at UniMelb; they work here too. Chelsea Daniel reports. #unimelb #auspol
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The University previously deactivated elevators in the building days ago, disrupting disabled students and staff’s capacity to access teaching facilities and offices.
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Front entrance to the Arts West building have been locked by the University, while NTEU members form a picket line outside Protestors have kept access to the stairways and classrooms in Arts West for students and staff
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A press conference with UM4P is set to kick off shortly. Farrago will be providing live updates across Instagram and Twitter.
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We can confirm that Farrago has infiltrated USyd SRC's RepsElect as part of our ongoing campaign to take over @honi_soit . We have eyes everywhere.
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We made it into The Guardian! #unimelbstrike
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Despite our requests, The Australian neglected to include a link to the Farrago article they criticised. The writing was taken out of context, so here’s a link so that you can make up your own mind about whether it was targeting conservative students:
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6 years
An article that joked about killing conservative students and the PM has caused tension on the University of Melbourne campus
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Protestors have started marching from South Lawn down Professor’s Walk and have come under Raymond Priestley Building.
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A speaker from the sit-in reads an email from new Dean of Arts Leslie Stirling, encouraging Arts staff to avoid Arts West/Mahmoud’s Hall. Conor reads Jordy Silverstein’s message. “Our work cannot in any way be connected to the machinery of genocide or colonisation.”
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James Murphy from Politics gets everyone going with a chant of “more permanent jobs!” to the tune of Seven Nation Army. #unimelbstrikes #lifeatunimelb #unimelb
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The University has locked alternative doors in Arts West, with staff defending the doors for their students
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They reassert their renaming of Arts West as Mahmoud’s Hall in recognition of Mahmoud Alnaouq, a 25 year old Palestinian scholarship recipient killed in an Israeli air strike in October, along with his family. “He would and should have had classes in this building.”
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OPINION: "We fully support the industrial action that has been taken this week, and we blame management for the disruption to our tuition." Read the open letter from students in the Arts faculty to VC Duncan Maskell and Dean of Arts Russell Goulbourne:
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The University has disabled student access to elevators in Arts West/Mahmoud’s Hall. Amid protesters’ tents and banners, students are studying, playing music and sharing food.
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In a shakeup to the EdCon reporting landscape, Farrago will be rating factional lunch choices to work out what fuels this conference. Send here: First off is NLS, with a lunch dangerously close to being described as a 'breakfast of champions'. #nusedcon23
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BREAKING: Farrago has been leaked the NUS positions that have been elected unopposed, including Ngaire Bogemann (UniMelb, NLS) as President and Jonathan De La Pena (Deakin, Unity) as General Secretary. #nusnatcon23
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BREAKING: University of Melbourne staff today voted to accept the enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA) proposed by University management, following almost a year of industrial action from the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU). #unimelbstrikes
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Student Unity refused to sign this Student Media procedural motion. It asks for the announcement attached below to be read to the #nusnatcon19 floor. Unity demanded a ‘right of reply’ this morning, and then denied us that very thing.
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The four motions include calls for the University to protect staff and students’ freedom of speech and academic expression, to provide Scholars at Risk placements for staff from destroyed Palestinian universities and to repeal the IHRA definition of antisemitism.
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Inside Arts West, A participant of the demonstration addressing protestors have said “The uni has not called the cops. The cops are acting on their own. We are not likely to see a full-scale invasion.”
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#BREAKING : @unimelb has made changes to the semester one WAM. Results will not be included unless the mark achieved for semester one subjects is equal to or higher than a student’s WAM at the beginning of semester
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University of Melbourne Council Member Mark Leibler has condemned the University of Sydney’s agreement with the Sydney University Muslim Students Association to disclose and review University research partnerships, amongst other commitments.
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We’re gathering for the @NTEUnion @NTEUUniMelb in the Parkville Amphitheatre! Make sure to rug up because it’s a cold one today. #unimelbstrike #nteu
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We have been bamboozled. Apparently the whole thing was planned by NLS headkickers for the meme. I guess the NLS preselection caucus is more disciplined than the dart caucus. We forgive them because it was funny, and our fault for trusting the rumour mill. #natcon22
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Sophie Nguyen
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To clarify, the bailey/sophie split was never real 💔💔 #mypresident #irespectdemocracies #natcon22
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8 years
Australian population 2011: 22,500,000. Australian population 2016: 50 #census2016
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Submissions for Farrago Edition 2 are open and the theme is 'Folklore'! Tell us all about the scarf you left at your ex-boyfriend's sister's house, the old wives' tales your mother told you as a kid, the feminine urge to become a forest nymph, and everything in between.
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A group of students have been disrupting classes taking place in Old Arts, including a lesson on decolonial theory, to plug the strike and tell staff and students to walk off. One tutor responded they were too precarious to strike. #unimelbstrikes #lifeatunimelb #unimelb
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Socialist Alternative scruntineer seen eating Woolworths (a for-profit, capitalist supermarket conglomerate) brand lollies. #UMSUdecides
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A rally kick off at 5pm this evening outside Arts West/Mahmoud’s Hall supporting the building occupation and Solidarity Encampment. The rally earlier heard from an NTEU delegate Joshua. Speakers have condemned Albanese’s denouncement of “From the river to the sea.”
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BREAKING: Student activists have locked themselves onto Raymond Priestley, preventing staff from accessing the building, to protest the University’s collaboration with weapons-manufacturing companies.
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State MP for Caulfield David Southwick was earlier spotted near Arts West/Mahmoud’s Hall speaking on the safety of Jewish students on campus.
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BREAKING: More!’s Daniel Beratis has been elected General Secretary of UMSU #UMUSdecides
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BREAKING: The University of Melbourne is being taken to court by the Fair Work Ombudsman over an alleged $154,424 underpayment of 14 casual staff in the Faculty of Arts, and the alleged creation of 'false and misleading records'. Full story to come.
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Palestinian activist speaking to the protesters “Can you feel the generations that have been murdered, tortured, imprisoned, dehumanized for generations. The homes turned to rubbles and the graves that have been desecrated…That is violence... Not the students…”
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Farrago is at the University of Queensland for the 2023 National Union of Students Education Conference! We'll be covering the fights, fracas, and frank discussions throughout the week in sunny Brisvegas. First impressions: it's going to be a long week. #nusedcon23 #edcon23
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Tents, mattresses and camping chairs have been built around sit-in protestors while a picket has begun outside Arts West by staff members.
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Protesters have been asked to leave Arts West peacefully by Deputy Vice Chancellor Pip Nicholson and told that the University does not want escalation or violence. Protesters do not appear to be planning on leaving.
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Georgie Beatty gave a short interview, saying that a faction with the demonstrated record and behaviour of SAlt do not deserve the Ed Office. #natcon22
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BREAKING: NLS are actively and openly lobbying Unity to renege on their deal with SAlt, which would block SAlt from getting Ed Officer. Thanks to @FarragoMagazine for tip
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“I was so far away from the blockade itself that I genuinely couldn’t hear anything that was being said by police” @AilishHallinan when asked if she heard warnings about the pepper spray
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Motion to use "fuck" and "shit" on the conference floor has been passed. #nusnatcon18
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Farrago will support protestors on the ground and share with the community accurate, real-time coverage of the event Stop Black Deaths in Custody - Justice for George Floyd #BLM . Bla(c)k lives matter. Indigenous lives matter.
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#BREAKING : Stand Up!'s Desiree Cai takes out UMSU presidency.
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Unity speaker is now talking about not only the history of rail but also his passion for the mode of transport. "I fuckin [sic] love trains, anything that runs on rails really "rail is great, roads are shit" This is a good time #nusnatcon
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Protestors address the University’s response to the ongoing rally at Arts West/ Mahmoud’s Hall “I want to say this is why it’s important to read… because this is a PR disaster for you … on the day of the Nabka!…”
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“We are the unions! We won’t be silenced! Cut the ties now, now, now now!”
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The Farrago team is back in Melbourne after an *eventful* NUS EdCon 2023. Shoutout to our amazing student media colleagues who joined us in the trenches: Will from @Tertangala , Andrew from @Grok_con and Celeste @comeswithcats and Ben from QUT Glass—absolute legends! #nusedcon23
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yeah, fair enough #nusnatcon
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The @NTEUUniMelb staff strikes at the University of Melbourne are onto Day 2, with staff and students picketing outside of the Baillieu Library in support of casual library workers. #unimelbstrikes #lifeatunimelb #unimelb #auspol
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BREAKING: An email sent to all staff at 3:13pm today from Vice Chancellor Duncan Maskell claims that the University will propose a 4% wage increase in 2024 and a further 4% in 2025 in their Enterprise Bargaining Agreement. Stay tuned for further coverage. #unimelbstrikes
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Trolleys, tables and more chairs have been brought in to protect students. “Let’s link arms, let’s protect what we have, we can hold this building.”
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Dana responding to a question asking about interrupted classes. “There are no classes in Gaza.” Dana reiterates that it was the University’s decision to stop classes, not the protestors.
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Aerial shots of the #BlackLivesMatterAustralia rally
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Christie Cooper
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The news chopper highlights the huge volume of people who are currently at the #BlackLivesMatter rally in #Melbourne . Looks like many are quite spread out, trying to keep their distance from others.
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“Cops never make anyone safer … it has to be clear we cannot have business as usual” - Jordy Silverstein
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Students and staff of Arts West/Mahmoud’s Hall have declared in a recent public statement that they “will not leave this building until our demands are met by the University”, including “divest[ment] from all weapons manufacturing ties.”
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Say hello to our 2019 editors Ruby, Carolyn, Stephanie and Katie 🎉 Comment below with what you’d like to see more of in Farrago this year!
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Protestors have reformed picket lines on the possibility of police incursion after 6pm.
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In the hours since NLS vanished, #nusnatcon23 has dissolved into Unity delegates bottle-throwing and playing Uno. Angels pub rock classic 'Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again?' plays through the speakers until GenSec Sheldon speaks to confirm quorum will not resume. Day done.
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