Media Release: Transport Concession Campaign
GSA welcomes Universities Australia Call for International Student Transport Concessions
GSA President Condemns condemns police response to Indian student attacks
GSA President condemns police response to Indian student attacks
The University of Melbourne Graduate Student Association
has today applauded the decision by Indian international students to
publicly protest against racist violence in Melbourne. A protest rally
and march to State Parliament has been called for tomorrow (31/05) by the Federation of Indian Students Australia (FISA, www.fisa.org.au).
GSA President Paul Coats said “It is appalling that Victoria Police refuse to acknowledge the racism that is inherent in violent attacks against up to 70 Indian students in the last 12 months- they have become part of the problem, not the solution.” Coats added, “it is now up to the Indian students themselves to mobilise and show that they are not the deserving victims the police seem to make them out to be.”
GSA President condemns police response to Indian student attacks
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GSA President Paul Coats said “It is appalling that Victoria Police refuse to acknowledge the racism that is inherent in violent attacks against up to 70 Indian students in the last 12 months- they have become part of the problem, not the solution.” Coats added, “it is now up to the Indian students themselves to mobilise and show that they are not the deserving victims the police seem to make them out to be.”
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Melbourne universities strike for better education
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Rally on the steps of the SLV
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It was part of a 24-hour statewide strike over wages and conditions that disrupted five universities - Deakin, Melbourne, Monash, RMIT and Swinburne universities. Latrobe were set to take action on 28 May.
As well, Hawthorn Learning joined the action and the University of Tasmania walked out in what was said to be the first strike there in 20 years.
About 250 marched down from the University of Melbourne.
Download attachment(s): [ Verity Burgmann speech at NTEU Rally ]
Fair Fares Rally successful - great turnout validates the campaign!
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"What do we want? - FAIR FARES!! When do we want them - NOW!!"
"Full Fair - NOT FAIR!!"
Over 250 students and supporters gathered on the steps of state
parliament last Wednesday (29/04) to send a loud and vibrant message
that Graduate and International students need 'Fair Fares'. Earlier
that day graduate students had gathered in front of the Graduate Centre
at the University of Melbourne to participate in the associations
Annual General Meeting, at which a vote was taken unanimously in
support of the GSA campaign.
"Full Fair - NOT FAIR!!"
(Chants from the crowd at the GSA 'Fair Fares' Rally, Wednesday 29/04/09)
The Fair Fares rally moves towards the city.
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Download attachment(s): [ Article in Sydney University's Honi Soit Issue 8-09 ]
Support Growing for April 29 ‘Fair Fares’ Rally
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Support Growing for April 29 ‘Fair Fares’ Rally
The decision of the GSA and thirteen other organisations to protest at the Victorian State Parliament tomorrow has prompted significant broader support for the aims of the campaign. At a meeting of the Melbourne University Council held last night (27/04), the University Chancellor, the Hon Alex Chernov AO QC, moved the following resolution which was endorsed unanimously:
Today, the University of Melbourne Provost Professor Peter McPhee offered the following words of encouragement and support to student organisations that have been campaigning for transport concession equality:
The decision of the GSA and thirteen other organisations to protest at the Victorian State Parliament tomorrow has prompted significant broader support for the aims of the campaign. At a meeting of the Melbourne University Council held last night (27/04), the University Chancellor, the Hon Alex Chernov AO QC, moved the following resolution which was endorsed unanimously:
The Council supports the claim of the
Graduate Student Association that the State Government provide to
Victorian postgraduate and international students the same public
transport concessions that are now made available to domestic
undergraduate students.
Today, the University of Melbourne Provost Professor Peter McPhee offered the following words of encouragement and support to student organisations that have been campaigning for transport concession equality:
Download attachment(s): [ Support_grows_for_April_29_rally_28-04-09.pdf ]
Student protest planned for 29 April in Melbourne
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Student protest planned for 29 April in Melbourne to redress Public Transport Concession Card inequality
- 'Fair Fares’ rally wins broad support
- Letter to Premier sent today: ‘Receive our petition on 29 April’
- “We’re not giving up this time,” says GSA President Paul Coats
Download attachment(s): [ Letter_to_the_Honourbale_Premier_John_Brumby.pdf ] [ Rally_Press_Release_27-04-09.pdf ]
Class sizes: they’re just too big!
The message coming back from Masters coursework students at this University is that class sizes of more than 50 students are just too big for a seminar. Do you agree? Come and discuss strategies for reducing our class sizes and increasing the quality of education at this GSA public consultation forum around the topic, ‘Class sizes: they’re just too big!’
Date: Monday 27 April
Time: 5:30 for a 6 pm start
Venue: Gryphon Gallery, Graduate Centre (1888 Building)
Household Stimulus Package - Graduate Update
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CAPA President Nigel Palmer writes
to affiliates of the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations,
with an update on postgraduate eligibility for the Training and
Learning Bonus, as part of the Household Stimulus Package. We publish an edited version below:
Just a brief update regarding postgraduate eligibility for the Federal Government’s Household Stimulus Package.
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Students for Gaza at Unimelb
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Students for Gaza meets every Tuesday at 12:30pm on the 2nd floor of Union House.
Contact Paul Coats for more information: president@gsa.unimelb.edu.au
And to really show your support, join in during Palestine Solidarity Week 30 March to 3 April
Public Transport Minister: System Is Fair
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'Postgraduate and international students now pay, for example, the
full cost of a zone 1 monthly ticket ($109.60), while local
undergraduate students pay HALF that.'...
'A spokesman for Public Transport Minister Lynne Kosky said the system was fair, and ensured that students "IN GENUINE NEED" were given travel discounts.' [The Age, Wednesday Feb 25 2009, 6, emphases added]
The system is NOT fair.