General secretary

Rey Adrien

My name is Rey and I am running for General Secretary with UNITE.

UNITE is a passionate and diverse team of experienced student leaders, who ensure your needs are listened to, and heard.

UNITE stands for: • Expanding financial support for students during the cost of living crisis. • Bringing back life on campus through clubs and events • Ensuring that all students are safe when arriving, leaving, or on campus. • Improving teaching quality and student voice in Academic affairs • Increasing support for International Students • Ending Deadnaming on Campus and taking REAL action on Queer Issues

I’m currently in my second year of study in the Bachelor of Clinical Science/ Doctor of Medicine- as an international student- arriving onshore just this February.

In fact, you’re most likely to find me wearing my bright yellow jacket, playing table tennis at the Student Hub- so if you see me, please do come say hi!

Working as a student ambassador- international recruitment (Flinders International), and also being the president of the Sri Lankan Student Association of Flinders University, I’m actively exposed to, and looking forward to represent the needs of students at Flinders University.

It’s time the FUSA Council focussed on helping to make sure that all students get a fair go no matter race, cultural background, sexuality, gender or religion.

VOTE [1] REY ADRIEN for GENERAL SECRETARY

VOTE [1] UNITE for FUSA

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General Secretary

Shanii Sparrow

Hi Flinders! My name is Shanii, and I am running to be your next General Secretary with the Activate team. I’m currently studying a Bachelor of Arts, focusing on Indigenous studies and Gender Studies.

I’ve dedicated the last four years to making change and supporting community. I originally started out in grassroots activism volunteering with Amnesty International, with a passion for refugee rights and raising the age of incarceration. I have a strong belief in doing the right things and standing up to support others who weren’t afforded the same opportunities and privileges as me. This inspires my dedication towards an accessible campus, curriculum, and community, by supporting clubs and improving services.

Whilst working in LGBTQIA+ advocacy, I discovered just how important it is to provide people and communities with authentic visibility, representation, autonomy, and connection to one another. This has been my core belief and the essence of all my work. I used this belief to create campaigns and resources such as the Transgender day of visibility zine, ‘Queer Community’ the art initiative, chest binder campaign, and making autonomous spaces more accessible. I will use the knowledge and tools that I gained from these experiences in my role to develop authentic visibility to build community and opportunity

During the last three years at Flinders University, I’ve watched as students have struggled in both their academic and personal lives due to the lack of accessibility, support, and community. The lack of connection to one another and to support services post COVID has affected both students’ university experiences, and their mental health. I am dedicated to changing this and insuring student services work for students.

Vote [1] Shanii for FUSA General Secretary! Vote [1] Activate! Progressive. Proven. Accountable.

General Secretary

Laurence Lacoon Williams

Hi, I’m Laurence Lacoon Williams and I’m running for General Secretary with Left Action.

I think FUSA should be an activist organisation. As students we need an organisation that can campaign for issues of education and social justice. Whether it’s fighting to save courses and teachers from being cut, or campaigning for climate action and refugee rights, FUSA can and should play a role in leading and organising this activism. As General Secretary I’d make this my priority.

I’m proud to have campaigned this year alongside other Left Action activists. We’re a team of socialist activists. We stand against racism, sexism and LGBTI+ oppression, imperialism, war, the exploitation of workers and environmental destruction. We are actively involved in organising campaigns like the abortion rights demonstrations in solidarity with the struggle to defend Roe v Wade, Black Lives Matter protests, and Uni Students for Climate Justice.

We are fighting to:

Take real action on climate change! The university must cut all ties with climate and war criminals. No defence and fossil fuel bosses on our uni council, and no research partnerships with them either!

Stand in solidarity with Palestine, and all other victims of imperialism. Our uni must cut all ties with the Israeli apartheid state, and open its doors to house refugees here.

Demand a living wage and fight the rich and powerful! We stand in solidarity with striking workers defending their living standards amid an inflation crisis while billionaires rake in record profits.

Defend our education! We want to fight the degree factory, slashing the vice-chancellor’s $1.2 million salary (!) and using every dollar to save staff jobs and student services.

Bring traditions of solidarity and radicalism back to FUSA. Student associations should be collective left-wing bodies that organise students to fight injustice and oppression, on and off campus.