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Meeting COVID challenges Matthew McGowan, General Secretary
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LETTER 4
25 2020 Federal Budget fails universities Students pay more. Staff do more. Universities get less.
2020: A year like no other Dr Alison Barnes, National President
A response from ‘No Concessions’ casuals to ‘Letter to a fellow worker’
UNION BUSINESS 28 Wage theft is core university business
29 AUR: recent past and near future
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30 Fractured futures? Recent transformations of academic work
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Flawed foreign relations bill tightens the reins on university independence
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USYD professor arrested at protest
NTEU secures right to protest
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State of the Uni Survey: Working in higher education during 2020
WERTE! 11 Racism is a union issue
What was the impact of the STF on the structure of the higher education workforce and on the future prospects for academic workers?
13 Online Forums see greater member involvement JOB-READY GRADUATES 14 Job-Ready Graduates Bill passes into law The Coalition's latest attack on the higher education sector, the Job-Ready Graduates package, was passed by the Senate in October.
16 Clear-felling environmental expertise Job-Ready Graduates cut environmental courses just when the nation needs them the most.
18 Jacqui Lambie is right: It just got harder for working class kids like me to go to university
33 Out from under the cover of COVID INTERNATIONAL 34 Hong Kong trade union leader re-arrested 35 Building on the moment
DELEGATE PROFILE 36 Professor Peter Dabnichki, RMIT MY UNION 38 National Council during COVID Over 100 rank and file delegates and officers met at the end of October for the first online NTEU National Council.
41 Vale Prof Tracey Bretag 42 Anna Stewart Memorial Project continues in 2020 44 Sara Ranatunge awarded 2020 Carolyn Allport Scholarship
20 Higher education should be for everyone
46 Tasmania farewells Kelvin Michael
22 Curtains for Theatre & Performance Monash is gutting the Centre for Theatre and Performance without the consultation of staff or students.
24 Tales from the trenches Jenny Smith and Cécile Dutreix on the NTEU campaign to convince crossbench senators voting for the Job-Ready Graduates Bill.
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40 Life Members 2020
45 2020 Joan Hardy Scholarship goes to Sonja Dawson
21 Fighting course cuts at GU & QCA
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Never let a good global crisis go to waste. Those in powerful roles in society – including the tertiary education sector in Aotearoa/NZ – certainly haven’t and neither must we.
Danijel Malbasa reflects on Lambie's speech opposing the Job-Ready Graduates Bill.
Under the Job-Ready Graduates rules, Celeste Liddle would not have made it to university.
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32 Wear It Purple Day: mostly remotely!
ACTU Indigenous Conference & Organising Conference 2020.
12 Coalition slashes A&TSI student funding
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COVID-19 has exposed the destructive consequences of an over reliance on casual labour in universities.
NEWS NTEU launches legal action against JMC alleging sham contracting
Cover image: Higher education should be for everyone. Mohammad Shahhosseini/Unsplash
FEDERAL BUDGET
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46 Pep Turner takes over as Tasmanian Division Secretary 47 Jonathan Hallett steps down in WA Division 47 Cathy Moore elected new WA Division Secretary
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48 New NTEU staff
Updating your membership info
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