Advocate, Nov 2020

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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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Cathy Moore elected new WA Division Secretary

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page 49

Jonathan Hallett steps down as WA Div Sec

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page 49

Pep Turner takes over as Tasmanian Division Secretary

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page 48

Tasmania farewells Kelvin Michael

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page 48

Out from under the cover of COVID

5min
pages 35-36

2020 Joan Hardy Scholarship goes to Sonja Dawson

3min
page 47

Sara Ranatunge awarded 2020 Carolyn Allport Scholarship

2min
page 46

Anna Stewart Memorial Project continues in 2020

5min
pages 42-43

Vale Prof Tracey Bretag

3min
page 43

National Council during COVID

4min
pages 40-41

Building on the moment

3min
page 37

Delegate Profile: Professor Peter Dabnichki, RMIT

7min
pages 38-39

Hong Kong trade union leader re-arrested

1min
page 36

Wear It Purple Day: mostly remotely

3min
page 34

Fractured futures? Recent transformations of academic work

6min
pages 32-33

AUR: recent past and near future

1min
page 29

Higher education should be for everyone

4min
pages 22-23

Curtains for Theatre & Performance

6min
pages 24-25

Wage theft is core university business

4min
pages 30-31

Tales from the trenches

3min
page 26

Jacqui Lambie is right: It just got harder for working class kids like me to go to university

3min
pages 20-21

Clear-felling environmental expertise

5min
pages 18-19

Job-Ready Graduates Bill passes into law

5min
pages 14-15

Online Forums see greater member involvement

2min
page 15

A response from ‘No Concessions’ casuals to ‘Letter to a fellow worker

5min
page 4

Racism is a union issue

2min
page 13

NTEU launches legal action against JMC alleging sham contracting

2min
page 7

Flawed foreign relations bill tightens the reins on university independence

4min
page 8

2020: A year like no other

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pages 3, 5

USYD professor arrested at protest

3min
page 7

Meeting COVID challenges

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pages 4, 6
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