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SENTRY HSR Reps

Making your workplace healthier & safer

Where to now for QAnon?

Online learning

Academic staff have their say

No end in sight for Australia's international student crisis

Gather the lifeboats

Something has gone wrong on the ship of higher education

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CONTENTS

Where to now for QAnon?

Gather the lifeboats

QAnon's spread to Australia was one of the more unexpected aspects of the global pandemic.

Something has gone wrong on the ship of higher education.

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Cover: Working in a COVID-safe environment. (seventyfour74/123rf)

Sentry is a free online news magazine for NTEU members and Australian higher education staff.

Sentry is published on the third Friday of each month in between publication of the Union's main member magazine, Advocate.

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Health & Safety Reps

The one thing the sector is sure of is there will be more losses – both financially and in jobs.

HSRs are making your workplace healthier and safer, especially during a pandemic.

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Editorial 01 In case you missed it... 02 Academic staff have their say on the move to online learning 06 Free Sean Turnell! 14

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Matthew McGowan

Editor

Alison Barnes

Production Manager

Paul Clifton

Editorial Assistance Helena Spyrou, Anastasia Kotaidis Sentry is available online free as a PDF and e-book at www.nteu.org.au/sentry

EDITORIAL

ALP offers some hope on insecure work As we move into 2021 in a new ‘COVID-normal’ environment and we all struggle with periodic lockdowns, restrictions on gatherings and no guarantees that campuses will be open all year, a new battle is looming over the Morrison Government’s proposed industrial relations changes through the 'Omnibus' Bill that was announced at the end of last year.

The people teaching our current students and developing the skills and knowledge that will benefit all of Australian society, are mostly employed either as casuals or on fixed-term employment, with no job security and no access to leave...

The ALP and Greens will oppose the changes in Parliament, with the legislation’s fate likely to be in the hands of the five crossbench Senators. Anthony Albanese sharpened the debate when he announced on 10 February that a future ALP government will address some of the worst aspects of insecure work. The very welcome commitments include: • To legislate for portable annual and sick leave entitlements for insecurely employed staff.

• A cap on fixed-term contracts.

• That labour hire workers be paid the same as ongoing co-workers.

• To create a fair test based on the nature of the work to determine whether a worker can be classified as a casual.

While many commentators, and one State Premier, have sheeted much of the blame for repeated COVID outbreaks to the prevalence of insecure employment, the Government’s proposed new laws will likely lead to an increase in casual work.

Alison Barnes, National President

This would include enabling employers to simply deem a worker as a casual, regardless of the nature of the work performed.

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While the Bill proposes a nominally improved conversion to ongoing employment clause, it is not automatic and any employer can refuse an application on as yet to be defined 'reasonable grounds'.

Seventy per cent of higher education staff are employed insecurely.

The people teaching our current students and developing the skills and knowledge that will benefit all of Australian society, are mostly employed either as casuals or on fixed-term employment, with no job security and no access to leave entitlements and other fundamental working rights enjoyed by securely employed staff.

NTEU hopes to further address these pressing issues in the upcoming enterprise bargaining round, and welcomes the ALP’s commitments.

We have an opportunity to engage directly with some key politicians around these issues, with an online seminar planned for 19 March with Senators Tony Sheldon (ALP) and Dr Mehreen Faruqi (Greens). Further details will be circulated when they are finalised.

Welcome to 2021!

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NEWS & CAMPAIGNS

In case you missed it....

Fiji deports USP Vice-Chancellor In the early hours of 3 February, the University of the South Pacific (USP) VC Professor Pal Ahluwalia and his wife Sandra Price were forcibly deported from Fiji to Australia.

Ahluwalia was told he posed a 'public risk'. However, Radio NZ reports the Fiji Government is accusing the couple of work permit breaches.

President of the USP Staff Association, Elizabeth Reade-Fong, said they were 'horrified, shocked and disgusted at how the couple was treated.'

Read the RNZ report a

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#SaveUVetStaff

Save UniMelb Grounds staff

Members and staff at the University of Melbourne’s U-Vet Animal Hospital in Werribee have come together to campaign to save staff jobs and protect the service against harmful cuts.

An open letter outlines concerns about reduced opportunities for staff and students, extreme workloads, diminished clinical experiences and damage to reputation in both the local community as well as international accreditation as a training institution.

The University of Melbourne have announced that the entire Grounds Team will be made redundant, to be replaced through outsourcing.

The much admired grounds are a place to study and work, as well as providing resources for practical classes, research, and the well-being of students, staff and the community.

Please sign the Union's petition, leave a testimonial, upload a photo, and share it #SaveUnimelbGrounds

Sign the Open Letter File-Signature

Sign the Petition File-Signature

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Where to now for QAnon?

CONSPIRACIES

MEMBER EXPERTS

The viral spread of the American based QAnon conspiracy to Australia was one of the more unexpected aspects of the 2020 global pandemic.

Started in 2017 by an unknown person claiming high level military or ‘Q’ clearance, the conspiracy began by predicting the imminent arrest of Trump’s enemies such as Hillary Clinton.

Over the next three years, the sporadic release of cryptic ‘intel’ or ‘Q drops’ drip-fed a large community of ‘anons’ who took it upon themselves to pore over obscure hints and create increasingly fanciful interpretations.

Gradually, the QAnon conspiracy took shape: President Trump was said to be battling a satanic global cabal of pedophiles in government and business who use corrupt government structures known as the deep state to amass power and cover up heinous sexual and physical abuse of children held in tunnels under the world’s cities. Needless to say, no children have been rescued and Clinton is yet to be arrested.

Despite none of Q’s predictions coming true, the Q community expanded by many hundreds of thousands of followers during 2020. The pandemic supercharged the QAnon conspiracy. In lockdown conditions, wild rumours about SARS-COVID’s origin, faked death rates, the unreliability of tests and even the belief continued overpage...

Dr Kaz Ross Independent researcher

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MEMBER EXPERTS that the virus has yet to be isolated all got folded into the QAnon world view. This view is underpinned by a belief that governments are covering up the truth. Many followers believe the virus isn’t real or deadly, or it was deliberately introduced to hasten government control of populations.

Yet QAnon the conspiracy is remarkably adaptable. Despite being deeply rooted in American presidential politics, the basic conspiracy has seamlessly incorporated local details.

Australian versions have included stolen generation Aboriginal children being held under Uluru by reptilian aliens, or Chinese government secret flights bringing surveillance technology into Melbourne to use 5G towers to track people after being microchipped via the COVID-19 vaccine.

The anti-vaccine movement, the sovereign citizen community and alternative wellness influencers all found the QAnon realm a fertile recruiting ground

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QAnon has provided an opportunity for fringe groups to promote their own beliefs and movements. The anti-vaccine movement, the sovereign citizen community and alternative wellness influencers all found the QAnon realm a fertile recruiting ground. In turn, the QAnon community itself has grown dramatically and emerged into mainstream public consciousness.

Australia has one of the largest QAnon communities outside north America and shares many of the factors that have allowed conspiracy theories to flourish there. Real or perceived personal grievances such

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as the restrictions due to lockdowns and including loss of income, social isolation, and disruption to travel plans leave people feeling vulnerable. The pandemic has created a climate of fear as we face an uncertain future.

QAnon is also structured along culturally familiar lines. It is very similar to evangelical religions in which followers feel superior to non-follower ‘sheeple’ who need to be ‘woken up.’

In the case of QAnon, Trump is the saviour who is battling global evil.

Leaders frequently talk about a great awakening, the pursuit of freedom, and finding one’s own truth.

At the same time, the ability to connect with others and find people with similar beliefs has been strongly enhanced by social media. The QAnon world is also very welcoming to all and provides a strong sense of community united by a noble purpose and hope for a better future.

The many hours spent on social media is valued as doing 'research' and seen as a useful antidote to the so-called fake news of the mainstream media.

To the non-QAnon community, however, QAnon is a dangerous cult that divides families and creates division and suffering. Serious acts of violence have been committed by QAnon followers, particularly the mass murder committed in Germany in 2020.

Fears about the potential for more widespread violence by QAnon followers were realised with the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6. The QAnon community was over-represented amongst those who stormed the building under the mistaken belief that they were saving the nation.

nity is that the media is corrupt and trying to shut down truth-tellers. Yet 2020 was the year of de-platforming QAnon and other conspiracies. Twitter, Instagram and Facebook have all carried out extensive de-platforming efforts with hundreds of thousands of accounts being deleted.

There are less obvious dangers, too.

Conspiracies theories rest on some basic assumptions: that nothing is a coincidence, that everything has meaning, and nothing is at it seems.

Such thinking undermines traditional forms of authority whether it is of the government, the media, scientists and academics. This is clearly dangerous in a global health pandemic.

De-platforming has its dangers. Instead of giving up their beliefs, true believers may flood fringe sites and thus become part of more extremist communities. On encrypted applications and platforms, QAnon followers are being exposed to recruiting from extremists such as far right anti-Semitic neo-nazis. As communities shrink, they are in danger of becoming more toxic. Despite this, de-platforming does ensure that conspiracists face barriers in recruiting new adherents. This is crucial for limiting the impact of QAnon.

Finally, any talk of 'global bankers and cabals' directly taps into longstanding anti-Semitic conspiracies about supposed Jewish world domination often centred on the figure of billionaire George Soros. The pandemic and QAnon have also proven to be fertile ground for neo-Nazis and the extreme right in Australia.

So what is to be done? Presenting counter evidence is not particularly effective. Despite a core pillar of the QAnon conspiracy view collapsing (Trump was not re-elected and Q drops of intel have dried up), a sizeable number of believers are still loyal. Banning or deleting groups runs the danger of confirming the beliefs of QAnon followers. After all, one of the claims of the Q commu-

CONSPIRACIES

MEMBER EXPERTS

Conspiracies theories rest on some basic assumptions: that nothing is a coincidence, that everything has meaning, and nothing is at it seems.

The QAnon conspiracy was enabled by social media. Social media users may feel like they are part of a civic society public square yet social media sites are private commercialised spaces which have benefitted financially from the growth in conspiracy theories. We must ensure, therefore, that unsafe and potentially threatening conspiracies are not allowed to flourish for reasons of profit.

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Dr Kaz Ross coordinated Asian Studies at UTAS from 2004–2020. She is now an independent researcher into digital politics, far-right extremism, and conspiracies

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ONLINE LEARNING

NEWS & CAMPAIGNS

Academic staff have their say on the move to online learning Respondents are mostly unsure whether good online teaching results in stronger learning than traditional teaching, but more than twice as many disagree as agree.

Over half the academic staff who responded to an international survey about their experiences of the COVID-related move to online learning said that it negatively affected their mental health.

The survey, conducted in October/November 2020 by The Times Higher Education (THE), received 520 responses from academic staff in 46 countries. Despite obvious local differences and variations, the views expressed by respondents were generally consistent across the globe.

The major findings included: • Sixty per cent of respondents believed that the move to online learning had also had a negative effect on students’ mental health.

• Nearly three quarters (73%) had little to no online experience before the pandemic, and felt that they needed support and training in online pedagogy, use of technology and supporting students with the transition.

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this, but nearly a third said that they weren’t.

• Ninety percent of respondents said that their workload had increased.

• Only a fifth believe that their students value remote education as much as face-to-face, but less than a third think tuition fees should be discounted when instruction moves online.

• Only four in 10 junior academics believe their reopened universities’ planning for COVID outbreaks is robust, compared with seven in 10 senior managers.

• Less than a fifth of respondents regard the two-track physical and online approach to teaching as sustainable, while two-fifths regard an online-only future as sustainable.

• Respondents are mostly unsure whether good online teaching results in stronger learning than traditional teaching, but more than twice as many disagree as agree.

• More than three-quarters would like online meetings to endure beyond the pandemic.

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CASUAL STAFF STRUGGLE Unsurprisingly, casual staff the world over were mostly left to struggle for themselves. Comments included that they were not paid to undertake training in various new digital tools, whereas ongoing staff attended training in their normal working hours; and that those who did the training in their own time were not guaranteed any work in the next semester.

This reflects the feedback from NTEU casual staff members early last year, when Australian universities were first forced to close their campuses. Universities sought to move their course content to online delivery, a process which usually takes between 6 and 12 months of intensive preparation, resourcing, and training – but under the threat of campus closures, most tried to do it within weeks.

Workload intensification for staff was widespread. The Union was aware that many casual and sessional staff, who still had work, were now being expected to move seamlessly from face to face to online delivery, with little training or support.

A targeted phone survey of NTEU casual members in March last year indicated that moving courses to online delivery involved significant extra work hours (many of which were unpaid), with few respondents saying that they were adequately

supported by the university in this process.

MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES Quite apart from the specific workload issues of having to move courses online in record time, there were a range of stress factors that negatively affected the mental health of staff: • Having to redesign courses from home with children around.

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• Suffering anxiety attacks about technology issues and students’ welfare.

• Feeling trapped by torrents of emails.

• Physical health conditions, such as eating disorders, developed as a result of ongoing stress, and requiring sick leave.

An Australian management lecturer commented, 'The [online] move itself was not so much the problem, it was the unrealistic management directives. They kept pretending things didn’t take the time or effort they did and then falsely reported what great feedback they were getting from students when many staff knew directly from the students themselves that they had found it chaotic at best.'

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VOCATIONAL EDUCATION

MEMBER STORIES

Something has gone wrong on the ship of higher education I teach creative writing at RMIT’s Professional Writing and Editing (PWE). The Associate Degree is that rare breed of higher education program that operates within the vocational education space with its 16 weeks of tuition, lower wages, and staff required to have (and for VE teachers to prove) currency in their field – in our case, the publishing industry.

When Helena Spyrou from the NTEU invited me to write this piece, she sent through articles from other teachers and universities. I could absolutely relate to the lament of steadfast teachers doing their very best in difficult circumstances beset by unnecessary woes inflicted by institutions of higher learning who have at the highest levels lost their way; seduced, it seems, by corporate self-interest, and helpless to resist the corrosion of anti-intellectual hatred from a neoliberal government of the lowest order.

I felt the pain of being overworked and underappreciated; of bearing the load of caring about the student experience indeed rather than in clever mission statements; of dealing with the epidemic of anxiety disorder and life-unreadiness afflicting our talented, courageous young people (and for VE colleagues, add subjection to anti-educational skulduggery from the bloated voracious ASQA).

Clare Strahan RMIT University

All the while teaching from home with our cats and dogs, children and partners, elderly parents and grandchildren, tradespeople and neighbours – inviting students into our homes and peering back into theirs.

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MEMBER STORIES COVID sucks. Lockdown sucks.

Teaching online sucks. Education-for-profit sucks. Corporate double-speak sucks. It all sucks.

Yet, what strikes me most is the incredible people with whom I work.

How at PWE we care about each other as human beings. How we dance the waltz of professional friendships, being real but honouring boundaries (for how else would anything ever get done?) and having as much fun as we can.

How we pulled together when the pandemic turned our faculties upside down. How we trained ourselves in the new technology and shared everything we found out. How we transformed teaching styles on the fly, how we grieve what we have lost in the sacrifice of face-to-face classrooms and in collegial chats in the halls, the open plan office, at the local cafés or pub.

How now dispersed we conspire to remain connected, to check in, to ask ‘How are you going?’ and listen to the answer. How we respect our student body and collaborate on how best to support and educate them.

How we talk craft, and art. How we’re involved in creative projects besides teaching and how much that means.

We’re stretched thin – I’ve never known us to be so collectively exhausted. On top of general COVID disruption, our college has been radically restructured at high speed at the most complex and difficult of

times – a huge cost-saving exercise that feels to me like chaos and betrayal.

Talented and dedicated individuals across the board have been 'disestablished' and how I despise the cowardliness of that word!

Student-facing administration has been left to wrangle yet another new system in record time while woefully understaffed.

Everything is relative – we remain a privileged few, like first-class guests on the Titanic; nevertheless, the year has just begun and I’m as worn-out as that hackneyed old metaphor. Our program has come through the big reshuffle with exactly the problems we went to great lengths to articulate in the consultation process and yet we are relatively unscathed compared to our VE compatriots.

Everything is relative – we remain a privileged few, like first-class guests on the Titanic; nevertheless, the year has just begun and I’m as worn-out as that hackneyed old metaphor.

When I see how depleted we are, my heart goes out to other programs and faculties and universities hit far worse.

I feel in my bones that something has gone wrong on the ship of higher education. The rudder is broken.

Or the compass. Or we’ve weighed anchor in a wicked sea. We’re embattled, taking in water and sinking in silence because the orchestra has been thrown overboard.

NTEU, gather the lifeboats and come to consensus on a plan because we must rally to the Union, or drown.

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POLICY & LOBBYING

No end in sight for Australia's

international student crisis With the Federal Government making clear that international students will not be returning to Australia to study on shore any time soon, the one thing the sector is sure of is there will be more losses – both financially and in jobs.

The most recent information is that other countries, most notably Canada, the USA and the UK are positioning themselves to step in to the gap left by Australia.

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With the political focus on repatriating Australian citizens and residents, international education looks set to continue as primarily an off-shore, online experience.

The question is, how are international students responding? Is it a case of everything will be fine, as the Federal Government would have the public believe? Or is this likely to see a fundamental change to Australia’s higher education market – which could see a flow on to the higher education sector more broadly?

While much attention – most rightly – has been focused on the desperate plight of international students left stranded in Australia with no support or even interest from the Federal Government, COVID-related closures also affected off shore students. Recent media coverage of international students protesting for

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the right to come back to Australia to complete their courses highlighted the situation that many international students found themselves in as a result of the closure of our international borders.

Clearly, many of those who either returned home, or where not able to get into Australia before the borders closed last year, want to resume their studies in the country. They argue that they have lives here and are part of the community, and many were on track for residency.

There are also problems around studying online, with complaints that online learning has not delivered the education experience that many of these international students were looking for. While some universities are now offering reductions on course fees for off shore international students studying online, many are not – although a number are offering other forms of incentives.

The question is, have these issues had an impact on the attitudes of international students – both current and prospective – to studying in Australia? One thing is for sure though – we have more students leaving, than coming in – and that is a problem.

POLICY & LOBBYING The most recent information is that other countries, most notably Canada, the USA and the UK are positioning themselves to step in to the gap left by Australia. This is no surprise – international education is a highly competitive market, with countries looking to leverage what advantage they can in the pursuit of international student enrolments.

While the thought was that Australia’s COVID safe reputation would be an attraction, this is of little relevance when our international borders are still closed to these students (even assuming they can get the flights here in the first place).

It is no surprise, therefore, that the sector is predicting even further declines in international enrolments in 2021, with the Mitchell Institute predicting Australia to lose half its international students by mid year.

While there are, of course, very good public health reasons for the current policy settings around international borders, it nonetheless shows that firstly, Australia’s higher education has been, and remains, highly exposed to risk as a result of our over reliance on international education – some 17,300 job losses are direct evidence of that.

Secondly, it also highlights that international students are not all content to learn online; that a large part of the appeal of studying internationally is to experience all that country has to offer.

Thirdly, while less has been made of this, it is also a fact that skilled migration is tied to higher education, and the current policy settings make it impossible for many international students to continue their progression towards permanent residency.

We are yet to see whether the COVID-related collapse of Australia’s international education market will in the end be a (relatively large) ‘bump in the road’ or whether there will be longer lasting, more fundamental changes that result.

What is clear, however, is that the Federal Government’s continued dismissal of the crisis will only deepen the current problems, and make future international students far less likely to consider Australia as a destination.

Bloomberg News

...skilled migration is tied to higher education, and the current policy settings make it impossible for many international students to continue their progression towards permanent residency.

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HEALTH & SAFETY

MEMBER STORIES

HSRs are making your workplace

healthier and safer I'm a Librarian at RMIT University as well as being the NTEU Branch President. As if I didn't already have enough hats on, I became a health and safety representative (HSR) just over a year ago. Learning more about occupational health & safety (OHS), legislation, and the powers of an HSR was a primary driver in taking on the HSR position, as I found I fielded questions constantly about OHS through my role as Branch President.

As a relatively new HSR, the last thing I was expecting to be dealing with was the impacts of a global pandemic. COVID-19 even managed to affect my HSR training, when all courses shifted to online delivery last year.

I would say that the online model worked well even if the days were long. I attended the Trades Hall OHS Course and it was excellent (shoutout to Vasso Zangalis!).

One of the key messages I heard loud and clear early on is that as an HSR, you have all the power and none of the responsibility. It’s a good way to consider the role and how it intersects in the workplace.

Sam Gibberd RMIT University

You are there to provide oversight, ensure employees views are taken into account, and make sure health and safety is taken seriously at all times.

When this isn't happening – you have the power to force the employer to act. There are many situations in

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MEMBER STORIES the workplace that can feel frustrating when things that need to get done get ignored. The OHS space simply isn't one of them and the HSR welds power and authority when and where its needed.

Working in a university means this relationship is usually pretty civil and OHS is for the most part, handled well. One downside though, is what I would describe as complacency within the organisation about the importance of HSRs and the difficulty in getting people to take the role on.

healthy workplace to go and speak to an HSR about the role and hear first hand.

It's a vital role that you will learn a lot from as well as be able to support your colleagues.

As the Victorian Trades Hall says in the intro to their excellent annotated version of the OHS Act 2004: 'The best outcomes are achieved when everybody is in the union backing each other up and taking action to make their workplace healthier and safer'.

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Last year, RMIT had over half of the HSR positions sitting vacant and pushing the University to do something about it and NTEU members to take up the roles became a priority for our Branch.

There are many situations in the workplace that can feel frustrating when things that need to get done get ignored. The OHS space simply isn't one of them and the HSR welds power and authority when and where its needed.

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Leaving OHS matters to an employer to deal with can and does creates problems. We simply must make sure that as employees (and especially as NTEU members) we use all avenues available to us to have a voice in the workplace.

If you have vacant HSR positions in your area or no HSR, call a local meeting and get the ball rolling to fill the position ASAP. You have the right to do this under the OHS Act. Workplace leaders take on many forms. Maybe the role of HSR is something you might want to consider? I'd encourage anyone with an interest in maintaining a safe and

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INTERNATIONAL

NEWS & CAMPAIGNS

Free Sean Turnell!

The NTEU is extremely concerned about the detention of Dr Sean Turnell in Myanmar. Dr Turnell is an active member of our union and a well-respected academic at Macquarie University.

The NTEU is supporting efforts to bring Dr Turnell home to his family. National President Dr Alison Barnes, who worked at Macquarie University with Sean, said he 'is a much-loved member of his university and union, and on behalf of his colleagues and fellow union members, the NTEU calls for his im-

mediate and unconditional release.'

ACTU President Michele O’Neil said 'The Australian union movement stands with Dr. Sean Turnell in solidarity and our thoughts are with him and his family.

We join his union the NTEU in calling for his immediate release.'

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