ARTWORK: Emily O’Neill
ANU’s Aggravating Colour Class Issue By Manya Sinha
“I’ve been financially independent for 2 years, my parents just pay my rent for Bruce Hall” Statements coated with the blindness of economic privilege like above are regularly heard on the ANU campus. University for many can be an isolating experience, however at the ANU, the experiences of coming from a low socio-economic (SES) minority background can isolate you almost completely. The ANU is unique in that a major proportion of students are determined by their economic ability to move interstate and abroad to attend in the first place. This essential barrier knocks out a majority of low SES individuals from attending the university in a fell sweep.
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