The University needs systemic change, to take strides towards dismantling institutional racism, and to urgently take steps towards transparency, accountability and truth-telling.
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Staff and students speak out against campus surveillance
Protestors spoke out against the recently uncovered pattern of University surveillance practices.
May 11, 2021
Protestors took to campus today to express their rage towards a series of documents revealing extensive surveillance of campus activism by the university and police.
Lamenting the brutal treatment and mishandling of students and staff at education protests last year, Former SRC Education Officer Jazzlyn Breen said “it’s clear that, in management’s eyes, the duty of care to protect students ends when those students’ political interests do not align with the profit-making interests of the university.”
She also noted that police officers that come onto campus don’t just do the bidding of the University, but “the bidding of the racist, colonialist state of Australia”.