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The National Union of Students' National Conference descended on a cold, grey and rainy Ballarat on Monday, arguably a fitting tone for the day's proceedings. After a lengthy check-in, the conference opened a respectable two hours late at 4pm, and only managed to survive one of the
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Well, it's that time of year again. Christmas lights are beginning to colour the streets, Mariah Carey is playing in the shops again and student politicians are preparing their vocal chords for the annual screaming match known as NatCon. So, what is this so-called 'stupol schoolies'
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The WUSA elections have ended and all the stupol hacks have scuttled away from campus. Provisional results have been released and tears of joy and sadness have been shed. Now it is time for us here at Tertangala to dig into what has happened. These elections saw five tickets contest
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Image credit: Kirsten Hammermeister Students and members of the community rallied outside the library to advocate for a ‘yes’ vote for the Voice to Parliament and fight what they called racist rhetoric in the ‘no’ campaign. Around 40 people attended alongside local media: ABC Illawarra, Win News and Illawarra Mercury.
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The university’s very own radio station was formed last semester and features a diverse range of news, music and entertainment hosted by students for students. I got to chat with the two hosts of a poetry show and discovered how they’re hoping to make waves in the local
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The Council of the Law Society of NSW has announced their support for the proposal to enshrine an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice in the Australian Constitution. Society President, Cassandra Banks, said “the paramount voices in respect of issues concerning Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are the voices
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Welcome to the Tertangala’s second daily recap of Edcon 2023. The Voice The day began with a plenary on the upcoming voice referendum. The day started with Patrick Taylor, the NUS’ First Nation’s officer, addressing the conference about the efforts the NUS is taking in the Yes campaign.
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Here’s a recap of the first day of Edcon. University Accords First up was a plenary discussion which centred around the University Accords project. It is the centrepiece of the Albanese government’s higher education policy, and the object of the current higher education review. Edcon was addressed by
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I think I finally understood a little bit about student politics this morning, as I lined up to confirm my registration for Edcon. It's 9am. There is an hour scheduled for this (it will take much longer somehow) before the fun starts in the first plenary. There’s
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New details have emerged about deceased Nazi collaborator Bob Sredersas, whose art donations helped establish the collection at Wollongong Art Gallery. Last year, former Wollongong councillor Michael Samaris raised concern over alleged links to the Nazi SS in Lithuania, which was responsible for leading the murder of European Jews during
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UOW Security are investigating after the rainbow steps were vandalised this week, which the student union labeled "an attempt to intimidate and upset LBGTQIA+ students." UOW confirmed this Friday staff removed graffiti messages from the steps and another, unspecified location on campus. Co-Coordinator of UOW’s All Sorts
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Feature image: Instagram/ TheWollongongMap There hasn’t been a birds-eye, hand-drawn map of Wollongong since 1840. Until now. Local cartographer and artist, Alex Pescud, sought to capture a moment in time in Wollongong with his ambitious project, The Wollongong Map. We viewed the nearly complete map in Pescud’s art