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Days out from Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ budget announcement, large crowds gathered in Wollongong and Sydney to demand a stoppage to proposed cuts to the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). As confirmed last Tuesday, the Labor government aims to remove 160,000 participants from the scheme, to save an estimated $35
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I had a chance to speak to Ethan Floyd, a 22 year old Indigenous student from the University of Sydney (USyd) and a member of Students for Palestine, who recently arrived home on the 4th of May after joining the Global Sumud Flotilla’s most recent effort to break the
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May 15th 2026 marked the 78th anniversary of Al Nakba, meaning ‘the catastrophe’ in Arabic. In 1948, over 700,000 Palestinians were displaced from their homes in a violent dispossession of land. Al Nakba is not an isolated historical event, rather the origin of Israel’s ongoing settler colonial violence
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From the 27th of April to the 1st of May, students on campuses around the country observed Nationwide Palestine Solidarity Week by demanding their universities cut ties to weapons industries. For the duration of this week, the University of Wollongong Palestine Society held a banner outside the library for students
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May 1st: May Day, International Worker’s Day… ie. Union Christmas. Five o’clock: outside the Teachers Federation folks of all sorts gathered together, holding banners and flags. Spirited music to the tune of “Study War No More” (courtesy of the Rising Tide Street Band) filled the air. Soon, the
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Here at The Gala, we respect your time, so * The University of Wollongong (UOW) is one of the major research contributors to DMTC (Defence Materials Technology Centre), which is a company that organises military research and development between different parties. * Through it, UOW has helped defence companies like BAESMA, Thales,
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Editor’s Note: For the purpose of this article and the protection of those involved all interviewed will remain anonymous. University of Wollongong transgender students have noticed a pattern of dead-naming during lectures, labs, and tutorials, from their professors and tutors. Students have reached out admitting that they feel
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Over the past 2 and a half years, Israel’s genocidal campaign in Palestine has resulted in Gaza looking like Hiroshima in 1945. It is an unrecognisable wasteland of death and misery. Israel is currently laying yellow concrete blocks throughout the enclave to map a yellow line to determine where
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The New South Wales Parliament’s Standing Committee on Social Issues has released an interim report on the 8th of April following investigations and hearings across several months from their inquiry into the university sector, which is still ongoing. The interim report was aimed at addressing issues surrounding the University
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The Bellambi People and Place Plan put in place by the NSW government is looking to displace public housing residents from their homes to make way for social housing and private developers. A key distinction between the two is that public housing is owned and subsidised by the state government,
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Members of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) coordinated a 24 hour work stoppage from 8am on the 19th of March on behalf of staff at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). The NTEU made a number of demands from university management, including requests for a fair pay rise, reproductive
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When does a weapon become a weapon? Is it when steel begins to take the shape of a blade, a gun, a tank, or a jet? Is it when a bullet is filled with gunpowder, or when the primer is set, or when the bullets are loaded into a magazine?