Submit your research article to Traffic 12 'The Big Picture' and be in the running for a $1000 prize, as well as picking up a refereed journal publication to add to your CV. Submissions close 7 June 2010.
Call for Papers: Traffic No. 12 2010, ‘The Big Picture’
Posted in:
Traffic 12,
News
Greetings from the GSA
(C) Copyright Gary Shaw
|
Read more...
Hon Michael Kirby launches Traffic 11
Posted in:
Traffic 11,
News
23 November 2009 saw the launch of Traffic number 11 'Fact or Fiction' at the Gryphon Gallery in the University of Melbourne Graduate Centre. The Honourable Michael Kirby and Provost Professor John Dewar attended and spoke at the launch.
The winner of the Traffic prize of $1000 was Christian Clark from the School of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Inquiry for his article "Knowledge, Numbers and the Northern Territory Intervention: Re-conceptualising Facts in Remote Indigenous Australia." The runner-up was Dr Madonna Grehan from the School of Health Sciences for "Heroes or Villains? Midwives, Nurses, and Maternity Care in Mid-Nineteenth Century Australia".
See our photo gallery here >
YouTube 2 - More on Fair Fares
Posted in:
Concession Card Campaign,
News
Is it a type of institutionalised racism to refuse concession fares to international graduate students?
YouTube 1 - Fair Fares Rally!
Posted in:
Concession Card Campaign,
News
Article in The Age elicits responses and more
Posted in:
Graduate Issues & Campaigns,
News
From little things, big things grow? The Faculties of Land and Environment and VCA and Music face budgetary and administrative restrictions that could damage the quality of graduate teaching and learning, according to GSA Council
|
This quote is from an email sent by Ms Kelly Donati, a graduate student at the University of Melbourne. But let's start at the beginning...
Annual Graduate Student Elections 2009
Nominations for the graduate student representative member of University Council for 2010, closed on Friday, 7 August 2009. The following three graduate students have nominated:
Alexander White
Tammi Jonas
Zoe Edwards
This election will be conducted by a postal ballot to all currently enrolled graduate students. Ballot papers will be sent to the home addresses that graduate students have recorded with the University. Papers should be received by Monday, 7 September 2009.
The nomination period for the 2010 Graduate Student Association Council was extended to Friday, 14 August 2009 and fourteen graduate students have been declared elected by the Returning Officer, Ms. Phillippa Heskett.
Download attachment(s): [ GSA University Council Ballot Paper Position ] [ GSA University Council Nominations Received 14 August 09 ] [ GSA Council Nominations Received 7 August 09 ] [ GSA University Council Nominations ]
GSA Submission to the Senate Inquiry into the Welfare of International Students
Posted in:
Concession Card Campaign,
News
|
The GSA recommends that:
- funding for scholarships and for student support services be increased in order to meet the increasing demand of a growing international student cohort;
- international student visa costs be reduced to make them comparable with other countries;
- international student visa conditions be revised in order to allow for more leniency for students whose visas are revoked or those who wish to have their visa extended;
- public transport concessions be granted to all international students, regardless of which state they reside in, or which course they are studying."
Download attachment(s): [ GSA Submission Senate Inquiry - Welfare of International Students ]
“Fair Fares” Campaign Update, July 2009
Posted in:
Concession Card Campaign,
News
Fair Fares Rally - 2 pm, Wednesday 2 September 2009, Outside the State Library of Victoria
|
Download attachment(s): [ Letter to Premier John Brumby about the Concession Card Campaign (PDF format) ] [ Table of eligibility for concession cards by CAPA (PDF format) ] [ Poster for Fair Fares Rally 2 September 2009 ]
Traffic 11 - Book Reviewers Wanted!
Posted in:
Traffic 11,
News
The Call for Papers for Traffic 11 has now closed and while we are no longer accepting article submissions, we are still seeking book reviewers. We're also planning a 'best-of' Traffic edition, drawing together the most engaging papers from the past ten issues.
Media Release: Transport Concession Campaign
GSA welcomes Universities Australia Call for International Student Transport Concessions
GSA President Condemns condemns police response to Indian student attacks
GSA President condemns police response to Indian student attacks
The University of Melbourne Graduate Student Association
has today applauded the decision by Indian international students to
publicly protest against racist violence in Melbourne. A protest rally
and march to State Parliament has been called for tomorrow (31/05) by the Federation of Indian Students Australia (FISA, www.fisa.org.au).
GSA President Paul Coats said “It is appalling that Victoria Police refuse to acknowledge the racism that is inherent in violent attacks against up to 70 Indian students in the last 12 months- they have become part of the problem, not the solution.” Coats added, “it is now up to the Indian students themselves to mobilise and show that they are not the deserving victims the police seem to make them out to be.”
GSA President condemns police response to Indian student attacks
|
GSA President Paul Coats said “It is appalling that Victoria Police refuse to acknowledge the racism that is inherent in violent attacks against up to 70 Indian students in the last 12 months- they have become part of the problem, not the solution.” Coats added, “it is now up to the Indian students themselves to mobilise and show that they are not the deserving victims the police seem to make them out to be.”
Download attachment(s): [ Media Release (PDF) ]
Melbourne universities strike for better education
Posted in:
Coursework Education Officer,
News
Rally on the steps of the SLV
|
It was part of a 24-hour statewide strike over wages and conditions that disrupted five universities - Deakin, Melbourne, Monash, RMIT and Swinburne universities. Latrobe were set to take action on 28 May.
As well, Hawthorn Learning joined the action and the University of Tasmania walked out in what was said to be the first strike there in 20 years.
About 250 marched down from the University of Melbourne.
Download attachment(s): [ Verity Burgmann speech at NTEU Rally ]
Fair Fares Rally successful - great turnout validates the campaign!
Posted in:
Concession Card Campaign,
News
"What do we want? - FAIR FARES!! When do we want them - NOW!!"
"Full Fair - NOT FAIR!!"
Over 250 students and supporters gathered on the steps of state
parliament last Wednesday (29/04) to send a loud and vibrant message
that Graduate and International students need 'Fair Fares'. Earlier
that day graduate students had gathered in front of the Graduate Centre
at the University of Melbourne to participate in the associations
Annual General Meeting, at which a vote was taken unanimously in
support of the GSA campaign.
"Full Fair - NOT FAIR!!"
(Chants from the crowd at the GSA 'Fair Fares' Rally, Wednesday 29/04/09)
The Fair Fares rally moves towards the city.
|
Download attachment(s): [ Article in Sydney University's Honi Soit Issue 8-09 ]
Class sizes: they’re just too big!
The message coming back from Masters coursework students at this University is that class sizes of more than 50 students are just too big for a seminar. Do you agree? Come and discuss strategies for reducing our class sizes and increasing the quality of education at this GSA public consultation forum around the topic, ‘Class sizes: they’re just too big!’
Date: Monday 27 April
Time: 5:30 for a 6 pm start
Venue: Gryphon Gallery, Graduate Centre (1888 Building)
Household Stimulus Package - Graduate Update
Posted in:
Graduate Issues & Campaigns,
News
CAPA President Nigel Palmer writes
to affiliates of the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations,
with an update on postgraduate eligibility for the Training and
Learning Bonus, as part of the Household Stimulus Package. We publish an edited version below:
Just a brief update regarding postgraduate eligibility for the Federal Government’s Household Stimulus Package.
Read more...
Read more...
Students for Gaza at Unimelb
|
Students for Gaza meets every Tuesday at 12:30pm on the 2nd floor of Union House.
Contact Paul Coats for more information: president@gsa.unimelb.edu.au
And to really show your support, join in during Palestine Solidarity Week 30 March to 3 April
Public Transport Minister: System Is Fair
Posted in:
News,
Graduate Issues & Campaigns
'Postgraduate and international students now pay, for example, the
full cost of a zone 1 monthly ticket ($109.60), while local
undergraduate students pay HALF that.'...
'A spokesman for Public Transport Minister Lynne Kosky said the system was fair, and ensured that students "IN GENUINE NEED" were given travel discounts.' [The Age, Wednesday Feb 25 2009, 6, emphases added]
The system is NOT fair.
GSA Public Transport Concessions Campaign
Posted in:
News,
Graduate Issues & Campaigns
A University of Melbourne graduate student signs the public transport concession petition
|
Sign the GSA petition (PDF petition download attached below), and then get your fellow graduate students, friends, colleagues or family to sign it. Return signed petitions to the GSA reception, Graduate Centre.
Or sign this petition on the web http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/fairfares/
Get involved with the campaign, contact GSA President Paul Coats president@gsa.unimelb.edu.au
Download attachment(s): [ Download Petition.pdf ]
GSA Bushfire Response
Posted in:
News
Picture from the Red Cross Website
|
We strongly encourage graduate students to assist in whatever way possible. The GSA has already donated $5000 to the Bushfire Appeal fund, and we suggest that graduate students might be able to help in the following ways...