Category Archives: Student movement

Urgent call to action : resist SHAC eviction!

Update : Word on the Intertubes is that University authorities have agreed to delay eviction: the dinner is going ahead. For the last few months, the Student Housing Action Cooperative (SHAC) has been occupying a set of formerly disused terrace … Continue reading

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Students are revolting

Rally out the front of SHAC 272-278 Faraday Street, Carlton Friday 28th November Midday Squat students set to defy uni order Miki Perkins The Age November 27, 2008 STUDENTS squatters are refusing to leave a Melbourne University property in defiance … Continue reading

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Always Look On The Bright Side of Life : The AIDEX ’91 Story

Iain McIntyre — in association with one of Melbourne’s leading cultural institutions, the Homebrew Cultural Association — has just published a great new book: Always Look On The Bright Side of Life : The AIDEX ’91 Story. The book’s publication … Continue reading

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Rally to defend student housing : Friday, November 28

Call out for support of the Student Housing Action Cooperative (SHAC) SHAC is a collective of students and supporters who have been occupying four vacant buildings owned by the University of Melbourne for nearly four months [from August 20] in … Continue reading

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OH NOES! Southern Cross Soldiers go to war

Update : See also Southern Cross Soldiers’ first casualty, December 12, 2008, on the police shooting of Tyler Cassidy, 15-year-old Southern Cross Soldier. Crazy kids and their intarwebs! The Southern Cross Soldiers (SCS) finally make it into the papers. (See … Continue reading

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All roads lead to Rome

Italy students protest education reforms AFP The Sydney Morning Herald October 30, 2008 Thousands of angry students opposed to planned cuts to the Italian education budget protested outside the Senate on Wednesday, some clashing with right-wing supporters of the conservative … Continue reading

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“Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party of Australia?”, Or; Campus Watch comes to Australia

As part of their campaign to ‘Make Education Fair’, the Young Tories have compiled a list of academics they claim are guilty of leftist bias. This is in addition to assembling a range of materials intended to establish that University … Continue reading

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G20 : Courts allow violent foreign football hooligans to spit in the face of law-abiding citizens

one Taking rights to an extreme Herald Sun [Idiotorial] August 28, 2008 PEOPLE have a right to protest, but calling a politician a Hitler intent on raping the countryside and waving a hangman’s noose in his face is going too … Continue reading

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Students squat University of Melbourne property

[Press release] ====== Students occupied a property belonging to the University of Melbourne on Wednesday, August 20, demanding the University address the housing crisis affecting many students. The property, located at 278 Faraday St, was previously used to house Melbourne … Continue reading

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D&D is a far out game

Damn. I’m still coming to terms with the 2nd Edition of AD&D (1989), and now I find out that there’s not only been a 3rd Edition (2000), a 3.5 Edition (2003), but a 4th Edition, released last month. Also: Cry … Continue reading

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