Lot's Wife Edition 5 2015

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OB REPORTS
OB Reports
President
Sinead Colee
Most of you wouldn’t realise, but every one of your elected
student office bearers continues to work hard fighting for
your rights and continuing to bring you necessary student
services whether we are in or out of semester!
Some of the things I am currently working on are seeing
the university introduce emergency housing for students
who find themselves in times of a need, seeing elected
student representation re-introduced to university council,
introducing a Laptop Library service in the John Medley
Library, helping the university to address the parking
situation on the Clayton campus and preparing and planning
projects for Semester Two!
I’ve also had the oppurtunity to attend both the Network
of Women Students Australia conference and the National
Union of Students’ Education Conference over the semester
in which i gained some really valuable skills and have a lot of
fresh ideas to bring back to the MSA!
Hopefully I’ll see you around at the MSA Re-Orientation
Festival or at the NUS National Day of Action that has been
called for August 19th in response to the current government
trying to re-introduce deregulation of university fees for the
third time! Students have won the battle twice before and we
can do it again!
Ciao for now!
Secretary
Daniel King
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Treasurer
Abby Stapleton
Hi everyone, I hope you have all had a restful mid semester
break. Over the course of the break i attended education
conference which was held in Sydney for a week. The
conference was organised by the national union of students
and provide a multitude of skill building workshops. As
well as attending ‘edcon’ I have organised budget catchups
with all the MSA office bearers, aimed at making sure that
everyone is on track with their expenditure for the year. I
have also been busy planning for the second finance subcommittee
meeting.
Education (Academic Affairs)
Amelia Veronese
Hey everyone! :) I hope everyone had a fantastic break and are
looking forward to Semester 2. Remember if there have been
any issues with your results from Semester 1 you can contact
MSA Student Rights and msa-studentrights@monash.edu
In the break, I have been beginning to organize the MSA
teaching awards night that will be held on Wednesday the
18th of November. It’s a fantastic opportunity to recognize
excellent teaching so if you want to nominate teaching staff
please do so! You can email me at Amelia.veronese@monash.
edu for more information :)
This semester the MSA Welfare Department and I will be
working on increase social support for rural students also.
Hope your semester goes well! :)
Education (Public Affairs)
Sarah Spivak & Mali Rea
Deregulation might not be in the news so much anymore, but
it’s no less of a threat. We’ve been organising another protest
for August 19th! The National Day of Action will have the same
demands, no deregulation, no funding cut and no wait on
newstart. It’s more important than ever that students come
out in support of publicly funded higher education!
Sarah and Mali have just been at the National Union of
Students Education Conference, along with other delegates
from Monash. While at the conference we had the chance to
meet up with education activists from around the country
and plan for this semester.
We’ve also been working on Bluestockings Week (Week 3)
with the Women’s Department and the NTEU Monash Branch.
We’ve finalised our panel for the forum on the Wednesday;
we have Celeste Liddle (NTEU Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Organiser), Jeannie Rea (NTEU President), Rae
Frances (Dean of Arts, Monash University) and Swati
Parashar (Lecturer in Politics and International Relations).
We’re also busy writing questions for the Trivia Night on the
Thursday. Get a ticket from us at mid-year festival, from the
MSA desk or online.
As always if you want to get involved contact us at msaeducation@monash.edu
and like our facebook page, ‘MSA
Education’.