Election Honi: Week 6, Semester 2, 2025

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Honi Soit

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SRC Election Editorial

The place of the university dramatically differs depending on the relationship between education and the structures of politics, power, and the economy: from the religious institutions of the medieval period to the halls of power-in-training at Oxford, Harvard, or, indeed, the University of Sydney. For most people, this world of the elite is behind the scenes, even for you who study here. For you, university is a place of learning, or a gateway to professional life, and these networks of power are like an Unseen world. The reputation of student politics (and student media) is that it is a zone of elites, and there is some truth to this. The quantity of Prime Ministers produced through student politics speaks for itself.

Yet this reputation does not capture the whole story. After the Second World War, universities increasingly became mixtures of elites and ordinary people, and these new students mixes turned increasingly to radical ideas to make sense of the social transformations visible in the middle of the century. Student eruptions like the global student ‘revolutions’ of 1968 (most famously in Paris); the anti-Vietnam war protests; the Soweto Uprising against South African apartheid in 1976; all of these were the political projects of university students. Looking closer to home, here at Sydney University, students campaigned for political economy or feminist/Marxist

philosophy programs; they picked up cop cars and took them off campus during the Vietnam War; and a network of students

in the early Howard years. Not so long ago, in the mid-2010s, Australian university students successfully forced the government to walk back on tuition fee deregulation.

It is a historical fact that these student movements led to the formation or consolidation of student unions, like the SRC, and entrenched their orientation towards a democratic vision of studentled decision-making and power over the conditions of your education, as well as the shape of the world in which you live. It’s important to stress that this idea –that students should be able to influence their own education, or the world at large – was (and perhaps still is) a groundbreaking concept. The tradition, then, of a democratic student movement is one which resiles itself against the dominance of elites. That’s true even if the odds are stacked in favour of the elites, who parachute into jobs at Minter Ellison, PwC, Goldman Sachs, or as presenters at Sky News.

The question I would ask of you, consequently, is how you might regard your relationship to this tradition of democracy. These elections ask you to cast your votes over some few hundred students who present varying visions of what the SRC

might be or do. Of course, I cannot advise you on your choices (though this edition of Honi Soit gives you plentiful information). But I can advise you to exercise that choice, and to do so judiciously, wisely, or even on gut-feeling: however you make your decision, the point is that you exercise this little power and accustom yourself to the uses of power and democracy. Such powers are more common than you may think.

As for me, it is this history of democracy which impels my own relationship to these elections, over the last five years, as the Electoral Officer for your student union, charged with ensuring fairness and integrity. I have been Solomon, but rarely solemn; wrathful when warranted; and probably pruriently pedantic. I have learned that a very loud whistle can bring an unruly room to order (albeit one individual has proven immune), and I have built some truly beautiful spreadsheets. This is my last year, so count this my indulgent farewell: my only regret is that this job doesn’t come with a ceremonial mace.

Yours, in democracy, Riki Scanlan

P.S. My predecessor, Paulene, was right.

*The history books may open on this in another decade or two.

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A Brief Guide to the 2025 SRC Elections

Honi Soit explains.

The Students’ Representative Council

The Students’ Representative Council (SRC) is the peak representative and advocacy body for undergraduate students at the University of Sydney. You don’t have to sign up to be a member to access its services or participate in Council or the Collectives — all undergraduate students are members.

Since 1929, the SRC has been run by students for students. The SRC has permanent professional staff members that oversee its operation. The SRC runs a free casework and legal service to assist students on a range of matters like academic appeals, accessing Centrelink, and tenancy advice.

The SRC’s independence from university management ensures that they are able to properly advocate for students. It does so through activism, protest, and representation to the university and government.

The SRC is also host to various Collectives which are convened by their respective Office Bearers, including the Autonomous Collective Against Racism (ACAR), the Disabilities Collective (DisCo), the Wom*n’s Collective (WoCo), the Queer Action Collective (QuAC), the Education Action Group (EAG) among others. All students may join the collectives.

The SRC also funds, prints, and publishes Honi Soit, the weekly newspaper that you are reading right now. The SRC also publishes other publications such as The Real Student Handbook, EAG’s Counter Course, and WoCo’s Growing Strong

What are you voting for?

In the election of the 98th SRC, you will be voting on four ballots.

There are four presidential hopefuls, which has not been seen since 2018. The four hopefuls in order of the ballot draw are: Angus Dermody (Solidarity), Grace Street (Grassroots), Muhammadhasankhon ‘Hasan’ Munavvarkhonov (Independent), and Sargun Saluja (NSWLS).

This year there will also be an election for the editorship of Honi Soit. The editorship has been uncontested since 2021 where CAKE won against DRIP. Many editors of Honi Soit have gone on to have illustrious careers in the media industry.

There will be 43 Councillors on the 98th SRC. The representatives to council, serving one year terms, meet monthly to debate motions on student policy and politics. The councillorselect will meet after the SRC elections to elect the executive and Office Bearers of the SRC.

USyd sends seven delegates to the National Union of Students (NUS) — the SRC of SRC’s if you will — for the annual NUS conference in December, otherwise known as a week of hell somewhere in regional Victoria.

How can I vote?

All undergraduates currently enrolled are eligible to vote in the SRC elections. Just bring your student ID to the polling booths on polling days.

Polling will happen on Tuesday to Thursday, 23th–25th September at the following places:

Jane Foss Russell: Tuesday – Thursday, 8:45am – 5:15pm Fisher Library: Wednesday – Thursday, 8:45am – 5:15pm Manning House: Wednesday, 10:45am – 3:15pm Conservatorium of Music: Wednesday, 10:30am – 3:30pm

Susan Wakil Health Building: Thursday, 10:45am – 3:15pm

Peter Nicol Russell Building: Thursday, 10:45am – 3:15pm

If you are unable to vote in-person, you have up until 5:00pm 11th September to apply for absentee voting. https://srcusyd.net.au/representation/elections/voting/

Optional Preferential Voting

Akin to voting for the Federal Senate or NSW Legislative Council, there will be tickets with multiple people on them. Each ticket will have one to eight candidates. You can number your preferences “above the line” or “below the line”. A notable regulation change this year is that by default you will be given an “above the line” ballot but you may request a “below the line” ballot should you wish to number all 250ish boxes.

Preferencing is optional, so you can vote for as many or as few (as long as it is at least one) candidates as you’d like. We recommend that you preference more than one candidate so your vote has an impact if your first choice is eliminated. Only you can control where your preferences go.

Calculating votes

For the election of the President and Editors of Honi Soit, a candidate is elected if they secure more than 50 per cent plus one of the votes. In a given count, should no candidate reach a majority, the candidate with the lowest number of votes is eliminated and their preferences distributed to other candidates until one candidate reaches a majority.

However, for the election of Representatives to Council and Delegates to the NUS, they are elected on multi-member ballots, where Council will have 43 candidates elected and the NUS will have seven delegates elected. Candidates in these elections are elected when they reach a quota. The quota for a candidate to be elected is: Total number of votes / (Candidates to be elected + 1) [Rounded down] + 1

Firstly, a count would occur to sum up all the primary votes each ticket / candidate receives. Candidates that reach quota are elected. The surplus is transferred down-ticket or to whom the voter indicates a “transfer value”, a reduced value that is the ratio of the surplus to total number of votes. Eventually, we will run out of candidates elected and surpluses transferred. At this point, the candidates with the lowest number of votes are eliminated and their preferences transferred at value. This process is repeated until all available seats are filled.

Who are you voting for?

Grassroots are a leftist, sometimes Greens-aligned and NSW Socialist-aligned, faction on campus. Grassroots has held seven SRC presidencies, however lost the presidency last year in a surprise upset. They are also running tickets under the Free Palestine branding.

Trotskyist campus stalwart Socialist Alternative (SAlt) are running under the familiar Left Action branding. This year they are also running one ticket on Palestine Action.

International student faction Penta has bounced back stronger than ever after an acrimonious purge prior to last year’s Reps-Elect. They are also running the International Students for SRC ticket.

Solidarity, another Trotskyist group on campus, is running under Sanction Israel Now and contesting the presidency.

There are three Labor factions vying for your vote. Young Centre Unity / Labor Right, seeing a declining share of seats on council year on year and failing to elect one of their own onto USU Board, are running on Unite, STEM for SRC, and Wilko for SRC

New South Wales Labor Students (NSWLS) are reprising the Impact branding. NSWLS formed following a purge of 11 NSW members of National Labor Students early this year. They are also running a ticket Desis for Sargun. The remainers in National Labor Students, though there is hardly anything ‘national’ about NLS anymore, are running on Explicit

Presidential hopeful Muhammadhasankhon Munavvarkhonov is running alone on Change Your SRC

Members of the Queer Action Collective are running a ticket under Queer Agenda for SRC

The Restoration Party is headed by Lachlan Mansour after his failed bid for USU Board. We are unsure of what is being restored.

As they have done so for the past few years the aptly named Con Students are running for Conservatorium representation. Faculty based independents have made a comeback, with Engineering for SRC and Science for SRC joining the fray. Frustrated at twofactor authentication, we have Ban Okta Verify running.

Rules and Regs

1. The rules and regulations covering the SRC elections span 52 pages. We have included here some of the most important ones that students should be aware of when engaging in the election. The full regulation be accessed here: https://srcusyd.net.au/about/ constitution/

2. Only currently enrolled University of Sydney undergraduate students can vote in the elections.

3. No voter or candidate may engage in dishonest practices to gain an advantage including but not limited to: bribery, threat, and tampering with ballot papers.

4. No one may campaign in person or online until the start of the designated online and physical campaigning period.

5. When campaigning, a person may not come into physical contact with another person unless that contact is consensual or engage in any behaviour that causes any individual to feel intimidated.

6. All official material on social media or distributed in person must clearly display the name and student identification number of the person authorising that material (typically the campaign manager).

7. All campaign materials, print or digital, must be accompanied by an easily readable English translation if they are written in a language other than English. An in-built translation function within an app is a valid form of translation.

8. Nobody may interfere or damage the campaigning materials of any other candidate without their consent.

9. All questions about the rules and regulations as well as any reports of breaches should be reported to the SRC Election Officer Riki Scanlan at the following address: elections@src.usyd.edu.au

Angus Dermody, activist hailing from Solidarity, is campaigning to mobilise the student body for Palestine, seeking to orient the SRC as a militant activist body that is willing to defy university management. Dermody brings his activist credentials in Solidarity and Students Against War to this SRC election. He makes the argument that the fight for Palestine is fundamentally linked to the right to protest on campus and every other fight that students and staff may be involved in.

Dermody reiterated the point argued by Solidarity over the past few years that the left should not engage in electoral deals, and that “backroom deals [and] signing away of positions, do not help the movement”.

Dermody scored 70.16 per cent on the quiz. He demonstrated a sound understanding of the SRC, the NTEU, and gave comprehensive answers around the Campus Access Policy, the USyd Divestment Report, and the NSW anti-protest laws. However, he severely underestimated both the SSAF allocation towards the SRC and the total amount of SSAF collected by the university, stating them to be $600,000 and $4 million respectively. The SRC was in fact allocated $3.19 million in 2025.

In lieu of providing policy manifestos, Dermody’s stated policies centres almost entirely around utilising the resources of the SRC to mobilise the student body, motivated by a belief that the SRC has,at points over the past year, not done enough for the student movement.

result of this kind of action”.

Dermody sees the SRC as needing to be oriented as an activist force that can “take the fight to management” especially during a period of repression under the Campus Access Policy and Hodgkinson Report. He views the fight for Palestine as interlinked with every other fight that students and staff are involved in. He cited the right to protest as underpinning not just the fight for Palestine, but other fights on campus.

For ways that the SRC can be a militant fighting force, Dermody points to prior involvement in the Environment Collective and climate strikes, as well as his participation in student contingents during USyd staff strikes. He stated that a mobilised student body “that can win [on Palestine], can very easily take that momentum and start to win other things on the campus.”

Speaking about the “horrific cuts” occurring at universities across the country, he observes that “where the Palestine movement is strongest, you’ll see that they have the strongest fight against those cuts.”

report back to the student body: “Any bit of information that the student movement can use to break their [complicity]”, however real change has to take place “on the streets, and in the classrooms.”

On the visibility of the SRC, Dermody concedes that while activities like “sausage sizzles” and “hand[ing] out tote bags” may have raised the visibility of the SRC, they lack “the political basis we need”. Instead, he suggests that the SRC have “stalls on Eastern Avenue talking about the Palestine movement every week”. He does not believe that students are put off by strong critiques of management. Dermody points to the massive March for Humanity across the Harbour Bridge that drew 300,000 protestors but asks how that hasn’t translated to an energised Palestine movement on campus, noting that most students are in support of Palestine. He believes the purpose of the SRC should be to mobilise and “make ordinary students see themselves as activists”.

Quiz Score

Dermody describes the role of the SRC as the “political leadership of the student movement,” highlighting the successes of the SRC during the Gaza Solidarity Encampment. He speaks to how the SRC defended him when he was suspended during the encampment for lecture bashing, illustrating how through collective solidarity the SRC can win in cases where students are disciplined for acts of protest.

He believes that the SRC has at times “faced the wrong way”, pointing to the reluctance of members and the president of the SRC in supporting the Student General Meeting (SGM) held in May 2025. He rebutted the initial concerns stating that “not a single student faced disciplinary action” and “the movement has only grown as a

Dermody describes himself as a revolutionary socialist, stating “you need a revolution to overthrow the capitalist system” but that “we need to be active in every struggle for a better world”. When asked how he defines left-wing in comparison to many other groups, he first said that “it’s a testament to the student movement that almost everyone who wants to run would call themselves left-wing”. He continued stating that being leftwing “isn’t just, support[ing] vague progressive stuff” and that being on the left is “building the left and not just talking about it”.

On the question of negotiation with management, Dermody deemed that as a “dead-end strategy”, slamming management as complicit in attacking the “rights of workers and… the rights of students”. He pointed to the outcomes of the negotiations following the Gaza Solidarity Encampment — a divestment report after one year “which made no mention of cutting ties with the arms companies who are complicit in the genocide in Gaza” — as a particularly disappointing outcome of negotiations.

He said that there was still utility in attending committee meetings to

Dermody spoke to relationships in a personal capacity with members of the NTEU and showed a strong willingness for the SRC to aid the staff during enterprise bargaining. He speaks of his participation during the last round of staff strikes stating it was “pleasing… to show that it is possible for students to support staff actively”. During the last round of staff strikes, where student contingents were able to do “things that staff themselves couldn’t” such as shutting down scabbing classes. He steered the conversation to speaking more generally about how students and staff can and should build movements together, citing the National Day of Action for Palestine in March endorsed by the NTEU.

Angus Dermody seeks to mobilise the student body and orient the SRC to be a militant fighting force with a narrow focus. Dermody expresses optimism in the student movement’s ability to take the fight to university management, to force them to cut ties with Israeli institutions and divest from companies complicit in the genocide in Palestine: “The task is very, very serious for us.” While there is no doubt in this statement, there will also be no doubt that some students will express reservation at how overwhelmingly focused on Palestine his campaign is.

Scoring an impressive 93.55 per cent on the Honi Presidential Quiz and articulating a clear policy position, Grace Street is well-prepared and bound to run an impressive campaign.

Speaking about her motivations for the campaign, Street explained that she was particularly driven by the “ongoing crises in higher education” and the role of the SRC President in fighting back against management. She noted this was especially pertinent given that 2026 brings forth another period of enterprise bargaining for the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU). She states the student body requires “strong, fierce, experienced leadership”. She wants the SRC to be returned to a “fighting student union that brings different groups together”, and was the only candidate to disclose her preference deals, naming Grassroots, Socialist Alternative, Penta, and National Labor Students.

In the Honi quiz, Street remarkably only got three questions wrong; even then, one was due to answering with the 2022 figure for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander undergraduate student enrolments instead of 2024. When asked about what percentage of undergraduate students are of low socio-economic background, she was unable to answer. She was also unable to name the Australian Tertiary Education Commission. Street was successfully able to describe details of the international student Opal card concession campaign, recalled universities affected by course cuts, and had thorough knowledge of NSW anti-protest laws. She was, most impressively, the only candidate able to fully describe the SRC Presidents’ negotiation process for securing SSAF money.

Street described her politics as “generally encapsulated by being in the group Grassroots, and then also grassroots” in terms of “people powered, bottom up organising and horizontal democratic organising”. Street emphasised the fact that her specific left-wing vision “focuses a lot more on autonomous and collective community organising” as opposed to “a rigid structure of top down organising and some more dogmatic theoretical backgrounds”.

Street has extensive experience in the SRC, having served as the SRC’s 2024 Education Officer and General Secretary this year. In terms of activism, she was involved with running the 2024 Gaza Solidarity

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Encampment, led the ‘Scrap the CAP’ (Campus Access Policy) campaign and helped organise the 2024 Student General Meeting on Palestine. As General Secretary, Street’s biggest achievement has been spearheading a free and successful influenza vaccination scheme for undergraduate students. She cited this as an example of practical and tangible change the SRC can make, as well as something that raises awareness about the SRC by providing a much-needed free service.

Street was very vocal about the need for more intercampus engagement and solidarity, citing the Conservatorium and the growing Westmead campus as overlooked areas which would benefit from an increased SRC presence and facilities. Street specifically spoke about formalising the relationship between the Conservatorium Students’ Association (CSA) and the SRC to engage with “fortnightly meetings” and “joint SSAF applications”. She explained that this model retains the CSA’s desire for autonomy but still achieves her stated goal of building “stronger links between campuses”. She also wants to establish a pilot program for shuttle buses between the Con and Camperdown, to improve intercampus accessibility. For the Westmead campus, which is both physically and culturally removed from Camperdown, Street wants to look into consultations with student associations. In terms of intercampus policies, she would like to expand FoodHub across into these campuses as well. Location expansion and increased staffing levels are her two FoodHub priorities, which she aims to do by allocating more funding and expanding the number of paid staff.

Organising improvements to FoodHub necessarily involves collaboration with the USU. When queried about how she would reconcile the differing goals of the USU, SRC, and SUPRA, Street responded by explaining that all organisations are interested in easing cost of living and studying. She cited the $5 meal deals at Laneway as examples of the “joint effort” to subsidise meals on campus.

Street described the role of the SRC as “encapsulated by what was in our old logo, which is advocacy, representation, activism”. She clarified the need to advocate at all levels, whether it’s on committees like Academic Board or through the SRC’s autonomous collectives, which Street believes “not many other groups [SRC

factions] value”. When asked about notable past SRC campaigns, she cited the five-day Simple Extensions campaign and emphasised the importance of having an activist SRC to fight against University management’s desire to return to two or three day extensions.

In terms of her engagement with the NTEU, Street has stated that she is a member of the NTEU and has a good working relationship with many unionists through Palestine and Free Speech on Campus organising. She reaffirmed her commitment to supporting the NTEU during enterprise bargaining next year. When asked about material action the SRC can take to energise the NTEU’s campaigns, given it has been a significant time since the last large-scale strike action or bargaining period, Street spoke to her goal of educating the community about striking and bargaining (“staff working conditions are student learning conditions”) because strikes are most effective with student contingents from different faculties.

When asked how she would respond to criticisms that many of the SRC’s campaigns relate to politics and Palestine, rather than ‘purely university issues’, Street had a number of responses. She explained that many students are upset with the idea that their student fees are being used to fund genocide or the climate crisis. Most crucially, she explained that many issues relating to university issues like placement poverty can only be solved by federal and state politics.

Grassroots, as a faction, is often criticised for their historical refusal to engage in meetings with management. When queried about this and whether she will be amenable to negotiations, she clarified that she and her faction wish to attend committee meetings and engage with the University through committees. However, they object to “closed door, one-on-one meetings” with management and view them as a tokenistic measure of ‘student consultation’ from the administration.

Overall, Grace Street has a thorough, ambitious campaign. She has a significant amount of institutional knowledge, has a proven track record on the SRC, and a clear vision for both policies and implementation.

Every year there are a smattering of independents who put their hand up for the Students’ Representative Council (SRC) or the University of Sydney Union (USU) Board. Very few have the temerity to run for the SRC Presidency without factional backing. Enter Muhammadhasankhon ‘Hasan’ Munavvarkhonov, who presents himself as the common student, representing you, the “98 per cent”.

Munavvarkhonov’s main policy — an internship guarantee for all students — is beyond ambitious. As a selfadmitted newcomer to the student politics scene, Munavvarkhonov showed gaps in institutional knowledge in the quiz. He admits to not having been engaged in student politics until recently but assures us that his prior experience elsewhere is transferable, stating his “experiences aren’t in student politics, they’re in the real world”. However, for the voter, these skills remain undemonstrated.

Who has he talked to? Which factions will back an ambitious new independent? He pulled out his phone during the interview to identify that he had spoken to Lachlan Mansour’s “Restoration Party” but did not indicate if Mansour was backing him. Munavvarkhonov states that in his campaign he would be encouraging people to vote in the SRC election in general rather than just vote for him, and will put “statistics of how many people are voting and why there’s a divide” to motivate people to vote.

Munavvarkhonov scored 42.74 per cent on the quiz. Where he scored weakest was in his knowledge of the SRC, the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU), and the higher education landscape. When queried about the relevance of the NSW Minister for Tertiary Education (as opposed to his Federal counterpart Jason Clare) he simply responded “USyd is directly thingy-d with the NSW government”. He correctly identified the undergraduate enrolments of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and students from a low socio-economic status background, giving them in a numerical format rather than a percentage, indicating he has likely read the USyd Annual Report.

Munavvarkhonov described his politics as “unaligned” and expressed a desire to “represent the student body in general”. He described the current SRC as riddled with “toxic and

divisive politics”, going so far as to say that not having prior experience in the SRC was a good thing because he didn’t believe it was “a very good SRC to have experience in”. If elected, he promises to form a cross-factional “unity cabinet”. However without factional backing, a potential “unity cabinet” would likely be decided without his influence. Much like every other student politician, he promises his loyalty “to you, the student population.”

The self-described “flagship” policy of Munavvarkhonov is to lobby the university such that every student, including international students, is guaranteed a paid and career relevant internship before they graduate. Munavvarkhonov sees artificial intelligence replacing most entrylevel jobs and views this program as a way to give students experience before entering the workforce. He concedes that asking the University to guarantee 40,000 jobs is a tall ask but maintains his “enthusiastic side would like to believe that it is possible.”

As for how this would be achieved, he would establish a “presidential task force that will relentlessly lobby the university and alums”. In the interview, he offered no vision for how this would be achieved beyond “negotiating with university leadership” and convincing them to dip into their half-a-billion surplus. Overall, neither the feasibility nor the roadmap to such a promise has been articulated.

Munavvarkhonov promises to campaign on expanding transport concessions for all students, something two other presidential hopefuls are campaigning on. When pushed on why he is waiting until he gets elected to campaign on it, he responded by saying that he did not get involved in “student politics until recently”.

He is also campaigning to fix Okta Verify such that the single sign-on page actually remembers you. We wonder if he has talked to ‘Ban Okta Verify’.

When queried about his approach to working with management and sitting on university committees, he simply stated he would be “very rational, very direct”. Quite tellingly, with his policy to lobby the university to guarantee an internship for every student, he

holds university management in a position of good faith and believes that they can accede to such demands.

Munavvarkhonov wishes for there to be greater student engagement with the SRC. He does not believe that the SRC is genuinely representative of the student body, contributing to what he deems as a “divide between students at the SRC”. He cites low voter turnout and the relatively small number of votes needed, compared to the size of the student population, to become president.

He seeks to boost the reach and engagement of the SRC, citing his experience building an online community to “20k+ followers in two months” and producing content that had “over 30 million views”. When asked how he could turn social media attention into genuine engagement, he cited his experience as an Assistant Director of Quality Control at a conglomerate in Uzbekistan encouraging industry partners to adopt particular standards through “negotiation and also providing visibility of the problem”.

Munavvarkhonov was unfamiliar with both the NTEU, being unable to name any member of the USyd NTEU executive or branch committee. He was also not aware that enterprise bargaining for the NTEU was to begin next year. However, he defended himself saying “it’s very easily learnable and acquireable when you become the president.” When asked about the SRC’s role during enterprise bargaining, he replied stating that he thought there would be negotiations at a “high level with the Vice Chancellor or whatnot”.

Muhammadhasankhon Munavvarkhonov is a newcomer on the scene running on a wellintentioned platform. He seeks to speak to the 98 per cent and be the voice of the everyday student. It remains to be seen if he can indeed convince the 98 per cent to vote for him and deliver on his lofty promise.

Sargun Saluja is the New South Wales Labor Students (NSWLS) candidate for SRC President. Saluja had solid policy proposals aimed at improving the welfare of students, along with a wealth of lived experience, as an international student, and institutional experience, through the University of Sydney Union (USU) Board.

Given Saluja’s track record as a USU Board member for the last 2 years and involvement in the SRC, her quiz score was at a surprisingly low 49.19 per cent. She correctly spoke about the University’s three Academic Board committees that the SRC president sat on, and has a good understanding of the University Senate, and the Campus Access Policy. However, Saluja has significant gaps in knowledge about the higher education landscape. She overestimated the percentage of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students at the University, guessing about 7-8 per cent. This is a significant error given the Australian population percentage is 3.8 per cent and the University percentage is 1.2 per cent. Saluja also knew concerningly little about New South Wales anti-protest legislation, despite its pervasive impact on the SRC’s activism.

In terms of her personal politics, Saluja stated that it was tricky to be a member of a political party as an international student, but she is “inclined to Labor Left”. Saluja, as a member of NSWLS, expectedly espoused a belief in the “twoprong approach”, believing that the SRC should both be “sitting at the negotiating table and pushing for reform on streets” — speaking to the idea of reform as opposed to transformative change. She is, however, clearly dedicated to making the SRC an “accessible space”, speaking to the “performative left wing culture” and her commitment to attending all committee meetings and platforming an SRC that has “found itself” after being lost to ‘factions’.

Saluja is likely to be supported by Young Centre Unity (YCU), otherwise known as Labor Right given that NSWLS have traded the top spot of their ‘Impact for NUS’ ticket to members of YCU.

and appealing to “real students”. Drawing on her personal experience with the dismal Sydney rental market, Saluja made it clear that she keenly understood “what it’s like for students out there to have the university pressure, as well as costof-living pressures”. She frequently spoke to her lived experience as an international student — required by visa requirements to study a fulltime load, and having gone through housing difficulty — and promises engagement with students through programs that can “relieve [them] from their day-to-day pressures”.

When asked about her own conception of ‘left-wing’ from other factions and political groups that define themselves as left-wing, she points to “behaviour and culture” believing that her own faction has been “the most empowering towards” her as an international student.

When asked about her motivation to run for president, Saluja points to her experience at university and student politics since 2022, from the immediate post-COVID era to our current revitalised campus. She cited “$5 meals [and] the FoodHub expansion” and her own experience volunteering for FoodHub in its nascence and on the USU Board. She points to the “strong [and] astronomical” momentum gained by the SRC pointing to both the Gaza Solidarity Encampment in 2024 and, more recently in 2025, “the $5 meals, simple extensions being kept, the SRC going to every committee meeting”. Saluja also deemed the SRC rebrand as a point of success and something that has drawn in more students, stating “it’s easier on the eyes… the branding, the website, it’s more accessible, even on social media.”

to achieving a level of “focus” in her Presidency that will allow for more successful campaigns, such as Fair Fares and BDS. Her final main policy, in addition to campaigns, is an Indian food initiative — an important push for students to access a cuisine our campus is embarrassingly devoid of.

Saluja sees the SRC as a “representative body at the end of the day” and notes her own helpful experience with the SRC free casework and legal service, which she does not believe “get enough clout”. She stresses how she has witnessed these vital services provided to students in tough times.

She refutes the critique by other factions that negotiation with management is not an activist approach, stating that she believes that the left should be “sitting at the table and presenting your demands, instead of boycotting management, which is counterproductive” because “what truly is needed is results”.

When asked about prior relationships and ties that she can bring into the role of president, she states that she has “relationships with university management [and] knows the internal workings of many things” such as International House and the Wentworth Building. She cites her experience as a USU Board Director and holding the USU Board’s environment and international student portfolio, where she spearheaded events such as the USU’s International Culture and Food Fair, the OurWatch conference, a conference addressing genderedviolence. She cites the relationships she has built with stakeholders as situating herself in a position where she knows “exactly who I need to engage with to get things done”.

When asked how she would keep the SRC focused, Saluja answered that she would be “as engaged with committee meetings and as engaged with management”. She highlighted the importance of remembering

Speaking to her campaign policies, Saluja emphasises the importance of the Fair Fares campaign, which demands international students be given access to concession transport fares. She speaks about how “voices of the international students [are] lost within student politics” and thus do not gain momentum, alluding once again to factional issues. With regards to BDS, Saluja believes that current SRC and National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) motions are good but do not go far enough; she believes “we can absolutely put pressure on [management], we can absolutely remove Coca Cola, McDonald’s…from the face of campus.” Her conviction is direct and clear, as is her commitment

Saluja stated that she did not have much of a relationship with the NTEU and that she would have to “develop a better relationship with the NTEU”. She gave relatively brief answers when it came to how she would support staff during enterprise bargaining.

Sargun Saluja brings a wealth of lived experience and solid policy proposals, albeit heavily focused on service provision and outreach. However, her approach and her faction’s overall approach will be in conflict with the rest of the Council that have characterised the past year of a Labor presidency as too conciliatory. Sargun Saluja

burn for honi

Ticket Name: BURN For Honi

Ticket Members: James Fitzgerald Sice, Kiah Nanavati, Ramla Khalid, Madison Burland, Sebastien Tuzilovic Condon, Marc Paniza, Faye Tang, Anastasia Dale, Eko Bautista, and Kuyili Karthik

Slogan: Keeping the Flame Alive.

Buzzword: Diversity

Weakness: Overcommitment

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This Team is on Fire (literally… they barely passed)

In the quiz, BURN was represented by Eko Bautista and Marc Paniza.

BURN’s top score was in the USU section, with 75 per cent, though they missed points in their limited knowledge of the USU Board. Unfortunately for them, FLASH got the exact same score for that section. Meanwhile, BURN scored 50 per cent on the SRC section, which was slightly better than FLASH’s 45 per cent, but performed worse on all other sections.

BURN demonstrated a sound understanding of Honi’s history and structure, being able to correctly name the last five tickets. However, when asked about Spill for Honi’s supposed opponent in last year’s election, BURN was only able to answer “That one guy”. We’ll admit though, that was a hard question. They also tripped up when asked to name the current Honi editors, forgetting to name Will Winter and Victor Zhang, both editors whom the pair have directly worked with this year. We aren’t a women-only ticket, guys! There’s just a lot of oestrogen in the office.

When asked to name off-campus Honi stand locations, BURN incorrectly identified the Conservatorium and Westmead, rather than The Rose and Dendy Cinema. They incorrectly named the 2025 Queer Autonomous edition as Fagi Soit, rather than Fishi Soit. The team seems to be stuck in the past, with little knowledge about current or recent Honi culture. BURN received points for identifying the president, editors, and authors as legally liable for published articles, but in doing so named just about everyone else, including Directors of Student Publications and the entire SRC.

BURN’s knowledge of student journalism was nothing short of woeful, as they scored a dismal 28.13 per cent in this section. When asked to name ten speakers at the 2025 Student Journalism Conference, they named one speaker from the 2024 Student Media Conference, and did not correctly name any volunteer roles. Bautista and Paniza struggled to answer a question on the publications that attended Stujocon, as they themselves did not attend. They named a handful of publications who did not actually attend, and mispronounced several publications such as “La Ralaballi” (Rabelais) and “Fargo” (Farrago).

BURN were adequately familiar with USyd news such as Dr. Nick Riemer and Professor John Keane’s class action, Princess Ingrid Alexandra’s study at USyd, SUPRA’s ‘Fair Fares’ campaign, and the 2024 Undergraduate Senate election. Their knowledge in the Australia section was almost passable, with 47 per cent. They correctly identified Western Sydney University as having a campus in Riyadh, although they were unfamiliar with news at other universities including UTS banning indoor protests, protests against ANU Vice-Chancellor Genevieve Bell’s shoes, and the expulsion of two pro-Palestine activists at the University of Melbourne. They were also unable to identify the factional split that occurred between NSWLS and NLS earlier this year, saying that “Labor left Unity”. Considering that BURN are disappointed with the lack of news coming out of Honi in recent years, it is a tad concerning that they don’t seem to be reading the news that is being published.

In our interactive section of the quiz, in which both teams were asked to define the BDS target categories and sort companies into said categories, BURN correctly defined the priority and pressure boycott target categories, however did not define the organic boycott target category.

Priority targets are identified as having a direct link to ongoing genocide, Israeli apartheid, or illegal occupation. These targets are identified by the BDS National Committee. Pressure targets include boycotts when reasonable alternatives exist, but campaigns against such targets include lobbying, disruptions, and strategic litigation. Organic boycott targets refer to boycott campaigns that were not initiated by the BDS movement, but are supported by the BDS campaign.

They were also asked to correctly identify three companies in each category. They only correctly identified companies in the priority category and failed to reach the threshold for the pressure and organic categories.

Overall, BURN did passably well. Their lack of knowledge of student media and national news dragged down their grades, but BURN did prove that they were familiar with Honi and USyd, two of the most important areas.

Controversy and Contradictions?

In the interview, BURN was represented by Kiah Nanavati and Sebastien Tuzilovic.

THE TEAM

BURN gave a very succinct and powerful answer as to why they picked their name: “We’re fiery, we’re coming in with a bang, we’re not leaving without making a boom.” When asked about a slogan, Nanavati replied “Let’s burn this… let’s burn.” Tuzilovic hopped on in a round of well-informed yes-anding and said “Let’s burn!”

After the interview, BURN clarified that their slogan is “Keeping the Flame Alive”.

With a team of ten and a triple-digit article count, BURN situated themselves as the most experienced of the two teams running for election, citing their abundance of pieces across nearly all types of Honi categories. BURN has several members with an impressive number of articles. Kiah Nanavati is leading the way with an article count of 21 at the time of interview. She did claim, however, to have written over 30 in the interview, which, even if true, does take away from the holistic strength of the team’s total article count.

Their key written policies revolved around news and the idea of returning Honi to a “NEWSpaper, not a lifestyle magazine”. In the interview, Tuzilovic spoke to a “neglecting” of newswriting this year, and how the team desired to increase callouts regarding “sports and campus” news. They also referenced sourcing news pieces from various publications (which they did not give examples of) to find news which isn’t covered by other news outlets — some may consider this paradoxical, however, BURN were staunch in their methods!

When asked about the team’s credentials to be writing such extensive news coverage, BURN could not speak to several of their candidates who predominantly, if not entirely, write culture and review pieces.

POLICY

Regarding the Student Journalism Conference, BURN was asked why they only had one ticket member attend and volunteer. They explained that they intended to go, but “problematic issues” and personal circumstances prevented nine of ten members from attending. However, they assured us that this would not be a problem for 2026. Nanavati was the only member who volunteered at the conference. She helped out an incredible amount which was duly noted and appreciated, however this imbalance within the team seems to be a recurring issue.

When asked if they would host the conference in 2026, Tuzilovic replied that they would, and clarified that the reason it was not in their policy document was “I don’t think it needs to be in the policy [document].” They offered vague ideas about “building on… established relationships with mainstream media and publishers” but lacked convincing detail on how they would organise a conference, and also were unable to cite specific connections to student media, instead referring to “marine science newsletters” as key relations.

When asking about their policy regarding combatting SWERF and TERF rhetoric, Honi noted that one of the articles written by a member on the ticket stirred up controversy in the Queer activist space due to their discussion and perspective on sex work. Tuzilovic first affirmed that Honi Soit is the place for “dialogue and the development of thought… we’re prepared to publish articles which start dialogue” even if the opinions expressed aren’t agreed upon by the team.

When asked if the specific article which drew controversy was discussed internally, Nanavati solemnly looked at us and said “when made editor, the person will refrain from publishing controversial stuff.” Clearly the controversial dialogue BURN is wishing to cultivate will be mostly instigated and borne the brunt of by their reporters.

POLITICS

BURN had a familiarity with student politics, with three of their members having attended SRC council meetings, one member being in Grassroots, and others being involved in autonomous collectives. Their only member with a current factional alignment is James Fitzgerald Sice, whom BURN says will leave his faction prior to his Honi term.

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Both interviewees outlined extensive passion for protest coverage, First Nations issues, and continuing Honi’s radical history regarding Palestine and combating “institutional power in mainstream media”.

When asked about their lack of presence at the National Student Referendum on Palestine held on 28th August, BURN apologised for not attending and said that it “would never happen again”. After the interview, BURN emailed us and clarified that there were three members of their ticket who had attended, which they had been unaware of — notably a lack of effective communication within the team. When you have to say “it won’t happen again” on multiple occasions where plans were not followed through, it does bring up concerns about a trend of flakiness when it comes to commitment.

CULTURE

Tuzilovic and Nanavati were passionate about continuing regular meet-ups with reporters and editors. Tuzilovic touched on how they were drawn to write for Honi because of seeing the Honi Soit community, and the team expressed a desire to host events between singular editors and their reporter groups.

BURN spoke about how they wanted to engage with all of Honi’s 300+ reporters by creating contributor profiles featuring a short bio and a photo of the contributor. This was written into their policies as a way for people to engage with their “favourite writers”. When asked to name their “favourite writers” this year outside of the current tickets or editorial teams, both Tuzilovic and Nanavati struggled to answer. After many “ummm”s and nervous laughs, they first named Pia Curran (formerly a member of BURN) and then settled on Victoria Gillespie, who edited in 2024. This did not make the argument that they cared about Honi’s reporters wholly convincing.

CAMPAIGNING

BURN noted their biggest weakness as a trend of overcommitment throughout the team. It does make one wonder whether this team will be able to uphold their extensive policies during and after the campaign season.

In terms of sportsmanship, BURN had a tendency of backing up any rebuttals with “well in comparison to FLASH”, in reference to article counts, newswriting, and an awareness of political issues. FLASH, in their interview, did not mention BURN until prompted for their final question. Much of the issues for BURN seemed to be a lack of backing of their own team, and hitting at FLASH’s weaknesses seemed to be their way of overcompensating. It’s your interview, BURN… not FLASH’s. It did make it hard to feel the sense of community that BURN are supposedly looking to bring to Honi Soit

BURN has strong experience in this year’s autonomous editions, with their members having edited or contributed to ACAR Honi and DisCo Honi, as well as having plans to edit Women’s Honi later in the semester. Between them they have a substantial amount of editing experience for external publications, citing this as evidence that they have the know-how to edit Honi in 2026.

Summary

Overall, BURN has a versatile range of articles across the team, though do tend to lean into the more cultural and reviews side of Honi. They haven’t established a sound knowledge of general Australian news, nor much recognition of certain issues covered by Honi

Throughout the interview, Tuzilovic and Nanavati made reference to extensive editorial and writing experience of two to three members of their team external to Honi, which does draw into question their whole team’s capacity to edit for this specific paper. They also mentioned their overconfident intention to edit for Honi whilst maintaining a (very) full-time study load and other intense work commitments. Past Honi editors know how this story ends.

However, as the only team with ten editors and the most quantifiable experience with writing and editing, BURN clearly has a passionate flame for editing, even if they are sorely due for some serious team discussions.

Let’s hope they don’t burn out during the campaign.

Flash for honi

Ticket Name: FLASH For Honi

Ticket Members: Sath Balasuriya, Jessica Louise Smith, Felicity Errington, Ananya Thirumalai, Jenna Rees, Audrey Hawkins, Cormac Herron, and Tanish Tanjil

Slogan: Students talk, we translate

Buzzword: Learning Curve

Weakness: Underprepared

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Getting through their quiz in a Flash

FLASH was represented in the quiz by Sath Balasuriya and Felicity Errington.

Sath and Felicity were very familiar with Honi, scoring 89 per cent on this section. They correctly named all editors, four out of the five last tickets, and Spill for Honi’s doomed opponent “JJames”. When they were unable to name Honi’s first editor (A. E. Crouch) or the 2025 Writing Competition judges (Siang Lu and Amani Haydar) they said, respectively, “Will Summer”, “Will Autumn”, and “Will Spring”.

FLASH displayed an excellent knowledge of student journalism, scoring 93.75 per cent for this section. They correctly named speakers and volunteer roles, displaying a strong familiarity with speakers and publications who attended, as well as many volunteer roles which Balasuriya personally undertook during the conference.

FLASH fumbled when asked to name publications from every state and territory in Australia and their corresponding universities. They incorrectly identified Semper Floreat as being from QUT, were unsure about Togatus’ name (read: “Tagetus”), and knew the existence of but struggled to name Flycatcher, the now-defunct publication at Charles Darwin University. Instead, FLASH invented Flyshot, the defunct publication at the nonexistent University of Darwin. Unfortunately for FLASH, we do not give points for creativity. Nonetheless, they were impressively accurate in their responses to this section. Moreso, they were enthusiastic, drawing up a map of Australia to visually map out their answers, incorrect or otherwise.

In our interactive section of the quiz, in which both teams were asked to define the BDS target categories and sort companies into said categories, FLASH correctly defined the pressure and organic boycott target categories, however did not fully define the priority category.

Priority targets are identified as having a direct link to ongoing genocide, Israeli apartheid, or illegal occupation. These targets are identified by the BDS National Committee. Pressure targets include boycotts when reasonable alternatives exist, but campaigns against such targets include lobbying, disruptions, and strategic litigation. Organic boycott targets refer to boycott campaigns that were not initiated by the BDS movement, but are supported by the BDS campaign.

To score a point, they must correctly identify three companies in each category. They only correctly identified companies in the priority and pressure category and failed to reach the threshold for the organic categories.

Notably, FLASH seemed to have fun during the Honi quiz — a rare occurrence, as anyone who has endured an Honi quiz can attest. Where they lacked in knowledge, they made up for in humour. They tended to provide more detailed responses than needed to gain points, and at once showed off the study hours they’d put in and fastidiously discussed all the potential answers. FLASH’s quiz clocked in at 70 minutes, as they clearly took the lack of time limit seriously and spent so long deliberating the questions and going on unrelated tangents — such as the outrageous cost of iced lattes on campus — that even the Honi editors were begging for the end.

Learning Curves and Lack of Knowledge?

FLASH was represented in the interview by Jessica Louise Smith and Ananya Thirumalai. We feel it prudent to note that Louise Smith was wearing a full-body Flash superhero costume, and ran down the SRC hallway like so so fast whilst preparing for the interview.

THE TEAM

Louise Smith explained the team name’s evolution from “BLEED” to FLASH, detailing a team discussion around wanting a name which represents the “naughtiness” of their approach to editing: a reference to print media, but also provocative and fun. Their slogan, “Students talk. We translate”, spoke to a continually referenced desire to approach newer and underrepresented student audiences such as international students and satellite campus students, as reporters and as readers.

FLASH have been notably present throughout the year at events hosted by Honi and events covered by Honi, including a photojournalism workshop, the Student Journalism Conference (StuJoCon), and the National Student Referendum. They had written three news articles at the time of interview, and only have one investigation piece under their belt across the team.

Whilst there is no shortage of passion and cultural eagerness within the team, FLASH do have a worrisome lack of experience with Honi. With a team of eight, six of the nominees only began writing for the paper this year, two of which being first-years who signed on at the start of semester two. Their article count is also half that of BURN, with many being co-written pieces over the last several months. Evidently, they’re trying to pack it in before election time. FLASH claim that this lack of brevity and history with Honi is actually a strength, a notable sign of their team’s incredible passion and their desire to include all student voices. It’s a smart campaign to distract from the obvious criticisms, but it isn’t wholly successful: passion sometimes simply isn’t enough compared to numbers and experience.

POLICY

FLASH showed a keen interest in hosting StuJoCon 2026. Two of their candidates were volunteers for the conference this year, and one other sent extensive apologies for being unable to attend. With a joke from Louise Smith about how much work went into running the conference (“if you dig a tunnel all the way into StuJoCon you’ll just find Imogen”), they are clearly aware of how much work is required to host the conference, a promising sign.

The most extensive policies provided to us before the interview regarded reporter events and investigative photojournalism.

FLASH outlined six different events with camera-themed names to communicate and train their reporters with throughout their term, though, on questioning, this was predominantly a shiny promise with little depth beyond ‘we want to engage reporters consistently’.

Louise Smith clarified “we don’t plan on holding an obscene amount of events”, but wanted to focus on developing reporter-editor relationships. Their other key policy was a promise to develop collaborative investigations and photojournalism in the paper. Thirumalai pointed towards investigations about certain societies and cultural issues on campus, but did not acknowledge continuing the legacy of investigations into the university itself and its political/economic ties. The team notably had a single investigation to their name as of the time of interview. They also could not demonstrate a propensity to learn how to source, pitch, create, design, or lay-up this photography-heavy content beyond certain members of the team having “connections” to photographers and societies.

Louise Smith suggested they were “obsessed with the possibilities” of photojournalism, but the team felt untethered from the reality of creating a new content style for Honi next year. It made it difficult to interrogate FLASH on specifics in their policies when they continually referred to the “learning curve” which they’ll naturally go through as new editors. Whilst this felt like a smooth trajectory in the interview, it did leave us with a sense that FLASH are severely lacking in tangible methods and abilities to execute their vision. There is a point of concern that all of FLASH’s policies come with an asterisk.

POLITICS

When discussing protest coverage and student politics, FLASH admitted they have a general lack of involvement in these spaces until recently. Louise Smith, as an intercampus officer, is the only member of the team with campaign experience. When asked about how they expect to make stupol accessible for students when they do not have team

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knowledge of the ‘jargon’ used in the space, they said “that’s the kind of thing we need to research”, but they were keen to learn from the current team.

When asked specifically about covering NatCon, a task every Honi team does in their first month in office, they painted a lovely picture of studying stupol with a “slideshow night. Every single faction, we paint a beautiful picture with a big whiteboard.”

Whilst this crutch of a lack of involvement was deflected by a willingness to engage with previous editors and learn, this is a process every Honi team naturally undergoes, and essentially speaks to a broader issue. FLASH’s biggest weakness is their lack of institutional knowledge, and with a smaller team, it is a very important question as to how they can realistically edit Honi without an overreliance on previous editors or external help.

With no factionally-aligned members on the ticket, FLASH claimed their politics to be nonbiased, left libertarianism. Members of FLASH also pointed to their history of attending events run by the Wom*n’s and Disabilities Collectives. Whilst not incredibly vague, they needed to be prompted to discuss their coverage regarding specific issues like Palestine, key coverage championed by Honi. What they did provide was a desire to cover issues with new angles, such as seeking perspectives from audience members at rallies to include in their news pieces.

It will be interesting to see how this lack of specificity around politics manifests in their campaign and beyond.

CULTURE

Their experience in editing does seem to be something the team lacks, however, FLASH have had good involvement in the autonomous editions of Honi this year— Jessica Louise Smith and Tanish Tanjil contributed in DisCo Honi and five of the ticket members have signed up to be editors for Women’s Honi in week 10. Overall, six of eight members have edited or are editing an autonomous edition, compared to three autonomous editors from BURN.

A wholesome moment occurred near the end of the interview when FLASH were asked their favourite writers for Honi external to any editorial team or ticket — Sophie Bagster, Audhora Khalid, Cate Chapman, and Jesse Carpenter were mentioned with no hesitation.

CAMPAIGNING

Flash identified their biggest weakness as not having edited Honi before, a sentiment which is true but arguably cheap. They did speak to navigating the challenges of Honi in the same way they navigate other difficulties in their everyday lives, such as being ESL or living with disability, a comment which felt more profound.

When asked why voters should support FLASH, the team suggested “We’re here because we’re not just trying to inherit a paper for our CVs”. FLASH supposed that their team did not have goals to have careers in media, which allegedly spoke to their character of loving Honi and wanting to share that love with new audiences.

Once again, taken at face value, this is a revolutionary idea, but it does set a worrying precedent that the team fundamentally lacks editorial drive and skill. It’s also difficult to expect them to muster up this experience solely through a final push to up their article count and a handful of members on the team editing an autonomous edition.

Overall

Overall, FLASH is an incredibly passionate and well-intentioned team with an awareness of their weaknesses and disadvantages as an eight-person ticket. Their presupposing of issues is a double-edged sword, constantly reminding us of their ability to learn, but also the fact that they very clearly lack the degree of experience BURN allegedly has.

FLASH are clearly enmeshed in the current Honi community, with a deep reverence for current writers, the paper itself, and a clear camaraderie that’s been developed between the members of the ticket. FLASH is also still searching for an additional two members to fill out their ticket, which could result in an entirely different approach to election season if found.

Regardless, if they’re elected, there is an abundance of knowledge and experience which they’ll need to be willing to train up on and learn as quick as a flash.

President

Angus Fisher

You know what time it is - it’s time for my SRC President’s report.

If you’re reading this in print, it will be in the election edition of Honi Soit If not, it’s probably on Instagram or Facebook. Regardless, you ought to know how important your vote is in this election, because the majority (about 95% of undergraduate students) don’t. Every year, the SRC gets millions of dollars of SSAF funding. You know that little approximately $175 fee you pay each semester? Some of that goes to us. The President and Council effectively decide how this funding will be used throughout the year. Not voting is like taxation without representation, so have a say about where your money goes! The NUS is the National Union of Students; it’s like the SRC of SRCs, so you should vote for that too. I’ll see you on the campaign trail!

Last week, I attended and spoke at the Fair Fares Opal card roundtable held by SUPRA and the SRC. I was joined by other student reps ranging from the USyd Labor club to the postgraduate fellow of the Senate. It was a great opportunity to learn about how broadranging this campaign is and how

many people and organisations are fighting hard to get concession Opal cards for all. If you haven’t signed the online petition yet, please do! We are still short of the required 20,000 signatures needed. Just Google “opal card petition” and you can’t miss it.

The $5 hot meal canteen at Laneway has been growing strong for 5 weeks now. You might have noticed the serving sizes have increased from week one to week five. That’s partly because of the feedback that you provided to me, which I then used to advocate to get larger meals. The good news is that we are now in the next phase of the project and are planning how to expand the canteen offering for next year. We’re looking to move to a larger location on campus so more meals and a greater diversity of food can be offered for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. While I won’t be able to enjoy the new and improved canteen in 2026 (I’m graduating end of the year!), I hope that the campus can enjoy it for many years to come.

In solidarity, Angus

General Secretary

Grace Street, Anu Ujin-Khulan

Following on from SRC Week, Grace set up the free resources (in both English and Mandarin) and merchandise from the Tenants’ Union in the front reception area of the SRC. To provide even more resources to students, Grace and Laura have placed an order with Full Stop Australia to have one of their NSW Sexual Violence Helpline and one of their National Helpline Services printed resource packs delivered to the SRC.

Grace worked to get C&S, collectives, and others to commit resources and social media to promoting the Referendum on Palestine, and helped run the event on the day with setting up and registering people. Also ongoing is the process of working towards a new Enterprise Agreement with staff, which has been going well so far with Philip and Angus, and with

the help of our HR consultant.

With the Disabilities Collective (DisCo), Grace will be working on collecting data more specific to disabled students and carers to prepare for the inevitable proposals to again reduce simple extensions without fixing the broken special considerations, and other, systems. We are hoping to also extend this feedback system to Concession Opal Cards to highlight the inequality for disabled or carer domestic part-time students and international students.

Anu is currently working on International House and Concession Opal Card stickers and merch to promote the petition and make it a more visible and high-profile issuekeep an eye out!

Ethnocultural Officers

Dana Kafina

Over the past few months, ACAR has, and is

• organising responses to the racist, far right sentiment witnessed in Aug 31 and previously — including creating resources to combat propaganda, organising a selfdefense workshop, and making an active effort to promote rallies and counterprotest this sentiment

• released ACAR Honi!

• starting an apartheid-free zone campaign against BDS-target sponsorships on our campus, specifically with the USU

• attended and flyered for the rally outside Albo’s office on Sep 2

A Bite Size Crossword

1. Lightweight wood (5)

6. Kiwi stalks activists, thinks everyone is a secret communist (7)

8. And so on (2,6)

10. Satisfied sound (3)

11. Business abbr. (3)

12. Spanish uncle (3)

13. Prosp___, exiled Duke in the Tempest (3)

14. Curved sword (8)

17. Polish remover (7)

18. Wrote “An Infantile Disorder” (5)

1. Willingly (2,6)

2. Filled with wonder (3)

3. On (3)

4. One who’s gutless, heartless, and mindless? (8)

6. Contemporary of Byron and Shelley (5)

7. Just (7)

9. Cherish (5)

15. Blokes (3)

16. “Was ___ who wooed thee to this breast...?”: Shelley (2,1)

Semester 2 Week 5 Crossword Answers

Across (by individual row): Eavesdropping, Guy Fawkes, Slier, Laundromat, Kyiv, Kindred, Squint, Yammer, Picante, Time, Get Clear Of, Recon, Esoterica, Whistleblower

Down (by individual column): Engels, Voyeurism, Soap Dodger, Rake Over, If So, Grimy, Private, Square Meal, Interview, Disclose, Detect, Affair, Macaw, Anti

Special Buys Bad. Same.

Angus Dermody

Arts/Advanced Studies VI

POLICY STATEMENT

“I’ve been a student activist at USYD since my first year in 2020 and have seen the best and worst that the SRC has to offer.

At its best, the resources of the SRC have been used to mobilise more students to fight around the issues that matter. An SRC that stands proudly with Palestine strengthens that fight. It matters whether or not the SRC supports the struggles that students take part in. When I was suspended for Palestine activism last year, the support of the SRC was essential, helping to push the university to drop disciplinary action against me and defending the right to free speech and to protest.

But too often the SRC has held back the movement. The momentum behind student campaigning has been wound down into negotiations with management, and at times activists have had to fight against the SRC itself.

Running the SRC shouldn’t be about presenting policies to management for approval, but mobilising the thousands of students who oppose the way this corporate university is run into the strongest possible fight against management - over Palestine, over the attacks on education, and over every issue that students care about. Year after year in these elections, backroom deals for positions have taken priority over supporting the best activist candidates.

That’s why I’m running for President as part of a ticket made up of other activists who have the track record of fighting for this vision in the Palestine movement. In the SRC election we are running on the ticket SANCTION ISRAEL NOW. You can read our full statement below:

FOR AN SRC THAT FIGHTS FOR PALESTINE and DEFENDS EDUCATION

The hundreds of thousands who marched over the Harbour Bridge last month show the scale of popular outrage over Israel’s atrocities. Most students and Australians want an end to Gaza’s starvation, but Albanese and USyd Vice Chancellor Mark Scott continue to support the horror.

Israel’s genocide in Gaza is aided by crucial F35 jet parts made in Australia and intelligence fed from Pine Gap spy base in the NT. On campus, USyd Vice Chancellor Mark Scott maintains partnerships with institutions that enable Israel’s war crimes while he tries to silence criticism

of Israel by smearing us as antisemitic and introducing draconian anti-protest and anti-free speech rules.

USyd partners with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJ), sending students on exchange to their Mount Scopus campus which is built on illegally occupied Palestinian land in East Jerusalem. USyd grants up to $5000 to students to go on a medical exchange with the Technion, who developed the technology for the remotecontrolled D9 bulldozers demolishing Palestinian homes. And USyd maintains research partnerships with genocideprofiteering weapons companies like Thales, Lockheed Martin, and Safran.

Mark Scott has banned announcements at the start of classes, has placed new restrictions on our right to put up posters, and has made encouraging students to break the anti-protest rules an offence in itself! The day after the historic bridge march, USyd management removed a Palestine flag flying from a staff member’s office window. When other staff members displayed the Palestine flag from their windows, they too were issued notices that their flags would be removed.

Universities have become the front line in the wider ideological war against criticism of Israel. The spread of Gaza solidarity encampments around the world last year showed how students can ignite wider social struggle. By repressing Palestine solidarity on campuses, the government and Uni bosses hope that the broader movement for Palestine will also be silenced. We need an SRC that puts up the strongest possible resistance to this.

By fighting to cut the ties with Israel we can help draw even more students and workers into the fight for sanctions on Israel and a free Palestine. It was protests by students and staff last year that forced USyd to cut its exchange program with the Bezalel Academy in Israel who were sewing uniforms for IDF war criminals in Gaza. To cut the rest of the exchange programs USyd has we will need many more students actively involved with the campaign through Students Against War.

Last semester, a 200-strong Student General Meeting organised by SAW voted against the newly adopted Universities Australia definition of antisemitism, a definition which equates criticism of Israel with antisemitism. This semester we have organised an ‘eyewitness to genocide’ forum with a midwife from Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital to build opposition to USyd’s medical exchange program with the Technion, and we’ve backed the NTEU’s National Day of Action for Palestine, deepening the links between staff and students. Our campus protest tours have exposed the locations of USyd’s collaboration with Israeli apartheid.

Activists in Sanction Israel Now don’t just want votes, we want as many students as possible to get involved so we can build the movement and force USyd and the government to cut ties. We want you to vote for us so radical pro-Palestine voices are represented in the SRC, and so the SRC’s resources are used to fight uni management and back the Palestine campaign.

The Labor government is prosecuting its agenda of militarism through universities by tying university funding to programs that will train the workforce needed to staff the AUKUS nuclear submarines. Uni bosses are happy to accommodate by slashing arts courses that encourage critical thinking and cutting over 3500 uni jobs. To combat this militarism, we need a fighting SRC that stands unflinchingly for a free Palestine.

Voting in the SRC elections won’t be enough to cut the ties. But the elections can raise political awareness and draw more students into the movement to make USyd an apartheid free zone. Vote for Sanctions Israel Now and join Students Against War to fight for a university that is more than a degree factory; one that values critical education and fights to free Palestine.”

CURRICULUM VITAE

• Member of revolutionary socialist organisation Solidarity

• Member of pro-Palestine activist group Students Against War

• Involved in the campaign to cut USYD’s ties with Israeli apartheid and genocide.

• Part of the encampment, involved in passing motions to cut ties, back Palestinian right to resistance and one-state, and reject new antisemitism definition at two Student General Meetings.

• Been a part of many other campaigns on this campus fighting course cuts and fee hikes, supporting staff strikes on the picket lines, organising for climate action, and more.

• Also active off campus in any fight for a better world.

• Known on a first-name basis by USYD security

• Identified by the Daily Telegraph as an ‘intifada socialist”

NOMINATORS

Sydney Pan

Brianna Akins

Rona Aparicio

Paul Kaletsis

Katerina Savkin

Genevieve Carsnew

Yifan Jia

Miriam Fay Sattar

Maya Jubb

Zhaokang Hong

Sofia Pluciennik Faustinoni e Silva

Chengqu Huang

Jack Stubley

POLICY STATEMENT

Hi everyone! I’m Grace, a 5th year student who’s doing her Honours in French and Francophone Studies after completing a Bachelor of Arts (International Relations, Political Economy) and Diploma of Languages (French, Arabic).

I’ve done two degrees, an exchange in Paris, been the President of the French Society, a FASS and Dalyell Mentor, and most recently the 2024 Education Officer and 2025 General Secretary of the SRC. I have thrown myself into student life, studies and activism since starting in 2021, and will continue this commitment to students as (hopefully) your 2026 SRC President.

I am a socialist committed to grassroots and community-led activism including for feminist, queer rights, Palestine, decolonisation, refugee rights, First Nations justice & sovereignty, and more.

I was raised and currently live on Garigal Land in northern Sydney, and am studying and organising on Gadigal Land. I recognise my status as a settler who must commit to fighting for justice and land back.

In my time at USyd, working in the SRC, and organising with its collectives, I have seen the importance of strong leadership, selflessness, and hard work. For almost 100 years, the SRC has been students’ first line of defence against the corporate university, and a hotbed of progressive student movements.

Every year, “hacks” from major political parties swoop in with big election promises, only to do no work once elected, using the SRC as a stepping stone into politics. I am no such “hack” and have always supported an independent SRC. My policies are not vague promises – they are campaigns, actions, and plans that I have already been working on in my time in the SRC, and you can expect to see the results of.

As SRC Education Officer last year, I was involved with running the Gaza Solidarity Encampment, submitted and analysed GIPAs about USyd’s investments, led the ‘Scrap the CAP’ campaign and Unauthorised Stalls Day, and helped organise the 2024 SGM and 2024 ‘National Week of Action: No Universities Left in Gaza’.

As the 2025 SRC General Secretary, I have worked tirelessly to make the SRC more visible, valued, and effective. With Co-General Secretary, Anu, our Welcome

Weeks have been the best yet – with an engaging and useful SRC ‘Real Student Handbook’ and merchandise. I initiated and led a free influenza vaccination scheme for undergraduate students, and (re) introduced SRC Week.

The coming year will be huge. The course and staff cuts currently raging across Australian universities will surely reach USyd, and our staff will enter a bargaining period with the University in 2026 to demand better working conditions.

Students deserve more than USyd’s infamous interdisciplinary units and its nightmarishly flawed Special Considerations system that seems to punish students instead of support them. Students deserve an SRC that fights for them.

My policies include:

STOP SUPPORTING GENOCIDE &

OCCUPATION

• Fight against all forms of discrimination, including Islamophobia, antisemitism, and anti-Palestinian racism

• Demand that the University’s Investment and Divestment policies include companies involved in Israeli occupation, and all weapons companies

• Establish more ‘Apartheid Free Zones’ following BDS guidelines across the University, such as unions, clubs & societies, and food outlets

• Strike, occupy, shut it down! Be oppositional and hit the University where it hurts – its pockets and public image.

FREE SPEECH & ACTIVISM

• Scrap the Campus Access Policy, the associated five new policies, and definitions of antisemitism that only exist to limit criticism of Israel

• Support students and staff facing academic misconduct and punishment for their roles in activism, through solidarity campaigns and the services of the SRC

• Upskill students about their rights in collaboration with the SRC Legal Service and Legal Observers NSW

PROTECT STUDENTS & STAFF

• Safeguard against course cuts: we are in a crisis of course cuts across universities in Australia. We won against cuts to FASS in 2021, we can do it again.

• Fight alongside staff with student contingents in the 2026 Enterprise Bargaining round

• Make 2025/2026 the year that we finally achieve Concession Opal Cards for international and parttime domestic students through a cross-campus campaign forcing the government’s hand, not just continuous petitions

• Permanently protect 5-day simple extensions, force the University to fix the Special Considerations system

• Expand placement payments to ALL students in ALL areas

FIGHT SEXUAL VIOLENCE

• Dismantle the elitist and sexist college system, demand more safe and affordable student housing

• Increase awareness of sexual violence during welcome weeks (particularly to perpetrators and the institutions harbouring them)

• Fix the reporting system, remove the gag order on victim-survivors

FIRST NATIONS JUSTICE

• Collaborate with the Gadigal Centre on events and providing free services

• Boost the SRC’s First Nations collective with support from allies and funding

• Fight for the implementation of Recommendations into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody

• Increase awareness of the University’s colonial history and of the significance of Redfern through First Nations-led workshops and walking tours

• Push USyd to partner with local Indigenous organisations on Gadigal land

• Continue the SRC’s cool-off tent and supplies at Invasion Day rallies for Elders and to meet accessibility needs

HOUSING JUSTICE

• Reopen International House

• Demand more protections for international students from exploitative rental companies, and more public housing

COMMUNITY CARE

• More SRC-led BBQs and bake sales that actually have halal, kosher, vegan, and GF options!

• Support FoodHub with more funding, donors and a larger range of products across campuses delivered by paid staff, not volunteers

• Make the University provide important services such as vaccinations, masks, STI/STD tests

Stay tuned for more <3

CURRICULUM VITAE

• She/her, member of USyd Grassroots!

• Studying Honours in French after finishing my Bachelors in International Relations and Political Economy

• 2025 SRC General Secretary, Sexual Violence Officer & Councillor

• Led and organised the SRC’s first FREE influenza vaccination scheme (2025)

• Introduced SRC Week 2025

• 2024 SRC Education Officer & Councillor

• Organiser of USyd Gaza Encampment, Student General Meeting, Scrap the CAP campaign (2024)

• Activist with Students for Palestine, Students Against War, BDS Youth, Students Against Placement Poverty.

• Disabilities Collective, Women’s Collective, Queer Collective, Education Action Group, Welfare Action Group

• Writer of 20 Honi Soit articles!

• 2023 FrenchSoc President

• 2022 FASS Dalyell Student Mentor of the Year

• Childless cat lady with a cat tattoo

• Lover of techno, public housing, the Oxford Comma, and the woke left

• Met the Strokes backstage

• ADHD and chronic fatigue baddie

NOMINATORS

Anu-Ujin Khulan Aron Khuc

Benji Sestanovic

Bohao Zhang

Dana Kafina Deaglan Godwin

Harrison Brennan

Imane Yamina Lattab

Jaehyun Kim Jaseena Al-Helo

Kayla Hill

Leila Haddad

Luke Mešterović

Martha Barlow

Mia William

Redmond Tilly

Remy Lebreton

Shovan Bhattarai

Tara Marocchi

Vincent Tafea

Munavvarkhonov

Arts II

POLICY STATEMENT

For years, the Student Representative Council, the very council that is supposed to represent the student body, has been run by a small group of people who vote amongst themselves. They talk to each other and forget about you. Their power depends on one thing: you not voting. Because 90% of the students don’t vote, they win with barely a thousand votes. That’s 2% of the student population deciding for the 98%.

I say this, the system is broken and we have to fix it. It’s about time we stop playing games and actually start building something better.

My name is MuhammadHasankhon (you can call me Hasan), and I’m running for president as a true independent. Representing us, the 98%. My experiences aren’t in political factions or parties, but are in the real world. I have built a tech company from scratch, managed multi million dollar finances, and created products used by millions of people. I’m no politician, I’m a builder. And I am going to be running to offer a tangible return on our degrees.

My central promise is “The USyd Advantage”. A university funded and alumni backed program to guarantee every single student, including internationals, a paid and career relevant internship before they graduate.

This isn’t just a policy or a promise, it’s a new opportunity for students. It will address the cost of living crisis by getting you paid and tackle job security by getting you the highly relevant experience you need. It’s ambitious for sure, but my entire career has been about turning ambition into reality.

We will also work on more practical wins, like getting the remember me button while logging into canvas fixed, fighting for universal opal concession cards, protecting your fundamental rights as a student from university bureaucrats, and pushing for more affordable university accommodations.

Policy on Issues.

Conflict. I believe that the SRC must always stand up against violence and advocate for the protection of human rights for all. In light of this, I voice my concern

over Palestine and will advocate for the disclosure and divestment. My primary duty is to the students of campus and so I will boost SRC support for any student affected by any world conflicts.

Protest. Free Speech. I believe that free speech and the right to peaceful protest is the lifeline of any healthy university. As president I will defend the rights of all students to peaceful assembly and freedom of speech. My support is unconditional, and independent of any personal beliefs.

To do this, I am going to lead differently. As a president I will fight for a united university and eliminate toxic and divisive politics. I will start by forming a Unity Cabinet, appointing the most talented students from across the university (including from all the factions). We will work on issues that matter to everyone. My loyalty won’t be to a party or faction, it will be to you, the student population.

The factions only win because we stay silent. This year, that changes. This isn’t just an election; it’s a movement to reclaim the SRC for the 98%. Your vote has always mattered, and this year it is necessary, not just to elect a president that is loyal to you but to build an SRC that adequately represents us all.

Let’s get to work and build Your SRC.

CURRICULUM VITAE

• My experiences aren’t in student politics, they’re in the real world.

• Building companies, managing multimillion dollar finances and creating products used by over a million people.

• I’m not here to play political games. I’m here to use my skills to build a better SRC for us all.

• Proven Leadership and Financial Experience.

• Managed multi-million dollar financial agreements and led the quality control/ auditing of 2000+ product types store wide at Havas Holdings.

• Demonstrating the real world experience and abilities necessary to responsibly oversee the SRC and fight for student funding.

• Consulted with global brands like Mars Inc. and Mondelez on meeting standards.

• Proving my ability to negotiate with large organizations (like university management).

• Promoted from intern to Assistant Director of Quality Control through high performance and the delivery of tangible and effective results.

• A Builder of Tech and Communities.

• Founded and led a tech startup, Domla. Building an international company and launching two AI products from idea to reality.

• Developed tycoon games that attracted over a million players and generated thousands in revenue.

• Proving my ability to build engaging projects that students actually want.

• Built an online community from 0 to 20k+ followers in two months.

• Gained over 30 million views

demonstrating my ability to build a movement that speaks to you.

NOMINATORS

Farel Zakwan Andarya

Humza Dehen

Kareem Barto

Naufal Wiwit Putra

Faiq Syed

Tariq Shah

Ahmad Haizun Tafdhila

Krish Thakur

Abdul Samee

Pablo Macias Lopez

Wasay

Faisal Rehan Saputra

Haris Nabi Noor Bahleem

Huzaifa Khan

Sahaf Tanzimul Hoque

Wali Ahmed Shaikh

Amin Firoz

Abdul Wasay

Sargun Saluja

Science/Law III

POLICY STATEMENT

Hi all, I am Sargun Saluja, known by friends as Salu, running to be your 2025 Presidential Candidate and possibly the first International Student SRC President –a title that should’ve belonged to someone else long before me, with this year marking 96 years of the SRC. This sheer disconnect is the reason for my campaign and my policy platform.

As a student involved in representing student interests since I entered USYD, elected to USU Board in my first year, I have seen international students peddled for votes without advocacy for their interests, and our voices lost within the left. I run against an opposition I have encountered in persistent, systemic ways, where my voice as an international student was too often set aside—not for my politics, but because it was easier to diminish.

This is especially relevant now, with the rise of neo-Nazism in Victoria and the upcoming anti-immigration protest on the 31st Aug, leaving many immigrants I know terrified.

My policy platform and politics are leftaligned, and with the IMPACT team, I am committed to pushing reforms both within government and the University. I have worked alongside the current SRC President, whose initiatives, such as $5 meals, Senate inquiries, and student engagement through BBQS, have delivered benefits for students. These efforts have helped me too, as a student balancing rent, living costs, and a full-time study load.

The policies I stand for reflect both my politics and my lived experiences, as well as causes I have actively worked on and deeply believe in. They include, but aren’t limited to:

• Concession Opal Cards

• International housing/opposition to privatised student accommodation

• Free Palestine, overturning the Campus Access Policy, strengthening BDS on campus

• Tapri/An Indian Food Initiative on Campus

• Student outreach and engagement in activism

• Tackling greenwashing at Uni; digitalising over printing

• Strengthening free legal services

• Addressing international student issues tied to housing, visa requirements, welfare, and support

• Easier enrolment and unit of study administration, with stronger academic progression and career planning support

• Most importantly, standing firmly against rising xenophobia

My opposition, which, perhaps unexpectedly, also comes from the Left, has, since last year’s election, engaged in behaviour that I believe undermines the culture of respect and collaboration our student movement deserves. Symbolic and frankly classist acts– such as relocating the current IMPACT President’s image over the janitor’s photo on the SRC’s “who’s who” board, leaving buckets of dead bugs in their office on their first day, and other attempts to trivialise the role – reflect a culture that distracts from genuine student advocacy. I run not out of fear of facing the same, but with the determination to change this culture, to build a representative body grounded in respect, focused on student rights, and united around the key movements of the Left.

I study a combined degree of Law and Marine Science. I know too well the administrative errors that appear every semester, making a degree harder than it should be. I have worked multiple jobs during my degree to make living expenses while managing a full-time study load, with visa requirements, of course, understanding too well how overwhelming the day-to-day is for a student. I’ve done this all while fighting for students and standing up for the politics I believe in.

From my first semester at USyd, I started as SRC Interfaith Officer, stretching a $150 budget to organise an interfaith art competition. By my second semester, I was elected to USU Board, holding the International, Equity, & Environmental Portfolios, while serving as a DSP and on the Awards Committee. In these roles, I campaigned for Opal Concession Cards, the revival of International House, organised the International Food and Cultural Fair, contributed to the OurWatch Conference, attended the International Student Symposium Roundtable, and made submissions for affordable student accommodation.

As Environmental Portfolio Holder, I brought together my background as a Marine Science student and my lived experience of Delhi’s air pollution to push for climate and sustainability commitments. I delivered Enviro Week, engaged with University management on USyd sustainability, and launched the USU ESG Strategy 2025–2028, embedding environmental accountability into the organisation.

I’ve supported major student initiatives such as FoodHub, the Festival of Creativity, the Textbook Exchange Program, $5 meals, and Fossil Fuel Divestment through working groups. I fought for cheap eats on campus, pushed for accountability in Repselect 2024, and engaged with USyd management on defending the Community Gardens, easily the biggest headache and longest-running accountability chase of my term.

Beyond the Board, I have been an active part of campaigns for Free Palestine, the Voice to Parliament YES campaign, Drug Reform, opposition to the Campus Access Policy, an advocate for trans and sex worker rights, opposition to drilling in Scott Reef and climate law reform. I also volunteer with the ICLC, working on LGBTQ discrimination, unfair dismissals, homelessness, and sex worker rights, and took part in the 2024 Mardi Gras Parade and Fair Day 2025. Through the YCPC, I contributed to submissions on the Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Agreement and reviews of the Net Zero Progress Report.

I’ve also been active in clubs, including Ekansh, DemSoc, Dalyell Scholar’s Association, SULS, and FrenchSoc.

What sets me apart from my opposition is that I am not just running on ideology but on lived experience. I am a student who has fought to make ends meet, to pay rent, and to keep progressing through my degree, while also delivering outcomes for students. I know what it is like to face these struggles firsthand, and I am running because I want the SRC to be a body that doesn’t just talk about student issues, but delivers solutions.”

CURRICULUM VITAE

• Intern, India Pollution Control Association (IPCA), Aug–Nov 2020: Plastic recycling, EPR policy gaps, outreach, Air Pollution Campaign.

• Intern, Centre for Environment Education (CEE), May–Jul 2022: Eco Exchange, circular economy, field surveys, Plastic Bachao Thelaah Pao Campaign.

• SRC Interfaith officer 2022-2023

• USU Board Director (2023–2025): Environmental Portfolio – Enviro Week, ESG Strategy 2025–2028, Fossil Fuel Divestment, Investment Working Group;

• Equity Portfolio – Textbook Exchange; International Student Portfolio –International Fair, Symposium, 100+ Years roundtable, Our Watch Conference.

• Opal Concession Cards Campaign, Push to Revive International House

• Push to Protect Community Garden with University Management;

• Publications Portfolio – Pulp Magazine DSP; Governance – 2024 Enterprise Agreement, Awards Committee.

• Students for Drug Reform, 2024. Students for Yes, 2023. DemSoc, 2023

• SciSoc, 2023. Ekansh (USyd Indian Society), 2022–2025. FrenchSoc, 2022

– Social Media Officer

• Dalyell Scholar Association, 2022–2025

• SULS Member, 2023–2025

• Legal Consultant, Youth Climate Policy Centre, 2024–2025 – Net Zero Progress Report Review

• Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Agreement Review Supplementary Submission, & currently Greenwashing Submission

• Volunteer, Inner City Legal Centre, 2024–2025 – Mardi Gras Parade, Intake, litigation prep, translation

(Hindi, Punjabi, French)

NOMINATORS

Angus Fisher

Gerard Buttigieg

Jasmine Donnelly

Rose Donnelly

Jessica Heap

Diva Sethi

Ava Cavalerie

Abbey Rose

Nayonika Narang

Vincent Rummery

Rafael Aquino

Leanne Rook

Jasper Sharpe

Tom Wilks

Vanditta Kumar

Harshita Bhandari

George Keledjian

Jackson Phillip Kirita Geeves

BURN FOR HONI

POLICY STATEMENT

BURN for Honi

BURN is a diverse and experienced ticket, committed to reigniting Honi as the voice for ALL students. We will prioritise Honi’s left-wing editorial flame from a radical, intersectional editorial foundation.

IGNITE THE NEWSROOM

BURN brings the heat with over 100 articles published across our team and counting. We’re fired up with experience across every category: news, analysis, opinion, culture, STEM and beyond. Our diverse backgrounds mean we understand what stories need telling across campus, and the implications of these stories on the student body.

In a climate of censorship and disinformation, BURN is deeply committed to being a hotbed of radical reporting and discourse.

BURN will keep the editorial fires blazing, by:

• First Nations advocacy and fighting for land rights; moving past acknowledgments into action

• Reporting on issues facing international, refugee and immigrant students

• Standing up for queer rights and standing against TERF and SWERF rhetoric

• Fighting for a Free Palestine through honest reporting, protest coverage, and interviews

• Delivering considered, in-depth critiques of the university’s cuts, repressive policies, and partnerships with unethical companies

• Covering every faculty’s research, achievements, and activities

• Training and supporting first-time writers through mentorship programs, funded by university grants

• Creating a campus gig guide to showcase vibrant student life

• Implementing a “”news by the people, for the people”” approach that responds to what students actually want to read

SHARPEN

THE NEWS FOCUS

Honi Soit is Australia’s premier student NEWSpaper, not a lifestyle magazine. BURN recognises that every article should answer the fundamental question: why should students care about this right now? We’ll refocus Honi’s editorial direction to ensure timely, relevant, and impactful journalism. We’ll continue to reiterate Honi’s decisive challenges to power throughout our news coverage.

BURN will revolutionise the pitch process, by:

• Redesigning the pitch requirements to explicitly state why students should care about articles

• Prioritizing stories with clear news angles and immediate relevance to

student life

• Ensuring opinion, analysis and culture pieces connect to current campus issues or trends

• Maintaining high-quality writing while emphasising the “”news”” in newspaper

BURNING DOWN BARRIERS

Honi should reflect the full diversity of student experiences at USYD. BURN is stacked with writers from every corner of the university, bringing fresh perspectives while honoring Honi’s rich cultural and analytical traditions. We’re committed to expanding coverage to include all faculties and degrees, ensuring every student sees their interests and experiences represented in our pages.

BURN will spread like wildfire across campus, by:

• Publishing dedicated STEM content alongside our strong arts, culture, and political coverage

• Creating explainer articles that break down stupol jargon and campus politics

• Distributing copies strategically across all campuses and faculties

• Providing same-day pitch feedback to maximize writing time

• Building bridges with society presidents to ensure comprehensive campus coverage

• Fostering greater interaction between faculties to strengthen student unity across USYD

FAN THE FLAMES OF CREATIVITY

A strong Honi needs strong contributors. BURN will kindle an environment where writers feel inspired to create community. We wish to develop Honi’s culture as a newspaper by furthering reporter interaction, and allowing greater creative discourse surrounding articles and pitches.

BURN will stoke the creative fires, by:

• Hosting regular office hours and workshops covering news writing, investigative techniques, opinion pieces, cultural criticism, and creative writing to develop contributors’ skills across all genres

• Creating contributor profiles on the website so readers can follow their favorite writers

• Organising an end-of-year awards night to celebrate our reporters’ achievements

• Building partnerships with other university publications across Australia

BLAZING NEW TRAILS

The media landscape is changing, and Honi needs to evolve without losing its soul. BURN understands that reaching students means meeting them where they are.

BURN will light up new platforms, by:

• Developing a social media strategy that includes reels and TikToks for breaking news

• Creating video content that complements our print coverage

• Establishing and furthering

relationships with mainstream media outlets and PR firms

• Launching a comprehensive website overhaul with better search functionality

KEEPING THE FLAME ALIVE

Student life isn’t dead, it’s just waiting for the right spark. BURN will showcase the vibrant communities that make university worth attending.

BURN will reignite campus culture, by:

Continuous communication with USU society presidents so that Honi can always keep you informed

Finally covering USYD Sports!

Developing Honi’s communication with faculties and USYD to the end of creating regular news coverage callouts that cover Campus events alongside protests

Content that proves university is about more than just degrees

BURN for Honi: Because student media should set the campus ablaze with ideas, not just warm the same old hands.

CANDIDATES

James Fitzgerald Sice Arts III

• Dalyell Scholar (political economy and sociology)

• Contributor/Researcher Michael West Media (2022- Present)

• Contributor Honi Soit (2025-present)

• Producer and Music Intern 2SER Radio (2022-2024)

• Co-Author of Research Paper ‘Action Public Housing: Implications of Community Housing Growth’ for Sydney Policy Reform Project (2024)

• The Crikey Award for Investigative Journalism by an undergraduate

• Ossie Award (2022)

• Woke Mind Virus Patient zero”

Kiah Nanavati Science III

• Reporter Honi Soit, 2024-2025

• Artist Honi Soit, 2025

• Researcher for University of Sydney, Geoscience, Department- Coral Reef Research-2025

• WWF Australia, Writer and Researcher, 2024

• Divemaster for PADI, 2022-2025

• Actor and Singer for Queer Revue, 2024-2025.

• Social Secretary for Queer Revue, 2024

• Core member for AIESEC, 2024.

• Conservation intern, Turtle and Marine life Rehabilitation, 2024-2025.

• Underwater Explorers SocietySecretary, 2025.

• Shark Lover (intimate)

Ramla Khalid Arts/Advanced Studies III

• POC REVUE ZINE, Editor in Chief (2025)

• POC Revue, Media & Marketing Director (2025)

• Honi Contributer (2025)

• SASS 1968 Publication, Editor (2025)

• SASS, Publication Director (2024)

• WoC ‘Growing Strong’, Editor (20242025)

• POC REVUE ZINE, Writer and Editor (2024)

• Woman’s Honi, Editor (2023-2025)

• ACAR Honi, Editor (2023-2024)

• PULP Magazine Contributer (2024)

• Former Wattpad Writer (famous)

• Certified One Directioner

• Experienced lip liner enthusiast (Addict)

Madison Burland Arts III

• 1978 Operations Manager and EIC

• SASS Publications Officer

• BestBoy Publicity Officer/Editor/Social Media Manager

• Cult Media Social Media Manager

• Honi Soit Reporter

• Private English Tutor

• Professional Matcha Reviewer

Sebastien Tuzilovic Condon Arts III

• News, Culture Analysis and Review writer for Honi Soit

• Student Conference 2025 Panel Manager for Theatre and Sports Journalism panels

• Articles focused on Art Criticism targeted to readership demographic

• 3rd Year Arts Degree Student Majoring in PolEcon and Music

• Bookseller at Elizabeth’s Bookshop King Street Newtown

• Violinist with the Sydney University Symphony Orchestra

• Violinist with the Eastern Sydney Chamber Orchestra

• Member of Booksoc

• Member of Poetrysoc

• Member of Filmsoc

• Herman Melville’s strongest soldier

Marc Panesa Arts/Advance/Dip.Arts II

• USYD Student Ambassador (Outreach and Access Team) 2024 - present

• Nonfiction Editor SASS Publiction 1978

• EIC Wattle

• SASS Publication Subcommittee

• SASS Ethnocultural Officer

• Honi Contributor (2024 - present)

• Diplomat Society - Treasurer

• University Scholars Leadership Symposium (USLS) Scholar 2025

• KAPWA Magazine Language Learning Editor 2IC (2023)

• Self Insert Fanfic Writer

Faye Tang Arts III

• Nonfiction & Online Editor Voiceworks Magazine (2025)

• Editorial Assistant Jiji Press (2023-25)

• SUDS Theatre Reviewer (2025)

• Honi Contributor (2022-25) (Best Book Review in 2024!)

• 1978 Women & Queer Journal Graphic Designer (2024)

• BookSoc Sec > Pres > Vice Pres (202324)

• ACAR Honi Contributor (2024)

• WATTLE BIPOC Journal Co-chief Editor (2023)

• WASABI Japanese Soc Language Facilitator (2022-24)

• Language Major (German, Chinese, Japanese)

• ex-Interactive Fiction Writer (on Tumblr :))

• Bird Call Imitator (casual & complementary with drink purchase)

Anastasia Dale Arts II

• English Major, Art History minor

• Committed to the ticket’s vision of a left-wing Honi that fights for students’ rights

• Interested in Honi reporting on issues that effect working class students, queer students, breaking political & cultural news, and engaging with student-led events & initiatives

• Voiceworks Literary Magazine Editorial Committee (current)

• Editor: Vessel Journal, 2025

• National Gallery of Australia Young Writers Residency, 2024

• Editor: Queer Honi, 2024

• Performance Space Youth Ambassador, 2024

• Writer & Director: Joan Marie at Sydney Fringe, 2024

• Express Media Toolkits: Digital Storytelling Mentee, 2023

• Published writing in: Honi, Pulp, Voiceworks, Archer Magazine, Baby Teeth Journal, Hag Magazine, Demure Mag, All My Friends Zine, Diptych Zine, and others

• Organised multiple mutual aid fundraiser events including Theatre & Music for Palestine last year

• Building & Maintenance Director of Stucco, Student Housing Co-Operative

• Landlord special enjoyer

• Caulk destroyer

Eko Bautista Arts/Science IV

• Honi Contributor (2024 - present)

• Disabled Honi - Editor (2025)

• ACAR Honi - Editor (2025)

• Honi Artist (2025)

• QOCO President (2023 - present)

• SignSoc President (2025 - present)

• Wattle non-fiction Editor (2023)

• KAPWA Magazine Language Learning Column Editor (2023)

• USYD Student Ambassador - Outreach and Access Team (2024 - present)

• ACAR member

• 430 streak on Duolingo for Welsh, Arabic, and Viet <3

• Polyglot (I love languages!)

Kuyili Karthik Arts III

• Comparative Literature (niche major I know) and Philosophy student

• Poet and prose writer (I’m in the upcoming Voiceworks ‘Bend’ issue!)

• FilmSoc BestBoy magazine editor and writer (2024-)

• written for Honi Soit and PULP magazine (2023-)

• Ballerina

• FBi Radio Content Producer for ‘Up for It’

• ACAR Honi editor (2024-)

• SULS Dissent and Yemaya journal editor (2024)

• Senior Literary editor and writer for Love and Literature magazine (2025)

• My top artist of this year so far is Fairuz

FLASH FOR HONI

POLICY STATEMENT

We are Flash 4 Honi, a left-leaning and progressive ticket dedicated to making the paper a home for every student’s voice. Our goal is to create a Honi that reflects the full breadth of campus life — from activism and investigative reporting to sport, culture, and humour — while making it easy for first-time contributors to get involved. We want a paper that feels alive in every corner of the university — one that students see themselves in, feel proud of, and can truly call their own. Students talk. We translate.

Framing the Fight

We are all unaligned with any factions on campus, ensuring our reporting remains truly independent and free from internal political agendas. We are a progressive ticket, both socially and economically, committed to equity, justice, and holding power to account. This means increasing political coverage that scrutinises decisions affecting students, from housing justice to LGBTQ+ rights. Our paper welcomes all perspectives, so long as they are not bigoted and misinformed. We will create space for contributors to upskill, collaborate, and tell stories that reflect the full diversity of student life, maintaining relationships with collectives such as DisCo, WoCo, and ACAR.

Widening the Shot

Honi should feel open to every student who has something to say, but for too many, it has felt out of reach. Particularly for international students, those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, and students outside the usual arts and politics circles. In a country built on multiculturalism and diversity, our paper should reflect the entire student body. We will continue fortnightly meetups only reimagined as “Angles”—where contributors can bring ideas in a friendly, accessible space, meet the editors, and learn how to get involved. Beyond the newsroom, we’ll host events of various names—“Darkroom”, “Backdrop”, “Pixels”, “Negative space”, “Shutter speed”, “Vignette”—building a social side to Honi and celebrating the successes of our paper that brings contributors and readers together. We want to provide a sanctuary of creative expression for people from all walks of life. We want your ideas, your stories, and your voice in the paper. Honi has a proud history, but it shouldn’t exist in isolation. We will actively maintain and build relationships with other student publications on and off campus, creating opportunities for collaboration, shared coverage, and skill exchange. By opening more networking doors for our reporters — whether that’s through inter-uni media meetups, joint investigations, or cross-publication events — we’ll ensure contributors don’t just write for Honi, but become part of a broader, connected student journalism community. As part of this, Flash 4 Honi intends on continuing the work of past editorial teams by hosting the StuJoCon again in 2026, with plans of forming a committee amongst

student publications to help organise and coordinate this event collaboratively. This community involvement is about giving our reporters the confidence, experience, and networks to keep telling stories long after they’ve left university.

Creative Exposure

Art has always been part of Honi’s DNA, and we will continue to nurture and showcase creative contributions — from illustrations and comics to poetry, visual essays, and experimental design. But we also want to open the door wider for photojournalism, recognising its power to tell stories that words alone can’t capture. We will dedicate space in every issue to photo essays, documentary-style campus coverage, and visual investigations that give readers an immediate, striking connection to the subject. By pairing photographers with writers and offering skill-sharing sessions between artists, designers, and reporters, Honi will become a hub for both creative and journalistic storytelling.

New Perspectives

We will expand Honi’s reach and relevance by introducing fresh, accessible sections that speak to the full spectrum of student life. Our fortnightly Gig Guide & Culture Calendar will spotlight gigs, exhibitions, plays, and community events, with a focus on local, affordable, and student-run happenings. A humorous but informative Weather & Sport Report will keep campus connected to both the serious and the lighthearted. Whilst dedicated photojournalism features will give space to documentarystyle photo essays and visual investigations that pair striking imagery with sharp reporting. Faculty Spotlights will bring stories from underrepresented areas such as business, science, engineering, and health to voice their interests and concerns. We will also open our pages to a broader range of student societies — beyond just SRC collectives — to engage a wider pool of students. By mixing new formats with Honi’s political core, we will make every issue feel like a flash of the whole student body: diverse, creative, and alive.

Panning Out

We will expand Honi digitally by treating it as both a campus institution and a modern media outlet. Digitally, we will strengthen our presence across social platforms with timely, engaging content — from live coverage of campus events to short-form videos, reels, and behind-the-scenes looks at how stories come together. We will use our social channels to promote the print edition, amplify contributor work, and reach students who may never have picked up a copy before. Moreover, we will maintain Honi’s long-standing partnerships with local and student-run media while actively seeking new collaborations — from joint projects with other university papers to cross-promotions with community radio, independent magazines, and arts collectives. We want Honi to be part of a larger media conversation, giving our contributors opportunities to be published, broadcast, and recognised beyond campus. By combining strategic social media use with strong external relationships, we

will grow Honi’s audience, increase its influence, and make sure it remains an essential part of student life.

CANDIDATES

Sath Balasuriya Arts/Advanced Studies IV

• FASS Student Partner, 2025

• FASS Student Media Crew, 2025

• Honi Soit Reporter 2025 -

• Media management, Student Journalism Conference 2025

• Interviewed Wil Anderson (Gruen) about the AI singularity

• BNOC (Brown Name on Campus)

Jessica Louise Smith Arts/Advanced Studies II

• Queer, neurodiverse

• Honi Soit contributor 2024-

• Disabled Honi contributor in 2024 and 2025

• SCM Education Committee 2025

• Environment officer @ CSA, 2024

• Vice President @ CSA, 2025

• SRC intercampus officer, 2025

• Guest writer for Noise @ UNSW, 2024

• Shortlisted @ Honi Soit Writing Competition 2024

• Storyteller and Ambassador @ Batyr

• Showrunner for major slot @ SUDS, 2024

• Playwright & director of Behind Closed Doors, The Apple Doesn’t Fall @ SUDS, 2024

• Panelist manager and volunteer @ Student Journalism Convention, 2025

Felicity Errington Economics/Advanced Studies II

• Music snobbery with a dash of sass and absurdism

• Honi Soit Contributor 2024 -

• Contributed to Debaser Year 2

• Interviewed Radio Free Alice (290k monthly listeners), The Slims (273k monthly listeners), Betty (26k), and Maia Toakley

• Host a weekly SURG show called Talk Talk, where we discuss politics, pop culture, and music.

• Organised a gig at the Oxford Art Factory called ‘Something to Suck On’, to promote women in a music scene that is predominantly male driven

• I’m an avid gig goer - you will regularly spot me at the OAF, Vic on the Park, or the Gladdy

• Chronic instagram user where I dabble in casual book reviews and digi dumps

Anya Thirumalai Arts III

• “Lesbian, International Student

• Honi Contributor 2025-

• Multimedia Journalist @ Indian Link media group 2024-2025

• Book Reviewer @ Books+Publishing 2025-

• FASS Peer Mentor 2025

• Marketing Director @ Network of Women 2024-2025

• Marketing Subcommittee @ Network of Women 2024

• External Relations Director @ SABS 2024

• Country Head @ The Thinkers Chronicle 2022-2023

• Writer @ The Teen Magazine 20212022

• Published Research Paper “The Impact of Pink Tax on Women” 2022

Jenna Rees Arts III

• Socially Endorsed Blonde Lesbian

• Honi Contributor 2025 -

• Moshi Monster Gamer 2010-2012

• Famous Wattpad Author 2016-2017

• Sometimes funny, normally not.

Audrey Hawkins Science/Arts I

• Honi contributor 2025

Cormac Herron Psychology I

• Theatre nerd, least sporty interfac sport player

• Honi contributor 2025-

• SUDS Reviewer 2025-

• Valet/Understudy for Garcin in No Exit (Slot 7 SUDS)

• Shortlisted in Honi Soit writing competition 2025

• SASS Sports Subcom 2025

Tanish Tanjil Arts II

• Queer, neurodiverse and international student

• Peer Advisor and Mentor, FASS 2024-

• Student Ambassador, FASS Student Affairs and Engagement 2024-

• Student Discipline Partner, Socio-Legal Studies 2024-2025

• Peer Workshop Facilitator, SoTL Grant Project 2025

• Reporter and Artist, Honi Soit 2025-

• Editor, Disabled Honi 2025

• Peer English Language and Learning Facilitator 2024-2025

• Sexual, Domestic and Family Violence Intern, MAU 2024”

DELEGATES TO THE NUS

[A] Queer Agenda 4 NUS Policy Statement

CROSS UNI SOLIDARITY AGAINST REPRESSION - Campuses across Australia have cracked down on students fighting for Palestine - doling out suspensions, expulsions and other means of disciplinary action. The NUS should be focused on creating a mass movement to shame these universities into dropping the charges. I want to connect our campus with other universities across Australia to strengthen our bonds and fight together.

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BORDER FORCE BROTHEL RAIDS

- The Australian Border Force conducts raids on brothels under the pretense of rescuing trafficking victims. In reality, they are intimidating union organisers, stealing passports and detaining Asian migrant workers on racist grounds. They are profiling Asian trans women at the border and detaining them under inhumane conditions at Villawood Immigration Detention Centre. The National Union of Students should oppose union busting in every industry, and fight racist deportations.

END QUEENSLANDS SHITTY HRT LAWS

- The Queensland Government issued a ban on Gender affirming care for new patients under the age of 18. This blatant attack on hard won rights should be challenged and condemned on a national scale, and student support should be a huge part of that. The NUS should use its resources to take this fight to the Queensland government and force them to reverse this decision.

FUCK ALBOS REVIEW - The Albanese Labor Government has fallen into step with the Queensland Country Liberal Party and called for a review into the treatment of adolescents with Gender Dysphoria. This review is a waste of time and resources - and an attack on transgender people nation-wide. The NUS should fight the blatant transphobia and culture war that the government aimed to start, and defend trans students’ lives.

CANDIDATES

Jesper Duffy Arts I

• Organising member of the Queer Action Collective (QuAC) - since 2023

• Organising member of Pride in Protest (PiP) - Since 2023

• Full Service Sex Worker and Sex Worker Rights activist

• Transmasc, Genderqueer fairy boy (he/him)

• In the USU, I was refused sexual trauma leave after numerous sexual assaults in a short time, and was medically discriminated against for

my chronic illness

• I have written political analysis at Honi Soit for the past three years reporting on queer issues, the Luna campaign, and why the midsem break sucked.

• Fun Fact About Me: I can’t list my fun facts because they breach the student charter

• Organiser of several queer protests, speaker and educator on political issues (The rest of this resume breaks the Campus Access Policy)

[B] Sanction Israel Now

Policy Statement

FOR AN NUS THAT FIGHTS FOR PALESTINE and DEFENDS EDUCATION

The hundreds of thousands who marched over the Harbour Bridge last month show the scale of popular outrage over Israel’s atrocities. Most students and Australians want an end to Gaza’s starvation, but Albanese and USyd Vice Chancellor Mark Scott continue to support the horror.

Israel’s genocide in Gaza is aided by crucial F35 jet parts made in Australia and intelligence fed from Pine Gap spy base in the NT. On campus, USyd Vice Chancellor Mark Scott maintains partnerships with institutions that enable Israel’s war crimes while he tries to silence criticism of Israel by smearing us as antisemitic and introducing draconian anti-protest and anti-free speech rules.

USyd partners with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJ), sending students on exchange to their Mount Scopus campus which is built on illegally occupied Palestinian land in East Jerusalem. USyd grants up to $5000 to students to go on a medical exchange with the Technion, who developed the technology for the remotecontrolled D9 bulldozers demolishing Palestinian homes. And USyd maintains research partnerships with genocideprofiteering weapons companies like Thales, Lockheed Martin, and Safran.

Mark Scott has banned announcements at the start of classes, has placed new restrictions on our right to put up posters, and has made encouraging students to break the anti-protest rules an offence in itself! The day after the historic bridge march, USyd management removed a Palestine flag flying from a staff member’s office window. When other staff members displayed the Palestine flag from their windows, they too were issued notices that their flags would be removed.

Unis have become the front line in the wider ideological war against criticism of Israel. The spread of Gaza solidarity encampments around the world last year showed how students can ignite wider social struggle. By repressing Palestine solidarity on campuses, the government and Uni bosses hope that the broader movement for Palestine will also be silenced. We need an NUS that puts up the strongest possible resistance to this.

By campaigning to cut ties with Israel we can draw even more students and workers into actively fighting for sanctions on Israel and a free Palestine. It was protests by students and staff last year that forced

USyd to cut its exchange program with the Bezalel Academy in Israel who were sewing uniforms for IDF war criminals in Gaza. To cut the rest of the exchange programs USyd has we will need many more students actively involved with the campaign through Students Against War.

Last semester, a 200-strong Student General Meeting organised by SAW voted against the newly adopted Universities Australia definition of antisemitism, a definition which equates criticism of Israel with antisemitism. This semester we have organised an ‘eyewitness to genocide’ forum with a midwife from Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital to build opposition to USyd’s medical exchange program with the Technion, and we’ve backed the NTEU’s National Day of Action for Palestine, deepening the links between staff and students. Our campus protest tours have exposed the locations of USyd’s collaboration with Israeli apartheid.

Activists in Sanction Israel Now don’t just want votes, we want as many students as possible to get involved so we can build the movement and force USyd and the government to cut ties. We want you to vote for us so radical pro-Palestine voices are represented in the NUS, and so the NUS’ resources are used to fight uni management and back the Palestine campaign.

The Labor government is prosecuting its agenda of militarism through unis by tying university funding to programs that will train the workforce needed to staff the AUKUS nuclear submarines. Uni bosses are happy to accommodate by slashing arts courses that encourage critical thinking and cutting over 3500 uni jobs. To combat this militarism, we need a fighting NUS that stands unflinchingly for a free Palestine.

Voting in the NUS elections won’t be enough to cut the ties. But the elections can raise political awareness and draw more students into the movement to make USyd an apartheid free zone. Vote for Sanctions Israel Now and join Students Against War to fight for a university that is more than a degree factory; one that values critical education and fights to free Palestine.

VOTE [1] SANCTION ISRAEL NOW FOR SRC AND NUS

VOTE [1] ANGUS FOR PREZ LONG LIVE THE INTIFADA

CANDIDATES

Angus Dermody Arts/Advanced Studies VI

• Member of revolutionary socialist organisation Solidarity

• Member of Students Against War

• Involved in the campaign to cut USYD’s ties with Israeli apartheid and genocide. Part of the encampment, involved in passing motions to cut ties.

• Back Palestinian right to resistance and

one-state and reject new antisemitism definition at two Student General Meetings for Palestine.

• At every other protest for Palestine on campus.

• Been a part of many other campaigns on this campus fighting course cuts and fee hikes, supporting staff strikes on the picket lines, organising for climate action, and more

• Also active off campus in any fight for a better world

• Known on a first-name basis by USYD security

• Identified by the Daily Telegraph as an ‘intifada socialist’

Vieve Carnsew Arts (extended) III

• Member of Students Against War and Solidarity.

• Picketed during the USYD staff strikes in 2022 and 2023.

• Joined the sit in to save NCIE in 2022.

• Been involved with protests for Palestine since 2021.

• Joined the sit in to protest Tel Aviv Uni representatives promoting their exchange program, which successfully caused them to shut down their stall.

• Been involved with campaigns/protests run by the Queer Action Collective.

• Helping gather 1000 signatures calling on USYD management to revoke disciplinary action against Luna, a transgender asylum seeker student, for writing “from the river to the sea”.

• Organised and spoke at the Student General Meeting last year opposing USYD’s new antisemitism policy which tries to restrict any criticism of Israel.

• Involved in the Gaza solidarity encampment last year.

Bri Akins Social Work/Arts IV

• Member of Students Against War, building a fighting movement on campus to mobilise the student/staff in the struggle for Palestine and against Australian imperialism

• Built two historic Student General Meetings which platformed support for Palestinian liberation from river to sea and for our university to cut ties and drop its racist definition of antisemitism

• Twice linked arms with comrades to blockade Israeli shipping company ZIM

from being loaded at Port Botany

• Member of Soldiarity, a revolutionary socialist org building working class power to fight for a better world

Miriam Sattar Speech Therapy/Fine Arts I

• Proud member of Students Against War

• Active in Palestine campaigning on and off campus

• Built for and spoke at last semesters Student General Meeting that was successful in rejecting the new antisemitism definition.

• Protested against IDF on our campus

• Build for and attended many other rallies and speak outs organised by SAW fighting to cut USYD’s ties and resist anti-protest policies

• Converged in Canberra

• Gets out of bed early (sometimes) to poster at 8am

Wasmiya Alashour Science II

• Member of Students Against War

• Member of revolutionary socialist organisation Solidarity

• Helped organise the Student General Meeting last semester against the IHRA-like antisemitism definition

• Helped in campaign to cut the exchange program with Bezalel which sews uniforms for the IOF, protested the IOF being invited into mangement’s F23 boardroom.

• Trying to get the wider campus involved to build the movement for Palestine

• Campaigning against the medical exchange program with Israel’s Technion institution, a university fundamental to the apartheid and massacres of Palestinians.

• As students we need to make Palestine something the university and Mark Scott can’t ignore. No more support for genocide.

Paul Kaletsis Education IV

• Member of Students Against War fighting for an end to the militirazation of our campuses and to cut all ties with Israeli universities and other institutions complicit in genocide

• Member of Solidarity, a revolutionary socialist organisation, where we organise on campuses and workplaces to build working class power and politics to smash the capitalist system

• Participated in the Zoom pickets for staff pay and conditions during the last strike round

• Participated in the protest against Tel Aviv Uni, an institution that has a collaborative partnership with the IDFstudents don’t want to go on exchange to universities complicit in genocide

• Participated in the Gaza Solidarity Encampment and various other protests on and off campus

[C] Change Your SRC

Policy Statement

For years, the Student Representative Council, the very council that is supposed to represent the student body, has been run by a small group of people who vote amongst themselves. They talk to each other and forget about you. Their power depends on one thing: you not voting. Because 90% of the students don’t vote, they win with barely a thousand votes. That’s 2% of the student population deciding for the 98%.

I say this, the system is broken and we have to fix it. It’s about time we stop playing games and actually start building something better.

My name is MuhammadHasankhon (you can call me Hasan), and I’m running for SRC as a true independent. Representing us, the 98%. My experiences aren’t in political factions or parties, but are in the real world. I have built a tech company from scratch, managed multi million dollar finances, and created products used by millions of people. I’m no politician, I’m a builder. And I am going to be running to offer a tangible return on our degrees.

My central policy is “The USyd Advantage”. A university funded and alumni backed program to guarantee every single student, including internationals, a paid and career relevant internship before they graduate. This isn’t just a policy or a promise, it’s a new opportunity for students. It will address the cost of living crisis by getting you paid and tackle job security by getting you the highly relevant experience you need. It’s ambitious for sure, but my entire career has been about turning ambition into reality.

We will also work on more practical wins, like getting the remember me button while

logging into canvas fixed, fighting for universal opal concession cards, protecting your fundamental rights as a student from university bureaucrats, and pushing for more affordable university accommodations.

Policy on Issues.

Conflict. I believe that the SRC must always stand up against violence and advocate for the protection of human rights for all. In light of this, I voice my concern over Palestine and will advocate for the disclosure and divestment. My primary duty is to the students of campus and so I will boost SRC support for any student affected by any world conflicts.

Protest. Free Speech. I believe that free speech and the right to peaceful protest is the lifeline of any healthy university. As a representative I will defend the rights of all students to peaceful assembly and freedom of speech. My support is unconditional, and independent of any personal beliefs. I will work on issues that matter to everyone. My loyalty won’t be to a party or faction, it will be to you, the student population.

The factions only win because we stay silent. This year, that changes. This isn’t just an election; it’s a movement to reclaim the SRC for the 98%. Your vote has always mattered, and this year it is necessary, not just to elect a president that is loyal to you but to build an SRC that adequately represents us all.

Let’s get to work and build Your SRC.

CANDIDATES

Muhammadhasankhon Munavvarkhonov Arts II

• Proven Leadership and Financial Experience.

• Managed multi-million dollar financial agreements and led the quality control/ auditing of 2000+ product types store wide at Havas Holdings.

• Demonstrating the real world experience and abilities necessary to responsibly oversee the SRC and fight for student funding.

• Consulted with global brands like Mars Inc. and Mondelez on meeting standards. Proving my ability to negotiate with large organizations (like university management).

• Promoted from intern to Assistant Director of Quality Control through high performance and the delivery of tangible and effective results.

• A Builder of Tech and Communities.

• Founded and led a tech startup, Domla. Building an international company and launching two AI products from idea to reality.

• Developed tycoon games that attracted over a million players and generated thousands in revenue.

• Proving my ability to build engaging projects that students actually want.

• Built an online community from 0 to 20k+ followers in two months. Gained over 30 million views demonstrating my ability to build a movement that speaks to you.

• Ranked 1st out of 50,000 students in the city wide Tashkent English Olympiads.

• Selected as a Finalist for the prestigious U.S. Department of State FLEX program.

• Admitted to the University as a Dallyel student.

• Fluent in four languages. Guaranteeing I can adequately represent our diverse student population.

[D] IMPACT FOR NUS

Policy Statement

IMPACT for NUS – Vote [1] Sargun Saluja for President Sargun Saluja and IMPACT have a vision for a National Union of Students (NUS) that puts students first: strong services, bold campaigns, and a movement that fights for all of us.

Voluntary Student Unionism (VSU) gutted student organisations across the country, slashing funding and weakening our movement. Instead of rebuilding, NUS has been dominated by right-wing forces who waste students’ SSAF on flights and political games, while ignoring real organising for student welfare.

IMPACT is here to rebuild. Sargun and IMPACT will fight for: Students first – end waste, clean up finances, and invest in services and campaigns that matter.

Real campaigns – lower the age of Centrelink independence to 18, fight student poverty, and win stipends for placement students.

National action – revive the fight for Free Education, stop HECS indexation, and demand 50% of SSAF funding goes directly to student unions.

Movement building – link SRC campaigns like Legalise It, Climate Strike, Free Education, End Rape on Campus, and housing affordability to a national strategy. Transparency & accountability – every dollar of SSAF spent should be accountable to students.

Just like student unions on campus, Sargun and IMPACT believe NUS must be: Democratic and transparent. Bold in campaigns and advocacy. Inclusive of every student voice. Willing to negotiate and fight for better conditions – something NUS has failed to do for years.

Vote [1] Sargun Saluja for President for IMPACT FOR NUS – let’s rebuild the student movement together.

DELEGATES TO THE NUS

• “He has more knowledge of campus than anyone else” - Honi Soit

• Funniest USU Campaign, 2025

• History Society President, 2025

• SRC Social Justice Officer, 2025

• Delegate to the National Union of Students, 2024

Sargun Saluja Science/Law III

• Intern, India Pollution Control Association (IPCA), Aug–Nov 2020: Plastic recycling, EPR policy gaps, outreach, Air Pollution Campaign.

• Intern, Centre for Environment Education (CEE), May–Jul 2022: Eco Exchange, circular economy, field surveys, Plastic Bachao Thelaah Pao Campaign.

• SRC Interfaith officer 2022-2023

• USU Board Director (2023–2025): Environmental Portfolio – Enviro Week, ESG Strategy 2025–2028, Fossil Fuel Divestment, Investment Working Group; Equity Portfolio

• Textbook Exchange; International Student Portfolio – International Fair, Symposium, 100+ Years roundtable, Our Watch Conference.

• Opal Concession Cards Campaign, Push to Revive International House, Push to Protect Community Garden with University Management.

• Publications Portfolio – Pulp Magazine DSP; Governance – 2024 Enterprise Agreement, Awards Committee .

• Students for Drug Reform, 2024

• Students for Yes, 2023:

• DemSoc, 2023

• SciSoc, 2023

• Ekansh (USyd Indian Society), 2022–2025

• FrenchSoc, 2022 – Social Media Officer

• Dalyell Scholar Association, 2022–2025

• SULS Member, 2023–2025

• Legal Consultant, Youth Climate Policy Centre, 2024–2025 – Net Zero Progress Report Review.

• Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Agreement Review Supplementary Submission, & currently Greenwashing Submission

• Volunteer, Inner City Legal Centre, 2024–2025 – Mardi Gras Parade, Intake, litigation prep, translation (Hindi, Punjabi, French)

Saskia Morgan Design II

• 2024 SVO

• 2024 SRC Councillor

• 2024/2025 SUEDE

• Homebase camper and lover of the Wilkinson Building

• Charging my phone, eating hot chip, & lying

Jasmine Donnelly Arts IV

• SRC Vice President 2024

• SRC Gensec 2023

• SRC Councillor and Exec Member 2025

• Member of NSWLS

• Free Education & Universal Student Unionism Now

• Member of Students For Palestine

• Unionist

Harry Beer Arts II

• Second year studying Political Economy and Politics

• Prepared to fight for issues important to students on campus

• My job experience is pouring beers at a pub

• Campaign manager for Leo Moore’s 2025 USU Campaign

Angus Fisher Economics (Hons) V

• SRC President, 2025

• SRC General Executive Member, 2024

• SRC Councillor, 2024-2025

• Jasmine Donnelly’s boyfriend, 20242025

• HD WAM, 2021-2025

• USYD BoulderSoc 2021-2025: Climbs V10 (pretty good)

• USYD Economics Honours Candidate, 2024-2025

• Education Action Group, 2024-2025

• Welfare Action Group, 2024

• Students for Drug Reform, 2024-2025

• Students for Yes, 2023

• USU Debating Society, 2022-2023

• EconSoc, 2021-2024

• DemSoc, 2023

• FASS School of Economics Tutor, 2024

[E] FREE PALESTINE FOR NUS

Policy Statement

Right now, Israel continues its barbaric slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. The Lancet Journal estimated last year that upwards of 186,000 Palestinians have been murdered by Israel, since October 2023. Yet, our NATIONAL UNION OF STUDENTS – the peak body for students in so-called ‘Australia’ – remains silent, unwilling to call out this genocide and the Labor government’s complicity.

FREE PALESTINE FOR NUS demands an NUS which is transparent and accessible to students, and that is fiercely independent from the membership of either of the major parties. In its current form, the NUS has been overrun by Labor Left and Labor Right students, who have demonstrated their hostility toward the idea of holding the Labor Party to account. It is abundantly clear that, as the NUS currently stands, our national student union is constrained by partisan positions, meaning that the fight for climate justice, student welfare and, critically, a FREE PALESTINE, fall to the wayside.

Students need a national activist body that will fight for them now more than ever. That requires an urgent leftward shift in the strategy of the NUS, and a coordinated, grassroots Palestine solidarity campaign that can set the tone for campaigns at universities across the continent. FREE PALESTINE FOR NUS will demand that our universities divest from genocide and that the Labor government sanction Israel now, institute a two-way arms embargo, expel the Israeli ambassador and recall our own. Recognition of a Palestinian state does nothing for the people being starved and bombed to death in Gaza. We believe that a united, mass campaign of students and workers is the key to winning this campaign, and will continue to put students and their causes first, fighting through national days of action, protests and walk-offs.

Across so-called Australia, FREE PALESTINE FOR NUS will lead a campaign for all universities and student unions to publicly reject the IHRA definition of anti-semitism, a definition that stifles criticism of the apartheid state of Israel and compromises academic freedom. It has been a key priority of Zionist lobby groups, and the Parliamentary Friends of IHRA. This is the very same Labor party which sends dozens of parliamentarians and many young Labor members on junket trips to Israel every year, some of whom have been elected to NUS Office Bearer positions.

FREE PALESTINE FOR NUS calls for the BOYCOTT of and DIVESTMENT from all weapons companies and Israeli academic institutions complicit in Israeli apartheid and genocide, and from all companies operating in the illegally occupied West Bank of Palestine.

FREE PALESTINE FOR NUS spearheaded the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at USyd, helped organise the historic Student General Meeting, and have led the Palestine solidarity movement on campus. We know what it takes to fight for the liberation of Palestine and that is constantly agitating against University management, the Labor government and the far right.

FREE PALESTINE FOR NUS commits to upholding the Thawabit, the core principles and red-lines agreed upon by Palestinians: the right to resistance, the right to self-determination, Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine, and the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and lands in all of occupied Palestine (in accordance with UNGA 194)

FREE PALESTINE FOR NUS believes in the principles of anti-capitalism, anti-colonialism, anti-racism, antihomophobia, feminism, First Nations justice, environmental justice, and disability justice. We demand that the NUS reflect these principles in the strongest terms possible.

VOTE [1] GRACE FOR PREZ

VOTE [1] FREE PALESTINE FOR NUS

VOTE [2] GRASSROOTS FOR NUS

VOTE [3] LEFT ACTION FOR NUS CANDIDATES

Lauren Finlayson Arts III

• Hi I’m Lauren, I’m one of the social justice officers this year!

• I’m a member of students for Palestine! I helped to organise the student referendum for Palestine this year as well as the protest encampment for Gaza in 2024

• I was a participant of the Harbour Bridge March, which brought 300,000 people to oppose genocide in Palestine and demand our government sanction Israel

• I took part in the Sydney Uni staff strikes in 2023, to help fight for better staff pay and conditions as well as improved student learning

• I’ve been part of the Environment collective on campus since 2023 which has fought for an end to our universities ties to fossil fuel companies

• I have been part of the campaign to support LGBTI+ rights in the face of increasingly discriminatory laws and the rise of the far right across the world like Trump

• I think our SRC should be a body that fights for students rights and advocates for left wing causes in the world like an end to war!

Yoshi Leung Arts/Advanced Studies IV

• Hi I’m Yoshi, I’m one of the social justice officers in the SRC this year!

• I am actively involved with Students for Palestine and have been helping to organise the National Student Referendum on Palestine.

• I have also helped organise multiple student strikes, including two National Days of Protest against Trump and for Palestine.

• I was proud to march on the Harbour Bridge as part of the historic March for Humanity.

• Went to the Convergence on Canberra, have been part of regular demonstrations for Palestine at the U.S. consulate, Albanese’s office and outside the ALP conference.

• Took part in the USYD Gaza solidarity encampment in 2024.

• Helped to organise the Student General Meeting where 600+ students voted for our University to divest from weapons companies.

• I have helped to organise anti-Trump demonstrations including for LGBT rights and the first Tesla Takedown protest in Sydney.

• Supported workers strikes in the past year, namely the Woolworths distribution workers where I helped organise a strike fund and protest in solidarity.

• I attended the multiple nurses strikes against Chris Minns’ appalling offer of no more than a 3% pay increase.

• Supported the Sydney refugee Encampment for permanent visas outside Tony Burke’s office.

• For 100+ days, refugees joined a movement to demand an end to 14 years in limbo on temporary visas.

• I think the SRC must be an activist body that stands up for the oppressed and organises against these injustices.

Dana Kafina Arts/Science II

• Community organiser

• School Strike 4 Climate organiser 2021 — 2023

• Global Solidarity officer 2025

• Ethno-cultural officer & ACAR convenor 2025

• BDS Youth organiser 2023 — present

• Disabilities Collective member 2024 — present

• USyd QoCo member 2024 — present

• APAN intern 2025

• Surg.FM host @3ain.fm

• Artist & workshop facilitator @ biteapearl

• Hardcore enjoyer & really annoying about it

• Western Sydney #ParramattaRepresent

• Self-hating anarchist (?)

• T1 train taker

• D1 crashout

Aron Khuc Arts/Social Work II

• Social Justice Officer 2024-present

• Social Work Society Secretary 2025-present

• Autonomous Collective Against Racism (ACAR) Member 2024-present

• BDS Youth Member 2024-present

• Students Against Placement Poverty (SAPP) Member 2024-present

• ACAR Honi editor 2025

• Hater of gentrification

• Double hater of Campus Access Policy (CAP)

• Triple hater of zionists

Luke Mesterovic Arts V

• Vice President, Sydney University Greek Society (2022-2023)

• SRC Education Officer (2025)

• Editor, Honi Soit (2023)

• Contributor, Honi Soit (2021 -)

• Wog

• Contributor, Pulp (2022 -)

• Politics and Theatre major

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Kayla Hill Arts III

• Ethnocultural Officer & ACAR Coconvenor (2025)

• Editor of ACAR Honi (2025)

• Member of the Autonomous Collective Against Racism (2024-)

• Member of the Disabilities Collective (2025)

• Editor of Disabled Honi (2025)

• Director of Rainbow Cumberland (2024-)

• Youth Advisor for Twenty10 (2024-)

• FASS Peer Mentor (2024)

• Member of School Strike 4 Climate (2019-2023)

Leila Haddad Arts IV

• Usyd Greens on Campus Member

• Program Facilitator for community groups including Department of Veterans Affairs and Wreck Bay Aboriginal Community Council

• Knife maker and instructor

• Fundraising for ACT Palliative Care

• Keynote speaker at YWCA annual meeting, ACT pharmacy guild women’s day, and WAW events

• Frequent protest goer

• Master sheep wrangler

• President of the Victoria Park Smoko Association (VPSA)

• Heavy vehicle licence possessor

[F] GRASSROOTS FOR NUS

Policy Statement

The National Union of Students is the national body for students in so-called ‘Australia’. As such, it must endeavor to represent and fight for those students. Once a bastion for student activism and advocacy, the NUS has fallen to the wayside in the process of electing a Labor government. The Labor factions which control the NUS have decided to allow once vibrant anti-cuts, anti-austerity campaigns to fizzle out, instead of standing up to the Labor government’s continued attacks on higher education and students. Students need a national activist body that connects to grassroots campaigns and joins in on

the fight at every campus. We are being swamped with HECs debt and unable to find safe and affordable housing amidst a once-in-a-generation cost of living crisis, and it is pivotal that we foster an NUS that is capable of UNITING students and LEADING the fight.

GRASSROOTS FOR NUS seeks to reinstate the combative and firebrand nature of the NUS, one that seeks to challenge the powers that be, whether they be Liberal or Labor. In doing so, we will restore the activist nature of the NUS, challenging the careerists who have led to its stagnation and fight against capitalist and conservative governments and institutions. We will continue to put students and their causes first, fighting through national days of action, protests and walk-offs.

In the current context, the NUS must pivot toward the struggle for a FREE PALESTINE - as is the mandate for all student unions across so-called Australia. Right now, upwards of 186,000 Palestinians in Gaza are estimated to have been killed by Israel; we must not mince our words when we say that this is a genocide. Yet, the NUS is largely afraid to call out Labor’s complicity in Israel’s war crimes. GRASSROOTS will staunchly push for boycotts, divestment and sanctions until Free Palestine can be read backwards.

GRASSROOTS is independent of major political parties, and seeks to unite students on issues that affect us. All students –international and domestic – should have a place in the NUS. To this end, we believe the NUS should tie in with campaigns on local campuses, such as to SCRAP THE CAP at USyd, and for national projects such as the recent USyd campaign for Concession Opal Cards for International students, as well as continuing the fight for free and accessible education for all, with no compromises.

GRASSROOTS believes that the climate crisis is the biggest crisis facing our generation. Ironically, the NUS does not have an Environment Officer (in fact, Unity voted down a proposal for an environmental officer), and GRASSROOTS believe this should be urgently implemented. Now is not the time to greenwash and cover up for the Labor government’s inaction on climate, when they’ve green-lit over 116 new fossil fuel projects.

GRASSROOTS FOR NUS adheres to the principles of anti-capitalism, anti-colonialism, anti-racism, antihomophobia, anti-transphobia, feminism, First Nations justice, environmental justice, and disability justice.

VOTE [1] GRACE FOR PREZ

VOTE [1] GRASSROOTS FOR NUS

VOTE [2] FREE PALESTINE FOR NUS

VOTE [3] LEFT ACTION FOR NUS CANDIDATES

DELEGATES TO THE NUS

Relations and Political Economy

Shovan Bhattarai Arts III

• I have been your SRC Vice-President this year, a position I’ve used to fight for an end to the genocide in Gaza.

• As one of the core members of the Palestine Action Group, I helped initiate and organise the historic March for Humanity over the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

• I was proud to issue the call to initiate the USyd Gaza Solidarity Encampment in Sem 1 2024, which saw 100s of students camp out on the Quad Lawns.

• I moved the main pro-Palestine motion in the historic Student General Meeting last year.

• I’ve been involved in organising activism to demand action on climate change, the cost-of living crisis, LGBTI+ rights, and against the racism and the far right.

• I think that we need an activist SRC that stands up for the oppressed and against injustice

Starla Bilby

Arts/Science I

• Helped organize the Harbor bridge march demanding national sanctions against Israel

• I Assisted in organizing the national student strike at Uni Sydney

• I Assisted in organizing weekly propalestinian rallies

• I’m an active founding member of the NSW socialists

• I’m an active member of Students for Palestine at Uni Sydney

Grace Street Arts (Honours) V

• She/her, member of USyd Grassroots!

• Studying Honours in French after finishing my Bachelors in International

• 2025 SRC General Secretary, Sexual Violence Officer & Councillor

• Led and organised the SRC’s first FREE influenza vaccination scheme (2025)

• Introduced SRC Week 2025

• 2024 SRC Education Officer & Councillor

• Organiser of USyd Gaza Encampment, Student General Meeting, Scrap the CAP campaign (2024)

• Activist with Students for Palestine, Students Against War, BDS Youth, Students Against Placement Poverty

• Disabilities Collective, Women’s Collective, Queer Collective, Education Action Group, Welfare Action Group

• Writer of 20 Honi Soit articles!

• 2023 FrenchSoc President

• 2022 FASS Dalyell Student Mentor of the Year

• Childless cat lady with a cat tattoo

• Lover of techno and the woke left

• Met the Strokes backstage

• ADHD and chronic fatigue baddie

Vince Tafea Science IV

• I <3 NUS

[G] Explicit for NUS Policy Statement

The National Union of Students (NUS) is good - but it could be better. It is because of pressure from the NUS that all students received 20% off their HECS debt this year, and it is because of the NUS that studentled organisations are going to receive 40% of all SSAF money. However, there is little structure - individual states and territories are not appropriately represented, and financial records are difficult to access, leaving students wondering “what does the National Union really do for us?”

That’s where EXPLICIT comes in. We are a group of proud unionists who strive to explicitly reform the NUS by minimising the power of right-wing students, put concerted effort into campaigns which directly improve student welfare, and continue to fight for student’s rights across Australia and beyond. We will continue the work done by the NUS this year for a free Palestine, continue to push for free education, and ensure that your SSAF money is appropriately spent in ways that benefit you, rather than going straight into the pockets of student politicians.

CANDIDATES

Red Tilly Arts III

• Current USyd Councillor

• Member of NLS

• 2024/5 Edcon & 2024 Natcon Attendee

• Volunteer for Student for Drug Reform

• Volunteer for Yes23

Mia Williams Arts II

• USyd SRC Welfare Officer 2025

• 2024 NUS NatCon Delegate

• Serial Vinyl Collector

• Passive FilmSoc Member

• NLS’ Sleepiest Soldier

Cassidy Newman Arts II

• Member of NLS

• Education Officer of Conservatorium Students Association, 2024

• Intercampus Officer of USYD SRC, 2024

• Treasurer of Sydney Uni Radio, 2024

• Member USYD History Society

• Member Students for Palestine

• Written a couple of crosswords for Honi Soit

• Inner west DJ

• Failed USU Board candidate

Daniel Holland Arts III

• Member of NLS

• SRC Refugee Rights Officer 2024

[H] PENTA for NUS Policy Statement

PENTA has stood for international students within the University of Sydney for a long time.

For the first time in memory, PENTA is now hoping to bring its policies to the national stage, through the NUS. This ticket will push for greater international student representation, staunch opposition to policies such as international student caps or visa cost increases, and fight for Opal Concession cards on the national stage.

CANDIDATES

Sally Liu Science III

• USU Board Director

• Director – Student Publications

• Ethnocultural Portfolio Holder

• Clubs & Societies Committee

• Student Representative for Academic Board, Faculty of Science Board, Faculty of Science School

• Peer Mentor

• Project Hope Sponsorship Subcommittee

• Sustainability Ambassadors

• Love all kinds of sports and passion for trying start ups

Bohao Zhang Economics/Law II

• Chill guy

• SRC Vice-President

Bob Song Commerce/Law II

• SRC International Students Officer 2025

• International Cooperation & Relations Subcommittee of SUCSSA (Chinese Students & Scholars Association) 2025

• Junior Ambassador of the Winter Olympics 2022

• Comprehensive Award of the Youth AI Programming Innovation Challenge 2022

• Young Artists of Helsinki 2022

• President of Ressun Lukio (IB) Student Council 2022-2023

• Law Intern of Kolster Oy Ab 2023

• Volunteer of the UNESCO Project WORLD ATLAS OF LANGUAGE 2023

• President & Founder of Ressu Sports Management Club 2021-2024

• Co-Founder of Ressu “No Art” Club 2022

• Art Series Editor-in-Chief of Pärskeitä (Ressu School Paper) 2021-2022

• Hyvää Ressu Prize 2022, 2023, 2024

• Starting Player of Ressu Boys Basketball Team (2021 - 2024)

• Member of the Ressun Lukio Debate Society (2021 - 2022)

• Deputy Head of School’s Honour Roll 2021

Anu-Ujin Khulan Arts II

• Served as organizer and leader of the charity 2UNITE4U.

• Coordinated fundraising initiatives to provide basic supplies for three rural kindergartens.

• Delivered essential resources to an elder’s care through fundraising with spreading awareness.

• Volunteered with Lantuun Dohio, a Mongolian organization dedicated to combating domestic violence and sexual assault.

• Acted as a guide for foreign judo athletes during the World Championship in Mongolia.

• General Secretary at SRC

[I] LEFT ACTION 4 NUS

Policy Statement

Do you want a national student union that is unafraid to take on the major parties and fight for the causes students are passionate about? Left Action is the only ticket with a true commitment to independent, leftwing politics and is connected to a national network of activists.

For years, we have spearheaded the fight for left-wing politics in the national student union, leading national campaigns for social justice and against attacks from our government.

This year, our team in the NUS has coordinated key campaigns around the genocide in Gaza and our own government’s support for Israel’s intentional starvation and massacre of over two million people.

We called a national inquiry into the repression of pro-Palestine activists on campuses around the country, exposing the complicity of our own universities in the ongoing genocide.

We have also been at the forefront of campaigns for climate action, free education, marriage equality, Black Lives Matter, and against university fee hikes.

We need a national student union that will relentlessly fight for the rights of students and a fairer, more just world.

Vote [1] Left Action for NUS for those with the dedication, politics, and principles to make this happen

CANDIDATES

Jasmine Al-Rawi Architecture and Environments V

• Hi! I’m Jasmine. I’m one of your SRC Education Officersthis year!

• I am the convenor of students for Palestine at USYD. I was an organiser of the student encampment for Gaza in 2024.

• I helped organise the March for Humanity across the Harbour Bridge which was attended by 300,000 people.

• I’ve been a core member of the Palestine Action Group for years.

• I organised an anti-Trump day of protest across the country.

• I supported striking workers. The junior doctors, nurses and Woolies workers.

Emma Searle Arts IV

• I have helped build and promote the recent Student Strike for Palestine which saw hundreds of students nationwide skip class for Gaza!

• Built the National Referendum for Palestine calling for a ‘no confidence’ vote on the Labor government’s response to the genocide in Gaza.

• Last year I was a participant in the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at USyd, camping on the Quad lawns demanding our university cut ties with weapons companies.

• Following the Encampment, I helped promote the Student General Meeting for Palestine where 600 students came to vote ‘Yes to divest’!

• In response to Trump’s attacks on trans

rights, I was a part of helping build the ‘Fuck Trump’ rallies with Community Action for Rainbow Rights.

Lucas Pierce Arts/Advanced Studies IV

• Currently serving as one of the Refugee Rights Officers in the SRC

• An active supporter of Palestine and member of Students for Palestine, campaigning against the genocide both on campus and off campus.

• Attending the mass rallies on Sunday and helping to organise events at Usyd, such as the student strike for Palestine.

• Marched across the Sydney Harbour Bridge for a free Palestine and an end to the genocide in Gaza.

• Part of the historic Gaza Solidarity Encampment here last year.

• In 2023, campaigned against course cuts in the philosophy department, fought against the racist ‘Vote No’ campaign during the Voice Referendum.

• Took part in the ‘Get a Room’ calling out the cost of living crisis and demanding rent freezes and pricecaps, protested against anti-LGBTQI+ ‘Religious Vilification Bill’

• Promoted and attended the ‘Illegal Stalls Day’ in defiance of Usyd management’s draconian ‘Campus Access Policy’, which curtails student’s right to free speech and assembly.

• Voted for our university to cut ties with Israel and its genocide of Gaza at the Student General Meeting last year!

Deaglan Godwin Arts/Advanced Studies VII

• Hi I’m Deaglan and I think we need an SRC that will fight for left wing causes such as an end to the genocide in Gaza, free education and against student debt.

• As SRC Vice President in 2023, I helped set up and lead the Gaza Solidarity Camp. We were the first Gaza encampment in Australia!

• I helped organise the largest Student General Meeting in decades, and spoke to the motion demanding the university cut ties with Israel.

• As a member of Students for Palestine, I have campaigned on and off campus against Israel’s genocide of Gaza, and for a free Palestine.

• I have been the SRC Environment Officer this year and have worked with

Rising Tide to campaign to save our planet.

• I was suspended for protesting former PM Malcolm Turnbull, aka “Mr Habourside Mansion”

• 2022 SRC Education Officer and led the student solidarity campaign with the staff strikes at USYD.

• Helped to organise the 200+ person Student General Meeting against the FASS course cuts

• We a need a fairer and more equal world- billionaires have too much power and wealth.

• We need to tax them and redistribute their wealth to fund education, healthcare, housing and higher wages!

Zavier Turcin Arts/Advanced Studies I

• Helped organise the March for Humanity across the harbour bridge

• Helped promote events on behalf of Students for Palestine and Socialist Alternative

• Helped organise the Student Strike for Palestine

• Helped organise and spoke at the “Tesla Takedown” protest

• Helped build the student referendum for Palestine

• Helped promote and organise various club events on campus”

Tiana Moore Science/Advanced Studies III

• As an active member of Students for Palestine I aim to bring more and more students into the student movement against genocide.

• Building the Gaza Solidarity encampment, events including forums and documentary film screenings, activist working bees, protests and votes

• Promoted and organised protests for Palestine including the March for Humanity across the Harbour bridge, student strikes for Palestine, and protest of the NSW Labor conference

• Mobilised students to attend the Student General Meeting for Palestine and organised the national student referendum

• Attended Woolworths worker picket and nurses strike in solidarity with workers fighting for better conditions”

DELEGATES TO THE NUS

Sari Bare Science/Advanced Studies III

• Since 2019, I have been actively organising campaigns demanding urgent action on climate change.

• Committed member of Students for Palestine, playing a role in organising and promoting Palestine solidarity activism in Sydney and on the University of Sydney campus.

• Helping to build the Student Strikes, coordinating the weekly pro-Palestine demonstrations at Hyde Park and Town Hall.

• Contributing to the 2025 March for Humanity across the Harbour Bridge, where 300,000 people marched in solidarity with Palestine and against atrocities in Gaza.

[J] CON STUDENTS 4 NUS

Policy Statement

As we are witnessing the degradation of music schools around the country, now is the time for a strong voice for music students at the National Union of Students. If elected Con Students 4 NUS will stand up for music students around Australia and insist on changes to the NUS platform to ensure equal opportunity for music students.

Con Students 4 NUS will demand:

• No more cuts to Music degrees and university music programs.

• Fair funding and use of student services and amenities fees to support student life at music campuses.

• Guaranteed representation for students at satellite conservatorium campuses and smaller institutions such as the National Art School and National Institute of Dramatic Arts.

• Ensuring that First Nations arts and culture, knowledgekeeping, and storytelling are at the centre of music teaching.

CANDIDATES

Hugo Ceran-Jerusalemy Music Composition II

• Intercampus Officer (2025) for the Students’ Representative Council

• Pasifika Officer (2024-2025) for the Conservatorium Students’ Association

• Student Future Leaders for Gender Equality (2021-2023)

Sara McNally Music Composition/ Advanced Studies II

Jude Donahue Music Composition/ Advanced Studies II

Henrik Hogg Music Composition/ Advanced Studies II

Jamison Houchell Music Education II

[A] LEFT ACTION FOR FREE EDUCATION

Policy Statement

Do you believe that university should be free, high quality, and accessible to all? So do we! Left Action for Free Education wants an SRC that fights for our right to an education free from a mountain of HECS debt or tuition fees. Neither domestic or international students should have to selffund universities that are already raking in billions in profit every year.

While we pay ever increasing fees for our degrees, university managements around the country have announced plans to cut millions of dollars in funding and staff from an already subpar service. Left Action believes that education should be both free and high quality, giving students the choice and support they need without billing us tens of thousands for our courses.

Our universities are run for profit and not for students. While USYD’s Vice Chancellor, Mark Scott, rakes in over a million dollars a year, staff are underpaid and management is planning to cut a vast array of courses. Those at the top give themselves sixfigure pay rises while the lives of everyday students and staff continue to worsen.

Left Action thinks that we deserve a university that gives us complete freedom of choice in our studies, and that the needs of students must be put before the profits of management. We know that we can only win this through committed activism by students and staff who make their voices heard through mass, collective action.

Left Action For Free Education stands for:

• Making education fully funded and free for both domestic and international students

• Wiping all student debt

• Reversing all cuts to courses, degrees and staff levels

• Defending free speech on campus

Vote [1] for LEFT ACTION FOR FREE EDUCATION

CANDIDATES

Lucas Pierce Arts/Advanced Studies IV

• Currently serving as one of the Refugee Rights Officers in the SRC

• An active supporter of Palestine and member of Students for Palestine, campaigning against the genocide both on campus and off campus.

• Attending the mass rallies on Sunday and helping to organise events at Usyd, such as the student strike for Palestine.

• Marched across the Sydney Harbour

Bridge for a free Palestine and an end to the genocide in Gaza.

• Part of the historic Gaza Solidarity Encampment here last year.

• In 2023, campaigned against course cuts in the philosophy department, fought against the racist ‘Vote No’ campaign during the Voice Referendum.

• Took part in the ‘Get a Room’ calling out government complicity in the cost of living crisis and demanding rent freezes and price-caps.

• Promoted and attended the ‘Illegal Stalls Day’ in defiance of Usyd management’s draconian ‘Campus Access Policy’, which curtails student’s right to free speech.

• Voted for our university to cut ties with Israel and its genocide of Gaza at the Student General Meeting last year!

Emma Searle Law/Arts II

• I have helped build and promote the recent Student Strike for Palestine which saw hundreds of students nationwide skip class for Gaza!

• Built the National Referendum for Palestine calling for a ‘no confidence’ vote on the Labor government’s response to the genocide in Gaza.

• Participant in the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at USyd, camping on the Quad lawns demanding our university cut ties with weapons companies.

• Following the Encampment, I helped promote the Student General Meeting for Palestine where 600 students came to vote ‘Yes to divest’!

• In response to Trump’s attacks on trans rights, I was a part of helping build the ‘Fuck Trump’ rallies with Community Action for Rainbow Rights.

Max Dao Commerce I

• My name is Max, I am an active member of Student for Palestine who’ve continued to build and bring activism on campus.

• I helped promote and build multiple massive marches including the National Day of Action against Trump’s America.

• I was a part of organising the multiple fortnightly Palestine marches at Hyde

park

• I helped led the march for the Student Strike for Palestine.

• I also joined and marched with the doctors on strike in Kogarah against the anti-worker Chris Minns government.

• Most impressively, I helped organize the Harbor Bridge march where 300 thousand people marched for Palestine and have no intention of stopping.

Julius Wittfoth Bachelor of Arts VI

• Gday, I’m Julius, I’m a socialist activist and a film studies student running for the student council. Ive been an activist at usyd for 3 years in which time I have:

• organised student contingents to stand in solidarity with staff on strike in 2022

• fought for lgbt rights as social justice officer against the rising attacks on trans rights from the far right in 2023

• campaigned for affordable student housing on campus in 2023

• Students for Palestine activist

• Helped set up the Gaza solidarity encampment on the quad lawns to protest the genocide in Gaza

• Helped organise the student general meeting to demand usyd cut ties with Israel and weapons companies

• Helped organise the historic march for humanity across the Sydney harbour bridge for Gaza

• Currently organising the national student referendum to demand universities and the government cut ties with the genocide in Gaza

Agnes Ng

Bachelor

of Arts II

• Hello I am Agnes!

• Active member of the students for Palestine and I help with organising the student strike for Palestine, march for humanity and aid with weekly protests (●´ω’●)

• I am part of the LGBTIA protests and oppose facism in Australia ˚

Yu Education I

• Helped organize the Harbor bridge march demanding national sanctions against Israel

• I Assisted in organizing the national student strike at Uni Sydney

• I Assisted in organizing weekly propalestinian rallies

• I’m an active founding member of the NSW socialists

• I’m an active member of Students for Palestine at Uni Sydney

Will Ursu Architecture and Environments I

[B] PENTA FOR ALL Policy Statement

We’re running for SRC Council to make the University of Sydney fairer and friendlier for international students—on visas, in classes, at work, and at home. You face high fees, complex rules, long hours, and distance from family. Our platform turns those challenges into practical wins.

Cut costs and boost support

• Push for transparent tuition, reasonable indexation, flexible payment plans, fair fee refunds, and emergency grants.

• Direct more SSAF funding to frontline help—caseworkers, immigration-savvy legal advice, food security, and tenancy support.

Work rights and legal help

• Expand free SRC legal clinics on wage theft, unfair dismissal, and visas; partner with community legal centres and unions.

• Run regular know-your-rights workshops (work hours, TFN/ ABN traps, contracts, scams) with multilingual materials.

Fair study settings

• Guarantee universal lecture recordings, clear rubrics, timely feedback, and flexible Special Consideration that recognises illness, caring, paid work, and crisis.

• Provide visa-safe study-load guidance: proactive caseworker support on attendance, enrolment changes, and Confirmation of Enrolment (CoE) issues—before problems escalate.

Housing you can afford

• Scale up tenancy advice for bond theft, overcrowding, and dodgy sublets;

• publish a plain-English renting guide.

• Advocate for affordable beds near campus and fair standards in purposebuilt student housing.

Calvin

Safety and belonging

• Zero tolerance for racism, xenophobia, and misogyny.

• Better lighting and late-night safety measures; faster Campus Security response; anonymous reporting and bystander training.

• Clear mental-health referral pathways and culturally safe services.

Real representation

• Guarantee international-student seats on key committees; publish plainEnglish meeting reports.

• Fund and platform international voices across Honi Soit, clubs, and collectives; a small-grant scheme for culturally diverse events.

How we’ll work

We’ll be available, transparent, and accountable—organising with the International Students Collective and SRC services to deliver fast, practical outcomes and show where every SSAF dollar goes.

If you want an SRC that treats international students as partners, not revenue, vote for us.

CANDIDATES

George Feng Science III

• Recipient of the Vice-Chancellor’s International Scholarships, the Dalyell Global Mobility Scholarship, the University of Sydney Academic Merit Prize, and the Dean’s List of Excellence in Academic Performance

• Participant in the International Student Leadership and Ambassador Program

• Member of the NSW Chinese Students and Scholars Association

• General Executive of the Boardgame Society

• Native Mandarin speaker; fluent in English Harry Wu Commerce/Advanced Studies III

• Majoring in Econ & Finance

• Truth-seeker

• Outdoors adventurer

• Navigating the finest croissant

Sally Weng Arts I

• Served as a SADD (Students Against Dangerous Driving) leader, organising a joint boys’ and girls’ school event promoting road safety.

• Love fencing, badminton, Thai boxing, and popping dance (each under one year, short-lived enthusiasm).

• Collaborated with over 30 brands through personal social media accounts, developing strong communication and negotiation skills.

• Photography & media enthusiast with experience in the school media team, promoted from member to leader.

• Lived nine years in China and nine years in New Zealand, fluent in both Mandarin and English.

• Two years’ experience in sculpture.

• Currently co-creating a children’s picture book with a team, featuring my personal character as the main protagonist.

• Volunteered with a community program supporting children on the autism spectrum.

Ying Huang Design I

• Took part in many student activities and festival planning. Good at creative ideas and making the team atmosphere better. Have experience in promotion.

• Did volunteer work. Improved communication skills and sense of social responsibility.

• Good at watercolor, Chinese painting, and colored pencil art. Have many years of painting experience.

• Like animals. Fostered pets and made a children’s picture book about people and animals living together.

• Like basketball and light sports. Keep a healthy and active lifestyle.

• Easy-going and like to listen. Can understand others and build good relationships.

Cathy Chen Economic I

• Hi everyone, I’m Jiahui Chen, and I am a first-year student majoring in Financial Economics and Accounting.

• I enjoy challenging myself, stepping out of my comfort zone, and taking on opportunities that help me grow both personally and academically.

• I have a strong sense of social responsibility, demonstrated through my volunteer experience caring for elderly people in remote areas of China.

• These experiences taught me the value of compassion and giving back to the community.

• I am committed to creating equal opportunities for all students, with a focus on advocating for benefits and support for international students.

• I am eager to work together, learn from each other, and build a supportive and inclusive environment for everyone.

Zetao Zhao Commerce I

• Experience

• Dance Club President

• Led the dance club of a large high school with 800 students per grade, organizing daily training and schoolwide performances.

• Member, Activity Department, Chinese Debate Society, University of Sydney

• Assisted in planning and coordinating debate events, including topic selection and logistics arrangement.

• Strengths

• Meticulous and attentive to details.

• Proficient in formulating and executing plans.

• Good at teamwork and communication.

Bob Bao Economic I

• I’m Bob, a first-year student majoring in Economics and Accounting. I love running and football, and lately I’ve been hooked on tennis. I’m also a Chelsea fan.

• More than anything, I like to think I’m an engaging and easy-going person.

• If you’re looking for someone to chat with, share ideas, or simply make friends with, I’d be glad to be that person.

• I genuinely enjoy helping others and meeting new people.

• Can’t wait to get to know everyone!

Kayson Weng Nursing II

• Member of the University of Sydney Nursing Society

• Love Chinese food and sunset

• Deadline dodging expert

• Clearly a good egg

[C] BAN OKTA VERIFY

Policy Statement Read the title.

CANDIDATES

Patrick De Haan Science I

• Okta Verify user (2025-present)

• Disliked using Okta Verify (2025-present)

Josh Oldham Economics I

• Okta Verify user (2025-present)

• Disliked using Okta Verify (2025-present)

Cameron Scott Commerce I

• Okta Verify user (2025-present)

• Disliked using Okta Verify (2025-present)

Henry Chen Economics I

• Okta Verify user (2025-present)

• Disliked using Okta Verify (2025-present)

Adam Pogorzelski Arts II

• Okta Verify user (2025-present)

• Disliked using Okta Verify (2025-present)

[D] PENTA for Dream Uni Life Policy Statement

PENTA has consistently been a strong advocate for international students in an SRC often overshadowed by domestic students. PENTA is committed to reshaping the SRC to serve the interests of international students. Over the last year, PENTA has taken steps to make the International Student Collective more inclusive, supported initiatives such as the creation of the $5 canteen, strengthened the ties between FoodHub and the SRC, and advanced the Opal Card Campaign.

PENTA for Dream Uni Life’s vision is to make the University of Sydney a vibrant and engaging campus. We believe that student life extends beyond lectures and tutorials. It is about the activities we enjoy and the communities we build.

We will upgrade recreational spaces to create more opportunities for entertainment and connection. We will add more ping-pong tables, pool tables, and board games to common areas, along with game console lounges for multiplayer gaming, giving students diverse ways to socialise and unwind without leaving the campus. We will also invest in comfortable and vibrant communal spaces where students can relax and meet friends. Outdoor seating will be expanded and improved with weather protection and better lighting for safety. We will install additional nap pods for students to rest and recharge, ensuring they are hygienic.

CANDIDATES

Ji Fang Advanced Studies (Honours) IV

• Fore Australia | Summer Internship –12/2024 - 02/2024

• German-Southeast Asian Center of Excellence for Public Policy and Good Governance (CPG) | Weekly Contributor for Asia in Review –07/2024 - 01/2025

• Young Diplomats Society | Event Officer – 03/2025 - current

Kaylee Li Engineering (Honours) IV

• Project Engineering Intern | Lunar Outpost Oceania – December 2024March 2025

• LEAP Australia | University Student Team Partnership Coordinator – July 2023 - Present

• University of Sydney | Engineering Faculty Communicator – October 2023

– Present

• Optus Satellite and Space Systems | Project Coordinator for Joint Project 9102 Future Australian Defence Force SATCOM Program – October 2022April 2023

• Sydney Interplanetary Rover Initiative | Founder & Project Lead – March 2024

– Present

• International Astronautical Congress 2025 | IAC Consultation – April 2024

– Present

• Space Generation Advisory Council

| Asia-Pacific Regional Executive Secretary – June 2023 - Present

• Sydney Women in Aerospace Engineering Society | President – May 2023 - June 2024

• USYD Rocketry Team | Sponsorship Director – 2022 - 2023

Wuyi Xiong Arts (Honours) IV

• Rowland Hassall School – Internship 03/2024 – 04/2024

• Qinghua Chinese School - Tutor 02/2023 – 06/2024

• Private Tutor 11/2016 – Current

• Wuhan Yuyan Biotechnology Company

- casual Assistant 06/2016 – current

• Wuhan Maple Leaf International School - Tutor 11/2021 - 03/2022

• Zimo Orphanages - Voluntary Tutor 09/2016 - 12/2017

Thomas Barrington Arts/Advanced Studies IV

feeling supported in every step of your journey. As your SRC representative, our principle is simple: if it benefits students, we will support it with both hands raised.

We will work to expand affordable services on campus—from printing and study spaces to mental health support—so that every student can access the resources they need without additional stress. We’ll advocate for affordable and healthy food options on campus, making it easier for everyone to eat well without breaking the bank.

To improve learning, we’ll promote better academic support—from extended library hours during exams to more peer mentoring programs—ensuring no student feels left behind. We will also champion inclusive and fun campus events that connect people across cultures, whether through music, sports, or cultural celebrations.

Happiness is not a luxury; it’s the foundation of a thriving student community. With your vote, we can create a USYD where we learn well, live well, and laugh often.

PENTA for Happiness – Double Hands Up for Students!

CANDIDATES

Lanz Zhu Economics II

• Vice President, Young Entrepreneurship Club & Astronomy Club (High School)

• Delegate, Harvard Summit for Young Leaders in China (HSYLC), recommended by school

• NEC Economics Competition: Competed in a team during Year 11 and advanced to the East China Region

Sia Dong Commerce I

Lax Liu Liberal Arts/Science I

[E] PENTA for HAPPINESS

University life is more than lectures, deadlines, and caffeine-fueled nights. It’s about friendships, opportunities, and

Karen Zhang Arts II

• house head

• school prefect

• peer mentor

Ella Sun Arts II

Ray Zhang Liberal Arts/Science III

• Junior Level Australian Mathematics Competition Distinction Award

• Intermediate Level Australian Mathematics Competition Distinction Award

• Sefton High School Handball Team Participant

Chang Fei Arts II

History Student Partner (Student Rep) –03/2025 – current

Haoyu Zhang Economics II

[F] Explicit for Student Services

Policy Statement

EXPLICIT for Student Services believes that the SRC has the responsibility to advocate for services that strengthen welfare and dignity on campus. EXPLICIT for Student Services understands that in a cost-of-living crisis that disproportionately affects young people, students need more than just a free sausage on Eastern Ave. EXPLICIT for Student Services will fight and advocate EXPLICITLY for:

An increase in the SRC Emergency Loan Service:

With the ever-increasing prices of food and household items, the current $50 emergency loan is not enough to cover the high and regular expenses of students struggling due to the cost-of-living crisis. These Emergency Loans were created using SSAF to help support those in need.

EXPLICIT for Student Services believes the SRC needs to invest not only more SSAF but support into broadening student services, so students’ money is EXPLICITLY in students’ hands.

The creation of a Study Swap Service:

EXPLICIT for Student Services will advocate for the introduction of a free SRC run textbook and academic resources exchange at the end of each semester, where students can bring in past textbooks to exchange with the SRC Study Swap supply. EXPLICIT will advocate for this service to be free, visible online and run by elected student representatives. EXPLICIT for Student Services believes students should not have to choose between the tools for their education and dinner.

The employment of a Housing Navigation Service Worker/ Tenants Union Representative:

Affordable student housing is one of the most difficult areas for a student to navigate. Renting in NSW is extremely costly, and the rights of tenants, specifically young tenants, are consistently ignored. The SRC should ensure that it protects and supports renters through a free SRC Housing Service. Someone who can guide those seeking housing, taking into consideration the needs of the student, and try to provide them with affordable options. The SRC has worked with the NSW Tenants Union in the past to provide a support network, and this network is needed far more than once a semester.

The Introduction of sanitary products in all University bathrooms (including gender neutral and ambulant bathrooms) and safe & autonomous spaces on campus:

This is self-explanatory. Everyone bleeds = everyone deserves access to free sanitary products

An increase to accessibility features on campus:

USyd is lagging in its modernisation of its historical architecture. It is overwhelming in its lack of disability infrastructure. Entire buildings and classrooms are completely inaccessible, and signage for accessible entry is lackluster if present at all. The university needs to step up and do the bare minimum when it comes to addressing accessibility needs.

STAND UP FOR STUDENTS, EXPLICITLY.

VOTE [1] EXPLICIT FOR STUDENT SERVICES CANDIDATES

Mia Wiliams Arts II

• USyd SRC Welfare Officer 2025

• 2024 NUS NatCon Delegate

• Serial Vinyl Collector

• Passive FilmSoc Member

• NLS’ Sleepiest Soldier

Cassidy Newman Arts II

• Member of NLS

• Education Officer of Conservatorium Students Association, 2024

• Intercampus Officer of USYD SRC, 2024

• Treasurer of Sydney Uni Radio, 2024

• Member USYD History Society

• Member Students for Palestine

• Written a couple of crosswords for Honi Soit

• Inner west DJ

• Failed USU Board candidate

Hamish Evans Arts/Advanced Studies III

• Water taxi driver/bartender

• One of many directors of student publications

• Social Science enthusiast

• Voodoo practitioner

[G] UNITE FOR FAIR FUNDING

Policy Statement

The UNITE FOR FAIR FUNDING ticket is firmly focused on issues of governance, accountability, and transparency of USYD leadership. Over recent years the university’s international reputation has slid, fuelled by a lack of focus on student outcomes and questionable cuts to courses and staffing levels, all of which takes place as the University sees $500 million surpluses and vice-chancellor incomes increasing dramatically. The tertiary education sector is undoubtedly facing headwinds in Australia, however UNITE FOR FAIR FUNDING wants to see USYD reposition itself as a national leader in reform which should focus on:

• Greater accountability and transparency on meetings and governance operations from the USYD executives,

• A renewed focus on student outcomes which requires higher staffing levels and less cuts,

• Investment in affordable housing in the surrounding University area and the development of more student cooperative housing,

• Caps on vice-chancellor remuneration,

• Shifting away from corporate university governance and focusing on education and research,

• A fairer governance model that grants more power to students and staff about the direction of the university.

The UNITE FOR FAIR FUNDING ticket will advocate for these changes in an effort to pursue generational change of culture and governance, with an emphasis on creating a new culture that focuses on the lives of students and the outcomes of their education.

CANDIDATES

Will Ryan Arts III

• I’ve been a student at USYD since 2023, studying a Bachelor Of Arts (International Relations / Political Economy).

• Over my time here I’ve attended many events from SASS and other faculty societies where I’ve gotten to meet many people I now call close friends.

• I’m excited for my new level of engagement with clubs and societies I’ve joined the past couple semesters and hopeful to help shape university culture.

Elaquare Spencer Arts III

• In my third year studying Bachelor of Arts/ Bachelor of Advanced Studies (Politics and International Relations).

• Splitting my time between the library, the ring and the newsroom.

• You may have seen me around a few SASS or Dalyell Scholars Association events, or trained alongside me at the USyd Boxing Club.

• I also write political analysis and opinion pieces that ask hard questions and spark conversation.

Marco Sgaravizzi

Liberal Arts and Science I

• Regional Student

• Experience in volunteering for local community issues

Jeremy Ison Economics/Advanced Studies III

[H] GRASSROOTS FOR HOUSING JUSTICE Policy Statement

GRASSROOTS FOR HOUSING JUSTICE is a ticket of Impassioned students who care deeply about the ongoing housing and rental crisis facing our undergraduate students and the broader community. We all have – as is sadly all too common –faced the forefront of the systemic violence housing insecurity causes. It is impossible to ignore that housing insecurity disproportionately impacts young people, women, children, migrants, Low SES, disabled and First Nations people. We also recognise that whilst homelessness, insecure housing, rental stress, and evictions are something nobody should have to face, that the ongoing genocide in Palestine has left most Gazans not only with no homes, prospective or otherwise, but with their very lives under constant threat of the Israeli genocidal settler state. There can be no Housing Justice without Decolonial Justice, in one struggle, one fight, and we call for an end to the ongoing genocide, ethnic cleansing and settlements in Gaza and the West Bank, and for immediate embargoes, sanctions and an end to the two way arms trade with Israel.

GRASSROOTS FOR HOUSING JUSTICE affirms that whilst measures to alleviate the current crisis are desperately needed, the cause of the crisis is centred in the nature of a for-profit housing system that treats housing as a commodity, rather than a human right. This in turn ultimately stems from the rotten to the core economic system that is capitalism. We are therefore Anti-Capitalist and Socialist in our aims for housing justice.

GRASSROOTS FOR HOUSING JUSTICE condemns the corporate university and its lack of action to create and maintain safe, affordable student accommodation. The outsourcing of pastoral care onto private corporations has led to the disuse of International house and price-gouged Scape accommodation, both actively disenfranchising students. Students need safe and affordable housing, and the corporate university could easily afford to provide this, as it rakes in profits hand over fist. It however chooses to maximise the level to which it exploits students in need of accommodation, and contributes to the crisis it claims to condemn. We believe additionally the university should offer robust crisis and temporary accommodation for students experiencing the housing crisis, free of charge.

GRASSROOTS FOR HOUSING JUSTICE

furthermore condemns the unsafe, patriarchal and elitist colleges system. These colleges were handed land by the university to be segregated playgrounds for those who are wealthy or lucky enough to attain one of the few scholarships available. The colleges charge upwards of $30,000 dollars a year to attend, or more, and house many facilities and privileges ordinarily unavailable to non residents. There is no reason why this has to be the case, everyone should have an equal affordable chance at all accommodation on our campus. The colleges however are far more insidious than this wealth disparity alone. The redzone report details numerous incidents of hazing, bullying and sexual assault commited and covered up time and time again by residents of the colleges against other residents and non residents on campus. The system needs to be scrapped, and the colleges should be repurposed to be safe, affordable and democratic accommodation.

GRASSROOTS FOR HOUSING JUSTICE

Believes Public housing should be a priority of this government, and finds not only the lack of inaction by the incumbent labor party shameful, but their active destruction and further privatisation of public housing deplorable. Students and other members of the general public should be guaranteed a right to be housed, and have the option to live in quality, long term public housing, regardless of citizenship status.

To sum up, GRASSROOTS FOR HOUSING JUSTICE will fight for:

1.A free palestine, Sanctions on Israel, and an end to the genocide!

2.First Nations Justice, Land back, and an end to deaths in custody!

3.Affordable student accommodation, both reformed from old and newly built!

4.Reopening international house, as affordable and democratic accomodation!

5.Reforming renters rights, to drastically favour housing as a human right, not as a commodity!

6.Abolishing the colleges system, changing them to be safe, affordable and democratic!

7.Reviving the rank and file of the welfare collective, as a robust collective on campus!

8.Fight Labor’s destruction of public housing, and private/market based solutions to the housing crisis!

CANDIDATES

Remy Lebreton Arts II

• Disability collective Co-Officer and Convener 2025 SRC

• Lover of public housing, hater of

landlords

• Yay to International house, Nay to Scape

• Encamper, bridge walker and Palestine activist

• Proud founding member of NSWSocialists

• Social Work/Sociology Major, Anthropology Minor

• Usyd Grassroots Mnoc

• Stuccwitt (Unit 2 Representation)

• South Coast Wollongongian

• Acid Communist, Recovering Anarchist

• AUDHD and Language disorder enjoyer

• Unauthorised Bakesale Staller

• Honi Article writer (5 and counting!)

Aria Nadkarni Arts II

• History and Anthropology Major

• SUMT shitposter (i.e. on the exec 2025-)

• Scape escapee turned renter

• experience with corporatised and exploitative student accommodation!!

• Former caveman discovering fire when it comes to Stupol (as pictured)

• Met Remy LeBreton in the flesh at least one time

• Canvassed for the GOAT, Hannah Thomas

Stella Tyler Arts/Social Work III

• Social Work and English Major, Sociology Minor

• Spinal fusion surgery enjoyer

• Avid OCDer

• Hates evil landlords

• Stuccwitt (Unit 6 shoutout)

• Temporary Housing Officer

• Philosopher of Acid Communism

• Media Hoarder

• Frolicker

• Hater of corporations

• I believe you should steal from big corporations

• Socialist thief (from big corporations)

• Yippeeeeee

• Mein gott Leute

Naz Gulmez Arts III

• Stucco Finance Director (please look up stucco!)

• From the shining gem of regional NSW, Newcastle

• Professional baker but only for Spinach and Feta böreks in bake sales

• Currently obsessed the phenomenon that is The Summer I Turned Pretty

Jeremy Frazer Architecture and Environments I

• ADHD Dyslexic ass goofed up silly style type individual.

• Bound in holy union to AS 1100.301

- Technical drawing, Part 301: Architectural drawing - Incorporating Amendment No. 1.

• Cutie/Hottie/any other pronouns you feel like. (Gender is a fuck)

• Anna’s archive epub file format dyslexic font enthusiast (Information accessibility yippee!)

• Housing and public spaces should, by means of their character and design, give all those who enter the tangible feeling of being understood.

• Powerful wizard practicing spells of discombobulation and proficient in appreciating the simple beauty of the mundane and all too often forgotten.

• Water Drinker (If you know, you know. Liquid Gang 2025)

• Lover of humans and all the ways they’re silly and small.

Orson Lorenz Arts/Advanced studies II

• 2nd year Bachelor of Arts and Advanced studies (major Psych and English)

• Stucco CEO under 20

• D1 Landlord Hater

• Secretary of SUTEK

• Balatro Fiend

• Jeopardy god

• Stuccwit of the Clitchen

• At the intersection of board and game

• Wave rock observer

[I] Change Your SRC Policy Statement

For years, the Student Representative Council, the very council that is supposed to represent the student body, has been run by a small group of people who vote amongst themselves. They talk to each other and forget about you. Their power depends on one thing: you not voting. Because 90% of the students don’t vote, they win with barely a thousand votes. That’s 2% of the student population deciding for the 98%.

I say this, the system is broken and we have to fix it. It’s about time we stop playing games and actually start building something better.

My name is MuhammadHasankhon (you can call me Hasan), and I’m running for SRC as a true independent. Representing us, the 98%. My experiences aren’t in political factions or parties, but are in the real world. I have built a tech company from scratch, managed multi million dollar finances, and created products used by millions of people. I’m no politician, I’m a builder. And I am going to be running to offer a tangible return on our degrees.

My central policy is “The USyd Advantage”. A university funded and alumni backed program to guarantee every single student, including internationals, a paid and career relevant internship before they graduate.

This isn’t just a policy or a promise, it’s a new opportunity for students. It will address the cost of living crisis by getting you paid and tackle job security by getting you the highly relevant experience you need. It’s ambitious for sure, but my entire career has been about turning ambition into reality.

We will also work on more practical wins, like getting the remember me button while logging into canvas fixed, fighting for universal opal concession cards, protecting your fundamental rights as a student from university bureaucrats, and pushing for more affordable university accommodations.

Policy on Issues.

Conflict. I believe that the SRC must always stand up against violence and advocate for the protection of human rights for all. In light of this, I voice my concern over Palestine and will advocate for the disclosure and divestment. My primary duty is to the students of campus and so I will boost SRC support for any student affected by any world conflicts.

Protest. Free Speech. I believe that free speech and the right to peaceful protest is the lifeline of any healthy university. As a representative I will defend the rights of all students to peaceful assembly and freedom of speech. My support is unconditional, and independent of any personal beliefs.

I will work on issues that matter to everyone. My loyalty won’t be to a party or faction, it will be to you, the student population.

The factions only win because we stay silent. This year, that changes. This isn’t just an election; it’s a movement to reclaim the SRC for the 98%. Your vote has always mattered, and this year it is necessary, not just to elect a president that is loyal to you but to build an SRC that adequately represents us all.

Let’s get to work and build Your SRC.

CANDIDATES

Muhammadhasankhon Munavvarkhonov Arts II

• Proven Leadership and Financial Experience.

• Managed multi-million dollar financial agreements and led the quality control/ auditing of 2000+ product types store wide at Havas Holdings.

• Demonstrating the real world experience and abilities necessary to responsibly oversee the SRC and fight for student funding.

• Consulted with global brands like Mars Inc. and Mondelez on meeting standards. Proving my ability to negotiate with large organizations.

• Promoted from intern to Assistant Director of Quality Control through high performance and the delivery of tangible and effective results.

• A Builder of Tech and Communities.

• Founded and led a tech startup, Domla. Building an international company and launching two AI products from idea to reality.

• Developed tycoon games that attracted over a million players and generated thousands in revenue. Proving my ability to build engaging projects.

• Built an online community from 0 to 20k+ followers in two months. Gained over 30 million views demonstrating my ability.

• Track record of excellence.

• Ranked 1st out of 50,000 students in the city wide Tashkent English Olympiads.

• Selected as a Finalist for the prestigious U.S. Department of State FLEX program.

• Admitted to the University as a Dallyel student.

• Fluent in four languages. Guaranteeing I can adequately represent our diverse student population.

[J] PENTA for Intl Students

Policy Statement

In Sydney, everyone faces challenges such as high living costs and housing affordability. For international students, these issues are often felt more acutely while dealing with much more, as they come here primarily to pursue education

and may lack established support networks. We believe that every community should provide representation and a safe space for all. Our goal is to improve conditions for international students and help address the difficulties they encounter.

Accessible information is vital, especially when adjusting to life in a new country. International students often face issues around tenancy, visas, and academic integrity. To support them, we aim to hold regular information sessions each semester. By helping students understand the basic rules and requirements in these areas, many avoidable problems can be prevented.

Employment, volunteering, and community involvement are equally important. International students want to make the most of their time in Australia, and having direct access to opportunities makes this possible. We will focus on developing workshops, online resources, and community networks to keep students connected.

Finally, mental health and wellbeing are essential. We want to create a platform where students can find others with similar interests or shared languages, making university life more supportive, enjoyable, and less stressful.

While setting up these foundations, we will continue supporting ongoing projects that push for better conditions for international students, such as the petition for Opal card concessions, a change already available to domestic students and the campaign to reopen International House, once a key hub for global student community life.

CANDIDATES

Anu Khulan Arts

II

• Served as organizer and leader of the charity 2UNITE4U.

• Coordinated fundraising initiatives to provide basic supplies for three rural kindergartens.

• Delivered essential resources to an elder’s care through fundraising with spreading awareness.

• Volunteered with Lantuun Dohio, a Mongolian organization dedicated to combating domestic violence and sexual assault.

• Acted as a guide for foreign judo athletes during the World Championship in Mongolia.

• General Secretary at SRC

Nanda Girshkumar Science III

• Assisted senior analysts in collecting, processing, and analyzing financial and sales data to support strategy.

• Improved inventory management by analyzing data, reducing overstock by 23%.

• Collaborated with cross-functional teams on market research and insights.

• Automated Excel reporting, cutting manual effort by 30%.

• Built predictive models to forecast customer and financial data trends, enhancing decision-making.

• Designed and implemented an SQL/ Python-based Alumni Management Database System.

• Created normalized relational database structures and efficient SQL queries for alumni records.

• Developed Power BI dashboards to visualize alumni demographics and engagement.

• Analyzed financial market data using R and Excel; applied predictive models (ARIMA, GARCH, Exponential Smoothing) to forecast price movements and assess stock performance.

• Recognized for strong problem-solving and methodology with a 19.5/20 project score.

Misheel Galkhuu Advanced Computing II

• Customer Service

• Administrative Work (1+ year)

• Salesforce (3 months)

• System Analyst Tasks

• Data Entry

Andrea Enkhbat Commerce I

• Vice President of OIS Student Council Helped organize student activities and represented the student body in school decisions.

• Acting Deputy Co Head of Media Club (2023–2025) Coordinated media coverage, supervised team members, and supported event promotions.

• Member Toastmasters International (School Chapter) (2022-2025), organized competitions and day-to-day activities, advised members on body language and communication.

• Archery Athlete (3 years), competed regularly while maintaining academic balance, demonstrating discipline and focus.

• Economics, Mathematics, and Science Olympiads (2019–2024), Earned 3 Bronze and 1 Silver medal.

• High School Internship (2024), supported company projects and gained practical workplace experience at Economic research Institute of Mongolia.

• Academic Tutor (Peer Support) (2023–2024), provided support to peers in Economics and Mathematics.

• Community Volunteer for School Fundraising Projects (2023–2024)

• Research Project on Mongolian Literature Dissertation (2024)

• Team Representative in Debate & Public Speaking Contests (2022–2024)

• STEM Fair Participant (2022–2023)

Enkhluun Gantumur Science I

• Assisted ICU nurses at Songdo Hospital in UB

• Eco club manager

• 2Unite4U member

• Redcross member

• Volunteered at Mongolian Amway nutrition convention event 2023

• Volunteering at a nursing home 2022

• Organized book charity in Mongolia’s rural areas, to support numerous new kindergartens being built.

• Planted trees on the annual tree planting day, as a contribution to combat desertification.

Amina Orgil Science I

• Developed a biology learning app combining coding and science.

• Volunteer at Chinggis Khaan Chef

Challenge Cup 2023.

• Independent research on Diabetes in Mongolia.

• Designed lantern and pen box with AutoCAD, showcased at Knowledge Day Exhibition.

• Member of Student Council, Extracurricular Department.

• Peer tutor in Tutoring Club (2 years).

• Silver medals at Khan-Uul District and City Biology Olympiads.

• Barista at Café Bene (Ulaanbaatar, 2024)

• Nail technician at Pearl Nail Bar (Ulaanbaatar, 2024)

• 5km runner at Ulaanbaatar International Marathon 2023.

Jazz Jargalsaikhan Commerce I

• Role of leadership and advocacy as the Youth Prevention Club’s steward, paving the way for empowerment and enlightenment.

• In my 10th grade, I undertook the noble task of tutoring peers grappling with the complexities of mathematics, economics, and Chinese.

• Volunteered to work as a tour guide for a few weeks in Mongolia.

• In 11th grade, I designed and developed the trophy for our school’s basketball competition.

• From 10th to 12th grade, I was a member of my high school’s Media Club, writing informative articles or news pieces.

• New member to USYD running club.

• During the COVID-19 pandemic, establish a charity fund to raise money and donate it to someone truly in need.

• member of the Red Cross.

• member of “Aztai Savar,” a group formed by Mongolians who love animals, care for abandoned pets, and help them find safe new homes.

Justin Qin Commerce/Advanced Studies I

• Top 100 most influential Asian Australians 2023/2024.

• Ku-ring-gai Young Citizen of the Year.

• Youth Parliament Deputy Premier.

• USU Debating.

• Pronounce nonprofit founder & Chairman.

• Startup Intern.

• Ethical Education tutor.

• Rotary club volunteer

[K] LEFT ACTION FOR FREE PALESTINE Policy Statement

Our activists have played a leading role in the Palestine campaign. This year we organised the National Student Referendum on Palestine, which moved motions to condemn the Australian Government and Universities complicity and enabling of the genocide in Gaza. As well, we coordinated the National Student Strike for Gaza which mobilised thousands of people across the country.

We were part of the historic March for Humanity which saw 300,000 people demonstrate against the ongoing starvation and genocide in Gaza and to demand our government sanction Israel.

In 2024, we organised the Gaza Encampment on Sydney University lawns to protest our universities partnerships with weapons companies like Thales who aid the IDF, and in semester 2 we mobilised over 600 students to vote at our Student General Meeting demanding an end to these ties.

We have been consistent activists with Students for Palestine for over a decade at USYD, organising protests against the occupation and every escalation by Israel. We are proud to stand on the side of Palestinians and all peoples oppressed by colonialism.

We demand

• The Australian government must sanction Israel

• End to the two-way arms trade with Israel

• Cut ties with Thales and all other weapons companies conducting research at USyd

• Rescind all disciplinary measures taken against pro-Palestine students and staff

• Disclose and divest all financial investments associated with the Israeli occupation

• Implement a full academic boycott of Israeli universities

• Free Palestine from the river to the sea

• Send Albanese to the ICC

Vote [1] for LEFT ACTION FOR FREE PALESTINE

CANDIDATES

Shovan

Bhattarai Arts III

• I have been your SRC Vice-President this year, a position I’ve used to fight for an end to the genocide in Gaza.

• As one of the core members of the Palestine Action Group, I helped initiate and organise the historic March

for Humanity over the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

• I was proud to issue the call to initiate the USyd Gaza Solidarity Encampment in Sem 1 2024, which saw 100s of students camp out on the Quad Lawns to demand our university cut ties with genocide.

• I moved the main pro-Palestine motion in the historic Student General Meeting last year.

• I’ve been involved in organising activism to demand action on climate change, the cost-of living crisis, LGBTI+ rights, and against the racism and the far right.

• I think that we need an activist SRC that stands up for the oppressed and against injustice

Lauren Finlayson Arts III

• Hi I’m Lauren, I’m one of the social justice officers this year!

• I’m a member of students for Palestine! I helped to organise the student referendum for Palestine this year as well as the protest encampment for Gaza in 2024

• I was an active participant of the Harbour Bridge March, which brought together 300,000 people to oppose the genocide in Palestine and demand our government sanction Israel

• I took part in the Sydney Uni staff strikes in 2023, to help fight for better staff pay and conditions as well as improved student learning

• I’ve been part of the Environment collective on campus since 2023 which has fought for an end to our universities ties to fossil fuel companies

• I have been part of the campaign to support LGBTI+ rights in the face of increasingly discriminatory laws and the rise of the far right across the world like Trump

• I think our SRC should be a body that fights for students rights and advocates for left wing causes in the world like an end to war!

Lauren Alivio Arts/Advanced Studies IV

• I have been an active member of Students for Palestine, where I’ve taken part in building the Gaza Solidarity Encampment, Student General Meeting for Palestine, the historic March for Humanity on the Harbour bridge, as

REPRESENTATIVES TO COUNCIL

well as several students strikes and protests

• I’ve been involved in organising and building anti-Trump protests, lgbti+ rallies, the International Working Women’s Day rally

• I am proud to have supported and promoted various strikes including the Woolworths workers and NSW workers.

• I was the Refugee Rights Officer this year, through which I helped build and promote for the refugee encampment outside of Minister Tony Bourke’s office.

Georgia Murphy Social Work II

• I helped promote the student general meeting in 2024 to demand usyd divest from weapons companies

• I took part in the harbour bridge march for Palestine

• I took part in the Gaza encampment on the Quad lawns at usyd

• I helped promote the student strike for Palestine this year - built fake tesla at the protest outside tesla sydney”

Grace Jacobs Science/Advanced Studies II

Keiran Brand Arts/Advanced Studies II

Lawabogna Kenza Kinane Engineering I

[L] Penta for a Happier You Policy Statement

As a candidate for student council under Penta, I believe university should be more than just academics, but rather a space where students can learn, grow, and enjoy their campus life to the fullest. Our campus should empower us to not only succeed in our studies but also to explore who we are, build confidence, and express ourselves freely.

That’s why my focus is on wellbeing and practical support. On the wellbeing side, I want to create more opportunities for students to feel connected, balanced, and

confident. University should be a positive experience where everyone feels included and supported.

On the practical side, I believe in making everyday student life smoother and less stressful. Since we all depend so much on technology, I want to work towards better access to technical support and digital resources across campus—whether that’s more accessible help when something goes wrong, or smarter facilities that make our lives easier. By removing small frustrations, we can free up time and energy to focus on what truly matters: learning, connecting, and growing.

My vision is simple: a happier, more supportive campus where students can thrive academically and personally. Together, we can make university not only a place of learning, but a place of living.

CANDIDATES

Connie Wong Arts II

• Interned in Guest Relations and Food & Beverage at Grand Hyatt

• Front/ back of house volunteer of the Australian Fashion Week

• Information Booth Volunteer at Vivid Sydney Festival

Nina Cao Nursing II

• Academic merit award emirate in Royal Academy of dance examination of intermediate ballet

• Places place at Royal North for the hospital oncology ward piano

• Clinical Placement, RPA — Supported healthcare staff, observed patient care, and gained insight into hospital protocols and teamwork.

Christine Peng Science III

• SRC International Student Collective Officer& General executive 2025

• PASS facilitator 2023- now

[M] UNITE FOR A SAFER CAMPUS

Policy Statement

“Act as if what you do makes a difference” William James

USYD faces a humanitarian crisis. One that is so persistent, so horrifying, and so unsafe that it pervades not only moral and ethical standards, but our responsibility as a university to facilitate accessible and burden-free education.

Yes, I am talking about sexual misconduct on campus.

I don’t doubt that the mechanisms in place aren’t committed to doing a satisfactory job as they are. I know for a fact that some students have reported feeling more comfortable once their harasser has been dealt with by the formal channels.

But some little known fact of sexual misconduct channels is that it fails to tackle the softer, social undertones that reinforce

sexually aggravating behaviour everyday.

Sexually violent behaviour doesn’t just come from nowhere. People come to uni expecting to learn, and instead they face the possibility of having to stand up to their harasser, alone, because such predatory behaviour has evolved to become more subtle, more everyday, and thus harder to define in a report.

Such deceitful, underhanded everyday behaviour includes making perverse statements about another, causing humiliation through use of physical motions, the hazing or ritualistic games that lack transparency and cannot be backed out of once begun, and manipulating an individual through degrading and belittling statements/acts. This kind of conduct almost always indicates a future assault, and it’s high time we as a uni commit to ending the issue before it begins, rather than consoling only after.

The truth is that only 31% of all Australian adults who have experienced sexual assault in the last 12 months felt safe enough to report their assault to the authorities, according to ABS statistics made within the last 2 years. That’s disgusting, and its not okay.

CANDIDATES

Eleanor Low Arts/Advanced Studies I

• Gastrodiplomacy society vice president

• Health policy convenor

• Member of more than 62 clubs

• Avid USYD netballer

• Campaigner for the USU candidate Leo Moore

• I babysit 1-4 year olds every Friday

Liam Bird Arts/Advanced Studies III

• Stacks shelves at Coles

• Goes to gym every single day

Aaron Zhang Science/Advanced Studies III

• I am Aaron, an international student at the University of Sydney.

• Over the past 2.5 years, I have seen first-hand that our campus is not free from crime.

• Two years ago, my e-bike was stolen on campus — an experience that made me realise how vulnerable students can be when safety is not guaranteed.

• As a candidate with United for a Safe Campus, I believe every student deserves to feel secure while studying, socialising, or simply walking across campus.

• Safety is not a privilege, but a basic right.

• If elected, I will work to:

• Push for better lighting and CCTV coverage in key areas.

• Support more secure bike parking and transport facilities.

• Promote student awareness and safety programs.

• Together, we can build a safer, more supportive campus for everyone.

Rory Hollingsworth Arts II

• 2nd Year Bachelor of Arts student, majoring in American Studies and Film Studies

• Member of USyd ALP Club

• Honorary Member of USyd Gastrodiplomacy Society

[N] EXPLICIT for Student Life

Policy Statement

We are EXPLICIT in our belief that student life is the beating heart of our campus. We know that when student life at university is a safe and fun experience, student wellbeing thrives. The SRC should provide a forum for EXPLICIT dialogue for students to voice their views, and develop collective actions to realise our objectives. It is undeniable that student life is by no means what it was. But in recent years, we have seen a return to openness and vibrancy at our campus, which is a testament to the power of the

student body. It is time for the SRC to be EXPLICIT in its support for student life on campus.

Student SSAF fees fund the SRC, and therefore, the SRC should act as a facilitator of student life, by providing resources that enable students to enjoy a safe, accessible, and inclusive experience at uni. The SRC should provide free STI and HIV testing vending machines. Services like these are available at universities like UTS and Melbourne. Students should be able to have greater access to amenities, service provision, and resources from their student union.

We will advocate and fight for:

• Free pill testing kits available in the SRC

• Music festivals on campus in the offsemester period

• Walk-in student mental health counselling

• Expansion of the SRC $50 emergency loan service

• Improved campus lighting and a latenight shuttle-to-station service for Welcome Week

• A trauma-informed, compulsory gender-based violence prevention program that puts the voices and needs of victim-survivors at the centre

• Work with DANCEWIZE NSW to reduce drug based harm on campus

• Supply naloxone confidentially on campus

• Reduced prices at on-campus venues

• And Free STI and HIV testing vending machines.

STAND UP FOR STUDENTS, EXPLICITLY.

VOTE [1] EXPLICIT FOR STUDENT LIFE CANDIDATES

Evan Costa Economics (Honours) II

• Member of NLS

• USYD’s least stressed pre-honours economics student

• Member of Economics society 2024-

• Member of USYD run club 2025-

• Beverage Deployment Specialist (bartender)

• Fisher Library level 2 enthusiast

• Peaked in high school

D’Arcy Cooper-Ayres Liberal Arts and Sciences I

• Member of NLS

• Tired hospitality worker

• Member of the History Society

• Member of the Economics Society

• Member of the Sydney Arts Student’s Society

• Member of the Work and Organisational Studies Society

Stella O’Brien Arts/Advanced Studies I

• Current USyd Councillor

• Member of NLS

• 2024/5 Edcon & 2024 Natcon Attendee

• Volunteer for Student for Drug Reform

• Volunteer for Yes23

[O] IMPACT FOR FREE EDUCATION

Policy Statement

• Fight to Reverse the Job Ready Graduates Package

• Campaign for Free Education & Cancellation of Student Debt

• Fight for 50% SSAF allocation to student unions

• Campaign for the return of Universal Student Unionism

• Campaign on Climate Action & Fossil Fuel Divestment Fight to Cut Ties with Thales, - Weapons Manufacturing and the Military

• Campaign to Re-Invest Uni Surpluses in Staff and Education

• Get Rid of EXPENSIVE OLEs

• Fight Against AUKUS

IMPACT for FREE EDUCATION unequivocally stands against the University’s continued movement towards a corporatised tertiary education sector. With the university placing focus on increasing profits, casualisation of staff, and massive salary packages for the university’s upper management, now it is more important than ever that students call for a university that values staff, education, and the future of our world.

IMPACT will help continue the fight to reverse the 2020 Job Ready Graduates

Package that saw the decrease in funding for all students, as well as massive fee increases for students across faculties like Arts, Law, and Business. But we must go further than simply reversing the Job Ready Graduates Package; no one should have to pay to access tertiary study, which is why IMPACT is committed to campaigning for free, fully funded university, as well as the cancellation of all student debt. We shouldn’t have to pay to attend a public university.

IMPACT will work to bring an end to the university’s dodgy connections with the fossil fuel industry, weapons manufacturing, the military, and for all university surplus to be reinvested into teaching and education. The university should not profit from our fees, or industries that contribute to the destruction of our environment or the military industrial complex. This means continued campaigning on Climate Action, as well as upholding the long-held values that the student movement has championed since the Vietnam War days.

IMPACT will fight to allocate 50% of your Student Services Amenities Fees into real student unions like the SRC, which have been decimated by Voluntary Student Unionism and incessant cuts. Your SSAF fees shouldn’t be going to corporate neoliberal bodies like the USU or their board executives – they should be going into bodies which will fight for students and their welfare; bodies which can actually campaign and provide for students’ needs in lieu of the lack of support given by management. On top of this, we will campaign to bring back Universal Student Unionism, scrapped by the conservative Howard government, so that student unions can actually make a difference in uplifting the material conditions and improving the welfare of students.

IMPACT will fight to remove the dreadful, unpopular, time and money-wasting Open Learning Environment (OLE) units so that students can get back to studying what they actually signed up for in their degree. OLEs are a further measure the university has introduced that favours the corporate university model, profiting off our education. On the 23rd, 24th, and 25th of September, make sure you vote IMPACT for SRC, for an education-focused university!!!

CANDIDATES

Gerard Buttigieg Arts/Advanced Studies IV

• Australian Services Union Organiser

• Demsoc Member

• Labor Left Member

• History Society Member

• Greek Society Member

• VOTE 1 SARGUN FOR PREZ!

• VOTE 1 IMPACT FOR FREE EDUCATION!

• VOTE 1 IMPACT FOR NUS!

Rose Donnelly Arts V

• Young Labor Left Convener-Secretary

• SRC Councillor (2022)

• SRC Gensec (2024)

• SRC Vice President (2023)

• SRC SASH Officer (2022)

• USYD Fashion Revolution Society Member

• Managed and organised Foodhub within my role as Vice-President

• Campaign organiser for the Voice to Parliament

• SRC Presidential Candidate 2023 (literally a few votes off the win)

• VOTE 1 SARGUN SALUJA FOR PREZ!

• VOTE 1 IMPACT FOR FREE EDUCATION!

• VOTE 1 IMPACT FOR NUS!

Vincent Rummery Arts I

• Member of Labor Left

• Cricket Enjoyer

• Best BBQer in the business

• VOTE 1 SARGUN SALUJA FOR PREZ!

• VOTE 1 IMPACT FOR FREE EDUCATION!

• VOTE 1 IMPACT FOR NUS!

Jasper Sharpe Arts I

• Model UN Negotiations NSW Semi Finalist

• The UN Evatt Competition 2022 (round of 16)

• Duke of Ed (Gold award holder),

• Sydney University Debate Competition Intermediate Winner 2021 (as part of a school team).

• Fundraising volunteer for Salvation Army Red Shield Appeal (May 2023)

• Raised funds for community support programs

Red Tilly Arts III

REPRESENTATIVES TO COUNCIL

• Community Development Volunteer,

• Watarrka Foundation (Apr 2023), Worked on improving living conditions in remote Aboriginal communities near Kings Canyon.

• Fundraising Volunteer, Rough Edges (Oct 2023), Raised funds for homelessness support services in Sydney.

• Volunteer Packer, Thread Together (May 2023), Packed donated clothing for those in need.

[P] PENTA for Fun

Policy Statement

At Penta, we believe joy is essential! Our policy: Keep it light, inclusive, and playful.Whether through games, events, or spontaneous moments, we prioritize creativity, kindness, and laughter. No room for negativity—just good vibes. Respect boundaries, embrace quirks, and always leave room for dessert. Fun is mandatory; regrets are not!

CANDIDATES

Mia Zhang Science I

• International Student

• Penta for International Students

• Promote Equality

• Musical Performance & Modle United Nations

• Addicted to all kinds of interesting activities (Hiking, Tennis, Travel… Pick up and go!)

Dion Yu Project Management I

• International Student

• Penta for International Students

• Promote Equality

• Musical Performance & Board Game Organizer

• Love life, actively participate in various activities

[Q] GRASSROOTS FOR SRC

Policy Statement

GRASSROOTS FOR SRC are left-wing students committed to grassroots and community-led activism for feminist, queer rights, Palestine & global decolonisation, refugee rights, First Nations justice & sovereignty, and more. We recognise our status as settlers who work and organise on Gadigal Land, and who must commit to fighting for justice and land back.

For almost 100 years, the SRC has been students’ first line of defence against the corporate university, and a hotbed of progressive student movements. Every year, “hacks” from the major political parties run on big election promises, only to do no work once elected and to only use the SRC as a stepping stone into federal politics. GRASSROOTS (@usyd_ grassroots) has an extensive track record of opposing the major parties of government who continue to fail students and working people.

As students, we have built solidarity with USyd staff, local activist groups, trade unions, and other organisations to oppose Labor’s continued use of fossil fuels in a worsening climate crisis, fought against public housing demolitions, rallied for renter’s rights and battled for refugees to be granted permanent residency.

GRASSROOTS has a history of opposing university management and winning for students. On campus, we founded and expanded Foodhub, created and defended 5-day simple extensions, defeated 12-week semesters, opposed an onslaught of course cuts and mergers and stood in solidarity with staff on the picket fighting for better wages and conditions.

GRASSROOTS FOR SRC knows there is much to get done, and we are prepared to continue our legacy fighting for a better world and achieving wins for students with an independent student union filled with genuine, independent, and passionate representatives.

Students deserve more than USyd’s infamous interdisciplinary units and its nightmarishly flawed Special Considerations system that seems to punish students instead of support them. We have a large team behind us of student activists campaigning for housing justice, feminism, decolonisation, divestment and the arts.

Our policies include:

INCREASE THE SRC AS A FIGHTING FORCE

Fight against all forms of discrimination, including Islamophobia, antisemitism, and anti-Palestinian racism

Demand that the University’s Investment and Divestment policies include companies involved in Israeli apartheid and occupation, and all weapons companies Scrap the Campus Access Policy, the associated five new policies, and definitions of antisemitism that only exist to limit criticism of Israel

Safeguard against inevitable and ongoing course and staff cuts

Support staff with student contingents during the 2026 Enterprise Bargaining round

Make 2025/2026 the year we finally achieve Concession Opal Cards for international and part-time domestic students through a cross-campus campaign that forces the government’s hand, not just continuous petitions

Permanently protect 5-day simple extensions, force the University to fix the Special Considerations system

COMMUNITY CARE

Provide food hampers to the Con and Westmead campuses, and ensure equitable access to period products, second hand

textbooks, etc

SRC-led BBQs and bake sales that actually have halal, kosher, vegan, and GF options! Support FoodHub to have a larger range of products available delivered by paid staff, not volunteers

Make the University provide important services such as vaccinations, masks, STI/ STD tests

Reopen International House, demand that USyd stops selling off student housing Dismantle the elitist and sexist college system, demand more safe and affordable student housing

Increase awareness of sexual violence during welcome weeks (particularly to perpetrators and the institutions harbouring them)

Campaign to fix the reporting system, remove the gag order on victim-survivors

INCREASE SRC COLLABORATION

Collaborate with the Gadigal Centre on events and providing free services

Partner with local First Nations people and groups to increase awareness of the University’s colonial history and of the significance of Redfern

Work with Honi Soit to increase engagement with student media/unionism Formalise a partnership with the CSA and work on key projects (e.g. a bus from the Con to the Camperdown Campus)

Work with USU departments on key projects (e.g. free speech, course cuts, autonomous spaces)

VOTE [1] GRASSROOTS FOR SRC VOTE [1] GRACE FOR PREZ VOTE [1] GRASSROOTS FOR NUS VOTE [2] FREE PALESTINE FOR NUS VOTE [3] LEFT ACTION FOR NUS

CANDIDATES

Grace Street Arts (Honours) V

• She/her, member of USyd Grassroots!

• Studying Honours in French after finishing my Bachelors in International Relations and Political Economy

• 2025 SRC General Secretary, Sexual Violence Officer & Councillor

• Led and organised the SRC’s first FREE influenza vaccination scheme (2025)

• Introduced SRC Week 2025

• 2024 SRC Education Officer & Councillor

• Organiser of USyd Gaza Encampment, Student General Meeting, Scrap the CAP campaign (2024)

• Activist with Students for Palestine, Students Against War, BDS Youth,

Students Against Placement Poverty, Disabilities Collective, Women’s Collective, Queer Collective, Education Action Group, Welfare Action Group

• Writer of 20 Honi Soit articles!

• 2023 FrenchSoc President

• 2022 FASS Dalyell Student Mentor of the Year

• Childless cat lady with a cat tattoo

• Lover of techno and the woke left

• Met the Strokes backstage

• ADHD and chronic fatigue baddie

Vince Tafea Science IV

• Sāmoan (Solosolo) x Māori (Ngāpuhi |

Hao) on stolen Gadigal Land

• Raised in Penrith (#west #sydney brah, panthers 5peat otw)

• Independent camper at the 2024 USYD Gaza Solidarity Encampment (30 confirmed sleeps)

• @usyd_grassroots member since then because they were the socialists that didn’t give cult vibes

• BNOE (Big name on encampment)

• D1 hater of Labor (they were no where to be seen at the encampment and do fuck all for the SRC)

• Statistics & Psychology Major

• Disability Support Worker (20212023)

• ‘25 Disabilities Collective (DisCo) Convenor

• USYD PsychSoc ‘22 1st Year Rep, ‘23 Creative Director, ‘24 3rd Year Rep

• “”Agitator”” (campaigned against PSYC lecture attendance last year)

• Award winning Honi Soit writer (Best Education Piece 2024)

• I make R&B music (@vincetafea) and memes (@vincetafeamemes)

• Host of @yearn.fm (R&B Tuesdays @ 7pm on SURG FM)

• big uce

Jaseena Al-Helo Arts/Law II

• Dalyell Scholar, Bachelor of Arts / Bachelor of Laws (BA/LLB), University of Sydney

• Dean’s List (2024) - yes, I do actually read the readings (mostly times…)

• Member, Sydney University Law Society (SULS) Social Justice Committee

• Honi Soit reporter & winner of the

Ngāti

2025 Honi Writing Competition (Artificial Empathy)

• Co-interviewed Palestinian journalist Plestia Alaqad (The Eyes of Gaza)

• 2025 Emirates Literature Festival Youth Ambassador (University of Sydney representative in Dubai, UAE)

• Founder, Check Your Privilege Crates initiative (St Vincent de Paul Society)

• Caritas organiser - Winter Hampers, hygiene drives, Solomon Islands resources

• Advocacy work - invited to speak at protests, fundraisers, and recite original poetry for Palestine

• National-level tennis player (still not confident at the net)

• AMEB-certified saxophonist (all grades completed; but dare I say my favourite genre to play is classical… I know, sue me)

• Proud cat mum to two beautiful ragdolls: Porsha and her daughter (who is, of course, my child) Mercedes

• Fluent in Arabic & French; PalestinianAustralian committed to advocacy

• Showing up, because at the end of the day, because liberation isn’t optional

Benji Sestanovic

Arts (Arabic and French)/ Medicine II

• Studying Arts/Medicine student (French + Arabic major, future doctor with Médecins Sans Frontières, maybe future diplomat??)

• Language nerd: French, Arabic (fusHa + Levantine), Croatian, Macedonian, Latin (nerd)

• Annual volunteer in Tanzania on health checks program at The School of St Jude

• Two cats.

• 2023 Digitial Media Ambassador for USyd’s Experience the Arab World OLE in Jordan (peak life moment)

• Students for Humanity President (2024) - sending EdBoxes to PNG

• Tutor + debating coach (academic weapon)

• Piano connoisseur (forced to play Mozart for AMusA, born to play tiktok brainrot)

[R] PALESTINE ACTION FOR SRC

Policy Statement

There is a genocide in Palestine. Our government is complicit. Activists from Palestine Action have been leading the Palestine campaign this year. This year we organised the National Student Referendum on Palestine, which moved motions to condemn the Australian Government and Universities complicity and enabling of the genocide in Gaza. Activists from Palestine Action helped organise and build the March For Humanity across the Harbour bridge where 300,000 people attended to stand against our government’s complicity in the genocide.

We have run campaigns against the University of Sydney’s ties to weapons companies, enabling Israel’s war crimes, such as Thales, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon.

We have been consistent activists with Students for Palestine for over a decade at USYD, organising protests against the occupation and every escalation by Israel. We are proud to stand on the side of Palestinians and all peoples oppressed by colonialism.

We demand

The Australian government must sanction Israel

End to the two-way arms trade with Israel

Cut ties with Thales and all other weapons companies conducting research at USyd

Rescind all disciplinary measures taken against pro-Palestine students and staff

Disclose and divest all financial investments associated with the Israeli occupation

Implement a full academic boycott of Israeli universities

Free Palestine from the river to the sea Send Albanese to the ICC

Vote [1] for PALESTINE ACTION FOR SRC

CANDIDATES

Jasmine Al-Rawi Architecture IV

• Hi! I’m Jasmine. I’m one of your SRC Education Officers this year!

• I am the convenor of students for Palestine at USYD. I was an organiser of the student encampment for Gaza in 2024.

• I helped organise the March for Humanity across the Harbour Bridge which was attended by 300,000 people.

• I’ve been a core member of the Palestine Action Group for years.

• I organised an anti-Trump day of protest across the country.

• I supported striking workers. The junior doctors, nurses and Woolies workers.

Yoshi Leung Arts/Advanced Studies IV

• Hi I’m Yoshi, I’m one of the social justice officers in the SRC this year!

• I am actively involved with Students for Palestine and have been helping to organise the National Student Referendum on Palestine.

• I have also helped organise multiple student strikes, including two National Days of Protest against Trump and for Palestine.

• I was proud to march on the Harbour Bridge as part of the historic March for Humanity.

• I went to the Convergence on Canberra, demonstrations for Palestine at the U.S. consulate, Albanese’s office and outside the ALP conference.

• I took part in the historic USYD Gaza solidarity encampment in 2024.

• I Helped to organise the Student General Meeting the same year where 600+ students voted for our University to divest from weapons companies.

• I have helped to organise anti-Trump demonstrations including for LGBT rights and the first Tesla Takedown protest in Sydney.

• Supported workers strikes, namely the Woolworths distribution workers where I helped organise a strike fund and protest in solidarity.

• I attended the multiple nurses strikes against Chris Minns’ appalling offer of no more than a 3% pay increase.

• Supported the Sydney refugee Encampment for permanent visas outside Tony Burke’s office where for 100+ days.

• I think the SRC must be an activist body that stands up for the oppressed and organises against these injustices.

Tiana Moore Science/Advanced Studies III

• As an active member of Students for Palestine I aim to bring more and more students into the student movement against genocide.

• Whether that be through building the Gaza Solidarity encampment, events including forums and documentary film screenings, activist working bees, protests and votes

• Promoted protests for Palestine including the March for Humanity

across the Harbour bridge, student strikes for Palestine, and the protest of the NSW Labor conference

• Mobilised students to the Student General Meeting for Palestine and organised the national student referendum.

• I attended Woolworths worker picket and nurses strike in solidarity with workers fighting for better conditions

Sari Bare Arts/Advanced Studies I

• Since 2019, I have been actively organising campaigns demanding urgent action on climate change.

• I am a committed member of Students for Palestine, playing a role in organising and promoting Palestine solidarity activism.

• Helping to build the Student Strikes, coordinating the weekly pro-Palestine demonstrations at Hyde Park and Town Hall.

• Contributing to the 2025 March for Humanity across the Harbour Bridge, where 300,000 people marched in solidarity with Palestine.

Dahlia Maarbani Health Science I

Eva Sutherland Arts I

• I led the biggest high school student strike for Palestine in 2024 when I was in year 12

• I am an active member of Students for Palestine

• I was a part of the student encampment for Gaza at USYD in 2024

• I have campaigned around issues such as LGTBI rights, for refugees and for climate action

Devansh Julka Science I

Char Wendt Engineering IV

Sidra Arts (Honours) IV

[S] UNITE FOR STUDENT WELFARE

Policy Statement

University should be a place of learning, growing and building community, rather than a place we travel to just for classes and exams. We should be able to enjoy our campus without having to sacrifice our health, peace of mind and financial security. Especially now, too many of us are left to navigate student life while battling a cost of living crisis and student services that just don’t work.

Unite for Student Welfare is committed to changing that. We will:

Deliver Free Black & White Printing within a quota

Create More Sleep and Rest Spaces across campus for students balancing study, work, and life.

Stand in unity with Palestine and against genocide, apartheid and colonialism

Advocate for Concession cards for International Students

Defend 5-day Simple Extensions

Expand Health and Wellbeing Services, including better mental health services, free pill testing, and availability of period products in all bathrooms

CANDIDATES

Binam Shrestha Commerce/Law III

• Nepali Society Treasurer

• SULS APP Tutor for Contracts

• Business School Peer Mentor

• Outdoor enthusiast and new puppy parent

Luka Miletic Arts/Law I

• 1st Year LLB + Arts

• Dungeons and Dragons Dork

• St George Volunteering Enthusiast

Himani Gupta Commerce/Law III

• Network of Women (NOW) President

• Sydney University Law Society (SULS) Third Year Cohort Representative

• Sydney University Law Society (SULS) Marketing Coordinator

• Law Revue Cast Member

Cheri Hui Commerce/Law III

• Bachelor of Laws and Commerce, Third Year

• Treasurer of the Taylor Swift Society

• Business School Peer Mentor

• SULS Careers Guide Editorial Team

Parth Patel Commerce II

• Bachelor of Commerce, Second Year

• Director of Corporate Relations (SCCSIBC 2025)

• Admin team leader (ACE)

[T] DESIS FOR SARGUN

Policy Statement

We are Desis for Sargun – a group of students, friends, and peers who believe in community, courage, and care in student politics. We’re not professional politicians. We’re real students who have come together because we believe our friend Sargun Saluja should be the next SRC President and want to help her get there.

We stand with Sargun because we know her. We’ve seen her put in the work – on the USU Board, as Interfaith Officer, and in countless campaigns and societies –

and we’ve seen her stand up for students even when it’s hard. She’s passionate about making the SRC a space where all students, especially international students, feel represented and respected.

What we stand for

Our policies and values reflect both her leadership and the issues we care about as students ourselves. We believe the SRC should:

Fight for international student rights –Concession Opal cards, affordable housing, and stronger welfare support.

Stand up against xenophobia and racism –building an SRC that is actively anti-racist, inclusive, and supportive of all cultural communities on campus.

Push for affordability on campus – from $5 meals and free food programs to textbook exchanges, rent assistance, and better financial support services.

Support accessible education – fairer enrolment processes, stronger academic progression support, and career planning resources that actually work for students.

Champion climate action – tackling greenwashing, pushing USyd on sustainability, and making sure student voices are heard in environmental policy.

Back student activism – Free Palestine, drug reform, trans and sex worker rights, and movements that centre equity, dignity, and justice.

Improve student services – free legal advice, accessible mental health support, and stronger protections for casualised student workers.

Why vote for us

We’re here to back Sargun because we know she can deliver. She’s proven it – from organising Enviro Week to campaigning for Opal concessions, from working on affordable accommodation to supporting FoodHub and cultural fairs. She has lived the struggles that many of us face: paying rent, juggling work with study, and navigating endless admin errors. She understands what it’s like to feel overlooked and turned those challenges into fuel for change.

Change doesn’t happen alone. That’s where we come in. Our ticket is committed to helping Sargun’s presidential vision become a reality. We’ll work with her to campaign for the policies students need most, and bring our own experiences and creativity to the SRC.

We are for real students and by real students- we are IMPACT!!!

VOTE 1 SARGUN SALUJA FOR SRC PRESIDENT!

VOTE 1 DESIS FOR SARGUN!

VOTE 1 IMPACT FOR NUS!

CANDIDATES

Diva Sethi Science III

• Bachelor of Science Majoring in Psychology, minoring in Marketing

• Peer Support Leader at Discovery College

• Assistant Stylist at Body Basics & Co

• MAC Cosmetics Retail Artist

• LunaLae Marketing Intern

• Can speak fluent English and Hindi, alongside basic Mandarin and Spanish

Harshita Bhandari Commerce III

• Marketing Subcom: Ekansh 2023-2024

• Marketing Subcom: Sydney University Business Analystics Society 2023-2024

• Hobbies include debating, capturing moments through photography, and delving into the rich narratives of history!

Shunki Lai Business/Law III

• Member of SUBS

• LET’S GO SARGUN!

Juan Sontum Arts III

• BoulderSoc member

• LET’S GO SARGUN!

Lucas Leong Law/Commerce III

• Member of SULS

• Member of SEALS

• GO Sargun!!!

Rohan Dodhia Economics III

• Studying a Bachelor of Economics

• Sargun Saluja Fan

[U] The Restoration Party Policy Statement

We, the Restoration Party, offer our manifesto as follows:

We fundamentally uphold and testify to truth, justice, self-sacrifice, compassion,

and national pride as fundamental values to our Australian democracy. Student politics, however, has become increasingly polarised, and does not fully reflect any of these values. What do you think when you hear “student politics”? I’m sure you don’t think of an assembly of gentlemen and women engaged in civil debate. We have lost trust in our democratic political process, so much so that we are willing to take to the extremes. We have reached a point when people are afraid of voicing their opinion, for fear of the tyranny of a very vocal minority. But this fundamentally undermines democracy. Democracy is about listening to the other side, not belittling them as the scum of the earth, and instead it is about working together for our nation’s benefit.

Our party is committed to continual advocacy on poverty and homelessness domestically. While many in the SRC are commendably focused on the abominable mass suffering overseas, let us also ensure we ceaselessly attend to our many concerns at home. The cost of living is through the roof, with disposable incomes shrinking to 2014 levels, in addition to the effects of rapid inflation since the COVID-19 Pandemic, with only recent signs of easing. As such, the most unfortunate in our society have been hit hard. We have an obligation to care for our neighbour, whether at home or abroad, for “greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends” (John 15:13). Therefore, our party will seek to pass motions which will keep our Federal and State Governments accountable towards acting accordingly to confront this issue.

Furthermore, our party also aims to pass motions that will call on our Government to place diplomatic pressure in order to stop the despicable acts against particular minority groups that often do not get covered by mainstream media. An illustrative example of this is the Eastern Orthodox Church in Syria, who had suffered grievous losses at the hand of a terrorist attack on Mar Elias Church in June this year, and together with Alawite Muslims had been massacred in several assaults on their communities earlier this year. Just because it is not being covered in mainstream media sources, it doesn’t make it any less important than what is being covered. All life, irrespective of age, religion, race or gender is inherently precious.

Moreover, there is a grave flaw and imbalance in the allocation of total SSAF. As of 2025, over $3.5 million of SSAF funds in total is being spent in total towards “internal student politics and advocating students’ interests.” Whilst there is a place for advocacy and protest, the Restoration Party is sceptical as to where this money is going, and whether on its own will contribute towards the ends of justice which the SRC claims to be advocating in favour of. Hence, the party will move to redirect part of the SRC’s total funding towards initiatives which will contribute in a tangible and material way to any student and community concerned issue at hand. We will investigate options such as grants to homeless shelters and other philanthropic institutions, domestically and internationally.

Therefore, the Restoration Party wishes to revive a genuine spirit of democracy, and transform the SRC into a formidable lion that can create genuine impact on the

political and social environment in which it finds itself.

CANDIDATES

Lachlan Mansour

Politics, Philosophy and Economics I

• Work Experience at SIRA (2022)

• School Captain of St Euphemia College (2024)

• Year 11 Member of SRC at St Euphemia College (2023)

• Candidate for 2025 USU Board Elections (2025)

• 2023 Plain English Speaking Awards local finals (2023)

• Certificate of Recognition, participating in St Euphemia College becoming a finalist in the Global Changemakers School SDG Challenge (2023)

• Recipient of the Hon. Jihad Dib “Service To Others” Award (2024)

• Nominee for the Youth Community Service Award (Order of Australia, NSW Branch) (2024)

• Student Leadership Award (2024) for participating in the Blaxland Student Leaders Forum at WSU Bankstown, given by the Hon Jason Clare MP Regulus Lowe Politics, Philosophy and Economics I

• Language proficiency in: 1. English (Native) 2. Mandarin Chinese 3. Cantonese 4. German (Intermediate)

• 6 Years of experience of leadership roles in orchestras of Knox Grammar School (Y7 Wind Band, KSO, SWE.

• Drone Coach & Drone Mission Commander for 5 years in Knox Grammar School’s Cadet Tech Unit.

• Nominated as the MVP Debater across numerous matches in the 2023 NSW Chinese Debating Season, claiming Knox’s first victory.

• Served as a tutor and Co-Captain for the CDC to coach younger students across all year groups thereafter.

• Currently employed Knox Grammar School Coach for Chinese Debating Raymond Huang Education (Secondary) I

• High School Prefect

Pankaja Arun Weerasekara

Politics, Philosophy and Economics I

• As Head of the ‘Thomian Legion’ for the years 2023/24, I managed a team of around 10-15 employees whilst gaining valuable experience in planning & organizing.

• Assigning of responsibilities, production, transportation & distribution, inventory management, communication, logistics, cash handling, sales targeting & marketing.

• Customer relations skills, pre-order systems, social media engagement with Instagram, X, Facebook, YouTube.

• It is the largest student run page in Sri Lanka on Instagram dedicated to sporting activities.

• 32nd Interact District Conference 2023 of the Interact District 3220 -Organized the conference where the Chief Guest was the President of Sri Lanka.

• Soul’22 – Community Service Project - health camp and community service project to assist students and communities consisting of 1000+ people of Athale M/V, Kalutara.

• School Captain for the year 2020;

• Senior College Prefect 2022-2024;

• President Scout of the 16th Colombo Scout Troop;

• Member of the A-Team in English Debating;

• Vice President of Prep News;

• Chief Organizer of the Commerce Society;

• Secretary of the Interact Club;

• Best Project Proposal in the Pioneers Expo 2019 - (A rehabilitation and reconciliation mechanism for the North and East; Rowing; Athletics; Cricket; Scouting (College Colors);

• Swimming

[V] PENTA for Opal Concession

Policy Statement

Fair Fares, Fair Opportunities – Supporting International Students at the University of Sydney

Our campaign is built on a simple belief: every student, domestic or international, deserves equal access to affordable transport. If elected, our top priority will be to secure Opal concession cards for all students in NSW, without discrimination based on visa status.

International students already pay far more for tuition, accommodation, and visas than domestic students. On top of this, they are excluded from transport concessions and forced to pay double fares just to attend classes, work, and participate in campus life.

Every year, maximum transport fares rise, adding more financial strain. No student should have to choose between paying for a train ticket and buying groceries. Transport is a necessity, not a privilege.

This is not just about saving money — it’s about fairness and inclusion. International

students contribute enormously to our university and our state, culturally, academically, and economically. Equal transport access recognises their value and helps make NSW a truly welcoming place to study.

There is already proof we can make progress when people come together to support. On 9 May 2024, SUPRA’s petition for equal transport concessions reached the NSW

Legislative Assembly for debate. The public gallery was filled with students and supporters. Five members of parliament spoke in support, acknowledging the

importance of making NSW safe and welcoming for international students. While the Minister for Transport declined to act, this was a breakthrough moment — showing that when students unite, we can be heard.

In 2025, we have our strongest chance yet. The Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) has officially recommended that transport concessions be extended to all students. This is a powerful opportunity. If elected, I will work to ensure the NSW

Government acts on this recommendation immediately. We will organise campuswide petition drives, media outreach, and advocacy to keep public and political pressure high until change happens.

But transport is only part of the picture. We will also fight for:

• The reopening of International House – once a hub of affordable accommodation and cultural exchange, its closure has left a gap in student support. We will push for its return or a similar community-focused housing option.

• More affordable student housing –Sydney’s rental market is one of the most expensive in Australia, leaving students vulnerable to unsafe or overcrowded living conditions. We will press the university to expand affordable accommodation and work with local housing providers to secure fair rental schemes.

• A stronger international student community – We will advocate for better orientation programs, increased funding for international student societies, and more opportunities for domestic and international students to connect. If elected, we will:

• Lead the fight for Opal concession cards for all students.

• Hold the NSW Government accountable to IPART’s recommendation.

• Mobilise petitions, advocacy campaigns, and media coverage.

• Push for affordable, safe, and community-based housing for international students.

• Strengthen the cultural and support

REPRESENTATIVES

networks that make our university inclusive.

International students are not temporary guests — they are essential members of our community. They deserve the same rights and respect as domestic students. Fair transport fares are a first, crucial step towards recognising their contribution and easing the heavy financial pressures they face.

With your support, we can win fair fares, reopen vital community spaces, improve housing, and make the University of Sydney a place where all students truly belong.

CANDIDATES

Keshav Beswal Engineering I

• ISC Member (Events Department)

• International StudentCultural Head (High School)

• USYD Robotics

• Artist C Guitarist at times

• Chef at times

• Engineering Peer Mentor

Aaryan Kumar Mishra Engineering I

• International MUNs

• National Hackathon (INDIA)

• National Level football (INDIA)

• International Student

• USYD ROBOTICS

• PMSOC

Abhi Shetti Engineering I

• Engineering PEER mentor

• USU volunteer

• International Student

• Occasional Futsal Player

• Frequent sighting at Indian Soc parties

Kaif Masiuddin Mohammed Engineering I

• USYD ROBOTICS

• Member of SIRI

• International Student

• Scape Student Accommodation Tenant

• Volunteer animal care work

Dava Wildarmana Engineering I

• Worked on the Agile X Scout Mini rover for the ACFR

• A member of SUAVE

• Head of Logistics and Stage Crew in a play

• Abercrombie Student Accomodation Tenant

• Learner Guitarist

Davin Pranata Engineering I

• Temu Kolese (School Delegate)

• PT. Deon Saluran Berkat (Media Systems Intern)

• PPIA (Social Cultural Committee)

• Engineering Peer Mentor

• Canisius Examen Community (President)

• Canisius College Cup (Head of Music Department)

• SparkEd (Head Tutor)

[W] GRASSROOTS FOR FEMINISM

Policy Statement

GRASSROOTS FOR FEMINISM firmly believes that our campus must be free from sexual violence and we are committed to fighting for it. We seek feminist liberation for all, not liberal feminism – this includes

all of our trans and queer siblings, and extends across all intersecting identities and backgrounds. We have to fight the rise of the far-right and conservatives looking to crack down on all of our rights and freedoms.

We recognise the importance of fighting for a Free Palestine and Land Back across the world.

Right now, First Nations women in socalled ‘Australia’ are still having children ripped away from them by the state and are disproportionately impacted by a lack of abortion and healthcare services,

Our government and institutions are allowing Israel to carry out genocide in Gaza. Pregnant people in Gaza are enduring C-sections in makeshift hospitals without anaesthetic or painkillers, while Israeli bombs rain down. In addition, the UN estimates that nearly 700,000 Gazans with menstrual cycles are facing a crisis of menstrual hygiene, with no access to proper sanitary items, clean water, or dignity. GRASSROOTS FOR FEMINISM is committed to centering Palestinian voices in the collective pursuit for feminist liberation.

The SRC and its Women’s Collective (WoCo) have a strong legacy of vital work such as organising a counter-protests to the annual anti-abortion ‘Day of the Unborn Child’ event, organising Reclaim & Resist Week with feminist events and workshops, and most recently working with the Greens to introduce a bill to parliament to overturn the status of the USyd colleges in state legislation. GRASSROOTS FOR FEMINISM knows the importance of having a radically left-wing feminist organising space and a student union behind it.

Sexual violence runs rampant on our campus and our university is completely apathetic to ending it, instead focusing on tokenistic gestures and PR stunts. At USyd, reporting sexual assault and/ or sexual harrassment (SASH) entails survivors being strangled by gag orders and little resolution for the victim survivor. GRASSROOTS FOR FEMINISM calls upon the university to prioritise trauma informed, victim-centred justice.

In the Sexual Misconduct Annual Report for 2024 released last month, the University is still abysmally failing survivors, Like last year and previous years. Only a handful of complainants (those lodging a formal complaint – rather than a disclosure –to the university) had their complaints substantiated through disciplinary action against perpetrators. A number of complaints were withdrawn, the average time for a resolution was over a month and a half for students, and only 4 of the 231 total complaints and disclosures were resolved through assisted resolution. A number of complaints ‘could not be substantiated’ by the university, a far cry from our demand that survivors be unconditionally believed.

The University of Sydney continues to back and enable sexual violence and harrassment by refusing to do anything about the residential colleges, where we regularly hear of the horrific stories of hazing and harrassment that take place in those halls. It was less than a year ago that we saw firsthand the ripping up of the Red Zone Report by college kids. The USyd

Colleges are bastions of misogyny, elitism, homophobia and racism and GRASSROOTS FOR FEMINISM is committed to replacing colleges with highly affordable student housing. We also recognise that students who have experienced sexual violence are more likely to drop out of university due to a lack of support, which can mean losing access to their student accommodation. In our fight to abolish the colleges, we are committed to ensuring housing stability for victims of sexual violence.

If elected, GRASSROOTS FOR FEMINISM will be a proudly progressive, pushing for:

• A campus free from sexual violence.

• Reform of the sexual violence reporting system and gag clause

• The abolition of the elitist and sexist college system.

• A Reclaim & Resist Week that recognises the importance of intersectional feminism.

• First Nations and Palestinian voices at the fore of feminist activism.

VOTE [1] GRASSROOTS FOR FEMINISM

VOTE [1] GRACE FOR PREZ

VOTE [1] GRASSROOTS FOR NUS

VOTE [2] FREE PALESTINE FOR NUS

VOTE [3] LEFT ACTION FOR NUS CANDIDATES

Tara

Marocchi

Arts I

• Activist, 2023 -

• 2025 SRC Environment Officer

• Member, History Society 2025

• Radical Sydney connoisseur

Maxine McGrath Arts/Advanced Studies II

• She/They, member of Students Against War and USyd Greens

• Bachelor of Arts/Advanced Studies, Majoring in Political Economy and International Relations

• Activist with Students Against War and Solidarity

• Camped at the USyd Gaza Encampment for 13 nights

• Helped organise National Day of Action

for Palestine 2024 and both Student General Meetings

• Spoke at two different Palestine rallies

• Got yelled at in the Melbourne State Library for wearing a Free Palestine pin

• Survived as the sole leftist in Bathurst

• That one friend who’s too woke

• Like if a filmbro was a Wasian princess

• Took High School Debating way too seriously

• Chronic bullet journaller

• Filled with autistic girl swag

Citta P. Commerce I

• Pronouns: she/her

• Studying Political Economics & Marketing

• Believes that feminism is equality for all! <3

• Loves Beabadoobee circa 2020 (love a good guitar jamming session!)

• Has a strong passion for cooking

• Partners with UNICEF for cooking fundraisers (Cook for Kids!)

• Member of USYD’s media crew

• Internship at Abbott (August 2022)

• High Scope Model United Nations Director (October 2023)

• AFS Global Changemaker (March 2022)

• AFS Global You Adventurer Program (August 2021)

• Community Service at local mosque (May 2023)

• Community Service at local orphanage (March 2019)

• Youth Business Summit Competition at New York - Bronze awardee (April 2023)

• Virtual Company Indonesia Pitching Competition - Gold awardee (February 2023)

Ishbel Dunsmore Arts/Engineering VI

• 2023 Education Officer

• 2022 Enviro Officer

• 2025 Sexual Violence Officer

• Organiser, USyd Gaza Solidarity Encampment

• RAFFWU member, 2021-

• Member of many SRC collectives, 2020-

• Grassroots ‘til I die

Martha Barlow Law IV

• 2025 Women’s Officer

• 2025 SRC Councillor

• 2024 Sexual Violence Officer

• 2024 SRC Councillor

• 2024 Chair of Standing Legal

• 2025 Greens Club secretary

• 2025 Law Revue President

• 2024 Law Revue Producer

• 2023 Law Revue Director

[X] Con Students 4 SRC

Policy Statement

Students at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music deserve a strong voice on the Sydney University SRC. If elected Con Students 4 SRC will be this voice, advocating for the interests of music students not only at the Con, but around Australia.

Our platform for SRC:

• Fair funding for student life at the Conservatorium: At the moment, students at the Conservatorium of Music collectively pay around $400,000 a year in Students Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF). These fees are used to provide services and amenities on main campus which few of us access. The Conservatorium Students Association (CSA), meanwhile, suffers from a severe lack of funding and carries the full responsibility of supporting student life at the Conservatorium. Con Students 4 SRC will fight to see fair funding for the CSA and Conservatorium student life.

• Formalisation of the relationship between the SRC and CSA.

• Decentralised counselling and student services: Given its status as a separate campus, Conservatorium students should have access to separate legal, counselling and student advisory services. Conservatorium students currently access these university and SRC services at a disproportionately low rate given their distance from the Conservatorium Campus.

• Maintenance of music school buildings & facilities: The Conservatorium Building has mould issues and the exterior needs restoration works. Maintenance and cleanliness issues have also been raised by music students studying at the Seymour Centre. Con Students 4 SRC will insist that the university act on these issues to ensure the health and safety of music students.

• Consultation with music students over changes to degree programs: There has been a lack of consultation with the student body over changes to degree programs and a possible new Parramatta campus. Con Students 4

SRC will investigate these changes and communicate them to the Conservatorium student body.

• More student spaces and creative opportunities: Con Students 4 SRC will fight for more wellbeing/common spaces for music students and creative opportunities, such as Con Revue.

CANDIDATES

Hugo Ceran-Jerusalemy Music Composition II

• Intercampus Officer (2025) of the Students’ Representative Council

• Pasifika Officer (2024-25) of the Conservatorium Students’ Association

• Student Future Leaders for Gender Equality (2021-2023)

Sara McNally

Music Composition/Advanced Studies II

Jude Donahue

Music Composition/Advanced Studies II

Henrik Hogg

Music Composition/Advanced Studies II

Jamison Houchell Music Education II

[Y] FREE PALESTINE & DECOLONISE

Policy Statement

YOUR VOTE MATTERS. Our struggle is intertwined!

We are witnessing an increase in settlercolonial violence clearly targetted towards First Nations & Indigenous people around the world — from here in so-called Australia, with Black Deaths in Custody, such as the murder of Kumanjayi White, increased powers for policing, neoNazi rallies; to overseas in Turtle Island (America) with ICE raids and deportation of people of colour and migrants; to all of occupied Palestine, with genocide and apartheid in full force in Gaza, the West Bank, and 48 territories. We are keenly aware of the necessity for the fight for intersectional, decolonial struggle.

Free Palestine & Decolonise is a left-wing ticket committed to decolonial struggle and the call for LAND BACK. In the words of Audre Lorde, “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.” We believe in the complete abolishment of settlercolonial systems and in the fight for selfdetermination of Indigenous people on lands, waters, and skies.

Our SRC should match the urgency of this rise in violence and commit its resources

to standing in solidarity with all oppressed peoples under colonialism, and to call on our local communities, government, and the University of Sydney (students, staff, admin, and the institution as a whole) to be active accomplices in the dismantling of these systems.

Free Palestine & Decolonise will:

• Advocate for Paying the Rent by campaigning for USyd to contribute regularly to mutual aid, such as the Mob Strong Fund, and finance First Nations fundraisers and organisations

• Mobilise for First Nations struggle, and commit to backing and putting resources towards rallies called by Bla(c)k organising groups and call-outs, like campaigns against Black deaths in custody and ending out-of-home “care”

• Protest against the Campus Access Policy 2025

• Fight to ensure the University of Sydney cuts ties with and divests from weapons companies, namely Thales

• Fight to make the University of Sydney divest from all companies and institutions complicit in apartheid and settlement expansion in Palestine

• Platform global decolonial struggle, including in West Papua, Kanaky, Western Sahara, in Turtle Island (America), supporting grassroots rallies and initiatives

• Fight against the institutionalisation of pro-colonial and anti-Palestinian prejudice, including opposing the politicised definition for anti-semitism recently imposed by Universities Australia.

• Protest against the Flag Policy 2025

• Advocate for the right to freedom of speech for all students and staff.

• Educate and provide resources to our communities and collectives (autonomous and non-autonomous) to support, uplift, mobilise, and upskill our efforts in struggle

VOTE [1] FREE PALESTINE & DECOLONISE

VOTE [1] GRACE FOR PREZ

VOTE [1] FREE PALESTINE FOR NUS

VOTE [2] GRASSROOTS FOR NUS

VOTE [3] LEFT ACTION FOR NUS CANDIDATES

Dana Kafina Arts/Science II

• Community organiser

• School Strike 4 Climate organiser 2021 — 2023

• Global Solidarity officer 2025

• Ethno-cultural officer & ACAR convenor 2025

• BDS Youth organiser 2023 — present

• Disabilities Collective member 2024 — present

• USyd QoCo member 2024 — present

• APAN intern 2025

• Surg.FM host @3ain.fm

• Artist & workshop facilitator @ biteapearl

• Hardcore enjoyer & really annoying about it

• Western Sydney #ParramattaRepresent

• Self-hating anarchist (?)

• T1 train taker

• D1 crashout

Kayla Hill Arts III

• Ethnocultural Officer & ACAR Coconvenor (2025)

• Editor of ACAR Honi (2025)

• Member of the Autonomous Collective Against Racism (2024-)

• Member of the Disabilities Collective (2025)

• Editor of Disabled Honi (2025)

• Director of Rainbow Cumberland (2024-)

• Youth Advisor for Twenty10 (2024-)

• FASS Peer Mentor (2024)

• Member of School Strike 4 Climate (2019-2023)

Pimala Leo Arts II

• Member, Autonomous Collective Against Racism (2025-)

• Contributor, ACAR Honi 2025

• Trade unionist

• RAFFWU Member

• Shorter than everyone you know, 2014Imane Yamina Lattab Science III

• Studying Psychology and Data Science.

• Science Lead Mentor for 2025.

• Careers sub-com member of PsychSoc.

• Wrote for ACAR Honi 2025 edition.

• Volunteer research assistant for the Sydney University Psychology of Intergroup Relations lab.

• Stalwart ally for all social justice issues (step aside, Ethan Klein).

• WOKE is back in a big way!

• Wants to ban “Jubilee” videos from campus WiFi networks.

• 100% Algerian with resistance running through my veins.

• Loud and proud Canterbury-Bankstown resident (2200 brother, born n raised).

• Advocate for systemic change in mental health.

• Decolonise your f***ing psychology!

• Wants to “”dismantle the mandatory lecture system”” to “Make Psychology Great Again!”.

• Palestine must be, will be, Inshallah, FREE!”

Maryam Alz Oral Health II

[Z] FREE PALESTINE & DIVEST

Policy Statement

FREE PALESTINE & DIVEST is a group of left-wing students fighting for our university to cut ties with genocide.

Universities should be free and responsible public institutions that are dedicated to learning, debate and community. Instead, our university has raised its fees and lowered its standards, slashing courses, staff and support workers. They’ve used this money and student research to support militarism and imperialism around the globe, including the ongoing genocide in Palestine.

USyd’s investments and partnerships with companies like Thales, Woodward, Safran and Airbus make it complicit in these crimes. For instance, it is Thales who creates the Watchkeeper 35 drones used to surveil and kill Palestinians in Gaza. Yet, USyd has a Memorandum of Understanding with Thales, one of the largest weapons companies in the world, and our Uni’s longest serving and most recent Chancellor, Belinda Hutchinson, also sits on the board of Thales Australia.

USyd also has partnerships and research located on campus – the Nano Institute houses Ben Eggleton’s research group that partners with companies like L3Harris and Lockheed Martin, whose weapons are being used by Israel right now. FREE PALESTINE & DIVEST staunchly opposes the militarisation of tertiary education. We will not rest until USyd divests from weapons and arms manufacturers.

But we can’t stop there. Unfortunately, USyd’s investments go well beyond companies that profit from the slaughter of Palestinians. Despite claiming to be committed to sustainability and environmental action, USyd is deeply complicit in the climate crisis. 11% of its total investment portfolio – a total of 35 companies – are from the fossil fuel and minerals sector. Among these climate criminals are Rio Tinto, which obliterated sacred First Nations sites in Juukan Gorge in 2023, and BHP, which admitted to underpaying its workers for 13 years.

Then there’s USyd’s ties to the gambling industry. My God. As if it couldn’t get any worse. USyd has millions invested in companies that manufacture pokie machines, which it says does not compromise its research into reducing gambling harms. Sure mate. That’s why Aristocrat shows up at the Careers Fair every year. Even once you look past the weapons, drilling and the gambling, you can find that USyd even has investments in UnitedHealthCare, which is infamous for its 32% insurance denial rate. #FreeLuigi.

Luke Mesterovic, the tickethead of FREE PALESTINE & DIVEST, is the 2025 SRC Education Officer. He has been involved in activism on campus since 2021, being involved in campaigns such as the 2022 staff strike campaign and the 2024 Gaza Solidarity Encampment, while also organising against course cuts, USyd’s ties to weapons companies like Thales and the assault on free speech on campus through the Campus Access Policy (CAP).

Our University’s investments are reprehensible, but they are not permanent. We know that with continued, targeted and direct action we can make it impossible for management to justify using our fees to keep pokies running, fossil fuels burning and bombs dropping. A better world exists – we just have to fight for it.

FREE PALESTINE & DIVEST is a left-wing ticket committed to:

• Recognising our status as settlers on stolen Lands, fighting for justice for all oppressed peoples, from Gadigal to Gaza

• Fighting against all forms of discrimination, including Islamophobia, antisemitism, and antiPalestinian racism

• Upholding the strategy and vision of the BDS movement and its three core demands;

1. End the occupation, dismantle the apartheid Wall 2. Full equality for Arab-Palestinians 3. Respecting and protecting the right of return for Palestinian refugees

• Increasing the SRC’s role in and support of Palestine activism both on and off-campus, in building a mass student movement to work with grassroots and Palestinian-led campaigns

• Supporting students and staff unfairly facing academic misconduct and punishment for their roles in activism for Palestine, through solidarity campaigns and the caseworker andlegal services of the SRC

• Continuing the fight for free education, and for a university that isn’t using student fees to invest in companies that cause real societal harm.

Luke Mesterovic Arts V

• Vice President, Sydney University Greek Society (2022-2023)

• SRC Education Officer (2025)

• Editor, Honi Soit (2023)

• Contributor, Honi Soit (2021 -)

• Wog

• Contributor, Pulp (2022 -)

• Politics and Theatre major

• DO YOU HAVE A CAT BUT NEED SOMEONE YOU TRUST TO TAKE CARE OF IT WHEN YOU’RE AWAY?

• CONTACT ME, LUKE MESTEROVIC, AT LUKESDISCOUNTCATSITTING@ YAHOO.COM FOR AFFORDABLE AND TRUSTED CAT SITTING SERVICES

Aqsa Suryana Arts V

• International and Comparative Literary Studies major :)

• born and raised in Jakarta, Indonesia <3

• i write, produce, direct, and act! Mostly in SUDS. I <3 theatre

• big fan of cats. I have a cat she’s super mean and her name is Monty i love her

Leila Haddad Arts (Honours) IV

• Usyd Greens on Campus Member

• Program Facilitator for community groups including Department of Veterans Affairs and Wreck Bay Aboriginal Community Council

• Knife maker and instructor

• Fundraising for ACT Palliative Care

• Keynote speaker at YWCA annual meeting, ACT pharmacy guild women’s day, and WAW events

• Frequent protest goer

• Master sheep wrangler

• President of the Victoria Park Smoko Association (VPSA)

• Heavy vehicle licence possessor

Jonah Holmes Arts I

• Part-time healthcare worker, full-time proponent of peaceful universities

• Enjoying taking the slow lane through my tertiary education

• Always happy to chat about USYD’s ties to weapons companies, Papua New Guinean politics, insane culture wars or Indiana Jones

[AA] PENTA for Cheaper Transport

Policy Statement

International students form a vital part of our university community, enriching campus life with diverse perspectives, cultures, and talents. However, many face a persistent and often overlooked challenge: disproportionately high transportation costs. Unlike most domestic students, international students are excluded from key public transport concessions, forcing them to pay full fares every day. Over the course of a semester, this can create a significant financial burden—limiting access to classes, extracurricular activities, and the wider community.

Our SRC election team believes that affordable transport is not a privilege, but a necessity for every student. We are committed to addressing this inequity through proactive advocacy and strategic partnerships. This includes engaging directly with transport authorities, collaborating with local businesses, and lobbying for government and institutional support to introduce targeted fare subsidies for international students.

Furthermore, we aim to attract both public and private investment to create sustainable, long-term assistance programs. By reducing transport costs, we can empower international students to participate more fully in academic, professional, and social opportunities, strengthening the entire university community.

Our message is simple: no student should be disadvantaged because of where they come from. We will work tirelessly to make affordable transport a reality for all.

CANDIDATES

Lanlan Huang Science I

• Long-term volunteer in RSPCA, AIESEC and Taylors College. Dedicated to animal welfare and human wellbeing.

• Scholarship Award Recipient for ViceChancellor

• Scholarship and Merit Scholarship; A member of Dalyell Scholar Program

• Open Water and Advanced Open Water Scuba Diver(certificated by PADI)

• Silver awards for British Biology Olympiad and USA-China BioOlympiad

• Being a Teaching Assistant in EIC Academy

Xinyun Wang Education I

• Choral Member – 6 years in school and community choirs, performed in multiple national and international concerts

• Library Volunteer – Served during summer and winter breaks for 3 consecutive years, assisting in cataloging, reader services, and community programs

• Elderly Care Volunteer – Participated in regular community visits, events, and support activities for senior citizens

Dora Huang Science I

• Demonstrated strong leadership and adaptability through prior experience in the school journalist team

• Volunteered at school sports competitions, assisting with event coordination and logistics

CC Qin

Media and Communications I

• Organised and participated in a high school charity auction featuring handmade crocheted dolls, raising funds for donation to community causes.

• Passionate about nature, with a personal interest in cultivating plants and observing birds.

• Actively engaged in numerous volunteer activities, contributing to community events, environmental initiatives, and social support programs.

[AB] Sanction Israel Now Policy Statement

FOR AN SRC THAT FIGHTS FOR PALESTINE and DEFENDS EDUCATION

The hundreds of thousands who marched over the Harbour Bridge last month show the scale of popular outrage over Israel’s atrocities. Most students and Australians want an end to Gaza’s starvation, but Albanese and USyd Vice Chancellor Mark Scott continue to support the horror.

Israel’s genocide in Gaza is aided by crucial F35 jet parts made in Australia and intelligence fed from Pine Gap spy base in the NT. On campus, USyd Vice Chancellor Mark Scott maintains partnerships with institutions that enable Israel’s war crimes while he tries to silence criticism of Israel by smearing us as antisemitic and introducing draconian anti-protest and anti-free speech rules.

USyd partners with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJ), sending students on exchange to their Mount Scopus campus which is built on illegally occupied Palestinian land in East Jerusalem. USyd grants up to $5000 to students to go on a medical exchange with the Technion, who developed the technology for the remotecontrolled D9 bulldozers demolishing Palestinian homes. And USyd maintains research partnerships with genocideprofiteering weapons companies like Thales, Lockheed Martin, and Safran.

Mark Scott has banned announcements at the start of classes, has placed new restrictions on our right to put up posters, and has made encouraging students to break the anti-protest rules an offence in itself! The day after the historic bridge march, USyd management removed a Palestine flag flying from a staff member’s office window. When other staff members displayed the Palestine flag from their windows, they too were issued notices that their flags would be removed.

Unis have become the front line in the wider ideological war against criticism of Israel. The spread of Gaza solidarity encampments around the world last year showed how students can ignite wider social struggle. By repressing Palestine solidarity on campuses, the government and Uni bosses hope that the broader movement for Palestine will also be silenced. We need an SRC that puts up the strongest possible resistance to this.

By campaigning to cut ties with Israel we can draw even more students and workers into actively fighting for sanctions on Israel and a free Palestine. It was protests by students and staff last year that forced USyd to cut its exchange program with the Bezalel Academy in Israel who were sewing uniforms for IDF war criminals in Gaza. To cut the rest of the exchange programs USyd has we will need many more students actively involved with the campaign through Students Against War.

Last semester, a 200-strong Student General Meeting organised by SAW voted against the newly adopted Universities Australia definition of antisemitism, a definition which equates criticism of Israel with antisemitism. This semester we have organised an ‘eyewitness to genocide’ forum with a midwife from Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital to build opposition to USyd’s medical exchange program with the Technion, and we’ve backed the NTEU’s National Day of Action for Palestine, deepening the links between staff and students. Our campus protest tours have exposed the locations of USyd’s collaboration with Israeli apartheid.

Activists in Sanction Israel Now don’t just want votes, we want as many students as possible to get involved so we can build the movement and force USyd and the government to cut ties. We want you to vote for us so radical pro-Palestine voices are represented in the SRC, and so the SRC’s resources are used to fight uni management and back the Palestine campaign.

The Labor government is prosecuting its agenda of militarism through unis by tying university funding to programs that will train the workforce needed to staff the AUKUS nuclear submarines. Uni bosses are happy to accommodate by slashing arts courses that encourage critical thinking and cutting over 3500 uni jobs. To combat this militarism, we need a fighting SRC that stands unflinchingly for a free Palestine.

Voting in the SRC elections won’t be enough to cut the ties. But the elections can raise political awareness and draw more students into the movement to make USyd an apartheid free zone. Vote for Sanctions Israel Now and join Students Against War to fight for a university that is more than a degree factory; one that values critical education and fights to free Palestine.

VOTE [1] SANCTION ISRAEL NOW FOR SRC AND NUS

VOTE [1] ANGUS FOR PREZ

LONG LIVE THE INTIFADA CANDIDATES

Angus Dermody Arts/Advanced Studies VI

• Member of revolutionary socialist organisation Solidarity

• Member of Students Against War

• Involved in the campaign to cut USYD’s ties with Israeli apartheid and genocide. Part of the encampment, involved in passing motions to cut ties, back Palestinian right to resistance.

• Been a part of many other campaigns on this campus fighting course cuts and fee hikes, supporting staff strikes on the picket lines, organising for climate action, and more

• Also active off campus in any fight for a better world

• Known on a first-name basis by USYD security

• Identified by the Daily Telegraph as an ‘intifada socialist

Vieve Carnsew Arts (extended) III

• Member of Students Against War and Solidarity.

• Picketed during the USYD staff strikes in 2022 and 2023.

• Joined the sit in to save NCIE in 2022.

• Been involved with protests for Palestine since 2021.

• Joined the sit in to protest Tel Aviv Uni representatives promoting their exchange program, which successfully caused them to shut down their stall.

• Been involved with campaigns/protests run by the Queer Action Collective.

• Helping to gather 1000 signatures calling on USYD to revoke disciplinary action against Luna, a transgender asylum seeker student, for writing “from the river to the sea”.

• Organised and spoke at the Student General Meeting last year opposing USYD’s new antisemitism policy which tries to restrict any criticism of Israel.

• Involved in the Gaza solidarity encampment last year.

Bri Akins Social Work/Arts IV

• Member of Students Against War, building a fighting movement to mobilise the student/staff in the struggle for Palestine and against Australian imperialism

• Built two historic Student General Meetings support Palestinian liberation from river to sea and our university to cut ties and drop its definition of antisemitism

• Twice linked arms with comrades to blockade Israeli shipping company ZIM from being loaded at Port Botany

• Member of Soldiarity, a revolutionary socialist org building working class power to fight for a better world

Miriam Sattar

Bachelor of Speech

Therapy and Fine Arts I

• Proud member of Students Against War

• Active in Palestine campaigning on and off campus

• Built for and spoke at last semesters Student General Meeting that was successful in rejecting the new antisemitism definition.

• Protested against IDF on our campus

• Build for and attended many other rallies and speak outs organised by SAW fighting to cut USYD’s ties and resist anti-protest policies

• Converged in Canberra

• Gets out of bed early (sometimes) to poster at 8am

Wasmiya Alashour Science II

• Member of Students Against War

• Member of revolutionary socialist organisation Solidarity

• Helped organise the Student General Meeting last semester against the IHRA-like antisemitism definition

• Helped in campaign to cut the exchange program with Bezalel which sews uniforms for the IOF.

• Protested the IOF being invited into management’s F23 boardroom last semester

• Trying to get the wider campus involved to build the movement for Palestine

• Campaigning against the medical exchange program with Israel’s Technion institution, a university fundamental to the massacres of Palestinians.

• As students we need to make Palestine something the university and Mark Scott can’t ignore. No more support for genocide.

Arno Huang

Electrical Engineering (Honours) I

• Member of anti-war progressive student organisation Students Against War in campus

• Attended, built for and spoke at Student General Meeting 2025 in support of Palestine

• Active in Palestine campaigns in campus to urge the management to cut all ties with Israel

• Supporting one single, secular and democratic State of Palestine

• Chinese internationalist and socialist Paul Kaletsis Education (Primary) IV

• Member of Students Against War (SAW) fighting for an end to the militirazation of our campuses.

• Cut all ideological and material ties with Israeli universities and other institutions complicit in genocide

• Member of Solidarity, a revolutionary socialist organisation with branches across Australia.

• We organise on our campuses and in our workplaces to build working class power and politics to smash the capitalist system

• Participated in the Zoom pickets for staff pay and conditions during the last strike round

• Participated in the peaceful protest against Tel Aviv Uni, an institution that has a collaborative partnership with the IDF.

• Sending the message that students don’t want to go on exchange to universities complicit in genocide

• Participated in the Gaza Solidarity Encampment and various other protests on and off campus

Sofia Pluciennik Science/Advanced Studies II

• Proud member of Students Against War bringing the fight to free Palestine to usyd campus and Australia

• Been part and organising student activism since the age of 13

• Participated in countless free Palestine protests both in Australia and in Brazil (my home country)

• Promoted and attended both SGMs

• Spoke at the SGM supporting a one state solution and against the new Antisemitism definition, as a student coming from a Jewish family

[AC] SCIENCE FOR SRC Policy Statement

Hi everyone, we are SCIENCE FOR SRC, a collective of science students dedicated to making your university experience more supportive, inclusive and enjoyable. We are running because we believe the SRC should deliver real improvements to everyday student life, from the classrooms and labs where we study, to the food and facilities we use every day.

SRC Services & Campus Life

Advocate for more food outlets around the science buildings, giving students accessible, affordable options between classes and labs.

Push for the installation of more water filling stations across campus, ensuring basic student needs are met in a sustainable way.

Continue fortnightly free BBQs and community events to bring students together and strengthen campus culture.

Academic Fairness

End non-calculator mathematics exams, recognising that they do not reflect real-world STEM practice and create unnecessary barriers for students.

Introduce an anonymous student forum for unit reviews, so students can give open and constructive feedback without fear of repercussions.

Advocate for more accessible learning resources, fairer assessment structures and student voices in faculty-level decisionmaking.

Equity and Inclusion

Campaign for travel concessions for international students, recognising the financial pressures many face and the inequity of the current system.

Push for better multilingual and culturally appropriate support services within the SRC.

Work to ensure financial, cultural or social barriers do not prevent students from accessing academic or social opportunities on campus.

Community and Representation

Strengthen collaboration between science societies, equity networks, and the SRC to ensure science students’ voices are represented in key decisions.

Provide more platforms for students to showcase their achievements in research, innovation and advocacy.

Foster a culture of inclusion and equity across all faculties, ensuring the SRC works for every student.

We are running because we believe the SRC should put students first, delivering changes that matter, whether that’s improving study conditions, making campus life more affordable or ensuring fair academic policies.

CANDIDATES

Yueqin (Yuki) Wang Science I

• Dedicated to advancing equity, inclusion, and student engagement through leadership, representation, and community-driven initiatives

• First Year Representative, Sydney University Data Society: organised workshops, industry panels, and represented first-year perspectives.

• First Year Representative, Sydney University Women in Science Society: advocate for women in STEM, supported mentorship programs.

• Academic Learning Prefect, Pymble Ladies’ College: strengthened student–faculty communication, improved access to learning resources.

• Founder & President, Pymble Girl Up –led campaigns for gender equality, ran weekly advocacy meetings, and raised $1,000+ for women’s organisations.

• Organised TEDx-style events in high school to empower young women in advocacy and public speaking.

• NSW Youth Parliament member for Education and for Business & Employment committees: debated policy, drafted proposals and represented youth voices.

• Youth Council Member & Mentor, Youth Empowerment Circle of Learning

Planet: collaborated with peers across 10+ countries to address global youth issues.

• Australian Ambassador in the Learning Planet Initiative: represented Australia in international youth forums and partnerships with non-profits.

• Pioneer Academics Advisory Board Member: mentored scholars and advised program improvements to support equitable opportunities.

• Student Ambassador & Researcher at Pymble Institute: presented original research, mentored peers, and organised annual research conferences.

• Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award: demonstrated resilience through service and community leadership.

• State Finalist, NSW UN Negotiations Competition: developed skills in diplomacy, negotiation, and collaboration.

• Experienced private tutor: mentored over 30 primary and high school students, tailored teaching to individual needs and fostered confidence in learning.

• Debating Adjudicator: promoted critical thinking, fair evaluation, and constructive feedback in school debates.

Anerud Praveen

Science I

• I love reading books

• I love playing sports (extremely competitive)

• Entrepreneur

• Ghostwriter for seasoned fitness and mindset coaches

• I run on insatiable curiosity

• Class rep for Chem1911 (Sem 1 2025)

• Author of Fire and Ice (Anthology by Scholastic)

• UKMT Silver Medallist

Queenie Pham Science I

• Currently undertaking a research project with two supervisors from the Applied and Plasma Research Group, School of Physics

• Authored an article on chaos theory, published in Jeremy magazine, School of Physics

• Editor for Jeremy magazine, School of Physics

• 85.3 WAM (HD) for semester 1 2025

• A high school tutor in physics,

chemistry and maths, helping multiple students from Scots College and St Ives achieve top 5 ranks

• HSC distinguished achiever and allrounder (99.75 ATAR)

• As a high school prefect, demonstrated chemical experiments to students from a local primary school to encourage interests in STEM subjects

• I have tried a few tri(athlon)s

Hao Ren (Henry) Yan Science Il

• Distance runner and cyclist, demonstrating discipline, perseverance, and goal-setting

• High School Prefect Program Leader, providing leadership and guidance to peers

• Sunday school teacher and Christian Bible Study Leader, fostering community and mentorship

• Advocate for improved learning environments, actively listening to student needs and implementing solutions

• Effective communicator, skilled at engaging peers, staff, and diverse groups

• Active USU V Team volunteer, contributing to community initiatives and social impact projects

• Former serviceman in the Singapore Armed Forces, experienced in teamwork, responsibility, and resilience

• 2025 Semester 1 Science Faculty Peer Mentor, supporting academic success and student wellbeing

• Hackathon Winner (1st place COMBINE × SUDATA × SPDSC 2024; 2nd place Bioinformatics Analysis 2024), demonstrating problem-solving.

• Customer service experience as Chemist Warehouse Store Representative, strengthening interpersonal and organisational skills

• Trained in Mental Health First Aid and Accidental Counselling, equipped to support student wellbeing

Bao Yang (Thomas) Zhang Pharmacy I

• I play basketball

• 2 times CHS- Sydney North Basketball winner

• Tutor at private tutoring company

• Keen on building both technical and interpersonal skills.

• Open to learning new skills outside the

class

• Able to work well in group settings and follow detailed instructions

• Able to stay organized (even when juggling multiple deadlines)

• Current 1st year pharmacy student at Usyd

• High school concert band member

• High school Duke of Ed participant

[AD] UNITE FOR STUDENT RIGHTS Policy Statement

University is the place where students find their passion and voice. It must remain a place where ideas are challenged, debates are not only allowed but encouraged, and all students’ endeavours are supported equally, no matter their degree, background, or beliefs. Too often this core principle of student voice, that has been at the heart and soul of universities, is becoming increasingly curtailed and suppressed in favour of productivity, profit, and degree mills. This shifting culture has left both students and faculty behind in resources, opportunities, and representation.

Our ticket looks to UNITE FOR STUDENTS RIGHTS and push for a campus where students can speak and express freely without fear, focus on learning and expression not productivity and profits.

UNITE FOR STUDENT RIGHTS pledges to fight to:

• Rewrite the campus access policy to remove the unnecessary restrictions on peaceful activism and ensure equal representation in all pursuits for student groups.

• Protect students rights to political speech, lawful activism, and academic (institutional) critique

• Bring back a student facing approach when communicating with the university (in person meetings, direct communication pathways, requirement for decision makers to be directly reachable)

• Create a welcoming environment for members of the student body to engage with the SRC by helping them workshop and propose motions.

• Push the SRC to engage in research and field work to bring an empirically grounded approach to ongoing campaigns to maximise their chance of success.

• Campaign to abolish the failure that is the Job-Ready Graduates Program (JRGP), to separate societal benefit of education from narrow financial/ productivity measures and restore feefairness to university.

• Lobby to change the Higher Education Support Act that means higher student fees and less government contributions into humanity degrees.

• Push for fairer practices to demonopolise student elections by changing campaigning blockades and returning online voting.

UNITE FOR STUDENT RIGHTS represents any and all issues encountered by students that limit their ability to express themselves. Any type of student, any type of rights issue – we’ve got your back. And we promise openness, transparency and availability. We don’t want to keep you out

REPRESENTATIVES TO COUNCIL

of the SRC – we want to invite you in – it is our SRC. If you’ve got something to see we will provide you assistance to draft and present student-led motions and help you navigate the process.

This is not about trying to SAVE one group or only IMPACT one side. Our goal is to UNITE and work for all; it is about ensuring that every student has the space, respect, and resources they need to thrive, because a fair university is a united one, where your voice matters just as much as your grades.

CANDIDATES

Fionn Burke Politics, Philosophy, and Economics I

• Co-founder of PPESoc

• History and Basketball Nerd

• Fighter for student rights

• Catch me working for the USU

• Die hard bulldogs fan

Damien Lee Economics II

• Hi! I’m Damien, a second year student and I’m standing for the SRC to advocate for student rights.

• I have experience working for local community groups, charities and political campaigns, experiences that I seek to carry over to the SRC.

• I believe that university should be a place that fosters a welcoming environment that encourages debate and the exchange of ideas.

• As a representative I will stand up for these values and make sure that students are seen and heard on campus, defending our right to assemble, speak and organise.

James Trent

Politics, Philosophy, Economics I

• I’m both committed and determined to advocate for student interests on the SRC, ensuring that the University of Sydney puts Students First.

• I, and my colleagues at UNITE FOR STUDENT RIGHTS, aim to implement reforms that will genuinely benefit students and improve campus life.

• I will put my experience with charities, governmental organisations, and community groups to good use: helping improve student’s lives.

• Co-founding PPESOC (Politics, Philosophy, and Economics Society), I’ve been thrilled by the goodwill and enthusiasm from the Student Community.

• This Ticket has the positive vision, energy, and will to UNITE all students at Sydney University. It would be an honour to be elected and serve you all.

Tianlong Chen Liberal Arts and Science III

• SRC Candidate, 2024

[AE] GRASSROOTS FOR TOUCHING GRASS

Policy Statement

Tired of the same old Labor and Liberal student hacks* getting elected to the SRC with a big, ambitious policy platform only to find that they then do… nothing? So are we. GRASSROOTS FOR TOUCHING GRASS is keeping it real.

*Hack = a person who is more loyal to a particular political party than to their own sense of ethics.

For decades, the SRC has been seen not as a vehicle to advance students rights and progressive causes, but as a stepping stone into local, state and federal party politics. These are some examples you may know of. It is by no means an exhaustive hack list.

Tony Abbott (SRC President 19791980) - former Australian Liberal Prime Minister infamous for his homophobic, misogynistic, ant-abortion, anti-refugee, Islamophobic, and anti-First Nations rhetoric and policies.

Joe Hockey (SRC President 1987-1988)former Treasurer of Australia in the Abbott government, infamous for his classist and insensitive remarks and policies in relation single tax changes and to single mothers receiving payments

Jo Haylen (SRC President 2003-2004)NSW Transport Minister until February 2025 when she resigned after her most recent scandal of chauffeur-driven, government-funded car trips to the Hunter Valley and other holidays trips, and for screwing over the Rail, Tram and Bus Union for failing to show up to the Fair Work Commission during negotiations

Rose Jackson (SRC President 2005-2006) - infamous for her role in Jo Haylen’s above Hunter Valley scandal, and for her role in perpetuating the broken mental health system in NSW and blaming doctors for it instead, and for selling off more public housing to property developers despite her promises to the contrary in the 2023 NSW State Election.

The SRC should not be beholden to Australia’s major political parties.

However, we saw this in action this year

with our 2025 SRC President from Labor Left, who went full steam ahead with a ‘put the Liberals last’ Federal Election campaign, which was essentially just indirect campaigning for the Labor party.

Our 2025 SRC President also ignored actions passed in the SRC’s Council Meeting on 5 March 2025 (and that were brought up again in the August Council Meeting) to unfollow Rose Jackson from the official SRC Instagram account to condemn her treatment of NSW public psychiatrists and public housing tenants.

While the current President ran on a platform last year of being a “real student,” it’s clear that he’s not, and that his loyalties lie someplace other than the SRC and USyd students. His main policy and campaign this year of fortnightly barbecues have a) not been delivered fortnightly and b) are a meek attempt at facing, like throwing crumbs at, the real crisis of students facing cost-of-living pressures c) a shameless photo op.

If you want ‘real students’, an independent union that actually fights for you and not to advance the political careers of student politics hacks, you should...

VOTE [1] GRASSROOTS FOR TOUCHING GRASS

VOTE [1] GRACE FOR PREZ

VOTE [1] GRASSROOTS FOR NUS

VOTE [2] FREE PALESTINE FOR NUS

VOTE [3] LEFT ACTION FOR NUS

CANDIDATES

Alejandro Darré Science/Arts III

• Majoring in Geography and History

• Best Geoguessr player at USYD (don’t even test me lad)

• Former president of the Spanish and Latin American Society (rare example of a Latin American leader giving up power willingly)

• Loves cats (nobody who loves cats could be evil)

• My favorite Pokemon is Ekans :)

• Biggest life achievement: been to the 100 gecs tree

Harrison Brennan Arts V

• SRC President 2024

• Lead organiser of the Gaza Solidarity Encampment 2024

• Chair of the Student General Meeting 2024

• Member of BDS Youth 2024

• SRC Welfare Officer 2023

• SRC Councillor 2023

• Contributor of Counter Course 2023-24

• Honi Soit Report 2023-24

• Member of Grassroots 2022-25

• Member of Philsoc 2021-2024

• Double-spacing and Cambria fan.

• Pulp & Honi Enthusiast

• No.1 Lord Gladstone Supporter.

[AF] PENTA for SRC Policy Statement

PENTA has long stood as a bastion for international students amidst a SRC that is dominated by domestic student infighting. PENTA remains committed to transforming the SRC into a functioning body that works to deliver results for international students.

In the past year, PENTA has worked to make the International Student Collective more open, make events more publicised, and further advance the Opal Card Campaign. Furthermore, PENTA has listened to students and supported efforts to establish the 5-dollar canteen and to strengthen the relationship between FoodHub and the SRC.

PENTA for SRC will continue to deliver results and speak up for students within the framework of the Student Representative Council. If elected, we will continue to push the SRC to support the FreeFares campaign, work to improve the 5-dollar canteen, organise more events such as the International Student Collective Market Day, and, ultimately, deliver a SRC that recognises and delivers results for international students.

CANDIDATES

Bohao Zhang Law/Economics II

• Chill guy

• SRC Vice-President

Bob Song Law/Commerce II

• SRC International Students Officer 2025

• International Cooperation & Relations Subcommittee of SUCSSA (Chinese Students & Scholars Association) 2025

• Junior Ambassador of the Winter Olympics 2022

• Comprehensive Award of the Youth AI Programming Innovation Challenge 2022

• Young Artists of Helsinki 2022

• President of Ressun Lukio (IB) Student Council 2022-2023

• Law Intern of Kolster Oy Ab 2023

• Volunteer of the UNESCO Project WORLD ATLAS OF LANGUAGE 2023

• President & Founder of Ressu Sports Management Club 2021-2024

• Co-Founder of Ressu “No Art” Club 2022

• Art Series Editor-in-Chief of Pärskeitä (Ressu School Paper) 2021-2022

• Hyvää Ressu Prize 2022, 2023, 2024

• Starting Player of Ressu Boys Basketball Team (2021 - 2024)

• Member of the Ressun Lukio Debate Society (2021 - 2022)

• Deputy Head of School’s Honour Roll 2021

Sienna Tong

Liberal Arts/Science III

• Member of International Students Collective (2025)

• Secretariat Department Member, Australian Chinese International Student Club (2025)

• Member of Publicity Department, Student Council (2019-2021)

• Member of Welfare Department , Student Council (2016-2018)

Luke Liu Law/Commerce I

• NSW International Student Ambassador

• NSW Government Schools School Service Award (2025)

• HSC State Rank 1 of Japanese Beginners (2024)

• Leader of High School Student Representative Council

• Member of High School Leadership Council

• Dignity Dishes (Volunteer Cooks)

• High School Chinese Debate Team

(Organizer and Team leader)

• Multicultural Day school activity (Organizer and Chinese Culture Group Leader)

• Bandana Day activity (Organizer)

• School Social (Organizer, 2024)

• Mosman Youth Art Prize (2022 and 2023, Finalist)

• Sauter Piano Competition (8th in NSW)

• Japanese-Language Proficiency Test (Certificate of Result and Scores for N3 level)

• Y12 Jersey designer

Cecilia Liu Arts/Advanced Studies III

• Events Subcommittee Member (Australian Chinese International Student Club)

• International Cooperation & Relations Subcommittee Member (Sydney University Chinese Students & Scholars Association)

• Year 12 Leadership Team – Year 10 Mentor Group Captain

• Perfect Score (20/20) in English Advanced HSC Internal Assessment

Wendy Chen Law/Arts II

• The Hannah Blanche Levis Prize (for interest and contribution) 2022/2023

• Volunteer for Peer Maths Tutoring in Alexandra College, Dublin 2022-2023

• Organiser of Chinese New Year Celebrations in Alexandra College, Dublin

• Volunteer for the Annual Talent Show in Alexandra College, Dublin

• Student Guide of Welcome Day in Britannica International School, Budapest

Victoria Xie Law/Science II

(2023-2024)

• Captain of PKUS track team (2023)

• Peer Potential Mock Trial: Competitor, Team Captain, Team Coach (February 2022, July 2022, February 2023, August 2023)

• International Mock Trial: Competitor, Team Captain, Team Coach (December 2022)

Jay Yu Law/Science II

Always up for trying new things and meeting new people.

Sports – Used to do archery back in New Zealand, with awards in both field and clout events.

Dance – Been dancing for about 3 years, into K-pop covers and choreography.

Startup helper – Recently helped a friend with a small space-related startup project.

Other adventures:

• Tried live-stream selling back in China and even acted in those very silly short skits on Chinese TikTok

• Used to work in early childhood education, reading picture books to kids;

• Volunteered at a Red Cross Op Shop in New Zealand.

[AG] LEFT ACTION FOR RENTERS

Policy Statement

Is your rent too high? Do you hate your landlord? Left Action For Renters is the only ticket committed to fighting for a world where housing is a human right, built for people and not for profit. Rents have skyrocketed in Sydney thanks to the endless greed of property developers and landlords, making our city the second most expensive place to live on Earth. All of this is while tens of thousands of homes sit empty in order to drive up prices even more.

Our own university has benefited from the housing crisis, selling off student accommodation to private companies like Scape and Iglu, as well as charging students in university-run housing hundreds of dollars a week for sub-par living spaces.

We stand for an SRC that will fight for our government and university to provide us with the affordable, high quality housing we all deserve. If our government has billions to hand over to Trump for nuclear submarines, then why can’t they work to build public housing and affordable

student accommodation to provide real relief to ordinary people?

Left Action For Renters believes in the power of protest and activism to win housing that is affordable, accessible, and widely available to everyone in our society.

We will fight for:

• Affordable student accommodation!

• Rent freeze & rent caps now!

• End rental evictions!

• Tax the property developers & corporations and limit investment properties!

• Build more public housing!

Vote [1] for LEFT ACTION FOR RENTERS CANDIDATES

Deaglan Godwin Arts/Advanced Studies VII

• Hi I’m Deaglan and I think we need an SRC that will fight for left wing causes such as an end to the genocide in Gaza, free education and against student debt.

• As SRC Vice President in 2023, I helped set up and lead the Gaza Solidarity Camp. We were the first Gaza encampment in Australia!

• I helped organise the largest Student General Meeting in decades, and spoke to the motion demanding the university cut ties with Israel.

• As a member of Students for Palestine, I have campaigned on and off campus against Israel’s genocide of Gaza, and for a free Palestine.

• I have been the SRC Environment Officer this year and have worked with Rising Tide to campaign to save our planet.

• I was suspended for protesting former PM Malcolm Turnbull, aka “Mr Habourside Mansion”

• I was the 2022 SRC Education Officer and proudly led the student solidarity campaign with the staff strikes at USYD.

• Before that I helped to organise the 200+ person Student General Meeting against the FASS course cuts

• I think we a need a fairer and more equal world- the billionaires have too much power and wealth.

• We need to tax them and redistribute their wealth to fund education, healthcare, housing and higher wages!

•

President of PKUS Mock Trial Club

Starla Bilby Science I

• Helped organize the Harbor bridge march demanding national sanctions against Israel

• I Assisted in organizing the national student strike at Uni Sydney

• I Assisted in organizing weekly propalestinian rallies

• I’m an active founding member of the NSW socialists

• I’m an active member of Students for Palestine at Uni Sydney”

Zavier Turcin Arts/Advanced Studies I

• Helped organise the March for Humanity across the harbour bridge

• Helped promote events on behalf of Students for Palestine and Socialist Alternative

• Helped organise the Student Strike for Palestine

• Helped organise and spoke at the “Tesla Takedown” protest

• Helped build the student referendum for Palestine

• Helped promote and organise various club events on campus

Max Maraz Science II

• A committed activist with Socialist Alternative in Sydney, they organise on and off campus and helped lead the red block on the historic Harbour Bridge march.

• They consistently poster and leaflet while having conversations with fellow socialists and passersby on

Palestine, the housing crisis and rising authoritarianism

Gabe Crowe Arts IV

• Active member of Students for Palestine

• Organised faculty contingents to the Usyd Strikes and stood in solidarity with striking workers in 2022

• Helped organise housing rights demonstrations in 2023

• Helped organise a protest of George Pell’s Funeral in 2023

• Helped organise the Student General Meeting for Palestine

• Helped build the National Day of Action to protest Trump’s America Active participant in the Gaza Solidarity Encampment

• Helped build the Harbour Bridge March for Humanity

• Currently helping organise National Student Referendum for Palestine,”

Holly Hayne Arts III

• Promoted and took part in numerous solidarity protests in support of social justice movements around the globe while 2020 SRC Global Solidarity Officer

• Helped to organise the 2019 Uni Student Climate Strike

• Longtime advocate for a free Palestine

• Took part in student and staff picket lines during the USYD staff strike, a longtime advocate for free education and an end to the corporate university model

[AH] STEM FOR SRC Policy Statement

STEM for SRC is THE ticket dedicated to fighting for raising the voices of STEM students at the University of Sydney. Over the past year we’ve fought hard for fairer assessments, fairer special consideration and a fairer PEP system. The University may have finally relented on PEP hours, but there’s still much more to fight for to improve the lives of STEM students, as the University silently cuts $100 million of courses, and other Universities across the country cut millions more.

We’re fighting hard for:

A cap of 50% on examination weightings.

Greater limitations on assignment due dates.

An end to course cuts in all faculties.

A rent freeze on the outrageous University accommodation pricing, and a reversal of the University’s shameful $60 fee for accessible rooms.

Greater involvement of STEM students into activism.

Engagement with the university in order to see real climate action and environmental action taken and make sure the sustainability goals set out in 2020 are met.

Pushing the University to play a more broad role in climate education outside of the university.

The STEM for SRC ticket will advocate for effective action and student representation in an effort to make meaningful change to the University’s sustainability and students’ life. This ticket will break through the stagnant culture of the SRC and go beyond the ideological fighting to take real action and enforce real accountability.

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CANDIDATES

Philip Howard Science II

• F1 Society Co-Founder

• SRC General Exec

• SRC EBA Negotiator

• SRC Councillor

• Statistics Society Treasurer

• Maths Society First Year Rep

• ALP Club General Executive

• SUDATA Spons Subcom

Raphael Carrasco Engineering/Arts I

• I am a first year USYD student studying a Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical and Biomolecular) and Arts (International Relations.

• My ticket is focussed on getting more STEM representation in the SRC.

• I have been involved in lots of engineering initiatives including being a current ENGO undergraduate mentor, alongside this I have also kept politically active.

• Campaigning with Leo Moore for USU and also being a NUS delegate earlier

this year.

• I believe strongly in the importance of STEM involvement to bring action and effectiveness to the SRC, most importantly as it relates to sustainability at USYD.

• Pushing for the university not only to be accountable to its targets but to be a leader and educator in space.

Theodore Huxtable Science/Advanced Studies II

Shaun Parasher Science/Advanced Studies II

• F1 Society exec

• Physics Society exec

[AI] Explicit for SRC Policy Statement

Our university is at a crossroads. Students are grappling with rising course fees, authoritarian policies that block our right to protest and an administration that refuses to listen to student needs on issues such as Palestine and student housing. The only way that we can overcome these difficulties is through an SRC that prioritises the EXPLICIT needs of students.

Our ticket achieves this aim with a twopronged approach, using both protest, and negotiation. Our ticket also believes that the SRC should achieve tangible outcomes for students through advocacy and activism. However, at a moment where USYD management is in crisis, the current leadership is wasting time and resources, like on pointless graphic redesigns instead.

We will not settle for token gestures or empty promises. Students must have real power over their education, safety, and welfare, and the SRC must be the vehicle to make that power a reality. That means holding management accountable, standing in solidarity with oppressed and marginalised students, and ensuring that every decision made by the SRC, from housing and food security to academic freedom and international solidarity, reflects the priorities of the student body.

EXPLICIT for SRC pledges to spend OUR time fighting for students, EXPLICITLY.

This means lobbying university management to:

• Establish an Annual Anti-Racism Week with workshops, panels, and performances

• Expand concession Opal cards to international students

• End compulsory lectures when online alternatives are possible

• Divest from Israeli weapons companies and academic institutions

• Launch an investigation into the Redzone incident, where students tore up a report on sexual violence

• Cut ties between the US Studies Centre and the Trump Administration

• Prevent Mark Scott from banning the Palestinian flag on campus

• Extend the campus-Redfern station bus hours, to ensure safety and accessibility

Additionally, within the SRC we will campaign to:

• Introduce a Renters’ Rights Office to provide legal advice and advocacy for student tenants

• Reduce card surcharges on food and drink

• Give students more say on how their SSAF funds are spent through direct engagement and consultation

• Expand SRC free breakfast programs to run daily during semester

• Increase access to SRC Legal and Casework services

• Provide students with free and accessible drug testing kits

• Extend opening hours for FoodHub

• Bring back Universal Student Unionism

STAND UP FOR STUDENTS, EXPLICITLY.

VOTE [1] EXPLICIT FOR SRC CANDIDATES

Edward Bell-Smith Economics/Law I

• Handsome (according to my grandma) 2025 -

• Short-Form Video Consumption Specialist 2020 -

• Lime bike enjoyer 2023 -

• Former famous youtuber (200+ subs) 2015 - 2017

• Volunteer community legal officer 2025

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• Amnesty International Youth Convenor 2025 -

• HSC Maths Tutor 2025 -

• MEAA (Media and Entertainment Arts Alliance) Member 2022-2024

• SULS, Member 2025 -

• EconSoc, Member 2025 -

• GymSoc, Member 2025 -

• Chill guy 2006 -

Jonathan Gilliland Arts/ Law II

• Member of NLS

• 2025 Vice-President USYD History Society

• SULS Member

• Volunteer for Students for Drug Reform

Gabriella Sarno Arts II

• Member of NLS

• Fruit ninja enthusiast

Daniel Holland Arts III

• Member of NLS

• SRC Refugee Rights Officer 2024

[AJ] IMPACT INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS

Policy Statement

IMPACT INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS will work to make international students no longer sidelined but supported and represented at every level of the university. We know international students face unique challenges from unfair work restrictions, to limited services in their languages, to financial pressures made worse by high fees and living costs without supports like concession Opal Cards. IMPACT has fought to put these issues front and centre at USyd and in national conversations.

We expanded casework services to meet international students’ needs faster, launching a new migration law service and hiring a new caseworker to ensure help is available when it’s needed. We pushed for affordable food on campus through the $5 meal canteen, defended students’ rights in parliament and government forums, and pushed politicians to implement concession Opal Cards for international and parttime students. We have shown that when international students are organised and supported, real change is possible.

This is what IMPACT achieved this year. If elected, IMPACT for International Students will keep growing services, defending rights, and making campus life fairer and more welcoming for international students.

What We Achieved This Year:

• Delivered a new migration law service

through the SRC Legal Service for international students.

• Increased the budget for the SRC International Student Collective.

• Hired a new SRC caseworker to meet the rising demand for support.

• Made food more affordable with the $5 meal canteen, ensuring international students can access daily meals.

• Advocated for international student rights at NUS, parliament, and community forums.

• Ensured the SRC was visible and accessible through rebranding and outreach events.

• Ran BBQs, stalls, and social events to better connect with international students on campus.

• Got support from the state MP for Sydney, Alex Greenwich, to support concession Opal Cards for all.

If re-elected, IMPACT for International Students will:

• Finalise the campaign for concession Opal cards for all international students.

• Abolish the 48-hour work cap per fortnight, giving students the right to work fairly.

• Hire multilingual caseworkers (Mandarin, Hindi, Arabic, Vietnamese) to meet demand.

• Expand international student-led events, from sports competitions to cultural weeks.

• Ensure fair treatment of international students at USyd and the SRC, fighting discrimination wherever it occurs.

• Continue to improve affordable food, housing, and welfare access for international students.

• Defend international students’ voices in university governance and national campaigns.

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Vote [1] SARGUN FOR PREZ CANDIDATES

Sargun Saluja Science/Law III

• Intern, India Pollution Control Association (IPCA), Aug–Nov 2020: Plastic recycling, EPR policy gaps, outreach, Air Pollution Campaign.

• Intern, Centre for Environment Education (CEE), May–Jul 2022: Eco Exchange, circular economy, field surveys, Plastic Bachao Thelaah Pao Campaign.

• SRC Interfaith officer 2022-2023

• USU Board Director (2023–2025): Environmental Portfolio – Enviro Week, ESG Strategy 2025–2028, Fossil

Fuel Divestment, Investment Working Group.

• Students for Drug Reform, 2024

• Students for Yes, 2023:

• DemSoc, 2023

• SciSoc, 2023

• Ekansh (USyd Indian Society), 2022–2025

• FrenchSoc, 2022 – Social Media Officer

• Dalyell Scholar Association, 2022–2025

• SULS Member, 2023–2025

• Legal Consultant, Youth Climate Policy Centre, 2024–2025 – Net Zero Progress Report Review, Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Agreement Review.

• Volunteer, Inner City Legal Centre, 2024–2025 – Mardi Gras Parade, Intake, litigation prep, translation (Hindi, Punjabi, French)

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Suryansh Tomar Economics/Advanced Studies I I

Big on ideas, bigger on making them happen.

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Fatima Gutierrez Science I

• Bachelor of Science student at the University of Sydney, majoring in Neuroscience and Immunology & Pathology

• Strong passion for exploring how the brain and immune system shape health and behaviour

• Originally from Peru, with experience leading community projects supporting animal welfare and children’s education

• Interest in neuroimmunology and clinical research, combining curiosity, empathy, and analytical thinking

• Committed to making science more accessible, people-focused, and impactful

• Enthusiastic about connecting, collaborating, and contributing to

REPRESENTATIVES TO COUNCIL

meaningful work in health and research

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Darshil Gupta Bachelor of Science (Advanced) I

• Passionate about advancing medicine and public health through the integration of immunology, pathology, genetics, and genomics

• Focused on the intersection of these fields to improve research and public health outcomes

• Driven by the challenge of translating complex scientific insights into practical solutions for disease prevention and treatment

• Experienced in combining laboratory research interests with hands-on healthcare experience and community engagement

• Active volunteer with NGOs promoting inclusivity, empowerment, and equity

• VOTE 1 SARGUN SALUJA FOR PREZ!

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Thami Mthwa Science I

• Looking to make some change.

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[AK] IMPACT FOR SRC

Policy Statement

This year, IMPACT for SRC showed what the SRC can achieve when it is bold, principled, and grounded in the needs of students. We’ve worked tirelessly to make sure the SRC was a real force for change that defends student rights, delivers essential services, and builds community on campus. For too long, students have felt that their voices were ignored by university management, sidelined by government, and under attack by policies designed to silence activism. Under IMPACT leadership, that changed.

The SRC became louder, stronger, and more effective, proving that when students work, we can win.

This is what we were able to achieve this year. If re-elected, IMPACT will continue this work and push even further by growing services, building campaigns, and ensuring every student feels represented.

Here’s what we were able to achieve this year:

• Defending Student Rights and Academic Freedom

• Preserved 5-day simple extensions despite university attempts to cut them back.

• Attended every single committee meeting, from Academic Board to University Executive, ensuring students always had a voice at the table.

• Led submissions against five draft policies restricting political and academic expression.

• Successfully fought the Campus Access Policy (CAP) and forced a review into restrictions on student demonstrations.

• Negotiated directly with university leadership to protect SRC independence from surveillance, ensuring student autonomy and safety at a 200+ person SGM.

• Coordinated the SRC’s submission to the People’s Inquiry into Campus Free Speech on Palestine.

• Stood firmly against the Universities Australia definition of antisemitism, defending student speech on Palestine and protecting students from harmful silencing.

• Political Campaigns and National Advocacy

• Led USyd’s contribution to the ACTU’s “Don’t Risk Dutton” campaign, warning students of the Coalition’s threat to HECS, services, and job security.

• Represented students at major rallies and forums, including the National Day of Action for Palestine, the CARR rally against far-right extremism, and the Woolworths workers solidarity rally.

• Spoke at the NSW Drug Summit, contributed to the youth statement, and organised a follow-up forum on drug reform to keep momentum alive.

• Represented USyd undergraduates at the NUS National Conference and President’s Summit.

• Spoke at the NSW Parliament Antisemitism Inquiry, highlighting the dangers of far-right antisemitism and the urgent need to end repression of pro-Palestine speech.

• Campus Engagement and Student Unionism

• Ran fortnightly high-impact BBQs and outreach stalls, connecting with hundreds of students we had never spoken to before.

• Launched and delivered a new SRC rebrand, starting with a $1000 studentled logo competition.

• Worked to relocate the SRC office for visibility and better working conditions for staff.

• Initiated a joint push with SUPRA for a $5 student meal canteen, established a working group with USU and the University, and delivered an interim canteen providing $5 hot meals Monday–Friday.

• Expanded support services by delivering a new migration law service for international students and hiring a new SRC caseworker to ensure timely help.

This is what IMPACT has already achieved in just one year. If re-elected, we will continue this work and push even further. We will:

• Strengthen SRC casework services, with more staff and expanded support for international students.

• Deliver the $5 meal canteen permanently by 2026, making affordable food a cornerstone of campus life.

• Keep defending student rights, academic freedom, and activism against university restrictions.

• Grow our campaigns for drug reform, climate justice, and affordable education.

Expand free services and events with more BBQs, more outreach, and more accessible spaces where students feel represented.

Vote [1] IMPACT FOR SRC

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CANDIDATES

Jessica Heap Law II

• Member of:

• Sydney University Law Society

• USYD Fashion Revolution Society

• Cat Society

• Sydney Arts Students Society

• Coffee Society

• LOVEYOUSOMATCHA

• Chocolate Society

• PhotoSoc

• SRC Global Solidarity Officer (2025)

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Abbey Rose Arts I

• Currently involved in student unionism, my Local Government Branch and the Young Labor Left!

• VOTE 1 SARGUN SALUJA FOR SRC PRESIDENT!

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Nayonika Narang Arts I

• I have had two of my own NGOs in India, working for Animals and the underprivileged.

• Been a part of the ROBIN HOOD ARMY in India as well. Used to work on field, and currently handling their socials.

• VOTE 1 SARGUN SALUJA FOR SRC PRESIDENT!

Garner Heath Social Work I

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Yazish Patel Advanced Computing I

• Coding Club

• STEM club

• Event Organizer

• Varsity Football

• Represented the school in interschool competitions; contributed to the U12 team’s championship victoryin the JSFA Tournament hosted by La Liga.

• VOTE 1 SARGUN SALUJA FOR SRC PRESIDENT!

[AL] GRASSROOTS FOR THE CON & ARTS Policy Statement

We want increased advocacy for the student musicians and artists and demand

fair allocation of resources onto the Conservatorium as well as other creativitybased communities of the university. We need to counter the rising devaluation of music and arts that leads to financial cutdowns and administrative neglect, as part of an increasingly corporatised higher education sector and a conservatising broader society. We also need to build up the organising capacity between the Con and main campus students through the SRC, to work to leave no student behind, to fight for social justice, and protect music schools across the continent facing cuts.

Jaehyun Kim, the tickethead of GRASSROOTS FOR THE CON & ARTS, has been actively involved in the local and international independent music sphere, working with radio stations such as N10. AS, Radio Relativa, SURG, Pretend Radio, and FBi Radio, and creating original works under the alias Orey Eyed. His advocacy for sustainable and unrestricted creativity is what drives him to introduce a better financial and structural support system for student artists and musicians of USyd and the Con.

GRASSROOTS FOR THE CON & ARTS will…

• Link up leadership and unionism across campuses to:

• Revive the SRC Intercampus committee

• Formalise a relationship between the SRC and CSA

• Work with the CSA on joint projects and SSAF funding applications

• Bring back free vaccination vouchers for Con students through the SRC in 2026

• Increase activism and solidarity with other unis and USyd departments facing course cuts, such as the recently seen destructive proposed changes to ANU’s School of Music

• Lead a broad, unionised fight against imperialism and capitalism, addressing Palestinian and Sudanese liberation, increased inclusion of non-western musical traditions at the Con, and more

• Organise formal ‘con’tingents for Con students to attend protests with the main campus

Support student artists and musicians:

• Work with the CSA, USU and Student Life to bring gigs, arts and paid creative opportunities to the Camperdown campus and the Con campuses

• Offer guidance regarding selfmanagement and independent artistry for unsigned student musicians and artists on campus, with priority for those struggling financially.

• Provide practically useful information about local independent venues and events for the artists on campus, as well as a “mentorship” connection to the peers who have experience getting into the local scene and releasing music or exhibiting art.

• Providing a limited access to the facilities operated via booking like con tech studios, film studios, etc. to non-major students who can prove that they have an ongoing project in that respective field and have a technical understanding of how to operate the space.

Leave no student or campus behind:

• Create a genuine and proper SRC

attendance to satellite campus welcome events and throughout the semester

• Better promote the SRC’s free services and listen to concerns from students from satellite campuses

• Expand FoodHub and seek grants for programs on other campuses like food hampers and designated free meal nights

• Ensure equitable access to period products, masks, textbook exchange, and more

• Shuttle between the con and Camperdown for students and teachers, with a priority for those with accessibility needs.

When our values are dictated by profitability and human artistry is threatened by the rise of AI and techno-fascism, it is the role of an academic institution to foster a safeguarded environment where creativity is properly supported and funded without condition. And when the institution is negligent in its role, the students should unionise and vocally demand fair allocation of resources, fair representation of all disciplines, and fair inclusion of all people.

GRASSROOTS FOR THE CON & ARTS is here to advocate for the student artists and musicians, student body of the Con, and students of other satellite campuses. We will create a campus where human artistry is valued and diversity is strength!

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VOTE [2] FREE PALESTINE FOR NUS

VOTE [3] LEFT ACTION FOR NUS CANDIDATES

Jaehyun Kim Music/Arts I

• Studying Contemporary Music Practice and Film Studies at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and the University of Sydney.

• Host of “”In Wonderland”” on Montreal’s N10.AS radio.

• Did a guest mix on Madrid’s Radio Relativa.

• Frontline at FBi Radio, Sydney’s local radio station.

• Hosted “”Eternal Nights”” on SURG, notably premiering Norwegian musician Yndling’s single, “”As Fast As I Can””.

• Creating and releasing original music and sound art under the alias Orey Eyed.

• Fluent in English and Korean, currently learning Portuguese.

• Vegan, animal rights advocate.

• Raised and trained a guide dog

candidate, Hannah, for a year.

• Active participant of pro-Palestinian movements on campus and in the local community.

• Cronenberg enthusiast but Eyes Without a Face is undefeated!

• Witnessed the last ever Parannoul live in person!

Eleanor Yang Biology I

• Queer Officer of SASS.

• SURG Broadcaster.

• Member of Scouts Australia.

• Young songwriter and musician.

Liam Davidson Music I

Cameron Roper-Tyler Music I

• currently 19 years old

• Was in the St Mary’s cathedral choir from the age of 8

• I play guitar and SOME bass ��

• My favourite band rn is steely dan

• A Con boy studying contemporary music practice.

• I connect HEAVILY with neo-soul and RNB

[AM] UNITE AGAINST COURSE CUTS

Policy Statement

Across Australia, our courses are under attack. At Macquarie, UTS, UOW, ANU, and WSU, Vice Chancellors and their staff are implementing massive course cuts, slashing hundreds of courses and thousands of teaching jobs. If we don’t take action, this will happen here as well.

The University of Sydney has already been steadily chipping away at the quality of our degrees. Just this year, we saw the loss of $100 million worth of units despite the university’s $300 million budget surplus. These cuts do nothing but weaken the quality of our education and deprive future academics and teachers of job opportunities.

Our university should be a place where

students can feel free to explore and learn new ideas, but course cuts limit choice. They strike at the heart of what it means to study at a university, and need to be opposed. We need to stand up, and UNITE AGAINST COURSE CUTS.

UNITE AGAINST COURSE CUTS stands for:

1.An end to course and unit cuts made for the sake of profit.

2.Transparency from our university executive on any planned course cuts measures, involving open consultation with students and staff.

3.Protection for students at risk of losing their jobs due to staffing cuts.

4.An end to the generalisation of university degrees and the replacement of pointless interdisciplinary units with courseappropriate subjects.

6.Reduction in the size of tutorials to ensure a better learning environment.

7.The abolition of the Jobs Ready Graduate Package which needlessly punishes students for choosing arts degrees and weakens our Humanities institutions.

8.Taking action for a free Palestine and against genocide, apartheid, and colonialism.

CANDIDATES

Leo Moore Arts/Law II

• “He has more knowledge of campus than anyone else” - Honi Soit

• Funniest USU Campaign, 2025

• History Society President, 2025

• SRC Social Justice Officer, 2025

• Delegate to the National Union of Students, 2024

Harry Beer Arts II

• Beer by name beer by nature

• Second year studying Political Economy and Politics

• Prepared to fight for issues important

REPRESENTATIVES TO COUNCIL

to students on campus

• My job experience is pouring beers at a pub

• Campaign manager for Leo Moore’s 2025 USU Campaign

Mohammad Reha

Arts/Advanced

Studies III

• Student Partner, 2023–2025

• MATES Abroad Mentor, 2025

Layla George Arts/Advanced Studies III

• Currently completing a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy & Ancient History.

• Front desk girl at a music lessons school, customer punching bag in retail.

• Also the inner west’s favourite musician (@jeanelliot)

• Passionate about protecting arts in education and cultivating a safe space for women + gender diverse people to learn.

Dustin Dao Arts/Law IV

[AN] WILKO FOR SRC Policy

Statement

University should empower our creativity and passion for design, not reduce our education to a pathway into the corporate world. Design schools should be spaces of collaboration and community, where classes and studios encourage the exploration, experimentation, and expansion of our design practice.

Today, design students face the paradox of demanding assessments and a rising cost of living, expected to thrive creatively without adequate services to support our growth as designers. We navigate uncertain career paths, the disruption of artificial intelligence in the design space, and unequal access to resources within large cohorts. Many of us experience disconnection and unfair competition between our peers, struggling to find a true sense of community on campus.

Our studios should be places of experimentation, not factories for industry portfolios. Our work should challenge the world, not conform to corporate templates. Our campus should nurture collaboration and care, not competition and burnout. Our skills should be used to imagine better futures, not simply serve profit margins. Above all, our education should centre student voices, not the demands of the corporate university and sponsorships.

WILKO FOR SRC will advocate for:

• Expanding opportunities for design practice through more student-led events and exhibitions.

• Ensuring equitable access to design! Subsidise essential design materials and software to keep education affordable

• Protecting student jobs in tutoring, studios, and support roles from staffing cuts.

• Reducing the size of studio classes and tutorials for stronger learning environments.

• Refocusing university priorities from corporate governance towards teaching and advancing design skills

• Demanding transparency from the university executive on all design program changes, with open consultation.

• Upgrading and maintaining facilities for design students: more space for prototyping and designing.

• Expanding menstrual products in all faculty bathrooms

• Fixing the Wilkinson building’s lift: improve access to our beautiful building

• Protecting 5-Day Simple Extensions.

• Improving accessibility of the disabilities portal and ensure academic plans adapt to students, not the system.

• Fighting for more free CAPS counselling sessions.

• Standing in solidarity with Palestine, against genocide, apartheid, and colonialism, divest from institutions and companies complicit in genocide.

CANDIDATES

Saskia Morgan Design II

• 2024 SVO

• 2024 SRC Councillor

• 2024/2025 SUEDE

• Homebase camper and lover of the Wilkinson Building

• Charging my phone, eating hot chip, & lying

Jasmin Muhidin Design/Advanced Studies II

• 2025 Peer Mentor

• 2024/2025 SUEDE

• Flying turtle $3 discount fein and Hearth lover

• Mark zuckerberg meme enjoyer

Grace Porter Arts V

• USU Board Director 2023-2025

• SRC Councillor 2023-2024

• Usyd ALP forever

[AO] Penta for YOU

Policy Statement

1) Cost-of-living relief �� help you can feel

Free & affordable food: expand regular free breakfasts/lunches with SRC partners; bring bigger portions and choices to the $5 hot meal

Textbooks & printing: revamp the textbook exchange; push for larger free print/ scanning quotas and more scanners in libraries.

Housing & work support: renters’ rights clinics, room-share safety checks, tax/ TFN/ABN workshops for new students and international students.

2) Academic fairness & accessibility

Universal lecture capture + captions by default across units; timely upload standards.

Assessment sanity: curb bunching (no 3+ major tasks due in the same week where possible), publish clear rubrics early, require model solutions or marking guides after major tasks.

Special considerations that make sense: clearer extensions, simple short-illness options, compassionate consideration for carers and students on placements.

Fair placements: advocate bursaries or travel reimbursements; no unpaid “work” without proper support.

3) International student inclusion

Multilingual help (English, 中文...) for casework, rights, and visa/work-hours info.

Campaign for transport concessions parity and more airport/arrival support in Orientation.

Anti-discrimination & safety: faster reporting pathways and peer advocates.

4) Safety, wellbeing, and respect

Lighting & late-night safety: fix dark corridors, extend security escorts, push for safer bike/transport links.

Respectful campuses: survivor-centred reporting, practical consent education, and zero tolerance for harassment.

Mental health: shorter waits via funded drop-in hours and stronger referral pathways with CAPS and external services.

5) Climate & sustainability that saves you money

More water refill stations, microwaves, and food waste composting.

Advocate for transparent sustainability targets and student input into campus operations.

7) Transparent, accountable SRC (you can actually reach us)

Publish how we vote, budgets in plain English, and post-meeting summaries within 48 hours.

Monthly open forums & office hours in person + online;

CANDIDATES

Sally Liu Science III

• USU Board Director

• Director – Student Publications

• Ethnocultural Portfolio Holder

• Clubs & Societies Committee

• Student Representative for Academic Board, Faculty of Science Board, Faculty of Science School

• Peer Mentor

• Project Hope Sponsorship Subcommittee

• Sustainability Ambassadors

• Love all kinds of sports and passion for trying start ups

Albert Pei Science II

1. 12026 ETH Zurich Exchange Student in Switzerland (Semester 1, 2026)

2. 2025 Sustainable Ambassador –Promoted sustainability initiatives and environmental awareness on campus.

3. 2024 Dalyell Scholar Nominee –Nominated for the University of Sydney’s high-achievement Dalyell Scholars Program.

4. 2024 Vice Chancellor’s Global Mobility Scholarship – Recipient of the University of Sydney’s scholarship for global exchange opportunities.

5. 2021 Vice President of Student Union –Led student activities and represented student interests in high school.

6. 2020 NHSMUN·China Honorable Mention – Awarded Honorable Mention at the National High School Model United Nations Conference.

Shuang Liang Advanced Computing II

1. Developer of Tic-Tac-Toe Online Server with real-time multiplayer and WebSocket communication.-

2. Have a great passion for playing badminton

3. Web Creator for a technology company, designing and developing a responsive corporate website for domestic and international markets.

4. Recipient of a National Mathematics Olympiad Award

5. Queen Mary building student accommodation Survivor

6. Volunteer at the 2025 USU Board Election

Kenny Yu Science/Advanced Studies III

• Data Engineer Intern of Vanke 20242025

• Marketing Subcommittee of AIESEC 2022

• Passionate about Data-driven problem solving

• Plays football, snowboarding, and table tennis

• Advocate for diversity and inclusion, embracing multicultural collaboration in any settings.

Xinran Hu Science II

• Member, Pierre Flute Club

• Awarded at the VEX Robotics Competition, 2021

• IELTS Teaching Assistant

• Flute and badminton lover

• visual storyteller

• Volunteer for various events

Heidi Wan Science II

• Participated in outdoor camping trips

• Organised activities for multiple carnivals.

• Volunteered with Dignity Dishes

• Volunteered with Vinnies St Vincent de Paul

• Performed multiple times at the Sydney Opera House.

• part time student, full time sleeper

• Human Food Radar

• Graduate of Shin-chan Studies

Teresa Chen Advanced Computing/Commerce III

• MATES Abroad Mentor

• USU Campaign Volunteer

• Member of Sydney University Chinese Students Association

• Member of NSW Chinese Students & Scholars Association

• Spring Festival Event Volunteer

Jerry Jin Commerce/Advanced computing III

• Founder of Q.Lab

• B1 consulting society

• Volunteering

• Minor in study, major in dome scrolling

• Not so good at basketball

[AP] ENGINEERING FOR SRC

Policy Statement

Hi everyone, we are Engineering for SRC, a group of passionate engineering students dedicated to making campus life more supportive, fair, and student-focused. We are running because we believe the SRC should deliver real improvements to the student experience, with no exception for engineering students – from better facilities and academic policies to stronger wellbeing support across our university community.

SRC Services & Campus Life

More food outlets around the Engineering precinct — Engineering students often have back-to-back labs, lectures, and group projects in buildings far from main campus food hubs. Having more affordable, diverse food options nearby would save travel time, reduce the need to skip meals, and make it easier for students to socialise and recharge between classes.

More water refill stations across campus — Access to clean drinking water is a basic necessity. Increasing the number of refill stations, particularly in high-traffic areas and outdoor study spaces, will reduce reliance on single-use plastic bottles, improve convenience, and promote healthy hydration throughout the day.

Academic Fairness

End paper-based coding exams — Coding on paper does not reflect how programming is done in professional environments. Conducting programming assessments on computers allows students to write, run, and debug code as they would in real-world projects, reducing artificial barriers and creating fairer, more practical assessment conditions.

Equity and Inclusion

Travel concessions for international students — Many international students live off-campus due to high inner-city rental costs, and daily travel expenses can quickly add up. Extending concession Opal cards to all students would reduce this financial strain, encourage more participation in

classes and campus activities, and ensure a fairer, more equitable transport system.

Student Wellbeing & Skills Development

Strengthen wellbeing support through tutors — Tutors are often the first point of contact for students struggling academically or personally. Providing them with training in student wellbeing support, active listening, and referral pathways can ensure early intervention, reduce feelings of isolation, and help students access the right services before challenges escalate.

Free AI prompting and digital literacy classes — As AI becomes an essential part of modern work and research, students should have the skills to use these tools effectively and ethically. Offering free workshops on AI prompting, automation, and data-driven problem solving would empower students to enhance their studies, improve productivity, and prepare for a technology-driven job market.

We are running because we believe the SRC should put students first — delivering practical changes that improve study conditions, make campus life more accessible, and ensure every student feels supported throughout their university journey.

CANDIDATES

Qixiu

(Jack) Li Engineering I

• I run marathons

• I run ideas into action

• I run campaigns for better

• I run on redbull and curiosity

• StudyNSW Student Ambassador

• NSW Department of Education

International Student Ambassador

• Student Life Committee, School of Biomedical Engineering

• First Year Representative, School of Biomedical Engineering BMET1960

• Featured in a documentary in which I ran 35km as part of a 360km relay from Canberra to Sydney in support of international students and immigrants in Australia

• Speaker at the 2025 NSW International Student Roundtable and DE International Staff Training Day

• Photographer for the Sydney University Association of Biomedical Engineers

• Engineering Without Borders School Outreach Volunteer

• Recipient of the 2025 Academic Excellence Award for International Students

• High School SRC President and Prefect, raising over $50,000 towards charity

Manas Vinay Srinivas Engineering I

• I play competitive basketball

• I am passionate about solving global challenges through sustainable engineering, digital innovation, and effective science communication.

• I love making short films, going on side quests around the city, and cologne shopping

• I’ve done various object-oriented programming, chemical engineering and volunteering projects concerning sustainability and the environment.

• I thrive in cross-functional teams and believe in the power of education, empathy, and engineering to drive positive change.

• Marketing Strategist of USYD COMMSTEM 2025

• First Year Student Rep of Calculus Mathematics 1B

• Chemistry Correspondent of USYD Chemistry Society 2025

• Waste Management Ambassador of USYD Environmental Institute 2025

• Student Representative for the NUS Energy & Decarbonisation Youth Programme Singapore Marketing Intern of Plug N Play Biosciences (CAMIA International).

• Recipient of the Outstanding Pearson Learner Award (Highest Mark in the World for IGCSE History (May/June 2022)

• High School Head of the Digital Culture & Learning Committee of Dover Court International School, Singapore - 20222024

• Recipient of the UKMT Mathematics Bronze Certificate 2022-2023

• Part-Time High School Mathematics Teaching Assistant at KUMON Singapore (2022-2025)

• Co-Supervisor of the Dover Court International School, Singapore 2023 Food from the Heart Bake Sale to raise awareness of food wastage on campus

Srishti Chadda Engineering/Science I

• I love languages, having lived in 5 countries

• I love to yap and good yap sessions

• I love diet coke (no1. enthusiast!!)

• I love to learn and connect with

others, so I tutor high school maths & chemistry

• High School Prefect, contributed to event planning, wrote summaries for the school newsletter, chaired school assemblies

• Speaker at High School Annual Ceremonies, delivering a speech in 2024 on ‘connections’ by reflecting on linguistic connections & the often invisible connections that thread us together

• Recipient of an annual award for leaving Yr 12 students honouring the school motto

• 2024 Titration Competition participant & all-things chemistry lover

• Yr12 Stage 6 Debating Team

• 2025 First-Year Representative, Sydney University Chemical Engineering Society (SUCES)

• Class Representative, DATA1901 cohort

• Member of Wasabi

Jun-Wei Wong Engineering/Science I

• I enjoy playing the Cello and the Ukulele

• Teach Cello to Primary School Children

• High School Mentor and Prefect, contributing to Charities such as: World’s Greatest Shave, Push Up Challenge, Movember, McGrath Foundation

• Recipient of the Prefect Executive Award

• Inductee to the High School Honour Book

Bryan Law Kah Hsing Engineering I

• First-year Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering undergraduate (GPA 7.0 / WAM 92.3, High Distinction).

• 100% tuition scholarship recipient (Sydney International Undergraduate Academic Excellence Scholarship)

• Technical skills: Python, R, Microsoft Excel (data analysis & modelling).

• Engineering skills: Process simulation, mass & energy balances, laboratory techniques.

• Analytical skills: Statistical analysis, experimental design, problem-solving.

• Languages: English (fluent), Mandarin (fluent), Malay (conversational).

• A Levels: 4 A* in Chemistry, Physics,

Mathematics, Further Mathematics; 1st in cohort for Mathematics & Further Mathematics.

• IGCSE: 9 A*, Top in the World for Mathematics; 1st in Mathematics for 5 consecutive years.

• Internship experience at LSW Builders Sdn. Bhd.: assisted in chemical application, project management, and procurement processes.

• Experience in technical communication through client & supplier meetings, documentation, and report preparation.

• Mathematics & Science competitions: Highest Mark in the World (IGCSE Mathematics), Kangaroo Mathematics Honorable Mention.

• Distinction in the Malaysia National Chemistry Quiz.

• State-level Track & Field & Swimming competitor; 2 bronze medals in athletics.

• Strong teamwork, leadership, and timemanagement skills reinforced through group projects and athletics training.

• Committed to high-quality results and continuous learning in engineering practice.

• Dispense technician and pharmacy assistant at TerryWhite Chemmart pharmacy for 3 years

• Woodwind music teacher (saxophone, clarinet, flute) for children in years 3-6 at primary school

• Completion of grade 8 AMEB music examinations for oboe (2022), saxophone (2021) and piano (2021), all passed with honours

• Private tutor for chemistry and mathematics

• Academic tutor for an online tutoring organisation

• Volunteer as a children’s club leader after school on Fridays for the local area

• Volunteer piano band member at the local church

• Engineering peer mentor at the University of Sydney

• Working with Children’s Check from the NSW government

• Dalyell scholar

• International student from India.

• Hobbies: cooking and travelling.

• Second year student.

• Mentored peers and supported student success as an Engo Peer Mentor at the University of Sydney.

• Enhanced student life and campus engagement through volunteer work with the University of Sydney Union (USU).

• Delivered outstanding customer experiences in a high-paced retail environment at Hungry Jack’s.

• Contributed to a major community event by volunteering at the City2Surf.

• Developed strong organizational and time management skills by successfully balancing part-time work with full-time university studies.

[AQ] PENTA for Affordable Living Policy Statement

“We are committed to ensuring that every student living in Sydney enjoys an enriching and fulfilling experience, unaffected by financial stress. Yet for many students— whether domestic or international—rising costs in transportation, housing, food, and daily essentials have made it harder to focus on learning and participate fully in campus life. We will working for Affordable Living, purpose to ease these pressures for all students, making university life more accessible, and equitable.

We propose extending Opal card discounts to all eligible students, including international students, to ensure fairness and reduce weekly commuting expenses. Affordable and reliable transport is essential for attending classes, working part-time jobs, and engaging in social and cultural activities. At the same time, increasing the frequency of campus shuttle buses will make travel between key locations faster, safer, and more convenient for everyone.

Housing remains one of the largest expenses for students in Sydney. By providing broader access to housing subsidies, we can help both local and international students secure stable, affordable accommodation, allowing them to concentrate on their studies without the constant strain of rising rents.

Day-to-day living also depends on affordable, healthy food options. We will expand access to budget-friendly campus meals and extend opening hours— especially during exam periods—so that students studying late into the night can still enjoy a proper meal on campus without overspending. For those who need to travel long distances, especially international students lived overseas, introducing airfare subsidies for eligible students will help maintain important personal connections without excessive cost.

This policy is about more than lowering prices—it is about fairness, well-being, and opportunity. Our approach is to provide targeted, application-based support for those who need it most, rather than implementing across-the-board cuts. This ensures that the policy is both realistic and sustainable, while still making a meaningful difference. We believe in a measured approach: not sweeping reforms,

David Kaploun Engineering I

Sanskriti Sanjay Engineering II

but thoughtful improvements in the details that matter. Step by step, we will ease the financial pressures on students, addressing key cost-of-living challenges across transport, housing, food, and travel. In doing so, we can build a campus where every student, regardless of background, has the freedom to focus on learning, personal growth, and making the most of their university experience. Affordable Living is our commitment to making Sydney a place where all students can truly thrive.”

CANDIDATES

Yuki Cao Economics II

• Bachelor of Economics (Financial Economics major, Econometrics minor), University of Sydney

• London School of Economics Summer School – Behavioural Economics (Grade: A-) & Power BI Spark Programme

• Committee Member, SRC × USU Second-hand Textbook Project

• Founder Relations Associate, MiraclePlus

• Asdan Business Competition (Top 9)

• UKMT Mathematics Competition (Silver)

• Euclid Mathematics Competition (Top 25%)

Orlando Yang Commerce II

• National Television Program Guest

• Investment Banking Department Secretary(Intern), Top-tier Chinese Investment Bank

• Basketball Team Member,University of Winnipeg Collegiate(High school),Canada

• Photography enthusiast;Member,Hunan Photographers Association(China)

• High school Master of Ceremonies(MC)-show excellent ability of speak to public and well communication in double language

• Bronze Medal Winner(Youth Division),World Youth Oil Painting Competition

Aria Yang Economics I

• Experience in community service, cultural exchange, and environmental initiatives, with a commitment to humanitarian values and sustainable development.

• Volunteering with Red Cross to promoting cultural heritage and environmental awareness through Yangtze River volunteer programs and museum docent roles.

• Member of the Red Cross Society

• Docent at the Cross-Yangtze River Museum

• Volunteer for Yangtze River Volunteer Activities

Louise Zhang Commerce I

Diversified development with expertise in bodybuilding and art design.

Served multiple times in high school as lead designer for posters and promotional materials, demonstrating strong creative thinking.

Skilled in cross-cultural communication and understanding, integrating artistic vision with diverse perspectives.

Haonan

Zhou

Media and Communication I

• As a director and producer, established collaborations with Japanese companies and operated my own studio.

• Demonstrated strong leadership, cross-cultural communication, and professional expertise in anime and film production.

• Member of the student union in high school

[AR] FREE PALESTINE FOR SRC

Policy Statement

Our ticket, FREE PALESTINE FOR SRC, vehemently opposes the ongoing genocide and apartheid which Palestinians have been subjected to by the state of Israel. We demand that the University of Sydney end its complicity with the academic institutions, businesses and weapons companies that have a hand in the dispossession and slaughter of Palestinians.

FREE PALESTINE FOR SRC is a formidable left-wing ticket committed to the struggle for a Free Palestine. It has been 22 months since Israel began its brutal siege on Gaza. We have all witnessed the horrors of this onslaught, the bombing of hospitals, universities, schools, religious sites, residential areas and humanitarian zones. Now, Palestinians are being shot by the IDF that controls humanitarian sites with at least 1,373 killed and over 2,000 injured and yet the Labor government has refused to sanction Israel for genocide.

Over 62,000 Palestinians have been killed with the peer-reviewed Lancet journal estimating that 186,000 people have been killed since Israel’s attack on Gaza. Famine, disease and dehydration have stricken Gaza as Israel continues to block critical humanitarian aid from entering the Gaza strip. As Gaza is entering stage 5 famine, Israel is controlling borders, blocking hundreds of UN food trucks carrying essential food and medicine, it is more important than ever to protest the Labor party complicity.

In the West Bank, violent attacks from settler gangs, supported by the Israeli military, have resulted in the death of over 1000 Palestinians. This is not to mention the destruction and demolition of over 13,000 Palestinian structures, namely residential homes and the 21,000 Palestinians who have been displaced.

In response to the ongoing genocide, masses of working people have bravely stood up to oppose the governments and institutions that remain complicit in the apartheid and genocidal Israeli regime. Students, in particular, have played a crucial role, demanding that their universities cut all ties with institutions complicit in genocide.

FREE PALESTINE FOR SRC recognises the fight to end the University of Sydney’s complicity in genocide and apartheid is far from over. VOTING [1] FREE PALESTINE FOR SRC will continue the SRC’s mandate to force the University of Sydney to divest.

FREE PALESTINE FOR SRC WILL:

• Keep fighting to ensure the University of Sydney cuts ties with weapons companies, namely Thales;

• Force the University of Sydney to sever ties with complicit Israeli academic institutions, namely Tel Aviv University and Hebrew University of Jerusalem;

• Make the University of Sydney divest from all companies complicit in apartheid and settlement expansion in the West Bank, namely Amazon, Walt Disney, BHP and others;

• Protest and repeal the Campus Access Policy (2025) that represses freedom of speech, an abhorrent attack on protests, clubs and societies

VOTE [1] FREE PALESTINE FOR SRC

VOTE [1] GRACE FOR PREZ

VOTE [1] FREE PALESTINE FOR NUS

VOTE [2] GRASSROOTS FOR NUS

VOTE [3] LEFT ACTION FOR NUS CANDIDATES

Aron Khuc Arts/Social Work II

• Social Justice Officer 2024-present

• Social Work Society Secretary 2025-present

• Autonomous Collective Against Racism (ACAR) Member 2024-present

• BDS Youth Member 2024-present

• Students Against Placement Poverty (SAPP) Member 2024-present

• ACAR Honi editor 2025

• Hater of gentrification

• Double hater of Campus Access Policy (CAP)

• Triple hater of zionists

Anna Watts Social Work II

• Speaks English, Mandarin, German; wannabe polyglot, learning Arabic and French

• Catch me solo-protesting at Epping Station for Palestine, 12pm every Sunday

• Privacy enthusiast, prefers open-source software; currently using Vanilla OS and GrapheneOS

Dongchen Yue Science/Arts I

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Lily Williams Arts/Social Work II

• they/them

• Studying Social Work and Arts

• English Major (unfortunately)

• hater of AI

• folk music enjoyer

• “they sang this in glee”

Jana Elmowy Social Work V

• Social work society member, 2025

• Student placement at Advance Diversity Services working with the settlement team.

• Currently assisting in hosting healing workshops and seminars with and for Palestinian and Lebanese migrants affected by the ongoing genocide, 2025

• Volunteer group facilitator for Addi Road’s Youth Collective for Palestine art & healing workshop, 2023-2024

• POC Revue member, 2022

• Occasional contributor to zines

• Avid consumer of media

• Enjoyer of watching cauldrons of bats fly at sunset

Lara Holbrook Social Work I

Sofia Angelini Arts/Advanced Studies III

• sociology and criminology major

• angry at the state of the world

• hopes to do something about that

• but still doesn’t know what the “”advanced studies”” of her degree even is (even though she’s a 3rd year)

[AS] IMPACT FOR CAMPUS LIFE

Policy Statement

This year, IMPACT proved that the SRC can build a campus that feels alive, supportive, and welcoming for every student. Under our leadership, the SRC has delivered practical services, made community a priority, and ensured students could feel the SRC’s presence not just in politics, but in everyday life.

We made the SRC more accessible, visible, and student-focused. From fortnightly BBQs and outreach stalls to the $5 meal canteen, we’ve worked to ease the costof-living crisis and create spaces where students can connect and thrive. We rebranded the SRC with input from creative students, brought in a new migration law service, hired a new caseworker, and expanded legal and welfare support to meet students’ real needs. At the same time, we defended your rights and made sure campus remains a place where activism and community can coexist.

This is what IMPACT achieved this year. If re-elected, IMPACT for Campus Life will continue to grow and push further, ensuring the SRC is a hub of services, support, and student life.

What We Achieved This Year

Ran fortnightly BBQs and outreach stalls, reaching hundreds of students we had never spoken to before.

Delivered an SRC rebrand, starting with a $1000 student-led logo competition to engage creative talent.

Worked to relocate the SRC office for better visibility and staff conditions.

Pushed with SUPRA for a $5 student meal canteen, set up a working group with USU and the University, and delivered an interim canteen providing hot meals Monday-Friday.

Expanded services by delivering a new migration law service for international students.

Hired a new SRC caseworker to ensure

faster, more accessible support.

Delivered regular free food and resources, helping ease student costs during a difficult year.

If re-elected, IMPACT for Campus Life will:

Deliver the $5 meal canteen permanently by 2026 for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, making affordable food a central part of campus life.

Expand SRC free food services, from BBQs to Foodhub.

Ensure all students have access to free sanitary products and affordable essentials on campus.

Run bigger and more inclusive student events, like themed weeks, to continue to make campus vibrant.

Extend SRC services with longer office hours, more caseworkers, and targeted support for international and equity students.

Work with societies and clubs to fund more student-led events.

Keep building the SRC as a student community

Vote [1] IMPACT FOR CAMPUS LIFE

Vote [1] IMPACT FOR NUS

Vote [1] SARGUN FOR PREZ CANDIDATES

Lucy Sullivan Bachelor of Arts II

• Film, feminism, free speech;

• 2025 Sexual Violence Officer

• SRC Fortnightly BBQ volunteer

• Growing Strong Contributor

• FilmSoc Member

• SASS Member

• VOTE 1 SARGUN SALUJA FOR PREZ!

• VOTE 1 IMPACT FOR CAMPUS LIFE!

• VOTE 1 IMPACT FOR NUS!

Ava Calaverie Politics, Philosophy, and Economics I

• Oztag team member

• Fostered conversations pushing for the yes vote

• Interested in accessibility to education and cheaper campus life

• Better and more affordable student housing facilities

• VOTE 1 SARGUN SALUJA FOR PREZ!

• VOTE 1 IMPACT FOR CAMPUS LIFE!

• VOTE 1 IMPACT FOR NUS!

Leanne Rook Arts/Law II

• 2025 Director of Student Publications

• Editor of bestboy for FilmSoc

• VOTE 1 SARGUN SALUJA FOR PREZ!

• VOTE 1 IMPACT FOR CAMPUS LIFE!

• VOTE 1 IMPACT FOR NUS!

Alex Marucci Arts I

• The one, the only- Alex Marucci. Running for YOUR campus life at USYD.

• Let’s GET IT!

• VOTE 1 SARGUN SALUJA FOR PREZ!

• VOTE 1 IMPACT FOR CAMPUS LIFE!

• VOTE 1 IMPACT FOR NUS!

Tom Wilks Arts IV

• DemSoc member

• Filmsoc member

• Studying History and English

• VOTE 1 SARGUN SALUJA FOR PREZ!

• VOTE 1 IMPACT FOR CAMPUS LIFE!

• VOTE 1 IMPACT FOR NUS!

USyd Social Work Students Society executive (2025)

Studio Ghibli enthusiast!

[AT] PENTA for Students’ Voices Policy Statement

PENTA for students’ voices is here to create a comfortable, supportive and safer space for everybody. We believe in genuine experiences and actions, not just policies and empty promises. In our endeavour to achieve this objective, we will advocate for four key changes;

1. An improved reporting process of incidents: The current system is a slow and hard process, students have expressed disappointment or low satisfaction with the outcomes of the investigation and the justice served. Our solution is to implement a survivor first complaint process that creates a safe space with support and respect for victims. Students shouldn’t have to get support from social media just because they couldn’t get a fair outcome from long and traumatic investigations.

2. Students’ voices: Rather than only having end of semester feedback forms, we’d like to implement a system that allows students to address issues in real time and not after it is too late. This is for teachers to adjust their ways of teaching to fulfil students’ needs, thus gaining the best experience they can in the lessons. Issues should not remain unaddressed throughout the course, potentially affecting learning experiences and outcomes, while improvements may only benefit future students.

3. Lightning on campus: Many areas on and around campus are poorly lit at night, this could be unsafe for anyone walking to or from classes, public transport and libraries. Improved lighting is a step towards better students’ safety, no one should feel unsafe when simply trying to get from one place to another.

4. Period products at bathrooms: Access to period products should be a necessity not a luxury, yet many are still caught off guard throughout the day without reasonable access to pads or tampons and are left to walk to buy them or in discomfort. We want to push for accessible period products in all bathrooms, as we believe no one should have to improvise just because they had no access to something so essential, especially at night when almost nothing is open.

We’re advocating for real changes, not just university checkboxes. PENTA for students’ voices is here to turn concerns into actions.

CANDIDATES

An Education I

as part of the Penta leadership team at the University of Sydney.

2. Member, Lions Club

Participated in community events and fundraising activities as part of an international volunteer organisation.

3. Speaker, QFCC Youth Summit

Delivered a speech advocating for youth perspectives on some key social issues.

4. Intern, Primary school teacher

Engaged students in classroom activities and assisted in lesson planning and classroom management.

5. Representative, City of Gold Coast Junior Council

Advocated for youth voices and discussed on local community initiatives.

6. School Captain

Represented the student body and organised school events.

7.Instrumental Music Captain

Organised, promoted and supported musical events and performances.

8. Volunteer, Sydney International Culture Festival

Tanya Tong Science I

1. Duke of Edinburgh, Bronze Award

30+ Hours of Volunteer Work, 15+ Hours of Physical Recreation, 15+ Hours of Skills.

2. English Teaching Assistant

Helped my Peers in reading comprehension, writing and grammar skills.

3. Open Day Student Guide

Volunteered as a student guide during open day events, giving tours, answering parents/students questions.

4. Volunteer, Assistant Event Organiser

Planned/coordinated events such as fundraisers, Christmas parties for refugees, etc.

5. Elderly and Special Needs Care Volunteer

Supported and cared for elderly individuals and people with special needs and assisting with their daily activities.

6. Executive Treasurer, USYD Random Acts of Kindness Society

Prepared financial reports and managed the society’s finances.

Rosy Hong Arts II

Peer Mentor, University of Sydney

Supported first-year students’ transition to university life, organised and participated in academic and social activities.

2. Member, Sydney University Chinese Debating Society

Competed in the Freshers’ Debate; contributed to case preparation and speech delivery.

3. Volunteer, USU Charity Packing Event

Prepared essential living supplies for women facing financial hardship.

4. Consulting Intern, China

Conducted market research, prepared analytical reports, and assisted in client project delivery.

5. Education Industry Intern, China

Assisted in curriculum development, student engagement, and operational support.

6. Business Case Competition Participant, Multiple Brands (L’Oréal, Nestlé, Roland Berger, etc.)

Developed marketing and strategic solutions in cross-functional teams; presented proposals to industry professionals.

Haihan Zhang Arts I

1. Volunteer, University of Sydney Union (USU)

Supported orientation programs and student engagement activities.

Promoted inclusivity and community involvement on campus.

2. Student Partner Program, University of Sydney

Collaborated with staff and peers on student experience and discipline-specific projects.

Represented student perspectives and contributed to academic initiatives.

3. SRC/USU Collectives, University of Sydney

Actively engaged in advocacy and student representation.

4. Peer Mentoring, University of Sydney

Supported first-year students in adapting to academic and social life.

5. University of Sydney Debating Society

Participated in public speaking and debate training, enhancing logical reasoning and communication skills.

6. University of Sydney Economics Society

Engaged in academic lectures, professional development events, and policy discussions.

[AU] PENTA for Students Policy Statement

为什么国际学生无法享受学生优惠？为什 么同样是悉尼大学生要为同样的公交线 路多花一倍的价格？长久以来国际学生和 非全日制学生受到歧视性政策的不公平对 待！

我们要为所有学生争取真正的交通平权， 并推动一系列改善学生生活的行动： 人人平等的 Opal 优惠——不分国籍、不分 修课模式

更便利安全的出行选择——更多班车、更 好的自行车与步行设施

生活成本减压——延长FoodHub运营时 间，增加亚洲食品

可负担的住宿——争取更多校内外低租金 房源

我们相信，公平不仅在路上，更要走进校 园的每个角落。

Why should some students pay double for the same bus ride? Why are international and part-time students charged more for the same trip? We say — enough!

We will fight for transport equity and lead a broader push to improve student life:

Equal Opal concessions for everyone — no matter your nationality or study mode

Better, safer travel options — more shuttle services, improved cycling and walking facilities

Lower cost of living — affordable, healthy, and diverse food options

Affordable housing — more low-rent onand off-campus accommodation

Fairness shouldn’t stop at the ticket gate, it should be on every part of campus!

Coordinated events and represented peers

1. General Executive, USYD Penta

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(25s1)

Ethan Cao Advanced Computing III

• 2025 – USU Volunteer

• 2024 – SRC Councillor

Xiaorong Liu Advanced Computing II

• 2025 – SRC Volunteer

Yuxuan Wang Economics/Advanced Studies IV

• 2025 - Students Accommodation Officer, SRC

Jason Xu Engineering (Honours) II

• 2024 - Accommodation Officer, SRC

• 2025 - Volunteer, USU

Johny Shan Liberal Arts/Science IV

• 2025 – Intercampus Officer SRC

• 2024 – Intercampus Officer SRC

[AV] International Students for SRC

Policy Statement

We are Penta for international students, and our mission is to ensure that every student—including international students—feels supported and welcomed throughout their entire university journey. By advocating for the rights of international students, and with deep respect for this land and our university, we strive to create an environment for all students that is more inclusive, culturally diverse, and rooted in mutual understanding.

For a long time, many international students have faced greater challenges than local students in adapting to life, language, and social environments. In response, we have put forward a series of key initiatives. First, in terms of transportation, we believe that international students, who study, live, and dedicate their youth to this land just as local students do, should be entitled to the same half-price student Opal card. This would not only make it more affordable and convenient for international students to attend classes and participate in social life, but would also reflect the core values of fairness and justice that this land and this nation uphold.

Furthermore, even in a highly developed society like Australia, it is still regrettable that racial conflicts sometimes occur. At the University of Sydney, a campus that prides itself on fairness and inclusivity, we aim to further promote understanding and respect among different cultures and ethnicities—through initiatives such as language exchange programs and voluntary international festival celebrations. These activities will allow students to appreciate the beauty of each other’s differences, while also recognising the kindness, passion, and mutual understanding that we all share.

We are the Penta for international students—but we are not here only for international students. By ensuring that their voices are heard, we aim to lead our campus towards a future that is more inclusive, more equitable, and more deeply connected through mutual understanding.

CANDIDATES

Lucas

He Commerce II

• High school experience in the UK meanwhile have scholarship for 40 percent off for the school tuition fee.

• Enter university by grades A*A*A*.

• Moreover, I won the silver award in the international mathematical Olympiad.

• I am the international student officer in USYD. Skilled in operating and organizing activities, meanwhile the ability of solving emerging problems.

• I had three times internship experiences during the school break with strong accountability of working.

Zeyu Jin Architecture/Environments I

• Bachelor of Architecture and Environments, University of Sydney (2025–Present) – previously studied in China (2023–24) with an exchange in Canada.

• Experienced in conducting interviews, thematic analysis, and presenting findings to varied audiences. Skilled in project coordination, public speaking.

• Bilingual: Native Chinese, fluent English (IELTS 7-7.5), engaging with multicultural communities — and a passionate NBA fan & NBA 2K strategist.

Cameron Ma Arts II

• Currently studying economics and management at USYD. Having strong ability of managing and operating the activities based on the major.

• Having strong connection with different culture background people, and enjoying the time of working and talking with different people.

Anna Chen Commerce I

• Currently studying a Bachelor of Commerce at the University of Sydney, double majoring in Accounting and Business Analytics.

• Previously studied at GHCIS in Shanghai, China.

• I am bilingual in Chinese and English, with strong cross-cultural communication skills developed through participation in the Debate Club.

• I possess strong logical reasoning and critical thinking skills.

• I achieved top-five rankings in mathematics competitions at my school, including the Canadian Senior Mathematics Contest.

• I also actively pursued a businessrelated Extended Project Qualification, researching brand strategy and market competitiveness.

• As a member of the school business club, I participated in weekly discussions and engaged in market field research projects.

• I am passionate about travelling, music, watching movies, and volleyball.

• I look forward to exchanging things learned from reading with people of different cultures, as cultural differences may “clash”.

King Chen Economics II

• Director and lead actor of <King Lear> and <Midsummer Night’s Dream> in high school

• Best Rookie Award and the Individual Winner Award in National Economic Challenge

• Third prize with his teammates in the 2021 International Economics Olympiad

• Second prize in the provincial English Literacy Competition

• Did an internship at an investment company, in the summer of 2022

[AW] Queer Agenda for SRC

Policy Statement

Last semester, we successfully prevented the university from suspending and effectively causing the deportation of a trans asylum-seeking student, Luna. Luna was targeted by University management for writing on a whiteboard about the university’s complicity in the Palestinian genocide. We showed the university that students, staff, and community members will fight against their endangerment of queer and refugee lives in their crusade to repress student opposition to their ties with Gaza’s Holocaust. Join us as we continue to fight for trans, queer, refugee, Indigenous, disability, and women’s justice, including opposing the university’s new anti-protest rules, which disproportionately affect minority students’ ability to push for a better life for themselves and others.

Stop Platforming Bigotry on CampusThis year the School of Public Health invited a eugenicist to advocate for gene selection, supporting parents to erase queer and disabled people from the gene pool. Last year the Philosophy Department invited a prominent transphobe to talk about “feminism”. These departments and the university itself are backing these bigots both with a platform and your tuition fees, legitimising their arguments. We’re going to be using the SRC to run a mass campaign collating student experiences of queerphobia across classes, accommodations and events to highlight discrimination experienced by students but also the solutions students want to see.

No University Anti-Protest Policies - The Campus Access Policy scares students into silence on topics they care about. We have defied the CAP numerous times and put our enrolments on the line to do so. When students were materially threatened, we fought for them and won. We want to collect more stories, we want to hear your stories, and we want to hold University management publicly accountable for their sins.

Books Not Bombs - Our tuition fees should be spent on our education, not on researching new ways to ethnically cleanse Palestine. However, the university cuts courses, culls teaching staff and bloats class sizes in order to line the pockets of warmongers. We were on the picket line in 2023 to fight against course cuts, and we will be back to fight for your student fees to be put toward teaching staff - not bombs!

End Sexual Violence on Campus and Affordable Housing for All - The Colleges on campus are a rapist haven and breeding ground for the bigotry of the ruling class. They are a state sanctioned boarding house to make the rich richer and rape the poor. Legislated by the NSW Labor government – who are shutting down public housing and evicting impoverished families – and having their crimes covered up by the university. These institutions are exorbitantly priced in a housing crisis, and lock out or abuse low-income students. We want to fight to turn these rape camps into student-led, cooperative housing that is free from misogyny, queerphobia and racism.

CANDIDATES

Jesper Duffy Arts I

• Organising member of the Queer Action Collective (QuAC) - since 2023

• Organising member of Pride in Protest (PiP) - Since 2023

• Full Service Sex Worker and Sex Worker Rights activist

• Transmasc, Genderqueer fairy boy (he/ him)

• In my work at the USU, I was refused sexual trauma leave after numerous sexual assaults in a short time, and was medically discriminated against for my chronic illness

• I have written political analysis at Honi Soit for the past three years reporting on queer issues, the Luna campaign, and why the midsem break sucked.

• Fun Fact About Me: I can’t list my fun facts because they breach the student charter

• Organiser of several queer protests, speaker and educator on political issues (The rest of this resume breaks the Campus Access Policy)

• I’ve learned a lot through these campaigns and community events. I make it a commitment to fight for Indigenous, Palestinian, migrant, and worker liberation in all my work.

• It’s my belief that education is liberation, and I will fight to ensure that the culture wars of the ruling class will not slow down our fight.

Lauren Bentley Science/Advanced Studies III

• Organising member of the USyd Queer Action Collective

• Stopped the Uni from deporting a trans asylum seeking student for supporting Palestine

• Editor of Queer Honi 2025

• Speaker at protest against eugenicists on campus, against the rules of the [redacted]

• Organiser of TERFs off Our Turf protest of transphobe speaking on campus, against the rules of the [redacted]

• Organiser of many Queers for Palestine contingents

• Organiser of many cross-university student contingents to trans rights rallies

• Organiser and chair of ’Sex Worker Rights’ panel

• Red hair and pronouns (they/she)

• Will cry at first note of ‘Funeral’ by Phoebe Bridgers

Wendy Thompson Visual Arts/Advanced Studies III

• 2025 SRC Queer Officer

• Organiser with the Queer Action Collective (QuAC) since 2023

• Organiser with Pride in Protest (PiP) since 2024

• Main organiser of the Luna campaign last semester to stop USYD from deporting a trans asylum seeker student over her support for Palestine

• Two times Queer Honi editor and contributor (“Beyond Visibility: Acephobic

• Discrimination and the Place for Asexuality in Radical Politics” in 2025)

• Organiser of several protests for queer rights, against discrimination, and for better student experiences

• Organiser of queer student contingents to Palestine, Indigenous rights, and anti- police brutality rallies

• International student

• I can speak Mandarin Chinese, but election campaign rules won’t let me speak it to you

• Pronouns are they/them

Max Fischhof Music Education III

• President of the Sydney Uni Marching Band Association (SUMBA) since October 2024

• Treasurer from October 2023 –October 2024

• Member since 2023

• Member of the Queer Action Collective (QuAC) since 2023

• Member of Pride in Protest (PiP) since 2023

• Coordinating cross-campus events on behalf of Students Against War (SAW) since 2025

• Volunteering with Food Not Bombs Sydney since 2025

• Active participant in any rally or contingent I can get to on public transport

• Having grown up with amazing role models for activism and community, I aim to give back to the village that raised me in any way I can. It’s the least I can do.

• Born, raised, and currently living on unceded Dharug land

• Pronouns are he/him

[AX] PENTA for better well-being Policy Statement

PENTA for Better Well-Being believes that every student at the University of Sydney should have a better environment to study, to live, to eat, and to have transportation. University should not only be about academic achievement but also needs to consider more students’ well-being, even the whole Australasian government should be considered.

If elected, we will focus on three main priorities:

1. Cheaper Food Option - we will advocate for more affordable on-campus meals, discounts for students at nearby shops, and initiatives that make healthy food more accessible.

2. Affordable Housing - We will push the university to expand student dormitory or apartment availability, ensuring fair prices that match student needs, and reducing the financial burden of living in Sydney.

3. Strong Student Support - We will work to provide greater financial relief, discounts, and communication resources for all students, particularly international students who may face additional challenges.

By voting for PENTA for Better WellBeing, you are supporting a better and balanced vision. With a more supportive campus, students can concentrate more on their studies without separating their treasured time on finding cheerful food, an apartment, and even being weighed down by financial pressure. Together, we can create a university experiences that truly support student well-being.

CANDIDATES

Ziheng Huang Engineering I

• Served as President of the Student Council External Affairs Department at an international high school.

• Served as President of the Media Department, responsible for campus promotion and social media management.

• Served as President of the Photography Club, planning and photographing club activities.

• Participated in multiple business pitch projects and AT Asset Research & Financial Simulation projects.

• Gained overseas study and exchange experience, participating in academic and cultural programs abroad.

Dongpeng Cai Engineering I

• Developed personalized lesson plans to improve student scores and confidence.

• Conducted one-on-one and small group tutoring sessions, adapting to different learning styles.

• Conducted English proficiency workshops, including academic writing, presentation, and communication skills.

• Developed teaching materials and practice tests to enhance learning effectiveness.

• Experienced in cross-cultural communication, mentoring international students and adapting to diverse learning needs.

• Provided career and study abroad consultation, guiding students in applications and interview preparation.

Tianhao Zhang Science I

• Practiced fitness and a healthy lifestyle, demonstrating self-discipline and perseverance.

• Possess basic programming/technical skills (e.g., Python, data processing).

• Independently planned small-scale events or creative projects, developing planning and execution skills.

• Participated in social research or environmental volunteer activities, gaining teamwork experience.

Zhenghan Ju mechanical engineering I

• Experienced in cross-cultural communication.

• Self-studied and applied mathematical modeling and data analysis.

• Enjoy independent research and problem-solving.

• Extensive experience in eSports.

[AY] IMPACT FOR ACADEMIC WELFARE Policy Statement

IMPACT knows that strong student leadership can defend and improve the academic rights that matter most to students. We fought to make sure assessment policies are fair, that students have access to genuine support when things go wrong, and that the university cannot quietly erode our welfare.

When the university tried to cut back simple extensions, we held the line and preserved the 5-day extension rule that thousands of students rely on. We challenged unfair policies on academic honesty, fought attempts to restrict student activism through academic codes, and made sure the student voice was heard at every single committee, from Academic Board to University Executive. We have shown that when students push back, we can protect our rights.

At the same time, we worked to expand services that directly support academic success: more caseworkers and a new migration law service. We know that academic welfare isn’t just about rules, and that it’s about the support systems that help students when they need it most.

If elected, IMPACT FOR ACADEMIC WELFARE will continue to defend student rights and push for a fairer, more supportive academic system.

What We Achieved This Year:

• Preserved 5-day simple extensions despite university attempts to reduce them.

• Attended every major committee meeting, ensuring students always had a voice in academic decisions.

• Fought restrictive draft policies that would limit academic freedom and political expression.

• Challenged and weakened the Campus Access Policy (CAP), protecting students’ right to protest without academic penalty.

• Expanded SRC casework capacity, helping students appeal unfair academic decisions more quickly.

• Delivered specialist legal and migration services for students facing academic or enrolment difficulties.

If elected, IMPACT for Academic Welfare will:

• Maintain and defend the 5-day simple extension system so students are never left behind.

• Fix the broken special considerations system, making it faster, fairer, and less bureaucratic.

• Introduce universal 11:59 pm submission times, ending the stress of 9 am or midday deadlines.

• Ban weekend exams, ensuring students’ rights to rest and accessibility are respected.

• Cap all exams at 50% weighting, preventing single assessments from determining whole subjects.

• Fight all staff and course cuts, ensuring students have the full breadth of subjects and quality teaching.

• Improve staff-to-student ratios, ending overcrowded tutorials and lectures.

• Ensure that mental health and disability are recognised fairly within academic policy.

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CANDIDATES

Angus Fisher Economics (Honours) V

• SRC President, 2025

• SRC General Executive Member, 2024

• SRC Councillor, 2024-2025

• HD WAM, 2021-2025

• USYD BoulderSoc 2021-2025: Climbs V10 (pretty good)

• USYD Economics Honours Candidate, 2024-2025

• Education Action Group, 2024-2025

• Welfare Action Group, 2024

• Students for Drug Reform, 2024-2025

• Students for Yes, 2023

• USU Debating Society, 2022-2023

• EconSoc, 2021-2024

• DemSoc, 2023

• FASS School of Economics Tutor, 2024

• Jasmine Donnelly’s Boyfriend, 20242025

Jasmine Donnelly Arts IV

• Expand casework and advocacy services so more students can access academic appeals, show-cause support, and advice.

• Honi Soit Reporter

• USU Debating: Australian Intervarsity Debating Championships Judge, Australasian Intervarsity Debating Championships Speaker

• SULS: Kingswood Lallesons Torts Moot Quarter-Finalist, Corrs Chambers Westgarth Senior Negotiations Competition

• Student Legal Education Action Group Vanditta Kumar Arts II

• The policy aims to make USYD accommodation for students who live more than an hours worth of travel (By train, bus or car) more accessible.

• Allocating a portion of accommodation units in each USYD owned property for students who have proof of residence in areas an hour or more away.

• The policy aims to address student welfare for those students who have to make a considerable commute to reach campus.

• Living far away from campus means students aren’t able to take advantage of all the resources that USYD offers, compared to students who live locally.

• Things such as the library, club events, academic programs and networking programs are harder for students to access when they live a long commute away.

• 2024 SRC Vice President

• 2023 SRC General Secretary

• SRC Councillor

• Member of Philsoc

• Member of DJSoc

• Member of HistorySoc

• Member of FilmSoc

• Member of Labor Left

Zayed Tabish Arts/Law II

• Most students will try and make their timetables as concise as possible to not have to travel on extra days due to the lengthy process and costs.

• The impact of living separated from the university ecosystem is significant on student mental and physical welfare.

• Being isolated from friends, uni social events, peers in classes and the mental and physical strain of having to wake up at 7am to be ready.

Raf Aquino Arts I

• Union Proud

Honi Soit Censored

The 2025 Election edition of Honi Soit has been censored by the Students’ Representative Council (SRC) President Angus Fisher.

On 8th September, the day that the Week Six edition of Honi was due to go to print, Fisher notified the Honi editors that he would not be approving the front cover of the edition due to its “sexualisation of the presidential candidates” and the “serious and significant risk” to the SRC’s reputation.

The cover was a spoof on iconic satire publication The Betoota Advocate, mimicking its highly-recognisable style and displaying a photo of three Honi editors with the following caption:

Four SRC Presidential Candidates Makes It Difficult

For Voters To Play

‘Fuck, Marry, Kill’

The headline is a tongue-in-cheek nudge towards the even number of SRC Presidential Candidates in the 2025, which would make it difficult for voters to engage in the age-old playground game of ‘fuck, marry, kill’, a hypothetical game most, if not all, would be familiar with.

It is abundantly clear to anyone with a functioning sense of humour, critical thinking skills, or a familiarity with Honi and our mandate, that this title is satirical. The joke centres around the number of candidates, and does not allude to any of them individually or personally in any sort of indecent capacity. It is also a satire of the way that popularity and ‘BNOC status’ often drives people’s voting decisions. Democracy is an irrational game — much like fuck, marry, kill.

The editors laid up the edition on 6th and 7th September, receiving approval twice from Returning Officer Riki Scanlan for the full edition, including the cover. The first complaint on the cover was from Director of Student Publications, Leanne Rook, who is standing as a candidate on an Impact ticket, the SRC election brand of NSW Labor Students; the same faction as Fisher.

The grounds of reputational risk on which the cover was censored by Fisher were introduced in May 2025. Fisher claimed that the cover was “sexualised” and raised issues regarding their ability to consent to being included in the hypothetical game, thus making it a risk to the SRC as a ‘professional’ environment. Fisher seems unable to comprehend that the cover is pointing out the impossibility of playing the game.

Even after explicitly marking the cover as satire, a move which would arguably offend any individual with the basic critical thinking skills to appreciate it as satire, the Honi editors were still

informed it was an indecent cover.

When approached for advice by the President, SRC solicitor Jahan Kalantar described the cover as “tawdry” and said “it invites people to draw negative and adverse inferences.” This is also a clear misinterpretation of the headline, which explicitly suggests it is “difficult” to make inferences within the framework of the game due to the number of candidates.

The Honi editorial team stands by our original cover and condemns censorship of the press. To label this cover as a risk to the SRC’s reputation is to risk further censorship of Honi Soit, which has previously published a wide range of explicit material including photography and artistic depictions of genitalia.

Even if people don’t enjoy the humour of the title, the role of a student newspaper is to publish crass, stupid, nonsensical things. This is, regardless of the content itself, an important principle. If satire can be censored under the guise of “reputational risk”, this opens up a slippery slope of potential disingenuous “risks” that can be weaponised to stifle freedom of speech and expression.

Freedom of press cannot be contingent on the sensibilities of publishers.

We draw your attention to the meaning of our name Honi soit que mal y pense, a Norman phrase that means “shamed be whoever thinks ill of it”. Shame indeed.

Much has been said about the “reputational risk” of the content that Honi Soit publishes. We note that in the past, Honi Soit has published: in 2013, a front cover containing 18 vulvae; in 2017, a front cover that featured Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong; in 2018, an opinion piece praising the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea; and in 2022, the front cover with the headline “Queen dead, Charles next”.

This is not recent. Indeed, in 1967 the editors of yours truly were so fed up that they printed a cut-out coupon for anyone wishing to sue Honi Soit. Feel free to cut this one out if you wish.

As an anonymous commenter on Reddit opined on a different article earlier this year, “[Honi Soit] is obviously rage bait that you’ve just fallen so hard for, how can you get into university with such little reading comprehension [?]”. The Honi editorial team wholeheartedly agrees with the sentiment and are baffled by the fact that undergraduate students at our university are unable to identify what is and isn’t satire.

Let’s play ‘fuck, marry, kill’: media literacy, critical thinking, freedom of speech.

Honi Soit gets fucked.

VOTE!

Voting will be open on 23, 24, & 25 September

All Sydney University undergraduate students who are currently enrolled are eligible to vote in the upcoming 2025 SRC Elections. For more info see: bit.ly/SRC-vote

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