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Explainers & Regulations Vieve Carnsew Profile Grace Street Profile Emma Searle Profile Ava Cavalerie Profile SRC Reports/Puzzles/Comedy Referendum Debate President CVs Honi Soit Editor CVs
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Returning Officer’s Editorial Higher education, and the experiences of being a university student, have changed substantially over the last decades. Many of these changes have been negative. A neoliberal approach to university management, and background higher education policy, has led to course cuts, increased tutorial sizes, and in some cases the demise of entire departments. The increased cost of housing has increased the pressure on students to work increasing hours, leaving less time available for study and for socialising. These pressures are likely to be substantially
responsible for a notable decline in the vibrancy of student life at the University of Sydney. These changes have occurred either without student input, or in the face of student opposition. The University of Sydney is not a substantially democratic institution. However, students and staff can have a voice through their representative organisations. The SRC elections are an important opportunity to exercise this voice for undergraduate students. Each year there are elections to elect candidates for President of the SRC, Representative to Council,
delegates to the National Union of Students, and editors of Honi Soit. This year, there is the addition of a referendum on a proposed academic boycott of certain Israeli institutions. The referendum results from a successful petition by Students Against War, who presented 524 valid signatures, triggering the referendum and a debate on the proposition that appears in this edition of Honi Soit, (pp 18–20). – Kieran Latty
Battle of the Bands: Heat 2 Wednesday 9 September 7–10:30pm @ Manning Bar Effie Isobel Thursday 10 September 4:30pm @ Bondi Records Kirkiversary
Vox Pops: What is your Favourite place to Vote on Campus? M. Scott: I guess at Susan Wakil. I’m not super pro-Democracy so I don’t often vote, but If I haaaad to, it would be there. It’s usually the most relaxed on the main campus. Herman Manning: Manning house is pretty cool to vote. There’s beer there, which is also pretty cool. Just a nice vibe to go vote with the mates. Charles P.N: Please stop following me.
Marc Cyst: I study music, so probably at the Conservatorium. Did you know you can vote there? It’s also a lot quieter than the buildings at the main campus. V.C: I like PNR. If you can find the voting area, it’s a great time. Electra Officer: If you want to see thriving student life, and experience the world of stupol, check out Fisher. It’s lively there.
Honiscopes Aries: J.M. Gosper. You’re fucking ancient. Probably on your 113th year of Uni and still doing 1st year subjects. Pack it up and move on. Maybe its time to grow up. Taurus: Michael Kirby You probably don’t like North Korea very much. Old as hell also but you pretend to be young and hip. You’re really not. Gemini: Joe Hockey. You have the aura of a used car salesman, and not a good one. You try to appease everyone and it never wins you any friends. Consider a career in law. Cancer: Rose Jackon. Tone down the tax funded ministerial car trips to wine tours. Learn a thing or three about the Sydney rental market. Start volunteering. Do more things without a blatant motive for personal gain. Leo: Adair Durie. Last Lib elected to SRC presidency! That’s pretty impressive. Make sure you’ve got a liquor liscence, and watch the balanace in your spending account.
Chuddy Chuckleson: I like JFR because it is the most busy. Or Fisher. Wherever there is the most people I go to vote because I love thriving democracy. It’s always great hearing all the different perspectives. During voting season I hang out on campus the most to hear everyones thoughts. #Friendpol. Archibald Walker: I dont really believe in voting because I reject democracy. Have you heard of this cheeky little thing called fascism?
Virgo: Paul Le Gay Brereton. You’ve lost the IGADF war, and you’ll never win it. Watch out for conflicts of interests, and make more soup. Libra: Tony Abbott. You’re a resilient fucker. Like a cockroach, or another household pest that people try to exterminate. Scorpio: Jo Haylen. Another conflict of interest case. Boy, you former SRC presidents are really bad at this. Find inner peace first and foremost. Sagittarius: Belinda Neal. Don’t ask about the Incident at Iguana Joe’s. Don’t even think about it. Personal redemption does not come from the party room. Capricorn: Geoffrey Robertson. You’re a pompous bastard and you’re way too proud of your work, which ultimately isn’t a substitute for the void which consititues your personality
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Aquarius: Angus McFarland. Human equivalent of white bread. You’ve got nothing going for you and thats fine! Do some ayahuasca and move to Brazil. Pisces: Peter Wilenski. Stupid try hard. What haven’t you done? (That includes being a State Department asset) Leave something for the rest of us.
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Four presidential candidates vie for 99th SRC Victor Zhang reports. President-hopefuls Four candidates are contesting the presidency of the 99th SRC: Vieve Carnsew (Solidarity), Grace Street (Grassroots), Emma Searle (SAlt), and Ava Cavalerie (NLS). Vieve Carnsew is an activist from Solidarity and Students Against War. Carnsew does not currently hold any positions in the SRC. Grace Street (Grassroots), the current SRC President, has thrown her hat in the ring to run for an unprecedented second term. In another unusual shakeup, Socialist Alternative have nominated their own presidential candidate, Emma Searle, who currently serves as Councillor and Social Justice Officer. National Labor Students (NLS) are running Ava Cavalerie, the current SRC General Secretary.
Charmed? Honi Soit will not be contested this year with Charm for Honi being the only ticket to nominate for the editorship. Charm consists of Pia Curran, Ollie Hale, Audrey Hawkins, Karya Hincal, Max McDermott, Tim Pudun, Jessica Smith, and Shayla Zreika. They have collectively written 74 pieces for Honi, including three news pieces. Hale and Hincal have both written no pieces for Honi.
A piece of the pie There will be 45 councillors on the 99th SRC. The representatives to council, serving one year terms, meet monthly to debate motions on student policy and politics. The councillors-elect will meet after the SRC elections to elect the executive and Office Bearers of the SRC. Candidates for representatives to council (and delegates to NUS) are elected on multimember ballots. 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 at 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.
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The campus broad-left stalwart Grassroots is running 13 tickets under the ‘Grassroots’ and ‘Free’ branding. The ticket ‘Free from Exclusion’, while using the Grassroots branding is not part of Grassroots but the left-wing Chinese student group the CLSA or 悉尼思想学社. Campus Trotskyist stalwart Socialist Alternative is running five tickets under ‘Left Action’ and ‘Palestine Action’.
Rules and Regulations 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 regulations can be accessed here: srcusyd.net.au/about/constitution (or bit.ly/SRC-regs) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
International student faction PENTA is running 11 tickets under the PENTA branding.
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Student Unity is running four tickets, under the ‘Change’ branding and ‘Moore Beer’.
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NLS is reprising the ‘Impact’ branding, running six tickets including ‘Cannabis at Courtyard’. Solidarity is running on one ticket named ‘Globalise the Intifada’. The engineering student faction is running once again, running a full ticket under ‘Engineering for SRC’. The Conservatives have rallied under the ‘Activate’ branding.
December holiday in Mount Helen, Victoria The various factions have put up eight tickets contesting the race to secure a week-long holiday in Mount Helen, Victoria. Honi does not see the appeal in such a masochistic activity. The national conference of the National Union of Students (NUS) takes place each December at Federation University’s Mount Helen campus. Honi understands that Federation University is the only university that will tolerate the ruckus that the NUS brings. Socialist Alternative are running again under ‘Left Action 4 NUS’ and ‘Palestine Action 4 NUS’. While Grassroots customarily trades their NUS delegates to SAlt in a preelection deal, they have not done so this time as both camps are running a presidential candidate. Grassroots are running under ‘Free the NUS’ and ‘Grassroots for NUS’. The Labor factions are running once again under one banner (‘Impact for NUS’) with the two spots on the ticket filled by Labor Right candidates. Solidarity, PENTA, and the Conservatives are each running one ticket for NUS, under ‘Globalise the Intifada’, ‘PENTA for NUS’, and ‘Activate for NUS’ respectively.
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Only currently enrolled University of Sydney undergraduate students can vote in the elections. 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. No one may campaign in person or online until the start of the designated online and physical campaigning period. 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. 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). 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. Nobody may interfere or damage the campaigning materials of any other candidate without their consent. All questions about the rules and regulations as well as any reports of breaches should be reported to the SRC Election Officer Kieran Latty at the following address: elections@src.usyd.edu.au
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.
How Votes Are Counted 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 45 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.
Students’ Representative Council, University of Sydney 2026 Elections
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2026 SRC Elections & Referendum
2026 SRC Elections & Referendum will take place on 22, 23 & 24 September The 2026 referendum question is as follows:
‘The University must adopt an academic boycott policy against Israeli institutions complicit in apartheid and genocide and immediately end all exchange relationships with Israeli universities including Tel Aviv University, Technion and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The University must also end all research partnerships with weapons companies supplying Israel. The SRC will pursue this policy and support the struggle for Palestinian freedom.’ POLLING
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Manning House
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Conservatorium of Music
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Susan Wakil Health Building
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Peter Nicol Russell Building
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All Sydney University undergraduate students who are currently enrolled are eligible to vote in the upcoming 2026 SRC Elections. For more info see: bit.ly/SRC-elections Authorised by K. Latty, 2026 Electoral Officer, Students’ Representative Council, University of Sydney p: 02 9660 5222 | w: bit.ly/SRC-elections
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What did the other candidates have to say about V ieve? I think V ieve's a great activist, and it's alw ays aw esome to have, and unfortunately rare to have, a First Nations candidate running. But V ieve, I don't believe, has ever held an SRC position, and is a non-active member of, at least the Queer and Feminist Collectives. I think going for president is an interesting move, and I'm not sure how they w ould go in the role.
Grace Street
Part of a pretty small group. Good luck to you. Yeah! It's an interesting call from a faction that is very hard-run to be able to get one Councillor in the SRC. That's all I have to say.
Emma Searle
"V iv"? I'm not sure. Ava Cavalerie
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V ieve Carnsew Barkindji activist and Solidarity member Vieve Carnsew is running for president under the ticket “Globalise the Intifada”. Notably, Carnsew has not held a position within the SRC. However, as a founding member of Students Against War (SAW) in 2023, they pointed to a wealth of experience organising activist campaigns around issues such as First Nations rights, Palestine, and climate change. In 2025, Solidarity ran Angus Dermody for president under the ticket “Sanction Israel Now”. Dermody was the faction’s first presidential candidate in recent memory. Interestingly, the faction’s primary council votes actually declined from 72 in 2024, to 64 in 2025. Carnsew said that their decision to run in the 2026 SRC presidential race was “not just about getting seats or getting votes” and that “if we convince more students through the elections to get involved in a campaign… to stop the Campus Access Policy, to cut ties to Israel on campus, that’s a win to me”. Carnsew says apart from those goals, which Solidarity have already “in some ways successfully brought to campus already”, they do not have “policy commitments so much”, a similar line used by Dermody last year. Carnsew envisions using the SRC as a body to mobilise students around political issues like the campaign to cut ties with institutions like Technion Institute, Tel Aviv University, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, pointing to Solidarity’s successful campaign with students and staff at Sydney College of the Arts to cut ties with Bezalel Academy. Carnsew scored 53.04 per cent on the quiz, the lowest of the candidates. They scored well on questions about the NTEU, unionism, and USyd divestment, and gained a few points in the sections about USyd more broadly. Carnsew’s answers on the tertiary education sector and the SRC itself were lacking, displaying a dearth of knowledge regarding USyd governing bodies, SSAF, and government regulation of universities. Like their Solidarity forerunner Angus Dermody, Carnsew describes themselves as a revolutionary socialist. Considering what is the most important issue facing young people in Australia, Carnsew said “there’s so many things… like the NDIS cuts, rent,” but emphasised that “Palestine underpins everything”. Carnsew said: “Palestine is the biggest issue to focus on right now” because it impacts everyone, affecting freedom of speech and government budgeting, with military spending taking away funding from “things that are far more useful” such as the healthcare system and education. Mirroring Dermody’s rhetoric from last year, Carnsew says the “SRC shouldn’t just be an insular thing.” Carnsew directly reiterated Dermody’s 2025 suggestion that the SRC president utilise their role to engage more students through an SRC stall on Eastern
Avenue every week. “On top of just raising awareness of university ties with Israel, we need to let students know how they can get involved in that… we need to actually be out there talking to students, not just discussing it in council meetings.” Carnsew maintained Solidarity’s longstanding position against engaging in electoral preference deals. They said that preference deals should be done on a political basis and not “based on which faction is gonna help us get more seats”. In response to questions about their lack of experience in SRC roles, Carnsew highlighted their involvement in various collectives, saying that they’re “familiar with how these bodies work… and I’ve worked with the people in them”. However, when prompted by Honi to name the various collectives and their campaigns, Carnsew failed to identify the Disability Collective, who have notably mobilised this year to advocate against NDIS cuts and assembled the most recent autonomous edition of Honi Soit. Carnsew’s other form of involvement in the SRC is regular attendance of council. They thought the SRC’s role in passing motions in council in support of struggles was important, but needed to translate to physical student presence at protests and rallies: “I think the SRC has done quite a good job in the past to stand in solidarity with workers’ movements.”
Carnsew said that their decision to run in the 2026 SRC presidential race w as "not just about getting seats or getting votes" and that "if w e convince more students through the elections to get involved in a campaign to stop the Campus Access P olicy, to cut ties to Israel on campus, that's a w in to me". Regarding specific duties demanded of the SRC president, including participating in university bureaucracy as a member of the university committees (they could only identify the Academic Board by name out of the six), Carnsew said that there “would be no negotiating with support for an institution that supports genocide”. They articulated Solidarity’s consistent position that their meeting attendance as president would not be “a way to negotiate” but “an info-gathering exercise to bring back to the movement, saying this is where the universities are, this is what they this is what they think of what we’re doing, this is what they’re planning.”
Despite a key initiative of Carnsew’s campaign being obstruction and defiance of the Campus Access Policy (CAP), they scored the lowest (2/3) out of candidates regarding knowledge of the CAP features. Carnsew’s limited experience in SRC roles reflected in an unspecific response to hypothetical questions regarding funding allocation. A duty of the SRC president is balancing competing demands from Office Bearers in conjunction with the suite of casework, legal, and administrative staff employed by the SRC. Carnsew said their approach to funding allocation was difficult to articulate “in a hypothetical, as you’d need to know who’s asking for funding,” saying that in any case it should be a “collective decision” between “all the factions within the SRC”. However, they would like to make the argument that the SRC budget should go towards activism. Carnsew demonstrated a sound understanding of the NTEU log of claims and the branch caucus. They emphasised that they have been attending staff strikes as a high school student, and that Solidarity helped build action for the 2nd September NTEU USyd branch staff strike through “leafleting, postering, [and] filming Instagram reels”. Carnsew stated that they “know quite a number of the members of the NTEU” and that Solidarity and the NTEU have co-organised many rallies and events recently and in past years. Carnsew continued: “It’s important that staff and students continue to work together because, ultimately, we share a common enemy, which is the university management [and] Mark Scott.” Carnsew also spoke at a strike picket line about the upcoming referendum to call on the University of Sydney to adopt “an academic boycott policy against Israeli Institutions complicit in apartheid and genocide”. The referendum was pushed to vote after a drive pushed by SAW, who collected student signatures. The referendum will be decided concurrently with the SRC elections. On preference deals, Carnsew stated that deals are generally not beneficial to “the movement” or the SRC, and due to this Solidarity “doesn’t do deals”. They continued that factions should preference one another based on political agreement, rather than quid pro quo deals.
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What did the other candidates have to say about Grace? Grace, I think, has done a good job of being president this year. I think there are things that you know can be improved on. That's why I'm running. But I have a lot of respect for Grace and her presidency.
V ieve Carsnew
I just think it's been a pretty blah, mundane president run from last year. I think it's pretty reflective of the w eakness of the Grassroots faction that they have to run her for a second time.
Emma Searle
Grace has made an interesting decision to run again for president. I think that it demonstrates a lack of faith in other students having an ability to be involved in the SRC, and I think that the w ay that you know collaboration w ith other factions in the SRC and broader student bodies hasn't been a very you know motivating or successful approach to the SRC.
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Grace Street “Everything is happening right now in higher education,” Grace Street told Honi Soit. “And I think students deserve someone who cares, who knows how to deal with these things, who has been dealing with them all year that you can trust.”
SRC and SUPRA to focus on advocacy. However, she reconciles the somewhat service provisionoriented approach taken by Grassroots this year and recently, such as the vaccination scheme and reviving the food pantry FoodHub, as one that would enable students to get involved.
encroachment of “student voice” alongside SUPRA representatives. Street aims to get a memorandum of understanding between the SRC and the University Senate to clarify and safeguard the role of the SRC as a representative body.
So goes incumbent SRC president Grace Street’s pitch to students for why they should elect her again for an unprecedented second term. Street framed her message around three key areas that she views as a holistic path to mobilise the student body to become activists: empowering and enabling students to join activist causes, working towards a fascist-free, fossil-fuel free, and apartheid-free campus, and building the visibility and trustworthiness of the SRC.
“Without students being able to get through their day to day, whether that be because of cost of living, health concerns, disability, access as international students, they’re not going to be able to either advocate for themselves or engage in activism.”
Street spoke to her wealth of experience working with the staff and the NTEU from her time as SRC education officer, general secretary, and now the incumbent president.
Unsurprisingly, Grace Street scored a stellar 98.26 per cent on her quiz, given she is the current SRC president. Street scored 93.55 per cent last year when she took the quiz. Where she stumbled was in answering the many hoops workers and unions must jump through before going on strike, and underestimated the percentage of USyd staff that voted to take industrial action in the most recent protected action ballot. On running a second time, Street characterised past presidents as having done the role for career advancement. Street said she “enjoys” the role and that she is “not burnt out yet, even though I have been giving it my all” while also characterising the political moment as one that needs experienced leadership. She said the strength of a potential second term is in retaining institutional knowledge which “highly outweighs the idea of having fresh blood”, characterising her opponents as not just lacking the institutional knowledge but also lacking the “approach I think is needed to see the SRC succeed”. Street said that she was Grassroots’ only presidential candidate for internal factional preselection this year, but did not consider it “a sign of ill health by any means”, adding that others would have run if she did not. In fact, she considers it “actually a healthy sign” the majority of Grassroots is not enticed by the bureaucratic nature of the presidency, as they consider themselves “activists”. “It is a very niche role, is how I describe it,” Street says. “It requires a lot of administration, as well as often making executive decisions, being an employer, [and] a lot of writing.”
In fact, she considers it "actually a healthy sign" the majority of Grassroots is not enticed by the bureaucratic nature of the presidency, as they consider themselves "activists". Street views the key role of the SRC as an activist one, as she points to the separated student organisation structure of the USU and SUSF being primarily service provision bodies leaving the
She sees the role of the SRC with regards to service provision as one that “should always be done with a larger campaign in mind” and the view to shift the financial and operational burden of service provision onto the university. This positioning on service provision was very similar to the one articulated by NLS’ Ava Cavalerie in her presidential interview. Honi asked Street if she was worried about the “enshittification” of services once they were taken out of the hands of student organisations, referring to the recent investigation into the parent group of the contractor that operates the new $5 meal canteen. She agreed that it was a “trade-off” and highlighted the tension that “even though the university should be doing these things, we know that the current state of a corporate university means that they’re probably not going to do them very well… or ethically”. However, concerning the vaccination scheme, Street stated she was not as worried given the provider used by the SRC was the same as the one used for the staff vaccination scheme. The SRC president sits on several committees with management, including the Academic Board and its subcommittees, the Student Consultative Committee, and the University Executive Education Committee. Street said her approach to these committees was one of “healthy skepticism” but would not “discount those forums or being on those committees”. She said participation in these committees was an exercise in information gathering, making the SRC’s case known, and finding student and staff allies. She cautioned that attending these meetings would not on the whole amount to significant or radical improvements. She did however say that it was worth picking and focusing on a few key issues that were only decided in these forums. Street points to the recent proposal to axe STUVAC for intensive units and the draft AI green paper as issues that students on these committees should organise around. On the proliferation and expansion of “student voice”, in contrast to student representation through the SRC and SUPRA, Street said that university management ultimately holds the keys and believes “they will keep chipping away at our influence and power.” Street viewed the proposed Students-asPartners framework, first raised at a student consultative committee last year, as “definitely not ideal” and has pushed back against the
In the vein of her ‘capacity building’ approach to activism, Street pointed to activities the SRC organised for the strikes such as the bake sale which she said “the staff really enjoyed” and the t-shirt design and printing which “brought in another layer of students”, alongside working with disabled and international students on resources to support the strike. Street, and Grassroots more generally, boasts a comprehensive policy platform. One section of her platform is called “Bring Back Trust and a Fight to the SRC”. Honi asked Street if this was an admission that the SRC was in fact not representative or trusted by the student body. Street rejected this characterisation, saying that she is only one of 43 representatives to council. “I don’t think you could blame any one single group for representing or not representing students,” Street said. She pointed to broader issues in the voluntary student unionism regime, such as the university not providing a method to contact all undergraduate students while enrolments year after year are on the rise. This year, Street said that she has revitalised the SRC mailing list and improved outreach at satellite campuses. One of Street’s policies is on combating both casual and institutionalised misogyny in education. She noted a misogynistic video posted by the USU earlier in the year while also noting on-going issues with the residential colleges and certain traditions of student clubs and societies such as hazing at first-year camps, the latter of which she said “isn’t talked about enough”. As “a long-term member of our Women’s Collective”, Street viewed the collective as the main body to engage students to join the fight “to eliminate this casual and systemic misogyny”. She also advocated for the university to proactively implement the National Higher Education Code to Prevent and Respond to Genderbased Violence. Street said her running opponents were “an interesting mix” that “reflects how people conceptualise the president role”. She highlighted the work that she did as general secretary when she ran for president last year, pointing out that one does not need to be the president of the SRC to be an effective activist or deliver on service provision campaigns. Street said preferences between presidential candidates was still undecided, though she noted that Grassroots has signed a deal with the international student faction PENTA, where PENTA would support Street for president and the two factions would work together to secure a deal for Reps-Elect.
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What did the other candidates have to say about Emma? Happy to w ork w ith her when I can. I think it's obviously known that Solidarity and Socialist Alternative haven't alw ays had the best relationship. But w e are both socialist groups. W e do very much have the same goals in most senses. Emma w as a surprise. I haven't really seen her leading that much this year. I think she's been visible on social media for certain things, but not necessarily taking the lead on things outside of particular campaigns, which are extremely important, but are more kind of national activist campaigns versus what the SRC does in the day to day, which is advocating for students here as w ell as that national activism.
I understand that Emma and Socialist Alternative more broadly don't agree w ith service provisions as an approach to student unionism.
V ieve Carsnew
Grace Street
Ava Cavalerie
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Emma Searle Socialist Alternative (SAlt) are running their first SRC presidential candidate in living memory under their usual ticket “Left Action”. Their candidate is current SRC Social Justice officer Emma Searle. “The political situation demands an activist and socialist leadership of the SRC,” Searle told Honi Soit. “I think that the rise of the far right is one of the most looming threats to the rights of every single oppressed person, group, worker, students, and staff that we’ve seen in decades and decades.” Searle identified her three key policy areas as “cost of living, Palestine, and fuck Hanson.” When asked why SAlt decided to run a candidate in the forthcoming election, Searle said that the decision was informed by the “political situation we’re in”, adding that over the years SAlt have been “trying to build an activist corps on campus” and that “now we’ve got the size and capacity to take on the role of president”. Searle did not elaborate on any specific policy commitments and Honi did not have the opportunity to see her policy document prior to the interview. Searle scored a reasonable 66.09 per cent on the quiz. Aided by her involvement in activism on campus, Searle scored well on questions around the NTEU, USyd-specific questions, and general politics. However, she scored poorly on general higher education topics and university governance. Searle did not identify the NSW Minister for Higher Education, which university was investigated by the NSW ICAC, and could not identify the National Student Ombudsman. Notably, Searle also could not identify the process by which SSAF is negotiated. Despite Searle’s staunch activism, she could not identify certain specifics around anti-protest laws, including the penalties for said laws, which are a maximum penalty of two years imprisonment and $22,000 fine. Searle believes that “across all factions” there is an understanding of the SRC presidency as being a “totally bureaucratic role” that is “not about prioritising activism”. As such, she believes that the presidency should be “transformed into one of activism”. Since 2017, all but two SRC presidents have belonged to Grassroots, one being NLS’ Angus Fisher in 2025. When asked about the performance of SRC presidents over this time, Searle said that she does not “see much of a big difference between the presidency role that has been taken up by both factions in regard to how they’ve taken up the president role and what they’ve done with it… in a leftwing way.” Keeping with this anti-bureaucratic approach to the presidency, Searle responded to questions regarding the fact that she has
not submitted a Social Justice OB report in 2026 by saying that she is “less concerned with…ticking boxes” and more concerned with the “actual active work of being out on campus every single day, leafleting, talking to students, and actioning the role in that way”. The SRC President sits on several committees with management, including the Academic Board and its subcommittees, the Student Consultative Committee, and the University Executive Education Committee. Searle described her approach to the necessary bureaucratic functions of the presidential role, such as dealing with University management, as being “about standing firm on the kind of left-wing political demands that the SRC has”. Searle stated that there exists a “clear class divide” within the university where “universities are run like corporations and businesses” by executives that “do not have in their heart of hearts the interests of students and staff”.
"The political situation demands an activist and socialist leadership of the SRC," Searle told Honi. "I think that the rise of the far right is one of the most looming threats to the rights of every single oppressed person, group, w orker, students, and staff that w e've seen in decades and decades." Searle positioned her approach to the NTEU around active solidarity, arguing that SAlt have “thrown ourselves in like headfirst” to mobilise students behind the strike. She emphasised maintaining “communication open at all times” with staff and being attentive to their “demands and concerns”. For Searle, this also means challenging the “conservative pressure” on staff to remain silent, arguing that students should encourage workers to “go on strike” and assure them that “we will support you”.
Asked about comments she made at SRC Council in March this year criticising Wuthering Heights, Sabrina Carpenter’s album cover and OnlyFans for “furthering sexual violence”, Searle argued that the three examples reflected an increasingly normalised sexual objectification of women. She pointed to the new Wuthering Heights film adaptation, which she said added a scene absent from the original novel depicting the female character “crawling on all fours like a dog”, alongside Carpenter’s album cover showing the singer “on her hands and knees like a dog, getting her hair pulled”. Searle described OnlyFans as a site that “basically commodifies the sexual objectification” of women. When pressed on whether these forms of popular culture actually cause sexual violence or merely reflect a wider sexist society, Searle’s stated that it was “a bit of both.” Searle declined to comment on any existing preference deal, but said Left Action would assess candidates “purely political[ly]” according to “how left wing are you?” The goal, she said, is to ensure there is a “good left wing and activist force” within the SRC. That leaves the door open to Labor, although Searle conceded that Labor students would have to “justify themselves more” and were “less likely” to receive strong preferences. Historically, SAlt has backed Grassroots presidential candidates, and Searle acknowledged that, based on this “historic alignment”, Left Action would “probably” lean towards Grassroots again. In an election where every major faction presents itself as somewhere on the left, and three of four Presidential candidates selfidentify as socialist, it can be difficult to find qualitative differences between candidates’ political stances. For Searle, the distinction between the candidates comes down to organisation. Being socialist, for her, is not just about being able to “say a lot of socialist anti-capitalist things”, but being “a part of a force” capable of actually putting those politics into practice.
She pointed to a recent panel organised by Education Action Group (EAG) aimed at “encouraging students and convincing them” to support striking staff as an example of this approach, describing it as “really really important and quite successful”. The panel featured NTEU activists Matthew Stavros, who Searle said had been pushing for the strike within the union.
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What did the other candidates have to say about Ava? Having the role of General Secretary is useful insight. But I can make a direct comparison of myself as the General Secretary last year, where I w as far more engaged, taking initiative, and not doing things in seemingly a performative w ay.
Grace Street
If you're in the L abor Party at this stage, 3 years into the genocide in Gaza, after the NDIS cuts, it's pretty obvious why: a total careerist self-advancement and self-interest. That's how I see Ava as a potential president, using the position to not only advance herself but also to build the forces of the L abor Party, which is a net negative in leftw ing politics.
Emma Searle
I don't think I know enough about Ava to really say. I don't agree w ith L abor's politics, but I do think it's important to w ork w ith L abor when w e can. I think it's still important to engage w ith them. They've still been engaged in campaigns. They clearly w ant to be part of campaigns that w e're doing, so w e'll w ork w ith them when w e can.
V ieve Carnsew
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Ava Cavalerie National Labor Students (NLS) member and current Students’ Representative Council general secretary Ava Cavalerie is running for president. Cavalerie told Honi she is running because the SRC “can do better for students”, arguing that the current administration “neglects a majority of student voices in its representation to management, in its characterisation of services as unserious, and in its prioritisation of sectarianism over students.” Cavalerie emphasised that she wants the SRC to be something that students “have faith in” and “feel like there is somewhere to fall back on”.
importance of freedom of speech, meaning “continuing to work to abolish the CAP” and ensuring “students’ rights aren’t further cut back”.
Cavalerie is a member of the Labor Party, describing her political beliefs as “grounded in workers’ rights and the things that we are facing in our day-to-day lives” with a strong belief in unions, and “having young voices heard in government”. She identified the cost of living as the primary issue facing students. Cavalerie is running under the ‘IMPACT’ banner, Labor Left’s branding since 2024.
On her approach to management, Cavalerie said the president should attempt to represent students in governing bodies, and the president can inform management of upcoming campaigns against them as a penalty for not listening to students.
Cavalerie’s interview featured a few missteps which, in a charitable reading, could be chalked up to nerves. Cavalerie initially stumbled on the first question when asked what faction she was in, falling silent, then telling Honi the faction has had “so many names”. After we re-started the interview, Cavalerie answered “Student Left”. We will refer to Cavalerie’s faction as NLS or Labor Left, due to the confusion ‘Student Left’ would create when reporting on student elections where all factions self-identify as left-wing. Cavalerie scored a respectable 80.87 per cent on the quiz, getting an impressive number of questions right regarding USyd governance and the tertiary education sector. She displayed a proficient understanding of the SRC’s procedures, autonomous collectives, and SSAF funding. She clearly possesses a good amount of institutional knowledge, aided by practical experience as current SRC general secretary. Despite self-identifying as a trade unionist, Cavalerie scored the lowest of all candidates in the section on the NTEU and industrial relations. She failed to identify the full conditions that must be met before workers can go on strike, the pay rise claim pushed for the majority of NTEU branch members, and the university governance reforms the NTEU advocates for. Cavalerie was only able to identify one of the caucuses in the NTEU branch; by contrast, Searle, Carnsew, and Street were able to identify all three. When questioned on her most important policies, Cavalerie highlighted student housing and cost of living, saying they would “lobby the university to cap student accommodation at 30 per cent of the median student income, getting the university to buy back the Scape… [and] student welfare initiatives” like “a reproductive healthcare scheme”. Cavalerie also noted the
When questioned on the SRC’s primary role, Cavalerie said both service provision and activism are “equally important” and that students need to have “support” by way of service provision in order to be involved in activism. This positioning on service provision was very similar to the one articulated by Grassroots candidate Grace Street in her presidential interview.
When questioned how she and her faction had built the NTEU strikes, she responded that Labor Left had held barbecues to speak to students about the strikes, as well as reaching out to societies, committees, and classes to endorse them. She also stated that the NTEU played an important role in halting the increasing corporatisation of the University, stating she would retain a working relationship with the NTEU. She affirmed she would support the NTEU taking industrial action.
with disability advocacy groups. She said the cuts were due to “all the people rorting the system” but that gutting the system was an inappropriate solution. Interestingly, when asked about the nature of the NDIS cuts in the quiz, Cavalerie started with the ‘savings’ that would be achieved rather than the material effect on NDIS participants. When asked why she didn’t speak to this stance at Council, Cavalerie debated the relevance of the question, saying there are “a lot of motions put up in Council… not everyone speaks on [them]”. When pressed on if there was a reason she didn’t speak, Cavalerie said: “other people from my faction did go up and speak to the motion”. On her theory of change as a member of the Labor Party, Cavalerie said, “We have a goal, and that is to push the Labor Party to the left, but the goal is to make change and do things that are better for people, and that happens either with or without the Labor Party. It’s not necessarily about the Labor Party. It’s just we want to have a voice in those forums where we can contest the decisions of the Labor Party [...] I believe in the union movement, and I believe that historically, quite a few years ago, the Labor Party was a working class party [...] I think that bringing it back to its union base is important.” HS: So that’s the theory of change.
It’s that we want to make change with or Cavalerie said both service AC: without the party. provision and activism are HS: From within. "equally important" and that students need to have AC: Yes. "support" by w ay of service Cavalerie claimed responsibility on behalf of provision in order to be her faction for the $5 meal canteen initiated during Angus Fisher’s presidency. Cavalerie involved in activism. This this to argue for the efficacy of Labor positioning on service provision used Left in power, but didn’t clearly outline the the faction used or would use for w as very similar to the one strategies service provision in future. She emphasised the articulated by Grassroots importance of students sitting on University bodies to provide students a “seat at the candidate Grace Street in table”. Like Labor Left candidates before her presidential interview. her, Cavalerie views fortnightly SRC BBQs as Questioned about the Fabian Society launch with NDIS Minister Jenny McAllister, Cavalerie confirmed she attended. She insisted NLS’ vote in support of the council motion condemning the NDIS cuts reflected their position, saying the launch event was about “cultivating spaces” for conversation about “left-wing political thought”, and McAllister invitation as a guest of honour was not a show of support for the NDIS cuts. Cavalerie affirmed she did not discuss the cuts with McAllister.
an important avenue for consultation with students.
Questioned about preference deals, Cavalerie confirmed a deal has been made with Unity (Labor Right), and said she would be willing to do a deal with any of the other candidates.
When asked what her stance was on the cuts, Cavalerie said they were implemented “extremely rapidly” without consultation
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| SRC OFFICEBEARERS’ REPORTS
President Grace Street (Grassroots)
General Secretary
I hope you’ve been enjoying the W6 election edition of Honi Soit, but to bring you back to the present, here are a few things happening to report on.
Many discussions regarding staffing, working conditions, and the University’s budget directly tie into the day-to-day efforts I am undertaking in the SRC currently. These efforts include the implementation of the National Code on GenderBased Violence, anticipating a review of the Special Considerations process after pushing for one for all of 2026, bugging the University to hear about its Accommodation Plan, working on our upcoming SRC 2027 SSAF application, pushing for transparency and change to make the $5 canteen more ethical, and much more.
Hey guys!
Student learning conditions, student experiences with university systems, and staff working conditions all go handin-hand. They are all the things threatened by a corporate university prioritising output and profit, and what I am proud to be fighting for as your SRC President this year.
In future news, the student strike against Hanson is on the 13th of September. Racism has no place on our campus or in our communities, and we need every single one of you out there sending a clear message that hate speech will always be met with organised resistance.
Last week saw an NTEU strike as part of the bargaining process between our academic and professional USyd staff with USyd management. A lot of work went in behind the scenes on the student side (closing the SRC, getting out posters and flyers, having societies make endorsements, preparing information and FAQs, making translated posts, collaborating with (KI)NDS to make a resource for neurodiverse students, speaking to the media, preparing a whole bake sale, and more) but it definitely paid off. So many students came out supporting the staff, for which they expressed huge gratitude. We also raised over $600 for the staff strike fund and PCRF!
Pimala Leo, Jiahui Chen, Tiana Moore, Laura Alivio since the February 2021 military coup. We call on the Malaysian government to immediately recognise refugee status, combat and prevent the demonisation of Rohingya refugees, and respect the nonrefoulement principle. The Refugee Rights office celebrates the great turnout to the ‘Students Say No to Hanson’ rally on the 13th of August. High school and university students gathered at Sydney Town Hall to show that Pauline Hanson’s racist, anti-migrant views will not be tolerated. The far-right rhetoric that Hanson and others parrot only serve to maintain division and the strength of white supremacy in society, excuse the ongoing genocide of First Nations people, and demonise marginalised groups such as refugees.
Vice President
Shovan Bhattarai (SAlt) and Bohao Zhang (PENTA) The Vice-Presidents did not submit a report for this week.
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Also! mark your calendars, because the referendum on whether our university should sever ties with Israeli institutions complicit in genocide runs from the 22nd to the 24th of September. This is about standing on the right side of history and refusing to let our education be entangled with occupation and apartheid. Get down, vote, and bring everyone you know. Our university’s silence is not neutral, it’s complicity, and it’s on us to change that. Thank you to everyone who’s shown up this semester, on picket lines, in meetings, on the streets. Solidarity isn’t a slogan, it’s a practice, and you’re all a part of it. Keep an eye on our socials for more. In solidarity, Vince & Ava
Ethnocultural Officers
Imane Lattab (Grassroots) and Pimala Leo (Grassroots)
Refugee Rights Officers The Refugee Rights office condemns a proposal by the Malaysian government to deport 5000 Rohingya refugees to Myanmar. They continued to be persecuted by the same authority in government, the Tatmadaw military junta, thus it is clearly inhumane to consider repatriating Rohingya refugees to Myanmar and such plans must be completely scrapped. This comes after an incident in July where Malaysian police detained over 100 refugees who gathered outside a UNHCR office in Kuala Lumpur to seek assistance, after they were driven out of their temporary homes in Penang by locals. Despite a court order calling for the stop of deportations, Malaysia has sent thousands of asylum seekers to Myanmar without assessing asylum claims or other protection needs
What a semester it has been. We hope everyone’s doing well and staying afloat with uni work, but also remembering that our education means nothing without justice and solidarity underpinning it. Last week’s NTEU strikes were a powerful reminder of what collective action looks like, with factions putting aside their differences to stand on the picket line with staff fighting against wage theft, casualisation, and the ongoing corporatisation of our universities. That’s what real power looks like, workers and students united against the bosses.
Ava Cavalerie (Labor Left) Vince Tafea (Grassroots)
Hi everyone! Thank you for coming along to our screening of the documentary ‘The Redfern Story’ two weeks ago! It was great to see people bond over some pizza and beverages and learn more about the radical First Nations history of Redfern. We congratulate all those who came to the NTEU staff strikes last Wednesday, which had a huge turnout! We are glad to say the bake sale assisted by ACAR was a big success in raising money for the staff strike fund and the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund!
We read Orientalism by Edward Said, sharing personal notes and critiques. Special thanks to all the new people who attended! Scan the QR code below to join ACAR, keep up with updates and event announcements, and follow our socials! ACAR is open to anyone who identifies as BIPOC or an ethnic identity that is marginalised by white supremacy.
We are proud to have convened the final session of Liberation Library, the SRC’s new reading group series run by our collectives!
Welfare Officers
Deaglan Godwin and Connie Wong The Welfare Officers did not submit a report for this week.
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| PUZZLES
Crossword
Puzzle by Harper Boon
The People Want Answers! Here are the answers for all previous crosswords from this semester.
Down:
Across:
1. Famous Australian psephologist (5) 4. “Happy Birthday Mr ____” (9) 9. Intergalactic runner-upin the August 2026 UK by-election (3,4) 10. Like many outsider candidates, a greenhorn in government (7) 11. Want to agitate? Time to rouse a rowdy crowd (6) 13. 1891 saw a bizarre mystery unfold around this stolen parliamentary object (4) 15. Do this to the line when you’re expected to follow the party? (3) 16. Like 22 Down, you could start doing this to programs like the NDIS (3) 17. When a party gets rid of their leaders (5) 19. Forget about the Southern Cross; Fisher, Scullin, Lyons, Chifley, and Rudd all have this star in common (5) 21. ____ nigh if you don’t do 15 Across (3,2) 23. ASIO hiding the leader of the Nationals? (5) 24. Federal parliament used this state’s building before the construction of Canberra; they really made a mess of it! Abbr. (3) 25. Title for the woman married to “Chloe Shorten’s husband” (3) 26. You might want to flee this if you’re caught in this kind of election fraud, commonly speculated as Edgar Allan Poe’s cause of death (4) 27. One former PM’s namesake bird (6) 29. Musical about this former PM who wants to “Do you slowly” (7) 31. “I am ___”; Australian fascist who embarrassed the premier of the day by opening the Sydney Harbour Bridge first! (7) 33. Australia has held 45 of these, with little success (9) 34. Flirted with an idea, as a government considering a policy change (5)
Dusting Off The Cobwebs
1. Archaic term meaning to govern (9) 2. The term “Bunyip Aristocracy” came from trying to do this in the colony (7) 3. American gun lobby, for short (3) 4. Like 33 Across but not binding, abbr. (4) 5. A long chapter in political history, like “The Menzies ___” (3) 6. Characteristic of a Dorothy Dixer that completely lacks intellectual value (5) 7. One responsible for a swing, but not at a playground (7) 8. What 7 Down might do to waste a vote, or what a fisherman might do to an undersized catch (5) 12. Not a regular Joe! This PM has a leonine surname (5) 14. Something with bipartisan support is often said to be supported by both sides of this, in the US (5) 18. Leader who infamously doesn’t hold a hose, familiarly (5) 19. The object of an AEC pencil’s affection (5) 20. With Judas, embraced a rival as a prelude to a political backstabbing (9) 22. Believer in small government? You might start doing this to government agencies (7) 24. You should wait for 1 Across to let you know, before you declare this (7) 25. Across the pond, Winston Peters is known as the “King ___” (5) 26. Archaic alternative to 1 Across (5) 28. A politician’s thought bubble that hasn’t yet been focus-grouped (4) 30. With Alpha, a classification for the “sigmas of Australia” mentioned in the Senate, briefly. (3) 32. Howard described his 1998 election win as a mandate for this controversial issue (3)
Quiz 1. What special day is coming up this week? 2. When are SRC Elections? 3. How many candidates are there running for SRC President this year? 4. Who are we? Answers: 1. The Kirkaversary, 2. 22nd to 24th of September 3. Four, 4. CHARLIE KIRK WE ARE CHARLIE KIRK
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UNETHICAL SATIRE SINCE 1929
Libel
Slander
Defamation
Proudly hateful
Dividing the USyd student community
THEY FED SCHOOLCHILDREN MEAT TO HORSES
In 2013, UK authorities revealed that the Compass Group fed horses food containing up to 30 per cent Irish schoolchildren meat at some sites. The Compass Group, which sold the meat as “beef” described the situation as “totally unacceptable”, and offered “unreserved apologies” to the affected sites. It subsequently recalled the affected products, and instituted testing procedures for all its processed meats products. The “shocking” and “devastating” news precipitated a Europe-wide overhaul of horse food quality testing, and led to several arrests and seizures across the UK. Honi would like to offer its sincerest sympathies to any and all horses impacted by this debacle. On an unrelated note, the editors recently visited the USyd $5 meal Canteen, where the dinner on offer was pork sausages, mashed potatoes, peas, and gravy. The food was absolutely delicious and the sausages absolutely tasted like pork, not schoolchildren or horse. This is a huge win for the university!
Charlie Kirk Dip. Lang. I
Hello there! My name is Charlie Kirk, and I’m running to be your 2027 SRC President. While I don’t have much experience with the SRC, I am a very experienced debater and public speaker on college campuses all around the US. I also am a small business owner. I own a mom-and-pop anti-democracy startup called Turning Point. I enjoy spending time with my loving wife Erika, my good friend Candace, and drinking yummy Starbies. Lately I have been counting and then not counting gang violence. I have been taking a break from politics and debating for about a year due to some serious health issues, but I’m back and ready to rumble. As your President, I would fight for the issues that students care about.
CURRICULUM VITAE • Presidential Medal of Freedom | 2025 • Host of The Charlie Kirk Show | 2020-2025 • Freaky weird gummy smile • Head too small for my face • Christian nationalist • Member of Students for Israel • #plandemic • #StopTheSteal!
NOMINATORS Pauline Hanson Barnaby Joyce Peter Dutton Tony Abbott John Howard
$1 MILLION RECEIVED FROM THE PRO-HORSEMEAT
LOBBY
A horse, a horse, my castle for a horse.
| REFERENDUM
SRC Referendum on Academic Boycott of Certain Israeli Institutions Editorial from Kieran Latty Returning Officer
Debate on the Referendum on a Proposed Academic Boycott of Certain Israeli Institutions The 2026 SRC election will feature a referendum on a proposed academic boycott of certain Israeli institutions. Voters will be issued a blue referendum ballot alongside ballots for the election of the SRC president, Representatives to Council, and NUS delegates. The referendum question is as follows: “The University must adopt an academic boycott policy against Israeli institutions complicit in apartheid and genocide and immediately end all exchange relationships with Israeli universities including Tel Aviv University, Technion and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The University must also end all research partnerships with weapons companies supplying Israel. The SRC will pursue this policy and support the struggle for Palestinian freedom.” The referendum results from a petition by Vieve Carnsew on behalf of Students Against War. They presented 524 valid signatures, triggering the referendum and a debate in Honi Soit. Expressions of interest were taken to contribute, with a word limit of 4500 words per side. The yes side received five valid expressions of interest; all were accepted and published below. There were no expressions of interest to contribute to the no side.
Vieve Carnsew Students Against War
More than 500 students signed the petition to force a historic SRC referendum on cutting ties with Israel. Now we have to win it! At least 3,000 undergraduate students must vote for the referendum to be valid. This would be the biggest numerical call for an academic boycott of Israel at any Australian university. Over 73,420 Palestinians have been slaughtered in Gaza. The Palestinian Colonization & Wall Resistance Commission counted 3,488 attacks in the first half of 2026 alone. None of this would be possible without the support of the United States (US) and its allies like Australia, and complicit institutions like the University of Sydney (USyd). USyd’s complicity in Israel’s genocide is intolerable and should disgust any student. In late August the Israeli National Security Council, and senior IDF officials released a statement saying: “the IDF will act to increase targeted strikes against those responsible for the launches and will evacuate the population from areas used as launch sites.” “Launch sites” of what? They are talking about children’s kites. A four-year-old child was blown to pieces by Israeli air strikes in central Gaza when they released this statement. “Israel warns of ‘forceful’ response to kites flown from Gaza” is a real BBC headline. In September Israeli defence Minister Israel Katz said “there is no real solution
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for Gaza” without de-populating the territory. This is ethnic cleansing. It was the support of British imperialism that allowed Zionist settlers to begin occupation in Palestine after the First World War. Now, Israel is central to the US imperialist strategy for dominating the Middle East, its trade routes and oil. People only have to look at the massacres it contributes to Trump’s war on Iran.
TAU works with Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer. Elbit Systems made the drone that killed Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom and countless Palestinians in Gaza. TAU also runs a major academic reserve program which funnels their law student graduates into the Military Advocate General’s Corps, the legal body that defends IDF war crimes.
Institutional boycotts are essential to make Israel the pariah state it should have always been. Its foundation was genocidal violence and ethnic cleansing that continues to this day, aided by its universities.
The Technion’s Department of Aeronautical Engineering, established in 1954, developed Israeli Aerospace Industries – today one of the IDF’s producers of its weapons. These are then marketed to the world as “battle proven” ie, by massacring Palestinians.
While universities attempt to champion themselves as neutral spaces for learning, they are active in upholding Israel as a settler colony. The colonial campaign relies on power which can be exercised through different means, under different forms of violence.
Technion helped develop the D9 remotecontrolled bulldozers that have been used to demolish Palestinian homes in the West Bank. The university unleashed an army of AI bots to report and silence online criticisms of Israel in October 2023.
“Military R&D [research and development] in Israel would not exist without the universities. They carry out all the basic scientific investigation, which is then developed either by defense industries or the army.” — Former Major General, Isaac Ben-Israel, former head of the Yuval Ne’eman Workshop at Tel Aviv University.
Mark Scott continues to offer USyd students up to $5000 dollars to go on a medical exchange with this university, even though the Technion is critical in maintaining Israel’s racist apartheid regime.
USyd holds student exchange programs with the Technion, Tel Aviv University (TAU) and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJ). Student and staff campaigning already ended one Israel exchange with Bezalel Art Academy in 2025. However, the university’s other ties include various pieces of the puzzle that cement Israel’s settler colony. HUJ was essential for Israel’s founding. It collaborated with the Haganah zionist militia in 1946 to establish HEMED, the Science Corps, that developed typhoiddysentery bacteria to poison Palestinian water wells. This chemical warfare was used for the Haganah’s “Operation Cast Thy Bread” during the Nakba to make it impossible for Palestinians to live on and return to their lands. Now, HUJ’s involvement in war crimes includes collaborating with the IDF’s Unit 8200 who developed the “Gospel” AI system used to select targets in Gaza. Its Student Village at Mount Scopus, where USyd sends exchange students, is built in occupied East Jerusalem. This location continues to annex the nearby Palestinian village, Issawiyeh, which is situated on the slopes beneath the campus. The university described these occupied lands by how this “empty space in Mt Scopus and its surroundings must be filled.” The residents of the village which continue to resist against occupation of their land face regular invasion by Israeli security forces. Police outposts which monitor the village are conducted in coordination with HUJ campus security. TAU hosts the Institute for National Security Studies, a think tank with close ties to the Israeli military, promoting and developing strategies for the genocide.
Alongside the exchange programmes, USyd maintains research which plays a direct role in the Palestinian genocide. USyd extended its research partnership with Thales, an arms manufacturing company, in 2022. Thales directly funds PhD programs at the university in the areas of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, and Electrical and Information Engineering, and sponsors eight Engineering Sydney Industry placements. Thales plays an active role in the genocide through its exports of raw explosives from Australia to a US factory which then arms Israel. These explosives have contributed to the 223,000 tonnes of explosives that have been dropped on Gaza since 2023. Maintaining exchanges with Israeli universities helps normalise institutions deeply integrated with Israel’s military and occupation. Maintaining research programmes with weapons companies bolsters Australia’s own imperialism over the Pacific and its interests in war against China, along with its role in the actual killing of Palestinians. The fact that Israel feels the need to form a national task force with the sole purpose of countering boycott efforts further demonstrates the importance of building the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement on campus. Boycotts have had a historic role in supporting anti-apartheid movements. In 1971, when the racist South African Springbok Rugby Union team was to tour Australia, black and white people united in protest in every major city. No South African apartheid-era sporting team toured Australia again until the end of Apartheid in South Africa and the release of Nelson Mandela in 1994. Workers refused to load weapons shipments for the Vietnam War effort in the 1960s. This set the foundation for the mass Moratorium marches which saw tens of thousands across Australia, many of whom workers, who “stopped work to
stop the war”. Targeting Israeli institutions and companies with BDS works by breaking down any attempts of the Israeli state to present itself as a society like any other. It highlights how every aspect of the Israeli state is built to oppress Palestinians. The referendum can create pressure to cut every remaining tie! But we need to go further and build the kind of movement we saw against apartheid South Africa and the Vietnam War - where mass action challenged apartheid and imperialist murder. We need YOU to volunteer to help make sure it is a success. Every leaflet, poster, class announcement and conversation matters. We must ensure university management and Vice-Chancellor Mark Scott who back this genocidal slaughter cannot rest until every tie is severed. Message our Instagram @ studentsagainstwar_syd and attend the National Day of Action “Stop arming U.S. and Israel’s wars” on International Peace Day, 20th September, 2PM at Town Hall. Globalise the intifada!
Grace Street President of the 98th SRC Grassroots
Across our 2024 Gaza Solidarity Encampment, 2024 Student General Meeting and 2025 Nationwide Student Referendum, students have made it clear that they support the boycott of weapons companies and Israeli institutions complicit in apartheid and genocide. Despite decades of BDS advocacy, the University has ignored our calls and particularly refused to engage with the academic boycott of Israeli institutions. They have said that maintaining ties with Israel supposedly upholds their commitments to academic freedom, free speech, and human rights. The ability to collaborate with Israeli universities and the encouraged engagement or sponsoring of exchange programs with Israeli universities is not academic freedom and or “just academia”. It is the normalisation and “social washing” of apartheid and genocide, the creation of social license to promote and propagandise for institutions actively engaging in or aiding human rights abuses, and kowtowing to the groups lobbying our corporate university. Just three months ago, the University of Sydney banned research collaboration with Russia, Iran, Belarus, and North Korea due to their current “geopolitical” situations. The University can and will cut academic ties in some circumstances, but selectively. I have been on exchange programs myself. I was fortunate enough to spend a semester at the renowned university SciencesPo Paris, and to spend two weeks in Amman, Jordan for the OLE: Experience the Arab World. Such exchange programs are fantastic. I found them foundational in learning about the world, other cultures and languages, and different ways of learning. However, it is important to note that they are no one’s God-given right. This is not about ‘punishing’ individuals or
REFERENDUM | curtailing their opportunities. Research and exchange programs a privilege and luxury, and opportunities that should be advancing the interests of all humans and progressing academia. Supporting institutions complicit in genocide and apartheid does the opposite of this. The Israeli state and institutions that the University of Sydney continually defends are bodies that are actively contributing to scholasticide in Gaza. It is coming up on two years since I helped run a national week of action across this continent with the theme “there are no universities left in Gaza,” and we know that Israeli universities continue to punish and surveil Palestinian students, run programs with the IDF, create the weapons and machines used to kill people and demolish cities, and more. I know that the other submissions in the affirmative to this debate will get into the details of those atrocities, and I encourage you to read up on them. I desperately hope that this referendum will make the University listen to us and not dismiss us as “fringe” or “radical.” However, that requires this referendum seeing a huge turnout of undergraduate students. We need at least three thousand undergraduate students to vote between 22 and 24 September, and at least two thirds of those (two thousand!) to vote YES for this referendum to pass. The fight won’t stop there however – make sure to get involved with the SRC’s continued fight to make this an apartheidfree, genocide-free and fascist-free campus.
Imane Lattab Ethnocultural and Global Solidarity Officer Autonomous Collective Against Racism Co-Convenor
For the past 3 years, the world bore witness to the Gaza genocide committed by israel. With at least 73,000 Palestinians killed and israel’s genocidal campaign still ongoing, our government continues to champion and back israel with unwavering loyalty. People are waking up to the fact that australia, as one of israel’s many Western allies, is guilty of the systematic destruction of all life in Gaza. Our government’s unconditional economic and political support for israel could not exist without institutions like our universities – who not only profit from our ties to Western powers like israel and the US, but are themselves part of the warmongering elite with their military investments and active role in crushing any dissent. The monumental shift in public opinion over the last few years has posed a significant threat to australia’s political connections to israel. Today, over half of australians believe that israel is committing genocide and support sanctions on israel. Hundreds of thousands have consistently take to the streets demanding an end to the genocide, an end to the occupation, and an end to our complicity. Students have been at the forefront of these mobilisations, with the 2024 Gaza Solidarity Encampment and Student General Meeting, the 2025 National Student Referendum, and the numerous strikes and rallies for Palestine over the last few years showing the overwhelming
support for a free Palestine on campuses. At the time of writing this, over 450 staff and alumni have organised an open letter demanding a meeting of Convocation on our university’s ties to israel and the crackdown on free speech on campus. Staff have been going on strike, fighting against management not only to protect their labour from exploitation and replacement, but to fight against the violation of their rights amidst some of the most severe periods of political repression in recent years. Unfortunately, the reaction from university to the countless demonstrations from student and staff opposing israel’s genocide has been immoral and abysmal. Having been backed into a corner and forced to take responsibility for their actions, USyd has lashed out against any students and staff in a final attempt for self-preservation. From the draconian restrictions of student organising on campus to the onslaught of anti-semitism allegations against student and staff activists, USyd has done everything in its power to quash anti-genocide and anti-war activism in the community. They’ve delegitimised decades of genocide scholarship and anti-racist work in their silence to our demands for boycotts, divestments, and sanctions. In a final death rattle, they have turned the Jewish community into a political shield – throwing around allegations of antisemitism whenever the slightest criticism of israel is invoked. Fascism has quietly poisoned our academic environment as the far-right politics of pro-israel lobbies embeds itself into our charters and regulations, which has now endangered the community it supposedly serves for financial and political gains. The profound moral failure in refusing to dissociate and condemn a genocide has not only alienated the community, but in many ways enlightened us to the facade of our so-called dignified university. USyd’s refusal to divest from weapons companies or boycott genocide complicit academic institutions unveils the capitalist logic that’s been rotting our universities for decades. The same system that allows our university to be war profiteers is also responsible for the degradation of staff working conditions, education quality, collapsing student services, and exorbitant degree costs. Our university’s ongoing partnerships with israeli academic institutions is yet another deep connection between israel and USyd. Despite having shown their capability to respect human rights and engage in politically motivated academic boycotts against certain countries, including but not limited to Russia, Iran, and the DPRK, their refusal to extend these same actions to israel screams hypocrisy and compromise. USyd’s partnerships with israeli universities normalise collaboration with fascist states like israel. Universities like Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv University provide the ideological cover for israel on the global stage – as well as technology, finance, labour, and information capital for apartheid and genocide. The fact that USyd protects these ties is utterly disgraceful. Our university’s culpability in israel’s
crimes against the Palestinian people goes deeper than the more salient weapons ties, academic partnerships, and cowardly complacency. Just as israeli universities have vested interests in whitewashing israel’s image, our universities play the same role in manufacturing consent and preserving Western hegemony – which is founded upon White supremacy. Zionism, despite being a fascist and racist ideology that relies on the dehumanisation of Palestinians, has a right to exist in our socalled liberal academic institutions. The anti-Palestinian racism that fuels Zionism is therefore legitimised in our Western academic institution, which itself played a historical role in orientalising places like the Middle East and claiming authority over its peoples. Zionism thrives on this constructed hierarchy where Europe reigns supreme, positioning israel as the West’s greatest ally and a “beacon of democracy and peace” in the Middle East. Meanwhile, there are no more universities in Gaza. Over 88,000 university students and over 750,000 school-aged children have been deprived of their right to education. Within the first 6 months of israel’s genocide in Gaza, more than 80% of schools were destroyed, with almost 6,000 students and over 300 teachers and academics systematically killed. Knowing that our university resources have directly aided these crimes, decisions made by the very same people who are responsible for the operations of our university, is harrowing. We cannot continue to be complacent when there are people in the world being killed by technology designed in our university, the weapons funded by our tuition fees, the IDF soldiers invited onto our campus, and politicians welcomed on our grounds. As students, we have a duty and the right to demand change, to build a university that works for people and sides with humanity. Our struggles are intertwined, so join us to fight for our future! Vote yes for justice and liberation for all!
Ethan Floyd Undergraduate Fellow of Senate
There is, by now, very little left to say about Gaza that has not already been said, usually more eloquently and with infinitely greater urgency by Palestinians themselves. We have watched a genocide unfold for nearly three years - more than half of my adult life to date. We have watched universities, schools and hospitals turned to rubble; teachers, students and doctors slaughtered alongside their families; an entire people subjected to starvation and displacement, broadcast more or less live to the world. And still, at the University of Sydney, we find ourselves arguing about whether maintaining ordinary institutional relationships with Israeli universities is the “neutral” thing to do. For nearly three years students and staff have tried almost every avenue available to us: rallies and occupations, motions and petitions, open letters and meetings with management. In 2024 hundreds of us established an encampment on the front lawns for three months. The SRC declared itself an apartheid-free zone that same year. Divestment from and boycott of Israeli institutions has become one of the defining political fights on our campus.
Much of my own time at Sydney has been caught up in that fight. I was involved in the encampment and negotiations with management; later, on the USU Board, I tried and failed to push the Union to stop doing business with companies targeted by BDS. I now sit on the University Senate, from which I took leave earlier this year to sail to Gaza aboard a global humanitarian aid flotilla. None of this makes my view particularly authoritative, but there are some arguments worth making and others worth debunking. I support a targeted academic boycott of Israeli institutions. The language of university management on this question is bloodless: risk, governance, fiduciary duties, neutrality. Management can discover a thousand procedural obstacles to severing its relationships with Israeli universities, while maintaining them apparently requires no justification whatsoever. I should note I am writing this blind to the other contributions in this debate. I don’t know who will argue against the referendum or what case they will make, and I won’t invent one for them. But this is hardly untilled soil. Arguments over BDS have been going on for decades, and there are a few objections common enough that they should be put to bed here. The first is neutrality. Sydney maintains exchanges with Tel Aviv University, Technion and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, alongside research relationships with weapons companies including Thales and Elbit Systems. We are not voting on Israel in the abstract. We are voting on what our own University does, with our money and in our names. The status quo is not neutral simply because it is the status quo. Maintaining a relationship is as much a decision as ending one. If “institutional neutrality” really meant universities could never make ethical judgements about whom they collaborate with, Sydney would presumably be obliged to partner indiscriminately with anybody willing to sign the paperwork. Nobody seriously believes that. Then there is academic freedom, probably the strongest objection in principle and one which deserves to be taken seriously. Universities are not monasteries, and academics are not monks. Israeli universities have deep and intentional relationships with the state, military and weapons industry, and I do not accept the ritual qualification that an academic boycott can never touch an individual academic participating in institutional complicity. More importantly, this conception of academic freedom has an enormous Palestinian-shaped hole at its centre. There is no academic freedom available to a student whose university has been bombed out of existence, or an academic who is starving, displaced, imprisoned or dead. If our conception of academic freedom can accommodate the destruction of Palestinian higher education but becomes absolutist when an Israeli institution might lose an
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exchange partnership, we are obviously not applying a principle consistently. Another familiar objection is that boycott is symbolic, or that Sydney cutting these ties will not itself end the genocide. Of course it won’t, but the argument proves far too much. No individual strike wins the class struggle; no single picket defeats the bosses; no single act of boycott ends apartheid. Collective action works through accumulation and steadfastness ‘( دومصsumud’). That is precisely why BDS is organised, targeted and Palestinian-led. Its purpose is not moral cleanliness. There is no ethical consumption under apartheid, and none of us can purify ourselves by checking off the right list of companies when buying groceries. Its purpose is to transform an expression of personal sympathy into the exercise of collective power. And then there is dialogue. We have already dialogued. For the last three years there have been meetings, negotiations, submissions, consultations and committees. Dialogue is useful when it is a means to change, but elevated into a principle in itself, it becomes a convenient demand for the powerful to make of the people asking them to change. This is also why I support the separate campaign by academics and alumni to call a meeting of Convocation over the repression of speech on Palestine and the University’s continuing Israeli partnerships. My experience on Senate has made me more, not less, convinced of its necessity. The encampment, the SRC’s apartheid-free zone, the fight inside USU, Convocation and this referendum are different campaigns, but they share a common politics: solidarity cannot consist of saying the right thing while allowing our institutions to continue doing the wrong thing. And this time the choice belongs directly to students. A “Yes” vote says that Sydney University should end exchanges with Israeli universities complicit in apartheid and genocide; end research partnerships with weapons companies supplying Israel; and that our SRC should pursue those demands without equivocation and throw its weight behind the struggle for Palestinian justice. For nearly three years, students at Sydney have listened patiently while people with vastly more institutional power than us explained why now was not the time, this was not the mechanism, that demand was not possible. The University has had every opportunity to choose. Now it’s our turn. Vote yes to boycott.
Indy Pardoel Students Against War
Documents released under a Freedom of Information (FOI) request by members of Students Against War (SAW) have confirmed that Usyd has ongoing exchange programs with Israeli universities despite recently announcing a complete ban on collaboration with Russia and Iran. The documents also show that in the past five years no Sydney Uni students have gone on the two main Israeli exchange programs. Yet they have not been terminated. Sydney Uni used a lack of reciprocal participation to explain the termination of another Israeli exchange program in 2025 following protest by staff and students. Exchange programs normalise academic ties with Israel as it faces a growing international academic boycott. In November 2023, the office of USyd Vice-Chancellor Mark Scott forwarded an email from Israeli universities to his Chief of Staff, as well as then-Registrar Peter McCallum. The letter calls for university leaders to stand with Israel as they find themselves “facing a war on two fronts”; in Gaza against Palestinians, and in the “global arena of public opinion”. Maintaining these programs is one of Sydney Uni’s key contributions to Israel’s “war on two fronts”. But these programs can be stopped. Usyd used to have an exchange partnership between Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design and Usyd’s Sydney College of the Arts (SCA). While the Gaza genocide raged Bezalel ran a centre sewing uniforms for the IDF with little patches that say “with love from Bezalel” on each uniform. This program has now been shut down. SAW staged a speak-out and petitioned SCA students, staff and community at the SCA graduation ceremony in 2024. 200 people signed and management were forced to say the exchange would not be renewed. Usyd was desperate to claim the cancellation had nothing to do with protest. They made a public statement citing low attendance as the key reason for dropping the program (no one from Usyd had gone in ten years). In the past six years no USyd students have signed up to go to Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJ) nor Tel Aviv University (TAU). In 2023 only two students went to Technion Israel Institute of Technology through a medical student scholarship program, otherwise no students have been for the past ten years.
According to the university’s own logic these programs should be dropped, given the non-participation with the Israeli exchange programs. Regardless, the programs must be cancelled. The Technion partnership violates a call for a medical boycott by U.N. Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese. Technion has become a “Research and Development Wing” of the IDF. In 2008
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they opened the Centre for Developing Electro-optics that essentially trained students to work for Elbit Systems, the infamous Israel-based weapons company. Together with Bar-Ilan University it runs the Bareket master’s program for training soldiers in data engineering for military application. Usyd has renewed the controversial “experience Israel OLE” with the HUJ annually. As part of the exchange, Usyd students are sent to the student village at HUJ’s Mount Scopus campus in east Jerusalem. This campus sits on the border of internationally recognised occupied territory, and its position historically, and in recent years specifically in the HUJ footprint in the French Hill area, reinforces illegal occupation and settlement. HUJ also recruits for Shin Bet, the Israeli intelligence agency responsible for torturing Palestinian prisoners. Usyd has had an exchange program TAU for many years. The most recent five-year agreement ended in July 2024 with USyd saying it is “under renewal” in FOI documents. TAU works closely with Elbit systems and disgustingly promotes the “Dahiya Doctrine” which calls on the IDF to use “the destruction of the national infrastructure, and intense suffering among the [civilian] population” as a weapon against Hamas through its Institute for National Security Studies. When questioned on their ties to Israel, university spokespeople have claimed Usyd partnerships are in line with commitments to “academic freedoms” and “human rights”. But meanwhile in Gaza universities are systematically destroyed by the IDF and students and academics are killed or displaced. Every day USyd maintains these exchange programs it lends legitimacy to Israel’s occupation, siege and genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. A powerful statement will be sent to USyd and Albanese if 3000 students vote to cut ties with Israel, showing that students want nothing to do with genocide and apartheid. If one Israeli exchange program can be cut, they all can be. View the FOI documents through SAW’s link in bio at @studentsagainstwar_syd.
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Vieve Carnsew Arts IV
to the US who send them in weapons provided to Israel. This complicity can be stopped. Candidates from Globalise the Intifada 4 SRC successfully campaigned alongside others to end Usyd’s exchange program with Israeli art school Bezalel Art Academy in 2025. We will use the SRC to back the fight to cut all remaining ties with Israel. We will defend free speech and the right to fight for a free Palestine. We cannot accept the attempt to silence us by the Albanese government, Chris Minns or USyd.
POLICY STATEMENT Ngayi everyone, I’m Vieve, I’m a proud Indigenous, Barkindji activist living on Gadigal land. I’m in my 4th year doing a Bachelor of Arts (major in Indigenous Studies, minor in Education Studies). I’ve been a member of Solidarity since 2021 and I was part of forming the group Students Against War in 2023. I’ve been involved in campaigning around a range of issues, including Aboriginal rights, Palestine, climate activism, and women’s liberation since 2021, while I was still in high school, and I’ve been involved in on campus activism since my first year in 2023. In this time I have witnessed an intense increase in the government’s attempts to crack down on the right to protest, in parallel with USyd management’s attempts to restrict free speech and outlaw any display of solidarity with Palestine on campus. We need a united SRC with a strategy that can fight management and win. We are far past the point of negotiating with management or asking for permission from people like Mark Scott, who are actively aiding a genocide and the murder of Palestinian and Lebanese students’ families. Vote for me and join the global intifada for a free Palestine! Israel can only commit genocide and maintain its apartheid regime with the support of the US and allies like Australia. We must resist and fight to cut every tie that enables the terror state. Israel has been allowed to kill over 75,000 Palestinians. Violence in the West Bank has reached an all time high. There are no universities left in Gaza and students at unis in the West Bank are routinely raided, brutalised and imprisoned by the Israeli occupation. The Albanese government has provided Israel intelligence from Pine Gap spy base in the Northern Territory, explosives manufactured in regional NSW, military steel and fighter jet-parts from Australian factories. Our own university is deeply complicit. USyd has exchange partnerships with Israeli unis that play an active role in this horror. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJ) provides training for Israeli Military Intelligence; Tel Aviv Uni promotes the “Dahiya Doctrine” which calls on the IDF to use “the destruction of the national infrastructure, and intense suffering among the [civilian] population” as a weapon against Hamas through its Institute for National Security Studies; and Technion developed the D9 bulldozer that flattens Palestinian homes. USyd does research with complicit weapons companies like Lockheed Martin and Thales. Lockheed provides the fighter jets Israel uses to commit its genocide and Thales exports explosives from Australia
We were amongst the thousands who defied the ban on protest when genocidal Israeli President Isaac Herzog visited Sydney. The anti-protest laws NSW Premier Chris Minns used against us have been scrapped. Despite cowardly police attacks on the protest, we won and we marched on the streets they tried to drive us from. Anti-protest measures at USyd have tried to silence anyone who speaks out. Students who put up posters without ‘authorisation’, set up tables on Eastern Avenue, give announcements at the start of lectures, have all faced disciplinary letters threatening suspension from their degrees. These letters impose gag orders that try to stop them from going public about these threats. USyd sent threats to students last semester for including the ‘Handala’ image of a Palestinian child on a poster calling to end exchange ties with Israel. USyd said this image was ‘antisemitic’ and ‘threatening’. But we defied this threat, rallied over 800 to sign a petition and protested. USyd was forced to drop the investigation and had to admit publicly it was not antisemitic to demand exchange programs with Israel be ended. USyd’s anti-protest policies were used to threaten Ethan Floyd, an Indigenous USyd student and activist, with disciplinary action for flying the Aboriginal flag on USyd’s Mardi Gras float. USyd management was very quick to email them about this, but has yet to release a statement condemning the IDF’s brutal treatment of Ethan Floyd during his participation on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla. We are called ‘Globalise the Intifada’ because we believe every last tie to Israel needs to be cut, and the smears and repression need to be defied and fought en masse. ‘Intifada’ is the Arabic word for uprising and throwing off oppression. It refers to heroic Palestinian resistance against Israel’s crimes such as the mass protests and strikes of the First Intifada. This is exactly what we will need if we want to cut all ties with Israel. It is what we need to fight back Hanson’s anti-migrant racism, fight against the cuts to the NDIS, and to stop our higher education from being gutted to make way for military research and training. It represents the spirit we need to take into building student support for the staff strikes defending quality education. Chris Minns is scared of the words Globalise the Intifada. He promised to ban the slogan but has been forced to retreat by collective defiance. When he said we can’t chant Globalise the Intifada we chanted it even louder. We need an SRC that will wage an
uncompromising, collective fight for Palestine and all who are oppressed. We have ended an Israel exchange program, helped smash anti-protest laws, defied campus repression and lead the campaign for a referendum on BDS this year. We need you to vote for us, but more importantly to throw yourself into the struggle.
Grace Street
Arts (Hons)/Dip. Language Studies VI
From Gadigal, to Gaza, we will globalise the intifada.
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. • Involved in organising the protest which forced USyd to drop the investigation around the Handala symbol. • 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. • Organised multiple events to paint the graffiti tunnel with Palestine solidarity slogans and symbols, after security painted over an artwork acknowledging Palestinian child martyrs. • Collected signatures to present at F23 after Luna, a transgender asylum seeker, was threatened with suspension for writing ‘from the river to the sea’ on a whiteboard. • Campaigned against the ban on Palestine flags at USyd, including coordinating a photo action with the other clubs during O Week last year, where each club took a photo holding signs with the Palestine flag that read ‘Mark Scott has banned this flag’. • Been a part of many other campaigns on this campus, supporting staff strikes on the picket lines, fighting for climate action, and more. • Built for and attended the protest against Israeli President, Isaac Herzog, as well as the March for Humanity across the Harbour Bridge. • Been threatened by security for setting up a table on Eastern Avenue (more than once…). • Designed this year’s merchandise for the Queer Action Collective (QuAC) and the Women’s Collective (WoCo). • Illustrated the cover for Honi Soit after the Herzog rally, depicting Albanese and Minns holding police pigs on a leash while they tear apart a placard saying ‘Globalise the Intifada’, and have been a part of protesting against the ban on the slogan on and off campus. • Built for and promoted this semester’s referendum on cutting USyd’s ties to Israel
NOMINATORS Luke Ottavi Indy Pardoel Sofia Pluciennik Faustinoni e Silva August McCall Sydney Pan Alexander Nicolson Bri Akins Crystal Zhou Jerry Hong Wasmiya Alashour Yifan Jia Hannah Aguilar
POLICY STATEMENT Hi! I’m Grace Street, your 2026 SRC President and hopefully your 2027 SRC President too! I am a feminist, socialist, environmentalist, and anti-colonial activist, and I’m someone who believes that you have to both be and make the change you want to see. I have been committing myself to this University community for years – as a peer mentor, FrenchSoc president, an activist, and in the SRC across numerous important roles. You don’t have to gamble your vote with me – I have a great track record of new initiatives and wins this year, and you know I’m not just doing this for my career (otherwise I would already be out of here – this job is rewarding but grueling). This year, I have made the most of the SRC President role – representing students at many committees to make their lives better and intervene into harmful proposed changes, facilitating programs like our SRC-led flu vax program as part of a larger healthcare and awareness campaign, being a consistent member of our SRC collectives where our campaigns come to life, representing students at NSW Parliament, starting a newsletter to better create an informed SRC community, and so much more. Students deserve an SRC President who will show up for them and fight for both their short- and long-term interests. Not a President (as we have had in the past) who wants and uses the role to gain power and influence for other objectives or career paths. Every year, candidates make big pitches and promises, but are they really going to follow through? Over my time and throughout my work in the SRC, I can confidently say that the SRC has become more visible, active, and responsive to students’ needs. That requires work across all that we do: our Welcome Week publications, tote bags and stalls; direct protests like the 2024 Gaza Solidarity Encampment; ongoing campaigns around cost-ofliving, including for Concession Opal Cards for all; working with and linking up our satellite campuses; informing international students about their rights and the risks of getting involved with activism; surveys and submissions like our recent one for a proposed NSW Human Rights Act; successfully fighting a proposal to remove StuVac from intensive units, and so much more. It’s an important time also in our society and higher education. Universities are facing identity crises and parliamentary inquiries about whether they are public education institutions or authoritarian corporations. The far-right is on the rise
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| PRESIDENT with cultural and legislative attacks, particularly on bodily autonomy, First Nations people, and migrants. AI, course cuts, changing staff roles, international student caps and visa hikes are changing universities as we know them, and impacting the most vulnerable in our community. We are facing attacks on so many fronts, which is why I feel the need to continue the work I have been doing over the last year and to continue to build up the strength of our student movement and SRC with my skills, institutional knowledge, and passion. It can take months for SRC presidents to find their footing and learn how to navigate this enormous university filled with bureaucracy, opaque decisionmaking, and a profit-motive that often runs counter to the wishes and needs of students. Next year, some of what I want to do is… ENABLE AND EMPOWER STUDENTS TO JOIN THE FIGHT This includes tackling cost-of-living, housing, healthcare, systems like Special Considerations and processes like Late Discontinuation, linking up satellite campuses, as well as domestic and international students. We are never going to win anything while we are all isolated, over-burdened, struggling, and sick! MAKE USYD AN APARTHEID-FREE, CLIMATE CRIMINAL-FREE AND FASCIST-FREE ZONE In just this last month, we have seen One Nation posters, anti-abortion nuisances, Coca-Cola, and a ‘march for Australia’ anti-immigration banner at the Camperdown campus. We also know that USyd maintains partnerships with weapons company Thales and recently was found to have invested in Rio Tinto. We need to reopen the investigation into USyd’s investments, make campuswide commitment to fighting fascism via a Student General Meeting or proper petition, and finally get the USU to commit to BDS! BRING TRUST AND VISIBILITY TO THE SRC For many, the SRC is seen only as elections or simply facilitating campaigns. We should be a student union that is visible year-round, open to all and brings students together to improve our world. That starts with having an actually accessible and usable office space with a library, and also includes things like making sure we inform students about their rights and our available services in more languages than English, and across platforms like TikTok, Xiaohongshu and WeChat. COLLABORATING TO BUILD OUR COMMUNITY & WELFARE! Our USyd community is so broad, diverse and well-connected – let’s make the most of it. For example, I want to collaborate with SUPRA and local communities (particularly from Redfern, Glebe and Waterloo) to host a joint housing symposium, like the one that SUPRA is doing this year. We should collaborate with researchers and get testimonies from students to create an official SRC report on AI usage and impacts at USyd. I also want to bring back Pride Week with the USU! Importantly, now is the time to collaborate with the 2027-8 elected student Senate representatives on key
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policies and to entrench the SRC’s role, voice, importance, and funding. TL;DR – I have been doing great work this year as your President, and I want to continue doing that to achieve the best outcomes for students and further the movements and campaigns we desperately need in our society right now. Check out our Council “GRASSROOTS FOR SRC” ticket and my extended policy document to be coming soon via @ grassrootsforsrc <3
Emma Searle Arts III
NOMINATORS Serena Chen Dana Kafina Aria Nadkarni Aron Khuc Kayla Hill Remy Lebreton Imane Lattab Jamie Madsen Maxine McGrath Junfei (Jay) Yu Wai Chun Cyrus Fung Yuanbo (Bob) Song Sherry (Xiyue) Yuan Zizhuo Yue Pimala Leo Vincent Tafea Benjamin Dennis Charlise Gardner Salma Mardawie Haigang (William) Yang
Ever since my first week of university, I have been putting these words into action. My first university rally was the 2024 student strike for Palestine. Since then, I have been part of organising the Gaza Solidarity Camp, the 2024 Student General Meeting, the 2025 National Student Referendum. I have been an active member of Students for Palestine, the leading student organisation campaigning for a free Palestine.
CURRICULUM VITAE • She/her, member of USyd Grassroots! • Feminist, socialist, anti-colonial, unionist - a believer in a better world • Studying Honours in French after finishing my Bachelors in International Relations and Political Economy • 2026 SRC President - my pride and joy • 2025 SRC General Secretary, Sexual Violence Officer & Councillor • Led and organised the SRC’s first FREE influenza vaccination scheme (2025-6) • 2024 SRC Education Officer & Councillor • Organiser of USyd Gaza Encampment, Student General Meeting, Scrap the CAP campaign (2024) • Author of 22 Honi Soit articles! • 2026 ECOPSoc Treasurer, 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
anti-activism policies such as the Campus Access Policy.
POLICY STATEMENT Hi! I’m Emma Searle, and I am running for president because we deserve more than the billionaire-tech-bro hellscape of capitalism today. As a socialist, I believe that we have to fight for a better world. Our student union should be a part of that fight. If I were your president, I would use the position as a megaphone for the campaigns and demands of students. The SRC President should champion the issues that you care about: a free Palestine, fighting the far-right threat of Pauline Hanson, free education for all students. The SRC has a long history of leading and supporting radical social movements, going all the way back to the Vietnam War. The SRC should return to its radical roots. As someone who grew up in Campbelltown in a working class family, I have witnessed first hand how wealth inequality impacts people’s daily lives. Both my parents grew up in Housing Commission, my dad in Broken Hill, and my mum in Claymore – and now I am entering a world where housing is 100% more expensive than 20 years ago. I was raised by generations of teachers who have been completely neglected by successive Liberal and Labor governments. Which is why I think placements for nursing and education students should be paid above the minimum wage, unlike today where most students are plunged into poverty to go on placement. Like many of you, I’ve grown up in the era of Black Lives Matter, the rise of Donald Trump and fascism, and the genocide of Gaza. All of this has made me realise that the only way to fight injustice is to be a socialist. That’s why I’m a member of Socialist Alternative, and why I’m running for a socialist to be the SRC President. I’ve only been at university for a few years, but in that time I have been restlessly campaigning around every horror that capitalism throws our way. FREE PALESTINE AND NO TIES WITH GENOCIDE End all research and exchange ties between our university and the state of Israel and companies or organisations complicit in the genocide of Gaza. Our student fees and research should not go towards aiding an active genocide and system of apartheid. Divest from the $3.4 billion that Sydney University spends on military contracts. Repeal the disciplinary charges on students for standing with Palestine. Scrap the draconian anti-protest and
FUCK PAULINE HANSON AND THE FAR-RIGHT Hanson wants to create a more bigoted and oppressive society. She wants to deport international students, cut immigration and wind back Indigenous rights. One Nation is helping to promote campaigns against abortion rights, while Hanson has floated getting rid of maternity leave. I was a key part of organising the nationwide ‘Say NO to Hanson’ protest earlier this semester. Thousands of high school and university students joined this defiant protest. This is the sort of movement that can push back the far-right. Student revolts against the far-right are igniting globally, and they inspire my vision for the SRC in the Pauline Hanson era. The Cockroach Rebellion in India, the Gen Z revolts across the Asia Pacific and the anti-ICE protests in the United States are all examples we need to follow. FREE EDUCATION FOR DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS Domestic students are burdened with an average of $27,000 in HECS debt, and international students are made to pay an average $30,000 per year! Education was once free in Australia, and we can win free education again. The politicians in power right now went to university for free, so why can’t we? Our student union can only win this ambitious demand by being an activist organisation that is willing to fight the Labor government. Fully paid placements for all students undergoing placements. The current scheme is too restricted and woefully low. COST OF LIVING- AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND FOOD Establish a free canteen accessible to all students, run by the university! Students can barely afford to eat on campus and the university needs to do something. This is a common feature of universities across the world, and our university has the money to pay for it. We need on-campus student accommodation owned and operated by the university and government, not by dodgy private providers like Scape and Iglu. Cap student accommodation prices at $100/week. The government needs to expand public housing and implement an immediate rent cap. FIGHT SEXISM AND LGBTQI+ OPPRESSION Sexist attitudes are on the rise, the gender pay gap still exists, and the government refuses to give feminised industries like
PRESIDENT | teachers and nurses a pay rise. Fully paid placements for all students. Students in female-dominated industries shouldn’t have to choose between completing their placement and paying their rent.
Ava Cavelerie Johnson
Politics, Philosophy, Economics II
When politics stops putting students first We need to be loud and effective. Grassroots has too often struggled to engage the broader student body, leaving the SRC disconnected from many of the students it is meant to represent. Socialist Alternative has voted against funding student provisions like Foodhub, and proposed cutting services. Both approaches leave students disconnected. Activism must involve students, protect essential services and improve lives.
Burn down the colleges, which are cesspits of sexism. Turn them into affordable housing for working-class students. I will fight for the state government to provide free, fully funded and easily accessible abortion and healthcare clinics. The SRC must stand with striking nurses and teachers in their fight for better pay and conditions.
CURRICULUM VITAE • Hey, I’m Emma Searle and I am the revolutionary socialist candidate running for president of the USYD SRC! • I think the SRC should be a left wing body that champions progressive causes such as fighting for a free Palestine and against the rise of Pauline Hanson. • As Social Justice Officer, I organised and chaired the Sydney University ‘Say No To Hanson’ rally, where we protested alongside 10k university and highschool students across Australia. • As a member of Students for Palestine, over the last few years I’ve helped organise multiple student strikes and a referendum of over 600 USYD students for Palestine. • As Global Solidarity Officer in 2025, I helped organise the ‘Fuck Trump’ rallies to defend trans and women’s rights. • In 2024, I was a proud participant in the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at USyd, demanding our university cut ties with weapons companies. • I think that capitalism is a shit-show that is rigged for the rich, and we need a mass student fightback if we want to see that wealth taken from the billionaires and redistributed to workers, students and the oppressed. • Free Palestine, Fuck the Far Right, Fund free education, and lower student rent!
NOMINATORS Jasmine Al-Rawi River Raghuraman Eva Sutherland Shovan Bhattarai Devansh Julka Julius Wittfoth Starla Bilby James Parker Jillahkull McInnes Ka Pak Castor Chin
presidential candidates voted it down. Good ideas should not die because of sectarianism. Students must come first.
POLICY STATEMENT
A platform for a better university
Hey everyone, I’m Ava Cavalerie, and I’m running to be your 2027 SRC President. I have been involved in the SRC since I started at USyd and currently serve as General Secretary. I’m also a secondyear Politics, Philosophy and Economics student, a renter and work as a bartender at the Bank.
Make university more affordable
I’m running because I believe the SRC can be much more effective and accessible than it is now. My politics are unequivocally left-wing and grounded in the material realities of student life today: unaffordable housing, insecure work, and inequality, while fighting for workers’ rights, queer rights, feminism, climate justice and our freedom to organise. I’m a member of my union UWU and USyd Labor Left, because I believe we should fight for more from the powers that be. Like many students, I understand having to balance study, rent and work, hoping nothing goes wrong because you lack the time or money to fix it. University should let students learn, connect and build a future worth having. That becomes harder when students are drowning in paid work and priced off campus. The SRC should organise students, fight management when necessary and negotiate when there is something real to win. Protest and negotiation are not opposites; an effective SRC must know how to do both. Putting students first When the SRC listens and fights for practical solutions, students win. The $5 meal canteen, delivered under our last IMPACT President, proves it. Working with SUPRA and the USU, the SRC convinced the University to subsidise affordable food without draining SRC funding. Now students benefit every day. As General Secretary, I have worked to open the SRC to students outside student politics. I oversaw one of our most successful Welcome Week programs, helping more students find the SRC and its services. I represented students before senior University executives and began pushing for a formal agreement guaranteeing elected students a seat at the table. IMPACT has organised protests against the Modi Government and the far-right, supported student strikes against Hanson, stood alongside queer and feminist actions, spoken up for a free Palestine, fought the Campus Access Policy and attempts to roll back abortion rights in NSW Parliament, worked with the ACF on climate action and APHEDA on international solidarity. We’ve engaged students across Creative Arts, Science, and other faculties. I also proposed a subsidy scheme to make contraception more affordable, but other
• Campaign to cap University-owned housing rent at 30% of median student income, lobby the University to buy SCAPE back for student-controlled accommodation, convert unused spaces into emergency housing, and work with the NUS to fight private rental price gouging. • Establish a 50% subsidy for contraception and work with Share the Dignity, Pixii and the USU to ensure free period products across campus. • Cut semester costs by creating a secondhand exchange for textbooks, lab coats, art materials, housing equipment and clothing. • Campaign for financial support for students undertaking compulsory unpaid internships, a $15 printing credit per sem, and push for more resources for overworked academic, welfare and tenancy caseworkers and lawyers. • Bring back representation, advocacy and engagement. • Hold fortnightly consultative SRC BBQs so students can directly shape SRC priorities. • Host regular SRC forums, O-Week consent panels and self-defence workshops, and expand late-night security shuttles. • Support creative and community life, tackle creative arts class waitlists, host student-run gallery events, protect fiveday simple extensions, and fund queer creative and campus community spaces. • Expand mental health support, push for accessible, multilingual counselling, and improve awareness of the DIAP. • Clear rules for AI use and mandatory transparency for AI detection tools so students aren’t falsely flagged. • Campaign with the Academic Board to cap late penalties at 2.5% per day. Activism and Justice
entitlements, and fight against exploitation in housing and work. • IMPACT will campaign for USYD to disclose and divest from weapons manufacturers and fossil fuel companies, reinvest funds into students, staff, and community. • We will support NTEU staff industrial action to improve staff working conditions and student learning conditions. • We will work with and hold the NUS to account so we can fight for students nationally. I want students to believe in the SRC because they can see what it does. For an SRC run by real students, for real students: Vote IMPACT, vote AVA FOR PRESIDENT.
CURRICULUM VITAE • SRC General Secretary | 2026 • Councillor 98th Students’ Representative Council | 2026 • Student Representative | Student Consultative Committee 2026 • Member of Students for Palestine • Member, Education Action Group • Member, W*men’s Collective • Member of the United Workers Union • Member of Sydney University Trade Union Society • Academic and Careers PPE Subcommittee Member | 2026 • Birdcage bartender, appreciator, and supporter. • Usyd Oztag | 2025 • SASS society | 2025-26 • Welcome Week & Orientation Organising | 2026
NOMINATORS Jasmine Donnelly Rose Donnelly Sargun Saluja Fionn Burke Sophie Scanlon Boranay Tong Leyla Bensan Zayed Tabish Jessica Heap Jonathan Gilliland Alex Marucci Garner Heath Suryansh Singh Taylah Hunter Leo Moore James Green Lucy Sullivan Sophie Andray Bianca Cheng Evan Costa
• Our SRC needs to engage more with First Nations students and networks on this campus. IMPACT will work directly with the Gadigal Centre to advance antiracist campus policies and build lasting relationships. • Freedom of speech is integral to learning, expression and human rights. I will continue the fight to abolish the Campus Access Policy and defend students’ right to organise, demonstrate and speak freely on campus. • We stand against all forms of racism, sexism, and bigotry. We will fiercely defend the right to Palestinian activism on campus. We will push both university management and the government to protect student activists against repression and censorship. • IMPACT will campaign against exorbitant visa fee hikes, advocate for equal concession transport
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| EDITORS OF HONI SOIT
CHARM FOR HONI POLICY STATEMENT Charm For Honi is a progressive leftwing ticket committed to honour Honi Soit’s legacy by maintaining non-partisan reportage and facilitating artistic inspiration across a wider student demographic. We are a diverse team with experience writing in USYD and external publications across genres and mediums. We aim to enhance student intrigue, inclusivity and interactivity, drawing on past editions and editorships to cultivate a nuanced creative community on campus. In Clover: Impartial News and Political Coverage Charm is proud to uphold the paper’s legacy of left-wing reporting. The team is committed to faithfully recording the struggle of activists and protestors across Sydney, whether it be Israel’s ongoing genocide of Gaza, attacks on the NDIS and public housing, or the rise of right wing sentiment. We want to empower more student reporters to attend and write about pertinent events on and off campus, from snap protests to student politics. This will be made possible via our digital newsroom, where editors and students can communicate urgent news stories with common industry practice, an avenue of encouraging writers unfamiliar with newswriting to find their footing. Our team is dedicated to fostering a safe and professional news environment, including greater transparency and support for the rights and responsibilities of our reporters. As such, we’ll host resourceful Workshops in collaboration with media practitioners and academics. We are dedicated to continuing the Student Journalism Conference, offering a wider range of workshops, panels and screenings. Our team will continue to uphold antiracist, anti-colonial, anti-capitalist, antiableist, pro-queer, pro-trans and feminist coverage of political issues pressing students. To put this into action, we will:
to primarily make pitch forums more accessible, whether it be posters scattered in all faculty areas, publishing pitch reminders on Instagram and featuring QR codes in-print. Student media is an amulet of diverse creative fruition. By fostering a wider range of perspectives, our paper can continue to garner nuanced conversations on campus and beyond. Inclusivity does not stop short at student demographics – it encompasses the input of academic and faculty staff. Charm will include an in-conversation feature each week to platform the faces that sustain our university. We believe in the power of storytelling, dialogue, and the charms of human interaction. In all its existence, Honi Soit has proven to exist as more than a newspaper for portfolio-building. It is a community. Not Just Token Representation The legacy behind Honi Soit is a testament to its interactive relationships with student-led initiatives. Charm will nurture the paper’s ongoing collaborations with autonomous collectives via Women’s, ACAR, DisCo, First Nations and Queer editions over the academic year. With multiple members having undergone editing roles in autonomous editions, we are strongly committed to further fostering stronger relationships with adjacent student publications and societies. Additionally, Charm wants to engage with reporters and writers from more faculties. We want to hear about student stories from Medicine, Engineering, Law, Business, Science, and ADP, as we believe that these groups have been disproportionately represented in the newspaper. To do this, we want to foster stronger relationships with other societies and student publications with more collaboration on editions, graphics, and events.
• Advocate and support First Nations justice with affirmative action • Support migrant, multifaith and LGBTQ+ communities amidst right-wing discrimination • Protest the ongoing colonial regimes in Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan, Congo, Ethiopia, Myanmar and Xinjiang, and acknowledge Australia’s complicity • Defend the rights and interest of international students • Promote environmental justice by pressing USYD management to divest in fossil fuel and weapons manufacturing An Amulet of Outreach
Collect a Lucky Charm
We will ensure Honi Soit remains an inclusive forum of student experimentation, imagination and engagement. Charm is dedicated to fostering an inviting and respectful creative community between editors, contributors, readers and staff alike. We devote our term to maintaining an approachable, dependable and warm environment through casual pitching sessions, and investing into the Honi Instagram page as a forum for multimedia inspiration.
Honi Soit is nearly 98 and still kicking. As the only weekly student publication in Australia, we want to give students reasons to pick up the print and interact with it meaningfully. The ongoing tradition of the ‘What’s On’ column will expand to proximate gigs and events. The last sheet of editions will be the ‘Lucky Charm of the Week’, a rip-out sheet featuring student-made posters, origami, art prompts, collage fodder or infographics. We want to encourage a more interactive paper, keeping the good karma of Burn’s HoniScopes and word games while adding a charming flair, so readers may pick up for the puzzles, and stay for the writing.
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Audrey Hawkins
• Prefers to write with a pen since they’re mightier than swords (apparently)
Shayla Zreika
Arts/Science II
Media and Communications III
• Using the same photo as last year because the second time’s a charm (I have three photos of myself). • Psychology & Archaeology major, English minor. • Contributor for Honi Soit since 2025 • Editor for WoCo Honi 2025 • Contributor for WoCo Honi 2025 • Guest Surg Co-host 2026 • The occasional unpaid script consultant. • The occasional paid production and camera assistant. • Drinks too much tea (ask anyone). • THE Will Winter got drunk at MY birthday party. #blessed • Concert lover.
• Honi Soit Contributor (2024-2026), 11 articles and counting • ACAR Honi editor 2026 & Contributor 2025 • Sydney Uni Law Society MOSAIC editor 2024 & editor-in-chief 2025 • Reader’s Choice Winner for RUSSH Literary Showcase 2026 • I run an independent literary magazine, The Cedar Dispatch (IG: @the. cedardispatch - like, follow & share) • Creative team for Sydney Muslim Writers Festival 2024-26 • Panelist for the Muslim Agenda Media Summit 2026 • Preliminary Teta • Reincarnated Edward Said if he was a Gen-Z Lebanese girl
Jess Smith
Arts/Advanced Studies III
Pia Curran Arts III
In Our Locket is Your Photo Charm is committed to nurturing student experiments and successes across a variety of mediums, including fostering photojournalism. Publishing and editing photojournalism alongside news writing will give more students room to speak up and create. Honi owes as much to its artists as it does to its writers. Maintaining a strong pool of talented visual artists through the opportunity to experiment with article layouts, graphic design, bricolage, digital art and photography will be a key focus. Our ticket will uphold the value of imaginative storytelling by committing to platforming creative writing and poetry. We will extend our annual Writing Competition to include photojournalism for multimedia contributors.
Our team values are rooted in outreach, with a keen dedication to expanding our contributor pool across campus. We aim
CANDIDATES
• 27 articles for Honi Soit • Honi Soit Best Comedy Piece 2025 — ‘Addressing the Femcel Allegations’ • Editor for WOCO Honi 2025 • Contributor to DisCo Honi 2024 • Contributor to Noise @ UNSW • Controversial figure on r/usyd • Vice President and Environmental Officer of Conservatorium Students Association (CSA) 2024-25 • Intercampus Officer of USYD SRC 2025 • USYD SCM Education Board 2025
Max McDermott
Media and Communications III
• Honi Soit Contributor (2025-2026) • 10 published Honi Soit articles • Tutors highschool English and Economics • Enjoyer of the outdoors • Enjoyer of the indoors • Bookstore employee
• Contributor to Honi Soit since 2023 • Featured in the Australian Financial Review 2024 • Featured in Avenue 2025 • Professional beater of dead horses • Can low-key read Ancient Greek (not very well but probably better than your average Joe) • Highly Commended in the Ethics Centre Young Writers Competition 2024 • I like cats
Kayra Hincal
Arts/Advanced Studies III
• All about the visuals • Photographer + videographer • Had my short film screened at a festival in Wisconsin, USA! • Wrote ONE piece for Best Boy’s first issue
EDITORS OF HONI SOIT | • Will draw on anything and everything • Lover of graphic design • Professional Letterboxd review writer (3 likes) • Adobe fan
Tim Pudun Arts II
• Honi Contributor 2026, 5 articles and counting • Published in Cordite Poetry Review 2025 • UNSW Unfolded Contributor 2025 • UTS Puzzle Society Vice President 2025 • Muay Thai Coach • Living with Spina Bifida Meningocele • Big fan of John Berger and Cheese Burger
Ollie Hale
Psychology III
• Playwright and Director • Revered trivia host @ The Lansdowne • Season one (1) Drift King enthusiast • Made a custom VHS effect • Will colour grade for petty cash • #1 Caleb Rigney fan #mygoat
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| DELEGATES TO NUS
[A] ACTIVATE FOR NUS POLICY STATEMENT
Bob Song
Commerce/Law III
Bohao Zhang
Economics/Law III
Emma Searle Arts III
Sick of seeing annoying socialists along Eastern Avenue? Don’t want to fund radical socialist “activists” as they jetset across Australia on your student fees? Sick of being told that “socialism just hasn’t been tried properly.” Want to have an NUS that actually spends its money on students, rather than wasting it on protests that disrupt all your classes? Vote [1] ACTIVATE FOR NUS to change that! We’ll advocate for: • A focus on governance and not politics • Cutting wasteful spending • Publishing the spending of the NUS to keep representatives accountable Vote now to put an end to decades of far left socialist NUS neglect and incompetence. Vote [1] ACTIVATE FOR NUS.
CANDIDATES
Nikolaos Hatzistamatiou
Politics, Philosophy, Economics I
• SULS International Students Officer 2026 • 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)
Sherry Yuan
Commerce/Science I
This year, PENTA for NUS is committed to continuing this work by strengthening the voice of international students and ensuring that every international student at the University of Sydney is heard, represented, supported, and empowered. We will continue advocating for practical solutions, meaningful engagement, and a more inclusive university community where international students are not just acknowledged, but genuinely valued
CANDIDATES
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Economics II
• Student ambassador @ usyd • Usyd econsoc socials director • Usyd ACYA careers and sponsorships director • 180 Degrees Consulting team member
[C] LEFT ACTION 4 NUS Left Action used our NUS positions to organise the National day of action against Hanson on August 13th. We think students have an important part to play in this struggle, and have always been a bulwark against the rise of the farright. This was proven by the thousands of students who walked out of class to protest the rise of Hanson and her racist politics, becoming front page news.
POLICY STATEMENT
Over the past year, PENTA has worked to make the International Students’ Collective more open and accessible, increase the visibility and promotion of student events, and continue advancing the Opal Card Campaign. We have also listened to students’ concerns by supporting the establishment of the $5 Canteen initiative and strengthening the partnership between FoodHub and the SRC to improve food accessibility on campus.
Claire Lee
POLICY STATEMENT
[B] PENTA FOR NUS PENTA has long stood as a strong advocate for international students within a student representative community where too often consumed by domestic student infighting. We remain committed to transforming the SRC and other student representations into a functional and effective representative body that delivers meaningful outcomes for international students.
• USyd SRC Vice-President • Failed USU candidate • Chill guy
• Enjoys reading • Planning to be red hair for my entire uni life (TBC) • Loves wantwant milk • Bilingual in Mandarin and English at exactly half point (can’t tell which ones better) • Intern Real Estate Assistance C4 certified (2 years) • Young Entrepreneur Society Mentor committee (2023-2025) • School Endeavour Award • School Jacaranda Award • Traditional Chinese Medicine internship volunteering (2023-2025) • Volunteering at Emerge charity fundraising (2024) • School Conde Library Magazine Designer (2025) • Castle Hill Golf club/Stonecutter member
• Hey, I’m Emma and as your Social Justice Officer this year I think the SRC should be a left wing body that champions progressive causes such as fighting for a free Palestine and against the rise of Pauline Hanson. • This semester, I organised and chaired the Sydney University ‘Say No To Hanson’ rally, where we protested alongside 10k university and highschool students across Australia. • As a member of Students for Palestine, over the last few years I’ve helped organise multiple student strikes and a referendum of over 600 USYD students for Palestine. • As Global Solidarity Officer in 2025, I helped organise the ‘Fuck Trump’ rallies to defend trans and women’s rights. • In 2024, I was a proud participant in the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at USyd, demanding our university cut ties with weapons companies. • I think that capitalism is a shit-show that is rigged for the rich, and we need a mass student fightback if we want to see that wealth taken from the billionaires and redistributed to workers, students and the oppressed. • Fund free education, lower student rent and give us free university canteens!
Laura Alivio
Arts/Advanced Studies IV
As Left Action, we want to fight back against Hanson and her racist supporters wherever they are. This means building a militant, fighting SRC which doesn’t seek to maneuver around One Nation, but rather, fights them head on, rejecting their racism, sexism and homophobia. We are fighting for - Free Education for domestic and international students - Against Sexism, Transphobia, Racism and Oppression, and see student protest as a galvanising tool to oppose bigotry. - For affordable student housing in the context of a nation-wide cost of living crisis - A Free Palestine, we are the activists that used the NUS to mobilise the nationwide referendum for Palestine and the many Student Strikes for Palestine.
CANDIDATES
• Hi, I’m Laura, your current Refugee Rights Officer on the SRC and a socialist activist at Sydney Uni. I’m running because I have been moved by the horrors of the world and I believe the SRC should be a fighting organisation that stands up for students’ rights and uses our collective power to take on racism, the far right, war and the corporate university. • I’ve spent my time at Sydney Uni organising alongside students and workers, and I want to bring that experience back to the SRC: • Most recently, I organized the campaign against racism on campus, including organising for the National Day of Action against Pauline Hanson. • I am an active member of Students for Palestine, helping to set up the historic Student Solidarity Encampment for Gaza, and organised the Harbour Bridge March for Humanity, bringing out over
DELEGATES TO NUS | 300,000 people! • I have coordinated the campaign to get weapons off campus, including protests and campaigns exposing the University’s investments and research ties with weapons companies complicit in Israel’s genocide in Gaza • I’ve been involved in the Stood on picket lines with Woolworths warehouse workers fighting for better pay and working conditions • As Refugee Rights Officer, I helped promote solidarity actions with refugees and people seeking asylum, including the encampment outside the Immigration Minister’s office demanding justice and permanent protection for refugees • I’ve also taken part in blockading Australia’s biggest coal port as part of the fight against the climate crisis • I’ve fought to make the SRC a voice for important left-wing causes and am running to keep building an SRC that fights alongside students rather than just speaking on their behalf.
Mahir Ghetia
Arts/Advanced Studies III
• Member of Students for Palestine and have run reading groups teaching people about the history of Palestine • Helped organize the national student strike at USyd to kick weapons companies complicit in Israel’s genocide off campus • Marched across the harbour bridge in solidarity with Palestine • Helped build and attended the historic national day of Action against Pauline Hanson • Voted for our uni to cut ties with Israel during the 2025 student general meeting • Supported striking dock workers at Port Botany
Tiana Moore
Science/Advanced Studies IV
• Hi, I’m Tiana and I’ve been one of the Refugee Rights Officer of the SRC this year! • I was involved in organising the recent Say No to Hanson university and school strike, bringing hundreds of students into anti-fascist and anti-racist activism • As part of Students for Palestine I helped organise the student strike for Palestine and coordinated and designed a cross-campus magazine to expose our universities’ weapons research and investment
• Earlier this year I helped to build protests against the war criminal and president of Israel Isaac Herzog when he was invited to Sydney, and to condemn the police repression that followed • I study wildlife conservation and I think that standing up for the climate means being anticapitalist, anti-war, anti-fossil fuels and anti-AI data centres
James Parker
Chemical Engineering I
• Marched at and campaigned for the recent National Day of Action against Pauline Hanson. • Involved in advocacy since early high school, marching at student and teacher strikes for several years, such as the several teachers federation strikes in 2022. • Staunch anti-capitalist and human rights advocate - the wealth we as workers produce should be returned to us, not hoarded amongst a small enclave of society. • Experience with social media advocacy during my time with APAN Port Macquarie. • Campaigned for the Port Macquarie wing of the 2025 Palestinian National Day of Action. • Helped establish the Port Macquarie APAN branch in the face of rampant Zionism in rural Australia.
[D] FREE THE NUS POLICY STATEMENT For far too long, the National Union of Students (NUS) has been overrun by Labor hacks and careerists, who dream of joining the political elite to continue the legacy of a failed political system. They fantasize and prepare for the day they become lapdogs for the US empire, for the fossil-fuel and mining industry, and for far-right lobby groups – just like their senior Labor members they so desperately seek validation from. They delude themselves with ideas like “change from within” to justify their support for a pro-genocide, corporatebacked, eugenicist party. From shutting out Palestine activists from NUS positions last year to capitulating to Zionist organisations, it is clear that students across the country deserve more than a union captured by Labor students who continue to shift further to the right. Don’t believe us? Just a few months ago during the annual NUS Education Conference (EdCon), one of the Labor Right office-bearers invited the former Nationals Deputy Leader (to Barnaby Joyce!), Fiona Nash, to speak at the conference. Ironically, the theme of this year’s EdCon was “Fight for our Future”, focused on getting students together to effectively fight against the threat that the rise of One Nation poses on our democracy and challenging increasing
far-right, conservative politics.
fight is one!
When non-Labor students in attendance opposed Nash appearing, EdCon was shamefully cut short, citing alleged “safety concerns”. During her time in the Nationals, Fiona Nash opposed gay marriage, saying her views are “still the traditional view of marriage”. Nationals party, and therefore her track record, also involve numerous pro-coal, anti-migrant attempted legislation and debates.
Your vote matters, so make your voice heard!
The invitation of a right-wing bigot like Fiona Nash to EdCon under the guise of supporting regional students proves that the Labor-led NUS does not care about fighting the far-right. NUS leadership is comfortable with inviting politicians who represent conservative and bigoted ideologies they supposedly stand against. They cosy up with the same politicians who stood for the same far-right parties that continue to shamefully oppress migrants, stand for israel’s genocide in Palestine, stand against women’s bodily autonomy and rights, and exacerbate our climate crisis. Meanwhile, our earth spirals into ecological devastation and economic collapse in the name of profit. Fascism runs rampant in our streets, attacking our most vulnerable. Migrants, First Nations people, people of colour, queer people, gender-diverse people, and disabled people bear the worst of our capitalist system. Yet, they are constantly scapegoated not just by the far-right but also by Labor as they appeal to the right for electoral gains. Labor aids and abets israel’s genocide and colonial violence against the Palestinians with utter impunity, ensuring their unwavering support to israel and the US at all costs – even at the expense of our civil liberties and human rights. All Labor students are complicit. They stay silent when Labor politicians send cops to bash elderly people for protesting genocide and strip away the rights of disabled people. They stay silent when Labor demolishes public housing for private real estate, or when they plan to build parasitic data centres in our neighbourhoods, or when they take money from corporate lobbies and billionaires. Labor’s only accomplishment has been to alienate and abandon working class communities, allowing farright fascism and extremism to fester. Now more than ever, students need radical left-wing union, a fighting union pushing a politics of hope, an activist union that will make real change from the grassroots and fight for our liberation. We need a NUS that will: 1. Free our universities from corporate capture and make education free for all.
VOTE [1] FREE THE NUS VOTE [2] GRASSROOTS FOR NUS VOTE [1] GRACE STREET FOR PRESIDENT
CANDIDATES
Dana Kafina Arts/Science II
• BDS Youth organiser (2023-) • USyd Ethnocultural Officer & ACAR convenor 2025 • USyd Education Officer 2026 • Events officer at SURG 2026 • Climate activist (2021-) • Unionist (and student unionist!) • Decolonial Marxist feminist • 2x pepper spray survivor • Western Sydney local • Depressed Tigers fan • Radio presenter @3ain.fm <3 shoutout race matters! • Zine-maker & artist @bridgebybridge @ tasslestasslestassles • Hardcore enjoyer • Currently I’m a Trotskyist lol • Cat enthusiast (shoutout Sukkar my cat!!!) • Amateur historian and archivist”
Vince Tafea
Science (Hons) V
• FREE THE NUS
Imane Lattab Science IV
2. Support workers rights and fight alongside the NTEU, because better working conditions means better education for all. 3. Fight for disability justice and universal access to healthcare. 4. Stand up for our most vulnerable and stand up against the far-right, fascism, and oppression. 5. Fight for our right to housing and oppose the Labor government’s attacks on public housing. 6. Staunchly oppose war and imperialism, fighting against all systems of oppression, and fighting for a Free Palestine. Our struggles are intertwined and our
• Grassroots member and a socialist! • Psychology honours student. • SRC Ethnocultural Officer & Global Solidarity Officer (2026). • ACAR Co-convenor (2026). • Member and organiser in BDS Youth, Students for Palestine, Education Action
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| DELEGATES TO NUS Group, and the Women’s Collective. • Organiser for BDS on campus. • Editor-in-chief & writer for 2026 ACAR Honi. • Events director for PsychSoc (2026). • Algerian! • Yochi is better than Purple Parot i’m sry. • -Huge fan of Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, Mitski, and Ilan Pappe. • Liberation for all, from Gadigal to Gaza!
Kayla Hill Arts IV
• I’ve interned at Make-A-Wish’s administration team • High school burnout was my middle name, i.e. Model UN Secretary General, Civic Engagement Club founder, Debate Club treasurer, miscellaneous event emcee, science camp counselor, & lobbyist for my school’s first ever prom (succeeded) • I like playing the piano, clarinet, and Taiko drums! • Good music appreciator, from metal to jazz to Reneé Rapp • I love James Baldwin • In a situationship with Anarchosyndicalism • Procrastinating on an ADHD diagnosis • Be realistic, demand the impossible :)
[E] IMPACT FOR NUS POLICY STATEMENT
• Disabilities Officer of the 98th SRC • Convenor of the USyd Disabilities and Carers’ Collective • Intern @ World Health Network • Organiser of the 2026 Flu Vax Drive for USyd undergrads • Organiser of the SRC Mask & RAT Bloc • Member of the USyd Disability Inclusion Action Plan Implementation Group • Member of Protect Our NDIS Alliance • Editor in Chief of ‘Disabled Honi’ • -Witness at the NDIS Bill Inquiry • Author of submissions to the Clean Indoor Air Inquiry, Human Rights Act Inquiry, and NDIS Bill Inquiry • Healthcare worker (2021-2025) • FASS Peer Mentor (2024) • Lobbyist for the return of plant-based chicken at Zeus St Greek • Zoomer bisexual with long covid (/ref) • Frequently colour coordinated kn95 wearer
Serena Chen
Arts/Commerce I
• I’m a Save Waterloo public housing activist :) • I’ve sat-in to protest for a reopening of International House • I’ve been a speaker, marshal, and organiser through Usyd’s Women’s Collective (WoCo) and Autonomous Collective Against Racism (ACAR) • I’ve co-led climate justice rallies and immigrant rights demonstrations • In both Taiwan and unceded Gadigal Country, I’ve helped organised fundraisers and zine-makings for Palestine/Lebanon/Sudan/Kongo • In 2024, I organised a protest and petition against my old Christian high school’s Zionist affiliations (as an agnostic-atheist lmao) • Student from Taiwan double-majoring in Innovation & International Relations, minoring in Sustainability #creatingintersections
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We believe the NUS can be both a fighting organisation for students and an effective provider of national student services. These roles are not contradictory: students need a national union that can deliver practical support while building the collective power needed to win major political change.
Harry Beer
Arts/Economics III
CANDIDATES
Lucy Sullivan
Arts/Advanced Studies III
• Beer by name, Beer by nature. • Fighting for issues students care about on campus. • Student activist.
Saskia Morgan Design III
• Student of film • Sexual Violence Officer 2025 • Director of Student Publications 2026 • Sydney Uni Trade Union Society Inaugural Treasurer and constitution writer • NUS conference frequenter, come to DivCon @ UOW 28, 29, 30 of September
[F] GLOBALISE THE INTIFADA POLICY STATEMENT
At National Conference, we will fight for the NUS to: • Abolish HECS and win free tertiary education, funded through public investment rather than student debt. • Defend reproductive rights and healthcare, including ensuring affordable and accessible reproductive healthcare products are available on every university campus. • End university complicity in Israel’s war and occupation: campaign for universities to immediately cut ties involving the exchange of arms, military components, technology and relevant information with Israel, and pressure the Federal Government to end its support for these arrangements. • Democratise university governance: campaign for universities to be governed in the interests of students and workers, with meaningful decisionmaking power for students, academic staff, professional staff, tutors and other university workers rather than for-profit interests. • Defend student housing and welfare: fight the cost-of-living crisis by lobbying state and federal governments to invest in public and genuinely affordable student housing, strengthen income support and protect students from housing insecurity. • Build a fighting NUS: strengthen national campaigns, student organising and coordinated action so that students can collectively pressure governments and university management. • Deliver for students: strengthen NUS services, resources and support for student organisations and activists, and building the national infrastructure students need to organise effectively. • Students need a national union that can both fight and deliver. We want an NUS that puts student power, workers’ rights and public education before government and corporate interests.
• Vice President, USyd ALP Club (2026) • Student activist
• “2025-2026 Sexual Violence Officer • 2025 SRC Councillor • Multimedia Director for SUEDE • Co-Host of the 352 Show on SURG.FM • FilmSoc lover + Flodge member • Homebase truther, and lover of the Wilkinson Building”
Edu Setiawan Arts II
• “Political Economy Major • International Relations Minor • 2026 DIPSOC General Subcommittee • 2026 PPESOC Publications Subcommittee • 2026 Sydney University Trade Union Society • (Formerly) 2026 ANUSA Genrep • SRC Enjoyer
Leo Moore Arts/Law III
Israel can only commit genocide and maintain its apartheid regime with the support of the US and allies like Australia. We must resist and fight to cut every tie that enables the terror state. Israel has been allowed to kill over 75,000 Palestinians. Violence in the West Bank has reached an all time high. There are no universities left in Gaza and students at unis in the West Bank are routinely raided, brutalised and imprisoned by the Israeli occupation. The Albanese government has provided Israel intelligence from Pine Gap spy base in the Northern Territory, explosives manufactured in regional NSW, military steel and fighter jet-parts from Australian factories. Our own university is deeply complicit. USyd has exchange partnerships with Israeli unis that play an active role in this horror. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJ) provides training for Israeli Military Intelligence; Tel Aviv Uni promotes the “Dahiya Doctrine” which calls on the IDF to use “the destruction of the national infrastructure, and intense suffering among the [civilian] population” as a weapon against Hamas through its Institute for National Security Studies; and Technion developed the D9 bulldozer that flattens Palestinian homes. USyd does research with complicit weapons companies like Lockheed Martin and Thales. Lockheed provides the fighter jets Israel uses to commit its genocide and Thales exports explosives from Australia to the US who send them in weapons provided to Israel. This complicity can be stopped. Candidates from Globalise the Intifada 4 NUS successfully campaigned alongside others to end Usyd’s exchange program with Israeli art school Bezalel Art Academy in 2025. We will use the NUS to back the fight to cut all remaining ties with Israel. We will defend free speech and the right to fight for a free Palestine. We cannot accept the attempt to silence us by the Albanese government, Chris Minns or
DELEGATES TO NUS | USyd. We were amongst the thousands who defied the ban on protest when genocidal Israeli President Isaac Herzog visited Sydney. The anti-protest laws NSW Premier Chris Minns used against us have been scrapped. Despite cowardly police attacks on the protest, we won and we marched on the streets they tried to drive us from. Anti-protest measures at USyd have tried to silence anyone who speaks out. Students who put up posters without ‘authorisation’, set up tables on Eastern Avenue, give announcements at the start of lectures, have all faced disciplinary letters threatening suspension from their degrees. These letters impose gag orders that try to stop them from going public about these threats.
Vieve Carnsew Arts IV
We need an NUS that will wage an uncompromising, collective fight for Palestine and all who are oppressed. We have shown we not only talk the talk but walk the walk. We have ended an Israel exchange program, helped smash antiprotest laws, defied campus repression and lead the campaign for a referendum on BDS this year. We need you to vote for us, but more importantly to throw yourself into the struggle. From Gadigal to Gaza, Globalise the Intifada!
• 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. • Involved in organising the protest which forced USyd to drop the investigation around the Handala symbol. • 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. • Organised multiple events to paint the graffiti tunnel with Palestine solidarity slogans and symbols, after security painted over an artwork acknowledging Palestinian child martyrs. • Collected signatures to present at F23 after Luna, a transgender asylum seeker, was threatened with suspension for writing ‘from the river to the sea’ on a whiteboard. • Campaigned against the ban on Palestine flags at USyd, including coordinating a photo action with the other clubs during O Week last year, where each club took a photo holding signs with the Palestine flag that read ‘Mark Scott has banned this flag’. • Been a part of many other campaigns on this campus, supporting staff strikes on the picket lines, fighting for climate action, and more. • Built for and attended the protest against Israeli President, Isaac Herzog, as well as the March for Humanity across the Harbour Bridge. • Been threatened by security for setting up a table on Eastern Avenue (more than once…). • Designed this year’s merchandise for the Queer Action Collective (QuAC) and the Women’s Collective (WoCo). • Illustrated the cover for Honi Soit after the Herzog rally, depicting Albanese and Minns holding police pigs on a leash while they tear apart a placard saying ‘Globalise the Intifada’, and have been a part of protesting against the ban on the slogan on and off campus. • Built for and promoted referendum this semester to demand USyd cut ties with Israel
CANDIDATES
Wasmiya Alashour
USyd sent threats to students last semester for including the ‘Handala’ image of a Palestinian child on a poster calling to end exchange ties with Israel. USyd said this image was ‘antisemitic’ and ‘threatening’. But we defied this threat, rallied over 800 to sign a petition and protested. USyd was forced to drop the investigation and had to admit publicly it was not antisemitic to demand exchange programs with Israel be ended. We are called ‘Globalise the Intifada’ because we believe every last tie to Israel needs to be cut, and the smears and repression need to be defied and fought en masse. ‘Intifada’ is the Arabic word for uprising and throwing off oppression. It refers to heroic Palestinian resistance against Israel’s crimes such as the mass protests and strikes of the First Intifada. This is exactly what we will need if we want to cut all ties with Israel. It is what we need to fight back Hanson’s anti-migrant racism, fight against the cuts to the NDIS, and to stop our higher education from being gutted to make way for military research and training. It represents the spirit we need to take into building student support for the staff strikes defending quality education. Chris Minns is scared of the words Globalise the Intifada. He promised to ban the slogan but has been forced to retreat by collective defiance. When he said we can’t chant Globalise the Intifada we chanted it even louder.
Science III
• Member of Students Against War • Member of revolutionary socialist organisation Solidarity • Protested against the opportunistic invitation of war criminal, Israeli president Herzog into Sydney. • Helped organise the Student General Meeting last year against the IHRA-like antisemitism definition • Helped in the campaign to cut the exchange program with Bezalel, an Israeli academy which sews uniforms for the IOF. • Protested members of the IOF being invited into management’s F23 boardroom. • From Gadigal to Gaza, globalising the intifada.
Indy Pardoel
Science/Advanced Studies V
• Ex School Strike for Climate (SS4C) activist • Member of Students Against War (SAW) and Solidarity • Gay bush regenerator • Built and spoke at the Usyd 2021 climate strike Student General Meeting against Sco-Mos “gas fired recovery” • Picketted (in person and online) in support of 2022 and 2023 staff strikes • Built two SGMs to support Palestinian liberation from the river to the sea, and against IRHA definition of anti-semitism • Camped on usyd lawns for Gaza solidarity encampment • Sat in in protest of Tel Aviv University at the 2025 exchange fair • Converged on Pine Gap, July 2026
genocide and preparing for war on China • Built and attended the Student General Meeting last year where over 200 undergrads voted against the Universities Australia antisemitism definition that aimed to silence criticisms of Israel • Rallied at Pine Gap protest convergence in July demanding the closure of the US Spy Base complicit in war crimes and sacred land back to Arrente traditional owners • Member of revolutionary socialist group Solidarity • Member of pro-Palestine campaigning group Students Against War
August McCall
Advanced Nursing I
• Member of students against war • Built for the rally at the US consulate to close pine gap • Put up posters on and off campus opposing hanson’s racism • Involved in school strikes for climate
Yuecheng Hong Commerce I
Luke Ottavi Science I
• Integrity, justice, and solidarity. • Committed to making a difference for our community and standing with Palestine
Bri Akins
Arts/Social Work V
• Broke Minns’ anti-protest laws to rally against war criminal and Israeli president Herzog in February • Built for the student referendum demanding USyd cut its ties to apartheid Israel and its universities of genocide and occupation • Known to security for never going down without fighting over our right as students to set up information stalls on campus and speak about Palestine scrap the CAP! • Shocked that USyd let me in into another undergrad degree • Avid supporter of staff strikes and picketing - whether in person or zoom pickets • Wants a university for social good, not
• 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, platforming support for Palestinian liberation from river to sea and for USYD to cut ties and drop its racist definition of antisemitism
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| DELEGATES TO NUS • Member of Solidarity, a revolutionary socialist org building working class power to fight for a better world • Joined and built NTEU and other union picket lines around Sydney, the Gaza Solidarity • Encampment, the community blockades of Israeli ZIM Shipping, and countless protests for Palestine and the rights of workers, women, queer people, First Nations people and refugees. • Defied Minns’ illegal anti-protest laws and marched against war criminal and Israeli president Isaac Herzog
and and definitions • Repeal every disciplinary charge against students standing with Palestine. • Abolish the Campus Access Policy
The ties between Albanese’s government and the genocide in Gaza have been showcased again and again from rubbing elbows with Isaac Herzog, the president of Israel, to supplying components for Israeli bombs. Palestine Action calls for an end to these disgraceful activities and for Australia to lend aid and support for the oppressed Palestinian people. USYD’s entwinement with weapons companies such as Thales, Lockheed & Martin and Elbit Systems and their cooperation with Technion University in Tel Aviv exposes their systemic support of the mass slaughter of Palestinians, with research and students being the fuel they add to the fire of this genocide. USYD must de-entangle themselves from Israel and those complicit in their crimes as the SRC must boycott all involvement of the university with these forces, so research and students are not spent on war crimes. Palestine Action aims to ignite the SRC into action against the Genocide in Gaza and the West Bank, as well as lending support for those affected by Israel’s continued attacks on Lebanon. We aim: • To cut all ties USYD has with weapons companies complicit in the Genocide in Gaza and the West Bank • To call for the Australian government to stop all support of Israel • Continue to call protests and actions for Palestine. • To stop the silencing of pro-Palestine advocacy through university policies
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• Currently in the SRC as the Officer For global Solidarity • Helped build the Anti-Hanson rally, helping to distribute posters and leaflets to other campuses and schools! • Built for and helped organize the Student Strike for Palestine and the Student Referendum for Palestine! Standing in solidarity with palestine and against the genocide • Coordinated the distribution and organization of posters promoting socialist activism on campus. • Helped build and Organise the Students For Palestine collective at Usyd • Frontlines on the protest against the Weapons Expo at the ICC, protesting against weapons ties on and off campus! • Participated in and helped build various anti-racist and international solidarity rallies for • Venezuela and Sudan, representing my position as global solidarity officer. • Fighter for socialist politics, fighting for a world with exploitation and the dignity of working-class people to meet their needs and be freed from capitalism.
• Helped build the National Day of Action Against Pauline Hanson • A member of Students for Palestine and a committed supporter of Palestine, I have campaigned vigorously against the genocide, helping to promote events such as the Student Strike for Palestine and the Nakba Day Rally • Promoted the USyd campaign for our university to cut its ties with weapons companies • As a socialist activist, I believe that we need to fight the rise of the far-right in Australia and the bigoted set of racist, sexist, anti-worker politics it represents
Eva Sutherland Arts II
POLICY STATEMENT
This disgusting cleansing is supported by the Australian Government and our own University of Sydney with student activism against the state of Israel’s crimes heralded as anti-Semitic.
Isaac Freeman
Arts/Advanced Studies I
CANDIDATES
[G] PALESTINE ACTION 4 NUS In the past 3 years, the genocide of Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank has not halted, instead having been exponentially increased by Israeli oppressors. The death toll has reached over 70,000 while the land is violently taken by settlers, displacing and compacting more and more people into massive refugee tent camps with limited resources. Palestinians are subjected to inhumane conditions with scarce and low quality food and water, blockading of medical aid and threat of appalling violence directed towards them by the Israeli state. Despite the “ceasefire” since 2025, Israel has continued its violent and forced exodus of Palestinians which must be stopped. Israel has now also subjected Lebanon to the immense pressure of its military, bombing civilian infrastructure and displacing hundreds of thousands of people.
Will Ursu
Architecture and Environments II
• Hey! I’m Eva and currently serving as one of your Social Justice Officers in the SRC. • I started protesting and involving myself in activism in High school as an organiser of the School strikes for Palestine in 2023/2024. • On campus I’ve been an active member of Students for Palestine, recently organising the campaign to get weapons off campus, organising protests and spreading information about the investments and research ties of our Uni with weapon’s companies complicit in the genocide in Gaza. • I’ve recently been involved in the campaign against racism on campus through the National Day of Action against Pauline Hanson and I think the SRC should help lead students in the fight against the far right. • I think the SRC should continue to focus on important left wing issues students care about, activism and fighting against the corporate university
Starla Bilby Science II
Jasmine Al-Rawi
POLICY STATEMENT The National Union of Students is the national body for students in so-called ‘Australia’. As such, it must endeavour to represent and fight for those students. Once a bastion for student activism and advocacy, the NUS has fallen to the wayside – being overtaken by Labor factions and in-fighting. Once upon a time, there were vibrant anti-cuts, antiausterity campaigns. Once upon a time, there were vibrant anti-cuts, anti-austerity campaigns.
Dip. Languages
• Hi, I’m Jasmine and I’m one of your USYD SRC education officers in 2026 • USYD Students for Palestine convenor • Helped organise the march across the Harbour bridge in 2024 • I’m standing in support of USYD staff on strike on September 2nd for better pay and conditions • Chaired the “students say no to Hanson” protest in August • Hanson hater
[H] GRASSROOTS FOR NUS
• As 2026 SRC Global Solidarity officer, I’ve organised student protests and strikes for Palestine and against the global far-right. • I am an active member of Students for Palestine who helped build historic protests like the March for Humanity on the Harbour Bridge, and helped organise the ‘weapons off campus’ campaign and Palestine solidarity week. • I help promote protests by postering, leafletting, designing graphics and talking to students on campus. • I want the SRC to be an activist body committed to fighting for student rights and justice by mobilising students in campaigns and protests
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, rising visa costs, international student caps, and unable to find safe and affordable housing amidst a oncein-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 competent nature of the NUS, one that seeks to challenge the powers that be, whether they be Liberal or Labor – or now the far-right. 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 and AGAINST THE FARRIGHT, which means going beyond softly campaigning for the Australian Labor Party as an alternative. 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
DELEGATES TO NUS | campaigns on local campuses, such as to ABOLISH THE COLLEGES and BDS at USyd, and for national projects such as the recent USyd campaign for Concession Opal Cards for international students and part-time domestic students in NSW, as well as continuing the fight for free and accessible education for all, with no compromises.
• Amateurish radio show host on SURG FM • Takes music trivia way too seriously • Maybe the shortest person you know
Aron Khuc
Arts/Social Work III
Despite not having any delegates last year, USyd Grassroots still was able to go to the NUS and put forward important motions to drive NUS policy, particularly around elite residential colleges at universities and BDS in student unions. Now, we just need to actually have an NUS that will pursue these campaigns and put their money where their mouth is!
• Member of ACAR, QuAC and DisCo • Editor in Chief of 2026 Growing Strong (Annual WoCo publication) • Organised and chaired the counter protest against John Ruddick’s anti choice bill • Organised the campus vigil for victims of femicide • Decolonial Marxist Feminist • Day one Palestine activist • Bringing socialism back to feminism! • Grew up on Wiradjuri land • Resident filmbro of the SRC
Jamie Madsen Science/Law II
VOTE [1] GRACE STREET FOR PREZ VOTE [1] GRASSROOTS FOR NUS VOTE [2] FREE THE NUS
CANDIDATES
Grace Street
Arts (Hons) / Dip. Language Studies VI
• USyd Social Work Society Secretary 2025-2026 • USyd SRC Social Justice Officer 2025 • ACAR Member 2024 - 2026 • Contributor to DisCo Honi 2026 • Radical Social Work Student and Socialist! • Hater of FASS3999 • Lover of Gender Studies • Situationship with Anthropology • Mega-modded (over 150+ mods) Stardew Valley player • #Graceful
Aria Nadkarni Arts III
• She/her, member of USyd Grassroots! • Feminist, socialist, anti-colonial, unionist - a believer in a better world • Studying Honours in French after finishing my Bachelors in International Relations and Political Economy • 2026 SRC President • 2025 SRC General Secretary, Sexual Violence Officer & Councillor • Led and organised the SRC’s first FREE influenza vaccination scheme (2025-6)
Pimala Leo Arts III
Remy Lebreton • Environment Officer for the 98th SRC • Environment Collective Convenor • SRC GenExec and Councillor • 2025 SUMT Marketing Exec • Hater of GenAI, Coal Mines and Weapons Companies • Combust EIC • Last Drag on Earth organiser • Youth Solidarity Tourer to protest the largest producing coal mine in NSW • Inner West Renter and 2025 Grayndler Greens campaigner • Decolonial Anthropologist • Lover of Birkenstocks
Maxine McGrath
Arts/Advanced Studies III
Autonomous Collective Against Racism (ACAR) Co-Convenor 2026 • SRC Ethnocultural Co-Officer & Refugee Rights Co-Officer 2026 • Political Economy Society Equity Officer 2026 • Organiser for adopting BDS principles on-campus, including USU divestment campaign • ACAR member 2025• Wom*n’s Collective (WoCo) member 2026• ACAR Honi Co-Editor-in-Chief, 2026 • ACAR Honi contributor 2025, 2026 • BDS Youth member • Retail and Fast Food Workers’ Union (RAFFWU) member
• Member - Women’s Collective (WoCo) 2026• Member - Queer Action Collective (QuAC) 2026• Science Peer Mentor 2026 • Maths/Law student - obsessed with problem solving in both letters and numbers • Faculty of Science Dean’s Honours List 2025 • Academic Merit Prize 2025 • Mrs Elva Rae Talented Mathematics Students Initiative Award 2025 • Music librarian and amateur archivist SUMS Choir • Proficient in arguing with the USU • Occasional amateur ballet dancer • Part-time migraineur
Arts/Social Work III
• Disability collective Co-Officer and • Convener 2025 and 2026 Usyd SRC • NDIS Cuts Activist • Now Anthropology Major, Sociology Minor! • Social Work Student • Palestine Encampment Participant • Save Waterloo! Activist • Repping AUDHD and Language disorder • Stucco Resident/Director • D1 Hater of HomesNSW • Powerful Sorcerer (Minor in d20 Studies) • Wollongongian (Major in Palm Tree Studies) • Anarcho-Trotskyist • Stupol 3 year survivor, god help me
• Third year Political Economy and International Relations student • Councillor in the 98th SRC • 2026 Women’s Officer • Secretary of FilmSoc • Treasurer of BookSoc
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| REPRESENTATIVES TO COUNCIL
[A] GRASSROOTS FOR SRC POLICY STATEMENT We’re the team backing GRACE FOR PRESIDENT and heading up the GRASSROOTS brand – make sure to check out all of our ‘GRASSROOTS’ and ‘FREE’ tickets to see the array of students and issues that we’re bringing to these 2026 SRC elections and hopefully into 2027! 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 visitors and 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 use the SRC as a stepping stone into federal politics. GRASSROOTS (@usydgrassroots) has an extensive track record of opposing the major parties of government who continue to fail students and working people. 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 12week 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.
We need to reopen the investigation into USyd’s investments, make campuswide commitment to fighting fascism via a Student General Meeting or proper petition, and finally get the USU to commit to BDS! Students deserve to know where their fees are going, particularly as international student fees continue to rise.
We should be a student union that is visible year-round, open to all and brings students together to improve our world. That starts with having an actually accessible and usable office space with a library, and also includes things like making sure we inform students about their rights and our available services in more languages than English, and across platforms like TikTok, Xiaohongshu and WeChat. COLLABORATING TO BUILD OUR COMMUNITY & WELFARE! We want to collaborate with SUPRA and local communities (particularly from Redfern, Glebe and Waterloo) to host a joint housing symposium, like the one that SUPRA is doing this year. We should collaborate with researchers and get testimonies from students to create an official SRC report on AI usage and impacts at USyd. We should also bring back Pride Week with the USU! Importantly, now is the time to collaborate with the 2027-8 elected student Senate representatives on key policies and to entrench the SRC’s role, voice, importance, and funding.
MAKE USYD AN APARTHEID-FREE, CLIMATE CRIMINAL-FREE AND FASCISTFREE ZONE In just this last month, we have seen One Nation posters, anti-abortion nuisances, Coca-Cola, and a ‘march for Australia’ anti-immigration banner at the Camperdown campus. We also know that USyd maintains partnerships with weapons company Thales and recently was found to have invested in Rio Tinto.
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• USyd Social Work Society Secretary 2025-2026 • USyd SRC Social Justice Officer 2025 • ACAR Member 2024 - 2026 • Contributor to DisCo Honi 2026 • Radical Social Work Student and Socialist! • Hater of FASS3999 • Lover of Gender Studies • Situationship with Anthropology • Mega-modded (over 150+ mods) Stardew Valley player • #Graceful
• Founder & Director of The Pro Justice Project, a free legal advocacy initiative supporting women facing discrimination and harassment • Built a network of 200+ law students and 350+ lawyers through The Pro Justice Project, supporting 1,000+ reported cases • The Diana Award recipient (2026) • 3rd Place Overall, JWF SDG Awards, affiliated with the United Nations Department of Global Communications • Bachelor of Commerce / Bachelor of Laws student and Dalyell Scholar • Founder of a Girls’ Debate Society in Pakistan; trained 500+ students • National and international debate competition winner • Public policy researcher and author of The Silent Rivers of Pakistan • Created Pakistan’s first free multilingual case-law library with 500+ judgments • I’m always a text away to all my friends (or maybe 5 texts or sometimes 10)
Suhana Kapoor Arts I
Commerce/Law I
Feaim Alkozai
There’s lots more to come – check out @ grassrootsforsrc :) VOTE [1] GRASSROOTS FOR SRC VOTE [1] GRACE STREET FOR PREZ VOTE [1] GRASSROOTS FOR NUS
CANDIDATES
Grace Street
Arts (Hons) Dip Lang VI
Some of our priorities are:
This includes tackling cost-of-living, housing, healthcare, systems like Special Considerations and processes like Late Discontinuation, linking up satellite campuses, as well as domestic and international students. We are never going to win anything while we are all isolated, overburdened, struggling, and sick!
Mariam Rehman Siddiqui
BRING TRUST AND VISIBILITY TO THE SRC
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 of student activists behind us, campaigning for housing justice, feminism, decolonisation, divestment, and much more. ENABLE AND EMPOWER STUDENTS TO JOIN THE FIGHT
Aron Khuc
Arts/Social Work III
• She/her, member of USyd Grassroots! • Feminist, socialist, anti-colonial, unionist - a believer in a better world • Studying Honours in French after finishing my Bachelors in International Relations and Political Economy • 2026 SRC President - my pride and joy • 2025 SRC General Secretary, Sexual Violence Officer & Councillor • Led and organised the SRC’s first FREE influenza vaccination scheme (2025-6) • 2024 SRC Education Officer & Councillor • Organiser of USyd Gaza Encampment, Student General Meeting, Scrap the CAP campaign (2024) • Author of 22 Honi Soit articles! • 2026 ECOPSoc Treasurer, 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
Media and Communications I
Oscar Masters
• Majoring in International Relations and Economics, so best believe I have an opinion on everything • SIUAES full-ride scholar AND Dalyell Scholar • Organised and presented at the International Conference of Chief Justice of the World, 3 years in a row • Moderated an International Interfaith Conference — every faith gets huge respect in my eyes • Ran multiple Model UNs as exec board member, secretary general, and everything in between • General Subcommittee Member, USyd Diplomatic Society • Founded Raah, teaching creative skills like crochet to women from underprivileged communities and helping them turn their work into a small source of income • Coaching at Speaking Schools Australasia — I teach children public speaking, which is so rewarding and even more terrifying • Creative Director of the 1978 Publication (FASS) • Can argue in both English and Hindi • Keen oil painter, so if politics doesn’t work out, I’ll pull a Van Gogh • Reigning Monopoly Deal champion, undefeated and not looking to change that • If you ever see me with bangs, know that I regret it • Convinced I peaked as Master of Ceremonies at age 15, and have been chasing that high ever since • Still searching for my Rory Gilmore college life; so far I’ve only found the caffeine addiction
Politics, Philosophy, Economics II
• Political Economy major • Secretly owns the best USYD instagram page of all time • Honi Soit contributor • Homosexual • Hates every Australian politician alive • Would probably make a great dictator imo • Followed by Jane Remover • Been gaslit by the university counselling service • Thinks stupol could work out all their differences if they all got locked in a house Big Brother style
Wen Bao
Arts/Education V
REPRESENTATIVES TO COUNCIL | • President of Hissoc (2026) • Treasurer of Edsoc (2026) • Treasurer of the Atrium • Tedxusyd speaker (2025) • Involved in the disability collective • Casual Carillon player at the bell tower • You will typically find me at education events • Drinks a lot of coffee • Stressed 24/7 • Worked for the Indigenous Tutoring Assistance Scheme on campus • Volunteered with the Big Lift Society at UTS • Works casually in public schools across NSW
Eman Hassan Oral Health II
Fight our university’s complicity in Israel’s genocide and occupation of Palestine by demanding transparency over USYD’s investments and divestment from weapons manufacturers. Defend Palestinian students’ right to organise and campaign on campus! And demand that the university disclose partnerships and divest from fossil fuel investments and reinvest those resources into staff and students.
Alex Marucci Arts/Law II
2025-2026 • Most beloved wasian twink at usyd • Radical feminist • Bluey #1 fan • Son of Angus Fisher and Jasmine Donnelly
Sophie Andary
Politics, Philosophy, Economics II
7. FIRST NATIONS JUSTICE Work directly with the Gadigal Centre and First Nations students to develop and advance anti-racist policies, strengthen First Nations representation and ensure Indigenous students have a meaningful voice in university decision-making. 8. PAID PLACEMENTS & STUDENT SUPPORT Campaign for USYD to match government placement support with hardship grants for students undertaking compulsory unpaid placements so that students aren’t forced to choose between completing their degree and paying their bills.
• Everyone’s favourite Kmart Employee • Fighting for Student Rights • Praying for a GYG on campus • Voting for IMPACT
Zayed Tabish Arts/Law III
• Left wing diva
Rose Donnelly Arts V
9. MAKE THE SRC DELIVER
[B] IMPACT FOR SRC POLICY STATEMENT 1. MAKE UNIVERSITY AFFORDABLE
Strengthen the SRC caseworker services by demanding that university surpluses are invested in more caseworkers, with more language options and shorter waiting times across academic, welfare and tenancy support. Regularly consult students both within and outside of the SRC and publicly report what the SRC has achieved!
Deliver a second $5 meal canteen and campaign to extend the $5 meal deal to breakfast and dinner. Alleviate the cost of living crisis for students by providing affordable food options. Introduce a 50% subsidy scheme for contraceptives, including emergency contraception!
VOTE [1] AVA FOR PRESIDENT VOTE [1] IMPACT FOR SRC VOTE [1] IMPACT FOR NUS
2. HOUSING FOR STUDENTS, NOT PROFIT
Politics, Philosophy, Economics II
Support NTEU strikes and industrial action and stand alongside university workers fighting for secure jobs, fair pay and manageable workloads. Better working conditions for staff mean better teaching and learning conditions for students! 5. DEFEND OUR CAMPUS Fight to abolish the Campus Access Policy and defend students’ right to protest, organise and speak freely. Introduce online voting for SRC elections so all students can vote, accessibly, from anywhere and without having to navigate harassment or physical barriers on campus. 6. FREE PALESTINE & DIVEST
Arts IV
Boranay Tong
Politics, Philosophy, Economics II
Ava Cavalerie Johnson
3. STAND UP FOR WOMEN
4. STAND WITH STAFF
Jasmine Donnelly
CANDIDATES
Defend affordable student housing and campaign to cap rents in universityowned housing at 30% of median student income. Push the university to expand subsidised student accommodation and bring private entities like Scape back into university control to make sure students aren’t priced out of housing close to campus. Fight sexism, sexual harassment and gender-based violence on campus. Expand access to reproductive healthcare, ban covert recording devices on campus (like Meta glasses) and support women to organise and demand safer university environments!
• Actually, my job, it’s just beach • USU Board Director 2026
• SRC General Secretary | 2026 • Councillor 98th Students’ Representative Council | 2026 • Student representative to the student consultative committee • Member of Students for Palestine • Member, Education Action Group • Member, W*men’s Collective • Member of the United Workers Union • Academic and Careers PPE Subcommittee member | 2026 • Birdcage bartender, appreciator, and supporter. • Usyd Oztag | 2025 • SASS society | 2025-26 • Welcome Week & Orientation Organising | 2026
• SRC Vice President 2024 • SRC General Secretary 2023 • SRC General Executive 2025 • Inspiring radical-chic looks everywhere • Loves: long walks on the beach, student campaign, John Woolley building, instagram, my new jeans, Ava Cavalerie • Hates: protracted speeches, cortisol, when the paint on my shoe comes off, bad journalism, lots of other things but I’m really busy right now so I can’t get into it too much sorry.
Garner Heath Social Work II
• Left wing, studying PPE, and backing my fav Ava for Prez!
[C] ACTIVATE FOR SRC POLICY STATEMENT Sick of seeing annoying socialists along Eastern Avenue? Sick of being told that “socialism just hasn’t been tried properly.” Want to have an SRC that actually spends its money on students, rather than wasting it on protests that disrupt all your classes? Vote [1] ACTIVATE FOR SRC to change that! We’ll advocate for: • $5 pints at on-campus venues after 6pm • A focus on governance and not politics • Cutting wasteful spending • Publishing the spending of the SRC to keep representatives accountable • More gazeboes and pool tables across campus
• Events Director of USYD Social Work Students Society 2026 • Secretary USYD Trade Union Society
Vote now to put an end to decades of socialist SRC neglect and incompetence. Vote [1] ACTIVATE FOR SRC.
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| REPRESENTATIVES TO COUNCIL CANDIDATES
Lachlan Theodore Mansour
Politics, Philosophy, Economics II
Oscar McConnell
Arts/Advanced Studies I
Graduated with a 98.6 ATAR and was selected for the NSW Young Writers Compilation for Extension Two English. Was a House Captain at Newington College, where I led multi-year events and modelled the values of servant leadership.
Otis Cooper
Politics, Philosophy, Economics I
[D] GRASSROOTS FOR FEMINISM POLICY STATEMENT Now is the time to fight for feminist liberation! GRASSROOTS FOR FEMINISM is fighting to abolish the patriarchy embedded both on our campus and within our broader community on Gadigal land. This year alone, we have witnessed the murder of 45 Australian women, as well as a national rise of attacks on reproductive rights, and the surge in popularity of the misogynistic One Nation Party. Our Labor government has turned a blind eye to this surge of violence, only implementing symbolic change. We reject liberal feminism, and aim to establish feminism as a force for transformative, socialist change. GRASSROOTS FOR FEMINISM is a collective of feminist students who are committed to fighting the patriarchy, as well as all other systems of oppression, such as colonialism, white supremacy and capitalism. Our feminism is radically inclusive, we fight for all who experience marginalisation on the basis of gender. We also reject schools of feminism which are trans and queer exclusionary, we believe you cannot fight for one without fighting for all. GRASSROOTS FOR FEMINISM fights for intersectional feminism. We believe that fighting for international liberation from all systems of oppression is inherent to feminism. We call for an
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end to the genocide in Palestine and for the University of Sydney to cut ties with Apartheid Israel. We also aim to centre First Nations voices at the forefront of our feminism GRASSROOTS FOR FEMINISM will continue to fight the patriarchy embedded within our corporate university. Sexual violence has been endemic to the Univeristy of Sydney since its foundation. University management has continued to support the Residential Colleges – institutions which perpetuate elitism, violent misogyny and femicide. The colleges are synonymous with gendered violence and power imbalances; no level of liberal incremental change or reforms will lead to any form of meaningful change. We advocate for the abolition of the colleges; and for them to be repurposed as safe, affordable and accessible public housing – particularly during a cost-of-living and housing crisis! This year has seen a drastic rise in the anti-choice movement. In NSW, QLD and SA, we have seen attempts to legislatively and systemically strip away our reproductive rights. This has emboldened the far-right in their misogyny and queerphobia, and we have already been standing up to them, for example with our 2nd June counter-protest to Joanna Howe’s anti-woman rally with Barnaby Joyce. The rise of the anti-choice movement has been evident on our campus, with “Abortion Abolitionists” regularly showing up on City Rd holding graphic signs and harassing students. GRASSROOTS FOR FEMINISM will remain dedicated to showing that they are not welcome here, and create a campus free from far-right harassment.
CANDIDATES
Maxine McGrath
Arts/Advanced Studies III
• Third year Political Economy and International Relations student • Councillor in the 98th SRC • 2026 Women’s Officer • Secretary of FilmSoc • Treasurer of BookSoc • Member of ACAR, QuAC and DisCo • Editor in Chief of 2026 Growing Strong (Annual WoCo publication) • Organised and chaired the counter protest against John Ruddick’s anti choice bill • Organised the campus vigil for victims of femicide • Decolonial Marxist Feminist • Day one Palestine activist • Bringing socialism back to feminism ! • Grew up on Wiradjuri land • Resident filmbro of the SRC
OUR POLICIES
Thoroughly implement the National Code against Gender-Based Violence Get anti choice bigots off campus!! Fight to end femicide and gendered violence Make USU venues and societies safe – introduce pre-emptitive measures to prevent drink spiking at university venues, create better protocols and culture around events like first-year camps and pub crawls Widen the commitment to transformative justice to clubs & societies Taking a firm stance against the far-right, make USyd a bigot- and fascist-free zone!
Michaela Zhang Arts/Science II
Arts III
End sexual violence on campus
The Residential Colleges cannot be reformed – abolish the college system and repurpose them into safe, accessible and affordable housing
• 2nd year Bachelor of Arts and Advanced Studies (Politics and Sociology) • She/Her • Member of WoCo, a staunch feminist and strong advocate for intersectional social justice causes • Lived experience with ADHD and chronic mental and physical illness • Avid reader and mediocre film photographer • Finds joy in the small things • “Loves a boogie”
Lucy Nelson
VOTE [1] GRACE STREET FOR PREZ VOTE [1] GRASSROOTS FOR FEMINISM VOTE [1] GRASSROOTS FOR NUS VOTE [2] FREE THE NUS
End period poverty – period products are natural and something the University should be providing across all campuses
Freya Hill
Arts/Advanced Studies II
• Studying Political Economy and International Relations, obsessed with anything politics adjacent. • WOCO member, outspoken feminist always. • New York+ Jersey girl but I grew up in Singapore, Hong Kong, India and Japan.. and now lovely Sydney, thanks for having me <3. • Veteran in the art of debating alt-right Americans. • Spoke at the pro-choice rally back in June and got some spotlight from the Guardian (#yay. #staywoke.) • Big fan of dancing, recycling and olives. • Studied figure drawing at the Art Students League of New York for four years <3 • Spent a month studying at Beijing Normal University 北京师范大学 • This picture^ was taken outside a jazz club in Brooklyn with a stranger’s dog. We were talking about the political and economic state of the world right now. • Competitive open water swimmer and I have yet to get eaten by a shark (#yay. #staywoke.) • Loves: punk rock, critical theory and onion rings. • Hates: mayonnaise, pink plastic razors and fascism.
• 2nd year psychological science student • Content creator, with 130k followers • Member of the Disability Collective and the Women Collective • Proudly neurodivergent — I love my autistic experience • Hiking enthusiast, able to walk 25km in a single day • Polyglot: Mandarin, German, English, Japanese • Hold a valid WWCC (it is a qualification, isn’t it)
Lily Chen
Economics/Commerce I
• I love cats. • I love talking with students. • I am a feminist. I submitted report to Campus this year after I see USU post a video discriminating female students. At last, USU apologizes and cancel the video. • I attended student protest march last week to fight against the rise of the far right.
REPRESENTATIVES TO COUNCIL |
[E] PENTA for SRC POLICY STATEMENT PENTA has long stood as a steadfast advocate for international students within an SRC too often dominated by domestic student infighting. We remain committed to transforming the SRC into a representative body that delivers meaningful outcomes for international students through practical advocacy and tangible results. Over the past year, PENTA has worked to make the International Students’ Collective more open and accessible, increase the visibility of student events, and strengthen student engagement across campus. We have also supported the establishment of the $5 Canteen initiative and worked to strengthen the partnership between FoodHub and the SRC to improve food accessibility for students. One of our biggest priorities has been advocating for Opal Card concessions for international students. Over the past year, we have dedicated enormous effort to advancing this campaign, working alongside students and stakeholders to keep the issue on the political agenda and push meaningful progress towards transport equity. This year, PENTA for SRC will continue delivering real outcomes for international students. We will keep advocating for Opal Card concessions, improve and expand the $5 Canteen initiative, organise more community events such as the International Students’ Collective Market Day, and champion the revival of International House to provide more affordable housing options for international students. Above all, we will continue ensuring that the SRC not only recognises international students, but actively represents their interests and delivers meaningful change.
(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)
• Usyd ACYA careers and sponsorships director • 180 Degrees Consulting team member
Ziheng Huang
Engineering (Hons) II
Bohao Zhang
Economics/Law III
• USyd SRC Vice-President • Failed USU candidate • Chill guy
Angel Wan
Commerce/Law II
• That girl that is slightly loud, possesses a brain constantly drenched with caffeine and leaves lawbry at an average of 2:30am, with a range of 1:30-3:30 am
• Engineering (Honours) student at the University of Sydney • Hands-on experience in engineering projects and prototyping • Experience with AI, automation and local AI deployment • Built websites and digital projects • Experience with Linux, Docker and GitHub • Building a multi-device AI workflow using local and cloud models • Photography and videography enthusiast • Active in university student organisations • Experience in content creation and digital branding • Mandarin and English speaker • Interested in entrepreneurship and innovation • Enjoy turning real-world problems into practical AI solutions
Wendy Chen Arts/Law III
Donato Tan
Engineering (Honours) III
Commerce/Law III
Claire Lee
Economics II
• Student ambassador @usyd • Usyd econsoc socials director
[F] GLOBALISE THE INTIFADA Israel can only commit genocide and maintain its apartheid regime with the support of the US and allies like Australia. We must resist and fight to cut every tie that enables the terror state.
Bob Song
• DEC Outreach Executive • Was involved in planning the Dalyell Engineering Industry nights and Fight Clubs • Fun facts: I have my motorbike license and drive a manual car
• 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) • Lunar New Year Day school activity (Proposer and Organizer) • 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
POLICY STATEMENT
CANDIDATES
• SULS International Students Officer 2026 • 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
Luke Liu
Commerce/Law II
• Provided guided campus tours in University of Sydney for Chinesespeaking tourist groups, introducing campus history, iconic buildings and student life, 2026 • 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
Israel has been allowed to kill over 75,000 Palestinians. Violence in the West Bank has reached an all time high. There are no universities left in Gaza and students at unis in the West Bank are routinely raided, brutalised and imprisoned by the Israeli occupation. The Albanese government has provided Israel intelligence from Pine Gap spy base in the Northern Territory, explosives manufactured in regional NSW, military steel and fighter jet-parts from Australian factories. Our own university is deeply complicit. USyd has exchange partnerships with Israeli unis that play an active role in this horror. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJ) provides training for Israeli Military Intelligence; Tel Aviv Uni promotes the “Dahiya Doctrine” which calls on the IDF to use “the destruction of the national infrastructure, and intense suffering among the [civilian] population” as a weapon against Hamas through its Institute for National Security Studies; and Technion developed the D9 bulldozer that flattens Palestinian homes. USyd does research with complicit weapons companies like Lockheed Martin and Thales. Lockheed provides the fighter jets Israel uses to commit its genocide and Thales exports explosives from Australia
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| REPRESENTATIVES TO COUNCIL to the US who send them in weapons provided to Israel. This complicity can be stopped. Candidates from Globalise the Intifada 4 SRC successfully campaigned alongside others to end Usyd’s exchange program with Israeli art school Bezalel Art Academy in 2025. We will use the SRC to back the fight to cut all remaining ties with Israel.
CANDIDATES
Vieve Carnsew Arts IV
We will defend free speech and the right to fight for a free Palestine. We cannot accept the attempt to silence us by the Albanese government, Chris Minns or USyd. We were amongst the thousands who defied the ban on protest when genocidal Israeli President Isaac Herzog visited Sydney. The anti-protest laws NSW Premier Chris Minns used against us have been scrapped. Despite cowardly police attacks on the protest, we won and we marched on the streets they tried to drive us from. Anti-protest measures at USyd have tried to silence anyone who speaks out. Students who put up posters without ‘authorisation’, set up tables on Eastern Avenue, give announcements at the start of lectures, have all faced disciplinary letters threatening suspension from their degrees. These letters impose gag orders that try to stop them from going public about these threats. USyd sent threats to students last semester for including the ‘Handala’ image of a Palestinian child on a poster calling to end exchange ties with Israel. USyd said this image was ‘antisemitic’ and ‘threatening’. But we defied this threat, rallied over 800 to sign a petition and protested. USyd was forced to drop the investigation and had to admit publicly it was not antisemitic to demand exchange programs with Israel be ended. We are called ‘Globalise the Intifada’ because we believe every last tie to Israel needs to be cut, and the smears and repression need to be defied and fought en masse. ‘Intifada’ is the Arabic word for uprising and throwing off oppression. It refers to heroic Palestinian resistance against Israel’s crimes such as the mass protests and strikes of the First Intifada. This is exactly what we will need if we want to cut all ties with Israel. It is what we need to fight back Hanson’s anti-migrant racism, fight against the cuts to the NDIS, and to stop our higher education from being gutted to make way for military research and training. It represents the spirit we need to take into building student support for the staff strikes defending quality education. Chris Minns is scared of the words Globalise the Intifada. He promised to ban the slogan but has been forced to retreat by collective defiance. When he said we can’t chant Globalise the Intifada we chanted it even louder. We need an SRC that will wage an uncompromising, collective fight for Palestine and all who are oppressed. We have shown we not only talk the talk but walk the walk. We have ended an Israel exchange program, helped smash antiprotest laws, defied campus repression and lead the campaign for a referendum on BDS this year. We need you to vote for us, but more importantly to throw yourself into the struggle. From Gadigal to Gaza, Globalise the Intifada!
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• 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. • Involved in organising the protest which forced USyd to drop the investigation around the Handala symbol. • 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. • Organised multiple events to paint the graffiti tunnel with Palestine solidarity slogans and symbols, after security painted over an artwork acknowledging Palestinian child martyrs. • Collected signatures to present at F23 after Luna, a transgender asylum seeker, was threatened with suspension for writing ‘from the river to the sea’ on a whiteboard. • Campaigned against the ban on Palestine flags at USyd, including coordinating a photo action with the other clubs during O Week last year, where each club took a photo holding signs with the Palestine flag that read ‘Mark Scott has banned this flag’. • Been a part of many other campaigns on this campus, supporting staff strikes on the picket lines, fighting for climate action, and more. • Built for and attended the protest against Israeli President, Isaac Herzog, as well as the -March for Humanity across the Harbour Bridge. • Been threatened by security for setting up a table on Eastern Avenue (more than once…). • Designed this year’s merchandise for the Queer Action Collective (QuAC) and the Women’s Collective (WoCo). • Illustrated the cover for Honi Soit after the Herzog rally, depicting Albanese and Minns holding police pigs on a leash while they tear apart a placard saying ‘Globalise the Intifada’, and have been a part of protesting against the ban on the slogan on and off campus. • Built for and promoted referendum this semester to demand USyd cut ties with Israel
Wasmiya Alashour Science III
• Member of Students Against War • Member of revolutionary socialist organisation Solidarity • Protested against the opportunistic invitation of war criminal, Israeli president Herzog into Sydney. • Helped organise the Student General Meeting last year against the IHRA-like antisemitism definition • Helped in the campaign to cut the exchange program with Bezalel, an Israeli academy which sews uniforms for the IOF. • Protested members of the IOF being invited into management’s F23 boardroom. • From Gadigal to Gaza, globalising the intifada.
Indy Pardoel
Science/Advanced Studies V
• Ex School Strike for Climate (SS4C) activist • Member of Students Against War (SAW) and Solidarity • Gay bush regenerator • Built and spoke at the Usyd 2021 climate strike Student General Meeting against Sco-Mos “gas fired recovery” • Picketted (in person and online) in support of 2022 and 2023 staff strikes • Built two SGMs to support Palestinian liberation from the river to the sea, and against IRHA definition of anti-semitism • Camped on usyd lawns for Gaza solidarity encampment • Sat in in protest of Tel Aviv University at the 2025 exchange fair • Converged on Pine Gap, July 2026
genocide and preparing for war on China • Built and attended the Student General Meeting last year where over 200 undergrads voted against the Universities Australia antisemitism definition that aimed to silence criticisms of Israel • Rallied at Pine Gap protest convergence in July demanding the closure of the US Spy Base complicit in war crimes and sacred land back to Arrente traditional owners • Member of revolutionary socialist group Solidarity • Member of pro-Palestine campaigning group Students Against War
August McCall
Advanced Nursing I
• Member of students against war • Built for the rally at the US consulate to close pine gap • Put up posters on and off campus opposing hanson’s racism • Involved in school strikes for climate
Yuecheng Hong Commerce I
Luke Ottavi Science I
• Integrity, justice, and solidarity. • Committed to making a difference for our community and standing with Palestine
Bri Akins
Arts/Social Work V
• Broke Minns’ anti-protest laws to rally against war criminal and Israeli president Herzog in February • Built for the student referendum demanding USyd cut its ties to apartheid Israel and its universities of genocide and occupation • Known to security for never going down without fighting over our right as students to set up information stalls on campus and speak about Palestine scrap the CAP! • Shocked that USyd let me in into another undergrad degree • Avid supporter of staff strikes and picketing - whether in person or zoom pickets • Wants a university for social good, not
• 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, platforming support for Palestinian liberation from river to sea and for USYD to cut ties and drop its racist definition of antisemitism
REPRESENTATIVES TO COUNCIL | • Member of Solidarity, a revolutionary socialist org building working class power to fight for a better world • Joined and built NTEU and other union picket lines around Sydney, the Gaza Solidarity Encampment, the community blockades of Israeli ZIM Shipping, and countless protests for Palestine and the rights of workers, women, queer people, First Nations people and refugees. • Defied Minns’ illegal anti-protest laws and marched against war criminal and Israeli president Isaac Herzog
[G] CANNABIS AT COURTYARD
harassment. 6. Change university mismanagement of gender-based violence by adopting the recommendations of the National Higher Education Code to Prevent and Respond to Gender-based Violence. CHANGE YOUR SRC, CHANGE YOUR CAMPUS, CHANGE FOR YOU. Vote [1] CHANGE YOUR SRC Vote [1] Ava for Prez Vote [1] Impact for NUS
• SUBS Operations Subcommittee, 20252026 • ALP Club 2026 • SUEUA, 2025-2026; SASS, 2025-2026 • Undergraduate Data Analyst, 2026 • Proud Weilwan/Ngemba person • Central Coast regional student • Avid Honi Soit Crossword Completer, 2026
Sydney Law James Economics/Law III
CANDIDATES
Max Bowen Science/Law I
POLICY STATEMENT Ticket advocating to turn Courtyard into a weed cafe e.g.) Amsterdam, Canada. We can replace the Holme Building with a dispensary. And bask in the glory
CANDIDATES
• Law Cohort Representative (2026) • USU Board Director (2026-) • Law Student Content Creator (2024-)
Cassidy Newman Arts III
• President Sydney uni radio group • Loves student unionism and blue V • Hates the police and 9am classes • Contributor to the dj epidemic
[H] CHANGE FOR YOU
• Walter Reid Memorial Prize I, 2026 • Dalyell Emerging Leaders Award, 2026 • Minister’s Award for Excellence in Student Achievement, 2025 • MySydney Scholar • SULS Careers Subcommittee, 2026 • SULS Queer Subcommittee, 2026 • Community Legal Education Program Volunteer, SULS/Glebe Youth Service, 2026• Member of SULS • Member of SciSoc • Member of GeoSoc • Member of DSA • Yes23 Campaign Volunteer, 2023 • OzHarvest Volunteer
Xanthe Huxtable Arts/Law I
POLICY STATEMENT
Change is possible. Change is real. Vote Change for You. CHANGE FOR YOU pledges to: 1. Change expensive campus life by working with the USU to extend the $5 lunches to breakfast and dinner, and open a low-cost grocery store on campus.
• First year • Majoring in history • Regional student • Fiona apple lover
Chris Dodd
Engineering (Honours)/ Commerce II
3. Change lacking student support by implementing the Change Desk to hear directly from students.
5. Change to online voting to end voter
• 2024 UNSW SRC Councillor A • NOT a 2024 NUS Delegate despite an Honi Soit report to the contrary.
Oscar Rocks
• Member of Arts Soc • Member of PPE Soc • USU Battle of the Bands 2025 & 2026 • NSW Police Rise Up For Unity Participant • Media Marketing Consultant 2025 • Bartender 2025 • Member of Business Soc.
2. Change unfair exam timetabling by banning weekend, public holiday, and after 5pm exams and setting a universal 11:59 pm deadline for all assignments.
4. Change overcrowded classrooms by campaigning alongside teaching staff for smaller tutorials and more teachers.
Arts/Economics III
Politics, Philosophy, Economics II
Change for You is a ticket of students who believe representation should be about outcomes, not optics. We’re running on a platform of progressive academic reform, because the way our degrees are taught, assessed, and supported can and should be better. We’re not here for empty promises or performative politics. We’re here to listen to what students actually need and deliver it: fairer assessment practices, better academic support, and a university that works for the people who study at it.
Kyan Aitken
• Dalyell Scholar, 2025-2026 • Distinction WAM, 2025-2026
[I] GRASSROOTS FOR CLIMATE ACTION POLICY STATEMENT GRASSROOTS FOR CLIMATE ACTION is a ticket of left-wing, independent, activist students fighting against the corrupt systems that betray and sell out the planet for a few extra dollars. The earth is on fire. Dire climate statistics flood the news daily, promising the end of the world, as acrid pollution chokes out wildlife and rising sea levels drown out entire nations. Meanwhile, the Labor government and their crony capitalists sign off on fossil fuel and weapons deals, greenwashing their complicity with false promises of carbon neutrality. Our earth is on fire, and the only thing our elected officials and public institutions can do is fill their greedy pockets at the expense of the very masses they promised to protect.
without Palestinian and Aboriginal justice. We condemn the colonial, imperialist institutions that profit from the ongoing desecration of Indigenous lives and land. We condemn the rise of the fascist far-right enabled by our cowardly institutions, who promise to embolden climate-denying billionaires like Gina Rinehart to continue pillaging Aboriginal land. GRASSROOTS FOR CLIMATE ACTION acknowledges that the fight for climate justice is innately entwined with decolonial, multispecies justice and liberation for all. When disabled, Aboriginal, working-class, migrant, queer, and otherwise-marginalised lives are disproportionately impacted by climate change, the intersectional fight for climate-justice is a confrontation with the systems of oppression which fascistically exploit the planet and its inhabitants as one. GRASSROOTS FOR CLIMATE ACTION promises to hold the University accountable for its complicity in exacerbating the climate crisis. From embedding the use of Generative AI into hurdle assessments, to a historically vast investment portfolio consisting of coal mines and weapons manufacturers, it is clear that the priorities of the University’s investment portfolio are prioritised over student and environmental wellbeing. Running on an electoral platform of reducing emissions while greenlighting one coal and gas investment after the other, we condemn the deceit of the Labor government and demand divestment now. We are united in our struggles for environmental justice, decolonisation, and centering Indigenous struggle in our praxis. GRASSROOTS FOR CLIMATE ACTION is committed to: • Pushing the University to DIVEST from WEAPONS, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND FOSSIL FUEL COMPANIES • Allowing conscientious dissent from using Artificial Intelligence in assessments • Refusing AI expansion across the University • Regrowing and expanding the Enviro collective, upskilling activists and providing a space for climate solidarity on campus • Holding the Labor Party accountable for its neoliberal, capitalist, anti-climate policies • UPHOLDING BDS PRINCIPLES and backing • Asserting the importance of environmental activists and institutions. We commit to the fight for the university to fund and prioritise climate-just action in lieu of unethical investments in climate desecration • Pushing for investment transparency • Standing in line with staff enterprise bargaining and emphasising the importance human-led learning • Supporting First Nations Struggle and standing with the Giraween Piliga and the continued struggle against Pine Gap Vote [1] GRASSROOTS FOR CLIMATE ACTION Vote [1] FREE THE NUS Vote [1] GRACE STREET FOR PRESIDENT
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GRASSROOTS FOR CLIMATE ACTION asserts that there is no climate justice
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| REPRESENTATIVES TO COUNCIL
Aria Nadkani
Sofia Raneri
Sherry Xiyue Yuan
• Environment Officer for the 98th SRC • Environment Collective Convenor • SRC GenExec and Councillor • 2025 SUMT Marketing Exec • Hater of GenAI, Coal Mines and Weapons Companies • Combust EIC • Last Drag on Earth organiser • Youth Solidarity Tourer to protest the largest producing coal mine in NSW • Inner West Renter and 2025 Grayndler Greens campaigner • Decolonial Anthropologist • Lover of Birkenstocks
Myalis Turner
• Enjoys reading • Planning to be red hair for my entire uni life (TBC) • Loves wantwant milk • Bilingual in Mandarin and English at exactly half point (can’t tell which ones better) • Intern Real Estate Assistance C4 certified (2 years) • Young Entrepreneur Society Mentor committee (2023-2025) • School Endeavour Award • School Jacaranda Award • Traditional Chinese Medicine internship volunteering (2023-2025) • Volunteering at Emerge charity fundraising (2024) • School Conde Library Magazine Designer (2025) • Castle Hill Golf club/Stonecutter member
Arts III
Kiah N.
Science III
Arts III
Commerce II
• President of QOCO <33 (2026) • Publications Director at SUEDE (2026) • Design Subcom at Marketing Society (2025) • Multimedia Subcom at SUEDE (2025) • I rebuke live action Tangled • Matcha Addict • Tarot Reader • I write poetry... sometimes…
Commerce/Science I
Zacchaeus Liu Arts/Law I
[J] PENTA FOR YOU POLICY STATEMENT • Ex WWF Marine and Fisheries science communicator (writer and researcher) • 2024-2025 reporter for Honi Soit (articles in News, mainly STEM and Environment, and interviews. 50-60 articles written. • 2026 Ex Editor of Honi Soit • 2025 Co-Editor of Women’s Honi • Environmental Editorial Intern for The Conversation (New Zealand and Australia) • Coral Reef Research Assistant for the University of Sydney Geoscience department • Official MIS member • Research Assistant for the Human-Shark Observatory associated with USyd • 2025 Secretary of the Underwater Explorers Society (Official diving society of USyd) • Certified divemaster and underwater photographer for PADI. • 2025 Intern for the Australian Marine Conservation Society. • 2025 Conservation Intern for AIESEC Sri Lanka specialising in sea turtle rehabilitation and research. • 2025 Social Secretary of Queer Revue USyd • Freediver • Published poet in a book • 2022-2023 marketing Intern for a vegan fashion brand based in Belgium. • 2021 Environmental Law intern for a firm in India • 2021-2023 Teaching Assistant for a London- Ireland Based company specialising in communication skills and journalism. • Certified shark and orca lover.
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PENTA has been committed to deliver meaningful, accessible support and tailored service for you and all students within the international community since 2010. Credible initiatives consist of ongoing free formal legal services surrounding rental, transport and academic disputes. PENTA reliably listens, communicates, and works toward practical solutions to daily concerns experienced by you and members of the international community. The immediate effects are performed through multiple projects such as the advancement of the Opal card concession for students, inclusive cultural events, and allowing adjustments towards suitable affordable education expenses for students. Our prime project this year focus on providing affordable housing, voicing equal representation and rebuilding a supportive community on campus by advocating for the reopening of the international house for you. Simultaneously, by supporting PENTA with your voice, we collectively facilitate a bridge between students, the university and the broader community to foster harmony and a welcoming environment for students pursuing the best university experience during their studies.
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• CALPIS lover • Would go to any adventurous place for fun • National Level Overall Team Silver Honour for Business Professionals of America Competition (BPA) (ProjectBased Division) • Gold Award at the Global Level for British Physics Olympiad • A* for An Investigation on the Impact of Factors on Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese • Internship in Beijingshi Weiheng (Hefei) Law Ohice as Ohice Assistant • Bilingual of English and Mandarin, with an ongoing multi-tasking journey on French, Japanese, Cantonese and Taiwanese • Still learning how to deal with my hair
Lisa Sze
Commerce/Arts I
• Afterschool senior tutor – Pymble Lades College (2-26) • HSC all rounder award, 99 + Atar • Yr 12 Academic distinction Award • Year 12 Mathematic Award (2025) • School Endeavour Award (2025) • STEM society, Girl up Society - Pymble Lades College • Social Debating - Pymble Lades College • Robotics - Pymble Lades College • IGSA tennis • IGSA badminton • String orchestra - Pymble Lades College • Modern language Captain PLC (20242025) • SONY Camp Bakes Sale - (2023)
Shirley Xu Commerce I
• Kuringgai Kangaroo’s Basketball Club (2019 - 2020) • The String Orchestra (2020-2021) • Basketball Coaching Assistant (2022 to 2023) • Oxford Royale Exchange (2023) • Snowy River Rafting Camp Experience (11 Days - 2023) • Grocery Clerk (2023 - 2025) • Sony Foundation Children’s Holiday Camp (2024) • Emerge Charity Volunteering Experience (2024) • High School Golf Captain (2025) • Duke of Edinburgh’s Silver Award • High School Jacaranda Award • Fluent in both English and Mandarin • Interests in photography, oil painting, music, baking, bubble tea
Sophie Li
Commerce/Law I
• Volunteer - Stray animal adoption events; planned support activities for children with autism • Studied in NZ for 3 years (Year 6-8) • Bilingual in English and Chinese • Mbti – intj/infj (trying to be an E) • Interests – Hiking, badminton, photography, piano & matcha!!
REPRESENTATIVES TO COUNCIL |
Chloe Li
Engineering/Law I
cohort, so we believe the SRC should properly represent us and take real action to support wom*n and fight for our collective liberation. If elected, this ticket will fight for initiatives to genuinely improve wom*n’s lives at USYD, through advocacy and targeted services. All adventurous wom*n do.
Sarah Furlan
Politics, Philosophy, Economics II
Maya Flattery Arts/Law II
POLICIES
• Currently being equally tortured by Engineering and Law • Currently interning as a Project CA in the construction company • Strong communication and coordination skills • Very social — always happy to meet new people and make new friends • Loves racket sports — tennis, badminton, anything with a racquet • Certified dog lover — will probably notice the dog before the owner • Coke Zero is non-negotiable — probably the hardest thing to give up
Alyssa Wei Arts II
• Loves watching movies • Dedicated cat lover (proud parent of Doubao) • Professional cake operations expert (2 years) • Mandarin (Native), English (Fluent), Cantonese (Full-time) learner on Duolingo for 100+ days) • Investment Banking Intern, assisted with industry research, valuation models, and compliance reviews.(20242025) • Project Team Lead for ASX:CPU Stock Return & Risk Quantitative Modelling
• Contraception & Reproductive Health Subsidies: Secure a 50% subsidy for contraception and emergency contraception (e.g., Plan B). • Ban covert recording on campus: Work with the university to instate a ban on covert recording, using devices such as Meta Glasses on campus to protect wom*n from non-consensual filming. • Distribute free period products across all campus bathrooms in collaboration with share the dignity • Mentoring & Connection: Create degreeand faculty-specific mentoring and social connection networks for women and non-cis male students. • Run informative panels about consent, coercive control and university support during O-Week. • Expand the Women’s Collective: increase engagement and participation in WoCo, to ensure it is a voice for all wom*n on campus. • Self-defence classes: 1 free self-defence / personal safety workshop per semester • Supporting women living in on-campus accommodation and residences to organise against sexual harassment, hazing and sexist culture. • Hold an annual SRC women’s event bringing together the Women’s Collective, societies and women students across campus. • SRC SA CASEWORKER: Appoint at least one SRC Caseworker with specialised training for victim/survivors of sexual violence to help students navigate the USYD reporting process.
• SASS Wom*n’s Officer • Econsoc subcom • Non-performatively Chinese.
Esther Kim Arts/Law II
• Dalyell Scholar • SULS • WAGEC • Women’s Mooting Program • Hot person.
Beth Day
Politics, Philosophy, Economics II
• Debating Committee • SASS • I bite
Zoe Gelagin
Arts/Economics II
• Politics major and Political Economy minor • Debating • Best Novice Judge at the 2025 Australasian Women and Gender Minorities Debating Championships • Extensive volunteer experience in charity shops and fundraising • Attending protests since before I could walk :)
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[L] MOORE BEER
Leyla Bensan
POLICY STATEMENT
Politics, Philosophy, Economics II
• Honi Soit author 2025 and 2026 • 180 degrees consulting • Treasurer of SUDS • Outrageous Woman™.
Aarushi Dhamu
Linda Ma
Politics, Philosophy, Economics II
Engineering/Law I
Every year, millions of dollars of the SSAF that you pay is wasted by the SRC establishment. The hacks and professional activists who run our union spend your money with no transparency, cashing in thousands of dollars on long lunches This year, there is only one ticket running with the promise of spending student money on things that you actually care about. That ticket is Moore Beer.
• Pymble Ladies College (2020-2025) • Piano coaching • Tutoring coaching (2025-2026)
[K] IMPACT FOR WOMEN POLICY STATEMENT Wom*n make up the majority of the USYD
• Sexual Assault and Harrassment Officer • Member of the Women’s Collective • Debating Society • SUDS • PPESOC • SUTUS • Dalyell Scholar • Debating Coach • Medical Receptionist • Bisexual (practicing), • Pole dancer • Misandrist
If elected, we pledge to spend 100% of all student money on buying alcohol. This year, the uni raised $25 million in student services and amenities fees. That’s enough to buy over 3 million schooners at the Royal. Or over 500 thousand slabs amounting to 12 million beers. That’s 4.5 million litres of beer. A vote for Moore Beer is also a vote for: • Yogasoc • Volunteer at Noffs • Evil bisexual.
• A free drink before your exam • 24 hour service at Courtyard, Manning, and Hermanns • Bulldozing Fisher Library and replace it with a 12-story Leagues Club • Putting pokies on campus • Putting Beer in the Bubblers • Abolishing all Council Meetings (they’re useless anyway!) and replace them with Pub Crawls • 12 month simple extensions
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| REPRESENTATIVES TO COUNCIL Vote [1] MOORE BEER Vote [1] Ava for Prez Vote [1] Impact for NUS
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Harry Beer
Arts/Economics III
• Beer by name, Beer by nature.
Leo Moore Arts/Law III
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. See the recent @ usydgrassroots post on the Waterloo housing estate for more. The SRC should not be beholden to Australia’s major political parties or used as a stepping stone into a cushy career. 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 STREET FOR PREZ VOTE [1] GRASSROOTS FOR NUS
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Will Street
Economics (Hons) II • Best brother ever <3
Sholto Mirrlees-Black Arts/Law II
• Ran a progressive, left-wing student activist campaign around lowering the price of beer on campus.
[M] 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, since 2025, and before any plagiaristic 2026 USU Campaign. *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 1979-1980) - 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
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• Professional toucher of grass (20072026) • SRC Director of Student Publications (2026) • SRC Student Accommodation Officer (2026) • Performing as Winston Smith in 1984 the Musical for the Fringe Festival (2026) • Conductor of the Usyd Madrigal Society (2026) • Performer & AD for the Sydney Law Revue (2025-26) • Sound Designer/Operator/Asst. Composer for SUDS’ Julius Caesar (2026) • MD for Muse’s Bonnie & Clyde (2025) • Unprofessional chef, clothes-maker, mixologist, calligrapher, painter, dungeon master, Latinist, and yapper (2007-2026)
Oscar Nellist Science I
[N] PALESTINE ACTION FOR SRC
Jasmine Al-Rawi Dip. Languages VI
POLICY STATEMENT In the past 3 years, the genocide of Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank has not halted, instead having been exponentially increased by Israeli oppressors. The death toll has reached over 70,000 while the land is violently taken by settlers, displacing and compacting more and more people into massive refugee tent camps with limited resources. Palestinians are subjected to inhumane conditions with scarce and low quality food and water, blockading of medical aid and threat of appalling violence directed towards them by the Israeli state. Despite the “ceasefire” since 2025, Israel has continued its violent and forced exodus of Palestinians which must be stopped. Israel has now also subjected Lebanon to the immense pressure of its military, bombing civilian infrastructure and displacing hundreds of thousands of people. This disgusting cleansing is supported by the Australian Government and our own University of Sydney with student activism against the state of Israel’s crimes heralded as anti-Semitic.
• Hi, I’m Jasmine and I’m one of your USYD SRC education officers in 2026 • USYD Students for Palestine convenor • Helped organise the march across the Harbour bridge in 2024 • I’m standing in support of USYD staff on strike on September 2nd for better pay and conditions • Chaired the “students say no to Hanson” protest in August • Hanson hate
Devansh Julka Science II
The ties between Albanese’s government and the genocide in Gaza have been showcased again and again from rubbing elbows with Isaac Herzog, the president of Israel, to supplying components for Israeli bombs. Palestine Action calls for an end to these disgraceful activities and for Australia to lend aid and support for the oppressed Palestinian people. USYD’s entwinement with weapons companies such as Thales, Lockheed & Martin and Elbit Systems and their cooperation with Technion University in Tel Aviv exposes their systemic support of the mass slaughter of Palestinians, with research and students being the fuel they add to the fire of this genocide. USYD must de-entangle themselves from Israel and those complicit in their crimes as the SRC must boycott all involvement of the university with these forces, so research and students are not spent on war crimes. Palestine Action aims to ignite the SRC into action against the Genocide in Gaza and the West Bank, as well as lending support for those affected by Israel’s continued attacks on Lebanon. We aim: • To cut all ties USYD has with weapons companies complicit in the Genocide in Gaza and the West Bank • To call for the Australian government to stop all support of Israel • Continue to call protests and actions for Palestine. • To stop the silencing of pro-Palestine advocacy through university policies and and definitions • Repeal every disciplinary charge against students standing with Palestine. • Abolish the Campus Access Policy
• Hey, I’m Devansh. I’m a proud member and organizer with Students for Palestine • Helped organize the Nationwide student strike for Palestine in March, the Weapons Off Campus week of action in April and other actions for Palestine on and off campus • Helped organize the student assembly and rallies in solidarity with the Global Sumud flotilla to Gaza • Helped organize the nationwide student protest against Pauline Hanson in Sydney • I’m a socialist because I believe a better, more equitable world is possible. Ordinary people deserve healthcare, housing, higher wages, and a better standard of life than we’re afforded under our current broken system.
Sari Bare
Arts/Advanced Studies II
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• Hi, I’m Sari. I think the SRC should fight for students. That means fighting for affordable student housing, free and quality education, and taking the lead on the issues students care about most. • I’ve been a student activist since the 2019 School Strikes for Climate
REPRESENTATIVES TO COUNCIL | • Active with Students for Palestine and the USYD Education Action Group, including: • *Weekly pro-Palestine demonstrations at Hyde Park and Town Hall • *Student Strikes for Palestine • *The 2025 National Student Referendum for Palestine • *March for Humanity 2025 • Helped organise the “Kick Weapons Off Campus” campaign, targeting USYD’s ties to weapons companies. • Helped organise the 2025 Student Walkouts Against the Far Right • Helped organise the Student National Day of Action Against Pauline Hanson 2026 • Involved in organising the student campaign supporting the 2026 USYD Staff Strike for better wages and conditions.
Georgia Lily Social Work III
• Hi I’m Georgia , I’m running with left action because I believe students deserve a student union that will fight for them . • I have been a part of students for Palestine for two years beggining at the encampment , I have helped to organise protests , fair days and our reading groups . • I also helped to build the incredible school walkout against Pauline hanson. left action will use the src for activism fighting for Palestine and the far right , which is the best use of the src.
Machine learning is a marvel of engineering. Today it’s being developed and used for all the wrong reasons. Militaries like the US and Israel use Palantir and OpenAI services to massacre Palestinians and Iranians. “Deepfakes” exacerbate image-based sexual abuse. Companies like Claude purchase out-ofprint rare books en masse to become sole proprietors of knowledge.
• Hi, I’m Eli! I am passionate about supporting better working conditions for teachers and more resources for schools. • I am an activist who has campaigned against the far right
Rida Yaseen
Science (Advanced) I
• Fully support a Free Palestine • Want to get rid of capitalism and power corruption • A member of USYD Students for Palestine • Participated in the Nationwide ‘Say No to Hanson’ Protest • Did social media promotion for the Nationwide Student Strike for Palestine • Part of the USYD Students for Palestine Book Club
Lia Murray Arts I
Carolyn Zhao Arts/Science I
• Hey, I’m Carolyn! Being a member of Students for Palestine and Socialist Alternative, I’ve campaigned against the genocide in Gaza and have tackled issues of injustice and inequality by building and participating in club events, strikes and protests • I believe the SRC should galvanise students into activism! • As part of a SFP campaign, I helped promote the student strike for Palestine in semester • I assisted in building the Weapons of Campus campaign • I also helped organise and promote the Nation Day of Action Anti-Hanson rally
Elijah Bui Education I
• Hey I’m Lia • I supported the Say No to Hanson protest and the 2019 School Strike for Climate • I’m a socialist as I believe in creating an equal society where we all have the means and agency to live freely
[O] GRASSROOTS AGAINST AI SLOP POLICY STATEMENT “We have no idea how we may one day generate revenue [...] once we build a generally intelligent system, we can ask it to figure out a way to generate an investment return.” – Sam Altman, 2019 We chose the name “Against AI slop” to sound catchy, but it is about much more. We are students concerned with the blind embrace of technologies that lead us into technofeudalism.
As AI companies deceive employers into laying off workers, adoption represents a mass transfer of wealth to the grifter techbillionaire class. Their pursuit continues despite AI tokens outpacing the cost of human labour. Locally, this colony is becoming a dumping ground for AI computation infrastructure. Australia is now the second most attractive country for AI data centre investments as communities across the US have mobilised to stall data centre developments valued at over US$100 billion. Right here in Sydney, NextDC is going ahead with a 500+ MW “hyperscale” data centre. Guzzling water and energy under the guise of “sovereign capability”, NextDC’s primary customer base is in fact private firms like OpenAI.
and publicising all such partnerships and grants provided by companies like Google • Camera-powered mass surveillance is a threat to political freedom. We will establish a monitoring project that maps surveillance cameras across campus, including the ever-growing number of AI-capable Avigilon cameras • Cash payment is liberty. Nowhere on campus should it be rejected. For example, we will urge the USU to accept cash at the $5 meals line • Engaging with data-harvesters like Instagram should not be necessary to access SRC communications. We will push for an amendment to the SRC Constitution that prohibits the SRC and Collectives to publish public communications to corporate-controlled social media platforms, unless those communications are also published to alternative sites
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Zizhuo Yue
Arts/Science II
Large language models (LLMs) are also significantly deteriorating education and cognitive health. Instead of regulating the providers, who are the ultimate culprits, we act as if students are to blame, with the state government recently imposing a ban on take-home assessments for senior secondary students. On our campus, management has installed AI-capable Avigilon cameras particularly in areas of political activity to surveil dissidents. We as students must resist. There is no liberation without dismantling these powers that be.
• Honi Soit contributor • I’m quite fond of open-source software
Alex Duggan Music I
Grassroots Against AI Slop will advocate for: • Inclusion of broader ethical questions of AI-focused computing in USyd curriculum, rather than merely units like FASS1000 that tell Arts students how to use generative LLMs “responsibly” • Revocation of the Memorandum of Understanding between USyd and Microsoft, including AI research ties and USyd’s endorsement of Microsoft Copilot • Severing of ties with Google’s “Digital Futures Initiative”. Universities should not take corporate money with the effect of whitewashing AI applications • The NSW Datacentre Guidelines, which recommends environmental mitigation strategies, to be made mandatory for all development proposals • Revocation of contracts totalling $30+ million between the Department of Defence and Palantir • Legislation that explicitly requires entities who wish to access the Australian market to certify that they have sought agreement from artists whose works were used in model training • Halting of attacks on civil liberties by the government. Legislation advanced this year allowing mass facial recognition and warrantless device data seizures should immediately be repealed
• Bachelor of music in jazz performance major. • Loves playing saxophone, composing and improvising. • Avid film enjoyer. • Denny member. • Advocates for progressive social issues liked BDS, against Hanson and for women’s rights. • Believes in the power of arts to liberate. • #1 Phoebe Bridgers fan.
Harrison Joshua Jones Arts II
Grassroots Against AI Slop pledges if elected: • We will inform the community on the University’s complicity in legitimising delusions of the AI industry, by tracking
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Clara Anwaar Education I
Lucas Pierce Arts VI
Laura Alivio
Arts/Advanced Studies IV
• Honi Soit contributor since 2026 • LibreOffice lover • Occasional map drawer • Dish washer and tutor • Windows hater
[P] LEFT ACTION FOR FREE EDUCATION
Zavier Skazlic
Arts/Advanced Studies II
POLICY STATEMENT Education should be a human right. While USYD pull in profits of billions, students see nothing from this surplus. In fact, most domestic students will be haunted for life by their HECS debts while international students are milked for extortionate amount for their tuition fee. All the while, USYD pushes all of that profit into investments into war and genocides that students have repeatedly stood against. Higher education used to be free for both domestic and international students. However, under the Labor Hawke and Keating government, it was taken away in favour of HECS. As a result, the neo-liberalisation and enshittening of universities have skyrocketed. With facilities falling apart every day, class sizes increasing, the quality of education continually falling and an increasing amount of attacks on staff and tutors. What do students receive from this continual enshittening? Nothing except for higher tuition fees. We want to mount a fight back in the face of the continual attack on the staff at the university.
• Hi there, I’m Lucas. I’m a socialist, antifascist and Palestine activist who wants to see the SRC fight for students rights and for progressive issues! • 2026 Usyd SRC Environment Officer • 2025 Usyd SRC Refugee Rights Officer • Part of organising the anti-Hanson day of action • Part of organising the 2026 national student strike for Palestine • Spoke at the 2025 national referendum for Palestine • Organiser of the Students For Palestine campaign ‘Kick Weapons Companies Off Campus’ • Organiser of the Students For Palestine Fundraiser to raise money for the flotilla to Gaza • Organiser of the 2025 speakout against racism • Proud participant of the historic Palestine Solidarity Encampment
Tiana Moore
Science/Advanced Studies IV
We reject the push for universities to become research hub for war and genocide and to cut all ties from weapon companies. We want to see international students treated equally to domestic students, not as cash cows for USYD to continually pull their profits from. To do so, we want to build a fighting SRC that won’t compromise with the putrid attempts at compromise and “collaboration” USYD will throw at us. We want to draw inspiration from student movements across the world right now who have continued to push the limits of what everyone thought was possible and fight for free education at USYD, but also improving the quality of education here. Ensuring that staff are well-paid, that the university should be ran to provide education, not to collaborate with a genocide. This means cutting all ties and retracting the 67 million dollars invested into weapon companies complicit in the genocide in Gaza and putting it all towards improving the university’s facilities and teaching conditions. We want to build a student movement strong enough to push USYD to concede these demands. That is why every vote from the students will matter and count towards us making this student movement even bigger.
• Hi, I’m Tiana and I’ve been one of the Refugee Rights Officer of the SRC this year! • I was involved in organising the recent Say No to Hanson university and school strike, bringing hundreds of students into anti-fascist and anti-racist activism • As part of Students for Palestine I helped organise the student strike for Palestine and coordinated and designed a cross-campus magazine to expose our universities’ weapons research and investment • Earlier this year I helped to build protests against the war criminal and president of Israel Isaac Herzog when he was invited to Sydney, and to condemn the police repression that followed • I study wildlife conservation and I think that standing up for the climate means being anticapitalist, anti-war, anti-fossil fuels and anti-AI data centres
• Hi, I’m Laura, your current Refugee Rights Officer on the SRC and a socialist activist at Sydney Uni. I’m running because I have been moved by the horrors of the world and I believe the SRC should be a fighting organisation that stands up for students’ rights and uses our collective power to take on racism, the far right, war and the corporate university. • I’ve spent my time at Sydney Uni organising alongside students and workers, and I want to bring that experience back to the SRC: • Most recently, I organized the campaign against racism on campus, including organising for the National Day of Action against Pauline Hanson. • I am an active member of Students for Palestine, helping to set up the historic Student Solidarity Encampment for Gaza, and organised the Harbour Bridge March for Humanity, bringing out over 300,000 people! • I have coordinated the campaign to get weapons off campus, including protests and campaigns exposing the University’s investments and research ties with weapons companies complicit in Israel’s genocide in Gaza • I’ve been involved in the Stood on picket lines with Woolworths warehouse workers fighting for better pay and working conditions • As Refugee Rights Officer, I helped promote solidarity actions with refugees and people seeking asylum, including the encampment outside the Immigration Minister’s office demanding justice and permanent protection for refugees • I’ve also taken part in blockading Australia’s biggest coal port as part of the fight against the climate crisis • I’ve fought to make the SRC a voice for important left-wing causes and am running to keep building an SRC that fights alongside students rather than just speaking on their behalf.
Mahir Ghetia
Arts/Advanced Studies III
CANDIDATES • Hi there, I’m Mahir! • Member of Students for Palestine and have run reading groups teaching people about the history of Palestine • Helped organise the national student strike at USyd to kick weapons
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companies complicit in Israel’s genocide off campus • Marched across the harbour bridge in solidarity with Palestine • Helped build and attended the historic National Day of Action against Pauline Hanson • Voted for our uni to cut ties with Israel during the 2025 student general meeting • Supported striking dock workers at Port Botany
• Hey! My name’s Zavier, and I’m running with Left Action in this year’s SRC elections. • I’m with Left Action because I think it should be a vehicle for student activism and collective action. • From fighting for a free Palestine, to resisting the corporatisation of our university, there are countless movements and campaigns to contribute to, both on campus and beyond it. • I think the SRC should be a platform to help students organise around key issues, because as students, we have a power to build solidarity, challenge injustice, and fight for a better world.
Liam Searle Arts I
• Hey I’m Liam, I’m a socialist activist at sydney uni! • I was part of organising the usyd contingent to the Anti-Hanson National Day Of Action • I’m an active member of Socialist Alternative, stalling across campuses and in Newtown • I’ve been to and helped promote various political rallies, including in support for Palestine • Delivered lecture announcements to promote the anti-Hanson Day of Action • Helping to build the Socialism Conference, the biggest anti-capitalist event in Sydney • Written scripts for and spoken in social media posts to promote events and anticapitalist talks • Helping build for the NSW Socialist Party’s campaigns!
James Parker Engineering I
• Hi there, I’m James! I’m a staunch anticapitalist and human rights advocate
REPRESENTATIVES TO COUNCIL | - the wealth we as workers produce should be returned to us, not hoarded amongst a small enclave of society. • Helped establish the Port Macquarie APAN branch in the face of a rampant pro-Israel campaign in rural Australia. • Marched at and campaigned for the recent National Day of Action against Pauline Hanson. • Involved in advocacy since early high school, marching at student and teacher strikes for several years, such as the several teachers federation strikes in 2022. • Experience with social media advocacy during my time with APAN Port Macquarie. • Campaigned for the Port Macquarie wing of the 2025 Palestine National Day of Action.
[Q] ENGINEERING FOR SRC POLICY STATEMENT Engineering for SRC is the only ticket for Engineering students. For Engineers, By Engineers. Engineering for SRC promises to: 1. End saturday exams and paper coding exams. 2. Increase lab and tutorial staffing and support
Michael Hibbard
Engineering/Commerce III
• Research Assistant • Former Lifesaver • Big NBA fan
Lara Schuetrumpf Engineering II
• Treasurer of Sparksoc (Electrical Engineering Society) (25-26) • Cast and writer of the Engineering Revue (25-26) • Student Ambassador (25-26) • PASS Facilitator (Maths and Business) (25-26) • Sponsorship Subcommittee of Sparksoc (24-25) • Lions Youth of the Year Judge (24-26) • Department of Education Premier’s Debating competition adjudicator (2426) • Engineering Mentor (24-25)
• SUWIE 2nd Year Rep • SUMO Sponsorship Officer • Gangsta
Srishti Chadda
Engineering/Data Science II
Kridaya Singh
Arts/Engineering II
3. Fix the engineering precinct on campus 4. Expand SRC provided equipment borrowing access
• SUCES Secretary • SRC Councillor 2025-2026 • No 1. diet coke, tiramisu, and hot chocolate fan
5. $10 semester printing credit We’ll also fight to: Expand textbook access online
Kieran Huynh
Extend computer lab access times and accessibility Increase access to and expand the $5 Meal Program Improve AI job preparedness and integration into courses Push the university on sustainability goals VOTE [1] ENGINEERING FOR SRC VOTE [1] AVA FOR PREZ VOTE [1] IMPACT FOR NUS
CANDIDATES
Engineering/Finance II
Ema Perkins Engineering I
• SUEUA Sponsorship director • Goon Cow • Drank 4 litres of little fat lamb yesterday • Founder of BeerBound
Arts/Engineering II
[R] GRASSROOTS FOR WELFARE POLICY STATEMENT
• SUEUA Sponsorship Officer • SRC Councillor • ENGO Peer Mentor • Tim Langrish fan • JO3 enjoyer • Grass touching superfan
• SUMO 1st year rep • MTRX1702 rep • Huge lats • Terrified of birds
Oliver Snow
Engineering/Commerce III
Hi, I’m Vince. I am the 2026 USyd SRC General Secretary, and I’m running the ticket GRASSROOTS FOR WELFARE. I’ve been working over the year with our Grassroots President Grace Street to bring our SRC back to its left-wing fighting roots after a previous year of a NSW Labor SRC presidency marked by incompetence and wrecking. We’ve been successful, but we want to continue our effective agenda that centers student welfare, and gets shit done. I strongly believe student welfare and activism are NOT counterposed, and in fact intertwined. For example, Grassroots’ organising against placement poverty is staunchly political. It’s erroneous to think that fighting for student rights. Such is the case for 5-day automatic simple extensions which Grassroots headed the fight for, or even my first 2024 election where I thought it was bullshit that students in PSYC had three mandatory lectures a week. These are not trivial and have a real effect on students. Thank you to all the people who put their name down to be on GRASSROOTS FOR WELFARE. I’d also like to give a special shout out to my late friend Khanh Tran who pushed me to run for the 2025 SRC Disabilities Officer, and who I hope I can make proud today. Follow us at @ usydgrassroots and @grassrootsforsrc. Also feel free to follow me @vincetafea and i’ll follow ya back (message me “i read it vince #tswmhwg” and I’ll know u are a real one that read my policies ;)). Also shoutout to my Mum and Dad. Some of my key policies are below but look out for other GRASSROOTS tickets for more: WELFARE FOR HEALTH STUDENTS: FIGHT FOR PAID PLACEMENTS FOR ALL Grassroots has been involved in the fight against placement poverty for years, and whilst the recent introduction of paid placements for a variety of health students has been an improvement, there are some health students inexplicably left out.
• Events Officer of MUGS (Mechanical Undergraduate Engineering Society) (25 - 26) • SASS Sports Subcom (2025) • Big fan of the Royal • Loves the Waratahs and all things rugby
Raphael Carrasco
backwards for right-wingers (or to phone calls from their senior MPs).
I feel like a lot of people reading might relate to the conception I used to have of the SRC. I thought the SRC was just full of Labor/Liberal party careerists whose sole purpose was to stack their CV. People who promise the world to get elected, and deliver next to nothing once they are in power (or worse, claim the credit and hard work of others). I got involved with the SRC through the 2024 Gaza Solidarity Encampment, and it was there I met Grassroots (@ usydgrassroots) who exemplified an alternate vision for the SRC. An SRC that is independent, left-wing, activist, and experienced. An SRC that is run by real students who touch grass, not one that is zero-impact which will bend over
GRASSROOTS FOR WELFARE will continue this fight to include all students including Medical, Dental, and Vet students who this Labor government doesn’t seem to care for. WELFARE FOR PSYCH STUDENTS: INVESTIGATION INTO PSYC UNIT PRICING The Job Ready Graduate Package has been a disaster increasing the prices of our degrees by thousands of dollars, however we have found a strange irregularity in the pricing of PSYC units that seems to depend on what degree you are enrolled in to an extent that people who do a Psychology Program (60CP) + Honours (48CP) pay ~$15,000 more in total for the same units in a B Science vs a B Psychology. This is an absurd discrepancy that needs to be escalated and investigated, and message Vince to get involved. WELFARE THROUGH COMMUNITY CARE: EXPAND GRACE STREET’S VACCINATION PROGRAM Grace Street started this initiative in 2025 when she was General Secretary, and expanded it as President in 2026. With your help we will get many thousands more students vaccinated for free!
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| REPRESENTATIVES TO COUNCIL Highlight the achievements and valuable contributions of SRC caseworkers (with their permission of course) who have been helping student welfare for decades. Mental health programs / culturallysensitive / translated / more accessible diagnoses and psychiatry option, more than 6 sessions, working with likeminded USU Directors who want to FIX it #iykyk (will fix it).
• Studying secondary education in maths & history • 2026 EDSOC Publications Director • 2026 Chief Editor of Drylight Magazine • Volunteer, activist • Western syd rise UP! • I love bad quality pics
Maya Zafar Science IV
Vince Tafea
Science (Hons) V
• I support Vince Tafea in all of his endeavors
[S] LEFT ACTION FOR RENTERS Australia’s housing crisis has become a pressing issue affecting nearly all students across Australia, whether they be international or domestic. Nowhere is this more visible than in Sydney, the 8th least affordable city in the country. It has the highest rental prices in Australia and the overwhelming concentration of privatised housing means secure and affordable housing is becoming increasingly difficult to access.
Establish ongoing and open lines of communication of the SRC with major USU societies such as Scisoc, Dalyell Students Association, and SASS, as working with them this year was fruitful but honestly not necessarily common (for example, we provided free condoms to SASS camp).
CANDIDATES
Psychology II
POLICY STATEMENT
WELFARE THROUGH UNIVERSITY WIDE COLLABORATION: BIG SOCIETIES
We also want to establish a studio ghibli movie night after the free vaccinations hopefully with WASABI :3
Hanna M.
• Hustler • Artist • Mogger
Mehnaaz H. Arts (Hons) V
Students in Sydney also face the highest commute time of all students across Australia, averaging around an hour each way. To live comfortably in Sydney, a renter’s household income must be over 6 figures. Rent is already a third of people’s income on average, which only worsens the cost of living crisis. Sydney is also seeing a recent demolition of public housing, such as 750 units in Waterloo. Instead of expanding infrastructure to support those suffering, or addressing the privatised market, our state government has destroyed every pocket of remaining public housing.
• USyd SRC Disabilities and Carers Officer (2025) • USyd SRC General Secretary (2026) • USyd Grassroots Member (2024 – Present) • Award Winning Honi Soit Writer (Best Education Piece 2024) • Psychology Honours Student & ‘Agitator’ • Socialist & Anti-Zionist (hyphen for clarity) • Māori & Sāmoan (big uce) • From the AREA (greater west forever, up the pahs) • Solo Gaza Solidarity Encampment Camper (30 confirmed sleeps) • R&B Enjoyer, Kehlani & Dijon stan, i make some choons (@vincetafeamusic) • Controversial far left figure & memer (@ vincetafeamemes) • D1 Ragebaiter of Labor careerists (@ vincetafea) • S*ndst*ne Chr*n*cle is a Labor Right PSYOP (or PSYSLOP) • If you’re from the future and reading this in 20 years, ask me what #tswmhwg stands for • FEAR = Face Everything and Rise • Prediction: IMPACT (Labor ‘Left’) will be Liberal backed for the 3rd year in a row
Amnah Hussain Education I
• Honi Soit Editor (formerly) • USU Debater (formerly) • Sleep deprived Honours student (currently)
Charlise Gardner Science IV
In other parts of the world, students are able to live closer to campus through large scale student accommodation or subsidisation by the state or university itself. This increases engagement at university, and alleviates stress and financial pressure on students. USYD reported $194 million in surplus last year. This money could go towards providing affordable housing to students. Left Action will fight for: • The university to cap student accommodation prices to $100 a week • Expanding public housing across Sydney • An end to public housing demolitions • Nationalisation of private student accommodation, such as Scape and Iglu • Stronger rental protections for students in student accomodation.
CANDIDATES • In my honours year studying Psychology • President of the Science Society (SciSoc) • Dual treasurer of SciSoc + DSA in ‘25 #ILoveMoney • Years of experience as a peer mentor leader, committee rep and Faculty board rep • Leadership experiences at USYD have led me to hosting welcome events, receiving awards and running focus groups • Extremely passionate about wildlife conservation and sustainability • I have been to USYD’s One Tree Island contributing to coral reef fieldwork • I am a big marsupial geek and really want to see a tree kangaroo one day • I am also strong-minded about the rights of healthcare workers and educators, hoping that incoming healthcare workers receive the support that they deserve while helping others, and that our educators are respected for what they do
Emma Searle Arts III
alongside 10k university and highschool students across Australia. • As a member of Students for Palestine, over the last few years I’ve helped organise multiple student strikes and a referendum of over 600 USYD students for Palestine. • As Global Solidarity Officer in 2025, I helped organise the ‘Fuck Trump’ rallies to defend trans and women’s rights. • In 2024, I was a proud participant in the Gaza Solidarity Encampment at USyd, demanding our university cut ties with weapons companies. • I think that capitalism is a shit-show that is rigged for the rich, and we need a mass student fightback if we want to see that wealth taken from the billionaires and redistributed to workers, students and the oppressed. • Fund free education, lower student rent and give us free university canteens!
William Ursu
Architecture and Environments II
• Currently in the SRC as the Officer For global Solidarity • Active organizer for the Anti-Hanson rally, helping to distribute posters and leaflets to other campuses and schools! • Built for and helped organize the Student Strike for Palestine and the Student Referendum for Palestine! Standing in solidarity with palestine and against the genocide • Coordinated the distribution and organization of posters promoting socialist activism on campus. • Helped build and Organise the Students For Palestine collective at Usyd • Frontlines on the protest against the Weapons Expo at the ICC, protesting against weapons ties on and off campus! • Participated in and helped build various anti-racist and international solidarity rallies for • Venezuela and Sudan, representing my position as global solidarity officer. • Fighter for Socialist politics, fighting for a world with exploitation and the dignity of working-class people to meet their needs and be freed from capitalism.
Isaac Freeman
Arts/Advanced Studies I
• Hey, I’m Emma and as your Social Justice Officer this year I think the SRC should be a left wing body that champions progressive causes such as fighting for a free Palestine and against the rise of Pauline Hanson. • This semester, I organised and chaired the Sydney University ‘Say No To Hanson’ rally, where we protested
• Hey, I’m Isaac • Helped to organise and build the National Day of Action Against Pauline Hanson • A member of Students for Palestine and a committed supporter of Palestine, I
REPRESENTATIVES TO COUNCIL | have campaigned vigorously against the genocide, helping to organise and build events such as the Student Strike for Palestine and the Nakba Day Rally • Helped organise the USyd campaign for our university to cut its ties with weapons companies • As a socialist activist, I believe that we need to fight the rise of the far-right in Australia and the bigoted set of racist, sexist, anti-worker politics it represents
• As a physics student, Meri stands against the ties between University science/engineering departments and weapons companies. • Stands against cuts to humanities courses and the broader corrosion of University education by the drive for profit.
Max Maraz Science III
Deaglan Godwin
We envision a future where USyd actually fulfills its duty to the community as an ethical and truly progressive academic institution, led by the people it is meant to serve rather than the profit-hungry elite with vested interests in suppressing political dissent for a broken system that’s destroying our world.
Languages I
• Hi I’m Deaglan and I think we need an SRC that will fight for progressive issues like Palestine and against the rise of the Pauline Hanson and the far-right. • As SRC Vice President in 2023, I helped set up and lead the Gaza Solidarity Camp. We were the first Gaza encampment in Australia! • 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. • As the Welfare officer this year, I helped organise the nationwide student protest against Hanson. Our student union needs to fight against Hanson’s toxic racism. • I was suspended for protesting former PM Malcolm Turnbull, aka “Mr Habourside Mansion” • 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!
Meri Erde
Arts/Science II
• Hey, I’m Meri • Believes that the SRC should be a democratic, left-wing force which actively pressures the corporate University and holds them to account. • Marched across the Sydney Harbour Bridge to demand an end to the genocide in Palestine and Australia’s complicity in it. • Voted to censure the Australian government for their complicity in genocide and demand the University sever ties with weapons companies in the 2025 national student referendum. • Attended the 2026 Invasion Day Rally in solidarity with Indigenous Australians. • Attended Sunday rallies against the genocide in Gaza.
power of collective action and protest. We join the worldwide Boycott, Divestments, and Sanctions (BDS) movement fighting against all institutions and organisations complicit in israel’s genocide, apartheid, and occupation of Palestine. At USyd, students throughout history have organised for radical left-wing movements against oppression, from fighting against South African apartheid back in the 70’s to israeli apartheid today.
• Hi, I’m Max • Active in student organising for the past year with Socialist Alternative • Campaigning on cost-of-living pressures and access to education. • Committed to rigorous advocacy and building broad-based student power on campus
Naira Fazal
Engineering (Hons) IV • Hey! I’m Naira, a first-year student and activist at USYD. • I’ve was actively involved in the fight against the Trans Amendment Bill in India • I helped promote and support the Students Say No to Hanson protests this august • I’m an active socialist at USYD, and have been getting involved in building student activism on campus. • I believe students have the power to fight back against discrimination of any and all kinds
It is the university’s duty to uphold and protect human rights for all, to be free from targeted censorship, political repression, and fear of speaking out. We need strong, independent, left-wing, and activist unions to achieve our goals, unions that will actually represent our needs and demands. Finally, we want politics that works, one that invests in creating a sustainable future where everyone is free.
POLICY STATEMENT FREE PALESTINE & BDS is a left-wing ticket advocating for the freedom, self-determination, and liberation of Palestinians. We stand in solidarity with indigenous people across the globe in their fights for emancipation from colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism. Our unequivocal opposition to colonialism includes our opposition to the settler-colonial apartheid state of israel, which has been committing genocide, ethnically cleansing, and violently occupying Palestinians for decades – with support from our government. For many, the Gaza genocide pulled back the curtains on the so-called world order to reveal a political system hollowed out for the interests of Western empire. The global elite have shattered the liberal facade of democracy, free speech, and universal human rights by supporting israel as they commit atrocities with complete impunity. If the fascist response to our mass movements and mobilisations around the world have proven anything, it’s that Palestine was never the exception; it was always the rule. Our complicity in israel’s crimes is undeniable. As students, we believe in the
FREE PALESTINE, FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA! Vote [1] FREE PALESTINE & BDS Vote [1] FREE THE NUS Vote [1] GRACE 4 PREZ
CANDIDATES
Imane Lattab Science IV
1. ANTI-APARTHEID, ANTI-GENOCIDE, ANTI-COLONIAL. Together, we will continue fighting for our university to be on the right side of history and listen to the community they serve by taking an institutional position as anti-colonial, anti-apartheid, and anti-genocide. We will also continue our campaigns to make our campus an apartheid-free zone and advocate for BDS. 2. BOYCOTTS! We join the global BDS movement in calling for the economic, consumer, cultural, sport, and academic boycotts against all entities complicit in the apartheid against and genocide of Palestinians. 3. DIVESTMENT!
[T] FREE PALESTINE & BDS
protecting their financial and political interests, further entrenching USyd as an elitist, right-wing institution that doesn’t care about student and staff interests. We strongly oppose the attacks on students and staff free speech through the legitimising of fascist ideologies and antiPalestinian racism in our university. We must protect freedom of speech and the right to political expression in the fight for a FREE PALESTINE!
We demand our university divest immediately from companies that are complicit in genocide and apartheid. This includes weapons manufacturing, military programs, and surveillance and AI companies like Palantir, Celebrite, Elbit Systems, and Paragon Solutions. We also demand our government immediately divest from these companies.
• Grassroots member! • Psychology honours student. • SRC Ethnocultural Officer and Global Solidarity Officer (2026). • ACAR Co-convenor (2026). • Member and organiser in BDS Youth, Students for Palestine, Education Action Group, and the Women’s Collective. • Organiser for BDS on campus. • Editor-in-chief and writer for 2026 ACAR Honi. • Collective member of SFP, EAG, and WoCo. • Events director for PsychSoc (2026). • Algerian and proud! • Huge fan of Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, Mitski, and Ilan Pappe. • Liberation for all, from Gadigal to Gaza!
Salma Mardawie Speech Pathology III
4. SANCTIONS! We need sanctions on israel NOW and we are demanding our government take decisive action to end their complicity and support for the war criminals responsible for the Gaza genocide. 5. LABOR, THERE IS BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS! Say no to AUKUS! We demand that Labor end the two-way arms trade with israel and the US. We also oppose the unconstitutional, undemocratic, and unjust erosion of our civil liberties in the forms of protest repression, attacks on free speech, and the weaponisation of discrimination laws against peaceful protesters.
• Palestinian icon • Third year speech pathology student • Activism • President of the Arab Society • From the AREA (bankstown, punchbowl, lakemba, manoush forever) • Free my people
6. USYD, THERE IS BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS! Not only does USyd maintain ties with israel, but they are also responsible for manufacturing consent for israel’s actions. This is all in the name of
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| REPRESENTATIVES TO COUNCIL
Alice Nhu An Le Psychology III
• Studying Psychology • Vice President of PsychSoc • Marketing/design director of DSA • Vietnamese
Dari Govorukhin Arts (Hons) IV
• Computational Data Science & Business Information Systems major - I spend my days making computers do things and my nights wondering why they don’t work • Volunteering with non-profit organisations since I was in high school — raising awareness about ongoing issues around the world has always been important to me • Events & Marketing Director for WAMSOC since December 2025 • Cast member of the Engineering Revue 2026 • Volunteering Subcommittee member for RAKSOC • Marketing Subcommittee member for the Chess Club • Joined the Archery Society this year because YOLO • My favourite thing to do is try new things and put myself out there (even when I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing) • Super crafty: I crochet, knit, and dabble in embroidery • Professional journal-er and scrapbook enthusiast • Have wanted to learn how to sew for years, but I’m scared I’ll break the sewing machine
[U] CHANGE YOUR CAMPUS • International student from Kazakhstan • 2025 Bachelor of Psychology • Volunteer in sex ed, charity fundraising, and research assistance • 2026 Honours in Sociology: colonization and queerness in Kazakhstan • Big fan of dismantling imperialist white supremacist capitalist cisheteropatriarchy • Gender ideology final boss
Hind L.
Oral Health II
• “I’m oral health, too.” • Westmead campus student, where there are no USU outlets or lecture recording equipment even though I pay SSAF. • Believes that our university should cover students’ dental equipment, instead of investing money in weapons companies.
Noor K.
Advanced Computing II
POLICY STATEMENT Confronted by reports of genderbased violence on our campus and in our society, we know one thing: if we don’t change the system, we will never change the culture. These stories do not exist in isolation. Misogyny and the rising presence of the manosphere risk permeating our student body and campus culture; we need policy that delivers a genuine, meaningful response to rising rates of gender-based and sexual violence. Our ticket is focused on making USyd’s response to gender-based violence faster, fairer and genuinely survivor-centred, by holding the University to the National Code. We will push for report and appeal timelines that meet the Code’s 45 and 20 business day requirements, introduce a Tell Us Once protocol so students aren’t forced to repeat traumatic disclosures across the University, and fund an independent GBV advocate through the SRC’s casework service. We will also campaign for automatic academic protections, safe housing relocation within 48 hours, publicly available deidentified data on the University’s GBV response, and real student oversight over how USyd’s GBV plan is developed and implemented.
Fight for equal procedural fairness for victim-survivors The National Code expressly requires procedural fairness for respondents in disciplinary proceedings. Its definition of procedural fairness specifically guarantees respondents an opportunity to answer prejudicial material. It does not provide an equivalent express right to the complainant. USyd states that its GBV complaint processes will be procedurally fair. We will fight to turn that general promise into clear rights for victimsurvivors. Implement a ‘Tell Us Once’ protocol The National Code says universities should, as far as possible, ensure victimsurvivors do not have to repeat their disclosure to multiple people. We will campaign for a Tell Us Once protocol at USyd. With the student’s consent, one trauma-informed disclosure and support plan should be capable of supporting their dealings with Safer Communities, faculties, special consideration, accommodation and other relevant University services. Students should not have to repeatedly recount traumatic experiences simply because different parts of the University do not communicate. Implement Automatic Academic Protection for Victim Survivors The National Code requires universities to support victim-survivors in achieving their educational outcomes and to consider and implement appropriate academic adjustments as part of individual support plans. Ensure Safe Campus Housing within 48 Hours
Slims, and Maia Toakley • Author of ‘The Secret to Surviving a Situationship is on the 440 Bus’ and ‘Rebel Rebel, Your Bar Is A Mess, Manning Bar, I Love You So: What Happened To You?’ • Editor of Women’s Honi (2025) and Growing Strong (2026) • Member of Flash for Honi (2025) #rip • Campaigned and made reels for James Green to successfully become USU board director #touchgrassvotegreen • Whimsical but tired Swimming, Cricket, and Soccer coach (2024-) • Cash Cow on Sunrise (February, 2026) • Best Senior Rower (2022)
William Ryan-McGinn Arts III
• Worked as a 2025 SRC Student Accommodation Officer to help campaign against university accommodation policies. • I’ve taken on an active and ongoing role in queer politics both on and off campus through a mix of roles. • Engaged in progressive activism and organising within Sydney as well as in regional NSW.
Saskia Morgan Design III
The victim-survivor should not be forced to relocate unless they want to, the default option should be relocation of the respondent where lawful and appropriate, no victim-survivor should pay additional rent or relocation costs because of GBV, emergency alternative accommodation should be available immediately where requested; and every USyd-affiliated accommodation provider should publicly demonstrate compliance with the Code’s 48-hour requirements. VOTE [1] CHANGE YOUR CAMPUS VOTE [1] AVA FOR PREZ VOTE [1] IMPACT FOR NUS
CANDIDATES
Felicity Errington
Economics/Advanced Studies III
• 2025-2026 Sexual Violence Officer • 2025 SRC Councillor • Multimedia Director for SUEDE • Co-Host of the 352 Show on SURG.FM • FilmSoc lover + Flodge member • Homebase truther, and lover of the Wilkinson Building
Grace Bowen Arts IV
CHANGE YOUR CAMPUS strives to make USyd a place where victim-survivors are believed, supported without delay, and never left to fight the system alone.
Marco Sgaravizzi
Liberal Arts and Science II
Marco Sgaravizzi
Change your Campus will…
Liberal Arts and Science II
Deliver mandatory 45-day turnaround for reports The National Code requires formal reports, including disciplinary processes, to be designed to conclude within 45 business days, and appeals within 20 business days. Extensions are only supposed to occur where they are required by the particular circumstances. Yet in 2025, USyd reported average resolution times of 52 business days for student-related complaints and 75
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business days for staff-related complaints.
• Member of ALP #studentunityforever • Secretary of SURG (2026) • Co-host a radio show with Saskia Ruth Morgan called the 352 Show • Co-creator of the 352 Zine • Interview bands for Honi Soit and SURG since 2024 including Radio Free Alice, Happy Mondays, Picture This, The
• Proud Trade Unionist • Proletarian Patriot
REPRESENTATIVES TO COUNCIL | • Unity is Strength
Damien Lee
Economics/Advanced Studies III • Director of Student Publications • PPESOC Treasurer • Editor of The Short Run • Professional Procrastinator
• This is my second year running in the SRC election
Yuki Cao
Jessica Huang Design II
Economics III
[V] PENTA FORWARD POLICY STATEMENT PENTA has long stood as the voice of international students in a SRC dominated by domestic student infighting. PENTA remains committed to transforming the SRC into a functioning body that recognises and delivers results for international students. In the past year, PENTA has campaigned alongside the SRC and SUPRA to take the Opal concession fight further than it has ever gone: a petition of over twenty thousand signatures debated in the NSW Parliament, a formal IPART recommendation that concession fares be extended to international students, and a commitment now written into the NSW Labor platform. When the subclass 485 visa fee increase hit, PENTA did not wait for the university to explain it. We produced videos breaking down what the change meant, in the languages and on the platforms international students actually use. We have also continued to support the 5-dollar canteen and the work of the International Student Collective. PENTA Forward will keep pushing until results land. If elected, we will fight to see the Opal concession delivered, not just recommended. We will keep explaining the policies that affect international students in their own languages, because international students come from everywhere, and no one should miss out on their rights because of the language they think in. We will organise more events that bring international students into the room, and hold the SRC accountable to the students it rarely sees. A SRC that works for international students is not a slogan. It is the job.
CANDIDATES
Jay Yu
Science/Law III
• International Student Officer, University of Sydney Students’ Representative Council (SRC): supporting international students, handling student enquiries, and participating in student advocacy and university consultations • Strong quantitative and financial analysis background, experienced with Excel forecasting, econometric analysis and MATLAB modelling through university projects • Experience in student engagement, event coordination and cross-cultural communication, including SRC campaigns, student events and external project collaboration
Maya Gao
Commerce II
Tony Gao
Commerce/Law III
At the same time, we are also strongly against racism, sexism, extremism, and in support of LGBTQ+ rights and a single, secular and democratic state of Palestine. We support the movements that demand that USYD cut ties with Israel, and aim to urge the school to relax the regulations on campus activism. Policy Statement: 1. Fair Work and Real Job Protection for All:
• High school international prefect 2023 • High school SRC member
Albert Pei
Mathematical Sciences III
We will build a strong support network to protect international students from wage theft and unfair treatment at work, create a direct warning system for bad employers and unpaid trial shifts, help students get support from the SRC Legal Service and Fair Work, and push the University to provide more transparent and accessible job listings on campus for international students. 2. Fair Fees and Clear University Spending:
• Co-Director, Jacaranda Stock Market Society • Interned in secondary financial markets (trading, investments and market operations) • Independent International Trade Initiative: self-directed project covering procurement, negotiation and global trade execution
Yuhan Zhang Commerce II
• I’m heading to the stars • SRC Councillor
Sally Weng Arts II
• This is my second year running in the SRC election
POLICY STATEMENT We are a group of Chinese international students who feel the SRC is slowly becoming a battleground between greedy careerists, rather than a council by students and for students. Our title, FREE FROM EXCLUSION, isn’t only about international students feeling excluded from school; it’s also about how students in general are being excluded and alienated from the very body that’s supposed to represent their interests. And we say that’s enough; we reject these norms and oppose the elites who believe they can use the SRC for their benefit. WE are going to take back control; WE are going to let the voices of the ordinary students be heard.
• Australia-China Youth Association (ACYA) Events Director • Photography Society Marketing Director • Business School Peer Mentor 2026
We will fight against unfair tuition fee increases and demand clear information about where student fees go. International students should not be treated as cash cows. We will push the University to put more money back into teaching, student services, facilities, and direct support for students. • Interfaith Officer, USYD Students’ Representative Council: represented student interests and supported initiatives promoting inclusion and intercultural engagement • Sydney Abroad Mentor, The University of Sydney: supported incoming exchange and study abroad students in adapting to university life in Sydney • Sustainability Ambassador, The University of Sydney: promoted sustainable practices and student engagement across the university community • Semester Exchange, ETH Zurich: completed a semester exchange in Switzerland and developed international academic and cross-cultural experience • Exchange Study, Shanghai Jiao Tong University: completed an intensive exchange program in China with a focus on mathematics • Scholarships: recipient of the Dalyell Global Mobility Scholarship, ViceChancellor’s International Scholarship, and Vice-Chancellor’s Global Mobility Scholarship for academic achievement and international mobility
[W] FREE FROM EXCLUSION
3. Fix Special Consideration: Simple, Fast, and Fair: We will push for a simpler and fairer Special Consideration system with clear rules, faster decisions, and more help for students who find the process difficult. We will also push for trained student support in faculties so no one misses out on academic help because of confusing forms, paperwork, or language barriers. 4. Protect Student Voices and the Right to Protest: We will stand against unfair restrictions, heavy security, and punishment aimed at peaceful student activism. We will defend the right of all students to speak, protest, organise, use banners, and take political action on campus without fear of unfair punishment from University management. 5. From the Masses, To the Masses (Put Students, Not Careerists, in Control): We will make the SRC more open and accountable by holding regular open meetings and student surveys, publishing what elected representatives are doing, and letting students directly shape our campaign priorities. Free from Exclusion will listen to students throughout the year instead of making decisions only inside SRC meetings. Vote [1] FREE FROM EXCLUSION
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CANDIDATES
Diego Chen Arts I
• Has CPTSD and works closely with Disability Support. • Knows way too many USYD staff and has somehow learned how the uni bureaucracy actually works. • Somehow still manages to stay positive and genuinely enjoys helping people. • Used to lead an online translation group for the STEINS;GATE fandom. • Former fanfic writer and merch seller at Shanghai Comicup. • Will happily rant about Chinese environmental policy to anyone willing to listen.
Clement Feng Arts III
• International student from Chengdu, Sichuan, China • Active participant in anti-war and progressive campaigns on campus • Delivered talks and contributed to discussions at reading groups and lectures organised by Chinese students • Conducted interviews with local residents to understand housing issues and the impact of redevelopment on local communities • Engaged with international students to understand concerns around affordability, cost of living and student welfare • Support greater participation and representation of Chinese and international students in the wider student community • Chinese internationalist and socialist • World of Warcraft player
Arno Huang Engineering II
• Arts (Political Economy & Studies in Religion) III • Berlin exchange survivor with an increased appreciation for functional public transit • Co-organised history & critical theory seminars and delivered lectures to 100+ students across unofficial Chinese international student reading groups • Volunteered in Tunisia; intimately familiar with navigating NGO bureaucracy • Absolute non-enjoyer of seafood; militant advocate for better campus food alternatives • Firm believer that student representation requires genuine engagement and significantly fewer generic emails
Jack Yang Arts III
[X] IMPACT FOR ACADEMIC WELFARE
Jessica Heap Arts/Law III
POLICY STATEMENT We’re a team of students who think university should challenge you academically, not financially or administratively. Because if we’re going to pay SSAF, we’d like to get something back for it. • $15 FREE PRINTING CREDIT FOR EVERY STUDENT, EVERY SEMESTER (Get what your SSAF fee is worth!) • More whiteboards and better communal learning spaces, including more BHBstyle learning hubs. • Cap late penalties at 5% per day. • Protect the 5-day simple extension for all students, including Visual Arts students. • Lecture recordings for every lecture, with limited exceptions for genuine privacy or teaching concerns. • BAN WEEKEND EXAMS. • Fix assessment scheduling so students aren’t given multiple major assessments on the same day or within unreasonably short periods. • Stand with University staff: support NTEU campaigns and actions for better working conditions and better conditions for students. • Streamline Academic Plans: End the requirement for students with chronic conditions to re-prove their status every semester. • Bring Back Take-Home Assignments: Push back against replacing take-home assessments with exams simply because of generative AI. • Clear Exam Guidelines: Require students to receive clear information about exam content, format and structure well before the exam. • A4 Cheat Sheets for Every Exam: Allow students to bring one A4 sheet into every exam, reducing reliance on rote memorisation and rewarding students who can identify and apply the most important course material.
• Member of • - SULS • - SASS • - SUTUS • Vote [1] Ava, Vote [1] IMPACT!
Edward Bell-Smith Economics II
• Natcon attendee 2025 • Member of Sydney University Trade Union Society • Vote [1] Ava, Vote [1] IMPACT!
Jonathan Gilliland Arts/Law III
VOTE [1] AVA FOR SRC PRESIDENT! VOTE [1] IMPACT FOR ACADEMIC WELFARE! VOTE [1] IMPACT FOR NUS!
CANDIDATES • Chinese international student who spent the secondary school and junior college life in Singapore. • Heart of Iron 4 player • Attended, built for and spoke at Student General Meeting 2025 in support of Palestine • Supporting one single, secular and democratic State of Palestine • Organise and active in USYD’s biggest Chinese Social Science Club (unofficial organization, but I bet you’ve seen the posters they put up around campus every week)
Yvonne Han Science III
Ewan Hatfield Economics I
• Member of USYD Labor Left • 2025 Vice-President USYD History Society • Vote [1] Ava, Vote [1] IMPACT!
[Y] PENTA FOR NEXT • Chinese international student who studied in Thailand from middle school through high school • Participated in USYD’s 2025 Student General Meeting • Participated in various left-wing protests related to Palestine and anti-racism, both on and off campus • Deeply involved in organizing activities and delivered multiple lectures for the Chinese Social Science Club and Chinese History Club at USYD (unofficial organizations, but I bet you’ve seen the posters they put up around campus each week) • HOI4 enjoyer
POLICY STATEMENT
• Hi! I’m Ewan, and I study Economics at the University of Sydney. I’m a member of the Sydney University Trade Union Society and I’m passionate about improving academic welfare and making sure students have a better experience at university. I’m running with IMPACT because I think students deserve a university that works for them.
PENTA has long been a strong voice for international students within the SRC. PENTA for NEXT is committed to advocating for more affordable and accessible university life for international students at the University of Sydney, while creating more opportunities for students to connect, participate, and enjoy campus life. Over the past year, PENTA has delivered practical support for students, including free flu vaccinations, free document translation services, support for establishing the $5 Canteen, and strengthening the relationship between FoodHub and the SRC. These efforts reflect our commitment to listening to students and pursuing practical outcomes through the SRC.
REPRESENTATIVES TO COUNCIL | PENTA for NEXT will continue to speak up for students and work constructively within the Student Representative Council. If elected, we will advocate for a wider range of accessible and diverse campus activities, explore opportunities to improve public transport affordability for international students, including the possibility of a 50% Opal concession, and support efforts towards more affordable student accommodation for international students. We will also continue to listen to students, raise issues that matter to them, and work with the SRC and relevant stakeholders to pursue practical improvements to student life.
• Student Representative Councillor (2026) • International Students Officer, International Collective (2025–2026) • Member, Chinese Association (2026) • Intern, Alibaba (2025) • UK High School Graduate — 50% Tuition Scholarship • Silver Medalist, Mathematics Olympiad
Lax Liu
Liberal Arts and Science II
• Early Participant, UMA Project (2025) • RWA Tokenisation Project — Smart Contract Support (2025) • Interests — Startups, Web3, RWA & Emerging Technologies • Hobbies — Reading, Gaming & Walking, with a Passion for Diverse Stories & Worldviews
Francis Tian Science II
9. Internships/ placements: Push for international student access to industry placements/internships without visarelated barriers. 10. Mental health: Push for more accessible, multilingual mental health support and counselling services, with shorter wait times for students in crisis. 11. Reopen International House. 12 Produce a International Student Orientation Guide - multilingual guide explaining: renting, transport, healthcare, employment, academic appeals, SRC services, legal assistance, emergency contacts 13. Extend equity and hardship schemes to international students facing the same financial pressures as everyone else
CANDIDATES
Louise Zhang
VOTE [1] AVA FOR PRESIDENT
Commerce II
VOTE [1] IMPACT FOR INTERNATIONALS VOTE [1] IMPACT FOR NUS
• Member of International Students Collective (2025) • Student Community Organiser, University of Sydney (2025) • 2× Gold & 1× Silver Medalist, 2025 IFBB Australia National Championships • Volunteer, 3rd Sydney Spring Gala Concert (2025) • Clienteling Specialist, Jincheng Huida Real Estate Co., Ltd. (2024)
• Student Council Representative (2026) • Economics & Social Sciences — Academic Background & Analytical Thinking (2024–Present) • Data Analysis — Statistical Analysis, Interpretation & Visualisation (2024– Present) • Microsoft Office — Word, PowerPoint & Excel (2024–Present) • Teamwork & Cross-Cultural Communication — University Projects & International Experience (2024–Present) • Problem-Solving & Adaptability — Practical, Responsible & Reliable Approach (2024–Present)
Liuhan Wan Science III
Thalia Zhu Science I
• Independent Project Lead — Research, Data Analysis & Presentation (2024– 2025) • Data Analytics Researcher — Python, R, Data Visualisation & Modelling (2024– 2025) • Sustainability & Economic Researcher — China–US Comparative Analysis (2025) • Interests — Coffee Culture, Hospitality & Community Building
Zhuangzhuang Zheng Commerce III
Lucas He
Commerce III
Economics (Adv) II
Liberal Arts and Science III • Member of International Students Collective (2025) • Vice President, Psychology Club (2022) • Registered Volunteer, Wildlife Conservation Organisation (2025) • Writing Competition Award Recipient (2025) • University Team Projects — Collaboration & Project Experience (2025) • Interests & Skills — Badminton & Piano
POLICY STATEMENT
• Co-Founder, Commerce Club (2025) • Leader, Korean Language and Culture Club (2024) • Peer Tutor — English Literature, Mathematics & Statistics (2024) • Amnesty International — Volunteer (2024-2025) • Te Ripoata, Writer (2024) • John Innes Memorial Prize for First in Year 13 English (2025)
Suryansh Tomar
Chenge Chen
[Z] IMPACT FOR INTERNATIONALS • Dalyell Global Mobility Scholarship (2025) • Teaching Assistant, Shanghai Jiao Tong University International Summer School (2026) • Teaching Assistant, New Oriental Education for IELTS (2025) • Member of University of Sydney Badminton Club • Student Researcher and Organiser for Interdisciplinary projects
CANDIDATES
• Football, pints, trivia and a bit of student activism • Events director - South Asian Business society • Treasurer- Sydney Uni Trade union Society • FASS peer Mentor (SEM 1 2026) • Team leader - AIESEC ( SEM 2 2025)
Yuki Wang
Science/M. Mathematical Sciences II
1. Reopen International House and push the University to increase affordable, subsidised accommodation places, while cracking down on price gouging by private student accommodation providers. 2. Push for international student access to industry placements/internships without visa-related barriers. 3. Push for more accessible, multilingual mental health support and counselling services, with shorter wait times for students in crisis. 4. Expand the $5 canteen beyond its current single location, so affordable meals aren’t limited to one side of campus. 5. Free, confidential visa and migration advice through the SRC.
• A driven Dalyell Scholar at the University of Sydney studying Data Science and Financial Mathematics & Statistics, passionate about applying quantitative and computational methods to real-world problems while pursuing leadership, STEM equity and personal disciplines including marathon running.
6.Campaign for affordable, studentcontrolled accommodation and an end to exploitative student housing rents. 7. Career expo: Run an annual International Student Career Expo for undergraduate students • Community Organiser, UNCB Community (2025)
8. Flying Turtle vending machines in every university building
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Khushi Parihar Science I
[AA] CHANGE YOUR SRC POLICY STATEMENT University is the place where students find their passion and voice. University students deserve a Student Representative Council that can represent them and fight for their issues. Our current SRC doesn’t work for students. It’s time to CHANGE YOUR SRC.
• Vice President - President, Interact Club (Rotary Sponsored) | 2023–25 • Founder & President, Technology Club Highschool • Manager & Volunteer, Scholars of the Future NGO | 2024–25 • Volunteer, Re-Juvi NGO | 2023–24 • IT Intern, BGS International Academia School | 2023–24 • Led 50+ students through community service food drive. • Coordinated volunteer teams and educational programs reaching 200+ students • Organised environmental initiative including roadside cleanup.
Sargun Saluja Law V
• Member of 20 clubs! • FASS lover • Course cuts hater • Putting Students First. • “Where there is tragedy and division, may we bring unity.” - JG • VOTE [1] CHANGE YOUR SRC
Genevieve Hannah Economics I
We’re promising to end the era of empty promises and no support. We’ll put students issues first. We’ll put student money back in student hands. We’ll bring CHANGE to your SRC. CHANGE YOUR SRC pledges to: 1. Change expensive campus life by working with the USU to extend the $5 lunches to breakfast and dinner, and open a low-cost grocery store on campus. 2. Change unfair exam timetabling by banning weekend, public holiday, and after 5pm exams and setting a universal 11:59 pm deadline for all assignments. 3. Change lacking student support by implementing the Change Desk to hear directly from students. 4. Change overcrowded classrooms by campaigning alongside teaching staff for smaller tutorials and more teachers. 5. Change to online voting to end voter harassment. 6. Change university mismanagement of gender-based violence by adopting the recommendations of the National Higher Education Code to Prevent and Respond to Gender-based Violence.
• Majors —> Econ & environmental studies • Member of Econsoc • Member of Geosoc • Member of Wastefighters • Member of USYD Fashion Revolution • Member of SURG • Proudly covered by the AWU (i work at a rage room) • Student unity forever
Ketharan Partheepan Commerce/Law II
CHANGE YOUR SRC, CHANGE YOUR CAMPUS, CHANGE FOR YOU. Vote [1] CHANGE YOUR SRC Vote [1] Ava for Prez Vote [1] Impact for NUS
CANDIDATES
Fionn Burke
• Law and Science student at the University of Sydney and former USU Board Director, committed to social justice, student rights and meaningful representation. • My advocacy has focused on supporting international students, accessibility, affordability, student welfare and ensuring marginalised voices are represented in university decisionmaking. • I am passionate about building a more equitable university community where every student can access support, participate meaningfully and have their interests represented. • I believe student representation should be grounded in social justice, equality and meaningful student power. I care particularly about affordability, international student rights, accessibility, student welfare and ensuring that students from marginalised backgrounds have a genuine voice in university decisionmaking. • I believe the SRC should be a strong, independent advocate for students and should challenge policies and structures that create inequality, rather than simply responding to problems after they arise. My priorities are building a more accessible and affordable university, strengthening protections for vulnerable students, and ensuring that student voices translate into tangible institutional change.
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Politics, Philosophy, Economics II • Founder & Vice President, Sydney University Tamil Sangam Community • Volunteer, Office of Dr Andrew Charlton MP • Advocated on community issues before Cumberland City Council • 2025 Federal Election Campaign Volunteer • Former cricketing prodigy (injury set back) • USYD PPE Society founder + inaugural President (2025-26) • USYD SRC Councillor (2026) • Australian Republic Movement National Youth Convenor (2026-28) • ALP Club General Executive (2025-26) • Would-have-been pro hooper if not for lack of skill • Bulldogs fan
Eleanor Low
Arts/Advanced Studies II
• Netballer • Unionist • Gym-goer • Reader • Philosopher • Philanthropist • Sugar addict • Doomscrolling enthusiast • Religious • Emotional • Competitive • Competent • Proud • Definitely electable for SRC
[AB] GRASSROOTS AGAINST RACISM POLICY STATEMENT
GRASSROOTS AGAINST RACISM is a ticket composed of people of colour fighting to dismantle racist, anti-migrant, and white supremacist structures from our university. Our struggles are interconnected. We aim to fight against racist rhetoric and policies that facilitate oppression. We recognise this oppression in increases to international student visa costs, the campaign to save Waterloo public housing, the gentrification of Redfern, cuts to the NDIS, and attempts to criminalise abortion around so-called Australia using racialised, anti-migrant tropes parroted by Pauline Hanson and the far-right.
Hugo Bendeich
GRASSROOTS AGAINST RACISM is committed to centring First Nations justice in our activism by advocating and materially supporting campaigns around the struggle for self-determination for First Nations peoples. USyd must decolonise and take a stand against all forms of racism, including antiIndigenous racism, anti-Palestinian racism, anti-migrant, antisemitism, and Islamophobic rhetoric. We will fight for increasing the accessibility of other reporting systems, e.g. for sexual violence, to ensure that individuals from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds get adequate support suited to their needs, while also pushing for a radical change that centres selfdetermination and liberatory struggle in our community.
• Student leader • UNHCR volunteer • Debater and film nerd • Mountain biker and bushwalker • Avid birdwatcher
GRASSROOTS AGAINST RACISM will campaign for in-person mental health support at no cost for students from culturally diverse backgrounds and/ or whose first or strongest language is not English. We will push the University to eliminate barriers by advocating for expanded education on intercultural understanding and eliminating racism. It is crucial to increase SRC caseworkers and support for people of colour navigating visas, study load, housing, and domestic violence. Similarly, the SRC must continue its support for Concession
Economics I
Neel Erande Arts I
REPRESENTATIVES TO COUNCIL | Opal cards for ALL students, including international and part-time students, as we recognise that the intersections of marginalisation people of colour face make part-time study more likely. GRASSROOTS AGAINST RACISM is committed to fighting for the liberation of all, by meaningfully supporting grassroots movements. We support the struggle for self-determination of all oppressed peoples, including the people of Congo, Kanaky, Palestine, Sudan, Turtle Island, West Papua, and Western Sahara. We will protest the Campus Access Policy and the Flag Policy, which serve to restrict free speech on the genocide in Palestine and other subversive ideas on campus. Support must continue for the BDS movement and cutting all ties with entities complicit in the colonial occupation of Palestine, including the USU ruling an end to all partnerships with key BDS targets (e.g. Coca-Cola, Nestle), and the University ending their exchange programs with Technion, Tel Aviv University, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. GRASSROOTS AGAINST RACISM will: • Pressure the University to meaningfully support First Nations self-determination, cultures, and forms of knowledge, make a public apology acknowledging the destruction of a sacred burial site where the Quad now stands, and return the skeleton of a Budjiti elder held hostage in the J.L. Shellshear Museum collection to Country • Support First Nations struggles by protesting white supremacist policies and structures of the colonial state, and platform climate justice and Land Back campaigns • Campaign for comprehensive implementation and regular revision of policy from the University to prevent and eliminate institutional racism, to be co-designed with people of colour, and have evaluations released annually • Increase the accessibility of reporting pathways and mental health services to better support individuals from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds • Expand education on intercultural understanding and the elimination of racism • Strengthen SRC support to assist with hardships disproportionately faced by people of colour • Continue to advocate for Concession Opal cards for ALL students • Fight for the freedom of all, supporting anti-racist, anti-colonial grassroots campaigns • Protest the Campus Access Policy, the Flag Policy, and other forms of oncampus restrictions of free speech on socio-political issues • Advocate for the adoption of BDS principles across all areas of the university VOTE [1] GRASSROOTS AGAINST RACISM VOTE [1] GRACE STREET FOR PRESIDENT VOTE [1] GRASSROOTS FOR NUS VOTE [2] FREE THE NUS
CANDIDATES
Pimala Leo Arts III
Maryam Z. Oral Health II
succumb to the spineless pinkwashing that falsely frames our struggles for liberation as conflicting with one another. We stand in solidarity with our Palestinian comrades in their fight for freedom, justice, and self-determination. There is no pride for some of us without liberation for all of us. GRASSROOTS FOR QUEER LIBERATION supports:
• Autonomous Collective Against Racism (ACAR) Co-Convenor 2026 • SRC Ethnocultural Co-Officer & Refugee Rights Co-Officer 2026 • Political Economy Society Equity Officer 2026 • Organiser for adopting BDS principles on-campus, including USU divestment campaign • ACAR member 2025• Wom*n’s Collective (WoCo) member 2026• ACAR Honi Co-Editor-in-Chief, 2026 • ACAR Honi contributor 2025, 2026 • BDS Youth member • Retail and Fast Food Workers’ Union (RAFFWU) member • Amateurish radio show host on SURG FM • Takes music trivia way too seriously • Maybe the shortest person you know
Sahar Tejani Science III
• Will shame you if you don’t boycott • Ethnically ambiguous, used to my advantage • Will dabble in the occasional community organisation
Nada Danawe
Applied Science II
• When I’m not drowning in placements, assignments, attendance, endless commutes and hurdle tasks I like participating in left-wing/anti-racist/ pro-Palestine activism :3
Blake Lai
Arts/Engineering III • Chronic eczema haver #dryskin • Has a concerningly parasocial relationship with the outdoor cat down his street”
[AC] GRASSROOTS 4 QUEER LIBERATION POLICY STATEMENT GRASSROOTS FOR QUEER LIBERATION believes queer students deserve to be safe and empowered to live authentically, free from all forms of oppression that impede and oppose their rights and freedoms, across all intersections of identity. Recent years have seen a horrific rise of the far right and the prevalence of blatant queerphobia and especially transphobia. These hateful agendas normalise bigotry and violence, vilify queer and trans people — alleging a “transgender insurgency” — and crack down on our rights and freedoms to live as we are. On campus, even basic needs for queer students to exist comfortably are unmet, with deadnaming on student ID cards and even in class, and the lack of gender-neutral bathrooms across campus. Further, the University has endangered queer students by inviting cops onto campus, trying to deport a trans student for writing on a whiteboard in opposition to the genocide in Palestine, and supporting the dangerous residential colleges, all while pinkwashing their harm with a Mardi Gras float. Meanwhile, anti-discrimination and self-ID laws are riddled with exemptions. Queer teachers at religious schools can be fired after coming out. Sex workers have no protection from discrimination. And trans inmates are forced to seek their jailers’ permission to be recognised as trans. Queerphobia leaves students more vulnerable to the cost of living crisis, to unsafe housing, and to discrimination at school, work, and in accessing health and support services. And queer people face disproportionate rates of violence and abuse, alarming mental health outcomes, and inaccessible medical care. All these prevent queer students from having safe and fulfilling lives and university experiences.
• 24/7 AUTONOMOUS SPACES: We will work with the Queer Action Collective (QuAC) and other autonomous collectives to advocate for 24-hour access to the autonomous spaces, which protect vulnerable communities and are hubs for politicised campus life. • CHOSEN NAMES ON STUDENT ID: We will advocate for Student ID cards to display chosen names, to reduce deadnaming on campus, and protect the dignity and autonomy of students. • COPS OFF OUR CAMPUS: We call for the University to stop bringing cops onto campus, and confront its complicity in all forms of violence against students. • SCRAP THE CAP: We will push for the repeal of the Campus Access Policy, which restricts students’ freedom of speech and their ability to protest injustice on and off campus. • PUBLIC STUDENT HOUSING: We oppose the University’s dangerous housing landscape, and will advocate for safe, affordable public student housing. Students are exploited for profit by residential colleges and private providers, which enable heteropatriarchal hazing and sexual violence. • DISCRIMINATION PROTECTIONS: We will agitate the SRC to fight for reform to the Sex Discrimination Act and Anti-Discrimination Act to remove exemptions that allow discrimination against queer and sex-working students. • SELF-ID FOR TRANS INMATES: Trans inmates deserve equal access to self-ID, to protect their autonomy and basic dignity in the dehumanising carceral system. • GENDER-NEUTRAL BATHROOMS: We will push for more gender-neutral bathrooms on campus. Queer and trans students shouldn’t face uncertainty about whether there is a safe and comfortable option, just based on where on campus they are. • GENDER AFFIRMATION LEAVE: We support the NTEU’s fight for improved gender affirmation leave provisions. Trans and gender-diverse staff shouldn’t have to choose between their income or job security and accessing medical appointments, legal name changes, counselling or recovery. VOTE [1] GRACE STREET FOR PRESIDENT VOTE [1] GRASSROOTS FOR QUEER LIBERATION VOTE [1] GRASSROOTS FOR NUS VOTE [2] FREE THE NUS
CANDIDATES
We reject the carceral idea that security guards, cops on campus, and the Campus Access Policy can protect us. Rather, our safety and autonomy are fundamentally tied to access to community spaces, services, public housing, and the freedom from all forms of discrimination. GRASSROOTS FOR QUEER LIBERATION supports a Free Palestine and refuses to
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Jamie Madsen Science/Law II
• History and Asian Studies double major • DisCo, WoCo and QuAC member • Occasional speech writer and marshaller • From the Blue Mountains • Perpetually reading Marxist theory, will take any opportunity to talk about classism as intersecting with everything • Prone to talking about the material state of Australia • Maybe a little bit too well-read on 20th century imperialism • Avid plane enjoyer
Ellie L.
• Member - Women’s Collective (WoCo) 2026• Member - Queer Action Collective (QuAC) 2026• Science Peer Mentor 2026 • Maths/Law student - obsessed with problem solving in both letters and numbers • Faculty of Science Dean’s Honours List 2025 • Academic Merit Prize 2025 • Mrs Elva Rae Talented Mathematics Students Initiative Award 2025 • Music librarian and amateur archivist SUMS Choir • Proficient in arguing with the USU • Occasional amateur ballet dancer • Part-time migraineur
Ydie Lardillier Arts II
Science IV
Shovan Bhattarai Arts III
• She/her • ADHD cat girlie • Treasurer for Sydney University Musical Society (SUMS) @ 2025-2026 • Voted most brainrotted at SUMS acadinner 2024 • At some point i will fulfill my destiny and be a hyperpop producer • Passionately hates AI • Bjork obsession • Englisch ist mein Lieblingsfach • Jk it’s physics (actually idk)
Music/Advanced Studies II
Chiara (Charles) Reeves Arts I
• They/them • Sydney Uni Musical Society Secretary (+ reigning holder of SUMS’ Most Brainrotted title) • Avid listener of Phoebe Bridgers (stream her new album!) • Probably wearing yellow right now
[AD] LEFT ACTION AGAINST HANSON POLICY STATEMENT Pauline Hanson and her far-right fascist party One Nation have seen a meteoric rise over the past year, and they want to make life worse for ordinary people, including students. Activists who are a part of Left Action have been leading the fight against the far right. One Nation wants to deport tens of thousands of migrants, strip women of maternity leave and make workers easier to sack, all while helping the billionaires get even richer. Hanson has particularly attacked muslims, helping to extrapolate the rising islamophobia and repression of the Palestine movement. international
students as possible to join the fight. If elected into the council next year, I will continue to do the same.
Jill McInnes Arts/Science I
Left Action was core to organising the National day of action against Hanson on August 13th. We think students have an important part to play in this struggle, and have always been a bulwark against the rise of the far-right. This was proven by the thousands of students who walked out of class to protest the rise of Hanson and her racist politics, becoming front page news. As Left Action, we want to fight back against Hanson and her racist supporters wherever they are. This means building a militant, fighting SRC which doesn’t seek to maneuver around One Nation, but rather, fights them head on, rejecting their racism, sexism and homophobia.
Dean I.
• SRC Queer Officer • Organising member of the SRC’s Queer, Disabilities’, and Women’s activist Collectives • Editor, Queer Honi, Disabled Honi, and Women’s Honi 2026 • Contributor, Queer Honi and Disabled Honi 2026 • Outspoken critic on the sexual violence policy of both USYD and the USU • Chaired a transformative justice workshop for the SRC’s Feminist Action Week 2026 • Represented Queer Space users in negotiations with the USU • Marshalled for and organised queer and disabled masking bloc at Protect Our NDIS rallies • Organiser of student contingent to Trans Day of Visibility rally, 2026 • Supporting organiser of a vigil for trans femicide • Birdcage flyerer • Uses they/them pronouns
students have also been a target, with rising house prices being blamed on migrants rather than landlords and property developers. Pauline Hanson must be resisted with protests that prove her fascist vision for Australia is unacceptable and that she has no place in politics.
• I’m an indigenous socialist activist, and have attended invasion day and other anti-racism marches for years. • I have been a part of supporting staff struggles within the NTEU (National Teritary Education Union). • I’m a member of Students for Palestine, and have promoted the Weapons Off Campus Campaign, a USYD student on the Global Sumud Flotilla and the multiple rallies which have occured all year. • I’ve part of the Socialist Alternative, and spreading a left wing message on campus, through consistent postering, reels and leafleting.
Max Dao
Commerce II
• Hi, I’m Shovan! • I’m a socialist activist because I think that we deserve more than the billionaire-tech-bro hellscape of modern capitalism we’re living in today, and I think students can play a key role in fighting against injustice and for a better world. • As the Vice President of the SRC this year, I’ve helped to push for an activist SRC that takes a stand on progressive issues and leads protests that mobilise students to fight for them. • I helped organise protests the rise of racism and the far right, including the Student National Day of Action against Hanson, and I’ve chaired counterprotests against the racist neo-nazi March for Australia rallies • I’m one of the national convenors of Students for Palestine, and led countless campus protests around this issue • I helped initiate the Gaza Solidarity Encampment in 2024, a weekslong protest opposing Sydney Uni’s complicity in the genocide in Gaza. • I helped organise the March for Humanity for Palestine across the Sydney Harbour Bridge - one of the biggest protests in Australian history! • I’ve stood with striking workers on picket-lines, including with Sydney Uni staff when they went on strike the last time in 2022. I can’t wait to extend the same solidarity to them this time! • I’m also running as the candidate for Newtown the NSW Socialists because I think that we need to build a socialist political alternative to the rotten politics of One Nation, Liberal, and Labor, that fights to put people before profit. • For all these issues and more, I’ve spent countless hours sticking up posters, handing out flyers, and doing everything in my power to encourage as many
• Hi, I’m Max! I am one of your SRC councillor from this year! • I have been part of organising marches Palestine since the week I got on campus two years ago. • I was part of the Sydney Harbor Bridge March where 300,000 people came to protest for Palestine. • I helped promote the National Day of Action against Pauline Hanson. • I’ve led the social media revamp for several activist groups, including Students for Palestine, the Sydney Socialists, the NSW Socialists and The Community Action against Racism and Fascism campaign group which has helped build protests and spread our hundred of thousands of people.
River Raghuraman Engineering/Science I
• Hi, my name is River!
REPRESENTATIVES TO COUNCIL | • I helped build and promote the Protest against the Labor Conference, in support of Palestine. • I stood in support of the Global Sumud Flotilla which aimed to bring aid to Palestinians. • I helped to build and promote the National Day of Action against Pauline Hanson and her policies against migrants, refugees and womens and workers rights. • I contributed to Students for Palestine and Socialist Alternative events to fight for an end to oppression.
Joshua Drielsma Arts III
• I’m a French-Australian student, three years in my dual degree with Sciences Po. I’ve done a Bachelor of Arts and am studying Economics & Philosophy here at Usyd. • Organised activist artistic & cultural events, workshops, and conferences on my campus at Sciences Po, as the CoTreasurer of the Arts Society. • Worked as an educator in family-based alternative child care at a Children’s Village in Belgium, with a special focus on mental health and primary & secondary education. • Volunteered in an association to welcome and exchange with the families of incarcerated individuals, in front of a prison in France. • Proudly supported the National Day of Action against Pauline Hanson as well as the NTEU strike by Usyd staff as a member of Socialist Alternatives. • Radicalised by economic history and sociology, determined anti-capitalist. • Committed to fighting the fascists globally, be it the Rassemblement National, One Nation, or the Alternative für Deutschland.
Agnes Ng
Arts/Advanced Studies III
• Hello I’m Agnes • I’ve been helping with building movements such as the harbour bridge march last year, student strike against Hanson, etc. • I’ve been overall helping out with promoting left wing politics and events on campus and hope to elect more activists into the src to fight for your rights as students.
Frances Johnson Science I
so that the concerns of international students are heard directly and reflected in meaningful advocacy. PENTA for CHANGE believes international student representation should be about more than just symbolism. It should mean affordable living, better opportunities, stronger communities, and a genuine voice in student politics. Stronger Voices. Real Change. Vote PENTA for CHANGE.
CANDIDATES
Cyrus Fung • Hi, I’m Frances (she/they) and I’ve been involved in socialist alternative since the beginning of the year :). • Earlier this year, I stood in solidarity with UTS staff during their strike against unfair wages, demonstrating to the bosses that they will not be allowed to place profit over people without consequence. • I participated in the freedom flotilla fundraiser to help raise funds for essential aid being sent to victims of Israel’s ongoing bombardment of the Gaza Strip and genocide of the Palestinian people. • I participated in the protest outside the Star casino against Gina Rinehart and Pauline Hanson, standing with dozens of fellow left-wing activists, and marched with hundreds of highschool and university students in the Say No to Hanson rally, protesting the rise of the far right and their racist, anti-immigrant views. • I plan to take an active role in the organisation of upcoming anti-facist movements such as the upcoming NTEU strike campaign and the anti-Hanson student strike next month, continuing my left wing activism and fight against the far right.
[AE] PENTA FOR CHANGE POLICY STATEMENT
Arts III
• Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, Peer Mentor Leader (2026) • Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, Student Partner (2026) • Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, Undergraduate Peer Mentor Award (2026) • Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, Peer Mentor (2026) • Sydney University Diplomats Society, General Subcommittee (2026) • Sydney University United Nations Society, Treasurer (2026) • University of Sydney Model United Nations, Best Delegate Award (2025) • University of Sydney Hong Kong Student Association, Administrative Subcommittee (2024)
Farrel Indrawan Engineering (Hons) I
• Academic Intern, Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR RI) | Jun–Dec 2025 | Produced 50–85 policy notes, reports and speeches while supporting research, constituent outreach and government events.
Aashray Goru Science II
Anu-Ujin Khulan Arts III
PENTA for CHANGE is a ticket committed to strengthening the voice of international students while fighting for practical changes that benefit the wider USyd community. International students contribute enormously to university life, yet many continue to face housing insecurity, high living costs, barriers to employment, and limited representation in student decision-making. We will advocate for stronger international student representation within the SRC and more consistent engagement with international student communities throughout the year. We will push for USyd to expand genuinely affordable student accommodation for both domestic and international students, while also supporting the revival of International House as an inclusive residential community that brings students from different backgrounds together. We will advocate for a dedicated platform connecting international students with affordable housing, internships, graduate employment opportunities, and practical support for navigating work and accommodation. Building on the advocacy efforts of the SRC and SUPRA, we will also support more affordable food options across campus, including expanding access to $5 meals and canteens. At the same time, we will work to build stronger links between the SRC and USyd’s cultural societies
• Marketing Assistant, Mongolian Society (USYD) • I’m really interested in creating spaces where people actually have equal access to opportunities, not just on paper, but in real life. I get motivated by helping those who need it and pushing back against unfairness. Basically, I believe in making things work the way they should, and I’m still figuring things out :) . Also, I’m an illustration artist and a total homebody when I’m not organizing something.
• Founder & Leader of 2UNITE4U a Community charity bridging urban and rural communities • Coordinated fundraising initiatives supporting three rural kindergartens with essential supplies • Mobilized fundraising campaigns and awareness initiatives for elder care support • Volunteer with Lantuun Dohio, advocating against domestic violence and sexual assault • International Ambassador volunteer to guide foreign judo athletes during the World Championship in Mongolia • General Secretary, SRC • International Students’ Officer, SRC where I led the International Students Collective, recruiting members and coordinating events to create an inclusive, representative environment • Publication Manager, Diplomats Society (USYD)
• Spotify listener (2020 - current) • Hungry • Casual McDonald’s crew member (2026) • Chair at DOWNMUN’DER (2026) • Marketing Subcommittee Member of the Sydney University United Nations society (2026) • Best Delegate award at CAMPMUN (2025) • Best delegate award at CSMUN (20222025) • High Commendation award at DRSMUN (2024) • High commendation at OAKBMUN (2024) • Vice captain of Rabindranath Tagore (2021)
Jess Kuo
Commerce I
• USYD Diplomat Society, Publications Officer (2026)
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| REPRESENTATIVES TO COUNCIL • USYD Diplomat Society, Publications Subcommittee (2026)
Jinqi Zhang Economics III
We aim to make academic resources easier and more convenient for international students to access, with support that reflects their needs. We will advocate for accessible after-class tutoring, course guidance, and academic support to help students navigate their studies with greater confidence. We will also work to reduce language barriers and make academic resources easier to understand and access, helping students find the support they need while reducing unnecessary academic pressure.
Sophia Zhou
Selina Zhao
• Leadership & Activities: • Event Team Member, Mandarin Dabate Society, University Of Sydney Supported the planning and delivery of activities, coordinating with team members to ensure smooth event operations and engaging participant experiences • Event Team Member, Penta, University Of Sydney • Supported international student events and promotional initiatives, helping enhance engagement and welfare among undergraduate international students through event coordination and outreach • Chief Coordinator, Class of 2024 Graduation Committee, Vanke Meisha Academy • Led the planning and execution of graduation events, including the ceremony and prom, while directing the graduation video and coordinating yearbook design. • Strength: • Strong communicator and outgoing personality • Clear goal setting and planning • Extensive event planning & leadership experience • High execution ability • Innovative problem-solving • Effective resource management (team support & leadership) • Fun facts: • Once ran a mental health awareness pop-up event for my entire high school • Wrote, directed, and produced my own high school graduation video from scratch • 70% of my items are in pink
• Internship & Research Experience: • Intern, China Construction Bank, Shenzhen Branch • Supported branch operations and assisted with corporate banking work, including document review and confidential business data. • Consulting Analyst Intern, Frost & Sullivan • Conducted industry and market research across sectors including new energy, intelligent manufacturing, and consumer goods. • Research Assistant, University of California, Irvine • Supported research on adolescent AI use and psychological well-being through data organisation, validation, and quality checking. • Leadership & Campus Experience • Sexual Violence Officer, Student Representative Council, University of Sydney Participated in student advocacy and education related to sexual violence prevention, campus safety, and student rights. • Dance Club President • Led the dance club of a large high school with around 800 students per grade, organising regular training and school-wide performances. • Events Team Member, Chinese Debate Society, University of Sydney Assisted in organising debate, social, and cultural events, including event planning and logistics coordination. • Member, Penta, University of Sydney • Participated in student community activities, public affairs, and event promotion. • Strengths: • Organized, reliable, and attentive to detail. • Good at planning and turning ideas into action. • Strong teamwork and communication skills. • Comfortable working with people from different backgrounds • Interests & Fun Facts: • Sing alto and enjoy vocal performance. • Enjoy dancing, debating, and taking part in campus activities. • Interested in student advocacy, campus life, and community engagement.
Psychology II
Commerce II
Better Transport, Safer Access
Evelyn Wong Arts III
For many international students, high housing costs mean living further from campus. Long commutes can increase travel costs and create safety concerns, especially at night. PENTA for VIVA will advocate for more campus buses and expanded routes connecting campuses with key student areas, providing students with more affordable, reliable, and safer ways to get to and from university. PENTA for VIVA Your Voice. Your Rights. Your Future
• Account Member of Netflix (2022-current) • Active Member of KFC (2024-current) • FASS3999 Groupmate with Cyrus Fung (2026) • Facebook Community Member in USYD New Students (2024)
Sherlock Tsang Applied Science III
PENTA for VIVA is more about turning student voices into meaningful change. We will try our best on building a stronger international student community — one where every student has a voice, knows their rights, feels a sense of belonging, and has the opportunity to make the most of their university experience. We believe representation should mean more than speaking on your behalf. It means listening to your concerns, standing up for your rights, and turning your ideas into meaningful action. We don’t just represent international students. We stand with them.
CANDIDATES
Alice Mo
Liberal Arts and Science I
Remi Li
Media and Communications I
• Clinical placement – Royal North Shore (Physiotherapy) (2026)
[AF] PENTA FOR VIVA POLICY STATEMENT
PENTA is an organisation advocating for international students at the University of Sydney. We work to strengthen international student representation, amplify student voices, and create greater opportunities to participate and connect through campaigns, events, and engagement with bodies such as the SRC and USU. PENTA for VIVA is built on four principles: Voice, Inclusion, Vitality, and Action. We want to create a university experience where international students are heard, included in the community, supported in their studies, and empowered to make the most of university life. Through VIVA, we turn these principles into practical support and meaningful action for international students at the University of Sydney. Accessible Academic Support
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• 2022–2025: Director of the Publicity Department, Model United Nations, Guangzhou Ulink International School • 2022–2024: Director of the Arts and Entertainment Department, Student Union, Guangzhou Ulink International School • 2024: Shortlisted for the John Locke Essay Competition, with an essay on the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict • Interests: Football; Chinese calligraphy — Grade 9 in Chinese Cursive Script (Cao Shu) • Food preferences: Dislikes coriander • Favorite food: Gelato
• Volunteer tutor, rural education volunteer teaching initiative • High school volunteer association activity coordinator • Independent social media content creator with over 10k followers • Enthusiast of volleyball, badminton, basketball, frisbee and swimming
Flora Fan
Psychology II
REPRESENTATIVES TO COUNCIL | • Chilly guy • Instruments – I’ve learned piano for 5 years, and I’m learning DIZI now • Sports – I got silver and bronze medal during high school
Bella Xia
Liberal Arts and Science II
community. We’ll deliver more free events and student activities, support student societies and organising, improve student spaces, and ensure students have a stronger voice in shaping campus life. Affordable Drinks before 12pm: Campaign with the USU for $2.50 hot drinks and $3.50 iced drinks. Free Welcome Week Packs: Give students free SRC Welcome Week merch and useful campus essentials, with SRC HOODIES?
into a student-led body which actually represents young people and their interests, and empowers a community who speaks out for what students actually care about - not just what we’re told to speak up for.
• Sexual Violence Officer 2025 • Director of Student Publications 2026 • Sydney Uni Trade Union Society Inaugural Treasurer and constitution writer • NUS conference frequenter, come to DivCon @ UOW 28, 29, 30 of September
Sophie Scanlon
D’Arcy Cooper Ayres
Politics, Philosophy, Economics II
Arts II
Moonlight Cinema: Run a free outdoor movie night during Welcome Week, with more free SRC events throughout the year. Free Fortnightly BBQs: Take the SRC to students with regular free food, outreach and opportunities to raise issues directly with their representatives. • Keen on taking photos and skilled in photography • Keen on fandoms • Skilled in video editing • Gold medal in Latin dance • Enjoy playing badminton
Lingyue Jia Psychology II
Overturn the Campus Access Policy: Stand up for students’ rights to protest, organise and campaign on campus without restriction. Campus Essentials: Expand access to free menstrual products, condoms, basic sanitary products and other essentials through SRC and USU spaces.
• Member of PPESoc • Passionate about music and teaching!
Edu Setiawan Arts II
• Member of USyd Labor Left • 2026 President of Sydney Uni Trade Union Society
Bianca Cheng Science II
Student Arts & Culture Budget Line: Support student-led exhibitions, performances, screenings and cultural events on campus through initiatives such as Radical Education Week! Free Pill Testing: Partner with qualified harm-reduction organisations to provide free, confidential drug-checking services to students. Campus After Dark: Campaign for USU venues like Courtyard Cafe to stay open until 8pm for after-class summer socialising.
• Learned Taekwondo for 4 years • Enjoy playing badminton
Gigi Chi
Psychology II
Revitalise End-of-Week Campus Culture: Host regular Friday afternoon acoustic sets, local student DJs, food trucks, and free fortnightly outreach BBQs. Better Communal Learning Spaces: Advocate for more whiteboards and upgraded communal learning hubs across faculties. Launch a student-run exchange hub for textbooks, lab coats, art materials, etc and housing equipment to cut waste and lower upfront semester costs.
• Political Economy Major • International Relations Minor • 2026 DIPSOC General Subcommittee • 2026 PPESOC Publications Subcommittee • 2026 Sydney University Trade Union Society • (Formerly) 2026 ANUSA Genrep • SRC Enjoyer • I love Madonna
• Science baddie, keen to support Ava for Prez!! <3
Leila Austin
Science (Advanced) II
Daniel Holland Arts IV
VOTE [1] AVA FOR PREZ VOTE [1] IMPACT FOR CAMPUS LIFE VOTE [1] IMPACT FOR NUS • Running to support Ava for Prez!!
CANDIDATES • I am majoring in Psychology and minoring in Marketing • I am working as an independent nail technician at my home-based salon • I am a CAT LOVER • I’ve worked across customer service and hospitality • I am trilingual, fluent in Cantonese, Mandarin and English • My other hobbies include baking and singing • I grew up in Hong Kong and studied in New Zealand and Australia • I was in HKSA event team as a subcommittee
[AG] IMPACT FOR CAMPUS LIFE POLICY STATEMENT We’re committed to building a more connected and affordable campus
Taylah Hunter
[AH] PENTA FOR PROSPER
Arts I
• Usyd refugee rights officer 2024
Lucy Sullivan
Arts/Advanced Studies III
• I am a passionate advocate for the rights and dignity of women (especially those impacted by domestic violence), the inclusion of regional communities, and the amplification of young people’s voices and recognition of their power. At the University of Sydney, I care about integrating all of these values
• Student of film
POLICY STATEMENT PENTA is a party that not only has a long history of bridging the gap between international students’ needs and The University of Sydney, but also a party that aims to progress forward. PENTA is constantly dedicated to working out more valuable outcomes for international students to collectively share a more promising future, and to contribute to this expected prosperity, we are always fighting to bring changes to SRC. We will not stop grinding, and your voices truly fortify our stand. Over the past years of working, we developed more opportunities on Opal cards that allow more international students to get higher affordability on the high transport costs in Sydney. Moreover,
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| REPRESENTATIVES TO COUNCIL PENTA was pushing the progress of the five-dollar canteen for the good of more students. These achievements have made remarkable improvements to the lives of international students, and these efforts will continue to be our focus until the rights of International Students become more solid. In this selection attempt, PENTA For PROSPER will be working on improvements to more diversified events for international students’ societies to enrich the lives of international students in order to increase their sense of belongings for The University of Sydney. Moreover, we are aiming to negotiate better solutions for discounted meals for international students. A secure living on campus is also what we are fighting for. The International House has recently been closed, which reduces the range of options for international students to live more affordably and more conveniently.
Hanyu Li Science II
Ethan Chen Arts I
Sky Or
Commerce/Law II
CANDIDATES
Niko Jing
Helena Zhou
Arts III
• Chill Guy
Tina Zhang Commerce II
Commerce I
• Deputy Director of Planning Department, ACISC (2025-2026）
Bohan Zhang
Project Management III • Secretary-General of Australia Chinese International Student Club (ACISC) (2026) • Member of the Events Subcommittee of New South Wales Chinese Students and Scholars Association (NSWCSSA) since 2025 • Yinghua-Bond International College Scholarship (2020) • China Soong Ching Ling Foundation, Chinese and Japanese youth international exchange (2019) • Band leader and lead guitarist in high school (2022)
Crystal Chen
• Member of Public Relation subcommittee of Australian Chinese International Student Club (ACISC), (2026) • President of the External Relations Department (High School) • Guangzhou Messenger Activity (2024, Organizer) • Organizer of School Exchange and Communication Events (High School) • Member of High School Student Council (2024–2025)
Jessie Yu Science I
Science III
• Holding a Queensland high school diploma (ATAR) • Two internship experiences • Chinese National Level 2 Swimmer • Basketball Lover • Music lover: Maroon 5 is my favourite singer
[AI] PENTA FOR ALL POLICY STATEMENT
• Mentor - Science Peer Mentoring Program Semester 1 ( 2026) • Director of Secretariat Department, Australian Chinese International Student Club (2026)
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and advocate for international students through the SRC. If elected, our priorities this year will be securing fairer representation and more affordable housing. In particular, we will advocate for the reopening of International House, a student accommodation facility specifically designed to meet the residential needs of international students before its closure in 2020.
CANDIDATES
• Member of Planning Subcommittee of Australian Chinese International Student Club (ACISC), (2026) • Member of High School Student Council (2025) • Winter ball organiser (2024) • Chinese New Year activity organiser (2024) • Intern, Food Research & Development Department, Sino-German Medical Materials Centre (2026 • Responsible for dessert preparation, product presentation, and customer sales. (2025）
We are fighting for the prosperity of the university and for the rights of international students all around the globe, and PENTA will not stop fighting for our rights.
experience in copywriting and shortvideo production • Able to coordinate team tasks and create trend-oriented content • Open to feedback and continuously improve based on it
• Member of media subcommittee of Australian Chinese International Student Club (ACISC), (2026) • Self-motivated and quick to adapt to interdisciplinary study • Logical and detail-focused, with strong time management skills • Able to effectively balance academic and extracurricular commitments • Confident in teamwork and communication • Possess basic marketing insight, with
Over the years, PENTA has remained committed to improving the international student experience and strengthening international student representation within the SRC. Through the International Student Collective (ISC), PENTA has actively listened to the concerns of the international student community and proposed practical solutions. Our key initiatives include advocating for Opal card concessions for international students and improving the $5 meal program on campus. PENTA for ALL will continue to support
• General Executive of USYD Chinese Law Student Society (2026) • Marketing Team Manager of USYD Hong Kong Student Association (2026) • USYD Law School Peer Mentor (2026) • Education Coordinator of Sydney University Law Society (International Portfolio) (2026) • Career/Sponsorship Subcommittee of Australia-China Youth Association (2026) • Academic Tutor of Edu-Kingdom College • Big fan of Cristiano Ronaldo • Love crabbing
Nico Zhao
Commerce/Law II
• University of Sydney accounting society international portfolio director • Chinese law student society publication subcommittee member • USYD Business school peer mentor • SULS international student guide editor • Tutoring company English department manager • I can play the guzheng!!! • Please do not play video games with me I genuinely lack this skill • I am pro at murder mystery/social deduction games though
Angus Chan Science/Law III
REPRESENTATIVES TO COUNCIL | • Intern at PwC (2026) • Subcommittee member of Chinese Law Students Society (2026) • President of Hong Kong Student Association (2025) • High school basketball team member
• Trying to venture into film photography • Love animals
Adrian Chan
Commerce/Law II
Hannah Wilkins Science I
Olivia Campbell Arts I
introvert online but extrovert in person (probably typically ENFJ/P as my mbti).
Kevin Chen Arts IV
Skye Tsang
Pharmacy (Honours)/M. Pharmacy Practice I
[AK] PENTA FOR HEXA POLICY STATEMENT PENTA for HEXA believes university should be more than lectures, assignments and exams - it should be a community where every student can participate, connect and belong.
• The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award – Bronze Award • President, High School Boardgame Society, 2024 • Member, Auckland Youth Orchestra, 2024 2025 • North Island Brain Bee Neuroscience Competition, Team Final Round, University of Auckland, 2023 • 3rd Place, Senior Violin Instrumental Section, South Auckland Performing Arts Competition Society Annual Competition, 2023
• HKSA Treasurer 2026 • WC&Co Paralegal 2026 • SULS Equity Support Officer 2026 • Beta Gamma Sigma Honour Society Member 2026 • School Vice Captain 2024
Daniel Kang
Commerce/Law II
Lachlan Lee
Commerce/Law III • Team Leader of USYD 180 Degrees Consulting 2026 • High School Prefect • Ranked 1st in high school debating • Enjoy playing basketball • Love reading dystopian literature
[AJ] ACTIVATE FOR SIMPLE EXTENSIONS • USYD HKSA Treasurer (2025) / Sponsorships (2026) • USYD Jazz Society Treasurer (2024) / Outreach Officer (2025) • USYD Student Ambassador • Freelance Photographer • Table Tennis Coach
Jessica Yu
Commerce/Law II
POLICY STATEMENT Sick of socialists protesting out on Eastern Avenue whilst simple extensions are at risk of being cut? Vote for an SRC that is actually focused on issues on campus, rather than aimlessly protesting and disrupting your classes.
We will strengthen connections between international and domestic students through social, cultural and academic activities, while supporting student societies and initiatives that create genuine opportunities for new friendships and communities. Beyond engagement, we will advocate for the everyday concerns of international students, including affordability (scholarships), accommodation (more adequate on- or near- campus housings), transport (the Opal Card Campaign), academic support and fair representation within the University. HEXA stands for Happy Engagement for Existing All. With PENTA for HEXA, we want every student - regardless of background, language or nationality - to have a voice, find their community and experience everything that university life can have to offer.
Nikolaos Hatzistamatiou
Politics, Philosophy, Economics I
Thalia Qian
Liberal Arts and Science I
Alex Liu
Science/Dr. Medicine I
We’ll advocate for:
CANDIDATES
• (Volunteer) • Supported the execution of multiple live concerts and artist tours in Sydney, working with organisers including Moya Culture, Magic Sound Entertainment, iMe Australia, ANZ Music and BoxLive, with experience across ticketing, crowd management, merchandise operations, backstage coordination, artist assistance and volunteer team coordination. • Served as a Planning Team Member for the 2026 S1 Chinese Students’ Association Welcome Party, contributing to event planning, programme design and on-site execution. • Served as an Event Consultant for the 2026 S2 Chinese Students’ Association Welcome Party, providing advice on event planning, programme design, activity development and overall event execution.
CANDIDATES
Vote [1] ACTIVATE FOR SIMPLE EXTENSIONS to change that! • Retention of all 5-day simple extensions • Expansion of simple extensions to group assignments • $5 pints at on-campus venues after 6pm • A focus on governance and not politics • Vote now to ensure your SRC is focused on you! Vote [1] ACTIVATE FOR SIMPLE EXTENSIONS.
• Sydney University Law Society Competitions Convenor (2026) • Sydney University Law Society Design Subcommittee Member (2026) • University of Sydney Accounting Society Events Subcommittee Member • Australian Chinese Youth Association Careers and Sponsorships Subcommittee Member • USYD Business School and Law School Peer Mentor (2026)
Representing the voices of international students while welcoming all, we aim to break down the barriers that leave students disconnected from campus life. We will advocate for more accessible, inclusive and culturally diverse events, with better communication so students can easily discover opportunities to participate.
• Bilingual Mandarin and English, Passive (but learning) Cantonese. • Vice President of Student Council in high school. • The President’s Volunteer Service Award (Gold) in the United States. • Participated in many scientific and health-related activities / research / competitions (obtained many awards) / shadowing / volunteering / training... • Opened up a tea shop in high school cafeteria area with friends. • Love singing, hiking, badminton, watching movies, race cars, magic tricks, reading, maths, science, and sooo many more!! • Met some idols in above fields, took photos with them, and asked for signatures (hiahiahia:) • Love chatting with friends, usually
• Loves anything passionate, energetic • Enjoys teamwork, event planning, coordination, and turning chaotic ideas into organised plans • WeTalk 3rd Place Award • Planned and coordinated multiple school cultural festivals and New Year celebrations • Researched Journalism and Stage Lighting at HSYLC • Experienced in team collaboration, project coordination, and event organisation • Always excited to bring ideas to life and make things happen
Jessie Han
Liberal Arts and Science I
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| REPRESENTATIVES TO COUNCIL • Industry analyst intern of Red Arrow (Shanghai) Private Fund Management Co.,Ltd 2025. • Strong interest in event planning and student engagement. • Basic video editing and digital content creation. • Created short-form digital content and experimented with different approaches to student-oriented communication. • I am usually happy to volunteer for the behind-the-scenes work, also like coming up with random ideas and seeing which ones actually work.
• Won Finalist (Top 4) for Media Case Competition, UNSW Advertising and Public Relations Society. • Won First Place for Mi (Xiaomi) Campus Ambassador Cup x UNSW Chinese Students Association Business Case Competition. • and some more secrettt talentsss...!! :))
Orlando Yang Commerce III
Wenxuan Ding Science III
Charis Liu Science I
Sarah Sun
Economics/Law I
• Multitasker • MBTI - INTJ • String orchestra (2022–2025) - violin • Interests - baking, matcha, music, CD collecting • Shanghai • Love walking and traveling. • Love to try out different kinds of food and restaurants.
Andy Shi
Commerce I
• Assisted EY audit teams with interim and year-end audits, fieldwork, and working paper preparation for multiple clients. • Prepared revenue, cost, and expense breakdowns for utility company and analyzed financial data. • Taught small-group AEIS classes, helping students improve English skills and exam techniques. • Delivered financial literacy workshops to secondary school students and helped design and present educational games. • Bilingual in Mandarin and English. • Enjoy watching movies and going for walks. • Enjoy drinking, especially beer.
Kacey Wu Arts II
[AL] PENTA FOR STUDENT FIRST
Jack Liao
Commerce III
Zhengning Huang
Liberal Arts and Science II
PENTA for Student First is committed to putting students first and delivering practical improvements to everyday university life. We believe effective student representation starts with listening to students, understanding their concerns, and turning their voices into meaningful action. With the rising cost of living placing increasing pressure on students, we will continue to advocate for student access to Opal Card concessions and work towards making transport more affordable and accessible. We will also advocate for a free daily breakfast at the Fisher library, providing students with practical support that is accessible to everyone on campus. We will push for more accessible sporting facilities and greater opportunities for students to participate in sport and physical activities. We believe sport is more than exercise — it encourages healthy habits, brings students together, builds friendships, and creates a more active and vibrant campus community. PENTA has a strong history of representing international students. PENTA for Student First will build on this experience while ensuring that all students, regardless of their background, degree or nationality, have their voices heard. We will also support more social, cultural, sporting and student-led activities that strengthen connections between domestic and international students and create a more inclusive campus.
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• Mensa member • Netflix watcher • Claude Code user • U League Premier Basketball player • Dongguan Hongyuan Basketball Club fan • Duke of the Principality of Sealand • 365-pixel photographer
POLICY STATEMENT
By supporting PENTA for Student First, students will have a team that listens, communicates and works towards practical outcomes. We will put students first and work towards an SRC that delivers meaningful results for the entire student community.
• Previous Secretary for the University Network for Influencers and Creators at the University of Sydney.
• Basketball player, University of Winnipeg Collegiate basketball team & U League D3 • Boxer, 5 years of training experience • Artist for 10 years, international gold medal winner • Former school host at Mingde High School • Featured on Hunan TV’s Shaonian Shuo • Photography lover, member of Hunan Photographers Association • Snooker and tennis lover, currently learning guitar and singing
• Kpop lover, Twice most loyal fan • Never tired of having Macca’s • RSAT certificate • Photography lover • Sports lover — always ready for football, basketball, or basically anything competitive • Football addict — can somehow turn every conversation into • Skiing enthusiast — happiest when going downhill at unreasonable • Gym enthusiast — goes for the workout, stays for the mirror check • Gamer when not exercising, skiing, or pretending to be productive
Kaili Luo
Science/Advanced Studies IV
Yunshuo Chi Science III
• Former member, Hong Kong U17 National Preliminary Squad • 50m freestyle Volunteer for JC Volunteer Together Platform (The Hong Kong • Jockey Club Charities Trust) • Elderly Community Service 2023 • Trilingual in English, Cantonese, Mandarin • Mbti: INTJ • Chill guy • Genetics & astrophysics enthusiastProfessional homebody • Gamer, book & comic reader, anime & movie watcher • Music lover • Drawing & calligraphy enthusiast • Boxing enthusiast • Indoor activity specialist • Life motto: “If I can lie down, I won’t stand. If I can sleep, I won’t just lie down.” • Occasional cosplayer, full-time idiot
Ritchie Wei Commerce III
REPRESENTATIVES TO COUNCIL | • Accounting and Finance Student • Real Madrid FC Fan • Ex-executive in USU clubs • Modern Fashion Lover • Enthusiastic Chinese History Reader
CC Qin
Media and Communications II
Charlotte Hu Arts (Honours) II
Yusen Qiu
Advanced Computing III
ruling class be reinstated, and condemn their hostile hypocrisy in pulling up the ladder behind them. We intend to lead the fight to scrap the Job Ready Graduate Scheme, and refuse to submit to the malicious defunding of humanities and fine arts courses across higher education. WE SHOULDN’T HAVE TO BE IN DEBT FOREVER TO GET A DEGREE!!!! FREE EDUCATION FOR ALL IS COMMITTED TO:
• Backend and Al development enthusiast • Local Al voice assistant builder • YOLO livestock detection system developer • Agile team project survivor • Tennis player with a one-handed backhand • Japanese kitchen knife collector • Home cook and occasional baker • Basketball and whisky enthusiast • Professional Git conflict resolver • Always ready to help organise the next student event
[AM] PENTA FOR FUTURE
• Really enjoy socialising, meeting new people and joining different activities • Love taking photos, especially scenery and everyday moments, and often help friends take photos • Enjoy journaling, plants and flowers • Joined a university community activity making knitted toys with older adults • Helped organise a handmade toy charity sale, with money donated to a local children’s hospital • Took part in different volunteering and fundraising activities, such as the Terry Fox Run and 30 Hour Famine • Enjoy meeting people from different cultural backgrounds and making new friends
Ataflow Li
Liberal Arts and Science II
POLICY STATEMENT
[AN] FREE EDUCATION FOR ALL
PENTA for FUTURE is a team of international students, with women forming the core of our team and most of us studying Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. Our backgrounds give us a strong interest in culture, community and everyday student experience. We want to bring a different perspective to the SRC and focus on practical issues that students can actually feel in their daily lives. Our Policies Portable charger rental on campus: Advocate for portable charger rental stations in libraries, study spaces and other busy areas on campus. If students forget their charger or run out of battery, they can easily borrow one instead of having to buy a new charging cable, ask others for one, or go back home to get it, helping avoid unnecessary disruption to their study
POLICY STATEMENT
• Major: Psychology and Criminology • Hospital Internship Experience • Education Studies: Completed elective coursework in Education • Certification: TESOL Certificate holder
Cindy Dou
Media and Communications II
More opportunities for international students: Push for more internships and work experience opportunities that are open to international students, with more practical career support. More diverse social events: Support more events that bring international and domestic students from different cultural backgrounds together, helping students meet people outside their usual social circles.
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• Second-year Bachelor of Arts student, majoring in Education Studies and Digital Culture • Current GPA of 81 (HD level) • Holds a valid Working With Children Check (WWCC) • Volunteer experience supporting children with disabilities and rural teaching programs for left-behind youth • Experience providing companionship and practical support for elderly people in community settings • Experience tutoring Chinese- and English-language learners • Strong teamwork, coordination and communication skills • Interested in digital literacy, AI ethics in education and equity in digital society • Interested in developing leadership and teamwork through community-focused projects
• Experience working in a customer service environment • Experience working as an event hostess • Strong teamwork and collaboration skills • Responsible, organised and reliable • Strong ability to learn and adapt to new environments • Interested in volunteering and contributing to the community • Enjoy fitness and outdoor activities
FREE EDUCATION FOR ALL is a ticket dedicated to the struggle for free, fairer, accessible education for students nationwide. Against the backdrop of a cost-of-living crisis skewed to punish students, the University continues its onslaught of attacks against education with expansions on on-campus repression, course cuts and artificial intelligence at the expense of both staff and students. FREE EDUCATION FOR ALL is committed to standing along staff at the picket line throughout and beyond the Enterprise Bargaining period. As fees only increase, making education less and less accessible to anybody but the elite, the University unabashedly defunds entire faculties, busts staff unions, and expands its dirty investments to work against the best interests of students while silencing anyone who dares to speak out. We fiercely oppose repression in all forms, including the draconian Campus Access Policy, and demand for the removal of this racist intimidation tactic. As one of the most notoriously elitist campuses in Australia, the University of Sydney disproportionately discriminates against the working-class, disabled, international, Indigenous and other students of colour. We assert our commitment to intersectional, educational justice amidst the wave of rising fascism. FREE EDUCATION FOR ALL outright condemns the anti-working class infrastructure of the University, which routinely implements hurdles which bar working-class and marginalised students from accessing the same education as the elite. We DEMAND that very same free education that empowered the
• Expanding the Education Action Group to advocate for the University’s satellite campuses in Westmead and The Con • BDS Principles and Investment Transparency, NO to weapons ties and fossil fuel investments • Holding the University accountable for its discriminatory infrastructure; ensuring that accessibility measures are met across all buildings and overhauling the anti-working-class infrastructure • Eliminating the Job-Ready-Graduates scheme and making education FREE for all students, regardless of sector (arts/ humanities) or residency status • Fighting against course cuts and staff cuts • Fighting against censorship and against repressions to student and staff activism • Asserting the independence of our student union against threats posed by management and the University and fighting for staff right for industrial action • Standing with staff during Enterprise Bargaining and with the union • Standing AGAINST fascism and the farright and continuing student activism against this threat to our democracy VOTE [1] GRACE STREET 4 PREZ VOTE [1] FREE EDUCATION FOR ALL VOTE [1] FREE THE NUS
Dana Kafina Arts/Science II
• BDS Youth organiser (2023-) • USyd Ethnocultural Officer & ACAR convenor 2025 • USyd Education Officer 2026 • Events officer at SURG 2026 • Climate activist (2021-) • Unionist (and student unionist!) • Decolonial Marxist feminist • 2x pepper spray survivor • Western Sydney local • Depressed Tigers fan • Radio presenter @3ain.fm <3 shoutout race matters! • Zine-maker & artist @bridgebybridge @ tasslestasslestassles • Hardcore enjoyer • Currently I’m a Trotskyist lol • Cat enthusiast (shoutout Sukkar my cat!!!) • Amateur historian and archivist”
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| REPRESENTATIVES TO COUNCIL
Haseeb Malik Science I
• Hosting radio shows curating and platforming exploratory and experiential works by BIPOC and trans/ queer musicians on N10.AS, Visla FM, and Pretend Radio! • Sound artist and composer making sound installations and timbre-based works!
leading to high rates of sexual violence. These colleges serve no other purpose than being a concentration of the most entitled, sexist men. They should be shut down and turned into affordable housing.
Cappy Hall
Abolish the colleges and turn them into affordable housing
Media and Communications II
We will fight for Fully paid placements for all students
Close the gender pay gap at USYD Police off campus.
• Hi I’m haseeb a domestic student from overseas(soft of an oxymoron I know) , I’m currently in no executive or subcom position in usyd but I do get around to a ton of societies(lots of free time). • I’m studying data science and computer science , hopefully to help the world with data on health and medicine(pray not to end up working corporate) • while I haven’t done a ton of organising or advocacy in Australia I was quite active in my school back home(far far away). I held multiple positions in various school committees and events(a little tooo much free time) • I helped fund and manage various research projects that students were committed too when our school refused to help(quite stingy) , I also managed large sporting events as a director incharge of logistics for 1000+ people • Long intro over : I’m running to make a change in usyd , a change in the one thing that effects us all. FEES. Uni fees are outrageously expensive and I plan to do something about it.
• Events Officer for SURG and UFO • Dalyell Scholar • FASS Media Crew • I dabble in SUDS productions • I’m a dual citizen of Australia and the Republic of Korea!!
• English/philo major • Defender of pigeons • Social recluse • Someone ask me about anthropophagy • I hate ai i hate ai i hate ai i hate ai
[AO] LEFT ACTION AGAINST SEXISM POLICY STATEMENT
Leya Kim Music II
Women’s and LGBTI rights have seen a huge backlash in the past few years. We have seen the rise of “manosphere” influencers who blame women for male loneliness. We have seen the confident attacks on women’s rights by the far right, attempting to roll back abortion rights across the country. The rhetoric from people such as Pauline Hanson has sought to call doubt on women facing domestic abuse and claim women don’t deserve maternity leave. These issues are embedded in the university sector for both students and staff. Overwhelmingly female dominated degrees, such as teaching and nursing, see female students being forced to do grueling hours of unpaid placements, only to end up with jobs in fields with the lowest pay.
Arts II
• Hey! I’m Eva and currently serving as one of your Social justice Officers in the SRC. • I started protesting and involving myself in activism in High school as an organiser of the School strikes for Palestine in 2023/2024. • On campus I’ve been an active member of Students for Palestine, recently organising the campaign to get weapons off campus, organising protests and spreading information about the investments and research ties of our Uni with weapon’s companies complicit in the genocide in Gaza. • I’ve recently been involved in the campaign against racism on campus through the National Day of Action against Pauline Hanson and I think the SRC should help lead students in the fight against the far right. • I think the SRC should continue to focus on important left wing issues students care about, activism and fighting against the corporate university
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On top of this, the elite colleges on campus are cesspits of sexism. Men from some of the most elite private schools engage in hazing rituals and vile sexist behaviour towards female students,
• G’day I’m Julius and I’m a socialist activist at Sydney uni. I think the SRC should stand up for left wing causes and fight for students’ rights on campus. During my time I have held positions on the SRC that I have used to • Campaign in support of striking staff in 2022 • Organise the Gaza Solidarity Encampment on the Quad lawns • Promote a die-in in solidarity with communities in the northern rivers affected by flooding and called on Sydney Uni to cut their ties with the fossil fuel industry • Promote and organise the mass student meetings in solidarity with Palestine in 2024 and 2025 • Organise student strikes to demand Sydney Uni cut their ties with the weapons industry • Organise the national day of action against Pauline Hanson’s One Nation to stand against racism and fascism
Calvin Yu
Education II
Starla Bilby Science II
For staff, our university has maintained the gender pay gap in the workplace, with a 2.7% gap in median wages. • Sydney Conservatorium Students’ Association secretary (2026) • SRC Intercampus officer (2026) • Intern for Race Matters at FBi Radio
Arts VII
Eva Sutherland
Arts II
Science II
Julius Wittfoth
CANDIDATES
Robin Lee
Danielle Lynch
• (She/her/hers) studying astrophysics and data science!!! • Surg radio show cohost with the goat Cappy • Immigrated here from Thailand in 2019 • Co-parenting two cats in the Sutherland Sh*re • Sydney hardcore larper
Left action will also fight for the rights of women off campus. We will fight for the state government to provide free, fully funded and easily accessible abortion and healthcare clinics. We stand with striking nurses and teachers in their fight for better pay and conditions. We stand against the far right and their sexist rhetoric and policies.
against the global far-right. • I am an active member of Students for Palestine who helped build historic protests like the March for Humanity on the Harbour Bridge, and helped organise the ‘weapons off campus’ campaign and Palestine solidarity week. • I help promote protests by postering, leafletting, designing graphics and talking to students on campus. • I want the SRC to be an activist body committed to fighting for student rights and justice by mobilising students in campaigns and protests.
• Hi, I’m Starla! As 2026 SRC Global Solidarity officer, I’ve organised student protests and strikes for Palestine and
• Hey I’m Calvin! • Helped organize the National Day of Action against Pauline Hanson. • Helped organize the 300,000-large March for Humanity across the Sydney Harbor Bridge. • I supported the staff strikes in USYD and UTS, demanding an end to course cuts and demanding higher wages! • Designed plenty of the promotional materials used to build events for both Students for Palestine and Socialist Alternative. • Took part in building rallies against attacks on the NDIS, attacks on Transgender rights, a rampant far-right and the current genocidal labor party in
REPRESENTATIVES TO COUNCIL | power. • Believes that universities should truly be places for education for the benefit of students and teachers, not for corporations or weapons companies!
Miniq Lin
Nursing/Advanced Studies I
• Hi I’m MiniQ! I’m a nursing student running with Left Action because I’m a socialist activist, and an advocate for human rights • I helped to organise the national day of action against Pauline Hanson, • I was part of organising Students For Palestine’s weapons off campus campaign, demanding weapons companies complicit in the genocide end their ties with usyd • I’ve supported nurses and teachers on strike by handing out leaflets, putting up posters, and making announcements in lectures
Castor Chin Science III
[AP] FREE VACCINATIONS & HEALTHCARE
Kayla Hill
Tia Mi Lan Peiris
• Disabilities Officer of the 98th SRC • Convenor of the USyd Disabilities and Carers’ Collective • Intern @ World Health Network • Organiser of the 2026 Flu Vax Drive for USyd undergrads • Organiser of the SRC Mask & RAT Bloc • Member of the USyd Disability Inclusion Action Plan Implementation Group • Member of Protect Our NDIS Alliance • Editor in Chief of ‘Disabled Honi’ • Witness at the NDIS Bill Inquiry • Author of submissions to the Clean Indoor Air Inquiry, Human Rights Act Inquiry, and NDIS Bill Inquiry • Healthcare worker (2021-2025) • FASS Peer Mentor (2024) • Lobbyist for the return of plant-based chicken at Zeus St Greek • Zoomer bisexual with long covid (/ref) • Frequently colour coordinated kn95 wearer”
• Philosophy and Psychology • Faculty and Discipline Partner, Inclusion and Philosophy, FASS Student Partner Program (2026) • Twenty10 Queerleaders (2024-2026) • Disabled • Blacktown 4ever • Parramatta is not true Western Sydney truther • Kaylacore enjoyer
Arts IV
POLICY STATEMENT FREE VACCINATIONS & HEALTHCARE is a group of students who are fighting for disability justice both on and off campus. We know all too well how inequitable access to healthcare and inaccessible university policy compromises our education. We are fighting for disability justice both on and off campus, and recognise how this struggle is tied to that of First Nations sovereignty, climate justice, class struggle, and a Free Palestine. Getting sick shouldn’t mean having to choose between forking out $100 for the only nearby doctor available today or “thugging it out” to avoid an Absent Fail and thereby infecting the rest of your class. Getting your period shouldn’t mean having to walk 5 buildings down Eastern Avenue just to find an empty tampon dispenser. Being a disabled student shouldn’t mean going into debt just to travel to campus because the NDIS has cut funding from your plan. Registering with IDS shouldn’t mean paying exorbitant fees for diagnosis that might risk future prospects of a Permanent Visa. Accessing free university counselling shouldn’t mean cramming your mental health crisis into 6 sessions. Between all the waiting, all the money spent, and all the class missed, the university has long neglected its duty to take care of its students. FREE VACCINATIONS & HEALTHCARE will expand
Amieca Joustra Nursing II
• Hi, I’m Amieca! • I’m a 2nd year nursing student from Indonesia • I’m passionate about advocating for human rights and fighting for justice of all workers, including healthcare workers • I’ve been involved in Students for Palestine • I was part of National Day of Action against Pauline Hanson
FREE VACCINATIONS & HEALTHCARE will build • The USyd Disabilities Collective • Disability justice campaigns across student unions • The SRC’s relationship with the Centre for Disability Research and Policy • The SRC’s relationship with Inclusion & Disability Services • Mutual aid networks for the disabled community cut off from the NDIS Vote [1] FREE VACCINATIONS & HEALTHCARE Vote [1] FREE THE NUS Vote [1] GRACE STREET FOR PRESIDENT
Arts V
Arts I
FREE VACCINATIONS & HEALTHCARE will fight for • The university to take responsibility for delivering healthcare programs • Walk-in clinic in the University Health Service • Direct billing for all health insurances at the University Health Service • A better Special Considerations System • Paid placements for med students • Better IDS oversight • Proactive programs to support university transition for disabled students • UDL in class delivery and assessments
Eleni Papahatzis-Dagias
Audrey Salmon
• Free KN95 and N95 mask bloc • Free Rapid Antigen Tests • Free influenza and COVID vaccination drives for students • Free period products on campus • Free STI/STD tests • Free counselling sessions
• Hi, I’m Castor! I’m an active supporter and member of Students of Palestine • Helped build the “Weapons Off Campus” campaign and organise students in solidarity with Palestine • Supported and partook in student rallies and strikes, as well as industrial action in solidarity with workers • Attended many mass rallies on social issues including recent protests against NDIS cuts • I believe that student unions should be organising bodies fighting for student rights and not just service providers!
Arts/Science III
• (She/her) • Majoring in Gender Studies and History. • Stuccwit. • Disabled, AuDHDer, and neuroqueer. • Care worker. • Disability justice organiser with Disability Action Dharawal (Wollongong) and USyd Disabilities Collective. • Founding member of Wollongong Friends of Palestine and Wollongong’s Young Friends of Palestine. • Involved in organising the school strikes for Palestine in Wollongong (2023-25) and the ongoing community pickets of Bisalloy Steels (a Wollongong steel manufacturer that produces armored steel for vehicles used by the Israeli Occupation Forces in their genocide in occupied Palestine). • Community care/riot medicine practitioner. • Obsessed with books, libraries, radical history, and cinema.
• (She/Her) Psychology and Theatre and Performance Studies major • Member of the University of Sydney Neuro-Psych Exchange leadership team (2025 - Present) • Disabled Honi editor (2026) • Member of Disabilities Collective (2026) • Worked as an associate producer for Performance Space and the ‘Liveworks Festival’ in 2025 helping showcase incredible queer and disabled artists • Aspiring Clinical Neuro-Psychologist passionate about creating better access and resources for disabled ppl/patients • Using my love for art, science, and politics to advocate for health and disability #STEAM > STEM • Hater of health mis/disinfo, eugenics, pseudoscience, and Sigmund Freud #PLZ STOP WITH THE PEPTIDES AND RAW MEAT!! • Favourite pass times include: music/ piano, drawing, video games, and asking bigots to cite their sources • Admin volunteer for fellow members of the disability community. • Advocate for Dysautonomia, ME/CFS, Migraine awareness • I bring the not-so-fun-facts with a generous side of hope-core that the “it’s not that deep” epidemic hates to see coming • I’m a “wanna learn about Greece’s grassroots/anti-fascist history?” Greek, not a “we invented everything” Greek
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Red Ricketson Arts/Science II
[AQ] FREE HOUSING FOR ALL POLICY STATEMENT Housing is a human right. It is outrageous, lamentable, and illogical to normalise skipping meals, just to afford a single room on stolen land.
• They/Them - Arts / Science student studying archaeology, geology and minoring in Chinese language • Living and studying on unceded Gadigal land • Long-time protestor since childhood (if you dig far enough, you can probably found a video of 7yo me on Facebook yelling at a Stop Westconnex protest) • Disabilities Collective member (2026) and wrote an Honi Article on my experience as an NDIS participant. • Neurodiverse/psychosocially disabled baddie • Have been involved in marriage equality, Palestine, environmental and many more protests • Big fan of dinosaurs and paleozoic life (not beating the autistic dino allegations) • Dalyell scholar (not beating the autistic nerd allegations either) • Executive of Vegesoc (2026) and vegan since 2024 • I speak intermediate Mandarin :) and a little German • Public school background #publicschoolsrepresent • Currently undertaking an internship with the Australasian Society of Historical Archaeology
Jess Sengamy Arts I
• MySydney Scholar, fish nerd, nature and arts lover
Madeleine Keightley Social Work VII
FREE HOUSING FOR ALL cares deeply about the ongoing housing crisis facing undergraduate students in Gadigal Country as well as the global community. We are committed to ensuring safe and quality housing is guaranteed to all students, regardless of nationality, race, gender, or socio-economic status. We all have faced the forefront of the systemic violence housing insecurity causes, and we should recognise that the housing crisis disproportionately impacts students, youth, women, children, migrants, low SES, disabled, and First Nations communities. Internationally, the genocide in Palestine has left most Gazans not without homes, but with their lives under constant threat from the Zionist settler state. There is no housing justice without decolonial justice. Our struggle is one; we call for an end to ethnic cleansings, settlements, and ecocides in Palestine, Lebanon, and other neighbouring regions. Locally, FREE HOUSING FOR ALL believes affordable housing for students, faculty, and staff should be a priority for the university. We believe free and safe housing for all is feasible and a human right to be fought for. We condemn the corporate university and its lack of action to create and maintain safe, affordable student accommodation. The outsourcing of pastoral care to 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. Additionally, the university should offer robust crisis and temporary accommodation for students experiencing housing insecurity, free of charge. We reject the unsafe, patriarchal, and elitist college system. The colleges, which house numerous facilities and privileges usually unavailable to nonresidents and low-SES students. Besides strengthening wealth and class disparity, the colleges are found by the Redzone Report to have covered up countless incidents of hazing, bullying, and sexual assault. This system must be confronted, and the college buildings should be repurposed to be safe, affordable, and democratic accommodation. Regionally, FREE HOUSING FOR ALL believes accessible housing should be a priority of the government. It is utterly deplorable for the government to actively destroy and privatise public housing in Waterloo (Australia’s largest public housing estate) and otherwise. It is disgusting that ministers and executives have laughed while tenants are being evicted from their homes. 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. FREE HOUSING FOR ALL affirms whilst measures to alleviate the current crisis are desperately needed, the cause of the crisis is centred in the nature of a for-
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profit housing system that treats housing as a commodity, rather than a human right. This phenomenon ultimately stems from the core of capitalism’s economic system, which empowers property owners, and alienates the working class. We are therefore Socialist and AntiCapitalist in our aims for housing justice. Housing is a human right, and always will be! FREE HOUSING FOR ALL will fight for: 1. First Nations Justice and Land Back. End deaths in custody and police brutality! 2. Open International House now! Make its living conditions safe, its cost reasonable, and its operations democratic!
name, i.e. Model UN Secretary General, Civic Engagement Club founder, Debate Club treasurer, miscellaneous event emcee, science camp counselor, & lobbyist for my school’s first ever prom (succeeded) • I like playing the piano, clarinet, and Taiko drums! • Good music appreciator, from metal to jazz to Reneé Rapp • I love James Baldwin • In a situationship with Anarchosyndicalism • Procrastinating on an ADHD diagnosis • Be realistic, demand the impossible :)
Remy Lebreton Arts/Social Work III
3. Scrap Scape! Accommodation on campus should be affordable, inclusive, and a priority for the university, not outsourced to extortionate private businesses! 4. Scam-alert multilingual orientation programs for housing before the commencement of each Welcome Week. 5. Refurbish deteriorating campus housing and build new affordable accommodation buildings, funded by the university’s massive surplus profits! 6. Turn colleges into affordable, safe and non-elitist housing for all! 7. Campaign to Save Waterloo and broader public housing campaigns! 8. Investigate USYD’s involvement with NSW Government’s demolitions and privatisation of public housing! 9. End sexual assault on campus, in the colleges and in all accommodation!
CANDIDATES
Serena Chen
Arts/Commerce I
• Disability collective Co-Officer and • Convener 2025 and 2026 Usyd SRC • NDIS Cuts Activist • Now Anthropology Major, Sociology Minor! • Social Work Student • Palestine Encampment Participant • Save Waterloo! Activist • Repping AUDHD and Language disorder • Stucco Resident/Director • D1 Hater of HomesNSW • Powerful Sorcerer (Minor in d20 Studies) • Wollongongian (Major in Palm Tree Studies) • Anarcho-Trotskyist • Stupol 3 year survivor, god help me
Imala Cush
Arts/Advanced Studies I
• I’m a Save Waterloo public housing activist :) • I’ve sat-in to protest for a reopening of International House • I’ve been a speaker, marshal, and organiser through Usyd’s Women’s Collective (WoCo) and Autonomous Collective Against Racism (ACAR) • I’ve co-led climate justice rallies and immigrant rights demonstrations • In both Taiwan and unceded Gadigal Country, I’ve helped organised fundraisers and zine-makings for Palestine/Lebanon/Sudan/Kongo • In 2024, I organised a protest and petition against my old Christian high school’s Zionist affiliations (as an agnostic-atheist lmao) • Student from Taiwan double-majoring in Innovation & International Relations, minoring in Sustainability #creatingintersections • I’ve interned at Make-A-Wish’s administration team • High school burnout was my middle
• 1st year Political Economy and International Relations Major • Intersectional feminist - granddaughter of witches • Increasingly radicalising socialist • Keen to use my power as student to build more community level activism on campus • Huge lover of all public housing • Passionate member of Stucco Housing Co-op • 2024 protestor and arrestee at Rising Tide People’s Blockade • Amateur dancer • Addicted to the buzzcut
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Imogen Sabey Arts IV
• I won a poetry competition last year by not using commas, dashes, or full stops • I have a strong distain for punctuation. • I had to leave my frogs in Adelaide as they don’t fly well on planes • I have 120+ Maushold Pokemon cards • I was looking for a job (as a tutor) and then I found a job (in retail) and heaven knows I’m miserable now
Emil Vinod
Advanced Computing II
• Honi Soit editor, 2025 • Honi Soit reporter, 2023-2026 • PULP contributor, 2023 • Women’s Honi editor, 2024 • Honi award for Most Tenacious Reporter, 2024 • Stujocon director, 2025 • Election Honi cover girl, 2025 • President of the Student Media Association, 2026 • Most prolific Honi reporter of all time • Student media mogul • Enemy of News Corp, lover of the Guardian • Possessed by the spirit of Kim Jong Un • Giggling that someone else has to lay up this newspaper
Mary Adewole Arts/Science III
• I am in too many music societies, including the engineering revue • I play and teach the drum kit • I’m a woodsman but only on weekends • I’m certain I’d be great at leading a dance troupe • I like messing around computers, it’s also my degree • I’d make for an amateur tooth fairy • Athleisurewear user.. I’ve got tons of these • I refuse to tolerate stale chips • I am uncertain of the idea of the human centipede • I have a chronic fear of scarecrows • I sometimes think of myself as Santa
[AR] ACTIVATE FOR CHEAP DRINKS POLICY STATEMENT Wish your student fees were going toward lowering the cost of food and drinks on campus instead of funding aimless protests? Vote [1] ACTIVATE FOR CHEAP DRINKS to change that! We’ll advocate for:
• Nigerian and Australian • Went to Iceland (Reykjavik) on exchange • USU volunteer leader • FASS student mentor leader • FASS student partner • Majoring in International Relations • Minoring in Geology and geoscience • Awarded for USU Life Membership • I like sleeping just like a koala
Victoria Mackay
Science/Advanced Studies I
• Majoring in anatomy + histology + medical science • I was once in possession of 2 frogs • Dalyell scholar • Can’t cook • Hefty passion for social justice + years of volunteering experience through ZOOsa, Vinnies, Mito foundation • Moved from Adelaide to Sydney this year • I miss my frogs
• $5 pints at on-campus venues after 6pm • Extended trading hours for Hermann’s and Manning Bar • Free drinks to celebrate after exams • Cheaper food options across campus • More affordable student specials and weekly deals • A campus where students can actually afford to socialise • Vote now to stop your money from being wasted by out of touch socialists and instead revive campus life with cheap food and drinks! Vote [1] ACTIVATE FOR CHEAP DRINKS.
CANDIDATES
Yash Goel Arts I
• Experience: Lots. Come see me for specifics. • Skills: Common sense, Turning “due today” deadlines into “due in 3 days” • Interests: More freedom, more choice, more simple extensions.
Henry Chen Economics II
Eugene Nam Arts I
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