IT IS TIME.

“Ultimately, the responsibility [for ANU] rests with the chancellor, Julie Bishop. She presided over this continued period of dysfunction, and it was under her watch that catastrophic failures occurred,” Senator Anthony Sheldon www.afr.com/politics/fed...

a huge day for the ANU and the @nteuact.bsky.social campaign to stop forced redundancies in the college of arts and social sciences and the college of science and medicine. This is genuinely an incredible result! share.google/ORnkjimiuQiK...

BREAKING: #ANU has announced that there will be no forced redundancies. ✊ Union members fought tirelessly to save these jobs, and every university staff member facing job cuts can take heart from what we have achieved. Together, we have changed what is possible. nteu.au/[email protected]

Even more support to save the ANU School of Music. www.afr.com/work-and-car...

Bury the Renew ANU zombie. 🧟‍♂️ At this point the process has been so thoroughly discredited, and is causing so much psychological injury, that it should be abandoned. While high-profile resignations get the headlines, more than 100 people still face the axe.

ANU leadership and governance are in crisis. ‘I've said many times in the past that I think that given the investigation is underway, it seems like any other workplace someone would step aside while those investigations happened.’ - @davidpocock.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

When non-profit organisations are managed as if they were for-profit firms, problems emerge. www.afr.com/work-and-car...

The inimitable, David Pope! #auspol #highered #universities

Extraordinary statement from Senator Katy Gallagher. Katy is the Senator responsible for one of the two most significant Acts that governs the ANU, the PGPA Act.

The @nteunion.bsky.social petition gained over 2000 signatures in a little over 2 weeks. We need an end to forced redundancies and damaging restructures, as well as recognition that governance and leadership issues go well beyond the former Vice-Chancellor at #ANU.

In the last two years, #ANU leadership has taken an approach of moving fast and breaking things. Unfortunately, too many of those things were people. It's time to stop the job cuts at ANU. @nteunion.bsky.social www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-educa...

Unless the structures of university governance are fixed, we will see the same failures repeated but with different personnel. Incisive op-ed from @jack-thrower.bsky.social

"The announcement of the vice-chancellor's departure must also be accompanied by an announcement that all forced redundancies will now cease" - Dr Lachlan Clohesy, @nteunion.bsky.social ACT Division Secretary. #ANU

The vice-chancellor of the Australian National University (ANU) has tendered her resignation after a tumultuous two years at the institution, marked by redundancies, proposed course closures, and allegations of a toxic work culture. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

“ANU urgently needs new direction and new leadership – one that restores its focus on research, education, and the free dissemination of knowledge.” Our ANU’s statement on the VC’s resignation 👇 drive.google.com/file/d/1e3Lh...

Speaking to Guardian Australia, Pocock said he had spoken with a “huge number of people” at the ANU, including deans, and it had become “very clear” that there was “no faith” in Bell or Bishop’s leadership and council needed to play a “far more active role”. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

"We think that the ANU community best knows how existing decisions have impacted them, and what principles and frameworks might be necessary to improve future governance outcomes," the Governance Project said. www.canberratimes.com.au/story/906187...

I really just think everyone needs to read more books and then get maybe pizzas as prizes for reading those books.

The irony is that it's after Renew ANU that #ANU needs renewal. @nteunion.bsky.social wants an end to forced redundancies and longer-term governance reform. Leadership change needs to happen - but then we need to ensure we're never in this situation ever again.

I’m calling again for the Chancellor, Vice Chancellor and Pro-Chancellor to all step aside while the evidence provided in the Senate inquiry is examined. Fair and due process cannot be achieved under these circumstances.

First we had the Hunger Games of spill & fill at #ANU. Now we've got Game of Thrones.

“Replacing the ANU vice chancellor is a necessary first step… But it is not a sufficient step… If governance and policy direction doesn’t change, it won’t matter who sits in the vice chancellor’s chair – the outcomes for staff, students and the public will be the same.” www.afr.com/work-and-car...

“We hope that the unprecedented media, political and public attention to the many cruelties, failures, illogicalities and injustices of “Renew ANU” can serve as an impetus for much-needed sector-wide change.” CASS People’s Townhall Organisers www.woroni.com.au/news/the-peo...

“Professor Bell inherited a culture of bullying in senior management levels at the ANU,” says Thornton. “She didn’t create the culture but she also hasn’t done anything to improve it. In fact, the bullies continue to prosper under her leadership.” www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/educati...

To Australia’s university fat cats, who may yet face job cuts not of their own making – don’t forget to wash your underwear @vanbadham.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“The ANU has denied news reports that Professor Bell was actively negotiating her departure… However, it is understood that a majority of academic deans have written to the university's council to express their loss of confidence in Professor Bell.” www.canberratimes.com.au/story/905914...

To Australia’s university fat cats, who may yet face job cuts not of their own making – don’t forget to wash your underwear … www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We'll be ready to work with interim leadership from Day 1 to end Renew ANU and stop *all* forced redundancies. This is only possible with new leadership. @nteunion.bsky.social - and everyone else - knows that the farce at #ANU has gone on for far too long.

From 2018 but very relevant: “The only way to fight […] is to deny these positions a platform. This is the crucial lesson we have learned in running the AskHistorians forum. It is the lesson other platforms must emulate if they are sincere in fighting racism, anti-Semitism, and Nazism.”

We should all be paying attention here — land acknowledgments banned at Ohio State University www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Have you signed yet? Our petition to stop job cuts and hold #ANU leadership accountable is open to staff, students, and the broader community. @nteunion.bsky.social is standing up for our universities. www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/pe...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign to stop needless cuts to our national university: www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/pe...

Melbourne Uni needs to explain this bullshit. This is destroying critical cultural infrastructure. Unimelb axing Meanjin, ANU scuttling the Australian National Dictionary Centre, and then universities wonder why they can’t seem to exert any influence over the national discourse.

But, Comcare first needs reports of injuries and unsafe worksites, particularly if they have not been addressed by ANU after reporting. Their reporting address is [email protected]

What a historic win! SafeWork NSW has stepped in to force UTS management to pause job cuts. This would not be possible without NTEU members at UTS standing together to voice and expose the serious and damaging psychosocial impacts on staff wellbeing. Article 👉 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

We need ComCare to make a similar intervention at ANU. The psychosocial harm ANU executive are inflicting upon ANU staff is completely unacceptable. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

once again tapping the sign

Last week the university regulator announced an unprecedented investigation into ANU conduct. Today ANU VC Bell welcomed the independent investigator to the ‘community’, apparently dismissing the gravity of the investigation as ‘ongoing self assurance’. www.anu.edu.au/news/all-new...

Someone please kill me right now.

Throwing trans people under the bus isn’t a viable democratic strategy that will somehow result in winning back an imaginary „center“ it means you’re actively participating in fascism cause you’re willing to sacrifice the basic human rights of a subset of the population, hope that helps

“There are a lot of people who are on stress leave … a lot of people are seeking professional help ... [This process] is terrifying. And I don’t use the word terror lightly.” Dr Michael Roettger @tarheel08.bsky.social region.com.au/i-dont-use-t...

Excuse the dodgy photography but worth enlarging to read this paywalled article by Richard Tognetti on what 'future proofing' & 'integration' really mean when it comes to higher ed

I miss the old brand #CDC

“Pocock said he had been approached by multiple former staff members informing him they had been required to sign a non-disclosure agreement.” “In various cases these were required to be signed following a workers’ compensation case being upheld,” Pocock said. www.afr.com/work-and-car...

Forced redundancies and restructuring at ANU must stop - in the least pause - while TEQSA investigates the university. Leadership also must step aside while the regulator examines their conduct. How can an investigation be completed fairly any other way? www.teqsa.gov.au/sites/defaul...

"I also repeat my previous calls for the university to halt any further forced redundancies, including for those change management plans that are yet to be finalised. Staff and student wellbeing must be prioritised." Senator @davidpocock.bsky.social www.canberratimes.com.au/story/905357...

NSW government asks UTS to call off suspending teacher training Skills and Tertiary Education Minister Steve Whan said he made it clear to vice chancellor Prof. Andrew Parfitt that the “highest levels of the NSW government” were very concerned about the cutbacks www.afr.com/policy/healt...

"For an hour last Wednesday, many of us allowed ourselves to believe the ANU executive’s words, after they announced that no future changes under their “Renew ANU” plan would involve involuntary redundancies in 2025." Dr. Beck Pearse overland.org.au/2025/08/anu-...