Many anticipated an announcement yesterday. If this is being held up while millionaires negotiate how many more millions they'll take from a public university, after all this damage to #ANU, that is about as damning an indictment on university governance as you can get. 😡

Australian universities are a shit show and university managements who listen to corporate consultancy grifters are to blame. My latest in the @theguardian.com. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Gold. “put every university decision-maker responsible for the ongoing, farcical fatcattery in Australian higher education to the figurative sword. It’s in the national interest for the sector to be reformed, and heads to roll”

Workers’ rights = Stronger university governance: the core message from Gary Maas, Victorian MP for Narre Warren South, who met NTEU VIC Asst Sec Prof Joo-Cheong Tham at state parliament this week. MPs are backing NTEU’s governance campaign - you can too: betterunis.nteu.au #HigherEducation #auspol

Join NTEU members this Sunday 24 August at marches across the country in solidarity with Palestine. Find out where it’s happening in your city 👉 nteu.info/24 @nteuact.bsky.social @nteuvictoria.bsky.social

Not even rain, cold and crappy Sydney weather could stop @nteunion.bsky.social members coming together to protest against corporatised uni governance and job cuts today. ✊✊✊💜💜💜☔️☔️☔️

Education Minister Jason Clare tells university heads to ‘lean into’ their $1M+ salaries being cut www.afr.com/politics/fed...

Despite four decades of rampant deregulation, the Productivity Commission calls for even more! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

It would defy belief had we not seen similar grossly inappropriate and callous behaviour from other corporatised uni managements: UTS staff told to ‘wash delicates’ to cope with impending job losses. Governance reform now! ⁦‪ @nteunion.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

“We should expect university councils … to probe and challenge managerial decisions, and be prepared… to listen to reasonable dissent," [Prof. Tregear] told senators “It is my experience, however, that the university council has repeatedly proved unwilling to do so." www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

An important public institution being trashed. I said a while back that if ANU was a council a State Local Government Minister would have appointed an Administrator by now.

ANU is the poster child for urgent university reform. Tragic stories emerging from ANU at the senate inquiry into university governance underline the case for improving the way our universities operate. Support our campaign: betterunis.nteu.au www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08... #HigherEd #auspol

At ANU: “The lack of transparency has been the foundation of the backlash by staff, who have long accused executives of botched consultation, including claims that executives were deleting staff questions during town hall meetings” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Thank you, everyone, for your warm well wishes and generous support. The @nteuact.bsky.social has been especially amazing. And they’re putting on a BBQ*! Come along and grab a bite to eat and spend time with ANU community. *OMG this is hilarious 😆

“ANU Students from Save Our Studies voted to blockade the Vice-Chancellor’s offices this week as part of their “Day of Rage” protest against the university’s ongoing cuts.” region.com.au/day-of-rage-...

“if we want AI to add to national wealth rather than extract wealth for tech rent-seekers and lazy cost-cutters we need to assert democratic control over the technology” @nteunion.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Sometimes it takes an act of extraordinary courage to expose and bring down those who rule through fear and intimidation. I hope @nteunion.bsky.social member Liz Allen's brave and harrowing testimony today is the start of such a process - at ANU and other universities. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

The Productivity Commission has recommended the wrong solution with its suggestion in a newly released report that off-the-shelf lesson plans should be developed for teachers to help them save time and teach outside their area of expertise. Read more: bit.ly/45bYi6A

American corporations are on pace to spend $1.1 trillion on stock buybacks in 2025, an all-time high. Buybacks don't create more jobs, increase wages, or grow the economy — but they do help juice CEO pay that's often tied to stock performance. Nothing trickles down to workers.

With NTEU National President Dr Alison Barnes and the @nteunion.bsky.social team at Parliament to give evidence on university governance. ✊️

Will Burfoot has told the Senate that as a council member he is unaware of the role consultancies are playing in Renew ANU. And his requests to see documents produced by Nous Group have been denied. Clear evidence that council members are being deliberately and systematically kept in the dark.

Coming from a country where schools receive federal money for infrastructure and supplies it was and still is shocking that American teachers have to buy their own supplies. It is not actually normal, and speaks to the deliberate devaluing of education here.

👇Exactly what @nteunion.bsky.social members have been telling us and why we are campaigning for stronger protections against excessive work through enterprise bargaining.

Yes there’s so much to be proud of in the defence of slavery and then losing the war you started over it #losers

Consultancy Korda Mentha touting for more business in higher ed. Governance reform is urgently needed to stop parasitic corporate consultancies sucking the lifeblood out of our public universities. @nteunion.bsky.social

Proud to stand with my Sociology colleagues, joined by @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social @damiencahill.bsky.social and the mighty @nteunion.bsky.social against the devastating cuts proposed at Macquarie University

No Job Cuts at Macquarie Uni! @nteunion.bsky.social ✊✊✊💜💜💜

Strong rally by @nteunion.bsky.social members and students at Macquarie Uni against corporatised uni management’s brutal proposed job cuts. ✊✊✊💜💜💜

Solidarity to Macquarie University friends, colleagues and students rallying against job cuts that damage staff and student wellbeing and the fabric of the university. 12.00 in the central courtyard. Get along if you can!

“In short it would be a hammer blow to independence of research and inquiry. We entirely reject that proposal.” Read the full statement: nteu.info/envoy

We only made it about a quarter of the way across the bridge before the march was turned around. A huge crowd, hugely diverse: proud to be there with my family #MarchforHumanity

Walking for peace for Palestine. #sydneyharbourbridge

Massive march in Sydney to protest genocide.

Powerful march supporting Gaza, crossing Sydney Harbour Bridge in the pouring rain. Estimates at over 100,000 people ✊🏽

ON TODAY! 🖤❤️💛💙💚 Find out how together we can win representative employment and foster respect and recognition for cultural knowledge in our universities. RSVP 👉 nteu.info/workplaceracism

Cut company tax and deregulate - same old tired, failed neoliberal mantra from the productivity commission.

Thank you @davidpocock.bsky.social for your support of @nteunion.bsky.social members at ANU!!!! 💜💜💜

BREAKING | @davidpocock.bsky.social has lodged formal notice of a motion to instruct ANU to pause cuts.

ACT Senator David Pocock has lodged formal notice of a motion to instruct ANU to pause job cuts … "These changes imperil the Australian National University's capacity to fulfil its functions," he wrote in the notion of motion. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

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Views from Canberra Symphony Orchestra on the damage that Renew ANU will do to the region. 🎶 Yesterday, @nteunion.bsky.social and students continued to push back against job losses at #ANU. ✊

"Fear may be a powerful motivator, but solidarity is just as strong. And solidarity is, ultimately, the best hope of contesting and resisting this. University workers are most powerful when they stand together and speak with one voice." www.ppesydney.net/fear-solidar...

Like all workplaces, universities are sites of power and contestation, where managers have an imperative to exercise control over the labour process. How can we understand the new modalities of fear shaping today's war on education? Here @damiencahill.bsky.social surveys the terrain

"Nottingham has a real strong reputation for this work, but its being squandered." - @rullsenberg.bsky.social Our current industrial action is ALL about maintaining support for what makes the university great: the people. Learn all about it in this clip from BBC East Midlands. #StopTheCuts

Solidarity with Nottingham UCU. We are the university.

Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming workplaces and needs to be regulated through industrial instruments @nteunion.bsky.social www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

Like millions of others, I drew on an affordable and broad based Arts degree to become who I am today. It is beyond time that the Albanese government fixed this mess - like they promised they would before coming to power three years ago.

Good to see this open letter calling for the abolition of the Jobs Ready Graduate package - something @nteunion.bsky.social members have been calling for since its misguided and cynical introduction by the previous Coalition government.

At the very least, debating "genocide" like you're parsing a para in Kant or doing a colour chart of wall paint seems to be missing the point that many things a comfortable distance short of it should also be stopped.

Oh few, that's a relief, no need to worry about the effects of #AI because Sam Altman's own deep and comprehensive knowledge of economic and industrial history assures him that in two generations the "magic of capitalism" means that everything will be just fine. Thanks Sam!