Students are still facing barriers when reporting sexual assault and harassment on Australian university campuses despite a sector-wide overhaul of institutional policies and support services. Last month marked one year since the findings of the second Universities’ Australia National Student ...
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Peak science body endorses student-research supervisor relationship ban
In August last year, in the wake of the Australian Human Rights Commission's (AHRC) watershed report into sexual assault and harassment at universities, a coalition of organisations called for zero tolerance on student-research supervisor relationships, due to their innate power imbalance. Last ...
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The oldest university college in Australia is also one consistently rocked by scandal. St Paul's at USYD, a 200 resident, 'liberal Anglican' all-male establishment suffered its latest public indignity in May this year, when the following post appeared on a ‘St ...
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