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Note: The full interview is available here. If you’ve been following Lot’s Wife this year, you’d be aware of our coverage and support for Monash NTEU members. From publishing articles, to covering their stop work action on March 20th and more recently their rally on October 7th. Whilst we’re proud supporters of the NTEU, why should other students care? To answer these questions Sam and I had the pleasure of interviewing Monash Branch Committee members Blair Williams, Carol Que, and Tony Williams. Sam: First of all, what is the NTEU? Tony: The NTEU is the National Tertiary Education Union. Basically,

Vale Peter ‘Pete’ Steedman – Lot’s Wife Editor 1965-66 December 7, 1943 to July 10, 2024 Peter ‘Pete’ Steedman passed away a month ago, aged 80. Mr. Steedman wrote for Lot’s Wife as well as its predecessor Chaos, before editing Lot’s Wife between 1965 alongside Phillip Frazer and 1966. His work on Lot’s Wife in this time, is credited with not only revolutionising Lot’s Wife but “under his leadership between 1965-66, Lot’s Wife was rescued from mediocrity and became the number one student newspaper in the country…” which was quite a challenge, by his own admission, “I can only compare

What is the Academic Board? The Academic Board serves as the principal academic body of the University, responsible for maintaining high standards in teaching and research. It operates under the Monash University Statute and Council Regulations. Membership of the Board includes the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, Faculty Deans, Deputy Deans, Heads of Department, and elected staff and students.   The Board establishes Standing Committees to assist in its functions, including the Steering Committee, University Education Committee (UEC), Monash University Research Committee, and the Graduate Research Committee (GRC). These committees oversee various aspects of academic affairs, from managing urgent business to ensuring excellence

$127,134. One-hundred-and-twenty-seven-thousand-one-hundred-and-thirty-four dollars. To put this into perspective, that is more than double the median annual personal income in Australia, $54,890, it could cover the costs of aBachelor of Arts course (with honours) at Monash, coming to $121,600 using fees dated to 2024; pay the annual parking fees of 157 people parking in the blue permit zone five days a week, a cost of $806; or pay the salaries of three casual employees working for Monash. It does beg the question, during a cost of living crisis what precisely did the University spend $127,000 on? Being an education institution one

Homelessness is far more apparent in Melbourne than in Manchester, and the way we speak about those experiencing homelessness matters. I arrived in Melbourne with my fellow exchange students in early July 2023, bidding farewell to the UK summer and experiencing the shock of cold, jet lag and disorientation.  There was a keen sense of excitement amongst us though, and with Manchester being my home city – one of the biggest cities in the UK – I felt prepared for Melbourne’s urban life. After settling into a hostel, we navigated the arduous task of house-hunting, eventually securing a lovely, little

Image Credit: Kathy Willens/AP BY RAFAL ALUMAIRY Contributor Rafal Alumairy has compiled all the important news of the week, for your reading pleasure. Better yet, they have prepared a live video reading of the news, which you can find below!    The Video Broadcast:  [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqXF6DyhS8g]   NON-VIRUS NEWS Eid Mubarak! Ramadan has ended and Muslims are now celebrating a strange Eid at home. The oceans are rising and this is leading to rapid erosion, something beachfront communities like Inverloch Victoria are finding out the hard way (The Age). Financial services firm AMP is under scrutiny after one of their

By Austin Bond, Analysis Editor NOTE: Since the publication of this piece, we have reached out to the various identified stakeholders for comment. These will be followed up on in a future piece. After weeks of discussion and voting, the Monash Academic Board has granted students the ability to exclude this semester’s results from their WAM/GPA calculation, and to have supplementary exams for any grade above 40. Threshold hurdles have also been lowered from 45 to 40. This result follows tireless work from various student and university bodies, most notably three of our Academic Board student representatives: Chloe Polglaze, James

Image Credit: Guillermo Arias/AFP BY RAFAL ALUMAIRY WEEK OF MONDAY TO SUNDAY, 20-26 APRIL 2020 Editor's Note: Opinions expressed in the piece are not necessarily the views of the Lot's Wife Editorial Board   NON-VIRUS NEWS Anzac Day was solemnly observed across the country in homes and driveways yesterday at dawn. There were live and pre-recorded broadcasts from the Australian War Memorial and the Shrine of Remembrance. Lest we forget. Saudi Arabia has abolished flogging as a punishment, which is basically the abolition of all physical punishment for crimes or political dissent, although the country still has the death penalty

Tensions simmered as pro-Beijing activists mounted a counter-demonstration and tried to break up a pro-democracy student demonstration at Clayton Campus today. By late afternoon, approximately 40-50 Monash students had gathered on the walkway between the Religious Centre and Guzman y Gomez to protest the recent attempted extradition bill in Hong Kong. Members of the pro-democracy group stated they had been protesting at various locations across campus since 11:30am, and were being followed by a smaller pro-Beijing student group. Protests have reached fever pitch in Hong Kong yesterday as tens of thousands filled Hong Kong’s streets for the fifth consecutive day,

Last year, there were cuts to the arts faculty. Staff were laid off, contact hours decreased, class sizes increased, and learning content was moved online. The dramatic changes were obvious to everyone; and thanks to the public posters, meetings and protests on campus throughout the year - difficult to ignore. Quietly, the cuts made their way into the halls of the loudest faculty on campus, the music school. This is where I study Classical Composition. During October last year, near the end of the second semester, students in the Classical Composition stream and the Creative Music Technology stream were notified

Fake news is not a new phenomenon. Inaccurate or partial truths have been spread in the media for hundreds of years, be that propaganda or overtly biased news. Yet, fake news distributed online continues to cause problems in social and political realms. As we saw during the 2016 American presidential election, fake news content can influence citizens’ opinions and alter their behaviour.   Gunther, Beck, and Nisbet from Ohio State University conducted a study in 2016-2017 observing the influence and impact fake news had on the decisions of voters during the American election. They concluded that fake news “most likely did

The ABC, whether you like it or not, is a pillar in Australian society.   Yes, times are tough, the ABC does not make as much money as it once did.   However, it is a government-funded network which allows for it to report independently from commercial interests.   Many branches of government absolutely despise the ABC, because they do what they do best, hold government departments and organisations accountable for their actions.   The ABC published that the Indian company Adani was planning on building what would have been the biggest coal mine in the southern hemisphere, to which the Resources and Northern