Exciting news!
@nteunion.bsky.social national elections have been declared, and from October 2026 I'll be starting a new role as General Secretary.
Thrilled to be continuing to work with National President @alisonbarnes.bsky.social & new National Assistant Secretary @lachlanclohesy.bsky.social✊💜
Czech it out 👇
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Melbourne Uni agrees to pay $72m to staff it 'underpaid' plus a contrition payment to the Federal Government in an 'Enforceable Undertaking' with Fair Work Ombudsman - who agree to drop their legal action.
Extraordinary...
www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...
#HigherEducation #universities
Uni of Melbourne pays $72m in back pay to casuals, symptomatic of university governance fails across the sector. Read @nteuvictoria.bsky.social's report here: tinyurl.com/unigovernanc...
Both the current and the previous Uni of Melbourne Chancellors, Jane Hansen and Allan Myers, were appointed after making $40m and $10m donations.😶
The Feds' much-touted governance council had better get the big stick out of the cupboard. @nteuvictoria.bsky.social
www.afr.com/work-and-car...
Dodgy donations and rampant cronyism: new @NTEUnion report lifts the lid on the murky world of millionaire chancellors and Victorian #HigherEducation governance.
We need government inquiries now, @jasonclaremp.bsky.social!
www.afr.com/work-and-car...
Report: nteuau.sharepoint.com/:b:/s/docume...
Ken McAlpine is called for evidence now. He provides a clarification to one aspect of his evidence that he described as "too Jane Austen" in that it was not a truth universally acknowledged, rather a truth that is well understood and accepted.
Justice Snaden asks whether he ever does any marking during tutorials? Ciaravolo says yes, sometimes the students do an exercise that is naked in the class. The judge asks for what sort of incidental administration he does as part of his teaching. Very little springs to mind.
Siobhan Kelly takes Ciaravolo through his teaching preparation. When you get a tutorial plan, what does that consist of? Not a specific plan, he replies, more just some general notes about materials to teach. Tutors then have to turn these notes into an actual tutorial plan