Tag: Ammy Singh
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Increased fees on the horizon as students hijack Q&A
Students from university campuses across Sydney temporarily shut down live broadcasting of ABC’s Q&A last night, while protesting Education Minister Christopher Pyne’s proposal to deregulate university fees, among a raft of recommendations aimed at creating a US-style college system in Australia. Benjamin Hammond, member of the NSW Education Action Network of students, said the protest…
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UNSW’s Winter Olympics: Meet Callum Watson
In the latest series of UNSW students moonlighting as Olympians, Callum Watson talks to Ammy Singh about the travels and travails of cross country skiing, the Olympic dream, and life as a greenie. Q: Your parents put you on skis as soon as you could walk. What has it taken for you to get to…
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UNSW’s Winter Olympics: Meet Scott Kneller
Another spotlight on a UNSW Olympic hopeful; Ammy Singh speaks to Scott Kneller about Ski Cross, Sochi and how he got there. Q: You got to Sochi last night. How is it? We’ve heard a few horror stories about accommodation, but hopefully it’s good? A: Yeah, actually, it’s pretty amazing. It’s obviously different to Vancouver.…
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Belle of the Board
Ammy Singh talks snowboarding, coming out of the closet on national television, and “ripping on Putin’s ass” with Belle Brockhoff, Australia’s only openly gay Winter Olympian in Sochi. Mention you’ve never seen snow to Olympian Belle Brockhoff as she wakes up in faraway Europe, and she’ll take her laptop over to her window to show…
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UNSW pushes to increase fees in popular courses
UNSW has joined the Group of Eight (Go8) universities coalition in calling for the government to allow universities to exclusively charge full fees in popular undergraduate courses, as part of an initial move towards wider fee deregulation. In a submission to the Abbott government’s review of the demand driven funding system for public universities, led…
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Conservative Club controversy with rival Liberal factions continues
The controversy surrounding the creation of the Conservative Club at UNSW has continued, with new details emerging of an alleged failed attempt at club stacking, after members of the soft right Liberal-aligned Freedom Club failed to sign up as members at the Conservative Club’s Inaugural General Meeting (IGM) in order to obtain voting rights. The…