Candidate for the position of NUS Delegate - 2024 NUS National Conference

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Angelo Tavlaridis

As a socialist and activist, I think that student unions should be used to fight for student rights and social justice. As students we have been brought up in a world wrecked by capitalism, from the climate crisis to vast and deepening inequality and war. Our unions have a role to play in resisting these disasters by challenging universities ties to weapons manufacturers and fossil fuel giants. Universities should be places of genuine learning and education for the better of humanity, but instead are run in the interests of big business and the military apparatus. As students we have to push back against the idea that our education should be tied to heinous corporations like Lockheed Martin who supply helicopters and fighter jets to Israel, or Santos, who recently steamrolled local Gomeroi people to build the Narrabri gas project.

As a NUS delegate I will bring these politics to our national union and argue for resources to build campaigns here in SA.

            Solidarity with Palestine, no war with Lebanon

            No to fossil fuel or weapons companies on campus

            No cuts to education staff in the coming merger

            Cut VCs salary and fund free education

            Defend and extend abortion rights

            Fight sexism, homophobia and transphobia

The University of South Australia Student Association Inc. (USASA) acknowledges the Kaurna, Boandik and Barngarla First Nations People as the traditional custodians of the unceded lands now home to the University of South Australia’s campuses in Adelaide, Mount Gambier and Whyalla. We respectfully acknowledge their Ancestors and Elders, past, present and emerging. We also acknowledge the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia. It was and always will be Aboriginal land.

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