wheelchair bball officer – no elections. Holding own elections. art trip – so fun and great. Questions Annika – issues with last year, what are we doing Laura – will talk to Gowrie Ben – have to register with DSC? Laura – Yes John – potential for outing people? What’s the deal? Laura C – have it in access and inclusion centre. Could be going there for a number of reasons. Private room. Nick – wheelchair basketball – one day or all week? Laura C – can book both courts, depend on how many people are keen. Have the money to make it a semester long thing. Looking into insurance. Ben Second: Suzy Passed. 3.2.6 Indigenous Students’ Department Report Still no appointed Indigenous Officer, have not been able to get in touch with Clem to confirm Cam – Clem resigned about 3-4 weeks ago. New person has been appointed, we can’t get her contact details. Will follow this up. Annika = gimp. Missed Gabby. Gabby Andrews Gen Rep Report Report is out of date. Ben Gill is great and helping. Working with stakeholders around the university. Erin – need more volunteers? Gabby – Yes Laura – can help Gabby – thanks dude. Accepted: Laura Second: Cam Passed. Item 4: Other Business 4.1 Ordinary Motions 4.1.1 Special General Meeting ANUSA will host an SGM on the 22nd of October at 12pm in Union Court. Moved: Cam Wilson – speak this. Constitutional changes dedicated to this.
Seconded: Ben Gill – waived. Questions Laura – Quorum requirements? Can we get it? Cam – same. Yes. Have next years ANUSA. Controversial issues. Karan – OGM? Cam – 8th oct Erin – what will be the date for constitutional changes? Cam – same as per usual Ella – what are they? Cam – election stuff, heaps of stuff flagged, need to agree on it as a group. – support it, lots of good changes Need simple majority by resolution SGM motion passed. Suspend Standing Orders Motion Moved: I move that we suspend standing orders to discuss the ANUSA review recommendations (Cam W) Seconded: Ella Will cap discussion of next two items to 15 minutes each Passed. 4.1.2 ANUSA Review Cam – point of this wanted to go through each of the sections, anything good or bad. We can take these minutes and prepare an official response. Will accept feedback via email. through each section 1. Marketing comms – nothing. Cam noted that we have tried to have a regular column in woroni. Not as good at celebrating what we do well. Return would be exponential Ella – Q – bringing back the anusa newsletter? Cam – all of student email working on. Physical copies. Could do monthly copies. Karan – we have an advertising space, why haven’t we done this. Column? Cam put one in, they rejected this 2. C/S Ray – lack of recognition that anusa is a service provider. Worried about loosing vital/core services. Thoughts? Cam agrees Ella – re training, what are we doing re legal obligations? Cam has spoken to Jack about doing this. Can we film them and make youtube clips? Cam – yes agrees Karan – legal training, make sure people are qualified. 3. External stakeholder management – Cam – university expects a lot of us. Looking to
organisational goals and to match this. 4. Off campus students - Ella – what does anusa do with griffin hall? Cam - Nothing explicit in our constitution Karan – analysis, what type of events work? Anusa surveys, let’s think strat 5. Training/handover/development Cam – consultations. Anusa needs more specific training. Karan – pros/cons on this. Can we do research. Annika – looking to involve Eleanor, having actual handover document here. Ella – gen rep handover. Each one, personal experiences and contacts 6. Exec/office management – Cam. Already started this Karan – employed person. Having this one come to src and do a report. Ray – clarifying goals, how do we do this? Involve as many people, speak to incoming team Cam – report was good to express some issues that we already had. Was quite broad. Would like to see process to answer questions. Procedural First – Ella Second – Ben Passed. 4.1.3 Academic Exclusion That ANUSA condemns any increase to the academic exclusion period without any evidence that it would improve the educational outcomes of excluded students. First: Cam Second: Gabby Cam – report went up last night. Marnie keen to increase period to 3 years. Paula and Richard unsure. Don’t have data as of yet, concerned about being done off anecdotal experience. Should oppose it whilst they have no reason. Could improve graduation rates. Gabby – waived speaking right Questions Laura W – DoS, RB – have they advocated against it? Cam – didn’t want to misquote them Laura W – what sort of data should they produce? Cam – what grad rates/drop out rates who have already been excluded. Do have the ability to get it. Laura W – academic research on it? Cam – can ask about it. Marnie didn’t mention this but will follow through. Joyce – average for other uni’s? Cam – no, academic exclusion from all universities. Passed by everyone. ANUSA recommends that the university improve their communication around academic exclusion, particularly of special consideration provisions. First: Cam