PHOTOS: 'No cuts': Sydney uni staff & students defiant

Tuesday, May 8, 2012
By Peter Boyle, Sydney

Activists in the biggest staff-student campaign to defend education seen in Australia for decades have won a partial victory against an attempt by the University of Sydney administration to cut hundreds of teaching and non-teaching jobs.

The immediate job cuts have been reduced to 23 under pressure from the campaign. But staff and students are keeping up the fight. The photos below are of a rally and march of 500 people held on May 7, during which the administration called in the police and riot squad.

Later, a smaller group of students blockaded a meeting of the University Senate, which then failed to achieve quorum.

From GLW issue 921

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