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   ANU rally to protest School of Music cuts - photo gallery

   Posted 17 May 2012 by Jane Maze (ACT Division)

   If you didn't get to be at one of the best rallies ever, you can get a flavour of it here.

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   ANU School of Music rally

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     The rally began with bands playing all over campus, showing the depth and breadth of skill produced by the School.
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     Brass band gathers up protesters and leads them to Union Court.
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     Brass band and drummers and dancing, rhythmically clapping protesters.
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     Gary France drumming up the intensity.
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     Are we having fun yet? Oh, yes.
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     Jazz band leader adds swing to the chant of 'Save Our School'.
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     Musicians of very different styles join in protest.
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     The NTEU labelled the VC's planned ANU cuts 'Cold, not bold.' The meme has been taken further.
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     Music School choir enchants the protestors.
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     The drumming, chanting crowd fell silent to listen to the exquisite singing of a School of Music choir.
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     NTEU-banner-holding protester masked in the spirit of festive protest.
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     ACT NTEU Secretary Stephen Darwin inspired the crowd with a fiery rejection of cuts to the School of Music.
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     Greens MLA Caroline Le Couteur addresses the rally.
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     Federal police attended but stayed in the background of a peaceful rally.
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     Protestors listening to speeches of support for the School of Music (Not, as this photo might suggest, worshipping a tree).
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     It was a huge rally of about a thousand people.
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     Jack Hobbs, ANU Students' Association's Music Rep, addressing the crowd.
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     Malba Barahona carrying the NTEU banner in the march to the Chancery.
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     Annie Carroll carrying the other end of the banner!
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     Yes, we're definitely having fun now.
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     Protestors dancing outside the Chancelry.
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     ANUSA President Dallas Proctor heading into the Chancelry (with Music Reps Jack Hobbs and Yasmin Masri) to present a petition signed by over 21,000 people.

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   ACT Division Secretary challenges ANU's V-C in Canberra Times today

   Posted 17 May 2012 by Jane Maze (ACT Division)

   ACT Division Secretary Stephen Darwin challenges ANU's Vice-Chancellor to fight for, rather than fight with, the University - starting by withdrawing the ill-conceived proposals ...

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   How you can comment on proposed cuts to the ANU School of Music

   Posted 17 May 2012 by Jane Maze (ACT Division)

   Many members of the NTEU, ANU staff and students and the Canberra community have written to Vice-Chancellor Ian Young via his consultation email line, which is open until 25th May 2012. You ...

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   Stop the cuts at the School of Music

   The management of the Australian National University has announced that all staff of the University's School of Music will be made redundant and required to reapply, if they choose, for a position in the School, with a net loss of ten jobs and no guarantee of re-employment. This is associated with curriculum changes that many students, staff and community members have protested against. The Unviersity has announced no intention to reduce the number of students but rather to increase it, raising questions of what combination of casualisation, increased workloads and offshoring of jobs will be used to handle a student load that has increased while staff numbers are decreased.

   ANU's Vice-Chancellor has opened a consultation email line and has invited community members as well as ANU staff and students to use it to comment on this proposal.

   The NTEU encourages you to let the Vice-Chancellor know your views, and to copy your email to the Union at act@nteu.org.au to ensure accountability of the process. (The Vice-Chancellor refused to share publicly or with the NTEU the comments made on his previous consultation exercise about planned job cuts across ANU.)

   If you wish, you can use the email text here. This email comments primarily on the issue of job cuts. You are welcome to add your comments on any other aspect of the proposed School of Music changes.

   Your email will be automatically copied to act@nteu.org.au. If you prefer to comment privately you can simply send an email to the Vice-Chancellor's comment address, somconsult@anu.edu.au.

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   Your Name*

   Your Email Address*

   Email [Vice-Chancellor Ian Young]?

   Subject*

   Dear [appropriate name will be inserted],

   <div>I believe it is completely unacceptable to sack all academic and general staff in the School of Music using the pretense of a new curriculum. To expect those academics - whose deep musical expertise, teaching experience, and scholarship are what constitutes the School of Music - to be forced to apply for 'new' jobs in the institution which derives its status from their work, expertise, and professional reputations is an insult.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>It is equally unacceptable that experienced administrative and support staff are all to be sacked and required to reapply for their positions. How can the work of administering the School have changed so radically as to require this?</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>I support the NTEU&nbsp;in disputing that this redundancy announcement is even legal, and I endorse the call for the process to be suspended until staff&nbsp;&nbsp;have been properly and genuinely consulted, as they are required to be when significant workplace change is proposed.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>The announced curriculum changes appear to involve outsourcing and further casualisation of teaching. I condemn the replacement of ongoing academics by the employment of staff under poorer conditions and pay, merely as it represents a cost saving to the ANU.&nbsp;</div>

   Yours Sincerely,
   

   [Your details]

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   ANU School of Music

   Posted 15 May 2012 by Katherine Gale (University of Adelaide)

   Here is an article from today's Canberra Times about Australian National University management's "change of tune" following NTEU pressure.

   This is what it looked like when more than a thousand ...

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   Mass sacking threat at ANU School of Music

   Posted 3 May 2012 by Jane Maze (ACT Division)

   The NTEU condemns the threatened wholesale sacking of all academic and general staff in the ANU School of Music.

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   ANU e-bulletin: Mass sacking threat in School of Music

   Published: 03 May, 2012
   

   The NTEU condemns the threatened wholesale sacking of all academic and general staff in the ANU School of Music.

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   Send an email to Ian Young about his 're-positioning' strategy

   Posted 5 April 2012 by Stephen Darwin (ACT Division)

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   No Job Cuts

   Welcome to the NTEU's site for you to provide your response directly to ANU's Vice-Chancellor on his 're-positioning' strategy. The NTEU has provided a letter which summarises the flawed nature of this proposed strategy and asks the Vice-Chancellor to abandon it before it causes additional damage to the University. It also asks ANU to engage the NTEU and the broader University community to help build a real future for the institution. Find out more...

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   Your Name*

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   Email Vice-Chancellor?

   Subject*

   Dear [appropriate name will be inserted],

   <div> <div> <blockquote> <div> <div> <div> <blockquote> <div> <div> <div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;I write in response to your request for feedback on your 're-positioning' strategy announced on March 27.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>As an NTEU member, I support the decision of the union to reject this strategy as an appropriate approach to ensure sufficient investment in the ANU's future. Moreover, as the Union has argued, I am not convinced that the ANU is actually facing any real financial crisis, particularly given the surpluses it continues to have and the large portfolio of investments it maintains.&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>I believe it is unacceptable to seek to close disciplines&nbsp;arbitrarily&nbsp;or remove staff based on the flawed argument of 'relative performance'. We have seen the enormous damage this has done to the University of Sydney and the staff who work in it. It is critical the ANU does not try this approach and bring about the same here.</div> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> <blockquote> <div> <div> <div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>I urge you to abandon your proposed strategy before further damaging conflict develops. I urge you to seek to work constructively with the NTEU and the university community to identify positive strategies to enhance university resources. This should include pursuing proper Commonwealth funding for Australia's national university.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>&nbsp;</div> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <blockquote> <div> <div> <div> <div>&nbsp;</div> </div> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

   Yours Sincerely,
   

   [Your details]

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   Larger surplus cannot be at cost of ANU's future or its staff

   Posted 26 March 2012 by Jane Maze (ACT Division)

   The NTEU was advised by the Vice-Chancellor this morning of ANU's proposed $40 million budget cuts, including a cut of up to $25 million to stafffing.

   Division Secretary Stephen Darwin and ...

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   Submissions due tomorrow for reviews of ANU Legal Office, Planning & Statistical Services, and Human Resources.

   Posted 15 March 2012 by Jane Maze (ACT Division)

   In late 2011, ANU initiated regular rolling reviews of its administrative units. The NTEU sees these reviews as a good thing, especially as all staff members are encouraged to make submissions to the ...

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   Smart Casuals handbook for ANU

   Posted 7 July 2011 by Paul Clifton (NTEU National Office)

   2011 edition of Smart Casuals, NTEU handbook for casual and sessional academic staff. This version customised for staff at

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    NTEU members join the Conversation

    Posted 29 June 2011 by Jane Maze (ACT Division)

    Have you seen the recently launched website, The Conversation? It describes itself as 'an independent source of information, analysis and commentary from the university and research sector – ...

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