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11/12/2025

NATCON DAY 2: A standoff at the National Union of Students National Conference has continued into a second day as delegates from two factions held off from entering the conference floor until their demands over the future of the NUS were met.

Aleksander Sekulovski from The Tertangala and Imogen Sabey from the Student Media Association join Woroni News to report.

Editor’s Note: This piece was originally published in the Tert by Editor Aleksandar Sekulovski and Student Media Association President Imogen Sabey. Another day of NatCon has passed with nothing being discussed on the agenda as quorum still has not been reached. Delegates who remained on the confe...

08/12/2025

What happened on the first day of the NUS National Conference? Not very much, it turns out. The conference never actually started due to infighting in a major faction.

Joseph Mann* recaps the day's (non-)events.
*Disclosure: Joseph Mann is a member of the Australian Labor Party. He is not a member of the party’s student factions.

The question that any student journalist seeks to answer is “what happens at the NUS National Conference (or Natcon)?” This year, at least on its first day, nothing happened at Natcon. This is not normally the case. The conference usually starts late and there is usually some item of policy or a...

08/12/2025

Harry Hartog Booksellers has confirmed to Woroni that it will not re-open as planned on January 15 next year and will instead be closing the store permanently. The move leaves ANU without an on-campus bookstore.

Joseph Mann and Kaab Qureshi report.

The Kambri location of the Harry Hartog bookstore, the ANU’s primary bookstore since the opening of Kambri in 2019, has closed permanently. As of December 8, a sign on the shop’s front says the store would reopen January 15. However, the shop’s fitout has been removed and a source told Woroni ...

07/12/2025

The NUS: A Helpful Guide

By Blair Doran

For those still floating around campus, or those unfortunate few with friends involved in student politics, you may hear some whispers going around amongst student politicians. You may hear the words “Unity punch”, “headkicker”, “trot” and “NatCon” discussed in hushed tones. What does it all mean? Well, it’s the most wonderful time of year for stupol tragics, as the NUS National Conference is right around the corner. We here at Woroni will be dutifully covering this s̶h̶i̶t̶s̶h̶o̶w̶ conference and have prepared this primer on what exactly NatCon is.

For those still floating around campus, or those unfortunate few with friends involved in student politics, you may hear some whispers going around amongst student politicians. You may hear the words “Unity punch”, “headkicker”, “trot” and “NatCon” discussed in hushed tones. What doe...

30/11/2025

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21/10/2025

The Queensland state government has proposed the construction of a 63,000-seat stadium in Barrambin, Brisbane’s Victoria Park, ahead of the 2032 Olympics. Victoria Park is one of the largest inner-city green spaces in a capital city known for having relatively little green space. An internal Council review, seen by the ABC, revealed Brisbane’s tree cover has dropped from 35 percent to 32 percent dropped from 35 percent to 32 percent in the past decade, despite the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) goal to “achieve carbon neutrality” and assurance that the Olympic games will be “at the forefront in the field of sustainability”.

Building on this land will destroy important ecosystems and trees, and multiple heritage-listed sites significant to the Turrbal and Jagera peoples. The Yagara Magandjin Aboriginal Corporation has lodged an application for the protection of the park under the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Protection Act, considering it “one of the city’s most important First Nations sites”. This claim is currently under consideration by Senator Murray Watt, Minister for the Environment and Water.

Read more at woroni.com.au

The Queensland state government has proposed the construction of a 63,000-seat stadium in Barrambin, Brisbane’s Victoria Park, ahead of the 2032 Olympics. Victoria Park is one of the largest inner-city green spaces in a capital city known for having relatively little green space. An internal Counc...

19/10/2025

Back in my high school days, when I didn’t pay for the roof over my head, didn’t have four different medications to get out of my house, and had ample time and energy to go out and wreak havoc on Melbourne’s CBD, I was a very active protester. I went to everything, made signs, yelled the chants until I lost my voice, and once had the side of my head plastered on the front page of the Herald Sun.

But these days there are many restrictions preventing me from being as active and outspoken in my activism; physical constraints, monetary constraints, sensory issues, and fear of losing family connections all prevent me from being the outspoken activist that I want to be.

Read more at woroni.com.au

Back in my high school days, when I didn’t pay for the roof over my head, didn’t have four different medications to get out of my house, and had ample time and energy to go out and wreak havoc on Melbourne’s CBD, I was a very active protester. I went to everything, made signs, yelled […]

18/10/2025

Congratulations to the winners of Woroni’s board election for 2026!