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Damien Cahill

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Dr Lachlan Clohesy @lachlanclohesy.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Many anticipated an announcement yesterday. If this is being held up while millionaires negotiate how many more millions they'll take from a public university, after all this damage to #ANU, that is about as damning an indictment on university governance as you can get. 😡
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Van Badham @vanbadham.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Australian universities are a shit show and university managements who listen to corporate consultancy grifters are to blame. My latest in the @theguardian.com. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
To Australia’s university fat cats, who may yet face job cuts not of their own making – don’t forget to wash your underwear …
It’s been decades since parasitic consultancies began advising our tertiary institutions, at exorbitant cost
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Damien Cahill @damiencahill.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Gold. “put every university decision-maker responsible for the ongoing, farcical fatcattery in Australian higher education to the figurative sword. It’s in the national interest for the sector to be reformed, and heads to roll”
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NTEU Victoria @nteuvictoria.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Workers’ rights = Stronger university governance: the core message from Gary Maas, Victorian MP for Narre Warren South, who met NTEU VIC Asst Sec Prof Joo-Cheong Tham at state parliament this week. MPs are backing NTEU’s governance campaign - you can too: betterunis.nteu.au #HigherEducation #auspol
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NTEU @nteunion.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Join NTEU members this Sunday 24 August at marches across the country in solidarity with Palestine. Find out where it’s happening in your city 👉 nteu.info/24 @nteuact.bsky.social @nteuvictoria.bsky.social
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Damien Cahill @damiencahill.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Not even rain, cold and crappy Sydney weather could stop @nteunion.bsky.social members coming together to protest against corporatised uni governance and job cuts today. ✊✊✊💜💜💜☔️☔️☔️
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Dr Liz Allen @drdemography.com · 19/08/2025
Education Minister Jason Clare tells university heads to ‘lean into’ their $1M+ salaries being cut www.afr.com/politics/fed...
afr.com
Jason Clare puts unis on notice over governance and VC pay
The education minister says the public is losing confidence in the sector as separate analysis shows vice chancellor salaries averaged more than $1 million.
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Damien Cahill @damiencahill.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Despite four decades of rampant deregulation, the Productivity Commission calls for even more! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
abc.net.au
'Regulatory creep' dampening growth, productivity chief warns ahead of talks
Government regulation has emerged as one of the key issues to be tackled at the government's economic reform round table this week, as business leaders and the Productivity Commission call for it to b...
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Damien Cahill @damiencahill.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
It would defy belief had we not seen similar grossly inappropriate and callous behaviour from other corporatised uni managements: UTS staff told to ‘wash delicates’ to cope with impending job losses. Governance reform now! ⁦‪ @nteunion.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
abc.net.au
Uni staff told to 'wash delicates' for stress management as 146 courses suspended
The University of Technology Sydney is suspending more than 100 courses as it prepares for a controversial redundancy program to save $100 million.
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Our ANU @ouranu.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
“We should expect university councils … to probe and challenge managerial decisions, and be prepared… to listen to reasonable dissent," [Prof. Tregear] told senators “It is my experience, however, that the university council has repeatedly proved unwilling to do so." www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
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How one of the world's most prestigious universities fell from grace
The prestige of the Australian National University is fast fading. It must now respond to explosive allegations.
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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
An important public institution being trashed. I said a while back that if ANU was a council a State Local Government Minister would have appointed an Administrator by now.
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NTEU Victoria @nteuvictoria.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
ANU is the poster child for urgent university reform. Tragic stories emerging from ANU at the senate inquiry into university governance underline the case for improving the way our universities operate. Support our campaign: betterunis.nteu.au www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08... #HigherEd #auspol
abc.net.au
How one of the world's most prestigious universities fell from grace
The prestige of the Australian National University is fast fading. It must now respond to explosive allegations.
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Damien Cahill @damiencahill.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
At ANU: “The lack of transparency has been the foundation of the backlash by staff, who have long accused executives of botched consultation, including claims that executives were deleting staff questions during town hall meetings” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
abc.net.au
How one of the world's most prestigious universities fell from grace
The prestige of the Australian National University is fast fading. It must now respond to explosive allegations.
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Dr Liz Allen @drdemography.com · 13/08/2025
Thank you, everyone, for your warm well wishes and generous support. The @nteuact.bsky.social has been especially amazing. And they’re putting on a BBQ*! Come along and grab a bite to eat and spend time with ANU community. *OMG this is hilarious 😆
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Our ANU @ouranu.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
“ANU Students from Save Our Studies voted to blockade the Vice-Chancellor’s offices this week as part of their “Day of Rage” protest against the university’s ongoing cuts.” region.com.au/day-of-rage-...
region.com.au
'Day of Rage': ANU students blockade the Chancelry as opposition to cuts continues | Region Canberra
ANU Students from Save Our Studies voted to blockade the Vice-Chancellor's offices this week as part of their
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Damien Cahill @damiencahill.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
“if we want AI to add to national wealth rather than extract wealth for tech rent-seekers and lazy cost-cutters we need to assert democratic control over the technology” @nteunion.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
Can AI deliver economic nirvana? Only if workers can monitor and shape how it’s used | Peter Lewis
It is only when technology augments human capability that genuine productivity is achieved
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Damien Cahill @damiencahill.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Sometimes it takes an act of extraordinary courage to expose and bring down those who rule through fear and intimidation. I hope @nteunion.bsky.social member Liz Allen's brave and harrowing testimony today is the start of such a process - at ANU and other universities. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
abc.net.au
Julie Bishop accused of bullying by ANU staff member, senate inquiry hears
Former member of the Australian National University council Liz Allen has used a Senate inquiry investigating university governance to allege Chancellor Julie Bishop harassed, bullied, and threatened ...
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AEU Federal @aeufederal.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
The Productivity Commission has recommended the wrong solution with its suggestion in a newly released report that off-the-shelf lesson plans should be developed for teachers to help them save time and teach outside their area of expertise. Read more: bit.ly/45bYi6A
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
American corporations are on pace to spend $1.1 trillion on stock buybacks in 2025, an all-time high. Buybacks don't create more jobs, increase wages, or grow the economy — but they do help juice CEO pay that's often tied to stock performance. Nothing trickles down to workers.
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Dr Lachlan Clohesy @lachlanclohesy.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
With NTEU National President Dr Alison Barnes and the @nteunion.bsky.social team at Parliament to give evidence on university governance. ✊️
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Our ANU @ouranu.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Will Burfoot has told the Senate that as a council member he is unaware of the role consultancies are playing in Renew ANU. And his requests to see documents produced by Nous Group have been denied. Clear evidence that council members are being deliberately and systematically kept in the dark.
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Coming from a country where schools receive federal money for infrastructure and supplies it was and still is shocking that American teachers have to buy their own supplies. It is not actually normal, and speaks to the deliberate devaluing of education here.
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Damien Cahill @damiencahill.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
👇Exactly what @nteunion.bsky.social members have been telling us and why we are campaigning for stronger protections against excessive work through enterprise bargaining.
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Yes there’s so much to be proud of in the defence of slavery and then losing the war you started over it #losers
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Damien Cahill @damiencahill.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Consultancy Korda Mentha touting for more business in higher ed. Governance reform is urgently needed to stop parasitic corporate consultancies sucking the lifeblood out of our public universities. @nteunion.bsky.social
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Ben Spies-Butcher @bspiesbutcher.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Proud to stand with my Sociology colleagues, joined by @mehreenfaruqi.bsky.social @damiencahill.bsky.social and the mighty @nteunion.bsky.social against the devastating cuts proposed at Macquarie University
Marching through MacquarieBen with Damien Mehreen Faruqi speaks to rally
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Damien Cahill @damiencahill.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
No Job Cuts at Macquarie Uni! @nteunion.bsky.social ✊✊✊💜💜💜
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Damien Cahill @damiencahill.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Strong rally by @nteunion.bsky.social members and students at Macquarie Uni against corporatised uni management’s brutal proposed job cuts. ✊✊✊💜💜💜
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Alison Barnes @alisonbarnes.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Solidarity to Macquarie University friends, colleagues and students rallying against job cuts that damage staff and student wellbeing and the fabric of the university. 12.00 in the central courtyard. Get along if you can!
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NTEU @nteunion.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
“In short it would be a hammer blow to independence of research and inquiry. We entirely reject that proposal.” Read the full statement: nteu.info/envoy
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Michelle Arrow @michellearrow.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
We only made it about a quarter of the way across the bridge before the march was turned around. A huge crowd, hugely diverse: proud to be there with my family #MarchforHumanity
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Tim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Walking for peace for Palestine. #sydneyharbourbridge
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Michael McDonnell @historymatterssyd.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Massive march in Sydney to protest genocide.
Picture of demonstratorsDemonstrators.
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Ariadne Vromen @ariadnevromen.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Powerful march supporting Gaza, crossing Sydney Harbour Bridge in the pouring rain. Estimates at over 100,000 people ✊🏽
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NTEU @nteunion.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
ON TODAY! 🖤❤️💛💙💚 Find out how together we can win representative employment and foster respect and recognition for cultural knowledge in our universities. RSVP 👉 nteu.info/workplaceracism
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Damien Cahill @damiencahill.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Cut company tax and deregulate - same old tired, failed neoliberal mantra from the productivity commission.
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Damien Cahill @damiencahill.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Thank you @davidpocock.bsky.social for your support of @nteunion.bsky.social members at ANU!!!! 💜💜💜
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Dr Liz Allen @drdemography.com · 31/07/2025
BREAKING | @davidpocock.bsky.social has lodged formal notice of a motion to instruct ANU to pause cuts.
e) resolves that the Australian National University shall be instructed to pause any further forced redundancies or other terminations of ongoing staff until the conclusion and reporting of the Senate Standing Committee on Education and Employment's inquiry into the Quality of governance at Australian higher education providers.
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Our ANU @ouranu.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
ACT Senator David Pocock has lodged formal notice of a motion to instruct ANU to pause job cuts … "These changes imperil the Australian National University's capacity to fulfil its functions," he wrote in the notion of motion. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
abc.net.au
'Touches every part of the university': ANU to cut more jobs
The Australian National University has announced its third round of job cuts as it seeks to save $250 million, and the latest proposal "touches every part of the university".
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Damien Cahill @damiencahill.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Both 👇
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NTEU ACT @nteuact.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Views from Canberra Symphony Orchestra on the damage that Renew ANU will do to the region. 🎶 Yesterday, @nteunion.bsky.social and students continued to push back against job losses at #ANU. ✊
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Damien Cahill @damiencahill.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
"Fear may be a powerful motivator, but solidarity is just as strong. And solidarity is, ultimately, the best hope of contesting and resisting this. University workers are most powerful when they stand together and speak with one voice." www.ppesydney.net/fear-solidar...
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Fear, solidarity, courage and the war on education - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Like all workplaces, universities are sites of power and contestation, where managers have an imperative to exercise control over the labour process. How can we understand the new modalities of fear s...
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Like all workplaces, universities are sites of power and contestation, where managers have an imperative to exercise control over the labour process. How can we understand the new modalities of fear shaping today's war on education? Here @damiencahill.bsky.social surveys the terrain
ppesydney.net
Fear, solidarity, courage and the war on education - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Like all workplaces, universities are sites of power and contestation, where managers have an imperative to exercise control over the labour process. How can we understand the new modalities of fear s...
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University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
"Nottingham has a real strong reputation for this work, but its being squandered." - @rullsenberg.bsky.social Our current industrial action is ALL about maintaining support for what makes the university great: the people. Learn all about it in this clip from BBC East Midlands. #StopTheCuts
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Jo Grady @drjogrady.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Solidarity with Nottingham UCU. We are the university.
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Damien Cahill @damiencahill.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming workplaces and needs to be regulated through industrial instruments @nteunion.bsky.social www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
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Unions to demand employers be forbidden from using AI for ‘mass redundancies’
AI regulation will be the union’s key demand to Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ economic reform round table in August.
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Dan Golding @dangolding.com · 27/07/2025
Like millions of others, I drew on an affordable and broad based Arts degree to become who I am today. It is beyond time that the Albanese government fixed this mess - like they promised they would before coming to power three years ago.
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Damien Cahill @damiencahill.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Good to see this open letter calling for the abolition of the Jobs Ready Graduate package - something @nteunion.bsky.social members have been calling for since its misguided and cynical introduction by the previous Coalition government.
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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
At the very least, debating "genocide" like you're parsing a para in Kant or doing a colour chart of wall paint seems to be missing the point that many things a comfortable distance short of it should also be stopped.
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Liam Byrne @liamliamliam1234.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Oh few, that's a relief, no need to worry about the effects of #AI because Sam Altman's own deep and comprehensive knowledge of economic and industrial history assures him that in two generations the "magic of capitalism" means that everything will be just fine. Thanks Sam!
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