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Disability Access Toilet Facility Your Student Association has provided a disability access toilet facility for your convenience. This facility is located on the ground floor of the Association Administration Building, opposite the association Fitness Centre. A detailed access map outlining the disability access routes is also available for your convience. To obtain a map or should you have concerns relating to disability access on campus please contact the Student association or the University's Disability Officer.
Your Student Association has provided change room facilities, including a private feeding area, for student parents. Both Mums and Dads are welcome. Location
The Queer Space is a safe and friendly place for Lesbian, Gays, Bisexuals and transgender students and their friends. The room has an internal phone, resources, information and free condoms, lube, dams and gloves. It is a place to pick up local and national Gay, Lesbian, bisexual and Transgender publications. It is a great place to chill out and meet other Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered students. Queer affairs The Queer Committee runs activities and campaigns for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender students. Support and advocacy may also be sought by Gay, Lesbian, Bisexuals and Transgenderists and those questioning or coming to terms with their sexuality. The Committee also produces an annual publication which provides a forum for queer students to be published, the publication is distributed on campus and across campuses nationally. The committee also ensures the maintenance of the QUEER SPACE. The Queer Committee also facilitates the SAFE PLACEs on campus. This safety campaign provides Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender students places of refuge if they are the victims of violence or harassment. The Refectory, Student Association Office, Welfare Services and Sports and Recreation Office are all SAFE PLACEs. This campaign enables the victims of violence or harassment to have these incidence reported anonymously. Reports of violence and harassment can be reported at any SAFE PLACE. The Women's Room is located on the bottom corner of the Student Services Mall, nearest the bus stop. The Women's Room is a Women Only Space for women who feel discriminated against and/or oppressed by the very structure of society. Many women feel that the only way they can fight this oppression is through grouping together with other strong and politicised women who experience the same difficulties. This is why having a Women's Room on campus is so important. It is there that women can meet and organise, a room where they can feel empowered.
The Women's Room also offers a support network and social atmosphere for women on campus. A wide range of feminist issues (and others) are discussed and debated in a non-judgemental atmosphere. The women who frequent the Women's Room have many diverse backgrounds and lifestyles. This diversity includes, age, race, culture, political beliefs, sexuality and religion. Many Women from different ethnic groups find the room to be a safe place to relax away from the masculine gaze. ALL women are welcome. The Women's Officer exists as an acknowledgment of the structural impediments to womens participation in education and society generally. The Womens Officer, together with the collective, organises educative campaigns on feminism and pertinent issues to women on campus such as safety, gender and the curriculum, women and racism, sexual assault, to name a few. The collective meets weekly to discuss issues and organise events and campaigns - all women are welcome to participate and meetings will be advertised in the Bullsheet. The Student Association also has a Women's Committee. Six women are nominated from the student body at a Student Association Council meeting to form the Committee which more or less acts as an Executive to the collective - i.e makes decisions on how to spend the budget, deals with daily business and finalises campaigns. Feminism is now more than ever incredibly relevant to women on campus. It's only through challenging dominant paradigms that change is brought about. Your Women's Officer can be contacted through Student Association Administration on 4781 4400. Intellectual men of the eighteenth century, who indulged in literary discussions and academic discourse on topics such as Freedom, Liberty and Equality, were characterised by their legwear. They wore blue stockings. Their concepts of equality, however, did not extend to women who wanted to become involved in such intellectual activities. Hence, women who sought an education were slandered as Blue Stockings because they were seen to be masquerading as intellectual men. Since that time feminists have appropriated the term 'Blue Stocking' and used it as a focal point to collectively organise and discuss freedom, choice and liberation! Blue Stocking Week is a recognition the still explicit structural and social factors impeding women's access to education and a forum through which to challenge all forms of oppression. NOWSA is the Network of Women Students of Australia. It is an annual midyear conference For campuses which lack an activist feminist culture, the National Union of Students Women's Department can be an essential resource, offering an important voice for women students and a valuable avenue for information, research and activism. As the peak organisation for tertiary students in Australia, NUS represents well over 400,000 students. As such, the NUS Women's Department is in a position to offer advice on a myriad of issues, ranging from how to establish a women's room, collective and Women's Officer, organising around safety on campus and issues of sexual assault, the portrayal of women in the media, women's health and many other issues, as well as providing campaign materials and information. The Women's Department exists to actively campaign around issues that affect women students, acting as an advocate, providing an avenue for communication on issues that effect the impediment to equal access and opportunity at the tertiary level and to bring a feminist perspective to all matters in which NUS partakes. |
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