Canberra Crash-Course Guide (CCG) 

In contrast to 2024’s counter course guide, 2025’s CCCG will inform students on essential support services provided off campus and inside ANU. The CCCG will seek to inform on academic procedures (i.e. applying for extensions) and support services provided off ANU campus (i.e. Headspace, Food banks, etc). Renter support and more. The CCCG will also provide tailored information specifically for undergraduates, postgraduates, and HDR students. 

Cost of Living Report 

The Cost-of-Living Report will seek to survey several factors associated with student cost-of-living from students at the ANU. The report will seek to identify key areas where students at the ANU struggle to afford, this could be anything from course textbooks to grocery items students find themselves having to go without. The Cost-of-Living Report shall be formulated over the first half of the school year, and will be completed upon the end of semester 1 and will aim to begin the process of implementation of its recommendations in semester 2 of 2025. 

Cost of Living Support 

As Welfare Officer I intend to explore several avenue to ease the cost-of-living for students on and off campus, this will include several items of recommendation to the ANU: 

1. Parking subsidies during exam periods. 

1. Suitcase rummages events and clothes exchanges (Clothing is expensive! Drip is important!) 

1. Bring back crunch and sip! To elaborate, I will seek to provide snacks within BKSS throughout the day so that students are able to grab and go in between classes, this will ease the financial stress of those little purchases (which combined end up quite expensive) which we all often see accumulate in our bank accounts. 

Community Support Officer Reform 

As Welfare Officer, I will recommend to the residential experience division of ANU, several items of recommendation in regard to the new role, Community Support Officer, these items include: 

1. Introducing Community Support Officers to their respective residential halls through social media posts (i.e. residential hall Facebook pages) and social events so that the CSO may become a familiar face throughout the residential community, this will strive to make CSOs more approachable and accessible when support is needed. 

1. Senior Residents and Community Support Officer to work in collaboration with one another. It is no secret to residents that these two roles work practically parallel with one another, with the Senior Resident roles sharing various similar responsibilities CSOs now do currently. Instilling a collaborative culture between the two roles has potential for knowledge sharing and consolidating pastoral care support for residents. 

Action for Occupants 

The term ‘occupants’ often leaves students in a grey area when it comes it their rights and what exactly they’re entitled to. I intend to champion residential rights and ensure residents are equipped to champion themselves through our Canberra Crash-Course Guide which will advise students on what exactly they’re entitled, and how navigate the murky waters which is on-campus accommodation. 

Residential College Consent and Sexual Education Reform 

Consent and sexual education is something which should be taught across all residential accommodation at the ANU, not to a handful of residential halls. 

As Welfare Officer, I will consult with the residential experience team recommend and tailored consent and sexual education for each college, to suit the unique cultures of each residential accommodation. This will strive to further engage and educate students and make sexual and consent education accessible to all on-campus students. 

Residential Parking for Residents 

I’d be one to state the obvious that the decision to move all Daley Rd parking to Dickson Parking Precinct was hugely impractical for students who don’t live directly behind it (sorry Burg and Johns). Not only has it made parking more inaccessible, but a logistical nightmare for when it comes time to purchase parking each year. This policy will recommend residential parking spaces to be for residents as intended. 

Education and Welfare 

In the spirit of continuing the legacy of the roles of education and welfare officer often working side by side, my fellow candidate Rosie Paton and I intend to tackle the Goliath that is EAP reform. As someone whom has an EAP myself, EAPs are a tool which whilst useful are often bogged down by unnecessary hoops and bureaucracy which could be solved through a more pastoral, and quite frankly personable approach. 

Throughout the year Rosie and I intend to engage with the Access and Inclusion team as well as students to determine ways in which EAPs can be easier to obtain and provide overall better support and pastoral care to students.