SRC END-OF-YEAR CLOSURE: The SRC is closed from 5pm Friday 20th December 2024 and will reopen at 9am on Tuesday 7th January 2025. We will not be responding to any enquiries during this time, however, if you fill out our Caseworker Contact Form a caseworker will respond to you as soon as possible after we return. Please note that the University is closed during the same time as the SRC. These days do not count as working days when calculating University deadlines. If you are feeling sad or lonely and would like to speak to someone about the way you are feeling, a list of resources is available here.
2025 SRC Ethno-Cultural Officers: Dana Kafina, Kayla Hill
ACAR is an autonomous space open to current University of Sydney students who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, who come from a minority ethnocultural background, who are marked or marginalised by white supremacy, or who identify as a 'person of colour'.
This doesn’t preclude white people from getting involved with our work! We actively encourage those who benefit from white supremacy to attend and help out with the various campaigns or events that we run throughout the year. In the spirit of intersectionality, many of these will be run collaboratively with other identity-based collectives of the University of Sydney or other universities, as well as local groups.
In 2024, we will organise around issues relating to people of colour, both within and beyond USyd, in activist and educational ways. Notably, we will focus on the fight for Indigenous justice in so-called Australia post-referendum, collaborating with the First Nations Collective. Following the inhumane assault on Gaza perpetrated by the settler-colonial project of Israel, we will be advocating for Palestinian liberation and campaigning against Israeli apartheid through BDS (Boycotts, Divestment & Sanctions) Youth. Other issues include, but are not limited to: refugee rights, international students' rights, and international solidarity actions.
We seek to continue centring the concerns of Indigenous communities whilst working on more cross-collective organising and mobilising.
ACAR acknowledges & pays respect to the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, whose connections to lands and waters is ongoing. It is upon their ancestral lands that the University of Sydney (Camperdown Campus) is built. Sovereignty of these lands has never been ceded. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.
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ACAR is an autonomous space that organises around issues relating to people of colour, in activist and educational ways from a student perspective.
The University of Sydney Disabilities Collective is an autonomous collective of the University of Sydney Students' Representative Council (SRC).
The Sydney University Education Action Group (EAG) campaigns on education issues including fighting for free education and stopping course cuts.
The Enviro Collective, is the official environmental group of the SRC.
We are a dedicated group of First Nations activists and allies at the University of Sydney.
The International Students Collective (ISC) is a SRC Collective that exists to represent and organise around the interests of international students.