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To aid transparency, Our ANU is calling for staff to share their CMP feedback submissions.

When we can hear each other’s voices, we’ll be stronger.

Email CMP submissions to ourANU25@gmail.com

We will publish them on our Substack (ouranu.substack.com) and google drive: shorturl.at/VBhCO
Our ANU | OurANU | Substack
Click to read Our ANU, by OurANU, a Substack publication.
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July 8, 2025 at 9:28 AM
scienceanu.bsky.social
We love this chemist-tree! 🎄👏

#ouranu #chemistry
alisonrbentley.bsky.social Alison Bentley @alisonrbentley.bsky.social · Dec 4
My first visit to the Research School of Chemistry @scienceanu.bsky.social & they’ve certainly set the bar for science-themed Christmas decorations 🎄 🧬
December 4, 2024 at 9:51 PM
laurarad.bsky.social
"Let the people who built this place do their work" #ourANU
July 15, 2025 at 2:29 AM
thaophan.bsky.social
Absolutely galling that this has been published the same day academics and professional staff are receiving emails about forced redundancy meetings. Heartless and completely out of touch. Disgusted at this leadership #ourANU
June 30, 2025 at 5:20 AM
markgkenny.bsky.social
If you’re in the capital, come to a live recording of Democracy Sausage pod tomorrow (Mon) 5:30 for 6pm with the excellent @MarijaTaflaga the brilliant @jillesheppard & the fantastic @fbongiornoanu It will be fun & informing. And it’s in a pub! Badger and Co @ourANU @ANUmedia @anuausi.bsky.social
April 27, 2025 at 3:55 AM
optoelectronadv.bsky.social
#OEA_highlight Ultrafast all-optical modulation of wide-bandwidth pulses enabled by silicon-metasurfaces doi.org/10.29026/oea... by Prof. #Ivan_Buchvarov @universitysofia #Dragomir_Neshev @ourANU #ultrafast #tuning #metasurfaces #pump #probe #spectroscopy #nanophotonics
September 3, 2026 at 8:41 AM
isabellamweber.bsky.social
Melinda Cooper is always a must watch and the
@ourANU
Capitalism Studies Network looks brilliant.
October 9, 2024 at 2:30 PM
nteuact.bsky.social
Staff and students standing together against cuts at ANU. Sacking 638FTE, tutorials every second week and more students per class degrades the quality of education @ourANU.
See VoteNOanu.nteu.au for more info.
February 21, 2025 at 4:00 AM
trishcahill.bsky.social
Student, staff petition urges ANU council to remove Bishop #OurANU #auspol www.afr.com/work-and-car...
Student, staff petition urges ANU council to remove Bishop
Julie Bishop says she will remain as chancellor until 2026, but on Friday a petition signed by more than 2000 people called for her removal from the role.
www.afr.com
September 13, 2025 at 10:08 PM
lachlanclohesy.bsky.social
This is just flat-out fabrication from @ourANU.

WGEA data counts people as people (i.e. headcount).

ANU's headcount of staff went down by 797 in 2024-5. They since had ~175 voluntary separations and have proposed 98 occupied roles be cut.

It counts casuals as full-time? What?
July 8, 2025 at 10:01 AM
ouranu.bsky.social
“ANU urgently needs new direction and new leadership – one that restores its focus on research, education, and the free dissemination of knowledge.”

Our ANU’s statement on the VC’s resignation 👇

drive.google.com/file/d/1e3Lh...
OurANU statement on the resignation of Genevieve Bell Attributable to ourANU, 11 September 2025. ourANU welcomes the Vice Chancellor’s decision to prioritise the university’s best interests. ANU urgently needs new leadership that restores its focus on research, education, and the free dissemination of knowledge. The damage caused by the ‘Renew ANU’ restructure is real and ongoing. It has undermined disciplines, harmed individuals, and diminished the university’s reputation. It must stop. All involuntary redundancies should be cancelled. No amalgamations or disbanding of schools and centres of national significance should proceed. The university must pause, take stock, and begin to repair the harm. Renew ANU is not the work of one individual. It is the product of years of governance failure. There must be accountability for those decisions. The investigations into the ANU governance and leadership culture must continue. Only genuine accountability will allow ANU to reset and rebuild. Across the community and in parliament, there is agreement: ANU cannot move forward without clarity and honesty. Transparency and accountability are the only ways to restore trust. As Senator Katy Gallagher has said, ANU needs an “agreed set of facts.” That requires independent scrutiny of both the university’s finances and the governance arrangements that produced this crisis. Staff and students must be central to this work. We ask all remaining executives to ask themselves if they are the people right for the job of finding new ways to work with the ANU community. An independent review, conducted by a person or panel agreed with the NTEU, should explain how the university’s finances were allowed to deteriorate, assess the failures of governance that enabled it, and outline options for reform. The priority is not simply financial sustainability, but a structure of accountability and participation that prevents these failures from recurring. It is time to build a governance structure that values stability, transparency, and accountability. The ANU cannot continue lurching between growth and cuts. We need to rebuild our national university in ways that allow education and the pursuit of knowledge to flourish once again. The university must work with staff, students, the Parliament, the Minister, and the Expert Council on University Governance to create reforms that embed participation, accountability, and sustainability at every level of decision-making. The message from staff and students is clear. Enough damage has been done. The time for secrecy and short-term fixes is over. The university must reset, rebuild trust, and commit to a future shaped by and for its community. Only then can the ANU live up to its purpose as a place of knowledge, discovery, and service to the nation.
September 11, 2025 at 12:52 AM
roblanfear.bsky.social
ANU website is SUPER super helpful. Always good to have FAQs so we know what they want us to do...

Everything's going great at #ourANU !
A list of FAQs where the answer to each question is "Answer for question 1" etc.
May 20, 2025 at 6:18 AM
anu-asiapacific.bsky.social
Congratulations to all of our CAP graduates! 🎉

We are thrilled to celebrate your academic achievements with you and your friends and family. Your hard work has paid off! We tip our hat to you! 🎓

@anubellschool.bsky.social @anu-chl.bsky.social

#ouranu #anucap #anuasiapacific #graduation
February 6, 2025 at 1:24 AM
katiedigc.bsky.social
Makes me think of the fantastic, enraging, and profound book Complaint! by @saranahmed.bsky.social where the difficulty in navigating the bureaucracy of complaints is often a feature, not a bug, in university systems as it leads to complaints disappearing or being dropped. #ourANU #wellbeing
June 10, 2025 at 6:10 AM
katiedigc.bsky.social
Just made my sign for the rally tomorrow. #OurANU @ouranu.bsky.social @nteuact.bsky.social
Scene from Lion King where Scar drops Mufasa off the cliff. Text says, "Change is difficult. Don't worry, support is available."
July 14, 2025 at 7:04 AM
aaronharoldp.bsky.social
Just wrapped up my first year as a #PhD student! I’m so grateful for the lessons learned, the challenges overcome, and the incredible people I’ve met along the way. Excited for year two and the journey ahead!
#PhDLife #PhDJourney #ourANU
February 28, 2025 at 3:51 AM
roblanfear.bsky.social
If you're part of #ourANU, please read this open letter to the ANU executive, and consider signing it.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open letter: Staff call on the ANU executive to stop these unnecessary cuts
Fact sheet on 'Renew ANU so far': https://shorturl.at/iYVjc Open Letter PDF for print with QR codes to sign: https://shorturl.at/5KYs3 __________________________________________________ Letter to AN...
docs.google.com
May 22, 2025 at 3:11 AM
drdemography.com
Come join us @ourANU for a symposium in November on the topic of grandparents. Hurry, abstracts are due the end of July! Please share.
Grandparenting in Australia: A Multidisciplinary Symposium Thursday 26 November 2026 The Australian National University Call For Papers We are planning a special issue of a Q1 journal to follow the symposium, with full papers due by April 2027. Indigenous and ECR scholars may be eligible for a limited number of travel subsidies. The symposium will also be free and catering will be provided. Please submit a 300-word abstract and a short bio to Associate Professor Francesco Ricatti (francesco.ricatti@anu.edu.au) and Dr Emily Gallagher (emily.gallagher@anu.edu.au) by 31 July 2026.
July 20, 2026 at 6:11 AM
garethknapman.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/ouranu/p...
[The Canberra Times] ANU staff say enough is enough: There is no justification for further job losses and budget cuts
Our open-letter featured as an op-ed in The Canberra Times. June 3, 2025
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June 3, 2025 at 10:55 PM
frankbongiorno.bsky.social
Paul Kelly has written a big book about the Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison era. I'm looking forward to discussing it with him on 20 July in the ANU Meet the Author series, convened by that champion bookman, Colin Steele. Registration: www.anu.edu.au/events/meet-... #ourANU via @ANUmedia
Meet the author - Paul Kelly
Paul Kelly will be in will be in conversation with Frank Bongiorno on his new book The Twilight of Exceptionalism. The Liberal and Conservative Era 2013-22, an incisive assessment of modern Australian...
www.anu.edu.au
June 21, 2026 at 6:49 AM
thesiswhisperer.bsky.social
ANU colleagues - we are getting there with this open letter - nearly 400 now. 48 hours to try to get over 460 signatures, so we have more than last time. Please share in your offline and online networks. Mobilise that group chat!! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Open letter: Staff call on the ANU executive to stop these unnecessary cuts
Fact sheet on 'Renew ANU so far': https://shorturl.at/iYVjc Open Letter PDF for print with QR codes to sign: https://shorturl.at/5KYs3 For updates: Subscribe to OurANU Substack: https://substack.com...
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May 28, 2025 at 10:58 AM
nteuact.bsky.social
The @ourANU Dean of CASS has cited a $250m operational deficit as justification for cuts.

However, Renew ANU was based on a $200m deficit. And that was wrong - it was really $140m.

@NTEUnion has no confidence that ANU is across the numbers.
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/901291...
Unfortunately, some cuts are necessary. But there is an opportunity we can't miss
This college is beloved and I want it to thrive.
www.canberratimes.com.au
July 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
futurecropsau.bsky.social
Great news – we’re now on Instagram! Follow us @futurecropsau to discover more about our students' projects. Stay tuned for more videos coming soon! #STEM #science #plantscience #biofuel #biology #futurecrops @ourANU @nswagriculture @arc_gov_au
January 28, 2025 at 5:05 AM
ouranu.bsky.social
The VC just emailed staff to tell them, “There is a lot of misinformation still circulating campus about our finances and our financial sustainability.”

Hope she’s not referring to this letter signed by 350+ staff.

Colleagues, add your signature and help spread the word!

forms.gle/SmuBaMz6PPGT...
Open letter: Staff call on the ANU executive to stop these unnecessary cuts
Fact sheet on 'Renew ANU so far': https://shorturl.at/iYVjc Open Letter PDF for print with QR codes to sign: https://shorturl.at/5KYs3 For updates: Subscribe to OurANU Substack: https://substack.com...
forms.gle
May 27, 2025 at 5:17 AM