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RMIT’s Queer department represents students who identify as homosexual, bisexual, transgender or intersex. 

The Queer Department runs two lounges on the City and Bundoora campuses which are safe spaces for queer students to study and socialise.
 
Christine Starvaggi, one of this year's Queer Officers, says that although the year has only just started she has already helped queer students become more comfortable with their sexuality.


RMIT Queer Officer talks personal challenges and plans for the future

This month Melbourne hosts the inaugural Festival of Live Art, a festival celebrating artists making work directly in front of audiences in "space and time". 
Story originally played on Panorama, SYN FM's news and current affairs program on March 17, 2014. 

Photo credit - 'Strange Passions' FOLA Week 1 at Footscray Community Arts Centre

Melbourne hosts the inaugural Festival of Live Art

Melbourne based think tank the Grattan Institute has recommended reforms to higher education loans that would see the government collecting unpaid debt after students have died.

The unpaid HELP debt would only be collected if the student’s estate was more than one hundred thousand dollars. 

Grattan Institute Higher Education Program Director Andrew Norton said families of the deceased would not have to pay back HELP debt themselves.

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Think tank recommends unpaid HELP debt be collected from deceased estates

Australian student unions have spoken out against the Grattan Institute’s recommended reforms to HELP loans.

The National Union of Students has condemned the HELP loan reforms recommended by the Grattan Institute, which could see student loans being repaid from deceased students’ estates.

National President of the National Union of Students Deanna Taylor says the reforms are not in university students’ best interests. 

Ms Taylor said the National Union of Students was not consulted when the Grattan Institute was writing the report.


(Image: CC University of Denver/ Flickr)

Student Unions speak out against recommended HELP loan reforms

News Bulletin for the RMIT All Stars, 4:30pm Tuesday May 15, 2014.

Image: William Dalton/Flickr cc

RMIT All Stars Bulletin 15/4/14

City Journal RMIT All Stars Bulletin for Tuesday, 29 April, 2014.

New Zealand tourist shot dead in Argentina.
Investigation continues into Perth plane fire.
Human rights experts say Australians are too focused on their "right to be a bigot".

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