Posts Tagged: University of Sydney
Journalism: Sydney University Protests
On March 7th, 2014; the University of Sydney descended into a rebel state.
It was to become the first of about five planned protests that year, that would gradually grow in violence, disturbance, police presence and media reportage.
The crowd of angry demonstrators grew with each scheduled rally, until they could no longer be contained on University property but instead flooded the streets of Sydney CBD.
The protests were a response to the University’s proposed cuts to class funding and the systematic forced redundancy of the institution’s best loved teaching staff.
In early 2014, tensions again rose when the Abott Government announced its proposed budget cuts to Universities, which led to the attack on Foreign Minister Julie Bishop when she visited in May.
I covered the first protest as a photo journalist for Honi Soit.
Photo: Emma Marie Horn
Photo: Emma Marie Horn
Photo: Emma Marie Horn
Photo: Emma Marie Horn
Photo: Emma Marie Horn
Photo: Emma Marie Horn
Photo: Emma Marie Horn
Photo: Emma Marie Horn
Photo: Emma Marie Horn
Photo: Emma Marie Horn- Photo: Emma Marie Horn
View my gallery of the University of Sydney Darlington/Camperdown campus here.
STUDY: University of Sydney
The University of Sydney is Australia’s oldest academic institution. It was established in 1850 and hosted such notable alumni as Australia’s first Prime Minister Edmund Barton.
The main campus spreads over Camperdown and Darlington in Sydney’s Inner West. Its iconic neo-Gothic sandstone buildings have been named in the world’s top 10 most picturesque universities – according to the British Daily Telegraph, Huffington Post and even Disney Pixar magazine.
In 2013, the university ranked within the top 0.3% of the world on the QS World University Rankings.
It’s a wonderful university but at times, I think, it’s students can become disillusioned with its beauty. They say familiarity breeds contempt, and in my case, I think that’s true.
So in order to revive its beauty in my own eyes, I took a day in early 2013, before classes had started, to capture Australia’s top university from the eyes of a tourist.
I forced myself to forget I was a student there and experience the beauty of the campus and adjoining parks anew.
Later on in the same year, I covered a story on the university’s education strikes as a photo journalist for Australia’s oldest student-run newspaper Honi Soit. View the gallery of photos here.
