Week 7, Semester 1, 2026
Your Weekly Student Newspaper
4–5: NEWS
Pay rise appeal for USyd employees rejected by NTEU executive
6–7: FEATURE
Who Teaches Us to Become Human? Firdevs Sinik
Sebastien Tuzilovic and James Fitzgerald Sice
A motion to lift a cap on USyd staff’s pay claim from its allocated 20 per cent was recently rejected by the national executive of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU). This comes
only months after the National Council voted to set the wage claim cap for this round of bargaining at 20 per cent, and just as the USyd branch enters into negotiations with the University executive.
First Printed 1929
In an age increasingly shaped by algorithmic feeds, productivity culture, and highly standardised institutional frameworks, emotional detachment has not emerged as an incidental byproduct of modern life,
but rather as one of its quietly embedded conditions, woven into the very structures that organise how we learn, work, and come to understand ourselves.