On Campus

Student Petition Against Childcare Cuts
by Nicola Howarth

Single parents have taken a proactive stance against the Federal Government’s abolition of childcare benefits for students studying courses longer than a year.....full story

Murdoch Students Close The Gap
by Gemma Robins

Murdoch students who are part of the Students Without Borders organisation, (SWB) are working to close the gap on Indigenous health services.....full story

Education key to fixing youth crime: ALSWA
by Shaikh Farouk Ahmad Fraij

Education is the key to improving Indigenous incarceration rates, the Aboriginal Legal Service (ALSWA) said today.....full story

$20m For Immunology Centre
by Jacqueline Andrews

Murdoch University has received a $19.5 million funding boost from the Commonwealth, to help build a research centre in immunology and infectious diseases.....full story

Survey Shows Student Ignorance of AWAs
by Jumius Wong

Unions WA today expressed concern over students’ lack of knowledge about Australian Workplace Agreements (AWA).....full story

Students rally for education, environment and work rights.
by Lucy Jarvis

Facing wind and light rains, the National Union of Students (NUS) today held a protest rally in Northbridge, calling for federal policy that meets students’ vision in education, industrial relations and the environment.....full story

New Scintigraphy Unit at MUVH
by Jumius Wong

Murdoch University is set to benefit from Western Australia’s first ever nuclear imaging machine for horses and small animals.....full story

Cars broken into on campus
by Amelia Tan

Students’ cars have been broken into this month in campus car parks.

Students Ho Wen Xing and Clifford Lam, who live at the university village, were victims of car burglaries in car park 6A. Damage to the vehicles is more than $2000.....full story

Share a Bike to Uni?
by Linda Cann

Sustainability experts at Murdoch University are keen to promote a bike-sharing scheme similar to those operating in Europe......full story

Housing Crisis Leaves Many with No Options
by Jacqueline Andrews

The Fremantle Housing Association has a four-year waiting list for affordable rental housing, in the wake of the housing crisis in Western Australia.....full story

Discover Science?
by Lucy Jarvis

Murdoch University is gearing itself towards the sciences, despite the fact that 62 per cent of students are currently enrolled in the arts.....full story

Murdoch Uni guzzles water
by Rahmond Bohan

Murdoch University has been shown to be one of the highest users of water in the state’s public sector.....full story

Keeping Carnaby’s Cockatoo on Campus
by Sarah Monaldi

A project to save the endangered Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo is being launched at an education seminar at Murdoch University tomorrow to try and raise awareness of their plight and possible extinction.....full story

Changes to FOI Laws ‘Cumbersome’ - Academic
by Linda Cann

Proposed changes to Western Australia’s Freedom of Information laws would increase the time and cost of obtaining information under appeal, an FOI expert said today.....full story

Possible Student Village Expansion
by Amelia Tan

Murdoch University is considering a plan to double its on-campus student accommodation.

The proposal has been put forward by the private company in charge of Murdoch’s on-site accommodation, Campus Living Villages (CLV).....full story