Student Voice for RUSU

Vote [1] Social Justice for RUSU in the student union elections next week.

Voting is open via a link in your student email.

Authorised by the Returning Officer & Ella Marchionda s3721915.

VOTING IS OPEN NOW! VOTE [1] SOCIAL JUSTICE!

Social Justice will fight to stop RMIT ripping off students – education should be free, not run for profit!

- Undergraduate students who started in 2021 are paying up to $3000/year more
- International students pay up to three times more for a degree, sometimes up to $69,000
- Meanwhile Australia’s billionaires have more than doubled their wealth since the start of the pandemic, to over $255 billion at the start of this year!

Fee hikes and funding cuts are robbing students blind while our education gets worse and worse. All the while the wealth Australia’s richest have made over just the last year could have made education free for domestic and international students for over a decade! If we want to make our education a priority, we have to fight for it.

Vote [1] Social Justice for a union that fights to tax the rich and make education free!

Authorised by the returning officer and Ella Marchionda s3721915.

Vote [1] Social Justice for RUSU in the student union elections next week.

Voting is open via a link in your student email.

Authorised by the Returning Officer & Ella Marchionda s3721915.

Students shouldn’t live in poverty – Social Justice will fight to raise welfare to $1500/fortnight!

Students have been doing it tough trying to keep up with the rising cost of living. Prices are soaring due to inflation but welfare payments have stayed below the poverty line. This hits students disproportionately since they are concentrated in casualised work along with their studies and struggle to pay for the basic necessities such as rent and groceries.

We need a student union that fights for a dignified life for all students and that means mass increases to welfare! RUSU should work with the National Union of Students to fight to raise welfare permanently to $1500/fortnight for all.

Vote [1] Social Justice for a union that fights to give all students a livable income!

Authorised by the returning officer and Ella Marchionda s3721915.

Student Voice for RUSU fully endorses and supports Social Justice for RUSU in the RUSU elections coming up next Monday.

We need left-wing activists in the student union who are going to fight to make RUSU a union that does what union’s should do - fight for students.

Social Justice for RUSU has candidates who have been activists in a number of campaigns in Melbourne - from fighting for climate justice, fighting for a Free Palestine & to end weapons companies on our campus, fighting for abortion rights, and organising campaigns to free the Park Hotel refugees.

We also need activists in our union to stand against our Vice Chancellor and demand better education for all students. We need free education for all students and to stand against the exploitation of international students by the university sector for profits.

Vote [1] Social Justice for RUSU in the student union elections next week.

Polling opens at 9am on Monday via a link in your student email.

Authorised by the Returning Officer & Ella Marchionda s3721915

Who is Social Justice?

We are the left-wing activists running in the RMIT student union (RUSU) elections. We’re standing because we think students’ lives are getting worse and the union needs to do something about it.

The climate is being destroyed. University fees are going up, while classes are growing more crowded and our tutors are more stretched. Sexism, racism and homophobia are rife in society. Social Justice wants a student union that will take a stand against this.

RUSU has a budget of $4 million. It could be running serious campaigns for a better education, for student welfare, LGBTQI+ rights and climate justice. Our candidates are all activists who have organised a number of campaigns, such as:
- to free the Park Hotel refugees
- for a free Palestine
- against the massive increases to our university fees
- for LGBTQI+ rights, against the religious discrimination bill
- the recent 15,000-strong protests in defence of abortion rights
- to cut RMIT’s ties to weapons manufacturing companies who profit from genocide
to end coal, oil and gas, through RMIT Students for Climate Justice

Vote [1] Social Justice if you want RUSU to fight for students.

Authorised by the returning officer and Ella Marchionda s3721915.