Who do you support?? Join us at the Oxford Scholar this Thursday night at 6pm for a thrilling clash between the Carlton Blues and Melbourne Demons! Ticket link is in our bio!
There’ll be a bar tab, fries, and pies to keep you fueled too, so gear up in your teams’ colours and come watch the game with us!!
This is an 18+ event so please bring a valid form of ID.
Did someone say free food and drink??? RUSU members know where it’s at✨🍻
#rusu #rmitstudentunion #rmitstudentlife
It was amazing to see how busy Clubs Day at the City campus was last Thursday. We had such a blast passing by each stall and learning about what each club had to offer for students!
Here’s a compilation of our story from the day for anyone who missed it but wants to find a cool club to join! ✨
Thank you to all the club execs and committee members who took time to chat with us and for all the work they do to bring students together. 😍 Was so packed we didn’t get around to everyone but hopefully we’ll see y’all soon
@rmituniversity @rusuclubs @rmitindianclub @ruslsa.rmit @vsarmit @rmitasa @ctrlplusrmit @rmit.said @rmitswitch @theprogrammingclub @cinematicollective @rmitesports @gmas._.official @rmitfunkadelics @rmitkpopclub @rmitoutdoorsclub @rmit_dodgeballclub @rmitlacrosse @rmit_ridetheswell @rusu_bundoora #rmitclubs #rmitclubsday #rmituniversity
RUSU Band Night is set to be EPIC!!!! Lineup is HUGE!!! Do not miss out on this one… ft. Slowly Slowly, Stellie, Lipstereo, Terra Rouge, In Transit & Sydney Miller.
Tix are ONLY $10 for RUSU members, $20 for non-members. Non-RMIT students are welcome 💜
@slowlyslowlymusic @stelliemusic @lipstereoband @terrarougemusic @intransitband_ @__sydneymiller___ @rmitstudentlife @rmitv @rmitcatalyst @synmedia #livemusic #australianmusic #rmit #rmituniversity #bandnight
RUSU Compass is RUSU's welfare drop in centre. We provide students with information, support and referrals to services both inside and outside of RMIT.
Compass offers support and advice on a range of issues that affect students, including mental health, study issues, housing, finances, relationships and more. If you don’t know where to turn, Compass can help!
Compass can provide friendly, face-to-face support, staffed by qualified social workers and highly trained student volunteers. With centres at City, Brunswick and Bundoora, Compass is always nearby and ready to listen.
To get in touch with Compass, or to make an appointment to drop in and see us, email: [email protected] or visit https://www.rusu.rmit.edu.au/compass to find out more.
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RMIT Students, Do You Need Immediate Crisis Assistance?
RMIT After Hours Urgent Mental Health support:
Phone: 1300 305 737
Mobile: 0488 884 162
Do you need housing now? Visit https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/student-life/accommodation/rental-advice-support#housing-crisis
Do you need food now? Visit https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/support-services/financial-legal-support/financial-welfare-advice
Contact Lifeline (24/7): 131 114
https://www.lifeline.org.au
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The RUSU Student Rights Service are here to help you navigate the sometimes difficult and confusing academic rules and processes at RMIT. Student rights officers give confidential advice and support to students to help them resolve problems that they are having with the university.
We are a team of professional advocates, our service is FREE for all RMIT students, and the issues we deal with include all academic and process issues, ranging from problems around RMIT rules, to plagiarism accusations, to more personal issues that are affecting your studies, such as illness or bereavement.
The Student Rights team give you respectful, non-judgemental, caring and practical advice about what you can do to fix problems, and we help you with how to do it in the right way. We are a part of RUSU – YOUR student union. We respect your privacy, and we will never share your information with RMIT without your permission.
RMIT Students can get in touch with the RUSU Student Rights Service via email at [email protected] or pop past one of the RUSU front counters on campus to make an appointment.
Visit https://www.rusu.rmit.edu.au/studentrights to find out more about the services we can offer to RMIT Students.
‼️ Important Message about the Upcoming March 31st Census Date.
Make sure to check your enrolment before March 31st. With the introduction of the Job Ready Graduates Package if you fail more than 50% of your units including late withdrawals you will lose your CSP. For Domestic students this means you will have to pay up to $30,000 out of pocket per year to continue studying at RMIT.
*** These new rules about low completion rates and government funding only apply to students enrolling for the first time in their program from 2022 onwards.***
For support or more info contact the RUSU student rights service: https://www.rusu.rmit.edu.au/studentrights
RUSU Week 2 events
Hi all, 👋
Amazing week of events coming up make sure you come along and have some fun with us. Don’t forget to come down and say hi to us on the stalls this week as well, don’t worry we don’t bite. 😂
Link to our eventbrite for tickets:
https://bit.ly/RUSUEvents
Events:
Tuesday
RUSU does international women’s day🥂
Garden building, Bowen St 2pm-5pm
Free Lunch @ Brunswick🥪🥗🥙
In the Courtyard outside of B514 12pm-2pm
Wednesday
Bundy Crew Welcome Bash (Free Beer)🍻
B204 3pm-6pm
Free Lunch @ Bundoora🍔🍕🍟
Out the front of the library 12pm-2pm
Thursday
Clubbing night (Plenty of drink cards)🍻
303 Brunswick 7pm-11pm
$10 for members $20 for non-members
Free Lunch @ City🍟🥩🌭
Alumni Courtyard 12pm-2pm
Friday
Postgraduate Student Mixer🎳
Strike Bowling 5pm-7:30pm
See you there 😊
RUSU President Adam Steiner and International Rep Tanay Shah Speak to new and returning International students who are returning to Australia or coming for the first time.
For further help, please see the RUSU guide for International Students:
https://www.rusu.rmit.edu.au/AllAboutInternationalStudents
RUSU x MABU MABU: Online Damper Cookalong
RUSU x MABU MABU
This recording is from our Online Damper Cookalong, with Head Chef and Owner, Nornie Bero, held on 14 October 2021.
In this class Mabu Mabu's Head Chef, Nornie makes a variety of dampers in Torres Strait Islander style - wrapped in banana leaves and baked with pumpkin, wattleseed and saltbush varieties.
Like so many successful entrepreneurs, Nornie Bero failed the very subject at school that she now based her flourishing business upon. While her teacher said she’d never cook professionally, her beloved father always believed Nornie would become a chef. Now she is the head chef, CEO and owner of Mabu Mabu, which means “help yourself” in the Torres Strait.
“A lot of people in my community, we didn’t get asked that question, ‘What do you want to do with your life?’” she tells us. Luckily her father – a passionately cultural and entrepreneurial man – encouraged her and led by example. When growing up in St Pauls on Moa Island, Nornie’s dad transformed their house into a hybrid home and business. “He put up a bamboo wall, turned half our house into a tuckshop,” she says. Along with pumpkin damper and buns, they would sell fish burgers to locals. “I used to work in the shop, and he used to pay me in marbles,” Nornie explains. “So those were my first early days of cooking with my dad – learning about being a baker, about being entrepreneurial.”
Mabu Mabu not only celebrates Indigenous food culture and native ingredients, but also fosters community. The resulting space reflects Nornie’s childhood. “Every time our families get together, everybody sits around and you yarn, and you laugh, and you hang out and you have your cups of tea. I just wanted to recreate that, where everybody comes and feels comfortable and they can have a yarn and there’s no rush to leave. You can still have some traditional sop sop… you come and have damper. It gives that nostalgic feel of home. It’s a bit of a warm hug that you get
RUSU STUDENT LIFE AWARDS 2021
The RUSU Student Life Awards is where we honour YOU, our amazing RMIT Students, for the contributions you make to student life at RMIT. The 2021 RUSU Student Life Awards recognises your contributions, big and small, to student life outside the classroom, and highlights your outstanding commitment to university life over the past year.
Student life has looked a little different in 2021. Without an on-campus community, RMIT Students have had to adapt the ways they interact with one another, and redefine what Student Life means. Despite facing so much adversity, RMIT students have managed to pull together as a community throughout this time.
In 2021, the RUSU Student Life Awards have run a little differently, as we can't all be together for this wonderful event. But tonight, even though we are apart, we say THANK YOU! 💜💜💜
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Music Credit:
Cinematic HipHop 002 by Sascha Ende®
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/531-cinematic-hiphop-002
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license
CONTENT WARNING: this message contains information relating to sexual harm.
The National Student Safety Survey (NSSS) begins this week, and runs until 3rd October. 10,000 students from universities around Australia, including RMIT, will be invited to complete a survey on their experiences of sexual assault and harassment during their time at university. If you have been randomly selected, you will receive an email to your university account with a link.
If you receive the email and are comfortable doing so, we urge you to speak your truth. Even if you are not selected, or have graduated in the last five years, you can anonymously share your story in the qualitative component of the survey at nsss.edu.au. Together, as an RMIT community, we need to reaffirm our commitment to eliminate all forms of gendered violence, including sexual harm.
This may be a difficult time for survivors. Please reach out to RUSU Compass, or one of the free, confidential support services below.
To survivors - we believe you and stand in solidarity with you, now and always. ✊🏼
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SUPPORT SERVICES:
Compass: [email protected]
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RMIT SUPPORT SERVICES:
Safer Community
Advice and support for students who have experienced threatening or concerning behaviour, including sexual harm or family violence.
www.rmit.edu.au/safercommunity
9925 2396
[email protected]
Campus Security
Campus security staff are available to respond immediately to emergency situations on campus.
9925 3333.
RMIT Urgent Mental Health Support
13 11 14
1300 305 737 (after hours)
Text 0488 884 162
Offshore International
For students who are currently offshore and require support.
International SOS +61 2 9372 2468
Medibank 24/7 Health and Support: +61 2 8905 0307
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HELPLINES & COMMUNITY SUPPORTS – Confidential and free support services:
1800RESPECT
National Sexual Assault, Domestic and Family Violence counselling
www.1800respect.org.au
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