The university will cut funding for the Postgraduate and Research Students Association

According to PARSA, ANU says support ends this year, “citing governance issues in 2020 and 2021.”

University management is more expansive, pointing to staff problems and “unsatisfactory management of governance,” to the extent that PARSA has “failed to meet its obligations as an association.”

DVC Academic Grady Venville adds ”funding will be used to maintain important services for postgraduate students, but not through PARSA.”

To which PARSA replies, “we vehemently disagree with this decision” and that new policies “will ensure sound governance.” However Professor Venville adds the university’s decision, “is not a reflection of the work of the current PARSA executive and management group, but rather our observations of PARSA as an association since 2020.”