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AMSA Calls for Investigations Following Recent Rape Allegations Within Federal Parliament

Content warning: Contains discussion of sexual harassment and assault. Following weeks of inaction, the Australian Medical Students’ Association (AMSA) calls for the establishment of a government inquiry into the recent rape allegations surrounding Federal Parliament, in addition to an independent inquiry into the prevalence of sexual assault and harassment within…
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Medical Students Not Celebrating 233 Years of Dispossession

Medical students have called on the Australian government to act with leadership and dignity by ceasing annual Australia Day celebrations on the 26th of January.   “Tomorrow marks two-hundred and thirty-three years of dispossession and degradation of First Nations peoples, cultures and Country,” Sophie Keen, President of the Australian Medical Students’…
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Efforts to Address Structural Racism Must Accompany Symbolic Change

Medical students implore the Federal Government to commit to more substantive efforts to actualise a country that is “one and free”.  The recent announcement by the government to remove the word “young” in the national anthem is in recognition of Australia’s 60,000-year-strong Indigenous history. At minimum, this acknowledgement of First…
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