Meeting Details

Meeting Date: 19 February 2025
Time: 5:05 - 6:03
Chair: Aleesya Amirizal
Minute-Taker: Saira Afridi
Attendees: Aleesya, Saira, Aria, Justine, Malli, Annto, Grace, Tian, Anenya, Natarsha, Nadia, Linh, Georgina, Florence
Apologies: Daniella

Acknowledgement of Country

The ANU BIPOC Department acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land, the Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples, and pays respect to their Elders past, present, and emerging.

Officer Report

1. O-Week

• O-Week was a success!

• Any art from O-week events can be placed into BIPOC Department's display cabinet.

2. Future events

• Plans to have 1 or 2 events each week

• More BASC & ACS engagement

• Iftar dinner, collab with Muslim society hosted at BIPOC base

• Semester party can be a fundraiser 

3. NSA Ombudsman

• Looking at course cuts, and individual accounts of racism

• Can hold ANU to account

• Want to support our racism report 

4. SRC motions

• Proposing 2 motions: Woroni confirmation re social media investigation, most students involved in the encampment were BIPOC, condemn university motion & BIPOC mural, free speech

• ANUSA presidents spoke to academic board - new committee has been created regarding free speech & wants Aleesya to be on this board 

5. Racism report

• College specific

Secretary Report

1. Reminder about sending in agenda

2. BIPOC base re-organise

3. Meet with Florence to discuss BIPOC base monthly order form

Key Minutes & Actions:

• Constitution:

  • Amendments- safer spaces & BIPOC Base

• Library in BIPOC Base:

  • Lending system QR Code

  • Paper form

Treasurer Report

1. Yet to finalise O-Week spending + Merch sales from O-Week

• Haven't fully calculated what we spent on O-week

• Approx $1,000 spent, $300 made on merch

• We can invoice ANU for $5,000- perhaps for o week

• Budget for $18,000 

Key Minutes & Actions:

• Honoraria:

  • $5000 remaining for rest of exec and others who help out over the two semesters

  • $22,005 for officer, can dispute this amount 

Social Officer Report

1. O-Week recap

• Chai and chats: want to keep running

2. Semester 1 events schedule

• Rotating schedule, every 3 weeks

• Dinners at collective meetings/ chai and chats

• BIPOC talks, consciousness raising fornightly

• Plans to have craft night, scrapbooking, study groups etc

• Dinners would need to be advertised

• Conclusion: fortnightly BIPOC talks and chai and chats on a rotating basis 

3. Semester 1 party planning

• Not going to be a fundraiser

• Ticket funds toward ball

• Rex Hotel for ball

• Reach out to sideways, blue eyes, One 22 (Tasha can reach out for us)

• 18+ event

4. Zine discussion

• Need to check EOI list

• BIPOC Base Posters

• Need to advertise Zine

• Launch Event (live music)

Advocacy Officer Report

1. Future Event Discussion

• Campaign Ideas:

  • Panel with Indigenous department & international department

  • BIPOC people in Academia, outdated curriculum, forum for discussion - centering BIPOC voices in academia

  • Look at less intersectional fields of study (science, enviro etc) 

• NSO:

  • Reporting mechanisms on racism at the university are not accessible

  • RRU working on similar system for racism and racism training

  • Try and work with ANU to improve training and reporting processes

  • Publish the recommendations and their response - talk to ANU legal 

Publicity Officer Report

1. Exec takeover on socials

• Day in the life reels aim to make exec more approachable

Key Minutes & Actions:

• ANU Cultural Centre : Asia-Pacific merger 

• Advocacy:

  • Continue with Palestinian advocacy

  • Open the floor for other advocacy channels

  • Communication channel, see what BIPOC students are passionate about, story channel

  • We read DMs and will post certain advocacy info

  • More infographics e.g., colourism 

Postgrad Rep Report

1. Events planning for this semester

• Iftar dinners:

  • Host at BIPOC Base: thoughts on 21st March, Friday week 5

  • Biryani

• Movie night:

  • Second half of the sem

  • Work on poster with Aria on Canva

• Book club idea

BASC Rep Report

1. Plans to engage with more BASC identifying people

2. Working towards holding an event

Web Designer

1. Website's need for advertising

• Needs more engagement with website - can promote on socials and BIPOC Base

2. Website ideas for 2025

• Change structure to make 2025 page stand out

• Blog posts on the website

• Digitising Zine online - blog style

• Access to base page on website needs to be changed