Students without Borders Murdoch Guild of Students
Working towards a Better Future
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We acknowledge and respect the traditional custodians whose ancestral lands we are now part of. We acknowledge and remember the incredible atrocities inflicted upon them. This is and will forever be their land. |
Students
Without Borders follows in the footsteps of Doctors Without
Borders, Engineers Without Borders and many of the other
Without
Borders. The organisation takes advantage of our student community,
which represents tremendous natural and social capital. The students
who become involved gain the incredible benefits from making a
difference. They add to both their identity and capacities. Students Without Borders was inspired by several recycling programs and additional and support learning initiatives by Gerry Georgatos, now the current Murdoch University Guild of Students Manager. These initiatives were further developed by the Murdoch Guild and partner organisations. One of these programs, and because it was grassroots and non bureaucratic, went on to become one of Australia's most voluminous recycling programs. Hence with this inspiration Gerry Georgatos went on develop further programs, predicated by social justice and community development, and brought them under the banner of Students Without Borders.
The Murdoch Guild, May 2007, unanimously decided to assist the development of Students Without Borders and to ensure its value to Murdoch University students, to all Perth Universities and Australia wide. SWB has 150 programs and 100 campaigns. We are concentrating efforts on developing these and more programs . The programs provide students with pre-entry workplace skills, hands on experiences, interpersonal skills, intra and inter cultural awareness, regional and global awareness, new perspectives and many other positive attributes.
Get Involved
Anyone can get involved with one of our many programs, internships, partnerships, contributions, forums. Simply fill in a form or drop in to Students Without Borders, prominent on Murdoch University’s Bush Court, next to Physical Sciences. Or if regional or interstate ask your local Guild or your University's Student Services to assist you with your inquiries. Universities throughout Australia are bringing on Students Without Borders and your best bet would be to contact your campus Guild. You can add to your education and make a difference. If you're a student your experience will be recorded on your University Academic Transcript.
UNICEF through Students Without Borders
Students Without Borders has won ACUMA's 2007 National Award for Best Community Outreach Program.
The 8Ball Program was ACUMA's 2007 National Award Runner Up for Best Student Development Program and also received ACUMA’s 2007 Honourable Mention
SWB has won ACUMA's 2008 National Award for Best Website!
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MAKE A
DIFFERENCE ON CAMPUS
Apply to be a UNICEF University Liason Officer  Good luck to Melissa
Huynh who is
the UNICEF ULO for 2008!
2009 applications will open in Semester 2, 2008. |
Upcoming Events
| Date | Title | Description |
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| Nov 5, 2008 | Kimberley Meeting | The Wilderness Society invites you to find out more about the Kimberley Whale Nursery and future plans for this unique place. More info |
| Nov 9, 2008 | GuluWalk | By walking 7kms through Perth, you can help to raise awareness of the ongoing situation in Uganda. The walk starts at 3pm in Beaufort Park, Bedford. More info |
| Nov 15, 2008 | Wardarnji Aboriginal Cultural Festival | Celebrate the ancient and living cultural heritage of the first Australians at Fremantle Esplanade Reserve. More info |
| Nov 15, 2008 | Walk Against Warming | We need to show the new WA government that the community is serious about climate change and want to see immediate action taken. More info |
| Nov 21, 2008 | Ethiopian School Fundraiser Morning Tea | Hope for Children & Perth Woman Magazine invite you and your friends to a morning tea to help raise money for the School of Hope Ethiopia. More info |
| Nov 25, 2008 | White Ribbon Day | White Ribbon Day, held on the International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women, is traditionally a day for men to take a stand against violence against women. White Ribbon Day 2008: Not violent. Not Silent. More info |
| Nov 27, 2008 | Feelin' the heat: the hot hot comedy debate | A grown-up's night of hot humour and tepid climate change advice. See Perth's top comedians and special guests get hot and bothered over climate change. More info |
| Dec 6, 2008 | I Will Not Fall - Stop Violence Against Women | Join the SWB Action Group at Ginger's Garage for a night of live music from local Perth artists. Tickets just $15 - available on the door or in advance from iwillnotfall11@gmail.com More info |
Do you have good IT skills?
Can you spare a couple of hours each week to refurbish computers?
The 8Ball Computer Recycling Program needs you!!!
We refurbish donated computers and provide them to low-income students and disadvantaged community members, both in Australia and overseas.If you would like to become involved in this fantastic project, email swb@guild.murdoch.edu.au for more details. If you provide more than 40 hours of your time you will be eligible to have your participation recorded on your Academic Transcript.
Led by Gerry Georgatos, students and academics believe that to address many of the blights that the First Nation peoples of this continent continue to endure there must be compulsory substantial indigenous continent in all university undergraduate programs."If all Australians are educated in the truth then we will have a greater capacity for social and equitable inclusion and a greater ability to engage with another.
It is not a matter of whether Universities can cost this type of education, it is a matter of whether Australia can afford not to. It has been one of the most horrific crimes of this country for far too long", Gerry Georgatos Read more
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THE GREAT BEARD SHAVE OFF!! |
 "There has never been a convenient time to protest against injustice" Visit the SALUTE website |
 Read Issue 1 here |
 Read Issue 2 here |
Students Without Borders was nominated for the WA Community Services Industry Awards. There were thereabouts 300 submissions for each category. Students Without Borders learned that it is in the FINAL 3 for three of the nine categories, that is every category it was nominated for. SWB considers it a great honour to have achieved this recognition.
Category 1: Working Creatively To Make A Difference (small organisation) in WA - STUDENTS WITHOUT BORDERS
Category 3: Strengthening Volunteering (small organisation) in WA - STUDENTS WITHOUT BORDERS
Category 9: 2008 WA Outstanding Individual of the Year - GERRY GEORGATOS (the Students Without Borders Coordinator, & Murdoch Guild of Students General Manager)
The winners will be announced at the Awards Ceremony and Celebration, Hyatt Regency Ballroom, on the evening of November 24th. We are pleased to have got this far and hope that more people and institutions take note of us and assist us in further developing this incredible program and ensure its sustainability and good value.
Murdoch Guild of Students -
supporting the initiative that is now Students Without Borders
supporting the initiative that is now Students Without Borders
Murdoch University Guild of Students, Australia's award winning Student Association, is highly regarded as the political leader of Student Associations. Guilds and Student Associations throughout Australia note Murdoch Guild of Students as the most active student activist and political organisation in the country and this has continued even while in Voluntary Student Unionism. Murdoch Student Guild still manages a suite of commercial services on campus, such as the Tavern, Sports and Recreation, Cafes, Shops, the development of sport, etc.., but has remained true to its student representation, student rights issues and involves itself in the general human condition and the plight of our planet.
At the recent 2008 Tertiary Access Group National Conference (Telstra Dome, Melbourne) Murdoch Student Guild was noted by many as a Guild built on its social justice campaigns and ethos.
The Murdoch Student Guild has survived Voluntary Student Unionism, the devastating legislation by the former Federal Government. It hangs in there amid a difficult financial climate imposed by VSU and regular bouts of needless hostility with its vice chancellery. Due to VSU, Student Associations across Australia have lost 2,600 staff during the last two years, 40% of their staff. Murdoch Student Guild continues, to the line, hanging in there, with its 35 permanent staff and 18 elected students.
Murdoch Student Guild is famous for the longest student 'sit-in' in Australian university history; 30 days when it took over the university senate over the issue of the university increasing student fees. It has been recorded and documented in HANSARD. In December last year, its Guild President, Clare Middlemas, at the commencement of her tenure, saved student space when she led her Guild through a 14 day sit-in of the student space to save it from the vice chancellery. As a result of the student sit-in the Guild and the University built a student comon room - a student meeting room that converts to a student crisis centre.
"We came in to improve the student lot. We were elected on campaigns that wanted us involved with our educational future and involved with the social ills that plague all of us," Clare Middlemas, Guild President.
There comes a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies on the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!" Mario Savio, student activist, UC Berkeley, 1964.
