Being part of the ANU Gaza Solidarity Encampment media team was a unique experience, fast-paced, high-stakes work carried out in constantly shifting, often suboptimal conditions. We were navigating a largely hostile media environment in which institutional statements were granted automatic legitimacy, while we had to fight for even the opportunity to be heard.
With minimal experience, and none in front of a camera, my role focused primarily on drafting statements, preparing talking points, and liaising with journalists to arrange media comments or interviews with other members of the team. At times it felt as though each day brought a new fabrication or distraction from the University, a steady stream of excuses and distortions designed to obscure our demands for divestment and accountability. We were left to respond in real time, constantly correcting bad-faith narratives while still trying to articulate the truth of what was happening on the ground.
Title: Pro-Palestine student group disbands encampment at Australian National University after nearly four months of protesting
Title: ANU Gaza solidarity encampment organiser says Hamas “deserves our unconditional support”
Title: ANU investigating reports of Nazi salute, death threats against Jewish students on campus as pro-Palestine encampment continues
Title: Australian National University officially orders seven students to vacate on-campus Gaza solidarity encampment
Title: ANU tells Gaza solidarity protestors to vacate encampment
Title: ANU student expelled after saying on ABC radio that Hamas deserves ‘unconditional support’
Title: Disciplinary Action taken against 10 students since pro-Palestine encampment begun, ANU vice-chancellor tells senate estimates
Title: Australian National University to review military investments after pro-Palestine protests
Title: Vice Chancellor Genevieve Bell says ANU spent almost $1 million responding to protests but won’t reveal if it monitored pro-Palestine students
Title: ANU Gaza Solidarity Encampment disbands, launches ‘ANU for Palestine’ group
Title: ANU cuts off power from encampment
Title: ANU issues reminder to Encampment as exams begin
Title: Emails accessed by Woroni reveal the Encampment’s multiple attempts to negotiate with the ANU
Title: ANU orders students to vacate the Encampment
Title: The third week of Gaza Solidarity Encampment: “get off my lawn”
Title: Two weeks of Kambri’s Encampment
Title: ANU to divest from “controversial” weapons manufacturers but questions remain
Title: Human Rights Law Centre urges ANU not to discipline protesters
Title: ANU seeking feedback on its investment policy after student pressure to divest from weapons companies
Title: Stickers, Artwork and Vandalism: How tensions on campus are testing the limits of political and artistic expression
Title: Pro-Palestine protestors relocate in the middle of the night
Title: The showdown at high noon scuttled by a midnight retreat
Title: Protesters told they ‘will be arrested’ if they don’t leave encampment
Title: Final test looms for students, university with a deadline at high noon
Title: ANU executives face grilling over pro-Palestine encampment, anti-semitism
Title: Can the ANU dismantle the protestcamp?
Title: ANU protest camp talks – but not quite yet
Title: ANU Students support Hamas as security at camp is ramped up
Title: ANU accused of lying over cutting investments in arms companies
Title: What brought on cold feet at the pro-Palestine protest camp?
Title: Cops arrive at Gaza protest as students refuse to budge
Title: ANU asks pro-Palestine encampments to disband as students claim ‘witch-hunt’ taking place
Title: Pro-Palestine protesters at ANU move campus camp by 50 meters ahead of noon deadline
Title: ANU launches review into investment portfolio after pro-Palestine protests
Title: Student protester suspended by ANU for expressing support for Hamas as police warn over encampments
Title: Hamas deserves unconditional support, ANU pro-Palestine protest organiser Beatrice Tucker says
Title: Australian National University probe into claims of Nazi-inspired protests at student meeting
Title: ANU orders Pro-Palestine protesters to vacate campus
Title: ANU to be hauled before Senate for campus anti-Semitism response
Title: ANU expelled two students and referred four to police
Title: ANU invites students to review investment policies following protests
Title: ANU halts investments in weapons makers after pro-Palestine protests
Title: ANU’s pro-Palestine protestors decamp over electricity supply issues
Title: ANU reverses expulsion of student who said Hamas ‘deserves our unconditional support’
Title: ANU says pro-Palestine protest has left the campus with $60,000 – worth of damage
Title: Students expelled from ANU, disciplinary inquiries continue after pro-Palestinian protests
Title: Pro-Palestine ANU student wins expulsion appeal
Title: ANU Student Encampment Update
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