Overview
- Interim vice-chancellor Rebekah Brown told staff the university will not proceed with involuntary redundancies under Renew ANU.
- Voluntary separations will continue, with at least 399 redundancies taken over the past year and the higher uptake preserving roughly 100 jobs that were at risk.
- An anonymous donor will fund the Australian National Dictionary Centre for the next two years, and the university has identified support for the Australian Dictionary of Biography.
- Plans affecting the School of Music remain under review, with Brown committing to restore performance in some form after strong sector backlash that included an open letter signed by Jimmy Barnes.
- Leadership tensions continue after Genevieve Bell’s resignation as vice-chancellor, as the NTEU maintains calls for Chancellor Julie Bishop to step down and Brown declines to seek changes to council leadership.