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UMSU Elections 2019 Live Updates

Stephanie Zhang

<p>Follow Farrago’s coverage of the 2019 University of Melbourne Student Union here. </p>

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Follow Farrago‘s coverage of the 2019 University of Melbourne Student Union here.

Our coverage team is made up of Stephanie Zhang, Alain Nguyen, Ailish Hallinan, and Lucy Turton. No one on this team is currently formally involved with any ticket this election. In 2018, Zhang was elected to the media office with Independent Media, and Turton was elected as a councillor with More!. Turton was previously elected as Environment OB with More! in 2017, and in 2016, ran with Activate for council and Stand Up! for environment committee. Neither Hallinan nor Nguyen have been formally involved with tickets nor have run for UMSU positions. We trust our reporters to not allow personal opinions to affect the quality of our coverage.

Banner photo by Wolf Zimmermann.

Published: 2/09/2019 5:39 PM 3949 views