SUPRA Elections 2024

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• SUPRA Council General Election
• SUPRA Equity Officer Elections

Notice of election: SUPRA Council casual vacancies 2024

SUPRA is now accepting nominations for General Councillor vacancies. This is a great opportunity for postgraduate students to get involved and represent their peers.

Nomination period:

Opens: 5pm, Wednesday 21 August
Closes: 5pm, Thursday 5 September

Eligibility:

Must be a current postgraduate student at the University of Sydney.

To nominate yourself, submit a 200-word candidate statement via email to the SUPRA Co-Presidents and Co-Secretaries:

• president@supra.usyd.edu.au
• secretary@supra.usyd.edu.au

Election details:
Date: Thursday 26 September 2024
Time: 6:30pm
Location: Zoom

For more information, contact the SUPRA Co-Presidents at president@supra.usyd.edu.au.

SUPRA Council General Election 2024

Election results

The election for the 2024–25 SUPRA Council has concluded. View the election results.

The Returning Officer’s report on the General Election was delivered at the SUPRA Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Monday 13 May 2024.

Candidate and ticket statements

View the full list of candidates and tickets.

Supplementary Election

Following the General Election, 2 vacant positions remained on SUPRA Council reserved for 1 (one) student located at a campus other than Camperdown/Darlington and 1 (one) non-cis gendered student. A Supplementary Election was held at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) to fill these vacancies and the following student was elected to SUPRA Council for the 2024–25 term:

• Sasha Bailey.

There was still one council vacancy left following the supplementary election, this position will be filled by the incoming council after the 2024–25 term begins.

Office Bearers appointed

On Monday 27 May a meeting of council-elect appointed the council Office Bearer roles for the 2024–25 term. The councillors listed below started their positions on 1 July 2024.

Co-Presidents: Xinxin (Frona) Wan and Xiaoyun (Vivian) Bai
Co-Vice Presidents: Xingyan Zhou and Qiuming Zhang
Education Officer: Weihong Liang
Co-Secretaries: Yuhang Li and Venkata Vishal Kotari
Treasurer: Jinyi (Dorothy) Liu
Co-Directors of Student Publications: Anne Ailina Li and Xuan (Kate) Zhang
Co-Community Engagement Officers: Dihao Zhu and Xinghuan Wang

During this meeting, 2 councillors-elect also resigned from their upcoming positions on general council, because they have been elected as equity officers. They nominated the following members, who will replace them on general council for the 2024–25 term:

• Haolong Liao resigned to Weihong Liang
• Zhenzhen Liu resigned to Yuhang Li.

SUPRA Equity Officer Elections

The equity officers for the 2024–25 term are not elected at the SUPRA Council General Election. Equity officer elections are run autonomously by each network. Find out more about our student equity networks.

Congratulations to the following winners of the equity officer elections:

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Officer: Brendan Loizou

Disabilities Officer: Gemma Smart

International Student Officer: Zhenzhen Liu

Satellite Campus Officer: Ahjeong Yoo

Queer Officer: Haolong Liao

Women’s Officer: Yiman Wu.