Meeting Details

Meeting Date: 25 Feb 2026
Time: 5:06 - 5:53 PM
Chair: Anenya Kale
Minute-Taker: Marana Akkaranithi
Attendees: Stella, Anenya, Emma, Marana, Malachi, Nozi, Jehan, Kaab, Paris, Princess. A. Bianca, Ariq
Apologies:

Acknowledgement of Country

The ANU BIPOC Department acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land, the Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples, and pays respect to their Elders past, present, and emerging.

BIPOC Officer Report

General Business

• Election 5 pm week 3, 11 March, First year rep week 4, 18th March 5 pm.  ( emails have been sent)  We can read out the speech if the person does not want to speak publicly.

• Clarify communication with Exec.

• The Racism report 2025 still has not received communication from Joan and Rebecca. Important to get a response to see how the ANU will respond to the collective regarding actions

• Joint ANUSA BIPOC statement about Racism@university report that was released. 

• Had a meeting with ANUSA legal for students to ask questions about legal services. Ask for them to do a presentation for BIPOC students about the legal services available for students, especially for discrimination law. 

• Issues concerning the BIPOC mural will be further discussed.

• First-year experience meet and greet.  The BIPOC department will be there at 2 pm. Ask who will be available.

Advocacy Report

Market day is doing more education about what and who is BIPOC.

• Positive feedback about scrapbooking 

• Bringing back BIPOC talks opinion about BIPOC talks and chai and chats. Talks went emotional and went towards the public, so we needed a good facilitator. 

• Anenya suggested having alternating weeks between BIPOC talks and Chai and chats. 

• Interdepartmental Chai and chats.

• Emma, IARC meeting about what they can do for BIPOC students. Idea critiques about what they can do for BIPOC students

• Initiating Ideas about Educational Panels

  
  

• Media sources that centre BIPOC and students' voices, suggestions from Kaab and Paris. Former Woroni members have problems with news coverage about Woroni not being centred on BIPOC and marginalised voices. 

Building a direct newspaper for the department and marginalising voices at ANU. 

All content accessible and multilingual in English and Mandarin. 

• How to centre and make sure polarising content is respectful towards everyone. 7 people have resigned and are happy to curate the racism report and help publish with us. 

   

• Started BIPOC 2026 group chat for making friends and sharing events. 

  
  

• First year culture at the hall seems scary, disclosure reporting, advocating about the disclosure process that isn't intimidating towards BIPOC students.  Education, creating safe space, formal reporting and disclosure process. 

  
  

• Princess Increasing communication, having meetings with the officer department and facilitating discussions with halls and BIPOC reps from halls. ( interhall rep meeting at BIPOC base and connecting students.)

Secretary Report

• Card access issue. 

Possible Co-lab

• The Latin American student association wants to have future co-lap with us and re-establish the bonds between BIPOC and BIPOC identifying Latin American students at ANU. 

• The ANU Filipino student association wants to have co-lap event together with us to get to know everyone and mingle. 

• Request for the secretary to have a spare key towards the storage room. 

  
  

• Requesting for Lost items box/ container in BIPOC base.

  
  

• Please submit your Report before every meeting. I prefer Before Wednesday so I have time to type up everything. But Happy anytime during Wednesday as long as it is before 4:30 pm. ( before collective meeting) As well if you have no report please DM me to write in “No report in the meeting”. Either DM me on Slack or Email me via the email I provided on the communication platform. 

  
  

• Please respond and be more active on Exec group chat. We will communicate both on Slack and Messengers. Especially during the date an event is on for back up help or further elaborations or changes about events occurring

Treasurer Report

 We spent around 13,000 

• We get $300 back from King Pin due to low engagement.

• Will get baseline funding from ANUSA from week 2. 

• Honoraria was given during the past 2 semesters from the last few weeks from last year.

Publicity Report

N/A

Social Report

Reporting on O-Week events. The women's and BIPOC movie screening event was good

• Suggestion for more movie screening events with Womens dept.

• Smaller attendance with interdepartment events.

• Bowling had a smaller turns out, 20 registered, and only 5 turned out. 

• A semester of full year of knowing people and knowing BIPOC before weekend events. Lower energy events like mocktail and scrap booking events. Chai and chats, low-energy talk, or have a free drink, no need to travel, as it is a lot of effort for students. 

• BIPOC book club for semester 1 event: Jehan is running the book club.  Similar to BIPOC talks and having a discussion via picking up a book by a BIPOC writer and talk about the issue within the book. Happy to hear feed back about vibes and what kinds of books people wants.

• Stella designs graphics for recurring events

• Sem 1 party planning. Great to hear ideas and EOIS.