Meeting Details

Meeting Date: 25 Feb 2026
Time: 5:03 - 5:41 PM
Chair: Anenya Kale
Minute-Taker: Marana Akkaranithi
Attendees: Marana, Anenya, Malachi, Princess, Stella ,Kai Watanabe, Linh Pham, Paris Apologies: Ariq

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

Keeping it short because of the election

• Keeping post-graduate positions open, Anenya asked how to increase post-graduate- participation. 

• Malachi suggested asking ANUSA for post-grad events and participation.

• Our BASC has been elected because these only 1 person, Evin, who will get the position.

• We have received ANU racism report response. Anenya did a quick run through, and said the response will be published in 2026 report, and feel free for anyone to reach out and have a look.

• ANU basically responded with we have done that already, and we may have to give feedback that this is not what we heard from our collective. No more work can be done in terms of data collection with the response and report. 

• They are working on a training model for Staff and Residential mentors, so we can work on that and negotiate with them.

• Emma has not seen the response from ANU in terms of anti racism events at the residential hall.

• Malachi suggested it may be related to the Anti-Anti-racism Panel at BNG and Fenner last year, and that might be what they are referring to. 

• Anenya will have a meeting with Charlie to discuss the response, and is happy to hear feedback and thoughts about the feedback from ANU. 

• Anenya has reached out to Tom and Anuva about the panel next year, working on the theme of home, to relate back to the zine.

• The survey question is done and will be submitted to ANUSA legal team to have a look at them

• Do we wanna have food for tomorrow for the BIPOC talk?

Advocacy Report

Emma made the chat for BIPOC residential hall rep.

• No one from BNG Fenner, Johns, and Unilodge, and currently, YKB is doing an election. 

• Disclosure form slide for IARCH enliven session ( session they do for all student on res hall on consent and what happens if you hear something racist at the end of the training). Emma has finished them and will send them out.

Social Officer Report

Begin searching for venues for the party, and have emailed them for prices.

• BIPOC book club went well. 

• The semester calendar will be posted on Slack soon.

Secretary Report

• The invoice has been submitted so that we can get funding

Publicity Report

N/A

Treasurer Report

We got the 5,000 baseline funding with ANUSA.

• Anenya and Ariq will be in contact for the account name transfer.

• We have gotten our refund from Kingpins.  

• Last year's budget was not in the drive, and Ariq got the budget today and is looking at it.

• We can get the 10K after we have spent our 5K. 

• Anenya asked how much we spent on BIPOC rage. And we currently cannot find the cost of the venue from last year. 

• Marana suggested that if unable to find, we can look at the bank statement.

• Anenya will look back on the email about the quote

General Report

We don't have our BASC rep nominee at our meeting, so Anenya will email them about the role. 

• We do not have any post-grad nominations. 

• We have 2 nominees for Web designer, and only Minthy showed up, so she is running for the election. 

• The other applicant is Ananya, running for Web Designer.