Friday, 14 November 2025

 Aiv PUGLIELLI (North-Eastern Metropolitan) (10:00): Monash University has ended its partnership with Woodside, this country’s largest fossil fuel company. This massive polluter, which owns dozens of major fossil fuel projects around the world, are wreaking environmental havoc, actively prosecuting climate defenders and threatening significant First Nations cultural sites with their rotten projects. In the past six years Woodside paid Monash University at least $43 million for research and even got a building on campus named after them. So why is this once blossoming partnership now falling apart? It is because of the folks on the ground, specifically the pressure from student and staff activism. For years the Stop Woodside Monash collective has been protesting. They have been marching and they have been recruiting, flyering, writing, researching and posting about this insidious arrangement, and now this year the work has paid off. The partnership is ending, and the Woodside Building for Technology and Design will be renamed. Of course the fight continues, but to anyone who feels like they are fighting an uphill battle against powerful vested interests: remember, if we fight long enough, we will win.