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Emails Sent to On Dit in February - TradgeDit Analysis

The emails below are in their entirety. Only the name and personal details of our contact have been omitted. EMAIL 1. EMAIL 2. EMAIL 3. EMAIL 4.

Affiliations for Votes - An Initial Investigation

Note:  We have not reached out to Brodie Scott at this stage, but have contacted The Adelaide University Engineering Societies president of 2017, Nuala O'Neill, for questions and comment. Given the rapid nature of this initial investigation, she hasn't had time to contribute anything to our piece on the matter. We'll hopefully be able to follow up on this tip-off, and reach out to the 2017 Adelaide Medical Student's Society president for comment based on our sources claim they were also approached by Brodie with a similar proposal. "Affiliations for clubs into the AUU (Adelaide University Union) was not about them being members in the current framework the AUU already has. It was more about incorporating them into the union essentially as services. Brodie wanted to make it a tier system - the biggest clubs at the top with guaranteed funding, events promotion and the complete shut-down of smaller clubs with specific focus on one specialised area or another.  ...
EDITORIAL:  A CALL FOR STUDENT MEDIA POSITIONS TO BE APPOINTED, SO WE DON'T HAVE THIS COOKED SHIT HAPPEN AS OFTEN AS IT DOES For anyone who might think we get a kick out of this, we really fucking don't... Looking at previous scrutiny we've put on both On Dit editor Ethan Penglase and SRC president and Young Labor Club member Matthew Boughey during their time as elected representatives, we're making it clear that what we have disclosed here is not published solely because of any malice towards either person. Before we knew them in any capacity, we had a problem with the interference we witnessed with political factions and student media run by the Adelaide University Union (AUU), in ways that we feel have been unfair to not only people we have known, but also to students who pay fees and memberships that keep those valuable resources running... ... oh, and also to an audience that is actually engaged enough to care about the issue...