Yesterday, David Pocock tried to demand the production of documents in the senate regarding some of the mess surrounding ANU but turns out that having a former senior member of the Coalition as your university leadership is a bonus when pesky senators start using their powers to hunt around for documents, because both parties blocked the move.

As Pocock said:

The major parties in the senate teamed up to protect one of their own and senior ANU leadership rather than representing people in the Canberra community.

This feels very much like protection of the university leadership rather than acting in the best interests of the staff and students who are crying out for support.

There is nothing in the orders for production of documents that would have interfered with any investigation by the regulator or natural justice processes.

Hundreds of people have lost their jobs as a result of the Renew ANU process and enormous harm continues to be caused to staff and students.

All I’m asking is for some more transparency from our national university.

The Chief People Officer likes to say that the ANU is ‘data-driven’ and I want to see them release that data including financial information and the results of the latest staff survey.