the past three days have been hectic. the amount of phone calls, last minute meetings, sleepless nights, indecision, arguments and counter arguments have taken tolls on everybody. it officially ended this morning at 12.30am (at least temporarily).
so as some of you may have heard, there is a new ‘faction’ in victoria. we refer to them as FW (as will everybody else, coz we insist). they are purged members of our faction and represent a tiny minority of campuses in this state. i took great pleasure in doing the right thing with everybody else for the sickening act of the gensec not attending the conference he allegedly called, let alone presenting any sort of financial statements or reports – his fudiciary duties as set out in the constitution.
where does it all start? of course its with the greediness of each individual in FW. they put ransom on our faction that either they will get a gensec post or they will walk out. while they claim to take a higher moral ground – wanting to represent international students’ interests, everybody else already called their bluffs. they believe in their own lies.
in the end, they are shamelessly elected to the education officer’s position. its still clear in my memory what they said for the past week or so. their flip flop nature from gensec to welfare to gensec again and finally a last minute change to education (without our faction support whatsoever in all these ordeals) confirm my greatest fear – they are not here to represent students, instead their own gains. while i knew about this, perhaps i have been giving them the benefits of the doubts or simply i have been living in denials. everything now though is crystal clear.
but we got what we want and thats what important.
on a side note, many many thanks and love to Yvette and Rachel for being so understanding…. you are the best and i miss you guys…..