OUR POLICIES

Have a second O-Day in Semester 2. Give incoming Semester 2 freshers the same University experience as those that come in Semester 1, and give clubs/regular students a second chance to meet clubs and local organisations relevant to their fields, boosting campus culture. 

Guild Connect - Create a forum for students to find professional mentors, research supervisors and tutors. Currently students struggle with finding opportunities pertaining to professional development, assistance relating to careers and academics. The aim of this portal is to centralise opportunities and link students with the right people to get assistance in these areas.

Continue the Guild Masterplan, including the Cameron Hall Lift, and complete an interior renovation of the Tavern. Ensure Guild spaces are accessible and appealing to students, to boost student experience on campus.

Advocate for the University to commit to a multi-storey car park, alongside a sustainable transport plan for the future, to alleviate supply pressures on parking.

Create a new Guild Officebearer, called the Satellite Campus Officer. Elevate the concerns of satellite campus student eg. Claremont campus, Nedlands campus, QEII campus to Guild Council.

Introduce a ‘Golden Ticket,’ for Freshers to get one free club membership. Encourage incoming students to join at least one club to enhance club culture on campus and ensure that succession occurs and clubs don’t die out over time. Also, encourage Freshers to get their Guild stickers.

Provide and sell heavily subsidised essential items out of the Guild Student Centre to alleviate cost-of-living concerns for students.

Add a fresher rep to every department committee. Allow first year students a chance to contribute to the activity of the Guild, and give the departments a stronger perspective on the first year experience.

Give students a no-questions asked 5-day simple extension, to be used once per semester. Ensure that education is accessible for students. Sometimes students just need a little extra time, even if they cannot get Special Consideration.

No individual assessment items worth more than 50% of your final mark. Make assessments fairer, so the outcome of one assessment doesn’t determine your entire grade.

Give students their exam marks back alongside their unit results. Transparency of assessments as students don’t know their exam mark currently unless they calculate it themselves.

Create an online review and rating system for units, similar to Goodreads. Provide students with accurate student-written information in regard to what units are actually like.

Simplify the Study Exchange Process. Make it easier for students to get information about studying abroad, including fees, scholarships, accommodation etc.

Reform the Club Grants process, to ensure that grants are more accessible to clubs, and ensure that we exhaust the full pool of club grant funding. Increase accessibility of financial support for clubs and make sure that utilisation of the club grant budget line is at 100% for 2025.

• Increase the number of grant cycles available each semester

• Increase the cap on the amount of money each club can receive per grant cycle 

• Advertise an estimate of how much grant money will be available in advance, so that clubs can better plan events. 

• Streamline the application process. 

• Do a grants cycle before semester starts, that includes an up-front payment for the club’s first events of the semester.

• Make it easier to withdraw from your Guild Account.​​

Create a UWA Tavern package for pub crawls, including food, to ensure that the Tavern is the ideal destination for clubs to start their pub crawls, and ensure that students commencing pub crawls have had a meal prior to drinking. Address student safety concerns with pubcrawls generally as people don’t eat beforehand, and ensure that the Tavern is the premier location for pubcrawls from our clubs to increase venue utilisation and campus culture. 

• Small booking fee, lower than the regular evening event booking fee. 

• Drink discounts arranged with the Tavern manager. 

• Food package included in booking price - burgers, pizza and chips. 

• Tie in with the Tavern Anniversary and regularly advertise through SOCPAC. 

• Review after Semester 1 to assess club feedback, see if any changes need to be made.

Create a UWA Tavern Quiz Night package to incentivise clubs to book the Tavern for quiz nights to increase venue utilisation and campus culture. 

Create a new position on the Societies Council Committee - Club Engagement Officers - to proactively engage with clubs, divided into key areas, to take on their feedback and assess their concerns. This will ensure that clubs feel heard and have their concerns, no matter how minor, heard quickly and resolved in a genuine rather than reactive way. 

Restructure SOCPAC meetings to make them more engaging and collaborative. Ensure that SOCPAC delivers the information that clubs need, but also allows clubs a forum to discuss ideas, give feedback, and feel heard. 

Create a ‘How to EMP Guide’ that is available online for Club Executives to access after SLT. Ease student anxiety around completing EMPs for the first time (as they forget SLT) and ease burden on Events Team to constantly correct complicated EMPs.

Improve the accessibility and continuous development of SLT. At the moment, SLT is not accessible for all students due to inflexible timing, particularly for international students. Give online attendance options for students who are physically unable to attend.

Provide catering for clubs celebrating faith/cultural holidays on the Interfaith calendar in collaboration with faith/cultural clubs. People will feel more welcome on campus on faith-based holidays if they see the Guild making an effort to celebrate with them. Already a practise at the Colleges and is very well received. Very good way to expose students to diverse holidays and food.

Free pregnancy tests for students. Encourage students to take pregnancy tests, and alleviate the costs associated with them.

Op-shop in Guild Village. Promote and facilitate sustainable fashion on campus. Give students a cheap place to buy clothes that is close to where they study.

Advocate for UWA to commit to transparent emissions reporting. Hold UWA to account for their environmental impact.

Continue advocating for pay as you go social sport. Lower upfront cost for students to participate in social sport, increasing engagement, promoting physical wellbeing and providing cost of living relief.