THE University of Newcastle Students' Association has opted not to send a contingent to a Sydney protest against the government's Job-Ready Graduates package, but will instead record a video raising awareness about, and outlining its concerns with, the package.
UNSA president Luka Harrison said individual students were welcome to make their own arrangements to travel to Sydney on Wednesday to protest the legislation, but the association had chosen not to attend.
"With the issues presented by COVID we don't want to do anything irresponsible," Mr Harrison said.
"If it was a bit safer we would go straight to a protest, but I think there's not as much of an appetite for protesting at the moment, because it's a concern for a lot of people."
Instead, it will meet with the National Tertiary Education Union Newcastle branch on Wednesday and record a video to post on its Facebook page.
It will aim to raise awareness about and explain its concerns with the package, as well as show students how they can make their opinions on the legislation heard.
"We really need to get the message out there about how much this hurts the prospects of future students and also our country," he said.
"We will be putting up contacts for UNSA if they want to get involved with future action and help in terms of writing to government ministers."
The legislation will see student fees drop for some courses and rise for others, including by 113 per cent for humanities.
"It makes university more expensive and more inaccessible for people from low socio economic status backgrounds and it's just not fair."
