More than 2000 teaching staff and students took part in a joint protest outside the University of Technology Sydney on May 21.
A strike called by the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) was supported by a picket line formed by students, who were engaging in a national protest against the federal governments harsh education cuts.
The protest received extensive media coverage, including the Daily Telegraph, the ABC and Channel 7.
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University students and staff protested proposed cuts to tertiary education in Sydney鈥檚 CBD on March 26.
The event involved about 200 people from various faculties, who marched against the proposed $2.3 billion dollar cuts to their universities.
Students from as far away as the University of Newcastle, gathered outside the University of Technology Sydney Broadway campus.