News: "Experience won't pay the rent" by Students Against Placement Poverty (SAPP)

Amanda Cohn

NSW Greens MP

3 June 2023

Grassroots student collective Students Against Placement Poverty (SAPP) are protesting the unjust treatment of students forced to undergo hundreds of hours of unpaid work placement or internships. Read the article by Co-Founder Georgia Mantle.

Source: SRC USyd Publications, 2020 SRC Orientation & Countercourse Handbook, p.34-35.

Check out SAPP's Facebook page here to find out how you can get involved.

Amanda Cohn

NSW Greens MP

3 June 2023

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