Outrage at University of Newcastle 'holding' emails from union

Associate Professor Terry Summers said the email matter "leaves a bad taste in my mouth". "If the university's IT policy has been violated then it should be investigated," he said. Picture by Max Mason-Hubers

THE UNIVERSITY of Newcastle has been accused of restricting National Tertiary Education Union emails from reaching staff while they were reviewing proposed enterprise agreements.

The NTEU NSW division received an audit log under freedom of information laws, which it said showed UON added a policy at 12.13pm on December 6 to remove emails from the NTEU domain from its permitted senders list.