Conservative students in Australia were filmed ripping up a university report exposing a rape and sexual violence epidemic. During the University of Sydney (USYD) Students Representative Council’s Representatives-Elect meeting, two members of the campus’s conservative club tore up copies of the Red Zone Report—an investigation into sexual violence and hazing in Australian university residential colleges.
Trigger warning: sexual violence – William Khoury and Noah Howlett, who are elected Liberal councilors for the University of Sydney’s Students Representatives Council (SRC) for 2025, were seen ripping up the Red Zone Report, USYD’s student newspaper, Honi Soit reported on Thursday (October 31).
Khoury and Howlett were subsequently filmed throwing pieces of the torn-up report on the floor during the speeches of incoming SRC Women’s Officers, and current sexual violence officers, Martha Barlow and Ellie Robertson.
