Two on-campus students' legal actions against the ANU for enforcing alleged "impossible" living agreements while they were in a Sydney COVID lockdown could trigger other students across the nation to come forward and lead to class actions.
Kate Aston's and Sigourney Vallis' statements of claims filed in the ACT Civil and Administrative Tribunal are seeking orders that their occupancy agreements with the ANU for on-campus accommodation at Burton and Garran Hall in February-December of 2021 were rendered impossible because of the "unforeseen, unforeseeable, and unprecedented" effects of the pandemic.
