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This year's conference will be held at the Mallett (that's a hammer plus a t) Street campus of the University of Sydney.
The original caretakers of this land are the Eora people of the Gadigal nation. The land was never ceded, but rather seized in the establishment of Australia. The land always was and always will be Aboriginal land.
This building itself has an extremely interesting history. In the beginning of the twentieth century hundreds of men and women worked here as part of the Bonds Corporation. The great singlet-clad Adonis, Chesty Bond, still looks over Mallett Street as a protected Australian icon.
Currently the building houses the Faculty of Nursing, a faculty that is under serious threat from university administration to become another victim of economic rationalism. With the university planning to scrap its undergraduate nursing course and the Liberal government warming up its bulldozers, the staff, students and community are coming together to fight in the name of public health.
The Mallett Street campus is a 10 minute walk from the cosmopolitan King Street Newtown, and a 10 minute bus ride from Sydney's CBD. You can get to the Mallett Street campus from the airport by taxi, airport bus, or train and public bus. Details are available on the NSW transport website.
If you would like to download some maps to get around Sydney, go to www.street-directory.com.au.
Directly opposite the campus is Camperdown Park. There are tennis and basketball courts and a football field (of the rugby variety) that you are welcome to use, free of charge. If you feel like having a bit of a play, the Sydney University Nursing Society (SUNS) is happy to lend you their sports equipment. Camperdown bowling club is part of the park. The conference is booked in for Barefoot Bowling on the Monday after the conference ends and before the dinner begins. The cost for those who want to play is $5 which includes bowls and an instructor. Those who don't want to play can spectate while consuming bowling club cheap drinks.