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Australian National University Enterprise Agreement 2005-2008

Part One — Operation of Agreement

3. Objectives of Agreement

University goal
3.1 Through the relentless pursuit of excellence, The Australian National University will be one of the world's top universities.

3.2 The parties agree to work cooperatively to achieve this goal.

3.3 In addition the parties agree:

3.3(a) that the University's greatest assets are its staff and students;

3.3(b) that the University's capacity to support, develop and provide critique of Australian society will be greatest when intellectual freedom is exercised in a manner consistent with a responsible search for knowledge and its dissemination;

3.3(c) to work towards an environment that is supportive, nurturing, challenging, and motivating for staff and students and exemplary in its encouragement of excellence, equity and tolerance and the creation of a constructively analytical culture;

3.3(d) to work towards an environment that is free from bullying and which is as safe and secure as is reasonably practicable;

3.3(e) to encourage a genuinely collegial University, within which problems are shared and worked on collectively, and within which staff members are encouraged to comment on the Uinversity's operations;

3.3(f) that the University will maintain a policy on Intellectual Property which, among other things, recognises the moral and economic rights of staff and students; and

3.3(g) that development or modification of University policies will involve consultation with the University community according to the Policy on Policies.

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