Editing University of Sydney (section)

===2000s===
[[File:Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney.jpg|thumb|270x270px|[[Charles Perkins Centre]]]]
In 2001, the University of Sydney chancellor, Dame [[Leonie Kramer]], was forced to resign by the university's governing body.<ref>[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] – PM, [http://www.abc.net.au/pm/stories/s322262.htm Dame Leonie Kramer Resigns] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090201065516/http://www.abc.net.au/pm/stories/s322262.htm |date=1 February 2009}}. Retrieved 6 January 2007.</ref> In 2003, [[Nick Greiner]], a former [[Premier of New South Wales]], resigned from his position as chair of the university's Graduate School of Management because of academic protests against his simultaneous chairmanship of [[British American Tobacco]] (Australia). Subsequently, his wife, [[Kathryn Greiner]], resigned in protest from the two positions she held at the university as chair of the Sydney Peace Foundation and a member of the executive council of the Research Institute for Asia and the Pacific.<ref>''[[Sydney Morning Herald]]'', [http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/08/11/1060588325238.html Kathryn Follows Nick Out of Door in Protest] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170705153533/http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/08/11/1060588325238.html |date=5 July 2017}}, 8 November 2003. Retrieved 6 January 2007.</ref>

In 2005, the [[Public Service Association of New South Wales]] and the [[Community and Public Sector Union]] were in dispute with the university over a proposal to privatise security at the main campus (and the [[Cumberland]] campus).<ref>Public Service Association of NSW, [http://www.psa.labor.net.au/campaigns/1124934892_16999.html ''Sydney University Petition on Security Services''] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070304220002/http://www.psa.labor.net.au/campaigns/1124934892_16999.html |date=4 March 2007}}. Retrieved 6 January 2007.</ref>

In 2007, the university agreed to acquire a portion of the land granted to [[St John's College, University of Sydney|St John's College]] (a residential college of the university) to develop the Sydney Institute of Health and Medical Research, now the [[Charles Perkins Centre]], named in honour of the first [[Indigenous Australian]] man to graduate from the university, [[Charles Perkins (Aboriginal activist)|Charles Perkins]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Building starts on Charles Perkins Centre |website=ArchitectureAU |date=24 March 2012 |url=https://architectureau.com/articles/building-starts-on-charles-perkins-centre/ |access-date=14 November 2021 |archive-date=23 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160923062524/http://architectureau.com/articles/building-starts-on-charles-perkins-centre/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Charles Perkins |website=[[Charles Perkins Centre]] |publisher=University of Sydney |date=12 March 2012 |url=http://sydney.edu.au/perkins/about/charles_perkins.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120321050805/http://sydney.edu.au/perkins/about/charles_perkins.shtml |archive-date=21 March 2012 |url-status=dead |access-date=15 November 2021}}</ref>