Australia\u2019s most infamous breakdancer Raygun has lost her job at one of the nation\u2019s top universities.<\/p>\n
Rachael Gunn, better known as Raygun, shot to global prominence when she represented Australia in the debut Olympic breakdancing event at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris.<\/p>\n
Gunn made international headlines when she scored zero points for her performance with moves that imitated hopping kangaroos, wriggling snakes and the sprinkler.<\/p>\n
The performance went viral and saw her become the subject of memes from around the globe.<\/p>\n
Gunn was employed as a media and popular culture lecturer at Sydney\u2019s Macquarie University, but was reportedly included in the educator\u2019s latest round of redundancies, the Australian Financial Review (AFR) reports.<\/p>\n
A Macquarie University spokesman said they were unable to comment or confirm details on the confidential employment arrangements involving individual staff. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis is our standard practice for legal and privacy reasons,\u201d a spokesman said.<\/p>\n
The AFR reports lower international student numbers had led to universities across Australia look for cost saving measures, and Macquarie\u2019s arts department was the latest to be targeted in a round of redundancies.<\/p>\n
According to Gunn\u2019s LinkedIn profile, she worked at the university for more than a decade, where she completed a PHD on the gender politics of Sydney\u2019s breaking culture in 2017.<\/p>\n
Her research career was built on the cultural politics of breaking and street dancing that saw her complete a study about the experience of street dancers performing in public spaces for the City of Sydney council.<\/p>\n
Following Gunn\u2019s Olympic performance, Senator Gerard Rennick criticised the use of taxpayer funds on unproductive academic courses.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust how many obscure and pointless courses do universities offer that are subsidised by the taxpayer,\u201d he said in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt also goes to show just because you have a PhD in something doesn\u2019t mean you are any good at it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, Gunn used her fame to start a new venture on Cameo where she charges fans almost $70 for a personalised video.<\/p>\n
The website enables users to purchase personalised messages from celebrities, actors and athletes from across the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s most infamous breakdancer Raygun has lost her job at one of the nation\u2019s top universities. Rachael Gunn,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2887,22,2874,23,133,21,2871,2875,592,290,2892,2601,1745,2888,2889,368,2602,2880,2710,2882,2879,2707,355,379,120,2891,2883,2881,2872,2867,2877,2870,2876,2890,247,2869,2873,2884,2885,2868,2886,293,2878],"class_list":["post-1746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-arts-department","tag-au","tag-aussie-breakdancer","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-austrlia","tag-chris-kenny","tag-confidential-employment-arrangements","tag-emma-kirk","tag-europe","tag-ezra-shaw","tag-facebook","tag-france","tag-gender-politics","tag-gerard-rennick","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-inc","tag-infamous-breakdancer","tag-international-headlines","tag-international-student-numbers","tag-lecturing-gig","tag-macquarie-university","tag-new-south-wales","tag-newswire-news","tag-oceania","tag-paris","tag-personalised-video","tag-popular-culture-lecturer","tag-privacy-reasons","tag-rachael-gunn","tag-research-career","tag-staff-redundancies","tag-standard-practice","tag-street-dancers","tag-sydney","tag-taxpayer-funds","tag-uni-gig","tag-uni-position","tag-universities-offer","tag-university-position","tag-unproductive-academic-courses","tag-western-europe","tag-zero-points"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}