About 70 positions will be cut by Christmas.

A Bendigo staff member who does not wish to be identified said some staff were on stress leave and others were extremely angry. 

"It just feels like we’re drowning and no one’s noticing," the staff member said. 

The staffer said redundancies were nothing new in the history of the university but that this time was different. 

"There’s no fat on the bone to cut, if there’s is, it's a very, very thin layer, and they have cut too deep."

Staff who put themselves forward for voluntary redundancy have been either offered a package or told they must stay. 

Likewise, staff wanting to stay have been either made redundant or have held on to their position. 

There are others who's future at the institution is still unclear. 

"We don’t think that the leadership has the future of the Bendigo campus in mind," the staffer said.

"They’re doing almost everything they can do to kill it," the staffer said.

"All of those structures we’ve built in to support students in this region are going to be pulled away."

La Trobe University's Pro Vice-Chancellor Richard Speed said management would finalise all staff positions in the next two weeks.

"We will know who is staying and we will know who is going and we have done that on the basis of matching skills and capabilities that staff have to the skills and capabilities that we need in certain positions," he said. 

"We are conducting the last few interviews and appointments over the next few weeks or so and then the contracts will be coming out after that."

Professor Speed said it was necessary to keep some staff even if they wanted a redundancy.

"If you run a restructure that way, you have no control over what skills are retained.

"If we wanted to just reduce our costs then voluntary redundancy is fine. It’s important that we retain the ones who have the skills that are important for our future."