A university accommodation provider has been ordered to pay a student more than $10,000 after she was "forced from her home", accused of threatening others with a knife, an allegation she "vehemently denies".

Earlier this year, the woman filed a series of complaints about student noise at her UniLodge residence, which prevented her from sleeping and studying. On the night in question, she claims she went to find a tool, including a knife, from the kitchen to fix a yoga chair before returning to her room.

The University of Canberra student, who The Canberra Times has chosen not to name, told a tribunal that this led to the accusations and her ultimately being "treated as a pariah when she had done nothing wrong".

"[The woman] did not and could not expect a monastic quiet, but she certa

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