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	AUSTRALIAN LIBERAL STUDENTS FEDERATION FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The '''Australian Liberal Students' Federation''' (ALSF) is a political grouping of university students informally associated with the Liberal_Party_of_Australia.
		The Federation is organised along the basis of campus Liberal clubs, with the various clubs affiliating nationally, wielding candidates and voting as a club.
		As_of_2005, the ALSF President is Julian_Barendse, of the University_of_Melbourne, who was re-elected unopposed to the position at the ALSF's AGM on Friday, 8 July 2005.
	www.witwib.com /Australian_Liberal_Students_Federation (485 words)

	VOLUNTARY STUDENT UNIONISM FACTS AND INFORMATION
		Student organisations are primarily reliant on these levies to fund their activities, although some large organisations gain a degree of income from businesses such as refectories and eateries.
		Another argument is that leadership of student organisations tend to be particularly drawn from the Left, which they argue is reflective of an aggressive leftist culture in universities, but which is not representative of the whole student body.
		Student unions have fought ferociously against rises in fees (deferred for most students), arguing that they prevent people from attending university; however, their own union dues are payable immediately and are (except in extreme cases) not subject to deferment and are not income-dependent, as most fees are.
	www.brolgas.com /Voluntary_Student_Unionism (2872 words)

	catallaxy » Blog Archive » Voluntary student unions or yet more centralisation? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Australian Liberal Students’ Federation meetings are often bloodbaths (figuratively speaking), but one thing they can all agree on is that membership of student unions should be voluntary.
		Once student are exempted from actually joining a student union freedom of association issues are dealt with, and in my view it becomes one of freedom of contract.
		Joe, your point on student unions’ use of campus real estate - my understanding was that UQ years ago when this issue was raised was reluctant to allow commercial businesses on campus except under the aegis of the University or Union as this would have implications for their exemption from local government rates.
	badanalysis.com /catallaxy/index.php?p=201 (2002 words)

	The right stuff - Education News - theage.com.au
		Before her the Australian Liberal Students Federation was giving evidence to a July inquiry on the Government's controversial voluntary student unionism legislation.
		Liberal students got VSU on the party agenda 20 or 30 years ago, federation president Julian Barendse told The Age and since then he said they had been at the forefront of lobbying and advocating.
		In August, the Liberal Movement passed motions condemning moderate Liberal MP Petro Georgiou, calling for undercover agents to be trained to kidnap or kill those responsible for the Bali bombing and opposing mandatory gender equality in the party.
	theage.com.au /news/education-news/the-right-stuff/2005/09/30/1127804655980.html (861 words)

	The Guardian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The federal government's ideological obsession with so-called "Voluntary Student Unionism" (VSU), coupled with its imminent Senate majority threatens to cut this short, and make 2005 the last year that students are allowed to decide themselves what services are available on campus.
		For instance, even the college student who wrote a pro-VSU letter to the editor recently stated that he never used the services of the student organisation might be surprised to learn who funds the social events for students at his college.
		Student organisations hold democratic elections yearly, and one of their most important roles is democratic representation.
	www.cpa.org.au /garchve05/1218vsu.html (519 words)

	National Union of Students: News: VSU Opinion Piece - 04 March 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Federal Government’s ideological obsession with so-called ‘Voluntary Student Unionism’, coupled with its imminent Senate majority threatens to cut this short, and make 2005 the last year that students are allowed to decide themselves what services are available on campus.
		Student Organisations are a similar case- the services and representation they provide benefit all students, the sheer breadth of provision ensures this.
		The real reason that groups like the Australian Liberal Students Federation want to remove funding from student organisations, in the face of opposition from every group in the Higher Education sector, is ideological- because they don't always agree with the government.
	www.unistudent.com.au /news/1109899909_3577.html (524 words)

	VOLUNTARY STUDENT UNIONISM FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Advocates for VSU encourage the state and Commonwealth governments to legislate that fees for student organisations be made voluntary, along with membership.
		Critics assert that student organisation funds may be allocated to areas - such as environment collectives - that are not relevant to students and do not require compulsory funding.
		Being fully aware that student organisations are mainly reliant on compulsory fees to operate, the ALSF, according to this view, is knowingly seeking the destruction of student organisations.
	www.witwib.com /Voluntary_Student_Unionism (2872 words)

	catallaxy » Blog Archive » Contestable funding and VSU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		While as a market liberal I do not support the VSU legislation, putting philosophy aside the actual impact of this law will not be as bad as many student unions and universities are claiming, and as a corollary won’t be as good as many Liberal students hope, if the universities play smart.
		As I argued in a presentation I gave to the Australian Liberal Students’ Federation last year (it’s here, in the December 2004 issue of Protege, based on an earlier version of the bill, but the basic argument stands) both sides are working on assumptions that are close to being redundant.
		Universities already at their student contribution amount cap will have to campaign for a higher cap - which the Commonwealth will find hard to resist, since the 25% limit on top of 2004 HECS was a political compromise back in 2003 in any case.
	badanalysis.com /catallaxy/index.php?p=729 (667 words)

	Address at the Opening of the 2003 Australian Liberal Students' Federation Federal Convention Parliament House, Canberra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The legislation will stipulate that membership of student associations is to be voluntary, and we’ll make it a condition of funding to higher education institutions that student unionism or the payment of money not related to a student’s course is not a condition of enrolment.
		I find that unacceptable discrimination against Australian students, and I have never been able to understand why it is that you should give a privilege to foreign students but you deny the same opportunity to Australian students.
		But Australians recognise that we live in a global community, they recognise that over the past couple of years unfortunately the world has changed, that we do live in an age of terrorism as I described it last week, and that people recognise that you don’t really have the option of marking time.
	www.pm.gov.au /news/speeches/speech333.html (3716 words)

	Radio National - The Sports Factor - 08/04/2005
		And why is it that the everyday student who wants to go to university is required to subsidise these and other services including what in some cases the most extreme political activism, whether of the left or indeed of the right.
		Now that’s OK to say Well the students may have another $300, $400, $500 in their pocket, but when they go to use the facilities that are there, and they might need child care or legal assistance, well at the end of the day they have to make a choice.
		The statistics that were generated by the Australian University sports membership survey and census that was conducted last year, reports that in 2000-2001, the three levels of government provided around $2.2-billion of funding for sports and physical recreation, and almost 61% of that went to fund venues, ground and facilities.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/talks/8.30/sportsf/stories/s1339346.htm (4120 words)

	Dem Wahren, Schönen, Guten
		This is what Australian federal Liberal MP Tony Smith did yesterday when he addressed the Australian Liberal Students Federation on the subject of voluntary student unionism.
		We are told, on the one hand, that student unions provide a range of vital and critical services to students, and, on the other, that students would not join a union if they were given the choice.
		Students can be entrusted with buying every possible good or service in the global economy, with one exception: a student union membership.
	demwahrenschoenenguten.blogspot.com (3037 words)

	Tim Blair: BOTTLES NOT THROWN
		Drove to Canberra last night to speak at the Australian Liberal Students Federation conference.
		Just to remind US readers: Australian Liberals are actually conservatives.
		As an attendant at the AUSTRALIAN Liberal Students Federation conference, I can testify that all those names do belong to real people, and are all well-read, alert, polite people.
	timblair.spleenville.com /archives/003341.php (509 words)

	Coalition attack on student unions unveiled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Student unions and organisations exist because students have common interests, and organisations are needed to defend those interests.
		The proposed federal legislation is largely based on the 1993 Western Australian VSU legislation, a model for VSU favoured by the Liberals because it has hindered the political aspects of student unions more than the Victorian model.
		Liberal students have been unable to gain control of many student unions because these students are, and are seen to be, agents for the Liberal Party's reactionary politics.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/1999/352/352p30.htm (1002 words)

	Liberal Party of Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Federal Director is responsible for the overall co-ordination of the Secretariat’s activities and liaison with the State Divisions.
		Federal Secretariat staff also liaise with the Australian Liberal Students’ Federation and the Party’s overseas branches.
		Views of the Federal Council are not binding on the Parliamentary party, but do carry considerable weight as the stated position of the Organisation on a range of policy issues.
	www.liberal.org.au /default_print.cfm?action=4&page=6 (743 words)

	27 October 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The predecessor of mine as Prime Minister and Leader of the Liberal Party, Sir Robert Menzies, and I shared a number of common experiences separated by many years and one of them, of course, was a long period in opposition.
		And as patron of the Australian Liberal Students Federation it’s always a special pleasure for me to be associated with any event that brings into focus the contribution of Liberal students to political thought and political debate in Australia.
		I use those two words very deliberately because one of the special characteristics of the Liberal Party of Australia is that it has, unlike some other centre right parties around the world, it has been the trustee of both the Liberal and the conservative traditions in Australia.
	www.pm.gov.au /News/speeches/1999/menzies2710.htm (2157 words)

	POST Newspapers Online: Headline News
		A spray on talkback radio and an alleged voicemail threat are part of an escalating spat between student politicians at the University of WA.
		The vice-chancellor has been asked to intervene in the dispute between right-leaning commerce student Paul McCarthy, who is a student guild councillor, and left-leaning Myra Robinson, the guild president.
		Ms Robinson upset Mr McCarthy, a member of the Australian Liberal Students' Federation, on Wednesday last week when she told him to stop handing out pamphlets on campus condemning the Labor government's recent decision to make guild membership compulsory for all university students.
	www.postnewspapers.com.au /20030201/news/020.shtml (348 words)

	Catechism: June 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		After the Liberal Party and other conservatives have hammered into the psyche of the average Australian punter the absolute primacy of financial responsibility and government debt-aversion, the various state (and Federal for that matter) Liberal Parties seem to fall over themselves in their eagerness to pork-barrell and spend like lunatics.
		Since the facilities of student unions are only practical on the basis of compulsory contributions then by the same token there should be some effort to make sure that the money is properly distributed—perhaps the introduction of compulsory voting, in student elections would be a step towards it.
		Students eager to see the student association council sacked are taking heart from a petition on campus that has collected almost 400 signatures.
	pedagogism.blogspot.com /2005_06_01_pedagogism_archive.html (8096 words)

	Liberal Party of Australia (Victorian Division) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Whilst at university he actively promoted and campaigned for the Liberal Party on university campuses as a member of the Australian Liberal Students' Federation and the Young Liberal Movement.
		He served as Chairman of the University of Queensland Union in 1991, and as Federal President of the Australian Liberal Students' Federation from 1991 to 1992.
		He is a Life Member of the Young Liberal Movement (Qld) and the Australian Liberal Students' Federation.
	www.vic.liberal.org.au /AbouttheParty/statedirector.htm (314 words)

	Directory - Regional: Oceania: Australia: Society and Culture: Politics: Parties: Liberal Party: Youth and Student
		Australian Liberal Students Federation · cached · The official site of the peek representative body of Liberal Students in Australia.
		ALSF is comprised of students of right-wing, conservative and liberal-democratic persuasions.
		Monash University Liberal Club · cached · Represents Liberal students on the Clayton campus, and provides a venue for members to meet and discuss their political beliefs.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=222302 (145 words)

	[ULC] The University Liberal Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		We are the University Liberal Club at CDU - Charles Darwin University.
		The Club was established in March, 2002 to allow liberal, conservative and libertarian students to get together socially, to discuss liberalism and to run campaigns.
		This is news to Liberal Students, who have long focused on issues such as Che's murderous escapades and advocacy of terrorist tactics.
	www.ulc.org.au (198 words)

	Fighting Howard's VSU Legislation
		To get students on their side, they say that VSU means "freedom of choice", and prevents us from having to pay another university fee.
		Student unions have a long-standing tradition of being a collective and representative organisation fighting for the interests of all students.
		Other students: Ask around campus, at your union office, or visit your university's website (click here for a comprehensive set of links to university union/student association websites) to find out if there is a campaign team for you to join.
	au.geocities.com /stop_vsu (2750 words)

	ComDef'99 Australia Speakers
		Prior to entering Parliament Senator Abetz was State President of the Liberal Party of Australia, Tasmanian Division from 1990-94, and practiced as a Barrister and Solicitor in the legal partnership of Abetz, Curtis and Docking.
		Senator Abetz is the first and only Tasmanian to be elected Federal President of the Australian Liberal Students' Federation and served this term from 1980-81; he is also the only life member of the Australian Liberal Students’ Federation.
		Ken Harris is a councillor of the Australian Industry Group, a member of its NSW Executive and is a Vice President of the Group.
	www.ideea.com /comdef99/melb/speakers.htm (4094 words)

	Australian life taking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Many white Australians fear Asians are taking away their jobs and culture.
		immigrants were threatening the Australian way of life, taking Australian jobs and bringing drugs, violent...
		David M. Williams is an Australian computer consultant and writer.
	livesplanet.info /australian-life-taking-r.html (123 words)

	Tim Blair: DISSENT CRUSHED
		War is the most serious thing we can ask of a soldier, and we should not skip hither and yon (like that prose, lad?) simply to avoid the gathering possibility that we may have sent them to their deaths based on faulty intelligence.
		We aren't Young Liberals, but members of Liberal Clubs on campuses, which are then affiliated to the Australian Liberal Students Federation, which I'm on the Executive of.
		That moron wrote: "When Liberals have the confidence to attend a anti-war demo it clearly isn't a good sign...By standing there debating with a bunch of right wingers at a rally, not only are people wasting time and demoralising everyone, they are giving them confidence to come back and disrupt more rallies.
	timblair.spleenville.com /archives/006472.php (4034 words)

	Printer version - Inside the farcical NUS annual conference (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Liberals appeared to have two (and at times three) sub-factions operating at this year's conference (Libertarian, Moderates and Conservative) with at times various splits occurring along these lines as to who would be the Liberal candidate(s) for the few office-bearer positions they would get.
		Liberal students had fl eyes on account of them getting drunk and falling over, to name one particular incident.
		Steven Brown's student political career on the other hand has never set the world on fire, partly because his faction is still whimpering around the political wilderness looking for two NUS delegates to bang together.
	www.crikey.com.au /politics/2003/12/16-0003.print.html (4332 words)

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