Australian National University Students' Association

Australian National University Students' Association
Institution Australian National University
Location Level 1, Student Facilities Building 17a, University Avenue, ANU Canberra, 2601
Members c. 10,000
Website http://www.anusa.com.au

ANU Students' Association (ANUSA) is the student association of the Australian National University. Its purpose is to represent students to both the University and the Government.

ANUSA is made up of nearly forty elected student representatives: six Executive members (President, Vice President, Treasurer, General Secretary, Education Officer and Social Officer), six Department Officers (Disabilities, Environment, Indigenous, International Students, Women's, and Queer*), two College Representatives for each faculty, and fourteen General Representatives. Additionally, ANUSA has several staff members who support the organisation. Most of ANUSA’s income comes from the Student Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF) which each undergraduate student pays every semester.

In addition to its role in advocacy, ANUSA provides a free legal service and student assistance through its Student Assistance Unit. It also organises a variety of events on campus including O-Week and Bush Week, as well as managing the Brian Kenyon Student Space in Union Court.

List of Presidents of the Association

1996 ANU Students' Association elections - the "Wadgate scandal"

The 1996 ANU Students' Association elections saw the losing "Rage" ticket embroiled in scandal. 146 votes for the "Rage" presidential candidate Daniel Jenkins were excluded by the Returning Officer after allegations of ballot stuffing.[24] The fraud was discovered when a student sitting in a cafe saw a voter attempt to stuff a wad of ballots into the ballot box. When the Returning Officer opened the ballot box, five wads of ballots were found, all of which gave their first preference to Jenkins.

The scandal was dubbed "Wadgate" by the student newspaper Woroni and was subsequently reported on the front page of the Canberra Times (05/02/97) and elsewhere. It was also raised at least three times in the Australian Senate by Sen. Eric Abetz (Senate Hansard: 30/10/96, pp.4747-4750; 05/02/97, pp.125-127; and 23/06/97, pp.4929-31).

The winning presidential candidate, Matt Tinning from the "Counter Attack" ticket, secured enough votes to win even if fraudulent votes had not been excluded.

2012 Presidential resignation

On the evening of 5 March 2012, ANUSA President Fleur Hawes resigned from the position of President. The resignation resulted from her exclusion from the University on academic grounds following a failed appeals process. Her exclusion and resignation was met by surprise by those of the University community and ANUSA who only learned of her academic exclusion earlier that day.[25]

ANUSA Departments

ANUSA funds six autonomous departments which operate in key areas which are especially important to life for undergraduate students: Disabilities, Environment, Indigenous, International, Queer* and Women. A Department Officer represents each department on the Student Representative Council (SRC).

This autonomy extends to how they name and define themselves, so some departments like the ANU Disabilities Student Association don't explicitly call themselves departments.

External links

References

  1. ↑ http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/27768239?selectedversion=NBD24769033 (Graham Hastings,2003, pp280-285. This provides an accurate history of the 1994 ANU student occupation and struggle against fees which led to the election of the No Fees Campaign candidates to the ANUSA)
  2. ↑ http://press.anu.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/ch145.pdf
  3. ↑ "Students demand, no fees for Degrees". GReen Left Weekly. 29 March 1995. Retrieved 16 June 2007.
  4. ↑ "Minutes of ANU council (will need to be an ANU student to log in)". ANUSA. 8 September 1995. Retrieved 16 June 2007.
  5. ↑ "Campaigning at ANU in 1997". Green Left Weekly. 4 December 1996. Retrieved 16 June 2007.
  6. ↑ "Join the campaign against the Indonesian dictatorship!". Green Left Weekly. 20 May 1998. Retrieved 16 June 2007.
  7. ↑ Will Williams (27 May 1998). "Angry ANU students storm dean's office". Green Left Weekly. Retrieved 16 June 2007.
  8. ↑ "Review of the Careers and Employment Centre" (PDF). ANU Reporter 30 (1). 17 February 1999. Retrieved 26 July 2007.
  9. ↑ "Minutes of Meeting: No., 2000". Parking Reference Group, Facilities and Services Division, ANU. 2000. Archived from the original on 11 June 2007. Retrieved 26 July 2007.
  10. ↑ "Minutes of Meeting: No. 1, 2001". Parking Reference Group, Facilities and Services Division, ANU. 2001. Archived from the original on 11 June 2007. Retrieved 26 July 2007.
  11. ↑ "Minutes" (PDF). ANU Academic Board. 24 July 2002. Retrieved 16 June 2007.
  12. ↑ "Students lobby to defeat Govt's tertiary reform plan". ABC. 29 November 2003. Retrieved 16 June 2007.
  13. ↑ "Minutes: Meeting No. 2, 2004" (PDF). University committee on Information Strategy Policy, ANU. 2004. Retrieved 16 June 2007.
  14. ↑ "16 March 2005". ANUSA. 16 March 2005. Archived from the original on 21 June 2007. Retrieved 16 June 2007.
  15. ↑ "Letters". The Australian. 25 May 2005.
  16. ↑ "ANU supporting student union under VSU". ABC. 1 September 2006.
  17. ↑ Emma Macdonald (23 May 2007). "Students shocked at Labor's union policy". The Canberra Times. Archived from the original on 10 September 2007. Retrieved 16 June 2007.
  18. ↑ "Minutes of Meeting No.5, 2006" (PDF). University Education Committee, ANU. 25 September 2006. Retrieved 16 June 2007.
  19. ↑ Australian Broadcasting Corporation (2 Nov 2009). "ANU students lead the way in carbon fight".
  20. ↑ Phillip Green (26 August 2009). "Australian National University Students’ Association - 2009 Annual Elections - Extract from Report by the Electoral Commissioner" (PDF).
  21. ↑ http://sa.anu.edu.au/about-us/your-reps
  22. ↑ http://www.woroni.com.au/articles/news/anusa-president-resigns
  23. ↑ http://www.anusa.com.au/your-anusa/
  24. ↑ Martin Iltis (2 October 1996). "ANU student election results". Retrieved 16 June 2007.
  25. ↑ http://www.woroni.com.au/articles/news/anusa-president-resigns
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