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In 2005 P.M. John Howard did the only legal thing and legislated against Compulsory Student Unionism. I say the only legal thing, because apart from Students, Compulsory Unionism, had been outlawed for many years.When I went to University I refused to pay Compulsory Union fees (I was quite the rebel), because I felt that it was illegal and unjust. Besides I moved a motion to sack the Student Union 3 times while I was there. This was due to Child abuse in the Union run Childcare Centre, along with misuse of funds. When I graduated the University (not the Student Union) withheld my Degree until I paid my back Compulsory Union fees. A compromise was reached, I donated a box of texts to the Library.
There is a bill before Parliament at the moment to reintroduce a “Compulsory Tertiary Fee” on top of HECS. This will be for part time students, off campus students, every student. It is to provide services to the students. Well how are off campus and part time students going to benefit from this. What happens if the money is mismanaged and the services provided are Kegs of beer, and strippers like when I was at Uni? Should our broke students be forced to pay for services they are unable to use or not interested in?
Isn’t HECS the tax that is intended to cover Tertiary students educational needs, and they get to pay this back, sometimes for a life time? Why should we introduce yet another tax? Isn’t our tax system complicated enough? (That is another subject for another time.)
Tertiary Students should pay for their extracurricular activities, but other students should not have to pay for them. They should be self funded.
Summary:-
- Liberals want to introduce HECS (1980 approx.)
- Labor does introduce HECS (1987 approx.)
- Liberals abolish Compulsory Student Unionism (2005)
- Liberals also put in 100’s of Millions of dollars to Universities as compensation
- Labor puts up a bill to introduce another compulsory Tertiary Fee (2009)
Is this clever? Are we really the Clever Country?
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