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Uni activists need to get real in the Abbott era

Memo to the National Union of Students: ditch the ideology and represent undergraduates

18 January 2014

9:00 AM

18 January 2014

9:00 AM

Times are not as easy for the labour movement when the Coalition is in government, and without doubt that goes for the student union as well. With such an underwhelming track record under the purportedly education-friendly Gillard and Rudd governments, what hope does the hopelessly ineffective National Union of Students have of convincing an Abbott government to co-operate with its agenda? Very little, probably, unless it decides to change tack.

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Kylar Loussikian, a former higher education writer at the Australian, is an editor at the Conversation website.

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