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Slap in the face

Voting to retain compulsory student union fees is a betrayal of core Liberal values

19 March 2016

9:00 AM

19 March 2016

9:00 AM

In their drive to push the Liberal Party leftward, Turnbull and his supporters have betrayed one of the Party’s fundamental annd most long-standing causes – voluntary student unions. This may not seem important to those not involved, but the battle for voluntary student unions has for years been the most intense and bitter struggle waged by Liberal University students, libertarians and others against the left-dominated State and National student unions.

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