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Australische Nationale Landwirtschaftliche Sozialistische Partei

Nats raise ante on student unionism

By Stephanie Peatling and AAP
September 19, 2005

Voluntary student unionism is looming as the next internal battle for the Coalition after the National Party's governing body voted to pursue a rescue package to ensure services and amenities on regional campuses are not forced to close.

National Party senators and MPs are continuing talks with the Education Minister, Brendan Nelson, who has refused to temper his position on abolishing compulsory student unionism by offering any hint that universities would be compensated for a loss of income.

At a meeting of the party's federal council at the weekend, members declared their "full and unequivocal support for the concept of voluntary student unionism" but called for "an alternative funding mechanism" comparable with the money now raised by union fees to "maintain the level of services and the provision of facilities on university campuses".

SMH

Translation: "We want to fuck over students in cities who've been subsidising us, but we'd like to make sure we're ok first."

Pack of whining, shiftless, forever dependent mongrels. I thought country people were supposed to be rugged and self sufficient. All you ever see is National Party voters witht their hands out demanding someone foot the bill to maintain the lifestyle they think they deserve while constantly voting to bite the hand that feeds it.

We have to pay to maintain their telecommunications, even though they voted for Telstra's sale. We have to pay to hunt the world for immigrants of an acceptable colour to prop up their dying communities, even though they voted for the stupidest set of immigration laws imaginable. We have to restrict our water use so farmers can pour it into the desert in an orgy of profligate waste to produce crops several times more expensive to the consumer than imports, despite the fact that they don't even pay market rates for the water they use. Now we'll have to pay to keep rural uni services going so that smug young Libs and Nats can tell us how rugged and self sufficient their campuses are. Bunch of fucking communists.