Alby Schultz (Hume, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

No. This radio program is promoted as promoting an ‘anti-capitalist perspective on current issues on education from around Australia and the world’. This shows that if student unions were actually focused on providing services that were relevant to students, membership would be much higher and their finances would be in better shape. Furthermore, the Melbourne University Student Union recently stripped its clubs and societies budget by $18,000, or 24 per cent, in order to fund a $15,000 increase in its donation to the extreme National Union of Students. Despite their rhetoric, it is student unions themselves that are doing more damage to campus life than any voluntary system could. Compulsory fees guarantee revenue streams to service providers regardless of the quality of their product. There is no fiscal incentive to provide students—

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