Students occupy Liberal Party offices

Wednesday, June 8, 2005 - 10:00

MELBOURNE — Students occupied the Liberal Party's Victoria headquarters on June 2 in response to the federal government's proposed "voluntary student unionism" (VSU) legislation.

One of the protesters, Julia Dehm, said: "The Coalition has made it clear that what they want is to undermine the ability of students to politically organise, so today we will give them a very small taste of what it is like to be repressed".

The students plan to join others at Monash University in a student strike in the second week of semester.

Selena Black

From Green Left Weekly, June 8, 2005.

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