BY STUART MUNCKTON
CANBERRA In a low-key Australian National University Students Association (ANUSA) elections, held September 9-12, the Evolve ticket won all executive positions, National Union of Students (NUS) delegate positions and many general representative positions.
Evolve was put together by the Independent faction, which has dominated the ANUSA in recent years. This year, the Indies have mobilised to prevent a student general meeting from donating money to the Refugee Action Committee or holding a referendum to have the campus declared a refugee safe haven. The remnants of the Left Labor Club also operated through Evolve.
The Free the Refugees ticket's Brett Muller, running on a pro-refugee, anti-war platform, won a general representative position.
Apathy Sux, a loose alliance of students from the Environment Collective and left groups, also picked up one general representative position. Socialist Alternative activist Jo Mettam, running for Apathy Sux, missed out on a NUS delegate position by just four votes.
From Green Left Weekly, September 25, 2002.
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