Business Services Industry

Nelson's VSU ballot plan pleases no one.

Australasian Business Intelligence, December, 2005

Byline: Sophie Morris

Dec 05, 2005 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Australian Government is planning new laws to ban compulsory student union fees at university. The Australian Education

Minister, Brendan Nelson, is a strong advocate of voluntary student unionism (VSU).Barnaby Joyce, from the National Party of

Australia, holds the casting vote in the Australian Senate. He wants universities to still have the right to charge students a compulsory fee to preserve sporting and other clubs on university campuses. Nelson has sensed that the legislation for VSU may not pass the Senate. He has suggested a compromise, arguing that there should be a...

Premium Content Partnership | HighBeam Research provides an in-depth online archive library of reference works. HighBeam Research
 

BNET TalkbackShare your ideas and expertise on this topic

Please add your comment:

  1. You are currently: a Guest |
  2.  

Basic HTML tags that work in comments are: bold (<b></b>), italic (<i></i>), underline (<u></u>), and hyperlink (<a href></a)

advertisement
advertisement
  • Click Here
  • Click Here
  • Click Here
advertisement