Australian National University Student Association

ANU Student Association is the student association of Australian National University.

Presidents

* 1992: Amanda Chadwick
* 1993: Kath Cumminsfact|date=July 2007
* 1994: Caitlin Wyndhamfact|date=July 2007
* 1995: Hamish McPherson [cite web | url = http://www.greenleft.org.au/1995/181/12332| title = Students demand, no fees for Degrees | date = 1995-03-29 | work = GReen Left Weekly | accessdate = 2007-06-16 ] (removed by ANU Council because he had dropped out of uni, and was no longer a student, and replaced by Craig Cork and then Pip Bolding) [cite web | url = http://www.anu.edu.au.virtual.anu.edu.au/cabs/council/minutes/1995/cmin0995.html| title = Minutes of ANU council (will need to be an ANU student to login) | date = 1995-09-08 | work = ANUSA | accessdate = 2007-06-16 ] [Some more astute Woroni observers noted McPherson was little more than a homeless man occupying the student office| date = 8 September 1995 | work = ANUSA | accessdate = 2007-06-16 ] .
* 1996: William Mackerras
* 1997: Matt Tinning [cite web | url = http://www.greenleft.org.au/article.php/article.php?id=12907 | title = Campaigning at ANU in 1997 | date = 1996-12-04 | work = Green Left Weekly | accessdate = 2007-06-16 ]
* 1998: Harry Greenwell [cite web | url = http://www.greenleft.org.au/article.php/article.php?id=21269 | title = Join the campaign against the Indonesian dictatorship! | date = 1998-05-20 | work = Green Left Weekly | accessdate = 2007-06-16 ] [cite web | url = http://www.greenleft.org.au/article.php/article.php?id=21159 | title =Angry ANU students storm dean's office | author = Will Williams | date = 1998-05-27 | work = Green Left Weekly | accessdate = 2007-06-16 ]
* 1999: Helen Stitt [cite journal | url = http://info.anu.edu.au/mac/Newsletters_and_Journals/ANU_Reporter/_pdf/vol_30_no_01.pdf | title = Review of the Careers and Employment Centre | journal = ANU Reporter | volume = 30 | issue = 1 | date = February 17, 1999 | accessdate = 2007-07-26 ]
* 2000: Russell Egan [cite web | url = http://www.anu.edu.au/facilities/parking_reference_group/may00_prgmins.html | title = Minutes of Meeting: No., 2000 | work = Parking Reference Group, Facilities and Services Division, ANU | year = 2000 | accessdate = 2007-07-26 ]
* 2001: Maciej Wasilewicz [cite web | url = http://www.anu.edu.au/facilities/parking_reference_group/may01_prgmins.html | title = Minutes of Meeting: No. 1, 2001 | work = Parking Reference Group, Facilities and Services Division, ANU | year = 2001 | accessdate = 2007-07-26 ]
* 2002: Joanne Yin [cite web | url = http://info.anu.edu.au/OVC/Committees/020PP_Academic_Board/_2002/_Jul02/min0702.pdf | title = Minutes | date = 2002-07-24 | work = ANU Academic Board | accessdate = 2007-06-16 ]
* 2003: Steve Michelson [cite web | url = http://www.abc.net.au/act/news/200311/s999981.htm | date = 2003-11-29 | title = Students lobby to defeat Govt's tertiary reform plan | work = ABC | accessdate = 2007-06-16 ]
* 2004: Max Jeganathan [cite web | title = Minutes: Meeting No. 2, 2004 | year = 2004 | work = University committee on Information Strategy Policy, ANU | url = http://www.anu.edu.au/cabs/UC_Information_Strategy_Policy/meetings/mtg2/minutesmtg2.pdf | accessdate = 2007-06-16 ]
* 2005: Aparna Rao [cite web | url = http://sa.anu.edu.au/index.php?module=content&contentID=168 | title = 16 March 2005 | date = 2005-03-16 | work = ANUSA | accessdate = 2007-06-16 ] [cite news | title = Letters | date = 2005-05-25 | work = The Australian ]
* 2006: Laura Crespo [cite news | url = http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200609/s1730342.htm | title = ANU supporting student union under VSU | date = 2006-09-01 | work = ABC ]
* 2007: Claudia Newman-Martin [cite news | url = http://canberra.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=general&story_id=587646&category=General | date = 2007-05-23 | title = Students shocked at Labor's union policy | author = Emma Macdonald | work = The Canberra Times | accessdate = 2007-06-16 ] [cite web | url = http://info.anu.edu.au/OVC/Committees/040PP_Education/_uecmtg5_2006/minuecmtg5sep06.pdf | title = Minutes of Meeting No.5, 2006 | work = University Education Committee, ANU | date = 2006-09-25 | accessdate = 2007-06-16 ]
*2008: Jamila Helen Rizvi
*2009: Sham Sara

1996 ANU Students' Association elections - the "Wadgate scandal"

The 1996 ANU Students' Association elections saw the the losing Labor right "Rage" ticket embroiled in scandal. 146 votes for the "Rage" presidential candidate Daniel Jenkins were excluded by the Returning Officer after allegations of ballot stuffing. [cite web | url = http://www.greenleft.org.au/1996/249/13361 | title = ANU student election results | date = 1996-10-02 | author = Martin Iltis | accessdate = 2007-06-16 ] The fraud was discovered when a student sitting in a cafe saw a voter attempt to stuff a wad of ballots into the ballot box. When the Returning Officer opened the ballot box, five wads of ballots were found, all of which gave their first preference to Jenkins.

The scandal was dubbed "Wadgate" by the student newspaper Woroni and was subsequently reported on the front page of the Canberra Times (05/02/97) and elsewhere. It was also raised at least three times in the Australian Senate by Sen. Eric Abetz (Senate Hansard: [http://www.aph.gov.au/HANSARD/senate/dailys/ds301096.pdf 30/10/96, pp.4747-4750] ; [http://www.aph.gov.au/HANSARD/senate/dailys/ds050297.pdf 05/02/97, pp.125-127] ; and [http://www.aph.gov.au/Hansard/senate/dailys/ds230697.pdf 23/06/97, pp.4929-31] ).

As it happens, the winning presidential candidate, Matt Tinning, from the "Counter Attack" ticket, secured enough votes that he would have won even if the fraudulent votes had not been excluded.

References

External links

* [http://sa.anu.edu.au/ Website]