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Student Unionism: Should it be Compulsory or Voluntary?

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brendan:
Should joining the student union and hence paying the membership fee, be voluntary or compulsory? What do you think?

Collin Li:
You should know better than to have only compulsory or voluntary, what about "up to the universities"?

Haha. My vote goes to voluntary.

enwiabe:
It's a tough decision. On the one hand, student unions do great work and provide many useful services to students. They get poor funding and any boost is a good thing.

On the other hand, the fee itself is not affordable for a significant proportion of people and on that merit alone I do not believe it should be compulsory. I think unionism needs a bit more from the government, to be honest, and not from the pockets of cash-strapped students.

brendan:

--- Quote from: "coblin" ---You should know better than to have only compulsory or voluntary, what about "up to the universities"?

Haha. My vote goes to voluntary.
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I'd put that option up if the Commonwealth government was to give up its quota system of allocating CSP places, and give universities more price flexibility to allow the proper working of the price mechanism in allocating resources efficiently.

brendan:

--- Quote from: "enwiabe" ---I think unionism needs a bit more from the government
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Hold on. Where does government get its revenue from? From us, the Australian people by the use of state coercion to compell the payment of taxes. But which is the more obnoxious: a compulsory fee paid by people who choose to attend university? or coercing everyone in Australia to pay for the student union services of people who choose to go to unversity?

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