Tag: LifeChoice
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NUS backdoor deals result a step back for women’s rights
Following accusations of vote rigging and corruption in 2009, the peak body representing Australian university students, The National Union of Students’ decision to block discussion on abortion decriminalization at its National Conference held late last year has sparked outrage amongst many female students. Labor-Right’s Mikaela Wangmann, a member of the hard-line Christian socially-conservative faction of…
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Letters
Three Issues and an Affiliation Later As a concerned student, I wonder how LifeChoice UNSW gets its funding, and why lunatics like this are funded in the first place. I am aware that they are anti-abortion, which is fine, everyone is entitled to their opinion, but they have posted articles saying that rape is irrelevant…
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SDC declines LifeChoice affiliation
The Student Development Committee (SDC) declined to affiliate controversial pro-life club LifeChoice last week, in a meet held in camera. LifeChoice UNSW was forced to hold a second Inaugural Annual General Meeting after it originally failed to give adequate notification to the SDC.
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Letter from USYD: LifeChoice USYD Holds Inaugural Forum
LifeChoice USYD – the controversial anti-abortion society – held their first event on campus on August 9, a seminar on the value of life and the evils of euthanasia. While the lecture hall was well attended and the speaker, Dr. John Obeid, talked for an hour, it quickly became clear that rather than facilitating debate,…
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Letters
Lockouts Should Be Considered in the Cross Osman Faruqi’s column “Alcohol & Violence” (Vol. 58, No. 10) makes some good points about Kings Cross and alcohol-related violence, especially in regard to drinking culture, venues and the availability of late-night transport. However it appears Faruqi has misinterpreted a study into venue lockout policies and is relying…
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Opinion: Real Choice, Not LifeChoice
Proponents of the controversial new anti-abortion club on campus, LifeChoice, were up in arms at the colourful reception their society received. Claiming free speech, Anna Fernon and Louisa Bonaventura decried the petition that is trying to stop the club affiliating with Arc, the student organisation.