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Student General Meetings: Then and now
Examining the role of student unionism in political action. Sydney University student and anti-apartheid protestor Meredith Burgmann dragged along the ground by police at the Sydney Cricket Ground during the 1971 South African Springboks rugby union tour of Australia. Photograph: News Ltd/Newspix
April 21, 2021
The wind is well and truly back in the sails of the student climate movement. On 28 April, at 4pm, USyd Enviro Collective members and President Swapnik Sanagavarapu will convene the third Student General Meeting in USyd’s history and the first, as
Honi reported, to focus on environmental demands.
The notion of a Student General Meeting (SGM) goes to the core of student democracy and unionism, and this year it presents a powerful opportunity to fight back against the University’s complacency in climate destruction. It marries the sometimes staid bureaucracy of student unions with the very pressing clim