Australian National University Student Association

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

1 Presidents
2 1996 ANU Students' Association elections - the "Wadgate scandal"
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Presidents

1992: Amanda Chadwick
1993: Kath Cummins^{[citation needed]}
1994: Caitlin Wyndham^{[citation needed]}
1995: Hamish McPherson^[1] (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)^[2] ^[3].
1996: William Mackerras
1997: Matt Tinning^[4]
1998: Harry Greenwell^[5]^[6]
1999: Helen Stitt^[7]
2000: Russell Egan^[8]
2001: Maciej Wasilewicz^[9]
2002: Joanne Yin^[10]
2003: Steve Michelson ^[11]
2004: Max Jeganathan^[12]
2005: Aparna Rao^[13]^[14]
2006: Laura Crespo ^[15]
2007: Claudia Newman-Martin ^[16]^[17]
2008: Jamila Helen Rizvi

[edit] 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.^[18] 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: 30/10/96, pp.4747-4750; 05/02/97, pp.125-127; and 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.

[edit] References

^ Students demand, no fees for Degrees. GReen Left Weekly (29 March 1995). Retrieved on 2007-06-16.
^ Minutes of ANU council (will need to be an ANU student to login). ANUSA (8 September 1995). Retrieved on 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 }}
^ Campaigning at ANU in 1997. Green Left Weekly (December 4, 1996). Retrieved on 2007-06-16.
^ Join the campaign against the Indonesian dictatorship!. Green Left Weekly (20 May 1998). Retrieved on 2007-06-16.
^ Will Williams (May 27, 1998). Angry ANU students storm dean's office. Green Left Weekly. Retrieved on 2007-06-16.
^ "Review of the Careers and Employment Centre" (February 17, 1999). ANU Reporter 30 (1).
^ Minutes of Meeting: No., 2000. Parking Reference Group, Facilities and Services Division, ANU (2000). Retrieved on 2007-07-26.
^ Minutes of Meeting: No. 1, 2001. Parking Reference Group, Facilities and Services Division, ANU (2001). Retrieved on 2007-07-26.
^ Minutes. ANU Academic Board (July 24, 2002). Retrieved on 2007-06-16.
^ Students lobby to defeat Govt's tertiary reform plan. ABC (November 29, 2003). Retrieved on 2007-06-16.
^ Minutes: Meeting No. 2, 2004. University committee on Information Strategy Policy, ANU (2004). Retrieved on 2007-06-16.
^ 16 March 2005. ANUSA (March 16, 2005). Retrieved on 2007-06-16.
^ "Letters", The Australian, May 25, 2005.
^ "ANU supporting student union under VSU", ABC, September 1, 2006.
^ Emma Macdonald. "Students shocked at Labor's union policy", The Canberra Times, May 23, 2007. Retrieved on 2007-06-16.
^ Minutes of Meeting No.5, 2006. University Education Committee, ANU (September 25, 2006). Retrieved on 2007-06-16.
^ Martin Iltis (2 October 1996). ANU student election results. Retrieved on 2007-06-16.