New Union

The New Zealand University Student's Association's May Council unanimously agreed to the establishment of an Australia - New Zealand Students' Association, ANZSA. Mr David Cuthbert, President of the 36,000 member New Zealand University Students' Association and Mr Ken Newcombe, President of the 150,000 member Australian Union of Students, presented the council with the basis for this new regional cooperative organisation which may ultimately expand to include tertiary students within the to include tertiary students within the whole South Pacific region.

This new joint cooperation will be particularly valuable in opposition to apartheid and racism in Southern Africa. Both NZUSA and AUS have equivalent policy on this matter and AUS's experience in nonviolently disrupting the South African Springbok tour of Australia last year which led to the cancellation of the proposed Springbok Cricket tour of that country, will be of particular value to NZUSA and HART when planning activities to prevent the proposed all white Springbok tour of New Zealand in 1973.

From Discussions between the Associations there was a considerable range of political activities in which both Association's held identical policies in which valuable cooperation can occur on both sides of the Tasman to achieve the ends desired by both organisations.

In particular NZUSA has been able to offer AUS valuable advice in the recent past on such issues as American military bases and other installations and methods of opposition to them and questions related to educational reform.