Women's rights
Campaigns focusing on women's rights have also been a focus with the release of the Women's Action Plan which identified debt as a key issue for women.
NZUSA’s campaign for the government to immediately introduce a living allowance for all full-time students is intensifying in 2006. more...
The student movement has focused a significant amount of it's activism and campaigning on fees following the fourth Labour Government's introduction of a $1250 flat tutition fee in 1990. more...
Every Thursday people around the world are invited to wear black as a symbol of strength and courage, representing our solidarity with victims of violence, demanding a world without rape and violence. more..
The result of funding cuts in our tertiary sector over the last 25 years, and the imposition of a competitive market in public tertiary education, has led to the emergence of and continued increase in tuition fees. The more students are asked to fork out to pay fees to fund our public tertiary education, the more our tertiary system essentially becomes privatised. more...