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To: All ANU Students
Save the Environment Collective
ANUSA is trying to abolish the Environment Collective, despite over 50 years of environmental and other activism. But they can't unilaterally abolish it - they need to have a vote of all students in an Ordinary General Meeting in Week 6. Signing this petition will let ANUSA know that there are plenty of students who will come along to this meeting to save the EC!
Why is this important?
The Environment Collective has been strident and effective for many years. In 2012, the Environment Collective’s campaigning convinced the ANU to divest from unethical fossil fuel company Metgasco, the first divestment of its kind among universities in Australia. In 2013, our campaigning was able to get the ANU to create a Socially Responsible Investments Policy and throughout the 2010s our advocacy made the ANU improve that policy. In 2019 and in the early 2020s, we ran large climate strikes and protests on campus which achieved huge media coverage around the country. In 2024, we contributed to a campaign that successfully led the ANU to ban investment in small arms and controversial weapons.
Unfortunately, despite our record of success, some leaders in ANUSA, which controls and funds us, are pushing to abolish the Environment Collective partly because of opposition to the Collective’s political activism in the past. This is despite the fact that Environment Collective is a democratic body that any student can participate in.
Why do they want students to vote to cripple environmental activism in a time of climate crisis?