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President
  
Beatrice Tan

Treasurer
  
Lachlan Barker

General secretary
  
Luke Chapman

UTS Students' Association

Motto
  
Our Voice. Our Way. Our SA.

Institution
  
The University of Technology Sydney

Location
  
Level 3, UTS Tower Building 1 Broadway BROADWAY NSW 2007

The University of Technology, Sydney, Students' Association is the representative body for students at the University of Technology, Sydney. It is based at the Broadway campus of UTS. It commissions the student magazine Vertigo. The Association has departments which have previously worked collaboratively with the University to achieve practical outcomes for students, as well as ensuring that the University is held to account over its handling of student issues. Historically, this has resulted in numerous successful campaigns which have won rights for students in the University.

Contents

Executive

The executive for 2016 are:

Wom*n's

The Wom*n's department creates a space and community for female identifying persons. This includes a Wom*n's Space at two of the Campuses: Broadway and Kuring-gai.

Indigenous

The Indigenous Collective is a group exclusively for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students. The Collective meets weekly and works alongside, but independent of, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning. Founded in 2012, they do not have a space but run campaigns surrounding Indigenous issues and have been an active political and pastoral component of the Students' Association since their inception.

Queer

The Queer department runs campaigns for LGBTIQ students on campus and maintains a Queer Space at two of the Campuses - Broadway and Kuring-Gai. Campaigns include anti-homophobia campaigns, student safety campaigns and collaborating with Community Action Against Homophobia on actions around equal marriage, queer refugees and police brutality and works with the Out2Party club on social events.

Environmental

Affiliated to the Australian Student Environment Network, the environmental Collective is focused on green activism and campaigns like 'Flick my Switch' and 'Fossil Free University' as well as environmental campaigns off campus.

DAGs (Disability Action Group)

Opened to students who suffer physical, mental and/or emotional disability, and debatably, open to carers of people with disabilities. The group operates without a space, but cooperates with many internal UTS sectors to ensure students with disabilities receive adequate support. The group also campaigns around larger abilities awareness projects.

Welfare

The welfare collective is opened to all students, but has in the past been asked to be the main organising body for students from low socio-economic backgrounds. The collective aims to help students by providing food, how2life workshops, which were very successful in 2013. These workshops have covered topics like cooking 101, renting how to, and fair wage/your rights.

Past elected presidents

  • 1966 - N. H. Clarke
  • 1967 - N. H. Clarke
  • 1968 - Eric Mobbs
  • 1969 - Jim Kosturas
  • 1970 - J. Osbourne
  • 1971 -
  • 1972 - John Bornholt
  • 1973 - John Bornholt
  • 1974 - Joe Battaglia
  • 1975 - Chris Lee
  • 1976 - Geoff Redelman
  • 1977 - Leon Waxman
  • 1978 - Ken Street
  • 1979 - Neville Zell (Russell Tuckwell)
  • 1980 - Joe Keogh
  • 1981 - Steve Mack
  • 1982 - Steve Mack
  • 1983 - Fiona Seaton
  • 1984 - Steve Driver
  • 1985 - Russel Jacobs/Jocelyn Aldis
  • 1986 - Rob Ingui
  • 1987 - Ian Handley
  • 1988 - Steve Lewis
  • 1989 - Fey Akindoyeni
  • 1990 - Karen McGee
  • 1991 - Ben Oquist (Green UTS)
  • 1992 - Lisa Brockwell
  • 1993 - Georgina Young
  • 1994 - Peter O'Brien
  • 1995 - Cass Bennett (Left Alliance)
  • 1996 - Louise Boon-Kuo (Left Alliance)
  • 1997 - Holly Cutcher (Left Alliance)
  • 1998 - Genevieve Derwent (Left Alliance)
  • 1999 - Gabriela Zannoni (National Broad Left - Love and Rage)
  • 2000 - Ryan Heath (National Organisation of Labor Students)
  • 2001 - Jessica Gerrard (National Broad Left - Love and Rage)
  • 2002 - Ashleigh May (National Broad Left)
  • 2003 - Caroline Vu (National Broad Left)
  • 2004 - Rebekah Doran (National Broad Left)
  • 2005 - Michelle Sparks (National Broad Left)
  • 2006 - Michael Nguyen (National Labor Students)
  • 2007 - Darren Loasby (National Labor Students)
  • 2008 - Emma Lancaster (National Labor Students)
  • 2009 - Petra McNeilly Rutledge (National Labor Students)
  • 2010 - Rachael Durrant (National Labor Students)
  • 2011 - Neha Madhok (National Labor Students)
  • 2012 - Jade Tyrrell (National Labor Students)
  • 2013 - Lyndal Butler (National Labor Students)
  • 2014 - Andrea Zephyr (Grassroots Left)
  • 2015 - Dean Mattar (National Labor Students, previously Grassroots Left)
  • 2016 - Sammy Howes (Independent, previously Student Unity)
  • 2017 - Beatrice Tan (Student Unity)
  • References

    UTS Students' Association Wikipedia