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Compulsory Politics

       Friday, March 18, 2005

Many people are arguing that no student union means no services. But this is a swift argument. Nobody is going to object to charges for material services. Most people won't even object to being charged for a set of services, not all of which they use.

What we don't normally do in a free country (except in the case of the ABC) is to have compulsory payments for organisations that are blatantly, one-sidedly, political.

Philip O'Carroll