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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 17, No. 3. March 18, 1953

Australia-Overseas Clubs

Australia-Overseas Clubs

From what I have written of the background, you can see that the interest of Australian students in this area is easily aroused. This interest is cultivated even more by the high quality of the students who are going to study in Australia. This is, of course, is equally true of the many fine Asian and Pacific students in this country. At the Council, one of the people present in the capacity of an observer from the Adelaide University was Malayan economics [unclear: tu-dent] Chek Juan Choo. This in itself was evidence of the part that these students are playing in Australian student life and is also evidence of the way that they and Australian students generally are mixing together.

This mixing together is encouraged in some of the Australian universities through the formation of what are known as Australia-Overseas Clubs. The purpose of these clubs is to bring overseas and Australian students together not only socially, but also for the purpose of hearing lectures, visiting factories and institutions and so on. In West Australia, the Club flourishes on the basis that there must be not more than 50 per cent. Australian or 50 per cent. Asian membership. A similar club, although not with this provision, also exists in Melbourne where an International House Appeal is at present being carried on. It was momentarily surprising to walk along Swanston Street in Melbourne and see a poster on the Town Hall advertising the fact that an overseas artist was to give a recital shortly in aid of the Melbourne University International House Appeal.