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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Vol 35 no. 8. 27 April 1972

Mr P. Cullen, President, W.U.W. Students' Association

Mr P. Cullen,

President, W.U.W. Students' Association.

Dear Mr. Cullen,

Brigadier Gilbert takes the view that as a result of the Hutchison Report any communication between his Service and the University must be through the Vice-Chancellor. As a result he has sent me your letter of 17 April to him together with a note of his replies for communication to you. This letter is therefore to give you those replies and they are as follows:
1.No.
2.There are no members of the Service currently enrolled as University Students.
3.Yes, to the University Authorities concerned.
4.There was consultation in 1967, subsequent to the Hutchison Report between the Service and my predecessor.

There has been no occasion for consultation with the authorities of another University.

Yours sincerely,

Vice-Chancellor

This is an example of the questionnaire the S.S. sends out to people asking them to offer a reference.

Sections 5 and 7 are particularly unsatisfactory. The answers required are not simply yes or no — rather they are concerned with opinion and degree. Any conclusions from these answers are necessarily speculative. If this kind of hearsay information is the basis of the Security files, then these files are even more farcical than the Service itself.