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Salient. Official Newspaper of Victoria University of Wellington Students Association. Vol 40 No. 25. September 26 1977

[Introduction]

(This article has been contributed by a Salient reader who was present at the conference, held just out of Sydney. It la, of course, very encouraging to the editor to note how Salient is read in Australia).

OSS is the common abbreviation for the name of the organisation of which the full title is National Overseas Students Service of the Australian Union of Students. It is the department of ANS which has the responsibility of dealing with the concerns of overseas students, and to this end, its annual conference is composed of a representative of the overseas students on each campus, together with representatives of various national groupings.

This year's conference was held at a camp between Sydney and Wollongong. This year it was decided that OSS should make use of the resources of the overseas students at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney, where there is a particularly large number of overseas students (between 1,000 and 1,500), and a full-time OSS Director on that Campus.

Much of the first day of the conference, after opening speeches had been given by the two representatives from New Zealand, was taken up with a review of the previous year's activities. Initially discussion centred around the report of the Director, B.S. Ang, but it later moved to consideration of the reports from the Overseas Students Service groups on different campuses around Australia, and then finally on to the subject of the relationship between AUS and OSS. Because of the importance of this relationship, and its significance for the conference as a whole, this is worth discussing at some length.