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[unclear: Education] may seem the obvious thing [unclear: reting] like Council to discuss. How-[unclear: was] not always been like this. [unclear: Coun-e] a habit of getting bogged down in and then there is seldom any [unclear: ity] about anything. This disunity [unclear: laps] been best expressed by the [unclear: I] threats being made by Canterbury out of NZUSA. These threats have essential for NZUSA to prove that efficient, functioning group.'

[unclear: The] year therefore represents a watershed association, and the mood at the [unclear: begi-f] council was that this meeting would [unclear: ake] or break us. In one of those [unclear: per-ists] of fate, the National government's tacks on society in general and [unclear: stu-particular] provided us with just the [unclear: int] we needed.

[unclear: The] attacks are of course the massive, [unclear: ne] board cuts in education spending on the cards. If NZUSA can rise to [unclear: lenge] and defeat these attacks, then [unclear: ve] truly justified its claim to defend [unclear: s] of students. Its success or failure [unclear: e] future to show, but if we are to [unclear: su-] will take the combined efforts of [unclear: mber] of NZUSA, which is every on every campus in the country.