AUSA Politics Week
Media Release – For Immediate Use
AUSA Politics Week
Every year the Auckland University Students
Association invites MPs and organisations onto campus for a
week of debates, discussion and
deliberation.
"Politics Week 2012 will actually be one
to remember,” said University of Auckland student Sarah R
Thompson, 19. “There are events for all people along the
political spectrum, and a huge variety of contemporary and
controversial issues to be discussed. I for one am really
excited, as hopefully it will serve to engage the largely
politically disinterested Auckland Student
Body."
Politics Week will be held this week from the
1st to the 5th of October. All events are easily accessible
for students in the City Campus.
There are over twenty
events in a single week. Highlights this year include a
Marriage Equality debate between MP Louisa Wall and Colin
Craig and a “Mini Back Benches” with Wallace Chapman at
our very own Shadows Bar. Students can also expect a variety
of stalls, including free food from a ‘kiwi’ barbeque in
the quad and fair-trade coffee from Oxfam.
“This
year AUSA tried really hard to reach out to as many students
as possible. It is also amazing the contribution and unique
ideas which I have received from clubs,” said Max Lin,
National Affairs Officer of the Auckland University Students
Association.
This year not only external groups are
involved but our own clubs have a very strong
presence.
“Amnesty on campus is doing a workshop,
Red Cross NZ is promoting their campaign Make Nuclear
Weapons the Target, and the Sustainability Network has a
vegan lunch and documentary. Every major political party in
New Zealand is also involved in some way. Students and clubs
are making this their week.”
The week will also be
visited by a long list of MPs, including MP David Cunliffe,
MP Nikki Kaye and MP Jacinda Ardern, who will all come on
campus to meet students and do their own
presentations.
There is also an international focus,
including a protest condemning the human rights abuses in
Syria and another against the unjustified imprisonment of
Pussy Riot in Russia.
The week begins at 10am on the
Monday 1st of October, where all the stalls go up in the
quad.
All events can be found here,
http://www.facebook.com/events/508026975891337/?ref=ts
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