Left, right, out: The battle to save the centre on university campuses | AnnaPattySMH
Pratham Gupta is proud of his working-class migrant background, but he says in the heat of a polarised political climate on university campuses, students cannot understand why he is president of the Liberal Club.
Gupta said he was unable to get enough people to run with him on a centre-right ticket in the elections for the student representative council this year. “This year we didn’t have any centre-right ticket running for the SRC at all,” he said. “There were only two tickets this year – centre-left and socialist left.”
“My parents came to Australia and had to start from scratch. They got jobs and paid their taxes and spent what they earned and understood the value of not being in debt. I believe we should have lower national debt and excellent economic standing.” Price said left-wing tickets continued to hold the majority of positions at her university and at the University of Sydney.contacted the University of NSW Socialist Alternative group, which attracted headlines when it held a meeting earlier this year called “It’s good that the Queen is dead”, but it declined to comment.
“If you actively buy into and spruik yourself as the face of a political party that has a fair bit to answer for in the eyes of a lot of students and is pretty unpopular with young people at large, you should probably expect some blowback from those people you study alongside. But that doesn’t really seem to deter conservative students on campus anyway,” she said.Perkins described the Grassroots ticket as left-leaning and independent.
University of Sydney Liberal Club president and law student David Zhu said the far-left group on campus delivered its message in a way that was “very overpowering perhaps to the exclusion of more civilised discourse”.
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