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Left Alliance went through a trough in the mid-1990s as the NAL became entrenched as the dominant non-ALP grouping within the student movement. Left Alliance began to grow again in 1996 when the Liberal/National Coalition was re-elected federally, recruiting many of the core organisers of the 1996-1997 campaigns against the new government's higher education reforms. By 1998, Left Alliance was once again the dominant non-ALP grouping within the student movement and National Union of Students. However, its turbulent history had left it with many contradictions, the chief being its attempt to be a broad left grouping (its original purpose) at the same time as being a political organisation with a defined radical position (its actual nature after 1992 or so). These contradictions led to major conflicts within the group, which polarised between a pro-leadership grouping and a NSW-based internal faction called the Libertarian Communist Collective (later Love and Rage). As a result of these conflicts, Love and Rage split from Left Alliance in early 1999 and initiated the process of creating the National Broad Left . NUS National Office Bearers from Left Alliance, 1987-1999 1999 Women's - Geneveive Derwent - University of Technology, Sydney 1998 Education - Katrina Curry - University of Sydney 1997 Education - Jackie Lynch - Latrobe University Women's - Gemma Pinnell - Monash University, Clayton (left NAL for LA mid-1997) Environment - Mat Fagan - Southern Cross University, Lismore (left NAL for LA mid-1997) 1996 None 1995 Environment - Kirsten O'Brien - James Cook University, Townsville (left NAL for LA mid-1995) 1994 None 1993 Education - Toby Borgeest - University of Melbourne 1992 Education - Rob Houghton - Flinders University 1991 General Secretary - Nicole Asquith - University of Melbourne 1990 None 1989 Education - Kiri Evans Women's - Miranda Saunders - University of Melbourne 1988 ? |
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