The Adelaide University Union (AUU) was founded in 1895. The AUU currently funds six affiliated bodies. These include the Adelaide University Student Representative Council (SRC), Student Care, the Clubs Association (CA), the Roseworthy Agricultural Campus Student Union Council (RACSUC), and the Waite Institute Students’ Association (WISA). In 2008 the AUU Board disaffiliated the now defunct Students' Association of the University of Adelaide (SAUA), which was replaced by the SRC. After the introduction of Voluntary Student Unionism, the AUU found itself in financial difficulties. This was addressed in early 2008, when the University of Adelaide signed a Funding Agreement to fund the AUU for the next ten years in return for the AUU relinquishing all its commercial operations to the University. In 2009, the Adelaide University Sports Association, previously an affiliate of the Union, began the process of disaffiliation from the AUU, having secured a separate funding agreement with the University.
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