Politics
From the mid-1960s the SRC has been at the centre of student activism in Australia. Most activist groupings in the National Union of Students have a presence at Sydney University, such as National Labor Students, Centre Unity (Labor Right), the Greens, Grassroots Left and several factions of the Liberals, although since 2010 there has been a noted absence of the Socialist Alternative on campus.
Since 2000 the SRC has been controlled by what is now National Labor Students (formerly the National Organisation of Labor Students), the student arm of Labor's Socialist Left. Prior to that, from the late 1980s until 1997, the SRC was controlled by the Left Alliance, a former NUS faction made up of a coalition of students to the left of Labor such as Socialist Alternative, Grassroots Left style groupings and what would later become Solidarity.
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