Functions
The SRC focuses its work on lobbying the university to uphold student rights and maintain fair and accessible education, rather than directly providing services. This sets it apart from the University of Sydney Union, which administers Clubs and Societies, provides food services, and runs the Manning, Holme and Wentworth buildings. However, the SRC does exercise control over certain student services: its caseworkers give free advice on legal issues, Centrelink and conflicts between students and university administration, and it runs a second-hand bookshop. It also publishes Honi Soit, Australia's only remaining weekly student newspaper, as well as Growing Strong, the Women's handbook and the Orientation Handbook.
The SRC is also home to broader political campaigns organised around its mass-member collectives, which are highly involved in the movements for free speech, free education, women's and queer liberation and compulsory student unionism. It has collectives in the areas of Education, Women's, Queer, Environment, Humanitarian Aid and Anti-Racism, and co-ordinates its activism with the National Union of Students.
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