The ACT party’s Freedom of Association bill – heading into its final stages in Parliament – could destroy student unions as we know them.

JONATHAN CHILTON-TOWLE talks to both sides of a debate about the world’s last surviving compulsory unions.

NewsWire poll shows select committee decision supported.

The revelation that $1 million in cash and assets has disappeared from Whitireia Independent Students’ Association is a tragedy, says ACT MP Sir Roger Douglas.

His private member’s bill to make association membership optional is currently before a Parliamentary select committee.