Your SRC and the University

Life at University isn’t always smooth. The Students’ Representative Council (SRC), run by students for students since 1929, offers undergraduate students free membership, confidential advice, affordable books, emergency loans and more.

Get help

SRC caseworkers can help you with academic appeals and queries, tenancy, concession, work-related problems and many other issues.

Our Legal service can provide you with advice and representation on most legal matters.

SRC Books is the only second-hand bookshop on campus where you can sell your old text books and get your new ones at low cost. 

And a $50 emergency loan from the SRC can help out if your funds need a boost. Come visit or call the SRC for more details.

Get involved

If you’re passionate about issues that relate to University life and beyond, you can get involved in the SRC in several ways:

* Run in the annual SRC elections for the positions in the SRC Council and Executive.

* Join one of the SRC’s collectives, which campaign and provide space and resources to student communities. These include:

-     Education Action Group

-       Environment Collective 

-       Women’s Collective

-       Queer Collective

-       Anti-Racism Collective

-       Indigenous Collective

* Contribute to student publications, including Honi Soit, the SRC's weekly student newspaper, which showcases the talents of editors, writers and artists of all shades.

Know Your Rights

Your time at the University should
give you some of the best days of your life. Even so, it’s important that you
know and protect your rights.

Most students have to work in order to support themselves.
At university you can expect to work in excess of 16 hours a week on top of
your studies, as you struggle to pay for rent and living expenses. You should
be aware that your workload will inevitably affect your marks. You should also
know that your Faculty may not be sympathetic.

The SRC is here to protect your rights. You might not think
you’ll ever need the SRC, or that the SRC concerns you. But the SRC is here to
know your rights, even when you don’t.

Know Your SRC

 For 80 years, the SRC has been a representative voice for
students, and has had input into university decision-making. We bring your
concerns to the table. We make the University aware when your needs aren’t
being met.

So come talk to us. We’re your SRC.