Australian Union of Students

[citation needed] An early president (1940) of the NUAUS was Frank Coaldrake, who was also the founding editor of the pacifist newspaper The Peacemaker, the Chairman of the Australian Board of Missions and, just before his death, the Archbishop-elect of Brisbane.

[4] Julia Gillard, later the 27th Prime Minister of Australia, was elected President of the Australian Union of Students in 1983.

[citation needed] The Black Resource Centre (BRC), established in Melbourne by Cheryl Buchanan in 1975, was supported by the AUS.

[11] Black News Service carried an article about activist and later poet, Lionel Fogarty, then aged 17, in its seventh issue in 1975.

Buchanan was a member of the Black Power movement and was quite militant in her approach, and like many other Aboriginal activists, was watched by ASIO.