Following the collapse of the National Liaison Committee for International Students in Australia in 2008,[1][2] international students lacked a legitimate and credible national representative body to advocate on their behalf.
In July 2010, 52 student, ethnic and community organisations gathered in Hobart, Tasmania to formally constitute a new peak representative organisation, CISA, at an Inaugural General Meeting (IGM).
[3] The IGM was the culmination of two years of discussion among representative bodies and international students.
The 2010 Forum was hosted at the University of Tasmania and coincided with the Education Conference of the National Union of Students.
Around 80 international student representatives attended, from all states and all levels of post-secondary education.