The Left Alliance was an Australian organisation of socialist, feminist, and progressive students that flourished in the 1980s and 1990s.
Resistance and the DSP opposed participation in the National Union of Students, which had been formed in 1987, on the grounds that it was dominated by the Australian Labor Party, and in December 1988, Resistance left the Left Alliance.
[3] For much of the 1990s, the Left Alliance dominated the University of Sydney Students' Representative Council; one of its members, Heidi Norman, became the first indigenous SRC President in 1994.
[4] In 1995, the Left Alliance at the University of Sydney produced Racism sux: an anti-racist handbook.
[6] Adam Bandt, who was a Left Alliance member at Murdoch University, later became an MP and leader of the Australian Greens.