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The yearly ritual of Guild elections has begun. The next thirteen days will decide who sits on the 112th Guild Council and directs the Guild’s policy and resources for the next year.

The National Union of Students is intended to be the national advocacy body for student unions like UWA’s Guild, bringing together each university’s student union to form a single body that can speak on the national stage. However, the NUS has faced sustained criticism for years for its entrenched and volatile factionalism, abuse and misconduct by delegates, and ineffectiveness.

The release of candidate lists for the upcoming Guild election confirms the demise of what was the foundation of UWA student politics: STAR is no more.

For the first time in 10 years, the NUS held its annual Education Conference in Perth. Being hosted by our neighbours at Curtin University, several members of the UWA Student Guild Council attended. The majority of us were eager to hear from other students about the problems they face on their own campuses and the solutions they put in place for lessons we could apply. Instead, we were met with incessant fighting between different political factions.