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with no background in the environment movement, was elected as the NEO. This experience, combined with decreasing support by the NUS leadership for the activities and very existence of the NUS Environment
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The issue of ASEN's relationship to NUS has been debated a lot within the network. At the end of 2005 it was proposed that ASEN should be officially recognised by NUS as the national environment department. This was rejected by NUS. In 2006 NUS Environment
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campaigns. In 2012 ANU's environment collective began a divestment campaign which led the broader ASEN network to begin a national campaign known as "Lock The Campus" which later formed the "Fossil Free
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ASEN runs campaigns to stop the expansion of Australia's coal and Coal Seam Gas (CSG) industries, because of their destructive effect on the climate, the land and community health. As of 2015 ASEN members are involved in most anti-coal and anti-gas projects and campaigns in Australia.
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conference as its highest decision-making body. Every SoS there was usually one or two 'ASEN' meetings where people tried to get the national network more organised. In 1997, numerous ASEN campaign email lists were established; few of these ever became active discussion forums.
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Students of Sustainability is an annual conference usually held on a university campus during the winter break (July). Since ASEN was created by the 1997 Townsville Students of Sustainability conference, the national network has helped to organise the conference each year.
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Eli Greig had not been). This practice lapsed in 2004, but was resurrected, hopefully permanently, for 2006 with the election of Holly Creenaune as ASEN National Coordinator, and Danya Bryx (also an active ASEN participant) as NUS National Environment Officer.
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In 2013/14 several state networks set up working groups to discuss and self-educate around just transitions. From 2014 onwards ASEN members in Victoria have become more active in EarthWorker co-operative and other just transitions projects.
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resolutions session establishing the Australian Student Environment Network. It was inspired by the rise of state-based cross-campus student environment networks, which has always existed but which were revitalised with the creation of the
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ASEN is an Australia-wide network of students active on environmental and social justice issues. ASEN links together a fluctuating group of around 38 university environment collectives and five state-based networks around Australia.
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of ASEN. Nevertheless, these problems were not too serious so long as the NEO happened to come from the grassroots and have a commitment to taking direction in practice from ASEN. This was the case until 2001, when a member of the
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Many proposals for renewing ASEN were put forward, including by Matt Skellern and also by Daniel Beaver, a prominent Novocastrian forest activist. Several ASEN campaign working groups were established at the January 2003 meeting.
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convergence in Townsville. People from ASEN facilitate communication between environment collectives and co-ordinate national projects and campaigns. ASEN is particularly known for cultivating
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