To the Honourable the Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives assembled in the Parliament. We the undersigned students of the University of Western Sydney, Nepean, residents of the State of New South Wales, draw to the attention of the House several grievances concerning lack of facilities and resources on the campuses of the University of Western Sydney, Nepean, namely:

The libraries are grossly inadequate according to the minimum standards set for single campus Colleges of Advanced Education by ACAE. As we are a multi-campus University, with the resulting need for research materials and duplication, this inadequacy is even more dramatic.

The time frame for the construction of the infrastructure joining the Werrington and Kingswood precincts of the Kingswood campus, the buildings on Westmead North campus and the new library at Kingswood is such that at least two generations of students will pass through before there is any feeling of belonging to a University. Students are currently studying on building sites.

Your petitioners therefore ask the House to immediately approve a seeding grant of one hundred million dollars ($100 million), as per the submission delivered to the office of the Minister for Employment, Education and Training, and reconsider the level of per capita funding for the University in the 1990 budget deliberations.