Unity News

This collection contains Unity News of the Sydney Technical College Union.

When the New South Wales University of Technology (NSWUT) commenced operations in 1949, there were two student journals covering student activities. 

One was Unilogic, the journal of the Society of Students, formed in 1949, which drew its members from the university's degree course students. The first issue of Unilogic was released in 1950.

The other was Unity News, the journal of the longer established Sydney Technical College Union, which covered the Sydney Technical College's diploma students and diplomates. From February 1951, the university conducted on the College's behalf any of its diploma courses that were in the same field as the university's degree courses. 

Once the university began to administer the College's diploma courses, the Society of Students and the Sydney Technical College Union decided to merge their activities and form a single student organisation.

As a result, after prolonged discussion, the NSWUT Students' Union came into being on 8 September 1952. Once Tharunka began to be released in March 1953, both Unilogic and Unity News appear to have ceased publication. One of the Unity News editors, Harold Spies, also became one of the first Tharunka editors.

NSWUT Students' Union later became the University of New South Wales Students' Union when the University of New South Wales Act was passed in 1958, which changed the name of the university.

Contact the University Archives

Please contact the University Archives for information on accessing further hard copy issues of Unity News and Unilogic that have not been digitised.