60 Canberra graduates and undergraduates gather at the South African High Commisson to present a petition of 500 signatures, calling for an end to apartheid.

ANU students gather outside Parliament House to campaign for tax-relief for students.

A group of 800 people, mostly students, attend the first 'teach-in' in Australia at the Childers Street Hall, ANU, to protest the Vietnam War. ANU historian Professor C.P. Fitzgerald gives a speech.

Arts student Mr D'Arcy presents a petition of over 500 signatures of the Union Board of Management complaining about the cost of food at the Union Refractory which which had risen by as much as 20% from the previous year.

Protestors gather at the Rex Hotel when US President Lyndon B. Johnson is staying. Megan Stoyle, a second-year Arts student becomes famous when a photograph of her wearing a 'Make Love Not War' t-shirt attracts headlines around the world.

Fifty ANU students join a 1,000 strong protest in Melbourne against the Federal Government's rejection of the principles of Aboriginal land ownership.

Three-hundred staff and students attend a 10-hour teach-in on the role of universities.

Students gather outside Parliament House to protest the resumption of land for the Bougainville copper mine in spite of indigenous opposition to the project.

The ANU Students' Association passes a motion objecting to 'any implicit support given to the Captain Cook Bicentenary Celebrations ... because of the discrimination and lack of civil rights accorded to many groups of Aborigines who have been forgotten in this celebration of 200 years of white rule...'

ANU Students' Association asks for lectures to be cancelled so students can participate in a national moratorium against Australia's involvement in the Vietnam war.

Students conduct a vigil outside the South African High Commission and erect a sign reading 'Toot Against Aparthied' to which motorists respond by blasting their horns as they pass. The vigil is maintained 24 hours a day by roster of 200 students for many months.

Three students from Bruce Hall are charged with damaging property at two houses owned by South African High Commission officals.

Around 1000 demonstrators take part in an anti-Vietnam war protest. Thirty-five students, mostly from the ANU, appear later in the Canberra court charged with malicious damage and assaulting police.

Broadcast through the ANU Halls and Union, ANU Radio quickly becomes an important mouthpiece for student activists.

100 students occupy the Mills Room to protest about overcrowded classrooms, assessment requirements and the lack of student say in course content. They also demand the creations of a Women's Studies course. 30 students spend the night in the building.

After the Board of the School of General Studies rejects student demands, protestors occupy the Chancelry and the university telephone exchange, prompting Deputy Vice-Chancellor Noel Dunbar to call in police who then arrest 27 students.

After another student occupation of the Chancelry building, the Board allow a student voice in the running of departments and agree to the establishment of a Women's Studies Course.

Arts student Peter Berzins seeks exemption from paying his Students' Association fee because of the association's support for abortion reform.

The Governor-General John Kerr and Lady Kerr are jostled by a noisy crowd while attending a private function at Bruce Hall.

Members of the ANU Liberal Society steal Orientation Handbooks and insert voluntary student unionism material in them.

Around 70 students occupy 27 Brian Lewis Crescent, a house that had previously been used to store furniture. Over half of the protestors take a partial rent strike.

Founder of the Nuclear Disarmament Party, Michael Denborough, organises a symposium at the ANU on 'The Consequences of Nuclear War for Australia and its Region'.

With the introduction of the 'Dawkins Revolution' suite of higher education reforms, students hang an effigy of Minister for Education John Dawkins from the bridge leading into Union Court.

The National Union of Students launches a campaign against the introduction of HECS - a $1800 annual 'contribution' fee.

Over 100 students and activists attend a teach-in organised by ANU academic Rick Kuhn seeking to end the Gulf War condemning further intervention.

Supported by students, academics Dr H.C. Coombs and Sir Mark Oliphant protest against changes to the funding of the John Curtin School of Medical Research.

Students establish a 'tent city' outside the Chifley Library to protest against a plan to sell off some of its housing stock

Activists throw eggs and roll a 200-litre industrial drum at the car carrying Jeff Kennett after he arrives on campus for Young Liberals' function, forcing him to seek refuge in Vivaldi's Restaurant.

Responding to the threat of charging up-front fees for a legal course, law students organise a demonstration of 400 students. This marks the beginning of the No Fees Campaign which, with the help of unions and workers, inspires students across the country.

Over 8 nights and 9 days, more than 150 students occupy the Chancelry as the No Fees Campaign escalates, before being removed by the Australian Federal Police (AFP) who use chainsaws to cut the wooden back doors of the building.

Hundreds of ANU and UC students protest the government’s plans for fee deregulation with the support of the National Tertiary Education Union.

Students and protesters march from Garema Place, where they are addressed by ANU student activists Marina Carman and Hamish McPherson, to the National Convention Centre over the proposed French nuclear testing in the Pacific.

The Students’ Association organises a protest against the Federal Government’s proposed cuts to university funding. Each day students spend eight hours outside Parliament House reading out the Coalition’s election policy on higher education.

600 ANU students and 50 UC students set up pickets and rally against education cuts. Students then march through Civic, joined by members of the Community and Public Sector Union (CPSU). The Students’ Association, led by right-wing president William Mackerras, organise a counter-rally and apologise to the then Prime Minister John Howard over the ANU staff and student protest against him.

Students protest cuts to higher education by disrupting a public lecture by Prime Minister John Howard at the Coombs Lecture Theatre.

Representatives from the Aboriginal Tent Embassy and student activists picket a function addressed by Aboriginal Affairs minister John Herron, invited onto campus by the ANU Liberal Club.

More than 1000 students protest against staff cuts, marching to the Chancelry to put demands on Vice-Chancellor Deane Terrell. Scuffles break out when members of the International Socialist Organisation try to enter the building in the face of an overwhelming police presence. Four students are arrested. Meanwhile, Resistance activists decide to occupy the A.D. Hope building where the classics department - under threat from the cuts - is housed.

After ANU student newspaper Woroni publishes a Right to Life-inspired article featuring graphic photos of aborted foetuses, ANU Women’s Officer, Kate Harriden, and the ANU Women’s Department organise a public “rip-out” of the pages as part of a pro-choice awareness campaign. Only a week later ACT Pro-Choice is formed.

Sixty students occupy the ANUTECH building, ANUTECH having been established to increase corporate sponsorship of the university. Students demand the closure of ANUTECH and the transfer of ANUTECH education courses to the ANU without the up-front fees.

Jo Hunt and other student activists help establish the ANU Refugee Action Collective, now known as the ANU Refugee Action Committee.

Students plan to protest a speech by John Howard at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) over education cuts. Given the ruckus, John Howard ends up avoiding the scene and gives his address from Parliament House.

More than 100 students gather for a speak-out organised by ANUSA’s Education Department against the Federal Government’s moves to introduce voluntary student unionism.

Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott is faced down by pro-choice activists and protesters during an O’Week open forum. Invited by ANUSA, Abbott discusses issues such as voluntary student unionism and the abortion drug RU486.

Law Students for Social Justice (LSSJ) protest outside University House to show their opposition to the University’s decision to award former Singaporean Prime Minister, Lew Kuan Yew, an Honorary Doctorate in Law.

Following a planned restructure of the School of Music that would see all staff positions spilled and the equivalent of 13 full-time positions cut, students and staff rally to save the School of Music. From midday, music students begin a 24-hour protest jam. The protest jam to save the School of Music culminates in Union Court, with nearly 5,000 people then marching to the Chancelry led by a rendition of ‘When the Saints Come Marching In’.

Student Tom Swann submits a Freedom of Information request into the ANU’s holdings in coal seam gas company Metgasco after being alerted by Northern Rivers Activists. A campaign demanding the ANU divests from Metgasco is launched, and Fossil Free ANU is born.

In response to proposed cuts to tutorials in the College of Arts and Social Sciences (CASS), over 250 students march to the Dean of Art’s office in the Beryl Rawson building, with 150 students occupying the office for several hours. Students pour into her office through the fire escape, chanting, “bullshit, come off it, our education is not for profit!”

Students from all colleges converge in Union Court to protest the Liberal Government’s decision to deregulate university fees. The rally marches from Union Court towards the Chancelry, demanding the resignation of ANU Vice-Chancellor Ian Young and barricading him in his office over his support of fee deregulation.

Students from the Education Action Group form a makeshift choir outside the Coombs Lecture Theatre to protest against Foreign Minister Julie Bishop's lecture. The peaceful protest drew attention to the Government's treatment of university students, asylum seekers and workers.

The ANU partially divests from fossil fuels; divesting stocks in Iluka Resources, Independence Group, Newcrest Mining, Sandfire Resources, Oil Search, Santos, and Sirius Resources.

More than 450 staff members at the ANU sign an open letter to the Vice-Chancellor, Brian Schmidt, calling on the University Council to divest from fossil fuels.

After cuts to the School of Culture, History and Language that would see up to 40 academics axed were proposed, a rally is held in defence of Asia Pacific Studies in Union Court.