Seymour Plan Would Strip Students Of The Services They Rely OnThe Green Party says ACT leader David Seymour's proposal for voluntary student fees will finish the job of destroying student associations and the campus experience. "In 2012, ACT's Voluntary Student Membership Bill ripped out the guts from student associations across the country. Student associations structurally dependent on the institutions they are meant to critique, sanitised campus life and less real advocacy for students." "Students rely on the food banks, advocacy services and wider campus community that associations run. "The real solution to creating independent student associations is to undo voluntary student union membership.