Canberra Trip

Every year on the second week of May, MULC organises an annual trip to the nation's capital to listen to the federal treasurer deliver the annual budget, or more importantly these days, the Opposition budget reply speech.

MULC traditionally tours both the old and new parliament houses, and gets to meet several Federal Liberal parliamentarians in their own Parliament House offices throughout the day and get to hear their frank views on current political issues.

Sessions are also held with the Menzies Research Centre, the Liberal Party's public policy institute, and the Liberal Party of Australia's Federal Secretariat.

The Canberra trip is also the first chance for new MULC members to meet Liberal Students from across Australia. Other members of the Australian Liberal Students' Federation (ALSF), the federal organisation of which MULC is a member, also take the trip to Canberra.

Last year was a new feeling, not having Australia's most successful treasurer in history Peter Costello deliver the budget, but the trip was incredibly fun all the same.

Note: A few scholarships are rewarded every year to outstanding and needy first-year MULC members so that they can also take the annual pilgrimage to Canberra to be acquainted with Australia's main Commonwealth government monuments and its public servants' favourite nightspots.