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Government needs to take ‘big bold action’ on university reform, Greens say
The Greens have urged the federal government to take “big bold action” on university reform after the 2024 Times Higher Education rankings prompted a “red light call” for the sector.
Almost all of Australia’s top 10 universities dropped places in this year’s ranking, with just one institution remaining in the top 50 and six in the top 100.
Education spokesperson senator Mehreen Faruqi said the rankings were “yet another wake up call” for universities and the federal government that tinkering around the edges wasn’t sufficient to reform the sector.
Big, bold action is needed to reimagine universities as public places where staff and students thrive. Funding cuts, fee hikes, systemic wage theft and rampant casualisation have eaten away at the very foundations of our universities.
The over reliance on international students as cash cows must end. The government must step up and properly fund our universities for learning, teaching and research.
Updated at 19.57 EDT24m ago19.35 EDT
Albanese says voice is about ‘having people give advice on matters that affect them’
The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has been asked about his comments to Katharine Murphy on the Australian Politics podcast that pressing ahead with the referendum will have been worth it even if Australians reject the voice on 14 October because it has brought Indigenous disadvantage front and centre in the national conversation.
On 4RO Radio, Albanese was asked if he was raising the white flag. He replied:
Not at all. I’m very hopeful that the voice will be carried. I think that when people look at what the question is, it’s a very clear, simple question. It is to recognise Indigenous Australians as the first Australians in our nation’s founding document. That’s the first thing. And the form of recognition they’re asking for is just a non-binding advisory group. There’s nothing scary about having a group of people who can just give advice on matters that affect them.
And the reason why you would do that is because you get better outcomes. I mean if I’m going to make a decision about Central Queensland and about what is occurring in the local community there in Capricornia, it is better if I actually talk to people there on the ground rather than bureaucrats in Canberra making decisions. And that is all this is, it doesn’t change the decision,…
2023-09-27 18:35:50
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