While the increase to YouthAllowance and Austudy will be of significance for the payments’ recipients, young people should not lose sight of the government’s distorted approach to welfare increases across the board.
Author: Luke Cass
As young people, it is incumbent upon us to dream of alternate possibilities for the Budget, for a system of government with radically different priorities.
Honi attended Budget lockup to assess what the Budget included for students.
Honi understands that all members of the National Executive who approved the motion are members of the two Labor factions: Student Unity and National Labor Students.
“This vote is a call for university managements and our government to think seriously about our sector.”
The USU plays a huge role on campus, and the decisions made by its Board and Executive have a direct impact on the lives of students at USyd.
EFRs are academic positions where teaching makes up a greater proportion of an academic’s workload than in traditional “40:40:20” roles, in some cases up to 70 or 80%.
The Victorian university is offering staff what amounts to a 2.2% per annum pay rise, despite inflation persisting at seven per cent.
The acting Vice Chancellor said that the redundancies were due to a number of factors including a drop in student numbers and insufficient government funding. She said that this meant the University was forced to make “hard decisions” in an attempt to reduce its operating budget by $60 million annually.
Rather than being gripped by the selective memory of Anzac, Australia must engage in a comprehensive process of truth-telling and remediation of historical injustices.