In these pages, you will find Honi’s feature on the USyd Gaza solidarity encampment. After four weeks, the encampment has grown to over 90 tents and represents a united front across multiple factions who are all uniting to participate in the struggle for a free Palestine, and the moral reckoning of our time.
Browsing: budget 2024
It seems when the Budget takes one step forward, the display of priority drags them many steps back. This Budget does not prioritise social reform, student poverty or welfare support, leaving vulnerable Australians who seek guidance or support during cost-of-living crises in a bottlenecked welfare system.
Federal Opposition Leader Peter Dutton argued in his budget reply speech that migration should be capped at 140,000—much lower than the government’s current target of 260,000 by 2026.
These targets are insights into the policy objectives of the Federal
Government, and the stakeholders about which it cares most.
We are so back.
Brace yourselves for the 2024-25 Budget overview.
After years of student campaigning and calls for paid mandatory student
placements, the Federal Government has responded in the Budget — but in a dissatisfactory and inadequate manner.
How does this impact students? How do the cost-of-living reforms affect the student demographic? Check out this guide to the Budget for how it affects tertiary students, and where it fails us.
While the government claims this is the “first stage of a multi-year reform agenda” based on the Accord, much more will need to be done to achieve the equity Chalmers promises in his speech. The proportion of low socio-economic students at university has dropped post-COVID. It remains to be see if this budget will reverse that trend.
The Budget has unveiled new measures to regulate the growth of international student migration including awaited increases to student visa fees and financial capacity requirements as well as a new formula which will cap international student enrolment at each university.
