We are so back.
Brace yourselves for the 2024-25 Budget overview.
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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.
Why, as a leftist and educated young woman, did I let this happen? And if I had, how many people like me were doing the same?
Thus, I was ten and emancipating myself from God, deciding that if my ‘test’ for this duniya was to love a man who did not deserve it, to show him mercy and forgiveness, then I would simply not sit the test. It was shortly after that I decided that I no longer loved my father.
Inquilab Zindabad (“long live revolution”) — the chant that Bhagat Singh popularised during his arrest — should, if we are to stand for progress, reverberate eternally not only in society but in our minds and thoughts as well. Singh’s atheism — the rejection of ultimate authority and transcendent truth — is necessary in any revolutionary thought.
After years of navigating linguistic deceit, Pasco has developed a certain form of paranoia — a forgotten side-effect of frequent crossword doses.
When was the last time you hiked up your sleeves and ladled out soup at your local community centre? Can you recall when you phoned your ageing family member? Perhaps the last time you rescued a cat from a tree?
