{"id":10133,"date":"2021-02-03T01:03:56","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T01:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=10133"},"modified":"2021-02-03T01:03:56","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T01:03:56","slug":"uni-job-carnage-devastating-but-predictable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/02\/03\/uni-job-carnage-devastating-but-predictable\/","title":{"rendered":"Uni Job Carnage Devastating But Predictable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New figures\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.universitiesaustralia.edu.au\/media-item\/17000-uni-jobs-lost-to-covid-19\/\">released by Universities Australia today<\/a>\u00a0that more than 17,000 university jobs have been lost in the past year are devastating but unsurprising, the Greens say, as the impacts of the Morrison Government\u2019s abandonment of universities has been made clear. All eyes are on the new minister, Alan Tudge, to prevent further carnage.<br \/>\nSenator Mehreen Faruqi, Greens Education spokesperson, said:<br \/>\n\u201cThe Covid-19 crisis has smashed universities and the Morrison government allowed it to happen.<br \/>\n\u201cEvery single one of these estimated 17,000 job losses was preventable.<br \/>\n\u201cNot only were universities specifically excluded from JobKeeper support, the government forced on them a massive overhaul of fees and funding that will mean further cuts in the years to come.<br \/>\n\u201cUniversities immediately need a big funding boost to help them weather the Covid storm without further job losses and austerity. This is a test for Alan Tudge and his commitment to education.<br \/>\n\u201cThe current situation is completely unsustainable. We can\u2019t just cross our fingers and hope for the best. Alan Tudge needs to intervene to prevent any further damage,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New figures\u00a0released by Universities Australia today\u00a0that more than 17,000 university jobs have been lost in the past year are devastating but unsurprising, the Greens say, as the impacts of the Morrison Government\u2019s abandonment of universities has been made clear. All eyes are on the new minister, Alan Tudge, to prevent further carnage. Senator Mehreen Faruqi, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/02\/03\/uni-job-carnage-devastating-but-predictable\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Uni Job Carnage Devastating But Predictable&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}