Australian Greens Education Spokesperson, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has condemned the Liberal Government\u2019s punitive $328.5m cuts to University Block Grants.
\nSenator Faruqi said:
\n\u201cThe Liberal Government has continued their war on universities with the $328.5m cut to Research Block Grants announced in the Mid Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook.
\n\u201cThese punitive cuts demonstrate the Liberal government\u2019s disrespect for the higher education sector and the vital research work conducted in our universities.
\n\u201cThe cuts are more than double the amount previously announced. The government doesn\u2019t even have the courtesy to consult or even let universities know how much money they are cutting.
\n\u201cThe principle here is simple. We cannot be an innovative country without properly funding universities to undertake world class research.
\n\u201cThe Liberals hostility towards universities is clear. They\u2019ve politically interfered in ARC grant approvals, introduced a tax on unis with their Cost Recovery bill and have now confirmed they are gutting research funding,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Australian Greens Education Spokesperson, Senator Mehreen Faruqi, has condemned the Liberal Government\u2019s punitive $328.5m cuts to University Block Grants. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cThe Liberal Government has continued their war on universities with the $328.5m cut to Research Block Grants announced in the Mid Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook. \u201cThese punitive cuts demonstrate the Liberal government\u2019s … Continue reading “Liberal War on Universities Continues with MYEFO Research Cuts”<\/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-1070","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\/1070","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=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}