{"id":15275,"date":"2022-03-03T19:29:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T19:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=15275"},"modified":"2022-03-03T19:29:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T19:29:04","slug":"international-students-left-behind-again-by-discriminatory-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/03\/03\/international-students-left-behind-again-by-discriminatory-government\/","title":{"rendered":"International students left behind again by discriminatory government"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has criticised the exclusion of international students and other temporary visa holders from the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.servicesaustralia.gov.au\/residence-rules-for-australian-government-disaster-recovery-payment-or-disaster-recovery-allowance?context=62078\">Commonwealth\u2019s Disaster Recovery Payment<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senator Faruqi said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s cruel and unacceptable to use a person\u2019s visa status to exclude them from vital financial support in the wake of disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFloods have devastated communities and people living in NSW and Queensland. Everyone affected should be financially supported regardless of their visa status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cInternational students\u2019 ineligibility for Disaster Recovery Payments smacks of Covid-era discrimination which harmed so many.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDuring the pandemic lockdowns we saw international students neglected, abandoned and mistreated at every turn \u2013 excluded from critical schemes like JobSeeker and JobKeeper. Now, they are being locked out of disaster payments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe government has not learned its lesson and continues to treat international students as little more than economic opportunities to be exploited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cInternational students must be supported and treated as full and valued members of our community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has criticised the exclusion of international students and other temporary visa holders from the&nbsp;Commonwealth\u2019s Disaster Recovery Payment. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cIt\u2019s cruel and unacceptable to use a person\u2019s visa status to exclude them from vital financial support in the wake of disaster. \u201cFloods have devastated communities and people &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/03\/03\/international-students-left-behind-again-by-discriminatory-government\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;International students left behind again by discriminatory government&#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-15275","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\/15275","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=15275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15276,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15275\/revisions\/15276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}