The Morrison Government has comprehensively failed to deliver anything meaningful for universities, staff or students in its 2022-23 Budget. Instead, it has continued to cut public funding per student in real terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Government funding per student has been slashed by 5.4 per cut in real terms in the next year and 3.6 per cent in the following two years. This is a shocking $3 billion lost from 2017-18 to 2025-26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite 35,000 job losses in public universities last year, there are no measures to restore jobs nor rectify the damage inflicted by the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Morrison Government has also refused to address the proliferation of insecure work, with only one in three university staff in secure, permanent employment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe Treasurer claimed this is a \u2018budget for all\u2019 but this is certainly not a budget that will benefit the 200,000 people employed in tertiary education nor the 1.6 million students who are taught each year,\u201d said NTEU National President Dr Alison Barnes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTertiary education is Australia\u2019s fourth largest export industry contributing $40 billion to Australia\u2019s total exports, yet this Government largely abandoned public universities during the COVID-19 crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn fact, the only action the Government took was to reduce the proportion of government funding per student even further and to increase tuition fees for the majority of students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBeyond its colossal contribution to the Australian economy, universities are vital institutions that provide critical research and education for the public good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDespite this, the Morrison Government has continued to strip funding from blue sky, curiosity driven research while tipping money into narrowly defined areas of research that suit its re-election strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis Government\u2019s anti-university agenda is incomprehensible and frankly embarrassing. A Government that refuses to recognise the value of tertiary education should not be permitted to govern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe spotlight is now firmly on a future Government to deliver the urgent reforms and funding the higher education sector needs to restore jobs and recover from the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe need a higher education funding strategy that includes additional research funding to make up for the millions cut by the Coalition, a strategy to address the proliferation of insecure employment and a unified plan to address sexual harassment at universities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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