{"id":2796,"date":"2019-05-15T11:38:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T11:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=2796"},"modified":"2019-05-15T11:38:20","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T11:38:20","slug":"labor-to-fund-university-of-newcastle-parents-rooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/05\/15\/labor-to-fund-university-of-newcastle-parents-rooms\/","title":{"rendered":"LABOR TO FUND UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE PARENTS\u2019 ROOMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Member for Newcastle Sharon Claydon and Member for Dobell Emma McBride today announced that, if elected, a Shorten Labor Government will invest $50,000 to build two parents\u2019 rooms at the University of Newcastle.<br \/>\nThis election is a choice between Labor\u2019s plan for increased investment in education or bigger tax loopholes for the top end of town under the Liberals.<br \/>\nMs Claydon said the funding would install parents\u2019 room in the libraries of both Ourimbah and Callaghan campuses of the University.<br \/>\n\u201cThese rooms will provide a welcoming environment with toys for children to play with and a comfortable place to study,\u201d Ms Claydon said.<br \/>\n\u201cSome parents avoid going into a library environment for fear of disturbing others, so it\u2019s great to be able to provide a space where they can feel at home.\u201d<br \/>\nMs McBride said Labor provided the funding to give parents the best opportunity to engage fully in higher education and attain their goals.<br \/>\n\u201cLabor is fully committed to giving every Australian the opportunity to achieve their potential,\u201d Ms McBride said.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s hard enough to take on higher education with parenting responsibilities, so everything that we can do to make it easier for students with children is a worthwhile investment.\u201d<br \/>\nThis $50,000 investment is funded through Labor\u2019s $300 million\u00a0<em>University Future Fund<\/em>.<br \/>\nA Shorten Labor Government will also uncap university places and invest in TAFE, university and skills training.<br \/>\nIf you want real investment in education, not more chaos \u2013 vote Labor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Member for Newcastle Sharon Claydon and Member for Dobell Emma McBride today announced that, if elected, a Shorten Labor Government will invest $50,000 to build two parents\u2019 rooms at the University of Newcastle. This election is a choice between Labor\u2019s plan for increased investment in education or bigger tax loopholes for the top end &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/05\/15\/labor-to-fund-university-of-newcastle-parents-rooms\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;LABOR TO FUND UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE PARENTS\u2019 ROOMS&#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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796","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=2796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}