{"id":6160,"date":"2020-04-22T12:11:57","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T12:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=6160"},"modified":"2020-04-22T12:11:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T12:11:57","slug":"s-a-international-student-package-should-shake-the-morrison-govt-into-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/04\/22\/s-a-international-student-package-should-shake-the-morrison-govt-into-action\/","title":{"rendered":"S.A. International Student Package should shake the Morrison Govt into action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Senator and Education spokesperson Dr Mehreen Faruqi has welcomed the South Australian government\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/studyadelaide.com\/issp\">commitment to support international students<\/a>\u00a0through a $13.8 million package. Senator Faruqi has characterised it as a wake-up call and a kick in the backside of the Morrison Government, which continues to deny international students any income support.<br \/>\n<strong>Senator Faruqi said:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cGood on South Australia for stepping up and supporting international students at this very difficult time. Without access to any federal income support, thousands of students are struggling to pay rent, buy food, and make ends meet.<br \/>\n\u201cThis should really be a wake-up call and a kick in the backside of the Morrison Government. Higher education is a federal responsibility. While it\u2019s great that students in South Australia will have access to support, students in other states continue to struggle.<br \/>\n\u201cScott Morrison and his Minister should hang their heads in shame, and then do their jobs and provide support for the hundreds of thousands of students they have so far abandoned during the COVID-19 crisis,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Senator and Education spokesperson Dr Mehreen Faruqi has welcomed the South Australian government\u2019s\u00a0commitment to support international students\u00a0through a $13.8 million package. Senator Faruqi has characterised it as a wake-up call and a kick in the backside of the Morrison Government, which continues to deny international students any income support. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cGood &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/04\/22\/s-a-international-student-package-should-shake-the-morrison-govt-into-action\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;S.A. International Student Package should shake the Morrison Govt into action&#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-6160","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\/6160","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=6160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}