{"id":6376,"date":"2020-05-04T08:08:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T08:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=6376"},"modified":"2020-05-04T08:08:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T08:08:48","slug":"government-bending-over-backwards-to-deny-higher-ed-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/05\/04\/government-bending-over-backwards-to-deny-higher-ed-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Bending Over Backwards To Deny Higher Ed Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has labelled the government\u2019s latest change to JobKeeper eligibility rules farcical and sinister as it bends over backwards to deny wage subsidy support to Australian universities.<br \/>\nIn the latest twist, Sydney Uni has been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/communications.sydney.edu.au\/all-staff-4-may-2020\">denied access to the scheme<\/a>\u00a0despite having believed to have qualified due to a significant drop in revenue, and having paid staff additional money in anticipation of receiving government support.<br \/>\n<strong>Senator Faruqi said:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cThe government is bending over backwards to deny universities access to the JobKeeper wage subsidy. This is farcical and sinister stuff.<br \/>\n\u201cUniversities have been dealing with huge uncertainties for months now. Constantly shifting the goalposts is not only enormously unfair to them in this crisis, but reveals the Liberals\u2019 malice towards higher education.<br \/>\n\u201cThe clear intent to lock universities out of JobKeeper can only be explained by the Liberals\u2019 ongoing hostility to higher education and their commitment to starve universities of funding.<br \/>\n\u201cThe government is fully aware that up to 30,000 university jobs are on the line, but they just don\u2019t seem to care.<br \/>\n\u201cIn addition to JobKeeper, the government must back universities through a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mehreen-faruqi.greensmps.org.au\/articles\/save-education-jobs-government-must-back-higher-ed-through-new-funding-package\">new package<\/a>\u00a0which would massively boost funding, save jobs and improve universities for staff and students,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has labelled the government\u2019s latest change to JobKeeper eligibility rules farcical and sinister as it bends over backwards to deny wage subsidy support to Australian universities. In the latest twist, Sydney Uni has been\u00a0denied access to the scheme\u00a0despite having believed to have qualified due to a significant drop &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/05\/04\/government-bending-over-backwards-to-deny-higher-ed-support\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Government Bending Over Backwards To Deny Higher Ed Support&#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-6376","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\/6376","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=6376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}