{"id":6552,"date":"2020-05-16T02:10:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-16T02:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=6552"},"modified":"2020-05-16T02:10:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-16T02:10:36","slug":"all-states-territories-put-commonwealth-to-shame-over-international-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/05\/16\/all-states-territories-put-commonwealth-to-shame-over-international-students\/","title":{"rendered":"All States &amp; Territories Put Commonwealth To Shame Over International Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that all states and territories have put the federal government to shame over its lack of support for international students.<br \/>\nLast night, New South Wales\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2020-05-15\/coronavirus-nsw-government-package-for-international-students\/12254540\">became the last state<\/a>\u00a0to release a package providing support to international students during COVID-19. The federal government continues to deny international students access to federal income support, and has not set up any financial assistance fund or program for students. Students across the country are going hungry and are at risk of homelessness.<br \/>\n<strong>Senator Faruqi said:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cThis is nothing less than a complete failure of leadership and humanity from the Morrison government.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s extraordinary that the federal government has completely abrogated its responsibility for higher education, and left it up to the states and territories to support the half a million international students currently studying in Australia.<br \/>\n\u201cWith NSW stepping up, all states and territories are now putting the Commonwealth to shame over its treatment of international students.<br \/>\n\u201cThere are hundreds of thousands of students who have lost work and would be eligible for the JobKeeper and JobSeeker payments were it not for their visa status. They are doing it incredibly tough.<br \/>\n\u201cThe state-level packages are welcome, but they won\u2019t be enough to get international students through COVID-19. Packages also vary from state to state. We need a federal level commitment and national coordination to make sure that every single student gets the support they need to get through this crisis,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that all states and territories have put the federal government to shame over its lack of support for international students. Last night, New South Wales\u00a0became the last state\u00a0to release a package providing support to international students during COVID-19. The federal government continues to deny international students &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/05\/16\/all-states-territories-put-commonwealth-to-shame-over-international-students\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;All States &amp; Territories Put Commonwealth To Shame Over International Students&#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-6552","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\/6552","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=6552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}