{"id":6661,"date":"2020-05-22T07:54:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T07:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=6661"},"modified":"2020-05-22T07:54:38","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T07:54:38","slug":"save-education-and-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/05\/22\/save-education-and-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Save Education And Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Given that the government now has $60 billion unspent in the JobKeeper program, Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has called for JobKeeper to be extended to university staff and international students, a new funding package provided for higher education, and for free childcare to made permanent.<br \/>\nSenator Faruqi said:<br \/>\n\u201cThis \u2018mistake\u2019 by the government must be used to provide a lifeline to the many sectors and workers who have been left high and dry during this pandemic.<br \/>\n\u201cWith $60 billion of allocated JobKeeper money unspent, the government can save higher education and provide massive relief for tens of thousands of staff and international students.<br \/>\n\u201cThe higher education sector is shedding jobs and crying out for support. It\u2019s time to scrap the unfair rules excluding university staff from JobKeeper.<br \/>\n\u201cDesperate international students, who have been going hungry and falling into destitution, should urgently be given access to JobKeeper and provided with income support.<br \/>\n\u201cThe government must also do the right thing and provide a brand new funding package for universities that would ensure their long term viability and success.<br \/>\n\u201cThere is a real opportunity here for the government to recognise childcare as an essential service and make free childcare permanent.<br \/>\n\u201cFor more ideas on how to spend the money, I recommend the Treasurer and Prime Minister read the Greens\u2019 Invest to Recover post-pandemic recovery plan,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/greens.org.au\/recovery\">which can be found on our website<\/a>,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given that the government now has $60 billion unspent in the JobKeeper program, Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has called for JobKeeper to be extended to university staff and international students, a new funding package provided for higher education, and for free childcare to made permanent. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cThis \u2018mistake\u2019 by the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/05\/22\/save-education-and-jobs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Save Education And Jobs&#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-6661","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\/6661","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=6661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}