{"id":7306,"date":"2020-07-15T10:40:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T10:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=7306"},"modified":"2020-07-15T10:40:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T10:40:30","slug":"mass-unsw-job-cuts-devastating-and-infuriating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/07\/15\/mass-unsw-job-cuts-devastating-and-infuriating\/","title":{"rendered":"Mass UNSW Job Cuts Devastating and Infuriating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has labelled today\u2019s news of cuts to approximately 500 full-time equivalent jobs at UNSW, and the amalgamation of nine faculties into six, as devastating and infuriating.<br \/>\n<strong>Senator Faruqi said:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cHundreds of hard-working UNSW staff will bear the disastrous consequences of the Liberals\u2019 callous abandonment of higher education.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Morrison government has no shame or sense. Australian universities are in crisis and frankly it\u2019s the Liberals who are squarely to blame.<br \/>\n\u201cThe government could have easily extended JobKeeper to universities and provided a new funding package. Instead, their plan is to cut funding and hike up student fees.<br \/>\n\u201cHigher education is a case in point for why the government\u2019s professed obsession with \u2018job-making\u2019 and \u2018job-keeping\u2019 is all spin and no substance. If they really cared about jobs, they would have invested in universities and protected our invaluable higher education system from disaster.<br \/>\n\u201cMy heart goes out to the hundreds of staff who are now facing unemployment during a recession. The Greens will fight on, alongside staff and students, for a jobs-rich, well-funded higher education sector,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has labelled today\u2019s news of cuts to approximately 500 full-time equivalent jobs at UNSW, and the amalgamation of nine faculties into six, as devastating and infuriating. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cHundreds of hard-working UNSW staff will bear the disastrous consequences of the Liberals\u2019 callous abandonment of higher education. \u201cThe &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/07\/15\/mass-unsw-job-cuts-devastating-and-infuriating\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mass UNSW Job Cuts Devastating and Infuriating&#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-7306","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\/7306","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=7306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}