{"id":8026,"date":"2020-09-04T06:15:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T06:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=8026"},"modified":"2020-09-04T06:15:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T06:15:15","slug":"sensational-gov-backdown-sends-uni-bill-to-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/09\/04\/sensational-gov-backdown-sends-uni-bill-to-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"Sensational Gov Backdown Sends Uni Bill To Inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that the Liberals have sensationally backed down and sent their university fee hikes and funding cuts legislation to a Senate inquiry.<br \/>\nThis followed a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2020\/sep\/01\/senate-crossbenchers-join-push-to-send-coalitions-uni-funding-bill-to-inquiry\">Greens motion on Tuesday<\/a>\u00a0which showed Labor, Greens and crossbench support for an inquiry.<br \/>\nSenator Faruqi said:<br \/>\n\u201cThis is a sensational backdown from the government. The Liberals had every intention of pushing this legislation through before the budget.<br \/>\n\u201cNot only did the Liberals gag debate in the House to ram the bill through, they voted against my inquiry referral motion just two days ago. They\u2019ve now been dragged to the table, kicking and screaming.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s critical that the Senate hear from universities and everyone who is impacted by this dud legislation.<br \/>\n\u201cAn inquiry will help take this rotten bill apart so we can block it once and for all in October,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Greens Education spokesperson Senator Mehreen Faruqi has said that the Liberals have sensationally backed down and sent their university fee hikes and funding cuts legislation to a Senate inquiry. This followed a\u00a0Greens motion on Tuesday\u00a0which showed Labor, Greens and crossbench support for an inquiry. Senator Faruqi said: \u201cThis is a sensational backdown from the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/09\/04\/sensational-gov-backdown-sends-uni-bill-to-inquiry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sensational Gov Backdown Sends Uni Bill To Inquiry&#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-8026","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\/8026","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=8026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}