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Monday, 15 June 2020
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COVID-19: Higher Education
4:09 pm
Mehreen Faruqi (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source
I move:
That the Senate—
(a) notes that:
(i) Australian universities are facing massive losses in revenue as a result of falling enrolments during the COVID-19 crisis, and
(ii) universities across the country have begun to announce job cuts, with up to 30,000 jobs expected to be lost;
(b) calls on vice-chancellors to prioritise retaining staff, including those on casual and fixed-term contracts, in their responses to revenue losses, and
(c) calls on the government to include all universities in the JobKeeper scheme.
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