Fight Pyne’s attack on education

Australia has some of the best universities in the world. They are open to everyone, of high quality and contribute to the productivity and future of our country.

The new Federal Minister for Education Christopher Pyne has announced his intention to radically change our university system, potentially disadvantaging students and young people on Australia’s university campuses.

Minister Pyne wants to:

• Abandon the demand driven model for student enrolments, meaning hundreds of thousands of students will miss out on tertiary education
• Scrap the Student Services and Amenities Fee, which will see important welfare and education support services cut, campus clubs and societies dry up and student representation suffer.
• Abolish the target that would see 40% of Australians with a tertiary degree by 2025

Send Minister Pyne a message to tell him that we won’t stand silently by while he winds the clock back on education reform over here. 

 

Update on Trans* Awareness Campaign

Someone has posted the NUS Trans* Awareness Campaign to Tumblr after seeing it at the University of Sydney and it now has over 50,000 notes on it. Seems like people were just waiting for something like this! Let us know if you have not yet got stickers up at your uni campus and we will send some out to you, email us at queer@unistudent.com.au

Check it out over here: http://meowtardis.tumblr.com/post/61902573422/cheerful-cynic-withfiendfyre-these-posters

 

Post-election Equal Marriage rallies

There are already two protests planned against Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s homophobia. Please do what you can to get these events out there as soon as possible. Sydney and Brisbane are organised, we will keep you updated on any other cities as they appear.

Sydney

www.facebook.com/events/363654860431325

Brisbane

www.facebook.com/events/414014495370054/

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