[Greens-Media] MEDIA RELEASE - GREENS NO SUPPORTING DUMB UNI CUTS

[Klug, Georgie (Sen C. Milne)]

MEDIA RELEASE

Monday 14 May 2013

      
GREENS NOT SUPPORTING DUMB UNI CUTS

The Australian Greens won't be supporting legislation to enable cuts to university scholarships mooted in tonight's budget, Leader Christine Milne announced today.

"For a supposedly clever country, slashing universities is just dumb. We are robbing the future if we allow these cuts to go ahead," Senator Milne said.

"We need to support education from early childhood right through to tertiary level if we're going to move away from the cut-it-down, dig-it-up economic approach. 

"We know where we could get the money to retain these services but Labor won't stand up to the big banks or the big mining companies to fix the mining tax and end fossil fuel tax breaks." 

Greens Higher Education spokesperson, Lee Rhiannon, will be speaking at the National Tertiary Education Rally against the cuts in Canberra later today while Deputy Leader Adam Bandt is addressing the crowd in Melbourne.

"Even though every public dollar invested in tertiary education grows the economy by $26, Labor is determined to make these cuts," Senator Rhiannon said. 

"Labor's approach is proving a great disappointment to people who want to see a robust university sector to help our economy transition to a clean, green and clever future. 

 
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Senator Christine Milne

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