"Abbot and co don't care about ordinary people "
Channel: JessicaMarks1968
Date: 26/03/2014

In early 2013, the Gillard Labor Government announced that they would be cutting $2.3 billion out of teriary education funding. The consequences of this for each separate university is difficult to measure exactly, but it would certainly be dramatic and gruesome. Students and teachers will suffer from these cuts, while the university executives won't feel any burden.
Upon coming to power in the late 2013 election, Tony Abbott has maintained that he will be passing on these cuts into this year's budget. The treasurer Joe Hockey has been thus far laying down the ideological groundwork for these cuts, telling the country that the "age of entitlement" is over.
For what it's worth, the Labor Party has since regretted those cuts that they themselves announced and has refused to support Abbott's plans. They have criticised these cuts of Abbott's but have not taken an active role in fighting them.
The Australia-wide body representing students from universities, the National Union of Students (NUS), has been making regular nation-wide protests of students ever since those cuts were first announced. These protests are called National Days of Action (NDA).
Wednesday the 26th of March 2014 was third NDA. Over a thousand people turned up in Melbourne from the universities across the city.
This video is from La Trobe University. Before the convergence into the CBD, there was a speak-out on campus: in the Agora, the central space of the entire university.
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