While the government commits billions of dollars to the black hole of AUKUS, universities are underfunded, allowing a聽management culture,聽which now pervades universities, to look for course and job cuts. Rowan Cahill reports.
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The Australian Services Union initiated a protest outside the City of Greater Geelong Council meeting聽to show support council workers facing redundancies. Sarah Hathway reports.
Thousands of New South Wales TAFE students are still trying to enrol聽in courses, even after the start of the teaching year,聽reports聽Niko Leka鈥嬧赌嬧赌.
After a year of job cuts, Federation University has just announced a restructure of its academic portfolio, which will make teaching and learning harder,聽John Smith reports.
Community mental health services in a large regional hospital have been severely reduced, just as they are needed more than ever, reports Kerry Smith.
Jonathan Strauss writes that many university workers are questioning the National Tertiary Education Union's leadership during the COVID-19 crisis, sparking a debate among members about the union's strategy to protect workers' conditions.
Staff and students at James Cook University (JCU) in Townsville and Cairns have refused to accept course and job cuts proposed by the university鈥檚 management.
The highlight of the campaign was a 120-strong student-led rally on April 30 at the Cairns campus, the largest student protest action in more than a decade at JCU. Students also joined the community protests called by the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) branch on April 27.
The CSIRO Staff Association has slammed the latest proposed cuts to jobs in vital research areas of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia鈥檚 premier public scientific body.
The union warned of job redundancies in minerals research and the Sydney laboratory that helped invent wifi internet technology.
Staff at the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and Brisbane Times started an 鈥渦nprecedented鈥 week-long strike on May 3, and staff at the Newcastle Herald and Perth website WA Today stopped work overnight, following Fairfax Media's announcement that it will cut 125 editorial jobs 鈥攁 quarter of its journalists.
To most South Australians, Labor Premier Jay Weatherill鈥檚 plan for a vast outback dump to host imported high-level nuclear waste is dead, needing only a decent send-off.
Nevertheless, the Premier keeps trying to resurrect the scheme. Why?
Some of Australia's most important climate research institutions will be gutted as 350 jobs are cut at the CSIRO. Up to 110 positions in the Oceans and Atmosphere division will go, with a similar reduction in the Land and Water division. Data and Manufacturing divisions will also be hit.
Health services are under serious attack in WA, with the Health Department asking hospitals to finalise 鈥渂udget management strategies鈥 by the end of January.
Amid claims of massive cuts to funding, hospitals in Perth are bracing for staff cuts. The Health Services Union (HSU) expects about 500 jobs to be shed at Royal Perth Hospital and similar numbers at Fiona Stanley Hospital. The union says its previous predictions of about 1000 job cuts 鈥渁cross the board鈥 now appeared 鈥渃onservative鈥 and job uncertainty is causing widespread stress.
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