2024-10-28
Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Deputy Greens leader and spokesperson for Higher Education, has reacted to reports that over 1,000 jobs could be at risk at universities nationwide due to the government's reckless international student cap legislation, which is before the senate.
Quotes attributable to Senator Faruqi:
“Labor’s disastrous plan to introduce international student caps is wreaking havoc in the sector before they’ve even come into effect.
“If the prospect of more than 1000 uni job cuts across many universities during a cost of living crisis isn’t enough to convince the Albanese Government that international student caps are a catastrophic mistake, nothing will.
“Rampant casualisation, wage theft and unsustainable workloads were already crushing staff, and now more than 1000 university workers stand to lose their jobs because of Labor.
“Labor should dump its disastrous international student caps bill and get rid of Ministerial direction 107 right now.
“What universities need is a boost in funding and an overhaul of governance to prioritise staff and students in every decision, not these politically motivative crackdowns on international students.”