Election 2025
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Funding
How Labor can use its strong majority to support universities
The higher education sector is craving stability and investment after the policy changes, regulation warnings and instability of Labor's last…
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Policy & Reform
Labor champions education accessibility in sweeping win
Australians have resoundingly re-elected Anthony Albanese as prime minister delivering Labor a huge majority, while Peter Dutton has lost his…
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International Education
Labor hikes visa application fee to $2000, Dutton’s is $2500+
Labor will cut back on outside consultants and hike visa fees for foreign students to cover the extra cost of…
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Policy & Reform
Labor, Coalition and Green education policies compared
Australians go to the polls this Saturday to choose the next government. The Australian Labor Party, the Liberal-National Coalition and…
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Funding
$100m Coalition election promise to fund 200 regional medical students matches Labor
Regional and rural Australia’s doctor shortage is being targeted as an election issue by the Coalition, which is promising to…
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Policy & Reform
Education Minister’s western Sydney seat to be test for Labor
Education Minister Jason Clare's seat of Blaxland is considered safe, but the impacts of western Sydney's "melting pot" population on…
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Policy & Reform
Greens to push for free university in a hung parliament
Every Australian would be able to go to university or TAFE for free under a new Greens policy that would…
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Policy & Reform
Banks to waive HECS-HELP loans in mortgage applications
People with student debt can now borrow more for a house as new government guidance filters through to the banks.…
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International Education
Coalition announces harsher international student caps
The Coalition has said it would cap international students at 240,000 and triple the visa application fee to $5,000 for…
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Policy & Reform
Concern Dutton will push American-style crackdown on “woke” universities
The Coalition has warned it would use university regulator levers to review university degree course content to check for "woke"…
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Funding
Little in budget for higher ed
More tax cuts for every Australian and reiterations of measures that had already been announced marked Tuesday night's federal budget,…
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Policy & Reform
“Unis are not Centrelink offices”: Coalition’s pitch to university leaders
The Coalition would scrap Australian Tertiary Education Commission (ATEC) and have an independent tribunal decide vice-chancellor pay, opposition education spokeswoman…
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Policy & Reform
Report card: Accord recommendations 12 months on
The 408-page Universities Accord document has shaped the past year of university reform discussions. The document includes 47 recommendations that…
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Funding
Universities Australia wishlist for next election
The peak body representing universities, Universities Australia (UA), has said the federal government should offer more money and less bureaucracy…
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Analysis
There is declining trust in Australian unis. Federal government policy is a big part of the problem
As we head towards the federal election, both sides of politics are making a point of criticising universities and questioning…
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