A rant and an update
Dec. 10th, 2005 06:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
melwilWell the bastards finally did it - Backroom deal seals fate of uni guild fees"
If you have ever had a cheap meal at an Australian university refectory, if you have had a drink in an Australian university bar, if you have joined a club or society at an Australian university, if you have enjoyed an article in a student magazine, if you have needed representation, if you have complained about a poor lecturer or unfair assessment, or bought a cheap second hand book then you have benifited from student unionism. And if you think it's unfair that these things are going to be taken away from Australian students then you need to email Family First Senator Steven Fielding (senator.fielding@aph.gov.au) to register your complaint.
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yasminke reminded me about the affordable childcare and cheaper medical services which are subsidised by student union fees. These too will be gone.
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In other news, I've worked 16 hours in my new job. It's pretty good, if a little boring work, and it's nice not to be working with food anymore. It's a little like a giant, noisy classroom except we get to lock ourselves into a booth. And we get to laugh at the tryhards
If you have ever had a cheap meal at an Australian university refectory, if you have had a drink in an Australian university bar, if you have joined a club or society at an Australian university, if you have enjoyed an article in a student magazine, if you have needed representation, if you have complained about a poor lecturer or unfair assessment, or bought a cheap second hand book then you have benifited from student unionism. And if you think it's unfair that these things are going to be taken away from Australian students then you need to email Family First Senator Steven Fielding (senator.fielding@aph.gov.au) to register your complaint.
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yasminke reminded me about the affordable childcare and cheaper medical services which are subsidised by student union fees. These too will be gone.***
In other news, I've worked 16 hours in my new job. It's pretty good, if a little boring work, and it's nice not to be working with food anymore. It's a little like a giant, noisy classroom except we get to lock ourselves into a booth. And we get to laugh at the tryhards
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It was a sad moment
on 2005-12-09 10:19 pm (UTC)Plus, you forgot the things the Family First "fights for" like affordable medical services and childcare. But the guy doesn't care: he must have gotten a promise of an office with a bigger window.
Re: It was a sad moment
on 2005-12-09 10:44 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2005-12-10 01:12 am (UTC)*emails*
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on 2005-12-10 02:52 am (UTC)I don't understand why they couldn't see that the uni fees were equivalent to those sorts of fees.
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on 2005-12-10 07:43 am (UTC)no subject
on 2005-12-12 03:59 am (UTC)I guess there goes our little shelter room for when we don't have classes ... I could go without the wide screen TV and all ... but still - the uni needs those facilities - particularly when it's Sunshine Coast uni which is not close to anything ... it's a 10 minute walk to the nearest shopping centre yet alone anything else.
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on 2005-12-12 10:17 pm (UTC)*Kicks Brendan Nelson in the shins and steals his left shoes*
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on 2005-12-13 08:23 am (UTC)