University funding cuts spark national outrage

The tertiary education union has vowed to launch a major campaign against university funding cuts in the lead-up to the federal election, as hundreds of students rallied last week in a national protest, reports AAP.

National Tertiary Education Union General Secretary Graham McCulloch said the academics' union would hold an emergency meeting on Friday to discuss action against A$2.3 billion (US$2.2 billion) in cuts expected in the budget. "We will be recommending that the union take up this matter in the largest single campaign we have ever run in a federal election," McCulloch said.

Police estimate about 1,400 people marched through Melbourne's CBD, where Victorian College of the Arts students led protesters in a chorus of the song, “Do You Hear The People Sing”, from the theatrical production of Les Misérables. In Sydney more than 100 protesters brought traffic on a major road to a standstill, and a few hundred rallied in Adelaide.
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