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The Saturday Briefing …
In the early days of his prime ministership, John Howard shared with some a private view about universities: Don’t spend money on them, the people there don’t vote for us.
This week the government announced plans to save $2.8 billion through cuts to university funding and increases to student payments.
This is about more than budget savings. It is about the established fact that the more educated a person becomes, the less likely they are to vote conservative.
Mike Seccombe reports on the conservatives’ calculated antipathy towards tertiary education.
Plus: Paul Bongiorno on the death of neoliberal economics, and Kim Dalton on remaking the ABC.
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