Shadow education minister Tanya Plibersek addressed an elite business gathering last month, presenting a future Labor government as the best means of escalating the corporate restructuring of tertiary education.
In her August 16 speech to the Australian Financial Review Higher Education Conference, Plibersek said nothing about the destruction of tens of thousands of jobs throughout the countrys public universities, since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, let alone commit a Labor government to reversing the cuts.
Instead, she echoed the demands of the corporate elite, highlighted by a recent blueprint issued by the EY global consulting giant, for the pandemic disaster to be exploited, in order to radically reshape higher education and …
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