Low and middle income earners, working parents, and job seekers are three groups set to receive boosts in new measures set to be unveiled by Treasurer Josh Frydenberg in next week s budget.
The Treasurer, who will deliver his second budget in six months after last year s was delayed until October due to Covid-19, has already promised more big spending this time around as the government tries to bolster an economy still recovering from the lockdown battering. We won t be undertaking any sharp pivots towards austerity. We want more people in jobs and in better paying jobs. This is what our fiscal strategy is designed to achieve, he said in a speech last week.
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Newly-released parliamentary research recorded a 66% spike in international student enrolments over the past decade, throwing into sharp relief the dire consequences of missing international students in 2021.
The Victorian government has said it won’t accept its university’s proposal to pay for quarantine for returning international students, and plans in other states have also stalled.
“I think the worst-case scenario is what we are now facing,” Victoria University researcher Dr Peter Hurley told The Saturday Paper.
Ever since the pandemic gutted higher education last year, the country’s university sector has held out hope that at least some students would return in 2021.
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As a final year university physics student, Nathan Brichta is working with a team developing an artificial retina that will help people see without a need to carry an external battery.
The University of Newcastle honours student loves working in a laboratory where he can bring to life the theories and equations he has learned over the years.
“It’s exciting to get hands-on experience in a lab, which is different to the image of a physicist staring at equations,” he said. “I think it is really exciting to work in a field where we can have direct impact on people’s lives.”
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As a final year university physics student, Nathan Brichta is working with a team developing an artificial retina that will help people see without a need to carry an external battery.
The University of Newcastle honours student loves working in a laboratory where he can bring to life the theories and equations he has learned over the years.
“It’s exciting to get hands-on experience in a lab, which is different to the image of a physicist staring at equations,” he said. “I think it is really exciting to work in a field where we can have direct impact on people’s lives.”