Jess Moore for Cunningham

Jess Moore, well-known community activist and part-time worker, will contest the seat of Cunningham in the federal elections. Moore, a member of Socialist Alliance, is a leading climate and renewable energy campaigner. She is active in the struggle for marriage equality and helped found the Illawarra Aboriginal Rights Group. Moore was president of the Wollongong Undergraduate Students' Association in 2006 and is the national co-ordinator of Resistance, a socialist youth organisation.

Monday, July 5, 2010

What Gillard did to higher education

By Jess Moore

Prime Minister Julia Gillard is seeking to differentiate herself from ousted Kevin Rudd to show her promotion to PM is more than an attempt to re-badge a political party in crisis.

In this context, it is worth looking at her record in government. This is a look at the changes to and proposals for higher education launched by Gillard as education minister in Transforming Australia’s Higher Education System, the government’s proposed 10-year agenda for reforming the nation’s higher education system.

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