These 3 people decide your future … joy!
Firstly… who are centre alliance?
Wikipedia says..
Centre Alliance, formerly known as the Nick Xenophon Team (NXT), is a centrist[7] political party in Australia based in the state of South Australia. It currently has two representatives in the Parliament, one each in the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Since its founding in July 2013, the party has twice changed names. At the time of the 2016 Australian federal election, it was known as the Nick Xenophon Team (NXT). After Nick Xenophon founded SA-BEST, an affiliated state-based party, NXT sought to change its name to SA-BEST (Federal). But prior to Australian Electoral Commission approval, Nick Xenophon left politics, and the party withdrew its application and changed its name to Centre Alliance.[8] In 2018, Centre Alliance senator Stirling Griff stated that SA-BEST is “a separate entity, a separate association, a separate party” from Centre Alliance.[9]
The party’s ideological focus is a combination of centrism, social liberalism and populism, drawing from the positions of Xenophon. Its present members have variously declared support for same-sex marriage, reform of the Australian Intelligence Community, action on climate change, support for military veterans, affordable tax cuts, Australian-made manufacturing, including defence-industry spending and legalising euthanasia.[10][11][12][13][14]
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_Alliance
And then their anti future lawyers stance, we presume lit grads, classics scholars and historians will cop it next.
Lawyers Weekly reports
Centre Alliance has thrown their support behind the higher education bill, guaranteeing that future law students must pay at least 28 per cent more than current students.
Future law students must pay 28 per cent more than current students in order to obtain a degree after Centre Alliance threw its support behind the Coalition’s higher education bill. While the bill has not yet passed the Senate, the support from Centre Alliance has all but guaranteed it will come into effect in time for the 2021 academic year.
With the support from Centre Alliance and One Nation, the government intends to pass the bill in budget week. It comes despite overwhelming opposition from Labor and the Greens, as well as independent senators Jacqui Lambie and Rex Patrick.
Although accepting that the bill is “by no means perfect”, the party’s spokesperson for education, Rebekha Sharkie, targeted the influx of law students as a reason to support the bill and address universities’ risks of significant job losses and campus closures.
“I believe we need to give the government the opportunity to incentivise these students to study in fields where we have serious skill shortages,” Ms Sharkie said, adding that it is “ridiculous that year after year we churn out thousands of law graduates, many of whom will never work in law, and yet we import engineering graduates”.
Mirroring concerns from the top legal bodies, the Australian Law Students Association (ALSA) submitted its strong opposition to the increase in fees, arguing it would prevent students from vulnerable, Indigenous or low socio-economic backgrounds from having the opportunity to pursue a career in law at a time when it needs more diversity.
