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Salient. Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 42 No. 15. July 9 1979

Forum and March

Forum and March

Last Wednesday, 150 angry Victoria students marched on Parliament to demand that the Minister of Education front up on campus for his government's education policies.

The demonstration arose spontaneously from a forum held that day to discuss Education in the Budget. The Government was invited to send a speaker to that forum, and had indicated right up to the day before that it would do so. But on Tuesday the chief whip (Tony Friedlander) rang up the Association to say that no-one would be coming because "these things always end in a shambles."

It was clear from questions he was asked on this that the Governmnet had no intention of speaking to students about the new Tertiary Study Grant or any other education matter. In fact, it would appear that it is not prepared to front up for its own policies. And no wonder, as other speakers at the forum revealed.