2011 – 2012 – 2013 – 2014 – 2015 – 2016 – 2017
2011
17-02-2011 Greens Safeguard Core ALTC Functions
18-02-2011 Radio National Interview – Bob Brown 18-2-2011
12-09-2011 Question: Vocational Education and Training
12-09-2011 Speech: Higher Education legislation
15-09-2011 Speech: Overseas Students legislation
16-09-2011 Student housing shortage reflected in Sydney University squatter standoff
12-10-2011 Higher Education Minister admits flaws in VET privatisation
12-10-2011 Question and Speech: Vocational Education and Training Sector
13-10-2011 Speech: Vocational Education and Training Bill
20-10-2011 Estimates: Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
09-11-2011 Motion: Vocational Education and Training
22-11-2011 Govt in spotlight over massive job cuts at Sydney Uni
23-11-2011 AFR report: Give universities more money, says Greens
23-11-2011 Labor denies university staff cut crisis: votes against funding increase
23-11-2011 Lee Rhiannon media conference: donations reform & university funding
23-11-2011 Motion: University job cuts
30-11-2011 Greens to fight higher ed cuts
05-12-2011 Lee Rhiannon speaks at Sydney University against cuts
08-12-2011 Review puts spotlight on securing increased public funding for universities
2012
02-02-2012 Govt must ensure HECS for vocational training not undermined by fee hikes
07-02-2012 New Vocational Training Bill tries to right wrongs
09-02-2012 Refugee Language Program should not be axed in Sydney Uni cost-cutting frenzy
15-02-2012 Estimates: Australian Research Council
15-02-2012 Estimates: Australian Skills Quality Agency
15-02-2012 Estimates: Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency
15-02-2012 Estimates: Vocational Education
20-02-2012 Lee visits O-Week at UNSW
21-02-2012 Cloud over Syd Uni O-Week: 100 jobs on chopping block
22-02-2012 Greens seek funding for Wollongong Uni student union and uni
28-02-2012 Australia sits at rock bottom for uni funding: Greens call for immediate 10 per cent increase
28-02-2012 Motion: Higher Education Funding
29-02-2012 Legislation: Education Services for Overseas Students
05-03-2012 Estimate adventures with a cameo Yes Minister appearance
05-03-2012 The Greens at O-Week 2012
15-03-2012 Motion: University SSAF Funding
16-03-2012 Skills shortage solved by investing in public VET, free education
19-03-2012 Govt must prioritise public providers for skills funding package
04-04-2012 MyUniversity reveals ballooning casualisation rate, but won’t fix it: Greens
09-05-2012 Budget setback for higher education revolution
15-05-2012 Productivity Commission VET report: Greens caution against privatisation push
30-05-2012 NSW Auditor General spotlights uni funding crunch
07-06-2012 Senate Estimates: Australian Research Council – Higher Education standards
07-06-2012 Senate Estimates: Australian Skills Quality Authority
07-06-2012 Senate Estimates: Department of Industry, Innovation, Science, Research and Tertiary Education
07-06-2012 Senate Estimates: Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency
02-07-2012 Evans can’t wash his hands of Victorian vocational education failures
05-07-2012 Public agitation key to winning increased higher education funding
26-07-2012 Hilmer fee plan should target govt not students: Greens
07-08-2012 Hilmer plan to target student fees short-sighted: Greens
24-08-2012 Adjournment: Students cost of living pressures – Youth Allowance
26-08-2012 Greens: Coalition must come clean on HECS fee increase plan
27-08-2012 Greens’ Newcastle Uni visit: HECS fee increase plan will impact regional students
28-08-2012 Violence against overseas students — Report suggests racial motivation, offers solutions
29-08-2012 Stop an Abbott government from increasing student fees
19-09-2012 Vic TAFE rally: Greens back protest in Melbourne and from Senate
20-09-2012 Federal govt shies away from intervening in Vic TAFE mess
20-09-2012 Save TAFE Rally in Melbourne – 20 September 2012
04-10-2012 Greens MP at Bega TAFE, calls on Kelly to take funding concerns to Canberra
09-10-2012 Labor sides with Coalition: votes down Greens motion supporting public TAFE system
09-10-2012 Motion: TAFE rally in Victoria
17-10-2012 Senate Estimates: Economics Committee
17-10-2012 Senate Estimates: Economics Committee
17-10-2012 Senate Estimates: Economics Committee
17-10-2012 Senate Estimates: Economics Committee
19-10-2012 Greens back call to abolish HECS for student teachers
23-10-2012 Innovative nation off Labor agenda as govt cuts higher education spending
24-10-2012 Ernst & Young ‘Future of Unis’ Report greases a future for the private sector
20-11-2012 Greens urge University of Western Sydney to hold fire on course cuts
21-11-2012 Scholarship cuts short-change low income and regional uni students
21-11-2012 Speech: Higher Education Bill
29-11-2012 Make TAFE Priority #1
2013
06-02-2013 $50m ANU donation highlights dire state of student income support
26-02-2013 Estimates: Economics Legislation Committee
26-02-2013 Estimates: Economics Legislation Committee
27-02-2013 Estimates: Economics Legislation Committee
28-02-2013 Abbott university plan code for deregulation and funding cuts
07-03-2013 Australian Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon speaks at Sydney Uni staff strike
21-03-2013 Speech: Higher Education legislation
26-03-2013 Greens Senator Rhiannon speaks in support of Sydney Uni two day staff strike
27-03-2013 Student day of action: Emerson under pressure to make his mark on uni funding
14-04-2013 Labor following Coalition policy with cuts to higher education
19-04-2013 Greens congratulate UOW community campaign for funding boost
22-04-2013 Uni funding cuts: Coalition keeps the bad despite rejecting the good
23-04-2013 Rhiannon to speak at no uni cuts student rally
03-05-2013 University budget cuts don’t add up
15-05-2013 Lee Rhiannon on 2SM talking 2013 budget implications for NSW
15-05-2013 Regional NSW hurt by budget cuts to Infrastructure Fund
24-05-2013 Greens step up national campaign to boost higher education funding
24-05-2013 Letter to editor AFR – plan to privatise University of NSW
29-05-2013 Govt tries dampen university opposition to cuts with deregulation promise
30-05-2013 Australian Greens launch national campaign to reverse Labor’s uni cuts
31-05-2013 Stop uni cuts
04-06-2013 Cutting uni funding will be a pox on the old parties’ houses
14-06-2013 In support of striking staff at the University of Sydney
18-06-2013 Labor whitewashes impact of uni cuts on staff pay and conditions
18-06-2013 Lee Rhiannon questions minister about uni cuts and impact on staff
18-06-2013 Speech: Higher Education funding cuts
24-06-2013 Curtin Uni must reverse mass redundancies
01-07-2013 Higher ed portfolio – fourth Minister in six months through revolving door
09-07-2013 Greens launch bid to boost university funding
15-07-2013 Record student debt and poverty highlights Government failure
19-07-2013 No benefits for students in UNSW Vice-Chancellor’s posturing on entrance scores
30-07-2013 UNSW cuts to academic staff another cowboy tactic
01-08-2013 Dumb cuts hold no place in a bright competitive future
09-08-2013 Greens call for funding overhaul to restore vibrant and sustainable TAFE
09-08-2013 Make TAFE a Priority
14-08-2013 Labor’s failed university plan – pork barrelling in marginal seats
19-08-2013 Survival of TAFE dependent on Greens rescue package
20-08-2013 Greens Senator Rhiannon speaks at National Day of Action
01-09-2013 Rudd TAFE plan set to fail without limits on private providers
19-09-2013 Uni Cuts Hurt campaign photos
25-09-2013 Call to reject Coalition elitist plan for universities
25-09-2013 Greens accuse Pyne of classic misdirection
16-10-2013 Greens Oppose Abbott’s plan to privatise HECS debt
24-10-2013 Pyne’s &deregulate’ call first step to lower university standards?
30-10-2013 COAG report on education and skills highlights gap
12-11-2013 Review of capped system ignores elephant in the room — Lack of funding
21-11-2013 Greens: Labor should block Coalition’s $2.3 billion cuts to higher education
26-11-2013 Greens release modelling and launch campaign to stop Abbott slashing university funding
03-12-2013 Media Alert: Labor backs Greens to block Coalition’s $2.3 billion higher education cuts
10-12-2013 Labor votes with Coalition to block Greens Senate motion calling for increase to university funding
11-12-2013 Greens win Senate inquiry into TAFE accessibility and affordability
18-12-2013 Second Reading Speech: Social Services and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2013
20-12-2013 2013 End of year message from Lee
2014
29-01-2014 Productivity Commission reports highlights stealth privatisation of TAFE
17-02-2014 Rebuild TAFE
26-02-2014 Estimates: Education and Employment Legislation Committee (Australian Research Council)
27-02-2014 Estimates: Economics Legislation Committee (Department of Industry)
28-02-2014 Greens condemn massive job cuts at La Trobe University
17-03-2014 Speech: Amendment to Commonwealth Grant Scheme Guidelines 2012 Disallowance
07-04-2014 Op ed: Illawarra key to vocational education and training
08-04-2014 Cancelled – Wollongong Senate TAFE Inquiry -Coalition Senators no show
08-04-2014 Community pressure puts Wollongong Senate TAFE Inquiry back on the agenda
14-04-2014 Greens reject Kemp-Norton review’s plan to unleash free market ideology into university system
28-04-2014 Greens condemn Abbott’s elitist plan for universities
01-05-2014 Greens will fight Coalition’s Americanisation of higher education
14-05-2014 Committees: Education and Employment References Committee report
14-05-2014 Op ed: Abbott’s assault on public higher education
15-05-2014 Questions without notice: Budget
15-05-2014 Speech: Take Note Of Answers (Funding Public education)
21-05-2014 Donations conflict of interest involving PM
21-05-2014 Greens launch campaign to fight Coalition’s attack on students
21-05-2014 Greens stand with university students and staff at National Day of Action
27-05-2014 Campus Greens poster
27-05-2014 Stop Abbott’s Uni Cuts
28-05-2014 Fighting for free education: What happened, Joe?
30-05-2014 Liberal fundraiser linked to private company set to profit from government higher education changes
01-06-2014 Pyne contradicts Department of Education website on student debt changes
02-06-2014 Estimates: Economics Legislation Committee (Australian Skills Quality Authority)
03-06-2014 Greens will use Senate powers to release government modelling on university cuts
03-06-2014 Tony Abbott’s uni cuts will hurt students
04-06-2014 What will my degree cost? www.whatwillmydegreecost.com.au
05-06-2014 Pyne should release his modelling on University cuts
12-06-2014 Student debt in Australia could be worse off than in the United States
16-06-2014 Motion: Higher Education Funding
18-06-2014 Expand public TAFE system — Senate backs Greens motion to mark National TAFE Day
18-06-2014 Expand public TAFE system — Senate backs Greens’ motion to mark National TAFE Day
18-06-2014 Motion: National TAFE Day
18-06-2014 Speech: Budget
24-06-2014 Coalition’s university cuts start biting – La Trobe to sack 15% of its workforce
02-07-2014 Poll: Australians oppose Abbott’s elitist agenda for higher education
07-07-2014 TAFE in education markets no solution
10-07-2014 Speech: Higher Education Funding
14-07-2014 Committee: Trade Support Loans Bill 2014
14-07-2014 Committee: Trade Support Loans Bill 2014
14-07-2014 Regressive higher education plans a vote changer – Pyne, other MPs risk losing seats
14-07-2014 Speech: Higher Education
14-07-2014 Speech: Tools For Your Trade
15-07-2014 Apprentices shafted by Coalition loan scheme backed by Labor
24-07-2014 Greens: End competitive VET model to ensure TAFE survival
30-07-2014 Labor set to let down students by backing Coalition scholarship cut
31-07-2014 Evidence is now overwhelming, time for Pyne to drop changes
19-08-2014 Sydney Uni reputation damaged by coal mine funding
26-08-2014 Speech: Budget changes will decimate public higher education
27-08-2014 Motion: Macquarie University pursues legal action against student union
27-08-2014 Only “constructive” action Pyne could take on higher education bill is to start again
28-08-2014 Debunking some of Education Minister Christopher Pyne’s claims
28-08-2014 Higher Education: Private providers, wealthy unis winners out of Pyne cuts
28-08-2014 Lee challenges the equity of the government’s proposed higher education changes
28-08-2014 Press Conf: Higher Education and Qantas
28-08-2014 Questions Without Notice: Higher education cuts
02-09-2014 Pyne’s business mates insult Senate crossbenchers on higher education cuts
02-09-2014 Speech: Private colleges and political donations
08-09-2014 Liberal/National plan further damage public vocational education
09-09-2014 Universities Australia should get off the Pyne bandwagon
22-09-2014 Labor backs Coalition student payment cuts – after signing pledge to block changes
23-09-2014 Private higher education providers win – student debt skyrockets
01-10-2014 Lee condemns Labor’s betrayal of students
01-10-2014 Motion: Scholarships and Student Support
02-10-2014 Christopher Pyne’s elitist higher education reforms set to hurt Australia’s uni rankings
02-10-2014 Labor-Coalition deal cuts more than $400 million from student support
02-10-2014 Lee speaks about Labor’s betrayal to students
02-10-2014 Lee speaks against cuts to student support
10-10-2014 Student protest at Senate inquiry into Pyne higher education bill
13-10-2014 Group of Eight modelling is case for increasing funding not fees
19-10-2014 Private college rorting set to get worse under Abbott government policy changes
20-10-2014 Win on student debt: time to dump entire higher education bill
24-10-2014 Time to start again on higher education reforms
27-10-2014 Sydney Uni VC deceptive on scholarships – fee deregulation will hurt students
28-10-2014 Pyne higher education bill will not provide free higher education as Minister claims
28-10-2014 Tabled Senate report into higher ed bill: evidence overwhelming – bill must be defeated
29-10-2014 Speech: Tony Abbott’s Higher Education Cuts and Fees
30-10-2014 Lee asks about Higher Education in question time
05-11-2014 Hockey shows up Pyne – admits higher education bill is a $5 billion budget saving
07-11-2014 Public funding for private providers should be redirected to TAFE
13-11-2014 Chronic under funding of unis forces reliance on high fee paying international students
17-11-2014 NSW unis set to lose $1.3 billion – Greens’ plan to vote down higher education cuts
24-11-2014 Greens win Senate inquiry into private vocational education and training providers
24-11-2014 Motion: Private vocational education and training (VET)
24-11-2014 An open letter to Universities Australia
01-12-2014 Deregulation + HecsWatch – Pyne’s Higher Education Bill
02-12-2014 Australian Greens welcome crossbench opposition to Pyne higher education plan
02-12-2014 Greens call for extension of whistle-blower protections to private higher education providers
03-12-2014 Abbott Government refuses to rule out further cuts to higher education
03-12-2014 Big win for students, staff, community – Abbott govt’s elitist higher education plan voted down
04-12-2014 Speech: Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Amendment Bill 2014
05-12-2014 Pyne plan to fund religious colleges no salvation for public universities
05-12-2014 Stop Abbott’s Privatisation
08-12-2014 Pyne’s higher education propaganda campaign boon for Netflix, online streaming services
27-12-2014 New poll shows Australians reject Abbott Governments desperate higher ed ad campaign
2015
13-01-2015 Campaign launch: Greens gather their allies to defend public higher education
16-01-2015 5000 Australians to Muir and Madigan: Don’t vote for higher university fees
21-01-2015 Greens label Pyne’s latest thought bubble a desperate face-saving measure
23-01-2015 Handout to private sector + increased fees the only parts of Pyne plan left standing
27-01-2015 Greens call for shake-up of private vocational education funding
06-02-2015 Tony Abbott’s higher education plan will see profits soar for private education companies
09-02-2015 Thousands of NSW residents tell Abbott and Pyne – ditch higher education cuts
10-02-2015 Greens call on Coalition to withdraw higher education bill
12-02-2015 Motion: Private Education Providers
12-02-2015 Thousands tell Abbott and Pyne — ditch higher education cuts
25-02-2015 Estimates: Education and Employment Legislation Committee (Australian Skills and Quality Authority)
25-02-2015 Estimates: Education and Employment Legislation Committee (Department of Education and Training)
25-02-2015 Estimates: Education and Employment Legislation Committee (Department of Education and Training)
25-02-2015 Government’s $500,000 higher education call centre a flop
04-03-2015 Pyne’s fine plan for universities to hit students
04-03-2015 Speech: Tony Abbott’s Higher Education Changes
05-03-2015 Motion: Employment in Regional NSW
05-03-2015 Science, research and jobs threatened by Pyne’s Parliamentary blackmail
12-03-2015 Abbott government pretends to take on dodgy colleges to help out Baird
16-03-2015 Higher Education Press Conference – Parliament House
16-03-2015 Pyne on the run — to another defeat
16-03-2015 Research and Higher Education Press Conference – Parliament House
16-03-2015 Speech: Higher Education
16-03-2015 Time for Tony Abbott to pull Pyne into line and secure Australian research
17-03-2015 Abbott’s higher education cuts Bill defeated again — big win for the community
17-03-2015 Speech: Higher Education and Research Reform Bill 2014 Second Reading
18-03-2015 Christopher Pyne from desperate to delusional
24-03-2015 Motions: Abbott government
24-03-2015 Senate calls on Pyne to fix public funding fiasco
25-03-2015 Greens call for UoW managers to end all donations to Liberal Party coffers
30-03-2015 Op ed: Out Of The Ashes Of Deregulation, A New Vision For Public Universities Must Rise
01-04-2015 “Reset button” should be pressed on Go8 for failure to back increased uni funding
07-04-2015 Greens call for immediate review of alternate university entry schemes
10-04-2015 Greens call for Vice-Chancellor salaries to be reined in
15-04-2015 Greens call on Pyne to reject further unfair HECS changes in federal Budget
23-04-2015 Time for federal government to go back to the drawing board on VET funding
02-05-2015 New Tax Office data shows growing student debt burden in Australia
04-05-2015 Vice Chancellors need to speak out against Pyne’s backdoor uni cuts
07-05-2015 NSW Supreme Court: Senator Rhiannon joins protest against Macquarie Uni attack on student group
11-05-2015 Time for Pyne to breakup with Lomborg
12-05-2015 Senator Rhiannon stands in solidarity with budget eve student, staff protestors
13-05-2015 Pyne’s copy and paste budget fails students, staff and the community
14-05-2015 Speech: free higher education worth the investment
21-05-2015 Greens call on Australian unis to reject Pyne’s “cash for Lomborg” scheme
29-05-2015 Abbott govt in $65million blackmail to South Australia over vocational education
01-06-2015 Greens welcome Universities Australia u-turn on deregulation
03-06-2015 Estimates: Education and Employment Legislation Committee (Australian Research Council)
03-06-2015 Estimates: Education and Employment Legislation Committee (Australian Skills and Quality Authority)
04-06-2015 Liberal Party willingly take political donations from university that Abbott govt funds
12-06-2015 Greens launch Western Sydney ‘stop TAFE privatisation’ tour
17-06-2015 Christopher Pyne delivers another win for private education sector
24-06-2015 TAFE cuts in NSW budget call for national reform
24-07-2015 Flinders University: say no to the cash for Lomborg scheme
30-07-2015 Free and fair higher education
31-07-2015 Greens launch campaign for Free Higher Education
03-08-2015 Free higher education around the world
13-08-2015 Motion: Education Funding
13-08-2015 Senate demands Abbott government stop wasting public money on higher education consultants
20-08-2015 Abbott government blocks Senate call for release of higher education modelling
20-08-2015 Abbott’s cruel 2015 budget
21-08-2015 Low graduation numbers highlight failure Abbott govt education privatisation plan
28-08-2015 Rewrite of VET funding urgently needed
07-09-2015 Federal government must reject elitist research proposal from Group of Eight universities
07-09-2015 Like The Terminator, Christopher Pyne’s plan for $100 000 degrees is back
10-09-2015 Government should rule out enforcing uni cuts that have failed to pass the Senate
11-09-2015 Abbott govt threatens unis with further research cuts
15-09-2015 Senator Rhiannon media statement on portfolio reshuffle
17-09-2015 Speech: Higher Education Support Amendment (New Zealand Citizens) Bill 2015 second reading
25-09-2015 Sydney Uni VC opens door for new university elite
01-10-2015 Deregulation finally dead — huge win for staff, students, families, unions
15-10-2015 Speech: The Damning Report on Private Vocational Education
28-10-2015 Rip-off of students not “Unique”
29-10-2015 Unique International private college rip off
11-11-2015 Motion: Reopen Crows Nest TAFE and restore funding for NSW TAFEs
2016
23-02-2016 Speech: The Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies in jeopardy
09-03-2016 Rhiannon launches Blaxland campaign – candidate Suzan Virago local blue-collar worker
17-05-2016 End role of for-profit providers to stop Careers Australia style rip-offs
23-05-2016 Greens push Illawarra Labor to back new national TAFE agreement
15-06-2016 Restoring the TAFE system to provide strong learning foundations for Australians
17-06-2016 Jobs growth needs a healthy TAFE, not Labor’s 6 month training stopgap
13-07-2016 Baird’s TAFE NSW plan an excuse to sell land assets
01-08-2016 Clinton gives lead to Sydney universities on free higher education
2017
24-03-2017 Adjournment speech: Freedom of Religion
06-06-2017 Turnbull’s school funding plan will hit NSW schools hard
13-09-2017 Motion: LGBTIQ Homelessness
17-10-2017 Senate calls on government to abandon cuts to higher education enabling programs
18-10-2017 Adjournment Speech: NSW Teachers Federation
18-10-2017 Motion: Higher Education Enabling Programs
18-10-2017 Motion: International Students and Jobs
28-11-2017 Adjournment Speech: TAFE Cuts in New England
06-12-2017 Adjournment speech: Capitalism on trial
08-12-2017 Lee Rhiannon calls on the University of Wollongong to restore student democracy
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