Wilkie slams Labor uni cuts as 'dumb'

EducationHQ News Team

By EducationHQ News Team
Published June 4, 2013

CANBERRA, June 3 - Independent MP Andrew Wilkie has blasted Labor's decision to cut funding from universities to pay for the ...

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