May 21, 1999

Australian Budget Has No Funds for University Pay Raises

By GEOFFREY MASLEN

Despite a promise by Australian Prime Minister John Howard that his government's fourth annual budget, presented to Parliament last week, would be "good for education," the spending plan does not provide the financial relief that the nation's cash-strapped universities had been seeking.

While higher-education officials applauded the government's plan to provide an additional US$412-million over the next six

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