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july 24 2013 www.newcastlepost.com.au
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Uni students in crisis
Alarming report shows thousands are living below the poverty line
locals’ concern Residents of Dawson and Tighes Streets, Waratah are up in arms over a development application submitted to Newcastle Council that could see a 30-bedroom boarding house erected on narrow Dawson Street. A group of residents told the Post that the street’s close proximity to Callaghan College, St Philips Christian College and Waratah Public School meant that it was often congested...
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Newcastle University Student’s Association (NUSA) president, Rose Gosper
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wo-thirds of university students have an income that places them below the poverty line and a third regularly miss class in order to make ends meet. These are some of the startling
claims made in Universities Australia’s report into the financial situations of domestic and international students at Australian universities published this month. Even more worrying is the claim that 18.2 per cent of full-time domestic students regularly go without food or other necessities because they simply can’t afford it. The Post spoke to a number of
domestic undergraduate students and graduands about the findings of the Universities Australia report. All told similar stories, often missing class because of work commitments and perhaps more startlingly, using credit cards to make ends meet. Lucy Graham, a third-year Bachelor of Arts student at the University of Newcastle, lives at
home and helps support her parents financially. She works part-time and has two credit cards. “I have two and they’re both maxed out and it’s all from food, because you get times where you need to buy essentials or you need to buy textbooks and you can’t afford it, so they’ll just have to go on the credit card,” she said. Continues on page 7
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