When the Tories and Lib Dems tripled university fees in the UK, there were massive student protests on the streets. Just sayin'.
Think a pandemic is likely to put people off, or if they do crowd together endanger their lives.
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Yes, although in Australia, where massive student fee increases have been passed this morning, the risk might be somewhat less (outside Victoria). Protests that have occurred at University of Sydney have been broken up by police using Covid-19 legislation.
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We may not be able to protest on the streets or occupy spaces like protestors have traditionally, but in Australia, we can't let these student fee increases pass unchallenged. At least in the UK when it happened in 2010, there was a groundswell of anger.
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In the Aus context Evan's referring to there were recent well managed mass BLM protests proved to lead to no community transmission, and we've just had unconscionable fee hikes passed while our HE sector collapses. Could maybe work outside Victoria? (We're stuffed at the moment)
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Yeah, if the virus is completely under control it’d be far less dangerous - but I think it still puts a lot of people off, so protests will be smaller than usual, and politicians in a lot of countries are taking advantage of that.
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