It's taken a couple of months but a rising chorus of voices from students in rural and regional Australia finally were too loud for the Government to ignore - Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister Julia Gillard held something of the mini-summit yesterday when she met
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young students from various locations in regional Australia to hear their concerns about the changes.
Following the meeting, Minister Gillard accepted there were some problems with the changes and has said she'll get to work on coming up with a fix before Parliament sits again in a fortnight.
This is what she had to say at the press conference following the meeting:
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As for the young folk who were there, here's what was said to Hack reporter John Barrington following the meeting:
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