(1) The NSW education minister, Adrian Piccoli, said Pyne must be "the only person in Australia" who believed in the model created by the Howard government, which seems likely to form the template for Pyne's new model, to be implemented in 2015.
(2) Pyne said his office had calculated that if students left university with a debt of $30,000- $40,000, they would have to pay back between $3 to $5 extra each week.
(3) I’m standing strongly behind Bronwyn Bishop as the Speaker and I would call on all my colleagues whether they’re in the cabinet or on the backbench to stand firm against the demands by the Labor party to remove the Speaker,” Pyne said.
(4) Pyne is also introducing a practice of “interventions”, where MPs will be given opportunities to interrupt and participate in parliamentary debates.
(5) Coalition reverses planned $500m cut to automotive industry assistance Read more But some attendees were surprised when Pyne told the senators that unless Labor and the crossbench passed the family tax benefit cuts, there would be no expanded ATS.
(6) I’ve found the savings to do so through the reform of the higher education sector and I’m very passionately committed to continuing [NCRIS], but the savings to fund it are in the reform bill and if the crossbenchers and the Labor party vote against the reform bill they will effectively be voting against the [NCRIS] continuing.” Asked whether the linkage was a mistake in light of concerns from research leaders, Pyne said ministers were required to find savings if they had spending proposals.
(7) The Pynes now live in Wakefield, in a cottage packed with photos of Morrissey and a dedicated music room stuffed with CDs and vinyl.
(8) Pyne’s announcement also met with a strong response from Tom Alegounarias, president of the Board of Studies New South Wales.
(9) In question time on Tuesday, Pyne said officials were still finalising the details of the in-principle agreements with the three jurisdictions to benefit from the restoration of the $1.2bn, but the government was treating the states as “adult” administrators.
(10) "Well I think Christopher [Pyne] said schools would get the same amount of money, and schools – plural – will get the same amount of money.
(11) Macintyre has previously been the target of criticism by Pyne, who told the ABC’s Q&A program in June 2012 that the first offering of the national history curriculum was “very leftwing” and was “certainly written by an ex-communist”.
(12) Pyne, who is the minister for industry, innovation and science, and Roy, the assistant minister for innovation, have not commented on the developments.
(13) The then education minister, Christopher Pyne, dismissed the call, saying the government didn’t as a rule trash funding agreements already in place.
(14) Some of those people that they are looking for evidence of is communication with Christopher Pyne, Mal Brough, Wyatt Roy, along with Channel Nine and News Corp reporters.
(15) A spokesman for Pyne then began hosing down the idea by saying it was “not on the current agenda”.
(16) He told Guardian Australia: “You’ve only got limited funds you can spend on higher education and is this really a sensible use of $1bn?” Before Abbott’s definitive statement, Pyne told the Financial Review a policy change would need “proper safeguards”, such as a minimum age to ensure that the families of young people who died owing a Hecs debt “would not be penalised”.
(17) Pyne was describing the implementation of the deregulation of fees in response to questions about the indexation of student loans.
(18) Clearly Christopher Pyne has given up on texting and moved on to advertising, websites and social media,” Lazarus said on Monday.
(19) About $1.2bn earmarked for those jurisdictions was removed from the federal budget in the pre-election economic and fiscal outlook as a result of stalled negotiations – a figure Pyne and Abbott sought to make a virtue of restoring this week .
(20) Replacing the indexation rate with the rate at which the government has to borrow the money that it lends to students is perfectly fair,” Pyne said.
Syne
Definition:
(adv.) Afterwards; since; ago.
(adv.) Late, -- as opposed to soon.
(conj.) Since; seeing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Earlier, in scenes that evoked Singapore’s colonial past, Lee’s coffin stopped in front of the complex’s main building, where British administrators once worked, as a piper from Singapore’s Gurkha Contingent – the city-state’s special guard force – played Auld Lang Syne.
(2) 8.30am GMT Preamble Hello and welcome to coverage of Jim White Day which, with any luck, will see him suffer the same fate as Frasier Crane on Frasier Crane Day, stuck in a tube overlooking Sky Towers while someone else leads the rendition of Auld Lang Syne or whatever else it is we're supposed to be doing at 11pm tonight.
(3) The strains of Auld Lang Syne just reach the Little Tramp's hut, where the table lies set and the candles are burnt down.
(4) I never thought I'd really care much about Scotland opting out of Auld Lang Syne and all that.