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    "content": "One of the things that we have done is that the biggest budget for this nation is on education. If we waste it and allow our lectures to go to the streets, then it is very pathetic. We should find a way of reducing this loss and putting that investment into the minds of our youth by teaching them to be the future scientists, leaders, politicians, doctors, nurses, teachers and everybody else. I accept that we must look at this CBA again and if there is an area where, as the Senate, we can give our input, it would be extremely useful. Like many other professions, the teaching profession has been neglected and we should not neglect it. Other professions, like mine in medicine, have been neglected as I saw, in a very pathetic way, nurses and doctors being on strike for months. This is not the way it should be; these are the top brains in this country. Any person who has gone through the university regardless of the discipline, these are your top brains in this country and you need to nurture them. We should now use this Petition to this august Senate so that we can understand where the difficulties and problems are because every year budgets are made and are meant to be achieved. I do not know why we should be debating this issue; it should be a forgone conclusion that once the CBA has been agreed upon, then they must be able to pay. I watched lectures walking from the campus here to the streets and I do not think I liked it. It is easy for a politician to walk but not for a lecturer. I am happy that some of my colleagues were able to meet them here at the precincts of Parliament and receive this Petition. We should look at it. Like Sen. (Prof.) Kamar said earlier, I also had the privilege of being a Minister for Education and so I understand well that we can deal with these problems without having to resort to confrontation. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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