About 100 protesting musicians put on a passionate lunchtime concert at Victoria University today in opposition to proposed job cuts at the music school.
About one third of staff at the 30-strong music school are slated to lose their jobs. They're among about 230 job cuts proposed by the university as it tries to reduce a $33 million budget hole.
The dramatic sounds filled the atrium and brought passers-by to a standstill. (Source: 1News)
The protesters, in orchestra formation, belted out the classics, including Karl Off's Carmina Burana.
The dramatic sounds filled the atrium and brought passers-by to a standstill.
"This is our cultural wealth, we can not just throw it away," said Sally Jane Norman, the school's director whose job is among the 11 jobs that could go.
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