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The centre’s directors say the “eviction”, now slated for December 31, will leave 80 families without childcare and 30 educators out of work and pleaded on Friday with Swinburne to return to the negotiating table. Swinburne’s stance has infuriated the federal government, which pledged $4.3 million – with at least an additional $4 million pledged by Stonnington Council – in an election promise this year to help save the kinder as its MP Josh Burns fought for his seat of Macnamara. Burns told this masthead on Friday that the uni’s stance was “heartless”. A personal intervention by federal Education Minister Jason Clare with Swinburne vice-chancellor Pascale Quester has also failed.
