Kirsten Livermore (Capricornia, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Education) Share this | Hansard source

I appreciate that we are going over similar territory, but as the minister would appreciate these are extremely important matters for universities when we are talking about their access to capital funding, so I am just trying to pin her down as much as possible. Going back to the minister’s comments in the Australian on 16 May, did the minister mean in those comments that the new Higher Education Endowment Fund would replace the CDP and/or other funds and programs? Would they be subsumed into the Higher Education Endowment Fund and how would that happen? Would it mean that those other programs would be abolished and, if so, which programs? How much are those programs worth currently? How much are they worth annually, separately and as a total? What would that mean for the total amount available annually to universities for capital and research infrastructure? Can the minister say categorically that the amount available will increase by $300 million per year? If not, what does it mean for universities?

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