House debates Higher Education Legislation Amendment (Student Services and Amenities, and Other Measures) Bill 2009

Second Reading

Tuesday, 17 March 2009 House of Representatives

Nick Champion

Nick Champion Wakefield, Australian Labor Party

8:08 pm

Just in response to the previous speaker, the member for Barker, it is a fact of life that we go through our adult life paying for services that we do not always use. I paid for private health insurance from about 1998 to the present day because I was compelled to by a $500 tax passed by the Howard government. It was a levy. That is the way they talked about it; the Medicare surcharge levy. I cannot remember using that private health insurance—

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