Sid Sidebottom (Braddon, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Yes, indeed, I will be working with my minister, as I know many on my side and others will be, to see how this anomaly can be overcome. What I do not think we ought to lose sight of in all this is that this system will benefit so many students whom the other mob were quite happy to deprive of the opportunity to go to university and have financial support. When it really comes down to it, those on the other side are all talk, plenty of obstruction and no action. I will be working with my communities to get those two centres under the eligibility rules and to look at a different matrix than the one agreed to by those opposite, which has now put us in a relative straitjacket.

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