Jane Prentice (Ryan, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Full-fee-paying students who are not taking up a position that could otherwise have gone to a Commonwealth supported place could have provided their own funding that gave the university the ability to provide the resources needed for their place provided they met appropriate academic criteria. By abolishing full-fee-paying places, the Rudd government simply took away an avenue for a student to gain a degree, and a source of funding for universities to spend on resources to teach more students.

On top of that, the Labor-Green coalition has recently reintroduced what is essentially a student tax with the abolition of voluntary student unionism.

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