House debates

Tuesday, 2 September 2014

Bills

Higher Education and Research Reform Amendment Bill 2014; Second Reading

7:06 pm

Photo of Sharon BirdSharon Bird (Cunningham, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Vocational Education) Share this | Hansard source

If the member has any evidence—and I am sure he will speak after me—any evidence at all that courses will go down in cost, I am waiting breathlessly to hear it, because we have challenged those on the other side to give us one piece of evidence, one piece of international research, one piece of domestic research that says that the cost of university courses will go down or indeed stay the same, and they have produced no evidence. We have relied on the work that has been done by people like Universities Australia.

Mr Nikolic interjecting

The member laughs at them.

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