House debates Bills

Higher Education and Research Reform Amendment Bill 2014; Second Reading

Tuesday, 2 September 2014 House of Representatives

Sharon Bird

Sharon Bird Cunningham, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Vocational Education

7:06 pm

As my colleague said: do as John Howard did with the GST. Run it by your electorate. Try and convince them of the arguments that you are putting to this House and let us see if they endorse the package. I profoundly believe that they will not, because it is fundamentally unfair at its heart. It makes university access based on your wallet not on your capacity, and that is never going to be acceptable.

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