Jason Clare's recent appearances (OpenAustralia.org)
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date: 2026-02-05T22:05:57+00:00
items: Early Childhood Education and Care | Questions without Notice | House debates
items: Education | Questions without Notice | House debates
items: Tertiary Education and Training | Questions without Notice | House debates
items: Bondi Beach Attack Victims | Condolences | House debates
items: Valedictory | Constituency Statements | House debates
items: Universities | Questions without Notice | House debates
items: Tertiary Education | Questions without Notice | House debates
items: Universities Accord (Australian Tertiary Education Commission) (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
items: Universities Accord (Australian Tertiary Education Commission) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
items: Student Debt | Questions without Notice | House debates
items: Education Legislation Amendment (Integrity and Other Measures) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
items: Education Legislation Amendment (Integrity and Other Measures) Bill 2025; First Reading | Bills | House debates
items: Schools: Bullying | Questions without Notice | House debates
items: Medical Workforce | Questions without Notice | House debates

Early Childhood Education and Care | Questions without Notice | House debates
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description: I thank my friend, the absolutely magnificent member for McEwen, for his question. A year ago today we passed laws through parliament to enact the three-day guarantee and a month ago today we...
encoded: I thank my friend, the absolutely magnificent member for McEwen, for his question. A year ago today we passed laws through parliament to enact the three-day guarantee and a month ago today we delivered it. It means every child who needs it can get access to the child care subsidy three days a week. We know how important child care is for mums and dads—it helps them to get back to work—but it's also important for our children. This is a time when most of the brain develops. We know that a child who goes to preschool is 1½ times as ready to start primary school as a child that doesn't. Ask any primary school teacher, and they'll tell you they can identify the children who have been in early education and care. This is not babysitting. That's why it was the Productivity Commission that recommended this change—the three-day guarantee. Their advice to us is that it's children from the most disadvantaged families—the poorest families in Australia—who get the biggest benefit from early education and that they are the ones who are least likely to be there in early education and care. That's because of the old activity test that meant their mums and dads couldn't get access to the government subsidy, and so it's their children who missed out and started behind. That now changes with the three-day guarantee. It means, for affected families earning between $50,000 and $100,000, they will save about $1,500 a year, and it means that their children will get access to the same sort of early education and care that other kids can. I've also been asked about safety, and I can advise the House that personal mobile phones in centres have now been banned, that Commonwealth compliance officers are now up and running and doing unannounced spot checks, that the national CCTV trial has started, that the Australian Federal Police is now also part of the advisory group on that, that the national educator register will start at the end of this month, and that mandatory safety training for all…
date: 2026-02-05T14:44:00+00:00

Education | Questions without Notice | House debates
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description: Last year, we signed agreements with every state and every territory to fix the funding of our public schools. That funding, and the reform that's tied to it, starts to roll out this year. A big...
encoded: Last year, we signed agreements with every state and every territory to fix the funding of our public schools. That funding, and the reform that's tied to it, starts to roll out this year. A big part of that reform is reading. The reading wars are over. We know what works. A big part of that is phonics. A big part of that is explicit teaching. A big part of that is identifying early children who are falling behind and giving them extra support. And part of that is a phonics check for kids when they're six—when they're in year 1. That rolls out right across the country, in every state and every territory, this year. To give you an idea of how important this is, South Australia has been doing this now for almost a decade. When they started doing it in 2018, 43 per cent of six-year-olds met the expected standard. When they did that test last year, 66 per cent of six-year-olds met that standard. That's why it's important. That's why we're rolling this out now in every state and every territory. That's why we're now going to do the same thing in maths—a year 1 numeracy check that starts to roll out this year. I will also use this opportunity to give a quick shout-out to our teachers, people who do the most important jobs in the world. This year, there are going to be big changes to teacher training to better prepare students to teach children to read, write and count and to manage classroom behaviour. Some good news I can advise the House of is that this year the number of applications from students to start a teaching degree at university is up 6.5 per cent, and university offers are up 6.3 per cent. This is all good news: more funding for our schools, more teachers for our schools and more focus on the basics to make sure more of our children get a great start in life.
date: 2026-02-04T14:36:00+00:00

Education | Questions without Notice | House debates
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description: I'll tell you a story. There are a lot of kids changing schools, changing classes, changing teachers and changing seats. There's a bit of that going on over there as well! There are kids in...
encoded: I'll tell you a story. There are a lot of kids changing schools, changing classes, changing teachers and changing seats. There's a bit of that going on over there as well! There are kids in classrooms right now that are learning how to read and are learning how to count. There's a bit of that going on over there as well! No doubt there are a few kids yet to get back to school. They might be still on a European holiday. They'll get back late and no doubt expect to get elected school captain. But this is a big year for school education.
date: 2026-02-04T14:36:00+00:00

Education | Questions without Notice | House debates
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description: I thank my friend the glorious member for Gorton for her question. School is now back across the country. That means a lot of relieved mums and dads and a few nervous kids—not as nervous as...
encoded: I thank my friend the glorious member for Gorton for her question. School is now back across the country. That means a lot of relieved mums and dads and a few nervous kids—not as nervous as a few people over there!
date: 2026-02-04T14:36:00+00:00

Tertiary Education and Training | Questions without Notice | House debates
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description: If I can thank my friend the brilliant member for Bean for his question, I might just do that! I told the parliament in November last year that we'd cut the student debt, by 20 per cent, of...
encoded: If I can thank my friend the brilliant member for Bean for his question, I might just do that! I told the parliament in November last year that we'd cut the student debt, by 20 per cent, of 1½ million Australians, but I can inform the House that that is not correct—at least not anymore, because now it's double that. Now we've cut the student debt of more than three million Australians by 20 per cent. We promised it; now we've delivered it. It's the biggest cut to student debt in Australian history. To put it in perspective, for the average Australian with a student debt, we've taken now $5,500 off their back. That's a lot of help for a lot of young Australians who might be just out of TAFE or just out of university or maybe just out of home. They're just getting started. And this isn't the only thing that we're doing. We're also cutting the amount that they have to repay of their debt every year. For example, if you're on 70 grand a year, we're cutting the amount that you have to repay every year by $1,300. Now that's real cost-of-living help. It means an extra 1,300 bucks in your pocket rather than the government's. And there's something else that we're doing to help Australians with the cost of living. That's paid prac—financial help while you do your practical training at university—because, as many people do, if you have to give up your part-time job to do your practical training or you've got to move a couple of hundred kilometres away and rent, then it can be tough to pay the bills. That's why we're doing this. It's real cost-of-living help. We're now rolling that out for teaching students, for nursing students, for midwifery students and for social work students—people who've signed up to do some of the most important jobs in this country, like looking after our kids and looking after us when we're ill or when we're old, or women fleeing domestic violence. That's what we're focused on: helping Australians with the cost of living, unlike those on the other sid…
date: 2026-02-03T14:51:00+00:00

Bondi Beach Attack Victims | Condolences | House debates
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description: When the shooting started, Jessy knew exactly what it was. Jessy is a friend of mine and a dear friend of my wife's. Our kids are about the same age. She was there on that awful day with her...
encoded: When the shooting started, Jessy knew exactly what it was. Jessy is a friend of mine and a dear friend of my wife's. Our kids are about the same age. She was there on that awful day with her little girl, Shemi. They were there to get sufganiyot—jam doughnuts—for Shemi and for her big brother, Lev. In that split second, Jessy did what any parent would do. She picked up her little girl and she ran. She hid, and she jumped on top of Shemi. She held her so tight she was worried that Shemi had stopped breathing. She remembers hearing the shots getting closer, the bullets hitting people near her and the spray of blood as it landed on her. And then it stopped. She ran again, this time until she found her husband, Nadav, and her son, Lev, who'd raced to the beach desperately looking for them. In Shemi's little hand was her big brother's doughnut—or what was left of it. I want to believe that what happened that day in December wasn't Australia. But the truth is it was. In the most Australian of places, 15 Australians had everything taken from them, one of them a little girl with the most Australian name possible. All of them were victims of an unfathomable hate. They were hunted down and killed because they're Jewish—murdered because they're Jewish. In the short time that I have, I offer my deepest condolences to everyone who loved them and who must still be drowning in their own grief. I also thank everybody who ran towards the danger that day and whose actions that day and in the days after must have saved the lives of dozens more people—people like Jessy and Shemi. I want the House today to hear their voices. In the week after, Shemi came to her mum and asked her, 'Can a kid die?' She'd found out about Matilda. As they walked home one night from the Bondi Pavilion, she said to her mum, 'So I could have been a photo, too, like Matilda, and you would have had to put a rock and a flower for me.' Jessy's helping her little girl to understand all of this. I told Jessy that I w…
date: 2026-01-19T14:25:00+00:00

Valedictory | Constituency Statements | House debates
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description: It has been a big year in 2025, and I want to thank the people of my electorate of Blaxland for putting their trust in me again. It's the privilege of my life to represent our community in this...
encoded: It has been a big year in 2025, and I want to thank the people of my electorate of Blaxland for putting their trust in me again. It's the privilege of my life to represent our community in this place. I take the opportunity to thank them for their support, and, in particular, I thank the hundreds and hundreds of people who volunteered on my election campaign. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. In particular, I want to thank my team led by Korena Flanagan, Chris Zogopoulos and Christine Kalivitis for all of their help over almost 18 years now. In the case of Chris, it's even longer. I would not be here without you. This has been a year of wins. We've fixed the funding of public schools, cut student debt by 20 per cent and, in my local community after 12 months of hard work, we got Auburn Post Office back and reopened. But it's also been a year of losses in my community. We've lost some local Labor true believers, some dear friends of mine—Tony Re, a former school principal; Grant Lee, a former mayor of Bankstown; Uncle Rex Sorby, a great Indigenous elder; and Vanessa McNeill, a former Holroyd councillor. Local legend Laurie Ferguson, a former member of this place, has been really unwell and is still in hospital. Laurie, we're all here with you, Maureen and the whole family. I wish everybody here a very, very merry Christmas. This is a time that we spend with the most important people in the world—our families, our kids and our mates. Every year, on the Sunday before Christmas, I get together with the fellas that I played cricket with for years. We call it clay day, for reasons that I don't have time to explain here. We catch up, reminisce, talk about the old days and remember just how important we are to each other. To quote that old Irish proverb, 'We live in the shade of each other.' When I get together with my mates, I live in their shade for sure. So I give them a quick shout-out—Gav, Macca, Corz, Squirmer, Welster, Wyber, Bevo, Blobby, Beachie, Rinny, Choppe…
date: 2025-11-27T09:33:00+00:00

Universities | Questions without Notice | House debates
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description: I thank my good friend the mighty member for Menzies for his question. In the wee small hours of this morning, between 3 am and 6 am, when I hope most of us were still tucked up in bed, something...
encoded: I thank my good friend the mighty member for Menzies for his question. In the wee small hours of this morning, between 3 am and 6 am, when I hope most of us were still tucked up in bed, something very big happened. One and a half million Australians had their student debt cut by 20 per cent—and, next Thursday, it's all going to happen again. Another 1½ million Australians will have their debt cut by 20 per cent. This is the biggest cut to student debt in Australian history. To give you an idea of just how big this is, for the average Aussie with a student debt, it means $5,500 off their back, off their debt. It's all automatic. You don't have to do a thing; just wait for the 'ding'. As the Prime Minister said, the text message will come next week. But it is also important to know why this has happened. There is one reason that this has happened, and that's this man here. It's because of this Labor Prime Minister. It's because he promised it, because he fought for it and because he believes in it. It's because he believes that young Australians deserve a break and because millions and millions of Australians voted for it. As one very smart National Party MP—or potentially a former National Party MP—said, 'My kids are paying off a university debt and I reckon they voted Labor.' I bet they did. But, even now, there are still members of the Liberal Party who think this is a bad idea. On Monday, the member for Goldstein described celebrating this as 'despicable'. You've got to ask yourself: what sort of planet does this mob over here live on? It explains why there are now 42 of them over there and why the seat that Tony Abbott once represented—or Malcolm Turnbull or Julie Bishop or Bronwyn Bishop or Brendan Nelson or Alexander Downer or even Sir Robert Menzies himself—are now located up there. Young Australians see them, and they see through them. They know that the Liberal Party no longer represents them and they also know this: it's this Labor government and this Labor…
date: 2025-11-27T14:15:00+00:00

Tertiary Education | Questions without Notice | House debates
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description: I thank the marvellous new member for Moreton for her question. This is a special time of the year. Cricket is on the telly, even if it is for just two days. We have meat on the barbie, the...
encoded: I thank the marvellous new member for Moreton for her question. This is a special time of the year. Cricket is on the telly, even if it is for just two days. We have meat on the barbie, the sounds of cicadas and lawnmowers, kids opening presents, the sound of champagne corks popping and knives sharpening—and that is just over there in the Liberal Party! And this year there will be the sound of something else, the sound of millions of phones beeping with a message that your student debt has been cut by 20 per cent. Tomorrow 1½ million Australians will have their debt cut by 20 per cent, and, next week, another 1½ million Australians will have their debt cut, too. This will be the biggest cut to student debt in Australian history. We promised it, Australia voted for it and we are delivering it. But it is not the only thing we are delivering. Paid prac has now started—that is, financial support for teaching, nursing, midwifery and social work students while they do their practical training. Next year more people will study medicine than ever before. We announced with the health minister more places for people to become doctors than ever before. And next year 25,000 Australians will be able to do one of those free bridging courses to give them the skills that they need to get ready to start a university degree, more than ever before. Next year more Australians will also be able to start a uni degree than ever before To drive real long-term reform here today, I introduced legislation to create the Australian Tertiary Education Commission, and part of its job is to break down the barrier between TAFE and university. Let me give you an example. The University of Canberra has just announced that it will take a year off your degree if you've completed a diploma in the same area. This is for nursing, early education, graphic design, accounting and a few other areas. This saves you time—it saves you a year off your degree—but it also saves you money, on average about $6,000, o…
date: 2025-11-26T14:05:00+00:00

Universities Accord (Australian Tertiary Education Commission) (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: I move: That this bill be now read a second time. This bill is part of a package of two bills which together will establish the Australian Tertiary Education Commission. This bill makes...
encoded: I move: That this bill be now read a second time. This bill is part of a package of two bills which together will establish the Australian Tertiary Education Commission. This bill makes consequential amendments necessary to implement the measures in the main bill, which I just introduced. Full details of the measures are contained in the explanatory memorandum. I commend this bill to the House. Debate adjourned.
date: 2025-11-26T10:42:00+00:00

Universities Accord (Australian Tertiary Education Commission) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: I move: That this bill be now read a second time. This is a bill to establish the Australian Tertiary Education Commission, the ATEC. It's a key recommendation of the Australian Universities...
encoded: I move: That this bill be now read a second time. This is a bill to establish the Australian Tertiary Education Commission, the ATEC. It's a key recommendation of the Australian Universities Accord. Before I set out the details of the bill, let me remind the House what the universities accord is about. Three years ago I appointed six eminent Australians to develop a blueprint for how we reform our higher education system: Professor Mary O'Kane as chair, a former chief scientist and engineer of New South Wales, and a former vice-chancellor of the University of Adelaide; Professor Barney Glover, who is now the commissioner of Jobs and Skills Australia and was then the vice-chancellor and president of Western Sydney University; Distinguished Professor Larissa Behrendt, Laureate Fellow at the Jumbunna Institute of Indigenous Education and Research at the University of Technology Sydney; the Hon. Fiona Nash, the Australian Regional Education Commissioner and former Minister for Regional Development and Minister for Regional Communications; the Hon. Jenny Macklin, the former Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs and the Minister for Disability Reform; and Ms Shemara Wikramanayake, Chief Executive Officer at Macquarie Group and a member of the former government's University Research Commercialisation Expert Panel. I asked them to look at seven priority areas: I released their final report in February last year. In short, what it says is that, in the years ahead, more jobs are going to require more skills. What it says is that 60 per cent of Australians working today have a certificate, a diploma or a degree, and that by 2050 that will increase to about 80 per cent. That's a big jump. It means more people at TAFE, more people at university and more people doing a bit of both. And what the accord says is the only way this will happen is if we break down two big barriers. The first of those is the artificial barrier we've created and built …
date: 2025-11-26T10:20:00+00:00

Tertiary Education | Questions without Notice | House debates
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description: I thank my great friend the member for Leichhardt for his question. I'm really glad that he asked me this question, because I'm about 20 per cent shorter than he is and in a couple of days...
encoded: I thank my great friend the member for Leichhardt for his question. I'm really glad that he asked me this question, because I'm about 20 per cent shorter than he is and in a couple of days student debt will be 20 per cent smaller as well. I'm five-foot-nine; he's six-foot-11. The Liberal Party are at sixes and sevens. The kids in the gallery know what I'm talking about! And, in a couple of days time, $16 billion of student debt is going to come off the shoulders of millions of young Australians. In just two days time, 1½ million Australians will have their student debt cut by 20 per cent. And next week, another 1½ million Australians will have their debt cut by 20 per cent as well. It's the biggest cut to student debt in Australian history. We promised it and we're delivering it. But it's not the only thing that we're delivering. This year, we signed agreements with every state and territory to fix the funding of our public schools, which is something that no Australian government has ever done before, and it is not a blank cheque. It's tied to reform—the sort of reform that we know works. The reading wars are over. We know what works to teach children to read. We also know that waiting until a child is eight is too late to make sure we know whether they can read, write or count. That's why early intervention is important. That's why we're rolling out phonics checks and numeracy checks in year 1—to identify children who are falling behind—as well as more small-group tutoring, to provide support for children to catch up. Next year, something else will happen. Next year, we'll start the work of reforming the national curriculum, starting with the first three years of maths to make sure we get the basics right: addition, subtraction, multiplication and something the Liberal Party can help us out with—division. Next year, something else as well—education ministers have agreed to a reform that was talked about for a long time but never happened, and that's bringing toget…
date: 2025-11-25T14:33:00+00:00

Student Debt | Questions without Notice | House debates
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description: I thank my friend the member for Forde for his question—and that handsome mo he's growing there and all the work he's doing to promote Movember! On the weekend, 100,000 Australians had...
encoded: I thank my friend the member for Forde for his question—and that handsome mo he's growing there and all the work he's doing to promote Movember! On the weekend, 100,000 Australians had their student debt cut by 20 per cent, and that is just the start, because, this Thursday, 1½ million more Australians will get their student debt cut by 20 per cent. Next week, another 1½ million young Australians will get their student debt cut by 20 per cent. You don't need to do a thing; just wait for the ding, wait for the text message, wait for the email that you will get from the office to tell you that it's done. This is the biggest cut to student debt in Australian history. The average Australian with a student debt will see it cut by about $5½ thousand. That's a lot of money that's going to help a lot of Australians. We promised it, Australia voted for it and now we're delivering it. And the Liberal Party, remember, are still opposed to it. In fact, they hate it. Today, earlier in parliament, the member for Goldstein described this as one of the most despicable things that he has ever seen a Labor government do. I think I know three million Australians—and their mums and dads, and their grandparents—who might disagree with him. But it's not the only thing that we're doing. Next year, we'll train more doctors than ever before. Today, the Minister for Health and Ageing and I are announcing more medical places to train more doctors at 10 universities across the country. Next year, more Australians will also start a university degree than ever before. We're funding an extra 9½ thousand places next year and an extra 16,000 places the year after that—and the year after that and the year after that. The number of Australians at uni will jump by 27 per cent over the next 10 years, to help build the sort of workforce that we're going to need: more doctors, more nurses, more teachers, more engineers and lots more. A lot of those young people will be from poor families and from our out…
date: 2025-11-24T14:12:00+00:00

Education | Questions without Notice | House debates
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description: Can I thank, again, my friend the member for Macnamara for his question. Well, the race that stops the nation has been run and won, and there are a few lucky winners across the country. But, in...
encoded: Can I thank, again, my friend the member for Macnamara for his question. Well, the race that stops the nation has been run and won, and there are a few lucky winners across the country. But, in the next few weeks, there won't just be a few winners; there'll be millions of them. That's because we're cutting student debt by 20 per cent. We're now in the home straight. A year ago, the Prime Minister announced it. Six months ago, Australia backed it. Three months ago, we passed it. In just a couple of weeks time, Australians will get it. Millions of Australians will get their student debt cut by 20 per cent. Millions will get their debt cut by thousands of dollars—on average, about $5½ thousand. Young people don't always see something for them on the ballot paper when there's an election, but they did this year, and they voted for it in their millions. And now they're about to get it and to see it and to feel it and to hear it. They'll get a ding on their phone, an email or a text message, to tell them that their debt has been cut by 20 per cent. When that happens, there'll be one person that they can thank for it, and that's this Prime Minister. I'm asked by the member for Macnamara what else we are doing to build a better and a fairer education system. I can advise the House that paid prac has now started. That's financial help for teaching students, nursing students, midwifery students and social work students while they do their practical training. That's real cost-of-living help. So far, more than 65,000 Australians have applied to get it. I can also advise the House that next year two new end-to-end medical schools will open up to train more doctors, one in the north, in Darwin, and one in the south, in Launceston. Next week, I'll open two more university study hubs, one on the west coast, in Northam, and one on the east coast, in Beenleigh. This Friday, I'll be in Smart Street in the heart of Fairfield, in the heart of Western Sydney, with the member for McMahon,…
date: 2025-11-04T15:24:00+00:00

Education | Questions without Notice | House debates
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description: Can I thank my friend the member for Deakin for this question. As a former schoolteacher, he understands better than most of us the power of education to change lives. At the election, we...
encoded: Can I thank my friend the member for Deakin for this question. As a former schoolteacher, he understands better than most of us the power of education to change lives. At the election, we promised to cut student debt by 20 per cent. The Australian people voted for it, we've passed legislation now to make it happen, and the tax office is working on this right now. In a few weeks time, this will all begin. Phones will start beeping; you'll get a text message or an email telling you that your student debt has been cut by 20 per cent. Millions of Australians will get this message, and all of that beeping and dinging of phones will be the sound of $16 billion coming off the shoulders of young Australians. Millions of Aussies will save thousands of dollars—on average, about $5½ thousand, changing lives. The member for Deakin asked me about this, but he also asked me what else we're doing to build a better and fairer education system. This year, we signed agreements with every state and territory to fix the funding of our public schools, to put them on a path to full and fair funding—something that no government has ever done. It is the biggest new investment in public schools by an Australian government ever. And it's not a blank cheque; it's tied to real reforms, practical reforms that we know work—things like explicit teaching, as well as phonics checks and numeracy checks when kids are little, in year 1, to identify the children who are behind and need more help; and small-group tutoring or catch-up tutoring to help the same children to catch up. Two weeks ago, we took the next step. Two weeks ago, education ministers met and agreed to bring forward work on the national curriculum, starting with the first three years of maths. If you get maths, it helps to set you up for success. It's critical for work and for life, and it's really important to get the basics at school, early. If you don't get the basics right in the first few years of school, you can't build on it. Le…
date: 2025-10-30T14:40:00+00:00

Education Legislation Amendment (Integrity and Other Measures) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: I move: That this bill be now read a second time. This bill makes a number of changes to improve integrity, improve access and improve the information we collect about the education system....
encoded: I move: That this bill be now read a second time. This bill makes a number of changes to improve integrity, improve access and improve the information we collect about the education system. First, it strengthens the integrity of the international education sector. Second, it expands access for Indigenous students to study medicine by uncapping Commonwealth supported places in medical courses. And third, it introduces measures in early childhood education and care to improve data collection and strengthen the integrity of subsidy administration. International education measures International education is an important national asset. It brings tens of billions of dollars into the economy each year. It also builds friendships and long-term connections around the world. And in the world we live in this is more important than ever. But it is also a target for unscrupulous individuals trying to make a quick buck. In September 2022 we announced the Parkinson review of the migration system. And in January 2023 the Nixon Rapid Review into the Exploitation of Australia's Visa System. These reviews identified integrity issues in international education, and we moved quickly on a number of recommendations of those reviews. This bill is the next step. The reviews made it clear we have a problem with collusive and unscrupulous practices between some agents and providers. In response, the bill inserts a new definition of 'education agent' which better captures their activities. It strengthens the 'fit and proper' test for providers. This means that greater scrutiny will apply where there are cross-ownership arrangements between providers and agents, and where providers are under investigation for serious offences. It also inserts a definition of 'education agent commission'. This will allow for complementary amendments to be made to the National Code of Practice for Providers of Education and Training to Overseas Students 2018 to ban commissions from being paid to education agents…
date: 2025-10-09T09:20:00+00:00

Education Legislation Amendment (Integrity and Other Measures) Bill 2025; First Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: Thank you very much, Mr Speaker, and that's very, very kind of you—as it is every day. Thank you for your service to this parliament. I present the Education Legislation Amendment...
encoded: Thank you very much, Mr Speaker, and that's very, very kind of you—as it is every day. Thank you for your service to this parliament. I present the Education Legislation Amendment (Integrity and Other Measures) Bill 2025 and the explanatory memorandum. Bill read a first time.
date: 2025-10-09T09:20:00+00:00

Schools: Bullying | Questions without Notice | House debates
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description: I thank my friend the member for Sturt for her question. She understands this in a very personal and painful way, which she so powerfully explained to all of us in her first speech to this place....
encoded: I thank my friend the member for Sturt for her question. She understands this in a very personal and painful way, which she so powerfully explained to all of us in her first speech to this place. Bullying isn't just a bit of push and shove in the playground or stealing lunch money. It's a lot more awful and insidious than that. Sometimes it can leave invisible scars that never heal. Today it can follow you all the way home after school. The internet means that you can be bullied now at any time, day or night, and anyone can see it. AI, artificial intelligence, makes it even worse. We've seen too many examples of that over the last few months, where photos of students or teachers are cut and cropped onto naked bodies. That sort of bullying and harassment can sometimes lead to teachers leaving the job that they love or, in the worst and most heartbreaking examples, young people taking their own life. You can understand then why so many mothers and fathers around the country are so worried. This is a serious problem, and it's getting worse. One in four students tell us that they've been bullied at school in the last few weeks. One in two say they've been bullied online. Thirteen per cent say that online bullying involved someone telling them that they should die. Complaints about online bullying to the eSafety Commissioner have increased by 450 per cent in the last five years. It's one of the reasons why we're implementing the social media ban for children under the age of 16. It's being led by my friend the Minister for Communications, and it starts in a few weeks. It's also why the Prime Minister commissioned an antibullying rapid review earlier this year. That work is being led by Dr Charlotte Keating, a clinical psychologist, and Professor Jo Robinson AM, the head of suicide prevention research at Orygen. Over the last few months, they've received more than 1,700 submissions from mums, dads, teachers and students. They've also met with students and teachers and wit…
date: 2025-10-08T14:55:00+00:00

Medical Workforce | Questions without Notice | House debates
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description: He is magnificent; that's a good point. I thank the magnificent member for Macnamara for his question. We need more nurses, and we need more midwives too. These are people who've signed up to do...
encoded: He is magnificent; that's a good point. I thank the magnificent member for Macnamara for his question. We need more nurses, and we need more midwives too. These are people who've signed up to do some of the most important jobs in this country—people who will look after us when we're sick and help women during childbirth. A big part of their university degrees is prac—practical training—and it can sometimes be very difficult. I'll just give you one example. For a lot of nursing students, while they're studying part time, they often work at a local hospital as an assistant in nursing. When they do their prac, it's often at the same hospital, and they have to give up their paid part-time job to do it. So that can cause financial difficulties. It can mean that, sometimes, they don't have the money they need to pay for parking, to pay for public transport or to pay for petrol. The good news is that paid prac has now started. We promised it and we're delivering it. It's real cost-of-living help—real practical help—for the practical part of the university degree for nursing students, midwifery students, teaching students and social work students as well. It started on 1 July, and I can advise the House that already more than 30,000 people have applied to get it. We need more nurses, but, as the member for Macnamara asked, we need more doctors too. In the election, we promised to set up a new medical school at the Queensland University of Technology. We promised it and we're delivering it. I can advise the House that it will start training doctors from 2027. We also promised to deliver end-to-end medical training in Launceston at the University of Tasmania so medical students can complete their whole degree in Launceston. We promised it and we're delivering it. It will start from next year, 2026. We also promised to set up a new medical school at Charles Darwin University in the Northern Territory. We promised it and we're delivering it. It, too, will start from next year. …
date: 2025-09-03T14:22:00+00:00

Medical Workforce | Questions without Notice | House debates
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description: Can I thank my friend the member for Macnamara for his question.
encoded: Can I thank my friend the member for Macnamara for his question.
date: 2025-09-03T14:22:00+00:00