Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment Participation, Apprenticeships and Training) Share this | Hansard source

Perhaps I can assist Senator Xenophon further by reading out the amendment. The amendment would require: ‘A designated authority for a state must use a risk-management approach when considering whether to recommend that an approved provider should be re-registered.’ This is schedule 1, item 11, page 5 (after line 7), after subsection 9A(1), which states:

A designated authority for a State may recommend that an approved provider for that State that, as at the commencement of this section, is registered to provide a specified course for that State to overseas students be re-registered under this Act to provide that course to overseas students.

We are saying that there has to be that additional requirement. The designated authority for a state must use a risk management approach when considering whether to recommend that an approved provider should be reregistered. I would take the view that, if the Senate were to go along with this provision, the government have to take steps as they implement this legislation to make that happen. That is what we are trying to force the government to do.