Scott Ryan (Victoria, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Small Business and Fair Competition) Share this | Hansard source

It does sound like a tax, Senator Cormann. I do not know anywhere where we there is a fourth level of government. It is ridiculous to assume that somehow student unions have acquired the legitimacy of our local government authorities, but that is what those opposite are actually proposing.

Senator Hanson-Young interjecting—

I had a great time at university, Senator Hanson-Young. These services are designed around most students never being able to access them. That is particularly true of the sports unions and the palaces that have been built in sports unions right around this country. Senator Hanson-Young, I remember the days when left-wing activists like you would actually oppose the palaces built with student money that were the sports unions.