Senate debates

Tuesday, 20 September 2011

Bills

Higher Education Legislation Amendment (Student Services and Amenities) Bill 2010; Second Reading

5:19 pm

Photo of Sean EdwardsSean Edwards (SA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

It is a gelataria. It is an ice-cream restaurant—hardly essential. The discounts on campus include free beer-service training—no doubt a useful life skill, but is it something students should be forced to subsidise? I do not think so. While students are out and about, they can get 10 per cent off at pet city and 15 per cent off limousine rental, 25 per cent off a tandem skydive and 10 per cent off at a herbal supply shop—hardly essential items. Should we really be forcing all students to subsidise a minority to hire limos and eat at gelatarias?

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