Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I proffer to the Labor Party some advice—and the advice is this:

The Senate is holding back Australia's future. Only bipartisanship can end the nonsense. Australia will be left behind if the funding reforms do not proceed. All it takes is putting aside politics and putting Australia first.

I do not claim to be the author of that advice. That advice came from a former premier of my state of Queensland, the Hon. Peter Beattie, a man who has quite some history in relation to university reform.