Kim Carr (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister Assisting the Leader for Science) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Last month, a former senior education department official, Mr Mark Warburton, who helped develop the higher education policy, confirmed that it would see university funding halved over the longer term. He said:

It is not clear to me that education cuts of this magnitude will make the future of the next generation more secure …

With former officials now admitting that the policy is a dud when will the government rethink this broken promise, which puts the future of Australians—(Time expired)