I move the second reading amendment standing in the name of Senator Faruqi:

At the end of the motion, add: ", but the Senate is of the opinion that:

(a) the Morrison Government is on a relentless mission to decimate the higher education sector;

(b) these two bills represent a worrying continuation in the Government's larger pattern of defunding the higher education sector and shifting the costs of providing higher education away from the Commonwealth; and

(c) education is a public good, which should be publicly funded".

For the assistance of colleagues, this amendment was circulated during the last sitting.